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Subject: ASH WEDNESDAY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASH WEDNESDAY, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of votive lights there were only seven
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday


ASH WEDNESDAY, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wire sparks in the live oak, scorching limbs
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday


ASH WEDNESDAY, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wire sparks in the live oak, scorching limbs
Last Line: Spreads ashes over flower beds. I wait %to hear the turning latch, your voice at the door.
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday


ASH WEDNESDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut out the light or let it filter through
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday


ASH WEDNESDAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus, do I love thee
Last Line: Love me and make me love thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday


ASH WEDNESDAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My god, my god, have mercy on my sin
Last Line: To tell it in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Repentance; Penitence


ASH WEDNESDAY (AFTER HEARING A LECTURE ON THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION), by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in the lonely chapel I will wait
Last Line: Strong with new love where thou dost kneel, the cross whereon christ died.
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Christianity; Faith; Prayer; Solitude; Belief; Creed; Loneliness


ASHES, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring will come with its ebullient blood
Last Line: The hand will raise thee up that smites thee now!
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Southern States; South (u.s.)


ASHWEDNESDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Right welcome pleasant bitter day
Last Line: Being as gods discerning good & evill.
Subject(s): Abstinence; Ash Wednesday; Lent


LA MUERTE, by PAT MORA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You don't belong, fea dona sebastiana
Subject(s): Skeletons; Ash Wednesday