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Subject: DESNOS, ROBERT (1900-1945)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEATH OF COMPASSION: TO ROBERT DESNOS, by REBECCA ANN SEIFERLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since I was a child
Subject(s): Compassion; Desnos, Robert (1900-1945)


DESNOS, by RAMON GUTHRIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All bear witness
Last Line: Those whose little donkey-rides %are preludes to golgothas
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945)


DESNOS READING THE PALMS OF MEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe I should go back to the white leather
Last Line: Don't you hear it?
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Fortune Tellers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hope; Jews; Palmistry; Shoah; Optimism; Judaism


FOR ROBERT DESNOS, by TRISTAN TZARA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the white of my thought
Last Line: My secret my reason for being %and the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S.
Subject(s): Dadaism; Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); World War Ii


LA PLUS BELLE STROPHE DE ROBERT DESNOS, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: 44. Amorous traveler of tender maps, why nourish your nights
Last Line: With tarts af ash?
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Travel


ON LOVE: ROBERT DESNOS, by EDWARD HIRSCH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to crack open my heart for you
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Love


ON LOVE: ROBERT DESNOS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to crack open my heart for you
Last Line: I return to the waking world for you
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945)


ROBERT DESNOS, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A surrealist in the twenties, praised
Last Line: Over the sundial of our lives
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Surrealism; Breton, Andre (1896-1966)


VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS, by KURT WUBBELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: So much like the flower and the current of air
Last Line: She I love does not answer me
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945)