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Subject: BURMA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLD BLOOD, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After murdering his father
Last Line: On limber fingers.
Subject(s): Burma; Fear; Murder; Punishment; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On university avenue in rangoon
Last Line: To crack its walls with wings.
Subject(s): Burma; Revolutions; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: THE GIRAFFE WOMAN OF BURMA, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their voices reach us as if from the shaft
Last Line: Lies close to you as air. Help me to hold up my head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Variant Title(s): The Giraffe Women Of Burma
Subject(s): Burma; Women - Abused; Wife Beating


MANDALAY, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the old moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy [or, eastward to] at the sea
Last Line: Crost the bay!
Subject(s): Army Life; Asia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Mandalay, Burma; Drills & Minor Tactics; Far East; East Asia; Orient; British Empire; England - Empire


RENDEZVOUS: BELLE GLADE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pine thicket at the edge of a clearing
Last Line: And nerves edged a name in his stock.
Subject(s): Burma; Guns; Night; Soldiers; Bedtime


THE BEAST, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The teak is carved, fine as mantilla lace
Last Line: The cupped hands of love, to change the beast within.
Subject(s): Burma; Fables; Love; Prudence; Allegories; Caution


THE BURMANS AND THEIR MISSION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a cry in burmah, and a rush
Last Line: Rising to bear the embassy of heaven.
Subject(s): Burma; Missions & Missionaries


THE GARDEN AGAIN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The romans, retreating from the wilderness
Last Line: A compost of leaves and wings.
Subject(s): Burma; Imperialism


THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen
Last Line: To seek the happy isles!
Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si


WATCHING; IN BURMAH, by EMILY CHUBBUCK JUDSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, love, sleep!
Last Line: Night deepens, and I sit, in cheerless doubt alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Fanny; Judson, Emily E.
Subject(s): Burma; Rest; Sleep