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Subject: HEBREW LANGUAGE
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HEBREW CRADLE SONG, by EZEKIEL LEAVITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night has on the earth descended
Last Line: That thy mother used to tell!
Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Language; Jews; Singing & Singers; Judaism; Songs


ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one
Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone.
Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict


ISRAEL AND COLUMBIA, by JOHN MCCABE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O glory of an elder age!
Last Line: As herald of the new world's morn.
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Language; Jews; Right To Asylum; Judaism


NATIONAL THOUGHTS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman, caught in a homeland-trap of the chosen people: you
Last Line: And to sleep inside it, forever
Subject(s): Jews; Israel; Hebrew Language; Judaism


PENTECOST, by ANNETTE KOHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down by the shining sea
Last Line: The treasure of the lord.
Subject(s): God; Hebrew Language; Jews; Prayer; Sinai, Mount; Judaism


THE MYSTIC TIE, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a mystic tie that joins
Last Line: Which time and change cannot efface.
Subject(s): Children; Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Childhood; Judaism


THE TONGUE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the boneless tongue, so small and weak"
Last Line: "the sacred writer crowns the whole, / 'who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul!'"
Subject(s): Hebrew Language;jews;tongues; Judaism


TIS TO THE EAST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Will guide his people home
Subject(s): Hebrew Language;israel;jews;zionism; Judaism