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Subject: RIGHT TO ASYLUM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FIN DE SIECLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What! Do I hear the nations boast
Last Line: Or reason for dismay!
Subject(s): Israel;jews;right To Asylum; Judaism


ISRAEL AND COLUMBIA, by JOHN MCCABE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O glory of an elder age!
Last Line: As herald of the new world's morn.
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Language; Jews; Right To Asylum; Judaism


ISRAEL IN RUSSIA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art but one! O god to whom we bow
Last Line: "father! Forgive them!"
Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians


JEWESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dark-browed daughter of the sun
Last Line: Tis god's, not russia's, here to say.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Jews - Women; Right To Asylum; Judaism


THE JEW IN AMERICA, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wing thee, my song, and in majestic flight
Last Line: We shall emerge, unchanged, to face our god.
Subject(s): Jews; Jews - United States; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Right To Asylum; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism


THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands
Last Line: England say!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia
Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism


THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD DOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From town and village to a wood, stript bare
Last Line: "till they draw lightning from jehovah's eyes."
Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians


THE JEWS OF ENGLAND (1200-1902), by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An edward's england spat us out-a band
Last Line: Her triumph o'er her own intolerance.
Subject(s): Battleships; History; Jews; Right To Asylum; War; Historians; Judaism


THE MAGIC WORDS, by MELVIN G. WINSTOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The scene of conflict was a level plain
Last Line: And wept. The soldier now, alas! Was dead.
Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Judaism


THE RIGHT OF ASYLUM, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Easy the cry, while vengeance now is wrought
Last Line: This old sea-haven to world-misery?
Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Right To Asylum; Liberty; Judaism