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Subject: SOLOMON (10TH CENTURY B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dug a square hole
Last Line: And melilot.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


BAGATELLES: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: For kitty has a golden head
Last Line: Is my religion too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Theology


BEFORE THE ARK, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When solomon, great king of israel
Last Line: "know ye before whom you stand!"
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Temples; Judaism; Mosques


EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SOLOMON REDIVIVUS, 1886, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What am I? Ah, you know it
Last Line: And I king solomon.
Subject(s): Evolution; Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from jerusalem
Last Line: "than flatteries of the great."
Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology


KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES; A TALE OF THE TALMUD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When solomon was reigning in his glory
Last Line: As israel's king learned wisdom from the bees!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Jews; Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Beekeeping; Bugs; Judaism


KING SOLOMON SINGS OF WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been lord and spouse to many women
Last Line: Instead comes night -- and pharaoh's daughter. Selah.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON PRIOR'S SOLOMON, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise solomon, with all his rambling doubts
Last Line: He, to be sure, had talk'd them all asleep.
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


ON WOMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May god be praised for woman / that gives up all her mind
Last Line: That sheba led a dance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Theology


PAST THINKING OF SOLOMON, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise - unto - hell ecclesiast
Last Line: Now we say: they please me not.
Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Theology


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KING DAVID, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Despots smiling yield their breath
Last Line: "that said joab's brains to scatter."
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Death; Religion; Slavery; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Theology; Serfs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 10. SOLOMON, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The drums, trumps, cornets at length sink to slumber
Last Line: "but if thou'lt not love me, I wither and perish."
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SIGNATURES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Plants; Planting; Planters


SOLOMAN AND AZRAEL, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sate in his presence-chamber solomon
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bless the black
Last Line: "for they have made me
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bless the black
Last Line: For they have made me %wise
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the sun, groaned solomon
Last Line: Find that which is forever new.
Subject(s): Catholics; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Roman Catholics; Catholicism


SOLOMON, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hewed him cedar trees of lebanon
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stands the great king regarding as he stands
Last Line: "he is gone into the infinite of air."
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON AND BALKIS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solomon king of the jews and the
Last Line: "fool's small kiss!"
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the kings of fallen earth
Last Line: The strongest of the strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs


SOLOMON AND THE WITCH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And thus declared that arab lady
Last Line: "o! Solomon! Let us try again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 1. KNOWLEDGE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of men, with just regard attend
Last Line: Which flaming swords and angry cherubs guard.
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Happiness; Knowledge; Nature; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Joy; Delight


SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 2. PLEASURE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Try then, o man, the moments to deceive
Last Line: Their wishes, smiles, and looks deceitful all, and vain.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pleasure; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Vanity; Wealth; Joy; Delight; Riches; Fortunes


SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name
Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done!
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery


SOLOMON TO SHEBA, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sang solomon to sheba
Last Line: "the world a narrow pound."
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON'S PARENTS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do I turn to poison? Am I corrupt?
Last Line: How they grew.
Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women In The Bible


SOLOMON'S PRAYER, by MARY HAMPDEN CUTTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord god of israel, hear our prayer
Last Line: And when thou hearest, lord, forgive!
Alternate Author Name(s): Idamore
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON'S SHIPS, by JOHN E. REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ships, sailing so calmly
Last Line: And ebon wood to fashion three hundred cradles.
Subject(s): Navy - Israeli; Ships & Shipping; Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SOLOMON, A SERENATA, IN THREE PARTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, jerusalem! Thy king
Last Line: Too poor a bribe to purchase love.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Virginity; Vestals


THE DEAD SOLOMON, by JOHN AYLMER DORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: King solomon stood in the house of the lord
Last Line: And king solomon was dead!
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


THE PRAYER OF SOLOMON AT THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gorgeous structure! Rich with fretted gold
Last Line: And when thou hearest, forgive, and grant us rest.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Prayer; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Paradise; Judaism


THE SLUMBER OF KING SOLOMON, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The house is all of sandal-wood
Last Line: Sleep through the eternal night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


THE TEMPLES, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: That solomon the wise king might behold
Last Line: Swept the dead leaves in scorn against his face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Disdain; Shrines; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Scorn


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING SOLOMON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King solomon stood, in his crown of gold
Last Line: And they picked from the dust a golden crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


TO A DROP OF POISON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As once, the seal of solomon beneath
Last Line: Fate-bound his fond deliverer to slay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


TO MY DAUGHTER, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, are they proud, whose leafy pomp outshone
Last Line: Strews flowers beneath us, holy stars above.
Subject(s): Daughters; Love; Pride; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect


TREASON, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time I write my roundelays
Last Line: I am as derelict as he.
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


WISDOM: SOLOMON'S LOVE FOR WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wisdom I loved and searched for from my youth
Last Line: What is more wealthy than wisdom whose work is everywhere?
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion


WORD-PORTRAITS: SOLOMON, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His stature tall, large, and high
Last Line: Did go in royal equipage.
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.)