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Subject: CLAY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALI, by JR. LLOYD M. CORBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ali %is our prince
Last Line: A flower without rain %that never could die %ali %is our prince
Subject(s): African Americans; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Boxing And Boxers


CHAMP VS. COOPMAN, by BETH BROWN PRESTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here comes the champ muhammad ali
Last Line: He really does his thing when it comes to the ring
Subject(s): African Americans; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Boxing And Boxers


CLAY, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are but clay,' the preacher saith
Last Line: In thanks for this same kindly clay.
Subject(s): Clay; Friendship


DAILY RITUAL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The world ali says %and dreams
Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Arabs; Boxing And Boxers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets


MUHAMMAD ALI, by ANNETTE BOSTRUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, muhammad. You sit too quiet
Last Line: I never saw you bleed
Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Boxing And Boxers


MUHAMMAD ALI, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: In large numbers %we disdain guys and gals
Last Line: He's king of the ring, %and he's 'the greatest.'
Subject(s): African Americans; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Boxing And Boxers


NARRATIVE: ALI, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My head so big
Last Line: Myself / muhammad
Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay)


NARRATIVE: ALI; A POEM IN TWELVE ROUNDS, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My head so big
Last Line: Myself, %muhammad
Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Boxing And Boxers; Sports


ON THE DEFEAT OF HENRY CLAY [A GREAT MAN], by WILLIAM WILBERFORCE LORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fallen? How fallen? States and empires fall
Last Line: Time's dim horizon with eternity.
Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); United States - History


SCULPTURE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I took a piece of plastic clay
Last Line: "he still that early impress bore, / and I could change it, nevermore"
Subject(s): Clay;mankind;religion; Human Race;theology


THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you heard of philip slingsby
Last Line: All in pennsylvanian bonds!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); Fights; Turtles; Tyler, John (1790-1862); United States - Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Tortoises


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 TRUTH, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Truth; Poetry & Poets; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay)