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Subject: LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHRISTUS; A MYSTERY: 3. THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES: MARTIN LUTHER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our god, a tower of strength is he
Last Line: And choral chant of victory
Subject(s): Luther, Martin (1483-1546)


EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We wait beneath the furnace blast
Last Line: Endure and wait and labor!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Slavery; U.s. - History; Serfs


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas late at night when I reach'd cologne
Last Line: His foolish fond subjects, the poor men!
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Courts & Courtiers; Legends; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


LUTHER, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will now sing of saxon luther
Subject(s): Luther, Martin (1483-1546)


LUTHER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That old slider, the prince of falsehood
Last Line: Is black. He is black. I have made him so
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): African Americans; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Preaching And Preachers


MARTIN LUTHER AT POTTSDAM, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What lightning shall light it? What thunder shall tell it
Last Line: And yet, like my title, have nothing to do!
Subject(s): Burlesque; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Striptease


THE KILLCROP, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You squalling imp, lie still! Isn't it enough
Last Line: I'll rocket him. (exit.)
Subject(s): Children; Devil; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Murder; Superstition; Childhood; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


THE TWINS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grand rough old martin luther
Last Line: An angel, luther said.
Subject(s): Luther, Martin (1483-1546)


TO THE SPIRIT OF LUTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luther, come back to thy degenerate land
Last Line: Brutes breed them bodies: who shall breed them souls?
Subject(s): Germany; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); World War I; Germans; First World War