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Subject: NEBRASKA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUFFALO, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are the earth we have forgotten
Last Line: Of bones, and in the chalky cliffs of the skulls
Subject(s): Animals; Buffaloes; Nebraska


CAPITOL HILL: OMAHA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High on capitol hill
Last Line: And lost him
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; High School Students; Nebraska


GIRL IN VALENTINE, NEBRASKA, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The x-ray map of my foot lit up
Last Line: By all her other lives and deaths
Subject(s): Memory; Nebraska; Travel


LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs
Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips


LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs
Last Line: Reckon on the sagging corn-fed flanks
Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel


MACON PRAIRIE (NEBRASKA), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She held me for a night against her bosom
Last Line: The leadership of kin, and happy ending %on the red rolling land of macon prairie
Subject(s): Nebraska; Prairies


NEBRASKA, by JON SWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There, there is no mountain within miles
Last Line: This was the bed of forgotten seas; this wheat is blossoming
Subject(s): Nebraska


POSTCARD, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days are cubes of light
Last Line: Some days I go looking for the sky
Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Nebraska; Sky; Agriculture; Farmers


SO THIS IS NEBRASKA, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gravel road rides with a slow gallop
Subject(s): Nebraska


SPRING'S NEBRASKA, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring's nebraska / is no eyelet damsel but a bawd
Last Line: Prisms through the air.
Subject(s): Nebraska; Spring


SWEDISH MOTHER (NEBRASKA), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You shall hear the tale again
Last Line: In the sunset grazing
Subject(s): Mothers; Nebraska


THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONSIDERED, SELECTION, by ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The covetous nebraskaites
Last Line: For god's predictions must prevail.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Legislation; Missouri; Nebraska; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs