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Subject: PRAYER MEETINGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRAYER OF THE PEOPLES, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God of us who kill our kind!
Last Line: We, who pray, ourselves are fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): God; Prayer Meetings; Religion; Soul; Theology


A SUGJESCHUN TO THE SEXTANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sextant of the meetin house, we no
Last Line: Only dont shut the dores so soon.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer Meetings; Cathedrals


ACCOMPLISHMENT, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: One and twenty summers come and gone!
Last Line: Forgetful of accomplishment.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Preaching & Preachers; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO EARNEST AND IMPORTUNATE PRAYER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blessed truth for parable to paint
Last Line: That thou mayst always pray and never faint.
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings


AT PRAYER MEETING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were only two or three of us
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings


GOSPEL BANJO: HOMAGE TO LITTLE ROY LEWIS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three days I lay with a fire under my skin, in the guest room
Last Line: Which is the joy of waking on either side of the jordan.
Subject(s): Banjos; Baptism; Dreams; Lewis, Little Roy; Musical Instruments; Prayer Meetings; Christenings; Nightmares


HYMN TO FIRE, by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, fire who purgeth us
Last Line: Shed perpetual light!
Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Sabbath; Sunday


PRAYER MEETING, by ANGELA BALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother took me: thursday night
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings


PRAYER-MEETING, by GUSTAF FRODING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear friends, the wages of sin is death, indeed
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings


SUN WORSHIP, by JAMES BERTOLINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking like muslims at prayer, they gather
Last Line: By light, ascend
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings; Worship


THE BETTER LIFE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From silken cords of earth's delight
Last Line: The winds of heaven blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Future Life; Prayer Meetings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star
Last Line: And taming its raging waves.
Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones


THE PRAYER MEETING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We meet - one another, and friendship expands
Last Line: We shall meet in the meeting that never adjourns.
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings


THE PRAYER-MEETING LEADER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O leader, lead them into peace
Last Line: May fruit in deeds.
Subject(s): Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


THE TRYST, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the land of ra the flaming, by the shores of nile's slow
Last Line: As of old, by nile's slow waters, in the land beyond the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Thebes, Greece


THE WORD SHE REMEMBERED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You remember the sermon you heard, my / dear?'
Last Line: To meet each cross with a happy song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Sermons; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRAYER MEETING, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On wednesday night, / the church still opens at seven
Last Line: Unwilling to chasnge their freedom for a god
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings


WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRAYER MEETING, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On wednesday night, %the church still opens at seven
Last Line: Unwilling to change their freedom for a god
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings


WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRAYER MEETING, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On wednesday night
Last Line: They have closed their night %with what certainty they could, %unwilling to change their freedom for
Subject(s): Prayer Meetings