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Subject: ABEL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WEEK IN A BOY'S LIFE, by JACQUES BOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chill was our sky: the swallows all had fled
Last Line: Beside his darling's grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jasmin, Jacques
Subject(s): Abel; Boys; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Prayer; Dead, The


ABEL'S BLOOD, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad, purple well! Whose bubbling eye
Last Line: Who prayed for those that did him kill!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Abel


ABEL'S BRIDE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman fears for man, he goes
Subject(s): Abel; Women


ABEL'S BRIDE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman fears for man, he goes
Last Line: Is a cave, there are bones at the hearth
Subject(s): Abel; Women


ABELS BLOUD, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak, did the bloud of abel cry
Last Line: God, for an expiation.
Subject(s): Abel


ANCIENT HISTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain
Last Line: The gaunt wild man whose lovely sons were dead.
Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; Religion; Soldiers; Theology


ANOTHER ON ABELS BLOUD, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blood of abel was a thing
Last Line: Especially to sweare by it.
Subject(s): Abel


CAIN AND ABEL, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But yesterday / we roamed the plain
Last Line: What peril lurks! My brother!
Subject(s): Abel; Cain


INVOCATION, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children, there is a lady, who / is younger far than all of you
Last Line: A quiet footstep that is hers.
Subject(s): Abel; Cain


LANDFALL IN THE UNKNOWN SEAS, by ALLEN CURNOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Simply by sailing in a new direction
Last Line: The stain of blood that writes an island story
Subject(s): Explorers; New Zealand; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659)


OVER AND OVER, by ELIOT KAYS STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arguing day by day, over and over and over
Last Line: Two brothers palsied and grey, arguing over and over.
Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; God


THE GHOST OF ABEL; A RELATION IN THE VISIONS OF JEHOVAH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What doest thou here, elijah?
Last Line: Mercy seat: each in his station fixt in the firmament by peace brotherhood and love.
Subject(s): Abel; Bible; Mythology


THE SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, while orion, flaming south
Last Line: On holy paths -- on sacred ways and sweet.
Subject(s): Australia; Exhibitions; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659); World's Fairs; Expositions


THE UNLIKE CHILDREN OF EVE: HOW GOD THE LORD TALKS TO THEM, by HANS SACHS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Health and grace from god the lord
Last Line: With angels all, so prays hans sachs.
Subject(s): Abel; Cain


TO EUSTACE BUDGELL, ESQ. ON HIS TRANSLATION ... THEOPHRASTUS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis rumoured, budgell on a time
Last Line: That thou hast done, with life and spirit.
Subject(s): Boyer, Abel (1667-1729); Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737); Gildon, Charles (1665-1724); Translating & Interpreting


VEILS AND MASKS: ABEL, by MICHEAL O'SIADHAIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I seem to follow the lure and flow of a story
Last Line: Say to me, brother abel, that I'm your guardian
Subject(s): Abel