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Subject: JUDAH (BIBLE)
Matches Found: 13

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN INVOCATION, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, harp of judah! Wake again!
Last Line: And lend its sweetness to my dreams!
Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Judah (bible); Liberty; Judaism


HOLY SATURDAY, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I, in truth, the judas who betrays?
Last Line: Rise christ! Give these feet wings! My need is exigent.
Subject(s): Betrayal; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one
Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone.
Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict


JUDAEIS VITA AETERNA, by CHARLES N. LURIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not for our sake, o lord!
Last Line: Unto our god, the lord most high!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Judaism


JUDAH, by GEORGE R. DU BOIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: While the tribes of earth yet in the darkness
Last Line: Or tarnish a name unsoiled.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Judaism


JUDAH'S HALLOWED BARDS, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let those who will hang rapturously o'er
Last Line: Simply, pathetic, eloquently plain.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jews; Judah (bible); Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Judaism; Theology


MENORAH, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've read in legends of the books of old
Last Line: "and keeps me what I am today in every clime."
Subject(s): Candles; Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Synagogues; Judaism


ON A ROCOCO CRUCIFIX, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guarded by bursts of glory, golden rays
Last Line: While god groaned in the dark night of his soul?
Subject(s): Betrayal; Cavalry; Crucifixion; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology


RESCUE OF MOSES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In judah's halls the harp is hushed
Last Line: The babe that slept by nile's broad tide
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature;jews;judah (bible); Judaism


THE HEBREW MINSTREL'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "from the hills of the west, as the sun's setting / beam"
Last Line: On the bosoms that bled for their country and god'
Subject(s): Jews;judah (bible); Judaism


THE JEW'S APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN, by J. W. BLENCOWE JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cease, christian, cease the word of scorn
Last Line: On judah's race—on israel's name.
Subject(s): Christianity; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Judaism


THE JEWISH CAPTIVE'S SONG, by MARION MOSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gone is thine hour of might
Last Line: O'er the scattering of their race.
Subject(s): Death; Jews; Judah (bible); Dead, The; Judaism


THE LAMENT OF JUDAH, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain the crimson garment now
Last Line: Turn sickening from your revelry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath
Subject(s): Judah (bible)