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Subject: SALOME (1ST CENTURY A.D.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ARRANGEMENT FOR AN INQUIRING OBOE OF PHILOSPHIC BENT, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing / now
Last Line: Nor cringe at what you find)
Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F.
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.); Singing & Singers; Songs


SALOME, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: So that john the baptist might once more seem glad
Last Line: The priest his soul-barter
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


SALOME, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To bring a smile once more to john baptist's lips
Last Line: From the parson his breviary
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


SALOME, by HARRIET GRAY BLACKWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wish that I had seen her when she danced
Last Line: That bore the holy symbol of the lamb.
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


SALOME (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How little didst thou think, while tripping down
Last Line: And thy young hands have borne john baptist's head!
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


SALOME (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But didst thou not relent? Our pity asks
Last Line: As pure as the wild honey which he ate?
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


SALOME, FR. THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her long black hair danced round her like a snake
Last Line: Love, ecstasy, and rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Variant Title(s): Salome
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


SCORN, by MAUD BEATRICE HOGUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot tell why I love you
Last Line: Remember what the morning brings.
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


STUDY FOR SALOME DANCING BEFORE HEROD, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the movement toward disappearance
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.)


THE DOORS, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doors were oak, massive
Subject(s): Doors; Churches; Salome (1st Century A.d.); John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals