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Subject: HERETICS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DECLASSE, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's quite conceivable to me
Last Line: Mouthing a wad of gum.
Subject(s): Heresy; Heretics


HUSBAND AND HEATHEN, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the men of ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia
Last Line: For the terra del fuegian and the turcoman and turk.
Subject(s): Africa; Charity; Heresy; Women; Philanthropy; Heretics


LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old
Last Line: The word of god, be ours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs


MORNING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou unconverted saint
Last Line: While the late risen world goes west.
Subject(s): Heresy; Morning; Heretics


NERVOUS FIT OF ANGUISH, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet hebrew, unfasten my transit of clay
Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Soul; Dead, The; Heretics


SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE, LORD COBHAM, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend should meet me somewhere hereabout
Last Line: For I must live to testify by fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Heresy; Oldcastle, Sir John (1377-1417); Heretics; Cobham, Baron (1377-1417)


THE BALLAD WHICH ANNE ASKEW MADE AND SANG WHEN SHE WAS IN NEWGATE, by ANNE ASKEWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the armed knight
Last Line: Of their iniquitie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Askew, Anne; Kyme, Anne (askew)
Variant Title(s): Balade Made And Sange Whan She Was In Newgate;the Fight Of Faith
Subject(s): Faith; Heresy; Belief; Creed; Heretics


THE DEATH OF HUSS, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the streets of constance was heard the shout
Last Line: Ere to heaven his soul went up with the smoke.
Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Hus, Jan (1373-1415); Dead, The; Heretics


THE HERETIC, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He gives to death world-prejudice. World-woe
Last Line: To seek a truce of heaven with heaven's god.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Heresy; Belief; Creed; Heretics


THE HERETIC: 1. BLASPHEMY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not envy god
Last Line: Alone—through all eternity—alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Heresy; Heretics