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Subject: SAUL (11TH CENTURY B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DAVID AND GOLIATH, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King saul was disconcerted
Last Line: Who's redeemed fair israel's name.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Saul (11th Century B.c.)


DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 1, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing the man who judah's scepter bore
Last Line: And he shall bless himself that blesses thee.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 4, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' state and kind discourse thus robb'd the night
Last Line: Well-chosen and well-furnish'd for the chase.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Israel; Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


IN WHICH ROOSEVELT IS COMPARED TO SAUL?, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is david? - oh, god's people
Last Line: "singing like a mountain rill!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


KING SAUL, by ALLAN KOLSKI HORVITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The middle-aged king
Last Line: Saul only admires %their thick souls
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.)


KING SAUL AT GILBOA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With noise of battle and the dust of fray
Last Line: And hid their faces seven nights and days.
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.)


LO! I AM SAUL, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Creature, begone, nor harrow me with horror
Last Line: Or dwell with thee 'midst darkness in the grave.
Subject(s): Bible; Evil; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul (11th Century B.c.); Saul Of Tarsus


MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil
Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens.
Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


MALZAH' SONG, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a devil and his name was I
Last Line: O leave me, creator, tormentor, alone!
Subject(s): Evil; God; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Supernatural


SAUL, by G. M. BELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abstracted and alone sat saul the king
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SAUL, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said abner, 'at last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak
Last Line: "e'en so, it is so!"
Subject(s): Religion; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Theology


SAUL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou whose spell can raise the dead
Last Line: Son and sire, the house of sanl!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SAUL, by AMIR GILBOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saul! Saul! %I don't know if it was shame
Last Line: In beit-she'an the people of israel wait
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SAUL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great melech lies waking over judah
Last Line: And with five hundred thousand men he swings the clubs
Subject(s): Bible; Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SAUL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with / a mortal would absorb him
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings


SAUL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with %a mortal would absorb him
Last Line: Transport me instantly %for my soul yearns and fears
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings


SAUL, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And they put his armor in the house of ashtoreth
Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SECOND SAMUEL: 1. DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE                       
First Line: The beauty of israel is slain upon thy high places: / how the mighty have fallen
Variant Title(s): David Lamenteth The Death Of Jonathan
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SECOND SAMUEL: 1. DAVID'S LAMENT OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All your glory, o israel, lies slain upon your heights
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warriors and chiefs! Should the shaft or the sword
Last Line: Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Judaism; Theology