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Subject: SODOM
Matches Found: 18

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning
Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision."
Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


LOT LATER; VAUDEVILLE FOR GEORGE FINKEL, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems now far off and foolish, a memory
Last Line: Bring him his supper nights, and clean the cave
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by LILLIE D. CHAFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While he sat near the gate, I was the one
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the just man trailed god's messenger
Last Line: She who gave up her life to steal onc glance
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the just man followed god's ambassador here
Last Line: My heart alone will never forget: %for a single look, she gave up her life
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The just man followed then his angel guide
Last Line: Who, for a single glance, gave up her life
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And he who was righteous loomed radiant, striding
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the just man trailed god's shining agent
Last Line: Yet in my heart I never will deny her, %who suffered death because she chose to turn
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The just man strode after god's messenger proudly
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I long for the desolate valleys
Last Line: That no tree may shift to my sighing, %or breezes convey my moan
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked back supposedly curious
Last Line: Possibly I fell face turned towards the city
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say I looked back out of curiosity
Last Line: It's possible I fell facing the city
Subject(s): Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked back supposedly curious
Subject(s): Sodom


SODOM'S SISTER CITY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jerusalem is sodom's sister city
Last Line: The calm petals around the stem %god!
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Sodom


SODOM; OR, THE QUINTESSENCE OF DEBAUCHERY, SELS., by JOHN WILMOT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Sodom


THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O dread was the night, when o'er sodom's wide plain
Last Line: Now blooms where those cities were burned.
Subject(s): Gomorrah; Sodom


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom