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Subject: ROSARY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARAPHRASE ON THE LORD'S PRAYER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our father which art in heaven - / 'father' - to think of his paternal care
Last Line: "till life becomes a practical ""amen."
Subject(s): Fathers; God; Prayer; Rosary


LOVE'S ROSARY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I tell my rosary
Last Line: About the break of day.
Subject(s): Rosary


LOVE'S ROSARY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet names, the rosary of my evening prayer
Last Line: "bid me not live,"" I sigh, ""till all be gone."
Subject(s): Rosary


MY BEADS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet, blessed beads! I would not part
Last Line: Of jesus and his mother fair.
Subject(s): Rosary


ROSARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father was a man full of small
Last Line: I still thought her / beautiful
Subject(s): Fathers; Rosary


ROSARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father was a man full of small
Last Line: The way to a man's heart is %through his %stomach
Subject(s): Fathers; Rosary


ROSARY, by ROBERTO TINOCCO DURAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time measured
Subject(s): Rosary


ROSARY BEADS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adore the roses; nor delay
Last Line: Of ever-creeping land.
Subject(s): Flowers; Rosary; Roses


ROSARY BEADS THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS, by ANN CEFOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The virgin enters the bedroom
Last Line: Mary swallows. '...Playing bocce.'
Subject(s): Rosary


THE CHILD'S PRAYER, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teach the child to pray to the blue waves
Last Line: Chaplet of perfumes on the rosary of love.
Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Rosary; Theology


THE FIRST ROSARY, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Father felipe forgot to pray
Last Line: "his roses, and whispered, ""a miracle."
Subject(s): Rosary


THE LAY OF THE BROWN ROSARY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Onora, onora,' - her mother is calling
Last Line: O reader, breathe (the ballad saith) some sweetness out of each!
Subject(s): Brides; Rosary; Sin


THE ROSARY, by CHARLOTTE A. BRADSHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clear, cold crystal cubes
Last Line: Crosses cheerfully.
Subject(s): Rosary


THE ROSARY, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hours I spent with thee, dear heart
Last Line: To kiss the cross.
Subject(s): Rosary


THE TROUBLE WITH THE TIMES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this town the shops are all the same
Last Line: Given away
Subject(s): Animals; Antelopes; Rosary


YOUR ROSARY, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Half awake
Last Line: Your faith shall prove enough for two.
Subject(s): Faith; Rosary; Belief; Creed