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Subject: LEGENDS, ARABIC
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND, by JEHOASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the home of the rabbi a lord in his splendor
Last Line: At the home where his teacher abides.
Alternate Author Name(s): Joash
Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Jews; Legends, Arabic; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism


ARABIAN NIGHTS: INSCRIPTIONS AT THE CITY OF BRASS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enter and learn the story of the rulers
Last Line: And now inhabit a palace
Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;death;legends, Arabic;materialism;" "dead, The;


ARABIAN NIGHTS: TUMADIR AL-KHANSA FOR HER BROTHER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weep! Weep! Weep! / these tears are for my brother
Last Line: "while you have tears, o daughters of the solomides, / weep! Weep! Weep!"
Subject(s): "brothers;death;grief;legends, Arabic;" "half-brothers;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


THE WISDOM OF ALI; AN ARAB LEGEND, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prophet once, sitting in calm debate
Last Line: "which god supplies, is inexhaustible."
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): God; Legends, Arabic; Prophecy & Prophets; Wealth; Wisdom; Riches; Fortunes