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Subject: MARYLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPALACHIAN SPRING, by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tuning fork on the mountain
Last Line: The april twilight's field of images was conjured up
Subject(s): Appalachia; Aviation And Aviators; Maryland; Mountains


BALTIMORE, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four facing photographs by roland freeman
Last Line: A palomino, the eye still open on the world he leaves
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Photography And Photographers


BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn
Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America


BEYOND THE POTOMAC, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They slept on the field which their valor had won
Last Line: Since they passed o'er the river?
Subject(s): American Civil War; Maryland; United States - History


BLOSSOMING WALL, by MARJORIE GRAFFLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They built a wall between us and the west
Last Line: Sharp as forgotten pain, as forgiveness fair.
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Class Struggle; Walls


DOING TIME IN BALTIMORE, by JUDITH BAUMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the south of the city on a cold rainy february day
Last Line: Our bodies pushing out while the clocks pull in %in a struggle that becomes our dream of days
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Cities


DRUMMER YOUNG, by RICHARD FROST    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Baltimore, forty years ago- / west fayette, a corner bar
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Music & Musicians


HAUNTING POE'S BALTIMORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baltimore bones groan maliciously under sidewalk
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


HAUNTING POE'S BALTIMORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baltimore bones groan maliciously under sidewalk
Last Line: I havde writ this ancient riddle in poe's house in baltimore
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


HEADING WEST ON I-70, MARYLAND, by ALAN BRITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rusty cow drifts across a green field
Last Line: Dissolves into the static of the smoky hills
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Farm Life; Maryland


HIWAY POESY L.A. TO WICHITA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up up and away! / we're off, thru america
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); America


HOLLYWOOD AND HYDROQUINONE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lightened her skin %played sousa and joplin
Last Line: I am your mother invent me
Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Maryland


INCIDENT, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once riding in old baltimore
Subject(s): African Americans; Baltimore, Maryland; Racism; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


INCIDENT, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once riding in old baltimore
Last Line: Of all the things that happened there %that's all that I remember
Subject(s): African Americans; Baltimore, Maryland; Racism; Social Protest


LIKE NEW, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ones too broke or wise to get parts
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Baltimore, Maryland


MARYLAND MUD, by CAROLINE M. LORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: In rapture and despair
Last Line: To feel the color of a muddy pool.
Subject(s): Lakes; Maryland; Pools; Ponds


MARYLAND RESOLVES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On calvert's plains new faction reigns
Last Line: "from real griefs, from factious elves, / will speedily relieve ye"
Subject(s): American Revolution;maryland


MY MARYLAND, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The despot's heel is on thy shore
Last Line: Maryland, my maryland!
Variant Title(s): Maryland! My Maryland;maryland
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Maryland; Patriotism; State Rights; United States - History; Liberty; Secession


ODE TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How tall among her sisters, and how fair
Last Line: Baltimore, 1880.
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Johns Hopkins University


POND, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Baltimore's flowers go off like fireworks
Last Line: All the best, all for you
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Memory


STREETS OF BALTIMORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "woman weak and woman mortal, through the spirit's open portal"
Last Line: "fled, and left my shattered dwelling to the dust of baltimore"
Subject(s): "baltimore, Maryland;history;poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849);" Historians


STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 5. MARYLAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunlight here is hazy. Builders
Subject(s): Maryland


THE BATTLE OF BALTIMORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "old ross, cockburn, and cochrane too"
Last Line: That america may always boast / that we are brave virginians
Subject(s): "baltimore, Maryland;war Of 1812;


THE STREETS OF BALTIMORE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Woman weak, and woman mortal
Last Line: In the streets of baltimore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poetry & Poets; Speeches & Addresses


THERE'S LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By blue patapsco's billowy dash
Last Line: There's life in the old land yet!
Subject(s): Life; Maryland; War


THROUGH BALTIMORE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on friday morn: the train grew near
Last Line: O baltimore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): American Civil War; Baltimore, Maryland; U.s. - History