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Subject: ARROWS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARROW MAKER, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Discarded flakes of gleaming amber flint
Last Line: The arrow-man each day, for I am he!
Subject(s): Arrows; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ARROWS, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That year spring snowmelt
Last Line: The hawk's breast, the last chamber %of wolf- or bear-heart where %all our arrows rot, and fly
Subject(s): Arrows


I'VE GOT AN ARROW HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sped by an archer's bow
Subject(s): Messages & Messagers; Love – Unrquited; Arrows


ILL-TEMPERED LOVER, SELECTION, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish my tongue were a quiver the size of a huge cask
Last Line: Like a woolly caterpillar pinned on its back—man, that would be sweet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A.
Subject(s): Arrows; Hate


IN MEMORIAM DYLAN THOMAS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I rejoiced when from wales once again
Last Line: The fff-putt of a triple-feathered arrow %which looks as if it had never moved
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Arrows; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


LUCIFER SINGS IN SECRET, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the broken arrow
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arrows; Bible


THE ARCHER, by CRAWFORD WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the bowman bend his straining arc
Last Line: Sings its short song. . . . How little space is spanned!
Subject(s): Arrows


THE ARROW AND THE SONG, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shot an arrow into the air, / it fell to the earth, I know not where
Last Line: I found again in the heart of a friend.
Subject(s): Arrows; Friendship


THE ARROW-KING, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I picture forth the eagle's flight?
Last Line: With no assailant else in earth or sky!
Subject(s): Arrows


THE GLAD EYE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bored by ascham and zeno
Subject(s): Eyes; Arrows


THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE LITTLE MOUTHFUL, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Without arrows how?
Last Line: Through by the bowstring
Subject(s): Arrows; Archers & Archery


UNDER A WINGED CUPID, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis vain to haste when love pursues
Last Line: "for he has wings, - thou, only feet"
Subject(s): Angels;arrows;cupid;love;passion; Eros