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Subject: FIREWORKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEAUX ARTS TRIO PLAYS BEETHOVEN ON RTE. 95, by JOAN STERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've said goodbye again
Last Line: Nothing can stop the music
Subject(s): Death; Fireworks; Music And Musicians


BEGINNING AND END, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every june her family retreated from brooklyn to southampton, where
Last Line: Miss murray's picture and name done in lights
Subject(s): Fireworks; Memory; Parties


BLUE RIDGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks
Subject(s): Fireworks; Man-woman Relationships; Middle Age; Grief; Male-female Relations; Sorrow; Sadness


FIREWORKS, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The newlyweds next door
Subject(s): Fireworks


FIREWORKS, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Not guns, not thunder, but a flutter of clouded drums
Last Line: Night absorbs them %with the sponge of her silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fireworks; Holidays; Silence


FIREWORKS, by JOSEPH DUEMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though we can't hear the brass or strings
Subject(s): Fireworks


FIREWORKS, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My son could spend a whole afternoon
Subject(s): Fireworks


FIREWORKS, by WILLIAM OLSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My neighbor follows his phone cord
Last Line: These are no scared children %half naked on the naked lawn of ashes %who walk armed into the vast ov
Subject(s): Fireworks


FIREWORKS, by VALERIE WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: First %a far thud
Last Line: Silent sliding silver waterfalls and stars
Subject(s): Fireworks


FIREWORKS, by VALERIE WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: First
Subject(s): Fireworks


FIREWORKS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When our home town was old enough
Subject(s): Fireworks; Vermont


FOURTH OF JULY ELECTRICAL STORM, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take you on a family picnic
Last Line: White rock and people who belong to that earth
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July; Storms; Thunder


FOURTH OF JULY NIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little boat at anchor
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July; Independence Day


FOURTH OF JULY NIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little boat at anchor
Last Line: The little boat at anchor %in black water sat murmuring %to the tall black sky
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July


JULY FOURTH, by MONICA OCHTRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fireworks are a little like war. These explosions. I think veterans watch-
Last Line: The river: is almost like bells, if you happen to be there
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July


MARINE, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pink faces (worlds or flowers or seas or stars)
Last Line: Disturb the general somnolence.
Subject(s): Fireworks; Music & Musicians


NEW YEAR'S 1990, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joanne's husband was on pan am flight 103
Last Line: And at the turn of the decade write new poems %while you lie breathing
Subject(s): Fireworks; Gratitude; Holidays; New Year; Psychoanalysis; Relationships


NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night our mothers
Last Line: Before the new year dawned
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Fireworks; Holidays; New Year


ODE TO MADAME HENGLER; FIREWORD-MAKER TO VAUXHALL, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mrs. Hengler! - madame, - I beg pardon
Last Line: Like goldsmith's madame blaize!
Subject(s): Fireworks


ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE JAPANESE SURRENDER, by LIU YA-TZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fireworks explode like thunderclaps all over chungking
Last Line: People of the huai and the yangtze look to the recovery of their capital
Subject(s): Fireworks; World War Ii


PARKING GARAGE ROOF, FOURTH OF JULY, by MARTHA KINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, jessie steven
Last Line: A double duty sky show %soaring up the street
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July


PYROTECHNICS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our meeting was like the upward swish of a rocket
Subject(s): Fireworks


THE FIREWORKS; FROM THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Play on, play on, I share your gorgeous glee
Last Line: He waits his end in still and slow decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Fireworks; Italy; Italians