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Subject: PROTESTANTISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PROTEST, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, hast thou never heard the master come
Last Line: And all eternity will be thine own!
Subject(s): God; Love; Protestantism


AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Home is a fortress where your name
Last Line: Hands flutter, shrink a powdery farewell
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Protestantism; Trials; Women - Captives


ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Patriots informed with apostolic light
Last Line: The purest stream of patient energy.
Subject(s): Protestantism; U.s. - Colonial Period


DEFIANCE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wide the way your beauty goes
Last Line: When all is excellently done.
Subject(s): Praise; Protestantism


EPILOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A virgin-poet was served up today
Last Line: And they that know what merchandise we need, %send o'er true protestants to mend our breed
Subject(s): Protestantism; Religious Discrimination


FORTY CENTS A YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When our ever-living saviour passed away from earthly eyes
Last Line: Build the kingdom of your captain on these latest shores of time!
Subject(s): Charity; Protestantism; Philanthropy


HADLEIGH, SUFFOLK; FOR ROLAND TAYLOR, RECTOR, BURNT IN 1555, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of rowland taillor's fame I shewe
Last Line: Thie deeds deserve that thie good name %were siphered here in gold
Subject(s): Martyrs; Protestantism; Taylor, Rowland (d. 1555)


HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers
Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself
Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population


HERE IS MUSIC: LIP-SERVICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In shocked surprise
Last Line: At peace, long since, with god.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mouths; Protestantism; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators


HOLY SONNET: 18, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Show me dear christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear
Last Line: When she is embraced and open to most men.
Variant Title(s): "show Me Clear Christ, Thy Spouse, So Bright And Clear"";
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Protestantism; Roman Catholics; Catholicism


JOHANNES AGRICOLA IN MEDITATION, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's heaven above, and night by night
Last Line: Paying a price, at his right hand?
Subject(s): Protestantism; Religious Reformers; Schneider, Johann (1494-1566); Agricola, Johann; Schnitter, Johann; Magister Islebius


MONSIGNOR BENVENISTE WRITES FROM LEWIS, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...As for sending a priest out to st kilda, I would not
Last Line: In the protestant clergy yours in christ
Subject(s): Protestantism; Religious Discrimination; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MY GOD, by SUSAN ROLSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Protestants pray for grace
Last Line: Cause my god's better than yours
Subject(s): God; Protestantism; Religion


ON HIS MAJESTY'S CONQUESTS IN IRELAND, by THOMAS SHADWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How great a transport is a brave man in
Last Line: And that shall crown your arms, and they your love.
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Protestantism; Soldiers; Victory; War; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702)


RELIGIO LAICI; OR, A LAYMAN'S FAITH, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars
Last Line: Tom sternhold's, or tom sha--ll's rhymes will serve.
Variant Title(s): Finite Reason;reason And Revelation;reason And The Soul;religio Laici, Or, A Layman's Faith: A Poem
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Faith; Protestantism; Religion; Translating & Interpreting; Belief; Creed; Theology


SONG, by JONATHAN ODELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: How sweet is the season, the sky how serene
Last Line: And wish all the world were as happy as %we
Subject(s): American Revolution; Independence; Protestantism


TURNER'S OLD TEMERAIRE: UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou wast the fairest of all man-made things
Last Line: And the tired waves of thought's insurgent sea
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Protestantism; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)