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Subject: NOAH (BIBLE)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee
Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.'
Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 2, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now ere the sunrise, while the morning star
Last Line: Into the waste to meet the voice of god.
Subject(s): God; Methuselah; Noah (bible)


A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 9, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prayer of noah. The man went forth by night
Last Line: The door is shut.'
Subject(s): Evil; God; Noah (bible); Prayer


ABRIDGED BESTIARY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the story goes, noah took animals of every variety
Last Line: Recreated, according to the discarded pictures that the %monkey had saved for god
Subject(s): Boats; God; Noah (bible); Religion; Sea Voyages


ARK, by LINDA PASTAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We all know
Last Line: We all know
Subject(s): Arks; Noah (bible); Rites & Ceremonies; Jews; Women's Rights


AS THE DOVE, WHICH FOUND NO REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In a grave
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Noah (bible); Doves; Heaven


BUCOLIC COMEDY: WHY, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noah's granddaughter / sat on his knee
Last Line: "noah said ""damn!"
Subject(s): Noah (bible)


NOAH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When old noah stared across the floods
Last Line: Earth was saved; and noah danced a jig.
Subject(s): Noah (bible); Soldiers' Writings


NOAH EN DE ARK, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wisht dat I wuz norah a-sailin' in de ark
Last Line: Gawd he walk' wid norah, etc.
Subject(s): Noah (bible)


NOAH'S ARK, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was one of my oldest toys, the ark my father made
Last Line: Like birds eager to lift
Subject(s): Floods; Noah (bible); Religion; Rivers


NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief
Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


NOAH'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is doing her usual for comic relief
Last Line: Makes you think (the furrow, the fruit) %I had to be told?
Subject(s): Marriage; Noah (bible)


OLD NOAH'S INVENTION, by GEORGE NEAVES    Poem Text                    
First Line: We read that old noah, soon after the flood
Last Line: And can make a right use, of old noah's invention.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Noah (bible); Wine


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 29, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I say, my lord? With what begin?
Last Line: To toss my songs of praise rung on them, higher.
Subject(s): Noah (bible); Puritans In Literature


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES BIBLE AS LIT CLASS: LIFE OF NOAH, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the ganges and indus
Last Line: Age the flood there was no ark for
Subject(s): Noah (bible)


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES BIBLE STUDY CLASS: NOAH, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Months and months adrift
Last Line: And that endurance always comes in pairs
Subject(s): Noah (bible)


SKEPTICAL NOAH, by ALBERTO BLANCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The voices, I hear the voices singing
Last Line: Begins the desert and oblivion
Subject(s): Noah (bible)


STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call
Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible)


STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call
Last Line: Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide %to ararat; all men are noah's sons
Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible)


THE ARK AND THE DOVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me a story- please,' my little girl
Last Line: May gently guide it to the ark of peace.
Subject(s): Arks; Noah (bible); Peace


THE WORLD OF THE PERFECT TEAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire from a fixed star
Last Line: To raise the living up
Subject(s): Arks; Brothers; Death; Noah (bible); Stars; Half-brothers; Dead, The