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Subject: PHILISTINES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PHILISTINE, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yester'en while strolling through a marish dale
Last Line: Throb gloriously and tingle through thy tail.
Subject(s): Philistines


JUDITH, by ADAH ISAACS MENKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ashkelon is not cut off with the remnant of a valley
Last Line: And I know where sleeps holofernes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theodore, Philomene Croi; Mccord, Ada
Subject(s): Judith (bible); Philistines; Women In The Bible


MY THEME: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true the wisdom that my mind exacts
Last Line: For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst.
Subject(s): Nature; Philistines


THE PHILISTINE AND THE BOHEMIAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a philistine spick and span
Last Line: Don't try to pass for a philistine.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France; Philistines


THE PHILISTINE'S LAMENT, by W. C. A. WALLAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: That I am blind to highest heaven
Last Line: Some eons hence be mine.
Subject(s): Philistines


THE UNITED STATES TO THE FILIPINOS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We come to give you liberty
Last Line: If you venture to refuse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Freedom; Philistines; Liberty


VAGABONDS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God gave unto the philistine
Last Line: Life's vagabonds are we.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Philistines; Poverty