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Subject: AUGUSTINE, SAINT (354-430)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long pored saint austin o'er the sacred page
Last Line: Than infinite minds conceive god's nature infinite!
Subject(s): "augustine, Saint (354-430);god;religion;saints;" Augustine Of Hippo;theology


A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF ST. AUGUSTINE, by NICHOLAS BRETON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long pored st. Austin o'er the sacred page
Last Line: "than finite minds conceive god's nature infinite!"
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); God; Saints; Augustine Of Hippo


AUGUSTINE, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A laughing boy
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Saints


AUGUSTINE: LETTER TO GOD, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where praise is impossible
Last Line: I stretch %only to where I have started
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); God; Religion; Saints


O FAIR!-O PUREST!; SAINT AUGUSTINE TO HIS SISTER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O fair! O purest! Be thou the dove
Last Line: O fair! O purest! Be like the dove.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Solitude; Augustine Of Hippo; Theology; Loneliness


PETITIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, by AUGUSTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O lord jesus, let me know myself, let me know thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Aurelius Augustinus
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Saints


SHOTPUTTERS AND DISCUS THROWERS, by LEONARD KRESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cut down to size by distance, always consigned
Last Line: Swift grace is a proper stance for heaving that weight %without weight, above all things that can be
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Track Athletics


ST. AUGUSTINE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For fifteen winter days
Last Line: Of a good name, & pleasant memory!
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Saints; Augustine Of Hippo


ST. AUGUSTINE, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would not remember now, saviour
Last Line: Beneath a silver tree!
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Saints; Augustine Of Hippo


ST. AUGUSTINE AND MONICA, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When monica's young son had felt her kiss
Last Line: Rose like a star upon his mother's tears!
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Monica, Saint (333-387); Mothers; Saints; Augustine Of Hippo


THE FALL OF ALIPIUS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When gentle gratian ruled the roman west
Last Line: In silent battle with almighty time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Gratian, Emperor Of Rome (359-383); Saints; Augustine Of Hippo


THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint augustine! Well hast thou said
Last Line: To something nobler we attain.
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Religion; Saints; Augustine Of Hippo; Theology