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Subject: POPES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF OLD POPE JOHN, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When there were popes in avignon
Last Line: "so must our feast proceed."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Popes; Papacy


A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FIRST PEARLE. RELIGION, by DIANA PRIMROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The goodliest pearl in fair eliza's chain
Last Line: And against england never could prevaile.
Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nations; Pearls; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology


A DIALOGUE ABOUT COMPELLING A PERSON TO TAKE OATHS TO THE GOVERNMENT, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why so grave, harry? What's the matter, pray?
Last Line: At present, sur, god bless ye! And fareweel!
Subject(s): John Paul Ii, Pope; Oaths; Popes; Religion; Wojtyla, Karol Jozef; Papacy; Theology


ASOLANDO: THE POPE AND THE NET, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What, he on whom our voices unanimously ran
Last Line: "why, father, is the net removed?"" ""son, it hath caught the fish."
Subject(s): Popes; Papacy


CATHERINE TO GREGORY, THE POPE, by MARY KATE BLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Most holy christ on earth, I catherine
Last Line: To die. Thy blessing, father -- rise and come!
Subject(s): Death; Humility; Jesus Christ; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy


CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pope on christmas day
Last Line: To show us where christ was born!'
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Popes; Papacy


COMMANDERS OF THE FAITHFUL, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pope he is a happy man
Last Line: And would be neither turk nor pope.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Popes; Wine; Papacy


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 37. PAPAL ABUSES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As with the stream our voyage we pursue
Last Line: And angry ocean roars a vain appeal.
Subject(s): Popes; Papacy


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 39. PAPAL DOMINION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unless to peter's chair the viewless wind
Last Line: Or smooth his front, our world is in his hand!
Subject(s): Popes; Papacy


FREEDOM FOR ITALY: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is the freeman whom the truth makes free
Last Line: Perhaps not now, but when and how he will!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Freedom; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Patriotism; Popes; Social Protest; Liberty; Italians; Papacy


HOW THE POPE IS CHOSEN, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Any poodle under ten inches high is a toy.
Subject(s): Dogs; Popes; Hair; Wit & Humor; Papacy


IN APRIL ONCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood
Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us!
Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy


MEDLEY OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ON THE ITALIAN CRISIS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues
Last Line: For truth and liberty be found in rome.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Courage; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Popes; Rome, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Italians; Papacy


NAMED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: As I marched out one day in spring
Last Line: And I have answered — 'here!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): God; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology


ON THE PATRON OF ENGLAND, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will you please to permit me, my very good lord
Last Line: "was old england's old patron a knight, or a pope?"
Subject(s): Gregory I. Saint (504-604); Monks; Popes; Saints; Papacy


PAPAL POEM, by SHARON SMITH-KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maria got pregnant
Last Line: When I heard that the pope was %coming to town %and maria was going to see him
Subject(s): Popes


POEMS OF THE POPE, by NICANOR PARRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They just elected me pope
Last Line: I forgot to bless the magnitude!
Subject(s): Popes


POPE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a fearful thing to be %the pope
Last Line: It is a fearful thing to be %me'
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Popes


THE BOY AND THE ANGEL, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning, evening, noon and night
Last Line: They sought god side by side.
Subject(s): Angels; Popes; God; Worship; Papacy


THE HIGHWAY DEATH TOLL, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The highway's edge / of unmalicious deaths
Last Line: If I'd turned it off before I might have heard.
Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Fathers; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy


THE MAYOR OF MIROBLAIS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While he was laying plans for getting
Last Line: And mouthed it regularly through.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Popes; Papacy


THE POPE, by CHARLES JAMES LEVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pope he leads a happy life
Last Line: I'll fancy then I am the pope.
Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Popes; Papacy


THE POPE OF THE HILLS, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Never a word will you hear at maynooth
Last Line: To the gates of the morning and mists of the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Popes; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Papacy


THE POPE'S PENIS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hangs deep in his robes, a delicate
Subject(s): Popes; Papacy


THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 10. THE POPE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to ahasuerus, that shrewd prince
Last Line: Carry this forthwith to the governor!
Variant Title(s): The Pope
Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome; Popes; Popes; Papacy; Papacy


TO POPE JULIUS II, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir if one of the old proverbs
Last Line: Sending it to pick fruit from a dry tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Catholics; Popes


TO TENDER BAMBI'S EYES, TO THE WHITE FATHER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is never a desert around
Last Line: His white cap is hydraulic
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Popes