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| Searching... Subject: FASTS & FEASTS Matches Found: 30 ADONAI MELECH, by SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The lord is king! The lord was king! Forever shall the lord be king! Alternate Author Name(s): Cohen, Solomon Solis Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism AFTER YOM KIPPUR, by CORA WILBURN Poem Text First Line: The great white fast! The day that solemnly Last Line: Bind all of life in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Friendship; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism CHANUKAH, by MARGARET FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Little candles shed your light Last Line: Would we need a maccabee? Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Israel; Jews; Light; Judaism CHANUKAH, by CECILIA GERSON Poem Text First Line: The hand of time moves o'er the dial Last Line: That leap to glory and to god! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews; Slavery; Judaism; Serfs CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG Poem Text First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel Last Line: And live for evermore. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques CHANUKAH, by LOUIS STERN Poem Text First Line: We welcome thee joyfully, glorious night Last Line: Right and truth forever. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Jews; Judaism CHANUKAH HYMN, by ADOLPH HUEBSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, the true that follow thee Last Line: Thy command we follow will. Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews; Victory; Belief; Creed; Judaism CHANUKAH IN RUSSIA, 1905, by E. L. LEVETUS Poem Text First Line: Set high the light where all may see Last Line: That like our sires we shall be free. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; Judaism CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: A single light is kindled and it glows Last Line: And breathes new hope into his soul. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Judaism CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I kindled my eight little candles Last Line: A heavenly-glorious light. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Courage; Fasts & Feasts; Freedom; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Judaism DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this day sublime elect, my god, to thee" Last Line: To glorify thy throne divine! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts;god;jews;yom Kippur; Judaism GOLDEN LIGHTS FOR CHANUKAH, by JANIE JACOBSON Poem Text First Line: O golden lights, shine out anew Last Line: "lord among the gods, who is like thee?" Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Belief; Creed; Judaism KIPPUR, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou eternal and omnipotent! Last Line: Bound by love's holiest ties, our god, to thee. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism KOL NIDRE, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: Lo! Above the mournful chanting Last Line: Breathing but the breath of ages. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Music & Musicians; Yom Kippur; Judaism LEGENDARY LIGHTS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the legendary light Last Line: The omnipotence of right. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; Light; Judaism MO'OZ TSUR YESHU'OSI (A CHANUKAH HYMN), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "mighty, praised beyond compare" Last Line: Haste to my salvation! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts;hanukkah;jews; Judaism POWDERS OF THE MERCHANT, by ALEXANDER JAVITZ Poem Text First Line: Scarlet spice Last Line: Swift songs are drumming on the echoes of kol nidre . . . Subject(s): Cabbala; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Sapphires; Yom Kippur; Kabbala; Kabbalah; Judaism PRAYER FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (YOM KIPPUR, 5662), by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I have failed, my god, to see Last Line: And let thy love my shelter be! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's holiday night / and crazy jews are on the road Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism THE BALLAD OF EPHRON, PRINCE OF TOPERS, by IMMANUEL OF ROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to a merry song about a merry / wight Last Line: Nor he, nor we, shall crave in vain for water! Alternate Author Name(s): Immanuel Ben Solomon Of Rome; Immanuel Di Roma Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Repentance; Sin; Water; Judaism; Penitence THE EIGHT CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by ISIDORE MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fervor and joy we give thanks to the lord Last Line: To serve the one god and to walk in his light. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Heaven; Heroism; Jews; Light; Paradise; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE MENORAH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the temple, softly, clearly burning Last Line: Is the blessed law of israel! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Israel; Jews; Religion; Temples; Judaism; Theology; Mosques THE NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S FASTING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You shall hear how hiawatha Last Line: This new gift of the great spirit. Variant Title(s): The Legend Of The Cornstalk Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts VERSES INVITING STELLA TO TEA ON THE PUBLIC FAST DAY, 1781, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear stella, midst the pious sorrow / our monarch bids us feel tomorow Last Line: Twas vanquished britain's laurel-water!' Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Variant Title(s): Verses Inviting Mrs. C- To Tea On A Public Fast-day, 1791 Subject(s): American Revolution; Fasts & Feasts; Patriotism WATER SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast's begun Last Line: Like streams of water, streams of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Thirst; Water; Wine; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee we give ourselves today Last Line: Thy light at our life's eventide. Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Belief; Creed; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of hosts, thou only one Last Line: "thy will be done!" Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a jew in solitude? Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism |
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