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Subject: EXORCISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD, SHEWING HOW AN OLD WOMAN RODE DOUBLE AND WHO RODE BEFORE HER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The raven croak'd as she sat at her meal
Last Line: Started and screamed with fear.
Variant Title(s): The Old Woman Of Berkeley
Subject(s): Devil; Exorcism; Old Age; Prayer; Sin; Singing & Singers; Women; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


AMERICAN GIRL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a new poem for helen
Last Line: A green flower from a green stem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Desire; Exorcism; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Songs


CHARM TO EXORCIZE SPIRITS; YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus, a name high all over
Last Line: And devils fear and flee
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Exorcism


EXORCISM, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the archangel michael who chased the evil spirit
Last Line: I am here, down on my knees, praying
Subject(s): Evil; Exorcism


EXORCISM, by JOYCE SUTPHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was homemade and primitive
Last Line: She went, leaving behind only %the smallest tooth of wickedness
Subject(s): Exorcism


THE EXORCISM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young franciscan friar sits
Last Line: In silence they gaze on each other.
Subject(s): Exorcism


THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 6. THE WOMAN WHOM SATAN HAD BOUND, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For years eighteen she, patient soul
Last Line: And hoping I endure.
Subject(s): Bible; Exorcism; Jesus Christ; Women


THE POET'S JOURNAL: EXORCISM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O tongues of the past, be still!
Last Line: With the phantom of the old!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Exorcism; Graves; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness