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Subject: MESSAGES & MESSENGERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER TO R. L. ESQ, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear peter, if thou canst descend
Last Line: Can cure him of that fiddling phrenzy.
Subject(s): Letters; Messages & Messengers; Muses; News


AN EPISTLE THROWN INTO A RIVER IN A BALL OF WAX, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, gentle paper; happy, happier far
Last Line: Shall reap one joy but by the hand of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Love - Unrequited


BILLY, HE'S IN TROUBLE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've got a letter, parson, from my son, away out west
Last Line: Bill's in the legislatur, but he doesn't say what fur.
Subject(s): Letters; Messages & Messengers; Shame


HOSPITAL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone is screaming almost in morse
Last Line: Screaming three longs, one short, three longs?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Pain; Pregnancy; Suffering; Misery


HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sprang to the stirrup, and joris and he
Last Line: From ghent.
Variant Title(s): Ride From Ghent To Aix
Subject(s): France; Horseback Riding; Messages & Messengers


IL Y A, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is self-beast in season / bright dew on grass
Last Line: (diligent messengers)
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers


INFO; FOR JOE CARDARELLI, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bunch of gods
Last Line: Hey wow that's some good info
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; News


MESSENGER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone has been painting
Subject(s): Advertising; Graffiti; Letters; Messages & Messengers; Paintings & Painters


MESSENGERS, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fields hopeless and dumb
Last Line: They file doorward, in pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; News


MESSENGERS OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the sky are angels winging
Last Line: When revealed in glory there.
Subject(s): Angels; Bethlehem, Palestine; Heaven; Messages & Messengers; Wings; Paradise


MY MESSENGERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said to the merry birds of the woods
Last Line: They bear thee my message of gladness.
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers


OUR ANGELS, by RUBY PRICE DEBOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Often when the crooning night winds
Last Line: Where the holy angels lead.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Messages & Messengers; Paradise


PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The place, a tuscan churchyard, and the time
Last Line: And smile to hear the fatal words she saith!
Subject(s): Autumn; Cemeteries; Death; Messages & Messengers; Seasons; Tuscany, Italy; Fall; Graveyards; Dead, The


SPEECH TO A CROWD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, my patient friends, awaiters of messages.
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers


THE BEARER OF EVIL TIDINGS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What soon enough he would know?
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers


THE LAST MAN: RECEPTION OF EVIL TIDINGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's this? Did you not see a white convulsion
Last Line: There by her murderer crushed into the earth.
Subject(s): Death; Messages & Messengers; Murder; Dead, The


THE MESSENGER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a wild merriment of wind and bird
Last Line: "blind to our agonies of death and birth!"
Subject(s): Death; Language; Life; Messages & Messengers; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary


THE MIDNIGHT MAIL, by WILLIAM HURD HILLYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Resonant, full, and deep
Last Line: That wait for the midnight mail!
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven
Last Line: The passing away of spain.
Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


TO A PHOEBE-BIRD, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the eaves, out of the wet
Last Line: What eloquence you teach!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Birds; Eloquence; Messages & Messengers; Phoebe (bird); Silence; Singing & Singers; Teaching & Teachers; Songs; Educators; Professors


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. FLY MESSENGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly messenger! Through the street of the cities
Last Line: He is come to dwell on the earth!
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; News