A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- 'All is vanity, saith the preacher'
- A bruised reed He shall not break
- A curse on Herod
- A handful of dust
- A hymn to Christ
- A Laodicean
- A little East of Jordan
- A man who had fallen among thieves
- A small fig tree
- A song for Simeon
- A word made flesh is seldom
- Aaron
- Aaron's Rod
- Abel's Blood
- Abraham
- Abraham to kill him
- Absalom
- Absalom and Achitophel
- Absalom, Absalom!
- According to the Mighty Working
- Adam's curse
- Adam's dream
- Advent (Used in the title of a number of poems)
- After the Fall
- After this, the judgement
- Agape
- All my sons
- Altar, The
- And death shall have no dominion
- And he answered them nothing
- And there was a great calm
- Angry Samson
- Annunciation, The
- Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom
- Armageddon
- As Adam early in the morning
- Ascension
- Ascension Day 1964
- Ascension-day
- At Calvary near the Ancre
- At the manger Mary sings
- Babel
- Babel Tower
- Back to Methuselah
- Ballad of the Bread Man
- Battle of Gibeon, The
- Beauty of Job's daughters, The
- Bedridden peasant to the unknown God, The
- Being breadlike
- Belshazzar had a letter
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Belshazzar had a letter
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PoemDefinition
Belshazzar desecrated items from the Jewish temple by using them in a feast, until a message appeared supernaturally written on the wall, telling him of his doomThe Babylonian ruler famous for desecrating items from the Jewish Temple by using them at a feast, for which God then judged him via a hand 'writing on the wall'.
1) In the Bible a member of the Hebrew race
2) Someone who belongs to the Jewish faith which believes in one God and the importance of Jewish Law.
A sacred building used for worship. In the Bible, the Temple was the centre of Jewish worship in Jerusalem. In the New Testament, the term is also used as an image of the believer's physical body.
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