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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BETHULIA'S GATE, FR. JUDITH, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What have you in your apron wrapped?
Last Line: Hold holofernes' head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible


JUDITH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now holofernes with his barbarous
Last Line: Walked with the angels in her widow's weeds.
Subject(s): Judith (bible)


JUDITH, by ADAH ISAACS MENKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ashkelon is not cut off with the remnant of a valley
Last Line: And I know where sleeps holofernes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theodore, Philomene Croi; Mccord, Ada
Subject(s): Judith (bible); Philistines; Women In The Bible


JUDITH AT THE TENT OF HOLOFERNES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night was down among the mountains
Last Line: Wither at jehovah's frown!
Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible


PAGAN WOMAN, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To go dying and singing. And to baptize the shadow
Last Line: Leaving thousands of eyes of blood on the dagger
Subject(s): Catholics; Judith (bible); Women In The Bible


THE PLEDGE, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are the words of your judiths
Last Line: New legions, their own unborn sons.
Subject(s): Jews; Judith (bible); Miriam (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism


THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike
Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame!
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THOU MOON AND O YE STARS, FR. JUDITH, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou moon and o ye stars, ye hosts of light!
Last Line: [she returns into the tent and draws the curtain.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible