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Subject: MEDIUMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEATH OF A FRIEND, by ENID MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the day that tinker died
Subject(s): Death; God; Mediums


EVANGELLE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ol / d / er / to make a spectable
Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Witchcraft & Witches; Women; Spiritualists


EVANGELLE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ol %d %er %to make a spectable
Last Line: O yes she did she did
Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry And Poets; Witchcraft And Witches; Women


FEELINGS ON REMEMBERING THE DAY I FIRST PRODUCED THE MIND, by HSU YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drawn some sixty years ago by karma
Last Line: Alone I walk through the cosmos, %connecting the past and its people
Subject(s): Knowledge; Mediums; Reason; Zen Buddhism


INSTRUCTIONS TO A MEDIUM, TO BE TRANSMITTED TO THE SHADE OF W.B. YEATS, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were wrong about the way it happens
Subject(s): Death; Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Spiritualists


MODERN SPIRITUALISM, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A trust that ancient folly yet shall come
Last Line: And fills the future world with fools.
Subject(s): Angels; Ghosts; Mediums; Supernatural; Spiritualists


MR. SLUDGE, THE MEDIUM, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, don't sir! Don't expose me! Just this once!
Last Line: Beside, is he the only fool in the world?
Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritualists


MY SPIRITUAL LIFE, by LAWRENCE RAAB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing mysterious ever happened
Last Line: Week by week we were on our own
Subject(s): Mediums


NO PALMS, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No palms dolled up the tedium, no breathing wind.
Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritualists


ON FAITH, REASON, AND SIGHT, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a threefold correspondent light
Last Line: The things of god without a light divine?
Subject(s): Faith; Mankind; Mediums; Reason; Sight; Belief; Creed; Human Race; Spiritualists; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ON THE UNION AND THREE-FOLD DISTINCTION OF GOD, NATURE AND CREATURE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All that comes under our imagination
Last Line: And, god's own image lord of it, a man.
Subject(s): Mankind; Mediums; Religious Education; Human Race; Spiritualists; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


PSYCHIC INTUITIVE, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watch as he tells a woman that her dead mother
Last Line: Who forgives me even now she is someone else, %even now she is mine
Subject(s): Mediums


READING THE CARDS: 1. THE TOWER, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tower is the only manmade structure in the major
Last Line: Opening the sheer veil and stepping through to the next
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Evil; Mediums


READING THE CARDS: 2. FIVE OF PENTACLES, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pentagon. Sorcery and skullduggery. [origin unknown]
Last Line: He must continue a short space,' it says in revelations
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Mediums


READING THE CARDS: 3. QUEEN OF CUPS, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A quiet field humming with bees, bounded by woods
Last Line: Strips of linen to bind the sacrificial bodies
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Mediums


SONG FOR THE SPIRIT OF NATALIE GOING, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small bundle of bones, small bundle of fingers, of plumpness, of heart
Last Line: In the wobbling hours of what has refuged, your future in me
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue
Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritualists


SONG FOR THE SPIRIT OF NATALIE GOING, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small bundle of bones, small bundle of fingers, of plumpness, of heart
Last Line: In the wobbling hours of what refuged here, your future in me
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue
Subject(s): Mediums


SPIRIT-RAPPING; TO THE NEW PROFESSOR SPIRITUAL RAPOLOGY, GLASGOW, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou abjured the worship of old mammon
Last Line: The secret soon you'll know you may not tell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Teaching & Teachers; Spiritualists; Educators; Professors


SYNERGY OF THE SPIRIT - DEFERRED, by JOANNE HERRMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will put on my ghost shirt
Last Line: Scattered, spinning around the earth
Subject(s): Mediums