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Subject: BAPTISTS
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUNT JANEY SPEAKS OF THE CROOKED PREACHER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aunt janey suddenly
Last Line: Screw him into the ground.'
Subject(s): Aunts; Baptists; Preaching And Preachers


EMILY DICKINSON AND KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickson's father yanked on the baptist bell
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Baptists; Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in blackness
Last Line: In blackness like a star
Subject(s): Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in darkness
Subject(s): Religion; Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers; Theology


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in blackness
Last Line: Somebody bigger than me coming %in blackness like a star
Subject(s): Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching And Preachers


JOHN THE BAPTIST, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is he in hairy raiment
Last Line: Saviour lowly led!
Subject(s): Baptists; Religion; Theology


THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the outset / charmed by the soft, quick speech
Last Line: Of poetry – was at last mine
Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry & Poets


THERESA'S FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the outset %charmed by the soft, quick speech
Last Line: Of poetry - was at last mine
Subject(s): Baptists; Friendship; Irish Catholic Church; Poetry And Poets


UNCLE JIM'S BAPTIST REVIVAL HYMN, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sin's rooster's crowed, ole mahster's riz
Subject(s): Baptists