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Subject: GETHSEMANE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATONEMENT, by MARIE LE NART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Atonement? Lord, who doth atone today?
Last Line: Forgive us—we know not what we do!
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice


COMPANIONED, by EUNICE CREAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've sought for beauty in each bud of spring
Last Line: Since I have come to know gethsemane.
Subject(s): Beauty; Gethsemane


GALL, by GARNET HAMRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no soul but meets
Last Line: Beside the broken sea.
Subject(s): Gethsemane


GETHSEMANE, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All that night I walked alone and wept
Last Line: I said your name but silence answered me
Subject(s): African Americans; Gethsemane; Negroes; American Blacks


GETHSEMANE, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All that night I walked alone and wept
Last Line: I said your name but silence answered me
Subject(s): African Americans; Gethsemane


GETHSEMANE, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a hill backlit by twilight
Last Line: Feathers burn in his father's fist, %plucked by god before by judas kissed
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Religion


GETHSEMANE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the garden of sorrow
Last Line: In the hour that sorrow calls!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GETHSEMANE, by EDMUND LEAMY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Breathes there a man who claimeth not
Last Line: Touch hands with god.
Subject(s): Gethsemane


GETHSEMANE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dew lay thick on thorn and flower
Last Line: "thy sleepless friend will watch with thee!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gethsemane


GETHSEMANE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pursing his traitor lips he onward went
Last Line: The sin he worked with, nor its curse removed.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.)


GETHSEMANE, by CHARLES RUSSELL WAKELEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a way which man hath trod
Last Line: Life's only way—gethsemane.
Subject(s): Gethsemane


GETHSEMANE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In golden youth when seems the earth
Last Line: The purpose in gethsemane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Despair; Earth; Gethsemane; Soul; Youth; World


GETHSEMANE, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When gethsemane looms near us
Last Line: "not my will but thine be done."
Subject(s): Faith; Gethsemane; Belief; Creed


GETHSEMANE'S GIFT, by KATHERINE MARIE CORNELIA BREGY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When is he is nearest to all of us
Last Line: But I would not forget what the olive-trees heard - %his one unanswered prayer!
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion


IN GETHSEMANE, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet eden was the arbor of delight
Last Line: And christ, from bitter venom, would again %extract life out of death, and pleasure out of pain
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion


LEGEND OF GETHSEMANE, by TERESA HOOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, what is this that seeks at night
Last Line: Too late. Moved by remorse forever, %the grasses shake, the aspens quiver
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice


PLEA TO SILENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O science reaching backward through the distance
Last Line: Leave christ, I pray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; God; Jesus Christ; Science; Scientists


SCENE IN GETHSEMANE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon was shining yet. The orient's brow
Last Line: "for ""he that should betray him was at hand."
Subject(s): Gethsemane


SOUVENIR, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep, but with no bitterness I weep
Last Line: My soul to god shall bear.
Subject(s): Death; Gethsemane; Grief; Nature; Souvenirs; Tears; Time; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CRITICS AT GETHSEMANE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even here we meet the critics. The deep grief
Last Line: And works, in simple faith, as best she may.
Subject(s): Christianity; Gethsemane


THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gethsemane! There's holy blood
Last Line: So dark a deed, so black a crime!
Subject(s): Gethsemane


THE LITTLE HILL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, here the air is sweet and still
Last Line: I think I am its mother!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE PASCHAL MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy face is whitened with remembered woe
Last Line: And gaze upon thee as thou didst on him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Moon


THE TRANSFIGURATION; THE OLD 'PAULUS' THEORY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fiction or a fact? An interview
Last Line: That sternest link in the great unity.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Paulus, Heinrich (1761-1851); Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THERE WAS A GARDEN, by MARIE BARTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cross - one staggering beneath the weight
Last Line: He was the son of god.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion