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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: YOM KIPPUR Matches Found: 38 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADONAI MELECH, by SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The lord is king! The lord was king! Forever shall the lord be king! Alternate Author Name(s): Cohen, Solomon Solis Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism AFTER YOM KIPPUR, by CORA WILBURN Poem Text First Line: The great white fast! The day that solemnly Last Line: Bind all of life in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Friendship; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this day sublime elect, my god, to thee" Last Line: To glorify thy throne divine! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts;god;jews;yom Kippur; Judaism DAY OF ATONEMENT, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of atonement we fasted Last Line: Ablaze, wondering how to throw the light in Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur DAY OF ATONEMENT, SELS., by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Source Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We will have to fall back on Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur HIGH HOLY DAYS, by JANE SHORE Poem Source First Line: It was hot. A size too large Last Line: Spat like jonah from the whale %back into the jew-hating world Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur KIPPUR, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou eternal and omnipotent! Last Line: Bound by love's holiest ties, our god, to thee. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism KOL NIDRE, by BENJAMIN FRIEDLANDER Poem Source First Line: I love god as even guilt can't Last Line: The word was spoken by & to the dust %breaking in my heart Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur KOL NIDRE, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: All the vows %and all the promises not kept Last Line: Perhaps even to love them Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Yom Kippur KOL NIDRE, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: Lo! Above the mournful chanting Last Line: Breathing but the breath of ages. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Music & Musicians; Yom Kippur; Judaism KOL NIDRE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by HERB BRIN Poem Source First Line: Memories %auto da fe Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's god Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur POWDERS OF THE MERCHANT, by ALEXANDER JAVITZ Poem Text First Line: Scarlet spice Last Line: Swift songs are drumming on the echoes of kol nidre . . . Subject(s): Cabbala; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Sapphires; Yom Kippur; Kabbala; Kabbalah; Judaism PRAYER FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (YOM KIPPUR, 5662), by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I have failed, my god, to see Last Line: And let thy love my shelter be! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's holiday night / and crazy jews are on the road Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's holiday night %and crazy jews are on the road Last Line: Here in the car and in queens and in brooklyn Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur THE NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism TO PHILIP LEVINE, ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Impenitent, we meet again Last Line: Nothing to atone for but the cold %and blurred perspectives of the dead Variant Title(s): To A Friend On The Day Of Atonemen Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Levine, Philip; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by CHANA BLOCH Poem Source First Line: Our new clothes fool no one Last Line: Their gold tongues whetted Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by ERIC CHAET Poem Source First Line: I throw off all the ceremony Last Line: I am trying to operate %from the fire that is the bush Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee we give ourselves today Last Line: Thy light at our life's eventide. Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Belief; Creed; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of hosts, thou only one Last Line: "thy will be done!" Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We destroy we break we are broken Last Line: But the foolish old woman who lives there refuses to leave Subject(s): Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones Last Line: And leaves return to willing trees for spring Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by DORIS RADIN Poem Source First Line: A head sits upon a table Last Line: Facinc me %until the bones of my skull %yom kippur Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by GARRET ROSENBLATT Poem Source First Line: The world collapses upon a single day Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by ANN MARIE SOLBERG Poem Source First Line: Your law says you belong to each other Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by BRADLEY R. STRAHAN Poem Source First Line: In this great synagogue Last Line: That year by year %pushes heavenward %in scorn of ax and saw Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: We swallow our won spit Last Line: Strange to us, as we arrive, %gaunt, ravished, to break the fast Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR - THE CLOSING OF THE GATES, by DANNY SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Let there be one grand cry of relief Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR 1983-1988 (TO D.S.V.), by REYNOLDS PRICE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sundown a full five years ago Last Line: And jogged ahead to claim my crime Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a jew in solitude? Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a jew in solitude? Last Line: In that world as it may be, newborn and haunted, what will solitude mean? Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR SONNET, WITH A LINE FROM LAMENTATIONS, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Can a person atone for pure bewilderment? Last Line: Return us, lord, to you, and we'll return Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR: FASTING, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: The appetite stirs Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur |
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