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Subject: STEPHEN, SAINT (D. 36 A.D.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASLEEP, ASLEEP; MARTYDOM OF SAINT STEPHEN, by LUCY ANN BENNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Asleep! Asleep! Men talk of 'sleep'
Last Line: From hearts with silence breaking.
Subject(s): Death; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.); Dead, The


FEAST O' SAINT STEPHEN, by RUTH SAWYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hearken ye all, 'tis the feast of st stephen
Subject(s): Christmas; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


FEAST OF STEPHEN, by KEVIN NICHOLAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the midnight unfolding of the white rose
Subject(s): Christmas; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


HYMN: ST. STEPHEN'S DAY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The son of god goes forth to war
Last Line: To follow in their train!
Variant Title(s): Who Follows In His Train?
Subject(s): Religion; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.); Theology


IN PRAISE OF ST. STEPHEN, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's the feast o' st. Stephen
Last Line: Stephen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


SACRED EPIGRAM: ST. STEPHEN TO HIS FRIENDS ..., by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray let no marbles rise from my tomb: these stone
Last Line: Let this be a witness of my witness
Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE CROWN OF STEPHEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold your stones! There is nothing more precious than those
Last Line: By so much will it be the more costly jewel for your head
Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE JEWISH SLAUGHTERS OF STEPHEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you give your anger to the unwilling stones, ah wretched ones?
Last Line: Of their own will they make his tomb after he is slain
Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE JEWISH SLAUGHTERS OF STEPHEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain do the hurling stones mock at him, in vain: not even
Last Line: Which are in your heart, those stones harm him
Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


SAINT STEPHEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All doctors and confessors, / martyrs and holy souls
Last Line: When I come to die.
Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


SAINT STEPHEN AND [KING] HEROD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seynt stevene was a clerk in king herowdes halle
Last Line: "tokyn he stevene, and stonyd hym in the way, / and therefore in his evyn on crystes owyn day"
Subject(s): "stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.);


SAINT STEPHEN WAS A CLERK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saint stephen was a clerk in king herod's hall
Last Line: Took they then stephen and stoned him in the way, %thereforeis his even on christe's own day
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Legends; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


ST. STEPHEN, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First champion of the crucified!
Last Line: How her great proto-martyr fell.
Subject(s): Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


ST. STEPHEN'S DAY, by PATRIC DICKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday the gentle
Subject(s): Christmas; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


THE DEATH OF STEPHEN, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O power invincible of faith and love
Last Line: Thus, martyr'd stephen, thus wert thou avenged.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Christianity; God; Martyrs; Religion; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.); Theology