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Subject: CATHOLIC CHURCH - CLERGY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD; MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENTS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We in our wandering
Last Line: "brother to brother pressed, / tara, tantara, teino!"
Subject(s): Brotherhood;catholic Church - Clergy;religion; Catholic Priests;theology


AN EASTER IDYL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a year the easter came, laughing o'er / land and sea
Last Line: And even in sorrow's exile may lift up her eyes and be blessed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Love; Prayer; Catholic Priests; The Resurrection


EASTER BELLS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chime, solemn bells of easter!
Last Line: And soothe earth's sad unrest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Immortality; Catholic Priests; The Resurrection


GOOD-FRIDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be hushed, my heart, remembering
Last Line: Full paid on calvary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Calvary; Catholic Church - Clergy; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Catholic Priests


NATIVITY OF CHRIST, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today from the aurora's bosom
Last Line: That flower had fallen, - that crimson blossom
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Birth; Catholic Church - Clergy; Christmas; Jesus Christ


NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 1, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O where are they now, your harridan nuns
Last Line: Enthroned as a symbol with upturned palms
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Convents; Nuns; Women


ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 3. AT COMMUNION, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still must the implacable road lie dark and bare
Last Line: Though still thy hid communion serves me best.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Churches; Eucharist; Religion; Catholic Priests; Cathedrals; Communion; Theology


PERBERON NAMBE MORNING, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dust, leaves twirling
Last Line: Me to speak to you of %beauty
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools


POPE ADDS THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: People pass me by in the street, abuzz like bees
Last Line: In the sun between furrowed fingers and thumb
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Meditation; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)


RESPICE IN FACIEM CHRISTI, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look to the lord, man, hanging on the tree
Last Line: No salve, nothing to save us but anguish and woe
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ


SEARCH, by CARRIE KINCAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: She sneaks out of bed like a tiny thief
Last Line: She will be saved. %she believes
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Sabbath; Sin


TELLING THE GOSPEL TRUTH, by BETH ANN FENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who placed this here, bible
Last Line: Whither. %whither
Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Women - Bible; Women And Religion; Writing And Writers


THE MANUSCRIPT OF SAINT ALEXIUS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a child into the solemn hall
Last Line: But still aglaia could not understand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Manuscripts; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Saints; Catholic Priests


TO TENDER BAMBI'S EYES, TO THE WHITE FATHER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is never a desert around
Last Line: His white cap is hydraulic
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Popes


UGO BASSI, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fra ugo bassi, servant of our lord
Last Line: That when I meet him, I may meet thee too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Subject(s): Bassi, Ugo (1801-1849); Biography; Catholic Church - Clergy; Firing Squads; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy - Revolutions; Rome, Siege Of (1849); Biographers; Catholic Priests