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Subject: LOT (BIBLE)
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning
Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision."
Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


HALF-WAY, FOR ONE COMMANDMENT BROKEN, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder %and went with half my life about my ways
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Lot (bible)


HIS WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But it was right that she / looked back
Last Line: She could taste the salt.
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Marriage; Salt; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LOT LATER; VAUDEVILLE FOR GEORGE FINKEL, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems now far off and foolish, a memory
Last Line: Bring him his supper nights, and clean the cave
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Sodom


LOT'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH MORROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you would sing of heroes, sing of her
Last Line: The sky saluted and prometheus bowed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Lot (bible)


LOT'S WIFE, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have become a gate
Last Line: Salt the rain of the world
Subject(s): Lot (bible)


LOT'S WIFE PRAISES THE PILLAR, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crimson light crawled into that strange day
Last Line: His daughters, frantic to propagate the tribe
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Praise


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom


UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the story of orpheus and lot's wife
Last Line: The slightest hint but still distinct taste of salt
Subject(s): Lot (bible); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sodom