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Subject: JOB (BIBLE)
Matches Found: 19

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEAUTY OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS, by JAY MACPHERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old, the mad, the blind have fairest daughters
Last Line: In all the land no women found so fair
Subject(s): Bible; Daughters; Job (bible); Religion


BEELZEBUB AND JOB; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sly beelzebub took all occasions
Last Line: Short-sighted devil, not to take his spouse!
Variant Title(s): Job's Luck
Subject(s): Devil; Job (bible); Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


BOOK OF JOB, SELS., by RICHARD BLACKMORE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Job (bible)


BOOK OF MECHTILDE, by ANNA RUTH HENRIQUES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Many years ago, %in the land of jah, there lived a good
Last Line: Has come %amen
Subject(s): Death; Illumination Of Books; Job (bible); Mothers


FRAGMENT OF AN ORATORIO FROM THE BOOK OF JOB, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crushed by misfortune's yoke
Last Line: And the thunder of the fight.
Subject(s): Job (bible)


JOB, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Job easy %is the pride
Last Line: Like a good baby %to breakfast
Subject(s): Job (bible)


JOB, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Few be the days that feeble man must breath
Last Line: Accounted pure, before such purity.
Subject(s): Job (bible)


JOB, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: During the first stage of suffering, job's companion was a worm
Last Line: Has not diminished. A miracle is no cure for bad breath
Subject(s): Job (bible)


JOB, by THELMA PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Job was sitting on a compost pile
Subject(s): Job (bible)


JOB, by FERNAND ROQUEPLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A good story his name
Last Line: The new wife kicks him keep your dreams %quiet you'll kill us all
Subject(s): Bible; Devil; God; Job (bible)


JOB I, by JOHN+(1) HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of my mother's womb
Last Line: And shall evermore
Subject(s): Bible; Job (bible); Religion


JOB'S ANGER, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not a man's way to plead
Last Line: And god came down
Subject(s): God; Job (bible)


JOB'S CONFESSION, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou canst accomplish all things, lord of might
Last Line: Man is not made to question, but adore.
Subject(s): Jews; Job (bible); Judaism


JOB'S SIN?, by JOSEPHINE EATHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When job delivered to the lord
Last Line: To punish job for his conceit.
Subject(s): Job (bible)


JOB, CHAPTER 3, PARAPHRASED, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perish the fatal day when I was born
Last Line: New trouble came, new darkness, new controul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Job (bible)


JOB, TOO, by NOLA GARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What if your best is mediocrity
Last Line: And milk have been strained from dandelions, %perennial rye,and yesterday's dew
Subject(s): Job (bible); Religion


TEMPORALL SUCCESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Foule beauteous witch, whose painted face
Last Line: Nor will his saints think much till then to stay.
Subject(s): Bible; Job (bible); Temptation


THE CRY OF JOB, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, thou lovest the heart that's pure
Last Line: Come with thy judgment day to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Bible; God; Job (bible); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


VIOLIN SONGS: THE TEMPLE OF GOD, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the desert by the bush
Last Line: In his heart he makes his home.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); God; Jesus Christ; Job (bible); Moses; Prayer; Temples; Mosques