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Subject: PILATE, PONTIUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EASTER LILIY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain to seal the sepulchre
Last Line: Within the garden stands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Pilate, Pontius; The Resurrection


ONE CROWN THAT NO ONE SEEKS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That coronation pierces him %he recollects it well
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1735; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Bible; Pilate, Pontius; Religion


PILATE'S WIFE'S DREAM, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start
Last Line: The oracle of god -- the sole -- true god -- to hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Pilate, Pontius


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OAKS TUTT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother was for woman's rights
Last Line: "what is truth?'"
Subject(s): Pilate, Pontius; Truth


THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was about the deep of night
Last Line: And judas one of three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Christmas; Ghosts; Jesus Christ - Legends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Pilate, Pontius; Supernatural; Nativity, The


THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 10. PILATE'S WIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why came in dreams the low-born man
Last Line: As poor a verity.
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Pilate, Pontius; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light
Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal.
Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails


WHAT IS TRUTH?, by JOHN BOWRING    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is truth ? Said pilate, groping
Subject(s): Pilate, Pontius; Truth