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Subject: REVIVALS
Matches Found: 13

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise god from whom all blessings / flow
Last Line: When will he make it plain?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Revivals; Social Protest; Speech; Voices; Religious Revivals; Oratory; Orators


AFTER THE SURPRISING CONVERSIONS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September twenty-second, sir: today / I answer
Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Revivals; Suicide; Religious Revivals


AFTER THE SURPRISING CONVERSIONS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September twenty-second, sir: today %I answer
Last Line: Cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn %the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn
Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Revivals; Suicide


AN EPISODE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING IN NEW ENGLAND, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As night pushes its red forerunners
Subject(s): Revivals; Religion; New England; Religious Revivals; Theology


APRIL, by LOU SAULMON    Poem Text                    
First Line: April has dipped / to earth again
Last Line: Of a maiden's eyes.
Subject(s): Revivals; Religious Revivals


FAITH HEALER COME TO RABUN COUNTY, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seldom is that tent full, but tonight he expects the local radio
Last Line: O sisters come to the altar, lay your hands on the radio.
Subject(s): Healing; Revivals; Tents; Cures; Religious Revivals


HAD SPRING NOT COME, by ANNA FRENCH JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again old earth swings
Last Line: My heart would have slept.
Subject(s): Revivals; Spring; Religious Revivals


HERSELF DIVINED, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born to a family of scientists
Last Line: Poetry is the highest science
Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Revivals


HYMN TO THE SUPREME BEING ON RECOVERY FROM .. ILLNESS, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But, o immortals! What had I to plead
Last Line: A birth of joy - not like the first of tears and woe
Subject(s): Affliction; Healing; Revivals; Sickness


IN THE COUNTRY, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Said the gardenia, 'I am very white!'
Last Line: But leave me her!
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Revivals


LIGHT OF THE SACRED HARP, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small fire of hymnals in a trash can
Last Line: And ashes.
Subject(s): Bible; Revivals; Salvation; Sermons; Religious Revivals


SISTER JONES'S CONFESSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought the deacon liked me
Last Line: I railly couldn't thank the lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Confessions; Prayer; Revivals; Religious Revivals


ZION HILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those anguished salesmen of the scriptures
Last Line: Smiling over his inheritance.
Subject(s): Redemption; Religion; Revivals; Salvation; Theology; Religious Revivals