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Subject: SYNAGOGUES
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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