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Subject: INQUISITION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN INVOCATION; SONG, FR. REMORSE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell
Last Line: Miserere domine!
Variant Title(s): A Voice Sings
Subject(s): Inquisition


GALILEO BEFORE THE INQUISITION, by MARGARET JUNKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why wrapped he not a martyr's robe
Last Line: Of truth's diviner star!
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Inquisition; Galileo Galilei


INQUISITION, by ROBERT R. HENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came in ceremony from oak ridge
Last Line: For the purpose of persecution
Subject(s): Inquisition


ISRAEL, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How great, o israel, have thy sufferings been
Last Line: "the god of judah is our lord and king!"
Subject(s): Bible; History; Inquisition; Israel; Jews; Historians; Judaism


MATTER OF TECHNIQUE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The most effective way, the starlet said
Last Line: Is to look deep in the predator's eyes %and whisper sweetly, 'fuck off!'
Subject(s): Curses; Inquisition


MEISTER ECKHART, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the snow festered
Last Line: And he meant it.
Subject(s): Cold; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); God; Inquisition; Mysticism; Eckhart, Meister


QUESTIONING, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do souls grow ripe and wither too
Last Line: Nay, child, it never may be so.
Subject(s): Inquisition


SHLOMO MOLKO SINGS ON THE EVE OF HIS BURNING, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night, metamorphoser of forms
Last Line: For the good, free, pure breath %of the flame
Subject(s): Inquisition; Messiah; Molcho, Solomon (1500-1532)


SPAIN:: ANNO 1492, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Torquemada. Now that castile and aragon in holy wedlock
Subject(s): Torquemada, Tomas De (1420-1498); Spain; Inquisition; Jews; Judaism


THE AUTO-DA-FE; A LEGEND OF SPAIN, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With a moody air, from morn till noon
Last Line: Until, like sir robert, 'I'm duly call'd in!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Inheritance And Sucession; Inquisition; Spain; Jews; Judaism


THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART ONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The voices of my home! - I hear them still!
Last Line: Earth in her holy pomp, decked for her god alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods


THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART TWO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me the sounding of the torrent-water
Last Line: But for his presence felt, whom here my soul hath sought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods


THE HERETIC'S TRAGEDY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lord, we look to once for all
Last Line: God help all poor souls lost in the dark!
Subject(s): Inquisition


THE INQUISITOR, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hound is at the witch's tree
Last Line: The moon would stare and stare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Inquisition


THE PRISONER'S RELEASE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, in the east the wan moon climbs
Last Line: Now I come — I come to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Inquisition; Prisoners Of War; Venice, Italy; Youth; Dead, The


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon
Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends."
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream
Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills
Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay
Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations