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Subject: FRANK, ANNE (1929-1945)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNE FRANK, by MICHAEL O'LOUGHLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life is lived in rooms like this
Last Line: Knowing we have no words %for what we may find
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


ANNE FRANK, by JOHN FOSTER WEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a small, brilliant spark
Last Line: Which holds the writhing corpse of modern man
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath


ANNE FRANK AND US, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a scar %attached to
Last Line: Not to forget them
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Human Rights - Argentina


ANNE FRANK HUIS, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even now, after twice her lifetime of grief
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


DAY FOR ANNE FRANK, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look onto an alley here
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


DIARY PAGES: AMSTERDAM NO.263 PRINSENGRACHT, 1979, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Anne frank bore no adult grief, but what is adult grief?
Last Line: If you even could, would you give to her? Lucky bastard: %she could never be like you
Subject(s): Diaries; Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


EYES OF THE INTERRED, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The eyes of the interred
Last Line: And the absences %transfix me
Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Funerals; Human Rights - Argentina


FOR ANNE FRANK, by CELIA GILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see a sky
Last Line: Sister, at last we shall sprawl %open in furrows %no time for a box %in the haste of this %run into
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


FOR ANNE FRANK, by DOUGLAS S JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: With hands still trembling
Last Line: A crooked-toothed tormentor
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


FOR RUDOLF HOESS, COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ: 2., by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anne frank opened her diary
Last Line: Stroked her dark hair, looked in her eyes. %ash of your years, hoess, afflicts heaven still
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


FREEDOM DAY: MAY 5TH, by ROGER SUVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the prinsen gracht %I saw anne frank's house
Last Line: To celebrate the end of the holocaust
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


IN ANNE FRANK'S HOUSE WE CLIMBED THE STAIR, by GERARD PREVIN MEYER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The rickety stair that led nowhere
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


IT IS RAINING ON THE HOUSE OF ANNE FRANK, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is raining on the house
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath


IT IS RAINING ON THE HOUSE OF ANNE FRANK, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is raining on the house
Last Line: Within the dark circle %of his demons
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath


LEARNING THE PART OF OTTO FRANK IN THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, by MARK LAWSON CANNADAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What good to wail these sad moments?
Last Line: And I can never forget, never forget
Subject(s): Diaries; Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


LETTUCE FOR ANNE FRANK, by JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenever I see lettuce %shining in a wet garden
Last Line: Rooted in the moist earth, %growing green in the sun
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath


LISTEN TO ME ANNE FRANK, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Even as you loosened your hair, and walked barefoot through the %air, still gazing at the sky?
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


ONE DAY MY DAUGHTER WILL LEARN ABOUT ANNE FRANK, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: She'll imagine snow falling
Last Line: The world will have turned %so terribly bright
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters


PERHAPS A FRIEND OF ANNE FRANK'S, by SAMUEL EXLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk in the blackout, beside the dutch
Last Line: And the nazi doctor giggles, 'it won't hurt a bit.'
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews


THE WITNESSES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From anne frank's house in amsterdam
Last Line: But these, of hatchlings wakening at night
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)


WITNESSES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From anne frank's house in amsterdam
Last Line: But these, of hatchlings wakening at night
Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945)