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Subject: APOSTLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
Last Line: Sin' they nailed him to the tree.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology


CALLING OF THE DISCIPLES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some jesus %has come on me
Last Line: Laughing like god's fool %behind this jesus
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Catholics; Jesus Christ; Religion


CONVERSION, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Religion


ENQUIRY, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Judas the disciple was
Last Line: For the part we play?
Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Disciples, Twelve


FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 2, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many thanks have been order'd this day to attend
Last Line: Excuse the presumption.—dear vicar, adieu!
Subject(s): Apostles; Baptism; Bible; Language; Prayer; Religion; Spiritual Life; Disciples, Twelve; Christenings; Words; Vocabulary; Theology


FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 3, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hope that the vicar will pardon the haste
Last Line: How to clear up the matter.—what can a man say?
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Hebrew Literature; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology


HOLYROOD ABBEY, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: No guidebook description prepares for this
Last Line: Like a fragment of the cross
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Churches; Clergy; Death; Monasteries; Religion; Skeletons


IN GALILEE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The master walked in galilee
Last Line: Abiding oft in galilee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Love; Disciples, Twelve


JESUS WENT BEFORE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their faces to jerusalem
Last Line: "our master went before!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Disciples, Twelve


JOHN, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: W'en de lawd chose his 'ciples
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible


JUDAH'S HALLOWED BARDS, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let those who will hang rapturously o'er
Last Line: Simply, pathetic, eloquently plain.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jews; Judah (bible); Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Judaism; Theology


JUDAS TREES, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is this the emblem for betrayal
Last Line: Saying breath-of-love, if I can
Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Repentance


LAST SUPPER, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Apostles of the hidden sun
Last Line: When the morning came like a white wall of stone, %the day lay in the grass and the blood was gone
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Last Supper, The


MIRACLES, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight is spacious, near things in it seem far
Last Line: Into the darkness. . . . It is exquisite.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Resurrection, The; Disciples, Twelve


OF THEM HE CHOOSE TWELVE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The twelve he chose; and those he did not choose
Last Line: If we reject his choice
Subject(s): Apostles


ON WHITSUNDAY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus, ascended into heav'n again
Last Line: Who hear this inward teacher and obey.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology


SIMON SURNAMED PETER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time that has lifted you over them all
Last Line: Gnarled branch of the vine!
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Disciples, Twelve


SPEECH IS A SYMPTOM OF AFFECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet had not seen!
Subject(s): Speech; Silence; Apostles


STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology


STARLIGHT LIKE INTUITION PIERCED THE TWELVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The starlight's intuitions pierced the twelve
Last Line: And we shall never be as once we were, %this life will never be what once it was!
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion


THE DISCIPLES AFTER THE ASCENSION, by ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is gone! Beyond the skies
Last Line: Thitherward let us ascend.
Subject(s): Apostles; Ascension Day; Bible; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology


THE DISCIPLES: OVERTURE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I write of the disciples, because he
Last Line: Grace to endure yet faithful to the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Disciples, Twelve


THE FIRE BY THE SEA, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were seven fishers with nets in their
Last Line: "thrice over, ""lov'st thou me?"
Subject(s): Apostles; Jesus Christ


THE HYMNARY: 389. FESTIVALS OF APOSTLES, by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lord, through instruments how weak
Last Line: In darkness to thy glorious light.
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Disciples, Twelve


THE MODERN JUDAS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The type has never perished from the earth
Last Line: And dark design of his satanic ways.
Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Disciples, Twelve


THE MOTHER OF JUDAS, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O'er her dear babe she leaned with watchful care
Last Line: "forgive them for they know not what they do""?"
Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Disciples, Twelve


THE RICH YOUNG RULER QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night grew late, nor yet matthias paused
Last Line: "sometimes I wonder did he think me fool!"
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Disciples, Twelve