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Subject: JOYCE, JAMES (1882-1941)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AS WELL HIM AS ANOTHER, by DANIEL J. LANGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is molly. I read the odd book
Last Line: Now that it's written, now that it's written down
Subject(s): Books; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Writing And Writers


DUBLIN SUITE: HOMAGE TO JAMES JOYCE, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is raining. The child is waiting
Last Line: Of all our humankind unwind
Subject(s): Joyce, James (1882-1941); Poetry And Poets


IN MEMORIAM JAMES JOYCE, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Joyce, James (1882-1941)


JAMES JOYCE, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the dented hat
Last Line: Angel - of his name
Subject(s): Joyce, James (1882-1941)


LITERARY DUBLIN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Damn near where'er you look, a writer's ghost
Last Line: And daedalus's execration hung %above the city like a blind man's blessing
Subject(s): Behan, Brendan (1923-1964); Dramatists; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Plays And Playwrights; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)


LONG ENOUGH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How long did homer stay in purgatory?
Last Line: A calm storm of thoughts unfullstopping her head
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Joyce, James (1882-1941); Poetry And Poets; Purgatory; Thought


PICKING HIS WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: James joyce walks down a laneway
Last Line: Blind stylish man
Subject(s): Aging; Change; Cities; Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Walking


TO JAMES JOYCE, MASTER BUILDER, by WILLIAM VAN WYCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou who hast gazed beyond the sight of men
Last Line: The very soul of thee that sends us blind!
Subject(s): Joyce, James (1882-1941)


VOLCANO, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joyce was afraid of thunder,
Subject(s): Joyce, James (1882-1941); Death; Dead, The