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Subject: ANNUNCIATION, THE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNUNCIATIO B.V., by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come every eare / that longs to heare
Last Line: Eve's gall in maries sweets are drownd.
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


ANNUNCIATION, by TINA BARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a van eyck painting a woman waits
Last Line: Raise my arms inside his blue overcoat
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Blue (color)


ANNUNCIATION, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Ashes of paper, ashes of a world
Subject(s): Annunciation, The


ANNUNCIATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not night, not even when the darkness came
Last Line: And make the word with my breath
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Annunciation, The


ANNUNCIATION, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The angel and the girl are met
Last Line: As if their grace would never break
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion


ANNUNCIATION, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But for the violets
Last Line: Desperately butting against the concrete.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Flowers; Violets


ANNUNCIATION BY VENEZIANO, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The messenger is winged
Last Line: In his hand the flowers that %he has taken from her
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Domenico Veneziano (d. 1461); Paintings And Painters


FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whereto shall we liken this blessed mary virgin
Last Line: Echoing on the music of glorious gabriel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Annunciation, The


HOLY SONNET: ANNUNCIATION, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh
Last Line: Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe.
Variant Title(s): La Corona: 2. Annunciation
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology


STATION (5), by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere between a bird's nest and a solar system
Last Line: Washing less than nothing from your hands
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Birds; Jesus Christ


TECHNIQUES OF THE MASTERS, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this painting with their flushed cheeks
Last Line: They typeset, bound and shut
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible


THE ANNUNCIATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "gabriel, fram hevene king"
Last Line: That he us to him take
Subject(s): "annunciation, The;


THE ANNUNCIATION, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the silent ages breaking
Last Line: Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Annunciation, The


THE ANNUNCIATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lowliest of women, and most glorified!
Last Line: And own thyself the handmaid of the lord.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


THE ANNUNCIATION, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The angel and the girl are met
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion; Theology


THE ANNUNCIATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How pure, and frail, and white
Last Line: Here at her feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


THE ANNUNCIATION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Naught in heaven, divinity beneath
Last Line: In hers portrayed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


THE ANNUNCIATION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fiat' - the flaming word
Last Line: Of life and light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


VIGIL OF ANNUNCIATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All weareth, all wasteth
Last Line: But their to-morrow's rest what tongue shall say?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Annunciation, The