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Subject: ISAAC (BIBLE)
Matches Found: 19

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABRAHAM TO KILL HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Manners may prevail
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1317; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion


ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE (MIRACLE PLAY), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most myghty makere of sunne and of mone
Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible)


ALMOST ISAAC, by ANTHONY RUSSELL WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abraham raises his necessary knife and strikes
Last Line: And the beauty that is isaac, %blooming in anatolia in may
Subject(s): Abraham; Farm Life; Isaac (bible)


GENESIS 24, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this man that walketh in the field
Last Line: To his mother's tent.
Variant Title(s): The Meeting Of Isaac And Rebecca
Subject(s): Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are mountains, ask any believer
Last Line: One wakeful star above us like a blade
Subject(s): Isaac (bible); Religion


ISAAC, by STANLEY BURNSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The story haunts this tribe that cannot wipe from its eyes
Last Line: Of the wrong of worshipping the blood's terror of sacrifice
Subject(s): Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw first the dirt under his nails
Last Line: The patriarch, no heavier now %than the few sticks he'd have burned me on
Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by AMIR GILBOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dawn, the sun strolled in the forest together with men and father
Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by AMIR GILBOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was early morning
Last Line: And there was no blood left %in my right hand
Subject(s): Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by AMIR GILBOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early in the morning the sun took a walk in the woods
Last Line: And my right hand was drained of blood
Subject(s): Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by HAIM GURI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ram came last %but abaraham did not know
Last Line: A knife %in the heart
Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by BARRY HOLTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now in old age, quiet in his tent
Last Line: He sinks deep into innocent sleep
Subject(s): Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by MARIE HOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we climbed to the top of the mountain
Subject(s): Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by A. C. JACOBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was my father forced him into the desert
Last Line: And our father, the old god-fearing man, has been dead many years
Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible)


ISAAC, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many the guileless years the patriarch spent
Last Line: And saints are lower'd, that the world may rise.
Subject(s): Isaac (bible)


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 16, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Isaac (bible); Orpheus


SACRIFICE, by CHANA BLOCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The patriarch in black takes %candle and knife
Last Line: The waiting %under his father's eyes
Subject(s): Abraham; Isaac (bible)


SARAH'S CHOICE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little late rain
Last Line: "but it is written what will happen if you stay."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Isaac (bible); Prophecy & Prophets; Sarah (bible)


THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: So abram rose, and clave the wood, and went
Last Line: And half the seed of europe, one by one.
Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Theology; First World War