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Subject: JOHN THE BAPTIST, SAINT (1ST CENTURY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEATH IN THE DESERT, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Supposed of pamphylax the antiochene
Last Line: But 't was cerinthus that is lost.]
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology


A LEGEND OF THE CHILD JESUS; WRITTEN FOR A CHILD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: You ask a story, dearest. Here is one
Last Line: Healed by the kisses of the holy child.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


ABOVE THE BATTLE'S FRONT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh foolish people, and without understanding
Last Line: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Buddhism; Evil; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Hate; Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Saints; Social Protest; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); War; Buddha; Buddhists


AN EPISTLE TO J. BL-K-N, ESQ.: ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The point mr. Bl-k-n, disputed upon
Last Line: And rejoice in the health of its master;—adieu!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Locusts; Vegetables


ANCIENT BALLAD: MASS OF LOVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn of a bright june morning %the birthday of saint john
Last Line: Instead of amen, amen %they sang amor, amor
Subject(s): Clergy; Hearts; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Love; Mass


APOCRYPHA, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When john the baptist was so young
Last Line: He shaped a kiss: all day she smiled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Mothers


BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The baptist might have been ordained to cry
Last Line: "make straight a highway for the lord -- repent!"
Subject(s): Florence, Italy; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Raphael (1483-1520)


FOR THE BAPTIST, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last and greatest herald of heaven's king
Last Line: Repent!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): Saint John Baptist;sonnet: Repent, Repent!;the Baptist's Sonnet
Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in blackness
Last Line: In blackness like a star
Subject(s): Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in darkness
Subject(s): Religion; Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers; Theology


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in blackness
Last Line: Somebody bigger than me coming %in blackness like a star
Subject(s): Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching And Preachers


S. JOHN BAPTIST, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When nights black houres be almost spent
Last Line: Then herod at his feast beheld thee heere.
Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Worship


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON ST. JOHN WHOM DOMITIAN PUT IN BOILING OIL, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That fire - which running in a flickering flame through the whole world
Last Line: To give it oil is not [the way], domitian
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE VOICE OF THE BAPTIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So much the baptist had to speak, so many streams of thought
Last Line: But with one word he had said everything
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SACRED EPIGRAM: ST. JOHN IN EXILE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An exile is he [who was the] love of christ: yet the exile found christ
Last Line: Exile, if the bosom of christ is the exile
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SACRED EPIGRAM: ST. JOHN TO HIS MOTHER, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother, why doe you ask for the right hand or the left for me
Last Line: I do not like to be so far from his holy bosom
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SACRED EPIGRAM: THE DELEGATION OF THE BAPTIST TO CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray, who are you? The baptist send that [question] to his master
Last Line: The lame walks, the dead lives: I pray, who is he?
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SACRED EPIGRAM: TO DOMITIAN. ABOUT ST. JOHN AT LATERAN GATE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it true that you would go unpunished? But still you shall not go unpunished
Last Line: Is it thus that your pallas helps you, domitian?
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SACRED EPIGRAM: TO ST. JOHN, THE BELOVED DISCIPLE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enjoy yourself: hide your head in his majestic bosom, for then it
Last Line: O it will be enough for me to have been able to ride on his back
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O jesus, if one minute, if one hour
Last Line: Least, as I know, of all men woman-born.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


SONG FOR THE MORNING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come forth, come forth, my maidens, 'tis the day of good st. John
Last Line: To dress with flowers the snow-white wether, ere the sun has dried the dew
Variant Title(s): Song For The Morning Of The Day Of Saint John The Baptis
Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Festivals; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Romance


ST. JOHN BAPTIST PAINTED BY HERSELF IN THE WILDERNESS ..., by ANNE KILLIGREW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun's my fire, when it does shine
Last Line: My associates onely are divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


ST. JOHN BAPTIST, FR. THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think he had not heard of the far towns
Last Line: To him whose face was covered by a cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


THE DOORS, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doors were oak, massive
Subject(s): Doors; Churches; Salome (1st Century A.d.); John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals


THE HYMNARY: 361. ST. JOHN BAPTIST, by BEDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, harbinger of morn
Last Line: While time endureth and when time is o'er.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Venerable Bede (beda)
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


THE PRECURSOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As john of old before his face did go
Last Line: "I come,"" proclaims the snow."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century)


TO GOD (3), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do with me, god! As thou didst deal with john
Last Line: My sackcloth here; but there my stole of white.
Subject(s): Bible; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Theology