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Subject: ARIZONA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARIZONA, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: No beggar she in the mighty-hall
Last Line: Statecraft join.
Subject(s): Arizona


ARIZONA, by MARGARET WHEELER ROSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unsung, your light went down the centuries
Last Line: With the effulgence of a glorious past.
Subject(s): Arizona


ARIZONA NIGHTS, by BERTA HART NANCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yaqui dancers
Subject(s): Arizona


ARIZONA POEM, by FRANK THIBAULT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind and his sheep have hurdled
Last Line: Crumbles the adobe haunt of men.
Subject(s): Arizona


AT GRAND CANYON II, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All my senses are alive
Last Line: From maricopa point %to pre-cambrian
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona


AT THE GRAND CANYON, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou settest splendors in my sight, o lord!
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona


BUT WHEN I SAW GRAND CANYON, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The painted desert taught my soul to sing
Last Line: And majesty, and silence like a prayer.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grand Canyon, Arizona


DISCOVERIES IN ARIZONA, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All my life so far
Last Line: That's all right, said the boy. %maybe she's never seen you either
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food And Eating


DRY RIVERS - ARIZONA, by RAMONA WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At casa grabde, only the names
Last Line: Like clear water %over rounded stones
Subject(s): Arizona; Rivers


GOLDEN GLOBE RESTAURANT (YUCCA, ARIZONA), by ROBERT PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A brown dot on the desert you can spot from at least
Last Line: I think I've done all I an for golden globe
Subject(s): Restaurants; Yucca, Arizona


GRAND CANYON, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By zeus! %shout word of this
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona


GRAND CANYON, by MAUDE LEE IMMELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When morning comes on wings of golden light
Last Line: The signature of god upon the earth.
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona


GRAND CANYON, by STEPHEN LEFEBURE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if there were instead some limit
Last Line: Reaches filling up with indigo
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Nature


GRAND CANYON AGAIN, by WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: With evening glow
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Grand Canyon, Arizona


GRAND CANYON COLORS, by TOM ROBERT SHIELDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Indian red. %deep as orange earth
Last Line: Above %and below %a rainbow rim
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona


GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen that which is mysterious
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona


LAKE HAVASU, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man-made, bejesus hot, patches of sand turned to glass
Subject(s): Havasu, Lake, Arizona


LET'S ASSUME IT HAPPENED, by SIGMAN BYRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: That green, smoldering afternoon
Last Line: Blind, unprecedented, %like all exceptions to the rule
Subject(s): Arizona; Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Politics


MOUNTAINS IN THE GRAND CANYON, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each a primeval vastness, shaped by hands
Last Line: Abandoned quarry of the infinite.
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NIGHT IN ARIZONA, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon is a charring ember
Last Line: And cry like a child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Arizona; Night; Bedtime


ONE WORD, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The arizona sky is a bowl of one word blue
Last Line: America?
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Arizona; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


PAINTED DESERT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we got to the painted desert
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pictures; Roads; Tourists; Travel


PAINTED HILLS OF ARIZONA, by EDWIN CURRAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rainbows all lie crumpled on these hills
Subject(s): Arizona


PHOENIX, by CORA HOLBROOK MILCHRIST    Poem Text                    
First Line: A city of the desert
Last Line: A part of our great southwest.
Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food & Eating


SOMETIMES SHE DREAMS, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This woman %I call my mother
Last Line: Wide and open, %so much space to be filled
Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Native Americans - Reservations; Women


SONNET: 25, by EDMUND JOSEPH BERRIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mud on the first day (night, rather
Last Line: The gift: they will reside in houston following the grand canyon
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona


SPRING IN THE ARIZONA DESERT, by GRACE HOFFMAN WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tempest of rain
Last Line: On the desert.
Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring


THE TRYST BY THE GRAND CANON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A realm of dreams is that sublimest chasm
Last Line: For over peak and plain enchantment reigns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Arizona; Grand Canyon, Arizona


VIEW, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the last pullman of the day pulls into the grand canyon station
Subject(s): Railroads; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Railways; Trains


WILD HORSES - ARIZONA, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seeking high shrines of quietude, I found
Last Line: Brushing the mane of swift exultant death.
Subject(s): Animals; Arizona; Horses


Y-YO MA, by NICHOLAS HARP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Climbing over this desperate
Last Line: I'm in tombstone
Subject(s): Ma, Yo-yo; Music And Musicians; Tombstone, Arizona


YUMA: THE GREYHOUND DEPOT, by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A turquoise sky %low enough
Last Line: Against my desert %you have to cross.
Subject(s): Yuma, Arizona