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Subject: NIMROD (BIBLE)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` NIMROD WARS WITH THE ANGELS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But god sent forth a pale and spectral host
Last Line: "am I not nimrod?"
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Bible; Nimrod (bible)


NIMROD: 1, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One time, in shinar, when the setting sun
Last Line: "and I, and all my sons, shall be as kings."
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)


NIMROD: 2, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And nimrod looked on babel and beheld
Last Line: Being greatly wroth, hated him for his speech.
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)


NIMROD: 3, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And nimrod came to bathsheba the queen
Last Line: And on the polished stone wrote his own name.
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)


NIMROD: 4, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then did the powers of the air breed forth
Last Line: "and said, ""upon the stone I wrote god's name."
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)


NIMROD: 5, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That night the angels in their citadels
Last Line: Ebbed back to silence and eternal calm.
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)


NIMROD: 6, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three days, above the plain, the setting sun
Last Line: The solemn beauty of that elder speech.
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)


NIMROD: 7, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And they that went from babel were a host
Last Line: Raised in mid heaven the eternal word of god.
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)


THE PRIDE OF NIMROD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art king of all the nations
Last Line: And he sunk to endless woe!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Nimrod (bible)