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Subject: ALL HALLOWS NIGHT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL HALLOW'S EVE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brian: tearfully sinks the pallid sun
Last Line: While the sun gives light, and the red blood burn.
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Autumn; Fairies; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; All Hallows Night; Fall; Elves


ALL SOUL'S DAY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the church on all soul's day
Last Line: For us who live -- for us who live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night


ALL SOULS' EVE, by MARY E. MANNIX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild the sea clamors from its echoing caves
Last Line: "orate pro nobis!"
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; All Hallows Night


ALL SOULS' EVE, by FLORENCE KILPATRICK MIXTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark! - do you hear the choral dead?
Last Line: Still brimming with your tears.
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; All Hallows Night


ALL SOULS' EVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I cried all night to you
Last Line: I knew not you were here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death, Return From; All Hallows Night


ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother, mother, I swept the hearth, I set his chair and the white board
Last Line: Afraid to meet my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Variant Title(s): On All Souls' Night
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death, Return From; Superstition; All Hallows Night


ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The door of heaven is on the latch
Last Line: This night again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Comfort; Love; Reunions; All Hallows Night


ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis all souls' night and the great christ church bell
Last Line: As mummies in the mummy-cloth are wound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; All Hallows Night


ALL-HALLOWS EVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreadful hour is sighing for a moon
Last Line: And two will linger at the tryst alway.
Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Love; Magic; Rites & Ceremonies; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night


THE DEAD: 2, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All souls' night! Forth from their dwelling places
Last Line: For finding remembered and remembering faces.
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death; All Hallows Night; Dead, The