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Subject: EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703-1758)
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE SURPRISING CONVERSIONS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September twenty-second, sir: today / I answer
Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Revivals; Suicide; Religious Revivals


AFTER THE SURPRISING CONVERSIONS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September twenty-second, sir: today %I answer
Last Line: Cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn %the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn
Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Revivals; Suicide


AN EAGLE-SPIRIT, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: God's truth hath many voices; sun and star
Last Line: "than banish god; we build our hopes on that."
Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)


JONATHAN EDWARDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Edwards' great millstone and rock
Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)' Hope; Faith; Belief; Creed


MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air
Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs


MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air
Last Line: To die and know it. This is the black widow, death
Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders