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Subject: BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT
Matches Found: 21

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COMPENSATION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: However fiercely fortune struck
Last Line: He did not murder cain.
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Luck


ABIGAIL, by BARBARA LOOTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I care for him, although he is a fool
Last Line: And reason with the sot when I get back. %but my guess is he'll have a heart attack!
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


BATHSHEBA: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK, by GRACE BAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was my habit when my husband
Last Line: And then I wake up. Trembling in light
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


DINA'S HAPPY ENDING, by ENID DAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so I married
Last Line: I think I laughed half the night %god, it felt good
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


ESTHER, by ENID DAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's face it %(I told my mirror)
Last Line: But I didn't have to do it %always remember that
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


IN EVE'S WORDS, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the garden, eve was given little to know: the taste of her skimpy lips
Last Line: Persisting in its own language, until it spoke the language of tongues
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Bible - Old Testament; Creation


JAEL'S POEM, by ENID DAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes %I did it beat
Last Line: And sleeps %with one eye open
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


KOHL, by NOLA GARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a time before I called myself
Last Line: Their prophet calls up himself. Is it peace?
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


LILITH, by CATHERINE MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some say adam reared me from the beasts
Last Line: Will fear as their wet dreams
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the just man followed god's ambassador here
Last Line: For a single look, she gave up her life
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


MIRIAM, by YALA KORWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She who could see the light of days to come
Last Line: Unlamenated in the widerness of zin
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


MY SONG FOR SOLOMON, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have drunk the poisoned milk
Last Line: The blood of a ghost among the living
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


NOAH'A DAUGHTER, by ENID DAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good questions %I can answer them
Last Line: I wanted the forty days to go on forever
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


NOT A VOICE, by YALA KORWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clad in festive robes
Last Line: Not a ram to redeem %a mere girl
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


OLD TESTAMENT, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I slept awhile, then woke. The night was wild
Last Line: Thy breast would still me, sharper yet my pain.
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament


PSALM 1. THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED CONTRASTED, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of
Last Line: Shall perish.
Variant Title(s): The Tree And The Chaff
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament


SONG OF DEGREES, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the road lead nowhere
Last Line: In zion everywhere
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Israel


TESTAMENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beginning %was the word
Last Line: Alone %in a room
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; God


THE OLD BOOK, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O book of books, and friend of friends alone
Last Line: Thy radiant light is ever shining there
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology


THE ZIZ, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the ziz?
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Ziz (mythical Bird)


ZIZ, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the ziz?
Last Line: We are blind to, a birdhood %to cover the head of the sky
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Ziz (mythical Bird)