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Subject: HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUTHORS' RESIDENCES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled
Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens)


AUTHORS' RESIDENCES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled
Last Line: In boston. Writers, know your place %before it gets too modest to be known
Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens)


HARTFORD DAYLIGHT, by JOHN CAREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the bus ride home
Last Line: Are walking free %among the people in the street
Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Politics


OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A long time you have been making the trip
Subject(s): Sun; Light; Colors; Hartford, Connecticut


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 11. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old days (a custom laid aside / with breeches and cocked hats)
Last Line: That simple duty hath no place for fear.
Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Law & Lawyers; Politics & Government; Attorneys