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Subject: ARCHEOLOGY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARCHAEOLOGIST, by MAURICE KENNY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of a sandy field
Last Line: And his foot %bled
Subject(s): Archeology


ARCHAEOLOGY, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Searching 'mid eastern ruins, groping slow
Last Line: Rarest, most precious treasure trove, a sword!
Subject(s): Archeology; Explorers; Treasures


ARCHEOLOGICAL NOTES, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherever they put their feet, the herdsmen beyond astrakhan
Subject(s): Archeology


ARCHEOLOGY, by BARRY SILESKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Holiday snow quiets the whole neighborhood and music
Last Line: The trees, the ancient ruins wait to be discovered
Subject(s): Archeology


DARWIN'S SCOPE, by DOROTHY MOSELEY SUTTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: To get it right he had to become an actor
Last Line: Back to england - the bones of his dead faith
Subject(s): Archeology; Explorers


DINOSAUR NATIONAL, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jewelers, / in goggles and buttercup hardhats,
Last Line: Footprints, as they passed in the ashes.
Subject(s): Archeology; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Mothers


DISINTERMENT OF THE HERMES, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What forms divine in adamant fair
Last Line: Sterile, with brimming hands.
Subject(s): Archeology; Greece; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Greeks


EARLY CHRONOLOGY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly the daylight left our listening faces
Last Line: I thought she had a pre-dynastic look.
Subject(s): Archeology; Teaching & Teachers


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


GUDVEIG, by FRANCIS BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So runed on a rune-stick, and the rune-stick put in a coffin
Last Line: The ghost of a woman, her body overboard %laid, in the waters around
Subject(s): Archeology; Greenland; Norlund, Poul; Travel


HISTORY LESSONS: CATAL HUYUK: AFTER THE FIRST DIG, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's left are pits eroded by the weather
Last Line: Is often all one has to trade with death
Subject(s): Archeology


INVITATION, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In those good days when we were young and wise
Last Line: We should not know the tales you have to tell?
Subject(s): Archeology; Writing & Writers


IVBIE: A SONG OF WRONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it not late now in the day
Last Line: An innocent in sleep of the ages
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Archeology; Tourists; Travel


LIGHT NOT FED BY LIGHT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scent of flowering buckwheat
Last Line: Splits the mirror with a diamond can sleep soundly
Subject(s): Archeology; Explorers


NIOBE, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Niobe %was changed into stone
Last Line: The way the devil reads the bible, said the devil
Subject(s): Archeology; Niobe; Statues; Stones


RECORDING AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FOR THE SAN JUAN COUNTY, by JONATHAN TILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between two arms
Last Line: Amongst black rocks
Subject(s): Archeology; Nature


THE EXCAVATION, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this dry, stubble field
Last Line: In this dry, stubble field.
Subject(s): Archeology; Artifacts; Curiosities & Wonders; Fathers; Native Americans; Old Age; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE IMAGE IN LAVA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou thing of years departed!
Last Line: It must, it must be so!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Archeology; Bodies; Women


TO MY HONOURED FRIEND DR. CHARLETON, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The longest tyranny that ever swayed
Last Line: But, he restor'd, 't is now become a throne.
Variant Title(s): To My Honoured Friend, Dr. Charleton, On His Learned And Useful Works
Subject(s): Archeology; Boyle, Robert (1627-1691); Harvey, William (1578-1657); Science; Stonehenge; Scientists