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Subject: HEBREW LITERATURE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUTO DA FE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can a dog write poetry? Yehuda asked
Last Line: Yes, if he is a jewish dog
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Poetry And Poets


BUILDING BOOM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The avenue of willows leads nowhere
Last Line: Surely the tide comes in twice a day
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature


FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 3, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hope that the vicar will pardon the haste
Last Line: How to clear up the matter.—what can a man say?
Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Hebrew Literature; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology


FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have with attention, dear vicar, repass'd
Last Line: And, speaking or silent, am yours to command,
Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Literature; Language Poetry; Religion; Theology


HEBREW MELODY, by MRS. JAMES GORDEN BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the hall of our fathers in anguish we fled
Last Line: Will welcome the exile to siloa's fountain?
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jeremiah (bible); Jews; Judaism


HEBREWS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lest there be any fornicator or profaner'
Last Line: Like esau, and refused to sell his birthright
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews


MOSES, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will sing high-hearted moses
Last Line: Stooped to borrow from the jew.
Subject(s): Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism


ON THE PICTURE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This picture does the story express
Last Line: Because I from the waters drew him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Judaism


OUR NEIGHBOR IN CHARGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rub out %with my bare feet
Subject(s): Arabs; Hebrew Literature; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Neighbors; Palestine


RESCUE OF MOSES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In judah's halls the harp is hushed
Last Line: The babe that slept by nile's broad tide
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature;jews;judah (bible); Judaism


RODEF SHALOM, by W. G. SKILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When ancient nations bowed the knee
Last Line: The one jehovah, sovereign lord.
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Temples; Worship; Judaism; Mosques


THE INTRUDER, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once in my secluded chamber
Last Line: "stay""—and I awoke. ..."
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Variant Title(s): ...whom You Are To Blame'
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Literature; Israel; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression


THE MAGIC WORDS, by MELVIN G. WINSTOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The scene of conflict was a level plain
Last Line: And wept. The soldier now, alas! Was dead.
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Judaism


THE PAST IS THE PRESENT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If external action is effete
Last Line: "the occasion and expediency determines the form'."
Variant Title(s): So Far As The Future Is Concerned
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature