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Subject: BABEL, TOWER OF
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BABEL, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a tower that went before a fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of


BABEL, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know ye in ages past that tower
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of


BABEL AND BETHEL, by FRANK BUCHANAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a multitude striving to build
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Religion


BABEL FALLS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, thou great babel - out of nothing reared
Last Line: "shouted abroad in heaven, ""great babel falls."
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Bible


ELDER-BLOSSOM, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here comes %babel, isaak
Last Line: Might die %of your forgetfulness
Subject(s): Babel, Isaac (1894-1941); Babel, Tower Of; Russia - Pogroms; Writing And Writers


MODERN BABEL, by HELEN M. PARSONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At twilight, when the sun is low
Last Line: At twilight.
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of


NIMROD WARS WITH THE ANGELS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But god sent forth a pale and spectral host
Last Line: "am I not nimrod?"
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Bible; Nimrod (bible)


WHO AM I?, by EDVARD KOCBEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never am %what people think I am
Last Line: This arrogant century in the face %and the century will blush
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Deserts; Explorers; Food And Eating; Travel