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Subject: RACHEL (BIBLE)
Matches Found: 12

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CURSE ON HEROD, by AMY WITTING    Poem Source                    
First Line: May you live forever. In that eternity
Last Line: But to the bad children, christmas does not come
Subject(s): Bible; Rachel (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible


DIRGE OF RACHEL, by WILLIAM KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And rachel lies in ephrath's land
Last Line: To break the slumber that hath bound her.
Subject(s): Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism


HYMN: INNOCENTS' DAY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh weep not o'er thy children's tomb!
Last Line: The flower in heaven shall blow!
Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Childhood


RACHEL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When memnon's sculptured form the god of day
Last Line: What victor monarch's crown is with such gems / enwrought
Subject(s): Jews;rachel (bible);women;women In The Bible; Judaism


RACHEL, by RACHEL BLUWSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For her blood runs in my blood
Last Line: For memories are preserved in my feet %ever since, ever since
Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible


RACHEL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wan september moonbeams, struggling down
Last Line: Crowned with the palm, walking the fields of peace!
Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible


RACHEL, by BOBBI SYKES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Named from the bible %that good and holy book
Last Line: Need to take a closer look... %suffer the little children...
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible


RACHEL CRIED THERE FOR HER CHILDREN, by RIVKA MIRIAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rachael cried there for her children not yet born
Last Line: And they hovered quietly into her cry %as into their border
Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible


RACHEL LAMENTS, by MARION ETHEL HAMILTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: O rachel, crying and lamenting loud
Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible


RACHEL'S TOMB, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the fields of bethlehem
Last Line: Merging silently
Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash
Subject(s): Graves; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible


THE CRY OF RACHEL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand in the dark; I beat on the floor
Last Line: Let me in, death.
Subject(s): Death; Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism


WHOM THE NEW MOON MOCKS, by FANIA KRUGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sky unfolds a starry cover
Last Line: Above the young leaf and the lover.
Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible