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Subject: ABISHAG (BIBLE)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABISHAG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, your servants sought me and I came
Last Line: Is this way slowly easier? It is well.
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible


ABISHAG, by MOSHE DOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: When david is cold, abishag
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible


ABISHAG, by JACOB FICHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I waste my teeming age. I do not know
Last Line: All of my warmth I give to the old king %his heart plays th e weeping of my spring
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Spring; Women In The Bible


ABISHAG, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At god's word david's kinsmen cast
Last Line: Believe that of my body
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible


ABISHAG, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little tender rose of bethlehem
Last Line: The mirrored portrait of myself seems young.
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible


ABISHAG, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All my defiance in the past, I lay
Last Line: A brief bow following on the final leap
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible


ABISHAG THE SHUNAMMITE (1), by DEBORAH BURNHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The king's ribs rise like cool stone rods beneath my check
Last Line: Of air where his stories lie, where small flames disappear %when they are blow out
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible


ABISHAG TO DAVID, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am afraid, my lord. I am afraid.
Last Line: You would be dwelling in god's house - %god's home - forever
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women - Bible; Women In The Bible


ABISHAG WRITES A LETTER HOME, by ITSIK MANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abishag sits in her room
Last Line: While girlish in a corner %a dream sobs tenderly
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible


ABISHAG: RECOLLECTIONS IN OLD AGE, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have know horrors
Last Line: He never knew me
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Old Age; Women; Women In The Bible


THE WARMING PAN; ABISHAG, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When age had david stricken
Last Line: Is certain of her fame.
Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible