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Subject: LENT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LENTEN CALL, by HILDA JOHNSON WISE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas the second of march, in the present year
Last Line: To the world, the flesh and the devil.
Subject(s): Devil; Human Behavior; Lent; Lust; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


A LENTEN THOUGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone with thee, who canst not be alone
Last Line: Till death be dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Lent


A TRUE LENT, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this a fast, to keep
Last Line: And that's to keep thy lent.
Variant Title(s): To Keep A True Lent
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Lent; Religion; Theology


AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The baltic sea froze in 1307. Birds flew south
Last Line: Nothing happened that was worthy of poetry.
Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Lent; Mary Magdalen; Suicide; Women In The Bible; Eckhart, Meister; Mary Magdalene


ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight
Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster.
Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The


ASHWEDNESDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Right welcome pleasant bitter day
Last Line: Being as gods discerning good & evill.
Subject(s): Abstinence; Ash Wednesday; Lent


DELIA AND I, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Delia and I are driving alone
Last Line: Learning the roads that lead lovers to rome!
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Lent; Love; Pleasure; Wagons


EASTER, by ROBERT WHITAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: With song and sun-burst comes the easter morn
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Lent; Resurrection, The


EASTER; APRIL 1, 1888, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading
Last Line: Against the far blue sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): April; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Easter; Holidays; Lent; Time; The Resurrection


FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand
Last Line: And it is day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue


HER NEIGBOURS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They lingered at her father's door
Last Line: With one word answered - 'you'
Subject(s): Lent;love - Beginnings;youth


HYMN: FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thou whom neither time nor space
Last Line: And do whate'er thou wouldst have done!
Subject(s): Lent


HYMN: FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh king of earth and air and sea!
Last Line: The bread of life from day to day!
Subject(s): Lent


HYMN: SIXTH SUNDAY IN LENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lord of might, from sinai's brow
Last Line: O'er death and hell defeated!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Lent


HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Virgin-born! We bow before thee!
Last Line: Blessed was she in her child!
Subject(s): Lent; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


IN LENT, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now with the lengthening days
Last Line: How christ is risen, is risen, and death is slain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lent; Prayer; The Resurrection


IN LENTEN GARB, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lenten garb - unlovely gray
Last Line: In lenten garb.
Subject(s): Catholics; Lent; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Theology


LENT, by T. L. CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Priscilla is a maid devout
Last Line: "how can I when it's lent."
Subject(s): Lent


LENT, by ANN D'AGOSTINO CLUNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hush and sparkle of the christmas fluff are gone
Last Line: And the treacherous trek, %and the salty slush
Subject(s): Lent


LENT, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome deare feast of lent: who loves not thee
Last Line: And among those his soul.
Subject(s): Lent


LENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is good to be last not first
Last Line: So it leads us to easter day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Lent


LENTEN GREETING; TO A LADY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They must find it sweet to pray
Last Line: Will have joy as of a psalm.
Subject(s): Lent


LENTEN MUSINGS, by IDA WALDEN THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am; my maker made me
Last Line: But I will trust and pray.
Subject(s): God; Lent; Obedience; Religion; Theology


MID-LENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is any grieved or tired? Yea, by god's will
Last Line: Still faint yet still pursuing, o thou saint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Lent


NATURE'S LENT, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her carnival is over, and the glow
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Lent


THE FAST, OR LENT, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noah the first was (as tradition sayes)
Last Line: That did ordaine the fast of forty dayes.
Subject(s): Lent


THE THIEF IN THE PAINTING, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirsty all through lent, thirsty on feast days too
Subject(s): Desire; Lent


THIEF IN THE PAINTING, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirsty all through lent, thirsty on feast days too
Last Line: The hard, pure, furiously indifferent faces of thieves
Subject(s): Desire; Lent