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Subject: RIZPAH (BIBLE)
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` RIZPAH, by LUCY MARION BLINN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The long, bright day of harvest toil is past
Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible


RIZPAH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear what the desolate rizpah said
Last Line: The beasts of the desert, and fowls of air.
Subject(s): Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible


RIZPAH, by JOHN READE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is growing dark
Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible


RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many sons, how many generations
Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar.
Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians


RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea
Last Line: Going. He calls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English


RIZPAH, by GEORGE M. VICKERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night came at last. The noisy throng had gone
Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible


RIZPAH WITH HER SONS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bread for my mother!' said the voice of one
Last Line: [unfinished.]
Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible


RIZPAH, DAUGHTER OF AIAH (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC), by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the changing sky
Last Line: Rizpah, daughter of aiah.
Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women In The Bible


THE VIGIL OF RIZPAH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who watches on the mountain with the dead
Last Line: The unconquerable angel, mightiest love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women In The Bible