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Subject: MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS (1814-1875)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEETHOVEN, OPUS 111, by AMY CLAMPITT                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Or, conversely, hungers
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Music & Musicians; Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778)


BEETHOVEN, OPUS 111, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Or, conversely, hungers
Last Line: Aspire, in its last act, %to walk on air
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Music And Musicians; Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778)


HARVESTERS RESTING; AFTER MILLET, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of the day, in the great shadow
Last Line: The noontime / heat
Subject(s): Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875)


HARVESTERS RESTING; AFTER MILLET, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of the day, in the great shadow
Last Line: Spellbound in the noontime heat
Subject(s): Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875)


THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Last Line: After the silence of the centuries?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology