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Subject: BORDERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CARTOGRAPHY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out on the border a howl goes up, skinning the cold air
Last Line: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps
Subject(s): Boundaries; Maps; Wings; Borders


DEFINITION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As clouds lie in the west
Last Line: In your deep firmament.
Subject(s): Boundaries; Heaven; Sky; Borders; Paradise


DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Nature; War; Boundaries; Borders


THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado
Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains


THE RESCUE ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now to the lord almighty
Last Line: We lift our hearts in praise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Boundaries; God; Religion; Borders; Theology


THE THRESHOLD, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I threaded endless aisles
Last Line: The portal to the lord.
Subject(s): Boundaries; Borders