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Subject: CONVERSION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 1, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glow of true messiah
Last Line: For gayness to king david's son
Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism


3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was born -- the child of life
Last Line: Lit up the moon by daylight
Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism


3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 3, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sabbatai is myrrh root
Last Line: King sabbatai zevi
Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism


A NEW DENOMINATION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebe has lived a life of schism
Last Line: "a plymouth brother or a yarmouth bloater?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Conversion; Gossip


CONVERSATION, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This conversation is like a long walk
Last Line: And now, just at goodbye, where the trail divides, %sudden pathos of sweet rain
Subject(s): Conversion


CONVERSION, by R. G. RUSTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It happened in the cold and starlit dawn
Last Line: I know the cause shall stand, though I may fall.
Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; God; Religion; Self; Belief; Creed; Theology


CONVERSION OF ST.PAUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O blessed paul elect to grace
Last Line: When at the goal he welcomes thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Conversion; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus


CRY 'INFIDEL', by ALFRED GIBBS CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you find a man who does not receive
Last Line: "cry ""infidel!"
Subject(s): Conversion


DEATH VOW OF DON ALONZO OF AGUILAR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fernando, king of aragon, before granada lies
Last Line: And buried him near the waters clear of the brook of alpuxarra
Variant Title(s): The Death Of Don Alonzo Of Aguila
Subject(s): Alonzo De Aguilar, Lord Of Montilla, Don; Conversion; Death; Spanish Armada; War


DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 9. CONSTANTINE, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah constantine, of how much ill was cause
Last Line: That the first wealthy pope received of thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Constantine I (the Great) (d. 337); Conversion; Silvester I. Saint. Pope


EDWIN AND PAULINUS; THE CONVERSION OF NORTHUMBRIA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The black-haired gaunt paulinus
Last Line: That we shall live again
Subject(s): Conversion


FREE GRACE AT ROSE HILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My uncle found it in a crater on bloody ridge
Last Line: It touches us.
Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; Salvation; Belief; Creed


HITTING THE SAWDUST TRAIL', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With hope in our hearts and with light in our eyes
Last Line: We are hitting the sawdust trail
Subject(s): Sunday, William A. (billy) (1862-1935); Conversion


IN THE CATHEDRAL, PETERBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hart brought wulfade to a well
Last Line: Wulhere endued, with high devotion, %the abbey of brough with great possession
Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Wulfhere, King Of The Mercians (d. 674)


OF HIS CONVERSION, by WILLIAM ALABASTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away feare with thy projectes, noe false fyre
Last Line: Now bidd me into flame from smoake to runne.
Subject(s): Conversion


ON THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In paul's conversion we discern the case
Last Line: Not in man's reason but god's revelation.
Subject(s): Conversion; Religion; Saints; Worship; Theology


PSALM 102, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O lord my cryeng heare
Last Line: His presence your unchaunged place.
Subject(s): Conversion


ST. DOROTHEA (LINES FOR A PICTURE), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bear a basket lined with grass
Last Line: I find another christian here
Subject(s): Conversion; Dorothea, St. (4th Century); Flowers; Fruit


STANZAS ON THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On this labour of love may a blessing attend
Last Line: Nor turn ye from him who now speaketh from heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Conversion; Jews; Judaism


THE ADMIRABLE CONVERSION OF S. PAUL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thirst againe? But even now
Last Line: A sweet & intellectuall star.
Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Saints


THE APOSTATE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, hypocrite harry, that hamburg hand-kisser
Last Line: Bless the poet, heinrich, as he blesses you.
Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Hypocrisy; Jews; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Judaism; Feminism


THE OLD FAITH TO THE CONVERTS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the world is growing older
Last Line: But we—we shall never return.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; Belief; Creed


THE VICAR OF BRAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In good king charles's golden days
Last Line: "except the times should alter. / and this is law, etc"
Subject(s): "aleyn, Simon (16th Century);bray, England;conversion;religion;" Theology


VESPERS, by ALBERT FREDERICK WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of three
Last Line: "and say, 'why, man, this stuff will grow!'"
Subject(s): Conversion