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Subject: MATISSE, HENRI (1869-1954)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FIRST STROKE, by JESSY RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Henri matisse said that
Last Line: Why aren't poems shorter?
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Paintings And Painters; Poetry And Poets


MATISSE, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To begin with a light as vivid and warm
Last Line: Through the trees like colorful wild beasts
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Family Life


MATISSE, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: One was quite certain that for a long part of his being one being living
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


MATISSE TOO, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Matisse, too, when the fingers ceased to work
Last Line: Damn the fathers. We are talking about defiance
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Courage; Art & Atists; Perseverance; Fathers


MATISSE, 1919, by EVE SHELNUTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The vase is attached to its background
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


MATISSE: THE RED STUDIO, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no one here
Last Line: But there is no one here
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Paintings And Painters


MATISSE: BLUE NUDE: 1952, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I fail to cut your hands %in proportion to your head
Last Line: Path into your heart because love %is more manageable than paper
Variant Title(s): Matisse: Blue Nude, 195
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


MATISSE: DREAMING IN COLOR, by EDWARD C. LYNSKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Henri grew bleary of painting irises in paris
Last Line: Tangier ran stark white; its domes charged by blue skies, %remembered by his lame fingers, its color
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


MATISSE: LARGE RED INTERIOR 1945, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the red room, %a window
Last Line: Nothing %fatigues. %where tension like this is %there is joy also
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


NATISSE'S WOMAN WAITS FOR ME, by HELEN BOURNAS-NEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Matisse's woman waits for me. Her robe
Last Line: The unicorn's eccentric, holy centric horn
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


PORTRAIT OF A GIRL IN A YELLOW DRESS (HENRI MATISSE), by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Windows in art
Last Line: Whose self-consciousness the painter %was at pains not to conceal
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


SYDNEY HARBOUR CONSIDERED AS A MATISSE, by JOHN FORBES    Poem Source                    
First Line: One slip & you're back, via whitely & ken
Last Line: Crushed on sandstone piers? Maybe just
Subject(s): Harbors; Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Sydney, Australia