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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE ON NATUREM POWER AND USE OF HUMAN LEARNING, IN RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rust. Yes, academicus, you love to hear
Last Line: Can set in a more proper light—pray do.
Subject(s): Learning; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE AND DESIGN OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is religion? Why it is a cure
Last Line: And what religion is they only know.
Subject(s): Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


A STRICTURE ON BISHOP WARBURTON'S DOCTRINE OF GRACE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Writing or scripture, sacred or profane
Last Line: To deify a book is bibliolatry.
Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Warburton, William (1698-1779); Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


AD ASTRA: 162, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His life and teaching cannot be in vain
Last Line: What hand like his to lead us thro' the gloom?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Graves; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


AFRAID, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why slew they workman jesus
Last Line: Because they were afraid!
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


AN INVITATION, by MRS. RALPH BLACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear my sunday - school bell ringing
Last Line: So come along to my sunday school with me.
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


BROTHERS: 8. '............IS GOD.', by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So. / having no need to speak
Last Line: The rest is silence.
Subject(s): Brothers; God; Religious Education; Silence; Half-brothers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE, by PETER HEYLYN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If thou art merry, here are airs
Last Line: First in the book, and next in thee.
Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religious Education; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


DEDICATION, by REBECCA FUSFELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My fount of beauty this year, oh god
Last Line: Of thy teachings.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Religious Education; Worship; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


DIVINE LOVE; THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Religion's meaning when I would recal
Last Line: A heav'n within, in other words, above.
Subject(s): Love; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


F.R.H.'S THANKS; WITH A PENCIL-CASE FOR HER BIBLE-CLASS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou who gatherest with loving arm
Last Line: For ever be thy blessings o'er them streaming!
Subject(s): Bible; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views
Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man.
Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors


FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No office seems more sacred and august
Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text.
Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors


FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 3, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You wonder'd much, why any man of parts
Last Line: By these important verses of st. John.
Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels; Religious Education; Schools; Speech; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Students; Oratory; Orators


FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ
Last Line: Of brisker tempers—let us next enquire.
Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome'
Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes.
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, by JOEL BLAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the sadness of your eyes
Last Line: Teach me to humbly bow to god's great will.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Religious Education; Belief; Creed; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


HYMN FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear, lord, the song of praise and prayer
Last Line: Who placed us where it shines.
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


HYMN, COMPOSED FOR THE CHILDREN OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou! To whom the grateful song
Last Line: And endless life with thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Religious Education; Children; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Childhood


LIFE-THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas morn, - the heavens were glowing with the light
Last Line: Through studying god's works to study god!
Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Love; Mankind; Religious Education; Human Race; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


LORD, TEACH US HOW TO PLAY!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid clashing creeds and civic strife
Last Line: And teach us how to pray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


MODERN THOUGHTS OF A LAYMAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In these days of new thought and interpretation
Last Line: For the goats, then will open the great jaws of hell.
Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Thought; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors; Thinking


MY SONS ASK WHERE GOD LIVES, by ROBERT A. FINK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was eight I asked miss reese
Last Line: A dripping wound that never healed
Subject(s): Religion; Religious Education


NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme
Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die.
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School


NOT READY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of our pain and struggle
Last Line: The goodness which brims the days!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religious Education; Worship; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


OF A CHILD WHO WOULD NOT LEARN THE CRIS-CROSS ROW, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little child of mine, come hit her to my knee
Last Line: Then the morning touched mine eyelids, and I woke.
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Fathers; Regret; Religious Education; Childhood; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


ON A STUMP OUTSIDE VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, by JUDITH SKILLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the children sing about zacchaeus
Subject(s): Bible; Religious Education; Zacchaeus


ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND (2), by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We ought to read, my worthy friend ponthieu
Last Line: The book of books is ev'ry man's own heart.
Subject(s): Books; Language; Religious Education; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


ON THE UNION AND THREE-FOLD DISTINCTION OF GOD, NATURE AND CREATURE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All that comes under our imagination
Last Line: And, god's own image lord of it, a man.
Subject(s): Mankind; Mediums; Religious Education; Human Race; Spiritualists; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea
Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end.
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


OUR PASSWORD, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No hate can stifle our religion's birth
Last Line: Our prayer in life and death that god is one.
Subject(s): History; Jews; Religious Education; Historians; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


PRAYER, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herbie sat the class down and told us how
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sex; Prayer; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


SITTING IN THE SIXTH GRADE AT ASCENSION OF OUR LORD SCHOOL, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was a new catechism, a new testament
Last Line: And all the things that might be without being seen
Subject(s): Christianity; Religious Education


SUNDAY SCHOOL, by HARVEY SHAPIRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walk and be whole, the bible says
Last Line: Walk and be whole, out of the house
Subject(s): Religious Education


SUNDAY SCHOOL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue-haired ladies thought us refugees
Last Line: A bicentennial flush with millennia
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


SUNDAY SCHOOL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue-haired ladies thought us refugees
Last Line: A bicentennial flush with millennia
Subject(s): Religious Education


SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSION, by ROY MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She, whom boys pursued %because of her blue eyes
Last Line: For want of manna, kneaded excrement
Subject(s): Religious Education


SUNDAY SCHOOL, 1965, by CHRIS FORHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sister clarice said our earthly riches
Subject(s): Religious Education


SUNDAY SCHOOL, CIRCA 1950 (8), by ALICE WALKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who made you?' was always
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


SUNDAY SCHOOL, CIRCA 1950 (8), by ALICE WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who made you?' was always
Last Line: And salvage mostly %the leaning
Subject(s): Religious Education


SUNDAY SCHOOLS, by ANNA SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring little children unto me
Last Line: To know their god, and hymn his praise.
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems
Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death.
Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


THE LENT JEWELS; A JEWISH APOLOGUE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In schools of wisdom all the day was spent
Last Line: Which god had lent him, and resumed anew.
Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


THE LOAN, by SABINE BARING-GOULD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rabbi meir, / a black cap on his white hair
Last Line: "should be restored."
Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


THE SCHOOL WHERE I STUDIED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed by the school where I studied as a boy
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Group after group are gathering, such as prest
Last Line: A sabbath without end, 'nid yon celestial plain
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A school it is, where glorious things are taught
Last Line: You cannot fail, your master toils with you.
Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


THEOLOGICAL EXPERTS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the gay monkey reigns
Last Line: To their sweet serenade.
Subject(s): Moses; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees
Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream.
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors


WHICH KING?, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have no king but caesar,' answered they
Last Line: That christ is king, that he alone shall reign?
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools