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Subject: ARTIFACTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARROWHEAD, by ROBERT PACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where two streams joined, we met
Subject(s): Artifacts


ARTIFACT: WHEN - OUT OF...DELIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When - out of my d in the b of the house of g - the loveliness of the many
Last Line: —abbÉ suger
Subject(s): Artifacts


BEGINNINGS; NATURAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the ground floor called 'beginnings'
Subject(s): Artifacts; History; National Museum Of Scotland; Historians


EGGSTRACTS FROM THE ROEHAMPTON CHRONICLE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This remarkable instance of snumphus, or peppi
Last Line: Or donkies. %q.E.D.
Subject(s): Antiques; Artifacts; History


IMPRESSIONS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pluck the leaves and print them
Last Line: The fingerprints still wet upon its flank.
Subject(s): Artifacts; Mothers & Sons


MOLASSES REEF WRECK, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No telling %how many ships
Last Line: Face banishment from these our sovereign %blest shores
Subject(s): Artifacts; Colonialism; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Coral; Disasters; Diving And Divers; Explorers; Seaweed; Shipwrecks; Slavery; Spain; West Indies


ROSEBUDS IN CLOISONNE, by GERTRUDE M. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A priceless thing - my vase of cloisonne
Last Line: Of rosebuds in a vase of cloisonne?
Subject(s): Artifacts; Vases


SEVENTY-FIVE KIMONOS, by LYNN PATTISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Altogether my mother had seventy-five kimonos-different weaves
Last Line: The crumpling and cinching was important. I never touch them
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Artifacts; Museums


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 POTTERY MAKER, by CAREY YATES BUSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crouching dumb in caverns deep
Last Line: The perfect song.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Artifacts; Clay; Pottery And Potters


THE WINGED EROS OF TUNIS, RECOVERED FROM THE SEA NEAR MAHDIA IN 1904, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful bronze boy, wing
Last Line: Of the waves for our worship and love.
Subject(s): Artifacts; Rebirth; Sea; Ocean