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Subject: JONATHAN (BIBLE)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DAVID AND JONATHAN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the brow of gilboa is war's bloody stain
Last Line: Ah, how are the mighty fallen!
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Jonathan (bible); Judaism


DAVID AND JONATHAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O heart of fire! Misjudged by wilful man
Last Line: He lives to us who dies, he is but lost who lives.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible)


DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 2, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But now the early birds begin to call
Last Line: Strait into shapeless air unseen he fell.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible)


DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 4, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' state and kind discourse thus robb'd the night
Last Line: Well-chosen and well-furnish'd for the chase.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Israel; Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN (78), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sentences we studied are rungs upon the ladder jacob saw
Last Line: For, as our god was never of wood or bone, %our land is not of stones or earth
Variant Title(s): Luzzato; Padua 172
Subject(s): Jonathan (bible); Luzzato, Moshe Hayyim (1707-1747)


SECOND SAMUEL: 1. DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE                       
First Line: The beauty of israel is slain upon thy high places: / how the mighty have fallen
Variant Title(s): David Lamenteth The Death Of Jonathan
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SECOND SAMUEL: 1. DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All your glory, o israel, lies slain upon your heights
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SECOND SAMUEL: DAVID'S LAMENT FOR JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy glory, o israel
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible)


THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy beauty, israel, is gone
Last Line: How warlike instruments decay!
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Jonathan (bible); Judaism