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Subject: CANAL ZONE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF PANAMA, by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chuff! Chuff! Chuff!' an' a mountain-bluff
Last Line: As we lift the landscape along!
Alternate Author Name(s): Runyon, Damon
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


CUT ACROSS; A SONG OF THE PANAMA CANAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says new york to yokohama
Last Line: "visit often, -- cut across!"
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


DARIEN, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silently upon a peak in darien
Last Line: Kissed -- and let in the eager waters there.
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


LIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS; POEM ON UNION OF THE OCEANS AT PANAMA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Espousal of the vast, void seas
Last Line: And fear be as a tale that's told.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Southern Cross; Canal Zone


PANAMA, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the oceans twain have waited
Last Line: But -- the hand that ope'd the gate shall forever hold the key!
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


PANAMA; HOME OF THE DOVE-PLANT OR HOLY GHOST FLOWER, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time the lord drew back the sea
Last Line: Let all men pass who come in love.)
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Plants; Canal Zone; Planting; Planters


THE CHRIST OF PANAMA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the heart of the world
Last Line: Set we the image of christ!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Panama Canal; Peace; Statues; Canal Zone


THE FLAG; AN INCIDENT OF STRAIN'S EXPEDITION, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never have got the bearings quite
Last Line: Only -- we couldn't read the chart.
Subject(s): Isthmus Of Darien, Panama; Panama Canal; Patriotism; Strain, Isaac G. (1821-1857); Canal Zone


THE PRESIDENT (THE PANAMA TOLLS), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He plead for honor and the country's good
Last Line: But left to history the ungrudging sort.
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Canal Zone


THE SHIP CANAL FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, by FRANCIS LIEBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rend america asunder
Last Line: "make the ocean free."
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


THE TIDES AT PANAMA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As effort gigantic
Last Line: "to prevent trust-promotion."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Canal Zone