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Subject: JONAH (BIBLE)
Matches Found: 10

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` JONAH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What I remember %is green
Last Line: I would send to the brothers %- be care full of the ocean
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


JONAH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A purple whale
Last Line: With disappointed tail.
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


JONAH, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in his meditative bower
Last Line: Of the sweet garden-shade?
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


JONAH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How does the sun set? %like snow
Last Line: Have you ever heard such a rainbow? %what is the dew like? %are you asleep?
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


JONAH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How does the sun set? %like snow
Last Line: What is the dew like? %are you asleep?
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


JONAH AND THE WHALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: About the year of one b.C.
Last Line: "her jag, her jag, her jagged tail"
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


JONAH AND THE WHALE, by VIOLA MEYNELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sported round the watery world
Subject(s): Jonah (bible); Whales


JONAH AND THE WHALE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now is jonas the jwe jugged to drowne
Last Line: The bygge borne on his bak and bete on his sydes
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


SOJOURN IN THE WHALE, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trying to open locked doors with a sword, threading
Last Line: The path—rise automatically.
Subject(s): Jonah (bible)


TO A SONG OF SAPPHO, DISCOVERED IN EGYPT, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jonah wept within the whale
Last Line: As gods are wont to do.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jonah (bible); Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.)