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Subject: CAIN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANCIENT HISTORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain
Last Line: The gaunt wild man whose lovely sons were dead.
Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; Religion; Soldiers; Theology


CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is what it means
Last Line: My brother is.
Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons


CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land of nod
Last Line: Don't rise up
Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons


CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land of nod
Last Line: My brother %don't rise up
Subject(s): Brothers; Cain


CAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met cain
Last Line: To do the same
Subject(s): Cain; Youth


CAIN, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The afternoon was beautiful
Last Line: Only to rub it in.
Subject(s): Cain


CAIN, by LUCY MAROULLETI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He walked on two feet
Last Line: But he didn't manage %to avoid the rolling boulder
Subject(s): Cain


CAIN, by VICTOR DOMINGO SILVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cain brandishes the blood-stained weapon still
Last Line: Union from death itself can pluck forth life!
Subject(s): Brothers; Cain; Crime And Criminals; Death; Murder


CAIN AND ABEL, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But yesterday / we roamed the plain
Last Line: What peril lurks! My brother!
Subject(s): Abel; Cain


CAIN THE IMMORTAL, by YUSUF AL- KHAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you turn at the road's
Last Line: Cain cannot die
Subject(s): Cain


CALL OF COAL, by MARTIN TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the outcasts know
Last Line: That swirl down into the unknown
Subject(s): Bible; Cain; Nature


EDEN, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The garden; the first year and the first june
Last Line: Adam gave us cain.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain


EVE'S CRADLE-SONG, by WALTER SATTERLEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep, sleep, little cain
Last Line: Little cain!
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain


INVOCATION, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children, there is a lady, who / is younger far than all of you
Last Line: A quiet footstep that is hers.
Subject(s): Abel; Cain


OVER AND OVER, by ELIOT KAYS STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arguing day by day, over and over and over
Last Line: Two brothers palsied and grey, arguing over and over.
Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; God


PROGRESS?, by EDITH O'HARA    Poem Text                    
First Line: O cain, how didst thou feel at sight of brother abel at thy feet?
Last Line: Sin!
Subject(s): Cain; Punishment; Sin


THE BRAND OF CAIN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bear upon my brow the sign
Last Line: Thy cross, a saint of thine.
Subject(s): Cain


THE FAR-OFF DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I behold a little bird
Last Line: And bird and beast and man are one in thee.
Subject(s): Birds; Cain; Faith; Love; Vision; Belief; Creed


THE RELIGION OF CAIN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time has been, it seem'd a precept plain
Last Line: They argued not, but preach'd; and conscience did the rest.
Subject(s): Cain


THE SONG OF EVE TO CAIN, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Rest, my baby, rest
Last Line: Oh! Rest, my darling, rest!
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain


THE UNLIKE CHILDREN OF EVE: HOW GOD THE LORD TALKS TO THEM, by HANS SACHS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Health and grace from god the lord
Last Line: With angels all, so prays hans sachs.
Subject(s): Abel; Cain