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Subject: IRISH CATHOLIC CHURCH
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HOLY WELL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll drink if I can find it
Last Line: Ordinary: a wren entrusting %an egg to a saint's hand
Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Catholic Church; Miracles


THE IRISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through grief and through danger thy smile hath cheer'd my way
Last Line: Where shineth thy spirit, there liberty shineth too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Grief And Danger
Subject(s): Fidelity; Freedom; Irish Catholic Church; Faithfulness; Constancy; Liberty


THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the outset / charmed by the soft, quick speech
Last Line: Of poetry – was at last mine
Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry & Poets


THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the outset %charmed by the soft, quick speech
Last Line: Of poetry - was at last mine
Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry And Poets


WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, by ALICE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would give fine weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris
Subject(s): Irish Catholic Church; Nationalism - Ireland