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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FEASTS Matches Found: 108 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BANQUET, by ERNEST BENSHIMOL Poem Text First Line: After the song the love, and after the love the play Last Line: But water at morning is quench for the thirsting! Subject(s): Feasts; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) A POEM FOR THE SHEKINAH ON THE FEAST OF THE SABBATH, by ISAAC BEN SOLOMON LURIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sung / an old measure Alternate Author Name(s): Ashkenazi, Isaac Subject(s): Feasts; Mysticism - Judaism A THANKSGIVING FEAST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two are the last my daughter! Last Line: Will be here thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Feasts; Food & Eating; Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey 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 BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'WILL AND TOM', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack! Nay, prithee, come away Last Line: And yet for news inquire. Subject(s): Feasts; Love BALSHAM BELLS, by KENRICK PRESCOT Poem Text First Line: Sweet waft their rounds those tuneful brothers five Last Line: Expiring notesthey and these lines are done. Subject(s): Feasts; Festivals; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sound; Fairs; Pageants BRING IN THE WINE, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look there! Last Line: And here together we'll melt the sorrows %of all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts 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 CLASSIC OF POETRY: 104, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cricket in the hall Last Line: Delight should not get out of hand, %the well-born man is steady Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts CLASSIC OF POETRY: 105, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hawthorn on the mountain Last Line: For when you wither up and die, %another man will take you home Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts CLASSIC OF POETRY: 161, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yoo, yoo cry the deer Last Line: Thus I have this fine wine, %to feast and delight my worthy guests' hearts Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Guests 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 DAY OF ATONEMENT, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of atonement we fasted Last Line: Ablaze, wondering how to throw the light in Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur DAY OF ATONEMENT, SELS., by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Source Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur DAY OF THE FEAST OF ALL THE RIVERS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: On this day of the feast of all the rivers Last Line: Symbolic eye of this day of the honorable river Subject(s): Feasts; Rivers DESCRIPTION OF AN IRISH FEAST, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O'rourk's noble fare Last Line: Or a kick on the arse Subject(s): Feasts; Ireland DEW ON THE ONION GRASS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On onion grass the dew Last Line: When a person dies he is gone, %never to return Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Funerals EPIGRAM ON FASTING, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who can believe with common sense Last Line: Does he regard on what we dine Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We will have to fall back on Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur FEAST, by VICTOR M. VALLE Poem Source First Line: Table heaped with steamy carp Last Line: Does she know the words?' Subject(s): Feasts; Food And Eating FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O first fruits of our grain Last Line: A bruised reed bowed low before thy gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Feasts FEAST OF THE SEVEN SORROWS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: In the spectacle of heat near corpus christi Last Line: Wings. We take them to our lips and moan Subject(s): Feasts; Music And Musicians FOR THE FEAST OF ST. GENEVIEVE AND JOAN OF ARC, SELECTION, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once she tended the sheep in nanterre Last Line: The wisest flock to the father's right hand. Subject(s): Feasts; Paris, France; Shepherds & Shepherdesses FRAGRANCE FILLS THE YARD. WRITTEN ON A SUMMER DAY AT WU-XIANG, by CHOU PANG-YEN Poem Source First Line: Breezes age oriole nestlings Last Line: I first set cushions and pillows, %a space to sleep when I get drunk Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Fasts And Feasts 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 GRAND, by CAO PI Poem Source First Line: This morning let there be joy upon joy Last Line: Calm and indifferent, they find nature's state, %what are glory and splendor to them? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Moderation GRAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hard times wait in days to come Last Line: Just hitch six dragons to your coach %and frolic at the edge of clouds Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts GRAVEYARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whose yard is it, the graveyard? Last Line: Man's doom doesn't waver a moment Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Funerals; Graves HAVING FALLEN OFF MY HORSE DRUNK, VARIOUS GENTLEMEN COME TO VISIT ME, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I, du fu, have all my life Last Line: How xi kang took such care of his life %and at last was executed? Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Fasts And Feasts; Xi Kang (223-262) HIGH HOLY DAYS, by JANE SHORE Poem Source First Line: It was hot. A size too large Last Line: Spat like jonah from the whale %back into the jew-hating world Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur I ANOINT MY FLESH, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let evil die Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts IT WAS A FINE FEAST, JOY SUDDENLY LEFT, by CH'EN LIN Poem Source Last Line: Lost in sad thought I forgot to turn home, %and tears fell with sighs and soaked my robes Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Grief 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 BENJAMIN FRIEDLANDER Poem Source First Line: I love god as even guilt can't Last Line: The word was spoken by & to the dust %breaking in my heart Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur KOL NIDRE, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: All the vows %and all the promises not kept Last Line: Perhaps even to love them Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Yom Kippur 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 KOL NIDRE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by HERB BRIN Poem Source First Line: Memories %auto da fe Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As a youth alvargonzalez Last Line: Sleeps by the chattering brook Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Feasts; Fields 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 LIGHT ANOTHER CANDLE, by MIRIAM CHAIKIN Poem Source First Line: Let all the family gather Last Line: Sing yet another song, hoi! %chirry, birry, bin Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews LITTLE FEAST, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Mauna loa, the world's largest mountain Last Line: Cracking a leg, sucking out the marrow? Subject(s): Feasts MAROUF, by DUDLEY POORE Poem Text First Line: Was it marouf who found at the roots of the mountain Last Line: Of children's voices. Subject(s): Feasts; Forests; Woods MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 3, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cypress on grave mound, green so green Last Line: So feast to the end, give the heart glee, %why let grim woes beset you? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A good feast brings us to together today Last Line: Don't stay a common man and poor, %ever in hardship, always beaten down Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Relationships ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's god Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium 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 PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 11, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A deity of love incorporate Last Line: And o're this feast continually say grace. Subject(s): Feasts; Puritans In Literature PREPARATION, by SAM L. MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Near the end we return to our birthplace Last Line: Dirt, trees, creeks, and birds that stay the winter Subject(s): Death; Feasts PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 109, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A feast is said to be for laughter made Last Line: My heart shall end thy supper with an hymn. Subject(s): Feasts; Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 22, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I from the new moon of the first month high Last Line: Will as I reap sing thee my harvest joy. Subject(s): Feasts; Passover; Puritans In Literature PUBLIC BANQUET, by CAO ZHI Poem Source First Line: The prince honors dearly loved guests Last Line: Whirled along, our spirits are free - %may it stay this way forever! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts PURIM, by CALMAN DAVID MATT Poem Text First Line: Come, quaff the brimming festal glass! Last Line: Upon his flock from high. Alternate Author Name(s): Matt, C. David Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; 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 RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's holiday night %and crazy jews are on the road Last Line: Here in the car and in queens and in brooklyn Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur RIVA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Fishermen's nets hang from the mouths of giants Last Line: We won't pick any flowers, they're protected Subject(s): Feasts ROAST LEVIATHAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old jews!' well, david, aren't we? Last Line: Jeered at? Well, let them laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Angels; Feasts; Fights; God; Jews; Monsters; Judaism SHORT SONG, by CAO CAO Poem Source First Line: The wine before me as I sing Last Line: The duke of zhou broke off his meals, %and all the world turned to him in their hearts Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Guests SIMCHAS TORAH (THE REJOICING OF THE LAW), by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simchas-torah! Skip and hop Last Line: Ten we spend fasting in sackcloth and ashes. Subject(s): Feasts; Jews; Judaism SIRO DELMONICO, by SAMUEL WARD Poem Text First Line: He lieth low whose constant art Last Line: Than siro's memorable feasts. Alternate Author Name(s): W., S. G. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Feasts; New York City - 19th Century SONG OF THE AUTUMN WIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Autumn winds rise, white clouds fly Last Line: How long does youth's prime last? - no hope against old age Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Seasons; Transience THE ACCOUNTE OF W. CANYNGES FEAST, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the hall the bell hath sound Last Line: If rowley, iscam, or tyb. Gorges be not seen. Subject(s): Feasts 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 FEAST, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn as yellow as sulphur leaped on the naked peak Last Line: So it staggered and drooped, and droned in the morning light. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dawn; Feasts; Sunrise THE FEAST OF FREEDOM, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I remember in my childhood Last Line: "of a spring of long ago. ..." Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Feasts; Freedom; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism THE LAY OF ST. CUTHBERT; OR THE DEVIL'S DINNER-PARTY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It's in bolton hall, and the clock strikes one Last Line: A poor, old, half-starved, country parson at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Devil; Feasts; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub 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 Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 SCYTHIAN GUEST, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is full, the guests are gay Last Line: And wait and watch for thee. Subject(s): Feasts; Funerals; Scythians; Burials THE SEDER, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: Ring in the glorious festal-tide Last Line: This happy festal-tide. Subject(s): Feasts; Israel; Jews; Judaism THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S FASTING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 THE WEDDING FEAST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced to walk, not long ago Last Line: Betoken singularity. Subject(s): Feasts; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO PHILIP LEVINE, ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Impenitent, we meet again Last Line: Nothing to atone for but the cold %and blurred perspectives of the dead Variant Title(s): To A Friend On The Day Of Atonemen Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Levine, Philip; Yom Kippur UNWELCOME, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise Last Line: And a man with his back to the east. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Feasts VERSES INVITING STELLA TO TEA ON THE PUBLIC FAST DAY, 1781, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The courteous citizen bad me to his feast Last Line: One dish shall serue, and welcomes make the rest. Variant Title(s): Hollow Hospitality Subject(s): Feasts; Greece; Greeks 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 WEST GATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our west gate Last Line: The miser who cannot bear to spend %wins only mocking in later days Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Pleasure YOM KIPPUR, by CHANA BLOCH Poem Source First Line: Our new clothes fool no one Last Line: Their gold tongues whetted Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by ERIC CHAET Poem Source First Line: I throw off all the ceremony Last Line: I am trying to operate %from the fire that is the bush Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur 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 Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones Last Line: And leaves return to willing trees for spring Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by DORIS RADIN Poem Source First Line: A head sits upon a table Last Line: Facinc me %until the bones of my skull %yom kippur Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by GARRET ROSENBLATT Poem Source First Line: The world collapses upon a single day Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by ANN MARIE SOLBERG Poem Source First Line: Your law says you belong to each other Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by BRADLEY R. STRAHAN Poem Source First Line: In this great synagogue Last Line: That year by year %pushes heavenward %in scorn of ax and saw Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: We swallow our won spit Last Line: Strange to us, as we arrive, %gaunt, ravished, to break the fast Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR - THE CLOSING OF THE GATES, by DANNY SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Let there be one grand cry of relief Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR 1983-1988 (TO D.S.V.), by REYNOLDS PRICE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sundown a full five years ago Last Line: And jogged ahead to claim my crime Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a jew in solitude? Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a jew in solitude? Last Line: In that world as it may be, newborn and haunted, what will solitude mean? Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR SONNET, WITH A LINE FROM LAMENTATIONS, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Can a person atone for pure bewilderment? Last Line: Return us, lord, to you, and we'll return Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR: FASTING, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: The appetite stirs Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur |
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