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Subject: HANUKKAH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


HANUKKAH, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This season for us, the jews
Last Line: Drop of fuel enough to leap from
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hanukkah; Jews


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


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


NOTES ON THE SPRING HOLIDAYS: 3. HANUKKAH, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a world where each man must be of use
Subject(s): Spring; Hanukkah


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