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Subject: SAMSON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMONG PHILISTINES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


AMONG PHILISTINES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes
Last Line: As searing, the twin picks hissed in his eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson


DELILAH, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Teach me, he said
Subject(s): Samson; Delilah (bible)


DELILAH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because thou wast most delicate
Last Line: A woman fair to look upon.
Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Samson; Women In The Bible


LOVE IS STRONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A viewless thing is the wind
Last Line: For she conquers shame and death.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Samson; Shame; Wind; Dead, The


LOVE LETTER, by CAROLE CLEMMONS GREGORY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear samson %I put your hair
Last Line: Love - delilah
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Delilah (bible); Samson; Women; Women In The Bible


METAMORPHOSES: 13. CUPID (SAMSON), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will give a party in arizona, five hundred bucks a head
Subject(s): Samson


METAMORPHOSES: 13. CUPID (SAMSON), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will give a party in arizona, five hundred bucks a head
Last Line: I bided my time in the fishbelly incinerator
Subject(s): Samson


SAMSON, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring the captive from the prison
Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs.
Subject(s): Samson


SAMSON, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Samson, the strongest of the children of men
Last Line: Secret; but, if thou wilt, offer an offering unto the lord
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Samson


SAMSON, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wherefore was my birth from heaven foretold
Last Line: Himself in bonds under philistine yoke
Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Samson; Strength


SAMSON, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plunged in night, I sit alone
Last Line: By its greatness out of joint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G.
Subject(s): Samson


SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little onward lend thy guiding hand
Last Line: And calm of mind all passion spent.
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Religion; Samson; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Theology


SAMSON AGONISTES, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I test my bath before I sit
Last Line: Is so frigid upon the fundament
Subject(s): Samson


SAMSON PREDICTS FROM GAZA THE PHILADELPHIA FIRE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It will be your hair
Last Line: If you do not they will
Subject(s): African Americans; Fire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Samson; Survival; Negroes; American Blacks


THE WARNING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware! The israelite of old, who tore
Last Line: A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies.
Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Samson; Theology


THE WIND IS BLIND, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From those blind uses of the slave
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Samson; Blindness