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Subject: NAVIGATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ESSAY: THE COMPLETE SENTENCE OF THE LIMBS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was bathing as an individual in something more general
Last Line: I will have to sleep a long time to find them again
Subject(s): Essays; Maritime Law; Navigation; Sea Law


LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE (1766-, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: At docks?
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boats; Explorers; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Travel


NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evergreens have reasons
Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NOW DRY THE EYES, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now dry thy eyes, and shed no tears
Last Line: As a keen lance with edges burning.
Subject(s): Boats; Navigation; Poetry & Poets


THE COMPASS, WITH VARIATIONS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One close of day - 'twas in the bay
Last Line: Has lodged its main attraction!
Subject(s): Navigation


THE WELLESLEY FLOAT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swan-like in grace and rhythm-like in motion
Last Line: The pageant closes, and the scene is bare.
Subject(s): Boats; Canoes And Canoeing; Navigation; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose
Last Line: All harmonics sound
Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Truth is a native
Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake
Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39)


TUNA, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Icy with sea-surge, only three
Last Line: Body into blue-black mystery
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Navigation; Sea


WE BE THREE POOR MARINERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And he that is a bully boy / come pledge me on the ground
Subject(s): Navigation;sea; Ocean