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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SYNAGOGUES Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALL TO THE BUILDERS, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: Ye may not rear it now,-though some aver Last Line: The light of lives with oil of knowledge fed! Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Israel; Jerusalem; Jews; Synagogues; Judaism GENIZAH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin's mind skipped grooves like a jostled record, bounced Last Line: Returns to where it has not been Subject(s): Jews; Synagogues IN A SYNAGOGUE, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON Poem Text First Line: My alien feet were hesitant that day Last Line: Went home and talked that night and supped with me. Subject(s): Synagogues IN THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AT NEWPORT, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the noises of the busy town Last Line: Before the mystery of death and god. Subject(s): Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Synagogues; Judaism MENORAH, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've read in legends of the books of old Last Line: "and keeps me what I am today in every clime." Subject(s): Candles; Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Synagogues; Judaism NOTES FROM THE SYNAGOGUE MUSEUM, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Through the airtight %glass face, I peer at a homemade compact tool kit Last Line: That makes pure %the fount of seed & progeny Variant Title(s): Notes From The Synagogue Museum (1 Subject(s): Museums; Synagogues PRINCESS SABBATH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In arabia's book of fable Last Line: Till it crackles and is quenched. Subject(s): Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141); Synagogues; Judaism; Yehuda Ben Shemuel Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan SELICHOTH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the pride of the rose is the image of sorrow Last Line: So prayeth the jew with the genius of sorrow! Subject(s): Grief; Israel; Jews; Synagogues; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism SOMETIMES, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the synagogue at amsterdam Last Line: Came into the world Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Synagogues SOMETIMES, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the synagogue at amsterdam Last Line: Came into the world Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Synagogues SONGS OF ZION THE BEAUTIFUL: 31, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four synagogues are entrenched together Last Line: Yes. These are thy tents, o jacob, in profundis Subject(s): Synagogues SONGS OF ZION THE BEAUTIFUL: 31, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four synagogues are entrenched together Last Line: That will never land Subject(s): Synagogues SYNAGOGUE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Standing on a quiet street Last Line: What we do, we do-- %but candles we bless! Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky; Synagogues SYNAGOGUE IN TZ'FAT, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: Strange to be a strange jew here in tz'fat Last Line: When any's to be had, I hold my peace Subject(s): Synagogues TEST: STAYING THE NIGHT IN THE DOHANYI SYNAGOGUE, BUDAPEST, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Ther are still so many things Last Line: I would not change my name Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Night; Synagogues THE ALTNEUSHUL IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Craggy lines stoop against a crowded sky Last Line: Here you slam against the fact and then rejoice Subject(s): Synagogues; Prague, Czech Republic; Ghettos THE HOLY FLAME, 'MENORAH', by GEORGE JAY HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Thou sacred flame, so mellow and subdued Last Line: "and breathe with god: ""let there be light." Subject(s): God; Jews; Light; Spirituality; Synagogues; Judaism THE MENORAH, by HARRY AUSTRYN WOLFSOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ages imprisoned in shadow Last Line: The course of our future years! Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Light; Synagogues; Judaism THE PRAYER OF THE HIGH PRIEST (100 YEARS B.C.E.), by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON Poem Text First Line: The high priest at the altar lingering stood Last Line: "than thou, the least." Subject(s): Clergy; God; Jews; Prayer; Synagogues; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THERE IS ONE SYNAGOGUE EXTANT IN KIEV, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: They do not talk of loss at babi yar Last Line: So long ago their queen of sabbath fled, %all that's left is kaddish for the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Kiev, Ukraine; Synagogues TOURO SYNAGOGUE, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: As to an unknown lover I returned Last Line: The windless torch of love, my tribe's rebirth Subject(s): Synagogues YEHUDA OF THE MIST, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: You have asked my story, frank,' yehuda sighed Last Line: Can he find anything, reb frank, who follows nothing? Subject(s): Jews; Synagogues |
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