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Subject: MESSIAH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 1, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glow of true messiah
Last Line: For gayness to king david's son
Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism


3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was born -- the child of life
Last Line: Lit up the moon by daylight
Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism


3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 3, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sabbatai is myrrh root
Last Line: King sabbatai zevi
Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism


A CALENDAR: THE YEAR OF THE MESSIAH, by ELEAZAR HA-KALLIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those days: that time
Subject(s): Calendars; Jews; Messiah; Mysticism - Judaism; Rites & Ceremonies; Judaism


ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city
Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S


HYMN: FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: 2, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds were howling o'er the deep
Last Line: O god! I hear thee now.
Subject(s): Messiah


HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh saviour, is thy promise fled?
Last Line: Then come and reap thy harvest there!
Subject(s): Advent; Messiah


PALESTINE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn
Last Line: "who died, who lives, triumphant o'er the grave!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Messiah; Palestine; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


SANTA CRUZ, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail thou cross of adoration! Was't in eden thou had'st / birth
Last Line: Waited'st thou messsiah—christ-man, to unite thy meanings twain!
Subject(s): Messiah; Missions & Missionaries; Saints


SHLOMO MOLKO SINGS ON THE EVE OF HIS BURNING, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night, metamorphoser of forms
Last Line: For the good, free, pure breath %of the flame
Subject(s): Inquisition; Messiah; Molcho, Solomon (1500-1532)


THE ACTS OF SAINT JOHN: THE ROUND DANCE OF JESUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A praise poem
Last Line: Understand & say / amen
Subject(s): Jesus Christ;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


THE MATER PIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly the fading moon dies in the sky
Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, god is with thee.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Messiah; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology


THE SUPPER AFTER THE LAST, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The desert moves out on half the horizon
Last Line: I make you over. I breed the shape of your grave in the dirt
Subject(s): Resurrection, The; Messiah; Deserts


TO SITTING BULL, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no prophet without honor, save
Last Line: Our prairie when injustice is abroad.
Subject(s): Messiah; Native Americans; Prisons & Prisoners; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Convicts