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Subject: LILITH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARM AGAINST LILITH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Black striga / black on black
Last Line: Like a wolf she crushes
Subject(s): Charms (magic);jews;lilith;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


AT NIGHT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crazed shadows, from no golden body
Last Line: What smiles may stray.
Subject(s): Lilith


EDEN BOWER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was lilith the wife of adam
Last Line: (alas the hour!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Lilith


LILITH, by CATHLEEN CALBERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the first marriage for both of us
Last Line: On the lips of the children of adam and eve
Subject(s): Lilith; Marriage


LILITH, by ENID DAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kicked myself out of paradise
Last Line: And the man and the god %I couldn't live with
Subject(s): Lilith


LILITH, by RUTH FAINLIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lilith, adam's first companion
Last Line: Lilith is jealous
Subject(s): Lilith


LILITH, by RUTH (WASBY) FELDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half of me is beautiful
Last Line: My frail progeny will fade and die %as her brood grows rosier
Subject(s): Lilith


LILITH, by IWAN GOLL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird-woman of the ultra-world
Last Line: In a prayer to the absolute
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan
Subject(s): Lilith


LILITH, by ALLEN GROSSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the first made woman. I first wept
Last Line: I spread my hair over them
Subject(s): Lilith


LILITH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fiercest demon-shape in hell / was lilith fell
Last Line: To save a world once more!
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fables; Lilith; Eve; Allegories


LILITH, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing
Last Line: Down by the green and the gold of the sea.
Subject(s): Lilith


LILITH, by PRIMO LEVI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lilith our second kinswoman %created by god with the same clay
Last Line: The rest is will o' the wisp and pale light
Subject(s): Lilith


LILITH, by CAROL ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men fear you hang amulets
Last Line: Write holy books at night %return to power
Subject(s): Lilith


LILLITH, by DONALD FINKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: She hissed in my ear
Last Line: Of sweat and bread %and everything to lose
Variant Title(s): Lilit
Subject(s): Lilith


SELF-PORTRAIT: LILITH, EVE, by CONSTANCE MERRITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The austere angels dozing at their posts
Subject(s): Lilith


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 6, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, by that loosened hair
Last Line: Child of the sun.
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Lilith


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 63, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then I knew the first vague bliss
Last Line: Of launcelot and guinevere!
Subject(s): Lilith; Beauty


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 78. BODY'S BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of adam's first wife, lilith, it is told
Last Line: And round his heart one strangling golden hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Variant Title(s): Lilith
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Lilith; Paintings & Painters


WAITING FOR LILITH, by JASCHA KESSLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eve is an angel, though bone of bone. She is %the wealth of women
Last Line: No laughters %of sons, no wife from my bone, can drown your voice
Subject(s): Lilith