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Subject: FRATRICIDE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITANY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember him falling beside me
Last Line: Or lay in the shallow spoon.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The


A MOMENT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The field where my brother died
Last Line: The next you're alone in a field.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The


GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When all the rooms of the house
Last Line: That arches toward the other shore.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Fratricide; Hunting; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Relatives; Hunters


THE FRATRICIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood on the brow of the well-known hill
Last Line: They made the grave of the fratricide!
Subject(s): Fratricide