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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO ZEALOTS UPON THE &C. IN THE OATH, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir roger, from a zealous piece of frieze
Last Line: They and their tribe were all &c.
Subject(s): Booker, John (1603-1677); Oaths; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


A SHADOW OF TRUTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a wondrous vision - a dream, but not of night
Last Line: "when the base fiend expediency o'ercomes the seraph right!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Catholics - England; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


AN EXPOSTULATION WITH A SECTARIST, WHO INVEIGHED AGAINST THE CLERGY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, sir; I cannot see to what good end
Last Line: Pray by what marks are we to know self-will?
Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Discrimination; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Religious Conflict


ANNE HUTCHINSON'S EXILE (1638), by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Home, home - where's my baby's home?
Last Line: "home, home, here's my baby's home!"
Subject(s): Exiles; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the god of all sure mercies let my blessings rise today
Last Line: And tamed the chaldean lions, is mighty still to save!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Southwick, Cassandra (mythology); Quakers; Religious Conflict


DON SEBASTIAN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The judge removed, though he's no more my lord
Last Line: And let him pay his taxes out in writing.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Religious Discrimination; British Empire; England - Empire; Dramatists; Religious Conflict


EARTH'S BATTLE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fight well, encased in christ's armor
Last Line: No matter what else betide.
Subject(s): Bible; Fights; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Victory; Theology; Religious Conflict


GERMAN OUT-CAST, by W. FREDRIC KAUFMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little lad is born
Last Line: A little lad was born -- a jew.
Subject(s): Ambition; Jews; Religious Discrimination; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Religious Conflict


HYMN OF THE VAUDOIS MOUTAINEERS IN TIMES OF PERSECUTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the strength of the hills we bless thee
Last Line: Our god, our fathers' god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): Hymn Of The Mountain Christian
Subject(s): Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


INTOLERANCE; A SATIRE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Start not, my friend, nor think the muse will stain
Last Line: And feels but half thy loss while grattan lives.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Religious Discrimination; English Revolution, 1688; Religious Conflict


ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one
Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone.
Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict


JOHN UNDERHILL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A score of years had come and gone
Last Line: Counts with her worthies john underhill.
Subject(s): Dover, New Hampshire; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Underhill, John (1597-1672); Religious Conflict


LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old
Last Line: The word of god, be ours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs


LOOKING FOR OMAR, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm in the school bathroom
Subject(s): Youth; Violence; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When that my son was born in a little town
Last Line: To keep a christian peace.
Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict


ON THE GROUND OF TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Explain religion by a thousand schemes
Last Line: From earth to heav'n, where god is all in all.
Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Religion; Religious Discrimination; Belief; Creed; Theology; Religious Conflict


QUANTRAINS: CHURCH AND STATE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the wedding of the church and state!
Last Line: With gold the other chokes the mouth of prayer.
Subject(s): Marriage; Religious Discrimination; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Religious Conflict


ROGER WILLIAMS, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do I sleep amid the snows
Last Line: And so the pine boughs cover me.
Subject(s): Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Williams, Roger (1604-1683); Religious Conflict


SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray
Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws!
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They got me into the sunday-school
Last Line: And no children shall worship at my grave.
Subject(s): Asian Americans; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


THE CAMP OF WALLENSTEIN, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father, I fear it will come to harm
Last Line: (the curtain falls before the chorus has finished.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Religious Discrimination; Thirty Years' War (1618-1648); Wallenstein, Albrecht (1583-1634); Religious Conflict


THE FIGHT OVER THE NEWMAN STATUE IN OXFORD, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is bigotry the order of the day?
Last Line: One universal faith! One hope! One heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Oxford University; Religious Discrimination; Statues; Religious Conflict


THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 1, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A milk-white hind, immortal and unchang'd
Last Line: The lady of the spotted muff began.
Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 1
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict


THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 2, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dame, said the panther, times are mended well
Last Line: Then couch'd her self securely by her side.
Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 2
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict


THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 3, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Much malice mingled with a little wit
Last Line: With glorious visions of her future state.
Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 3
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Converts, Catholic; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Stillingfleet, Edward (1635-1699); Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict


THE HUE AND THE CRY AFTER SIR JOHN PRESBYTER, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With hair in characters and lugs in text
Last Line: His finger's thicker than the prelates' loins.'
Subject(s): Prester John; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


THE JEW TO THE GENTILE, by SARA MESSING STERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The priest bent angry gaze upon the jew
Last Line: "can bring more souls to god than all man's creed."
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Christianity; Jews; Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict


THE KING'S MISSIVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the great hill sloping bare
Last Line: Is gospel and law where the martyrs died.
Subject(s): Boston; Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Endicott, John (1588-1655); Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Discrimination; Shattuck, Samuel; Endecott, John (1588-1655); Quakers; Religious Conflict


THE NEW ANTHEM, by NORMAN BOLKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hammered steel strips laid out
Last Line: With joy and peace on every face.
Subject(s): Poverty; Racism; Religious Discrimination; Social Protest; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Religious Conflict; America


THE PERSIAN PROSECUTION, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For isdegerdes dead, gorones reigns
Last Line: Sustain and overcome all hellish jawes.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 4. THE STANDARDS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That last
Last Line: Into the sea, and sea shall be no more.
Subject(s): Catholics; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict