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Subject: ANTIQUITIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRE-RAPHAELITE NOTEBOOK, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Time


AT THE RED CLIFF I PONDER OVER ANTIQUITY, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The big river goes east
Last Line: A wine libation I pour to the moon in the river
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Antiquities


FOR LOREN EISELEY, by PHILA WITHERELL ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You prowled the house at an hour when even cricket song is stilled
Last Line: Skulls of ancient hunters lay %with bones of prehistoric prey
Subject(s): Eiseley, Loren (1907-1977); Prehistoric Antiquities


FROM AN EXCAVATION ON THE WARRIOR RIVER, by ESTHER BARRETT ARGO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten-seventeen, the numbered label read
Last Line: Stared up again at alabama skies.
Subject(s): Archeology; Mothers; Prehistoric Antiquities


GREENVILLE TREES: THE CHINA-BERRIES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of years ago
Last Line: Yet then too we are beautiful!
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Trees


NEOLITHIC FIGURINE, SPETSES ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winged, bronze, two inches tall or less;
Subject(s): Antiquities


ODE TO ANTIQUITY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Antiquity thou dark sublime
Last Line: When dust and weeds are hurding round %that dust thy home shall be
Subject(s): Antiquities


PREHISTORY, by CHRISTOPHER J. BERMUDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing beneath the skeleton
Last Line: Leaving nothing but fossils %to bear witness
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities


PREHISTORY, by RICHARD PEVEAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Baked like a shepherd's pie, full of flowers
Last Line: Of tablets, the bankbook of the deadly kings
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities


PREHISTORY, by CRISTINA PERI ROSSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since prehistory
Last Line: Is difficult to dismantle %like the vertebrae %of a calcinated %mythological animal
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities


ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT BISHOPSTONE, HEREFORDSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While poring antiquarians search the ground
Last Line: The casual treasure from the furrowed soil.
Subject(s): Antiquities; Ruins


SOUTH OF THE POTOMAC, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild honey in the honey-comb
Last Line: Imperial as tyre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Antiquities


THE CYPRUS VASE, by ROSALIND TRAVERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A twilight breeze, of honied scent impassioned
Last Line: Three thousand years ago?
Subject(s): Antiquities; Cyprus; Vases


TO ANTIQUITY, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O our young ancestor
Last Line: Put you to bed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Antiquities