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Subject: SECTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF THE SECTS (IN A JERUSALEM TAVERN), by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A latin and greek, praise god, are we, armenian and copt
Last Line: But we all believe, we all believe, in the holy sepulchre!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Faith; God; Sects; Singing & Singers; Wine; Belief; Creed


LAPIS LAZULI, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three nights in a row I spent among the gnostics
Last Line: That passed through my life, everything turns into lapis laxuli
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sects


NO SECT [OR SECTS] IN HEAVEN, by ELIZABETH H. JOCELYN CLEAVELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Talking of sects quite late one eve
Last Line: "for all had put on ""christ's righteousness."
Alternate Author Name(s): Cleveland, Elizabeth H. Jocely
Subject(s): Religion; Sects; Theology


PICTURES FROM TOFUKUJI; FOR PHILIP WHALEN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The buddha is dying
Last Line: Where resides the man who sent me them
Subject(s): Buddhism; Japan; Sects; Buddha; Buddhists; Japanese


SECTS, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were talking about tent revivals
Subject(s): Sects


SECTS, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were talking about tent revivals
Last Line: When an invisible figur crosses the stiff snow, %making a sound like some other planet's machinery
Subject(s): Sects


STATE OF THE UNION: 7. OF SECTS AND FELLOWSHIPS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a tide across the land
Last Line: Even read from cover to cover?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Religion; Sects


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 4. SECTS AND PROFESSIONS IN RELIGION, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sects in religion?' - yes of every race
Last Line: Through scenes of horror, terror, and dismay.'
Subject(s): Religion; Sects; Theology


THE LOST COLONY, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They never learned to tell
Subject(s): Sects