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Subject: KIDNAPPING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago
Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke.
Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean


A LITTLE CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For these parents
Last Line: His curly, golden head.
Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons; Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (1932); Prayer; Childhood; Missing Persons


BABYLON, O BABYLON, by PABLO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I open the scrolls of babylon
Last Line: Assassins at the hour they prowl abroad
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Kidnapping; Soldiers; War


BLACK RANALD, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the time when the little flowers are born
Last Line: And kisses her first, a bride!
Subject(s): Kidnapping; Rescues; Love; Weddings


EAST OF PING-LING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: East of ping-ling, the royal tomb
Last Line: I go home and tell the kin %that the brown calf was be sold
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Kidnapping


GRIEF, OF THE BLOODY HAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In an immense wood in the south of kent
Last Line: And left him there struggling hard to gain his liberty.
Subject(s): Blood; Crime & Criminals; Discontent; Grief; Kidnapping; Dissatisfaction; Sorrow; Sadness


MARK ATHERTON, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Of one who went to do deliberate wrong
Last Line: And treachery answered so with treachery.
Subject(s): Kidnapping; Betrayal; Vengeance; Native Americans


OLD SONG, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The past hurts, george, but sing and be merry
Last Line: Mother, look - he has your eyes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei
Subject(s): Kidnapping; Mothers


THE END, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The long search ended!
Last Line: Let not this double price be paid in vain!
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Disappeared Persons; Graves; Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (1932); Dead, The; Missing Persons; Tombs; Tombstones


THE SACK OF BALTIMORE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer sun is falling softly on carbery's hundred isles
Last Line: More.
Subject(s): Baltimore, Ireland; Kidnapping; Pirates; Tragedy; Piracy; Buccaneers


VICTIM, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel the motion of the car before I open my eyes
Last Line: The last thing I hear is a click
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Disappeared Persons; Fear; Kidnapping


WATCH BOOK, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was beautiful when it was summer
Last Line: Cutting capers. It is eight o'clock. Time for bed. %that is all, is all
Subject(s): Courthouses; Guard Duty; Kidnapping; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives