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Subject: GOLIATH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APOCRYPHAL SOLILOQUIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See the dazzled stripling stand
Last Line: Come, old goliath, come and play
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath


APOCRYPHAL SOLILOQUIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See the dazzled stripling stand
Last Line: Come, old goliath, come and play!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath


DAVID, by MARY WINTER WERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why should the gay, the beautiful, the young
Last Line: Not david—but goliath paid the price.'
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Youth


DAVID AND GOLIATH, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With half his arm in running water
Last Line: Hath trustier armour on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath


DAVID AND GOLIATH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One word of well-directed wit
Last Line: Where many a nobler weapon failed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath


DAVID AND GOLIATH, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King saul was disconcerted
Last Line: Who's redeemed fair israel's name.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Saul (11th Century B.c.)


DAVID AND GOLIATH, by P. HATELY WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sma' was I, amang brether o' mine
Last Line: Frae the folk o' israel, hame wi' me!
Subject(s): Bible; David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Religion


DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 3, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rais'd with the news he from high heav'n receives
Last Line: For you who us receive, and him who drives away.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Moah (kingdom), Bible


GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the atom is a tension
Last Line: The way it did at the first mitosis
Subject(s): Goliath


SIC SEMPER, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Goliath beat his breast and curled his beard
Last Line: Sat polishing a rounded pebble smooth.
Subject(s): Goliath


SONG OF VICTORY, FOR THE DEATH OF GOLIATH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strike with joy the wild harp's string
Last Line: David's arm hath laid him low.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath


THE HELMET OF GOLIATH, by ROBERT DUNCAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Goliath


TO DAVID, by MIRIAM SUHLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O israel's god-anointed warrior king
Last Line: On thine more precious gift of psaltery.
Subject(s): Bible; Goliath; Jews; Judaism