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Subject: BLUES (MOOD)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 34 BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ain't going to tell nobody : thirty-four have done for me
Last Line: Oh lord oh lord : let me see your brand new year
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (mood); Blues (music); Depressions, Economic; Music And Musicians


A DOS'T O' BLUES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got no patience with blues at all!
Last Line: He's the same old color yit!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians; Night; Seasons; Bedtime


BLUES, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Convexcavatious day
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Concentration Camps


BLUES FOR AN OLD BLUE, by WALKER GIBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath this tent, clutching this glass of beer
Last Line: Watches the hours go by, and mourns his losses
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music And Musicians; Reunions; Yale University


BOUND NO'TH BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goin' down the road, lawd
Last Line: Fit fer a hoppin' toad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (mood); Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks


ETERNITY BLUES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I just had the old dodge in the shop
Last Line: To reach me. I drove on. Then I bust out crying
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Country Life; Music & Musicians


GET UP, BLUES, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Blues / never climb a hill
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Jazz; Music & Musicians


GET UP, BLUES, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blues %never climb a hill
Last Line: Fly. %learn what it means %to be up high
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Jazz; Music And Musicians


GRAVEYARD BLUES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It rained the whole time we were laying her down
Subject(s): Blues (mood)


KITCHEN DOOR BLUES, by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My old lady died of a common cold
Last Line: So for god's sake, lock that kitchen door!
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music And Musicians


MOOD INDIGO, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've tried to trace the reverie
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians


MOOD INDIGO, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've tried to trace the reverie
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music And Musicians


POSTPARTUM BLUES, by ELTON GLASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soon the glass angel must be
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians


ST. LOUIS BLUES, by WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate to see de ev'nin' sun go down
Last Line: If my blues don't get you my jazzing must.
Alternate Author Name(s): Handy, W. C.
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians


TANGO WITH THE BLUES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Naked trees dance in the midst
Last Line: I am not afraid
Subject(s): Blues (mood); Hearts; Love; Music And Musicians