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Subject: NIGHT CLUBS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EYES, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seen from the balcony, looking down
Last Line: Aglitter through the smoke.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Night Clubs; Striptease Dancers; Women


FROM INSTANT CHRONICLES: A LIFE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In a night-club in hiroshima
Last Line: Until which time we make our unfresh starts %and share our instant chronicles. It's your turn now
Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Night Clubs


HARLEM NIGHT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harlem %knows a song
Last Line: The stars %are where?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Night Clubs


HARLEM NIGHT CLUB, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleek black boys in a cabaret
Last Line: Tomorrow ... Is darkness. %joy today
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Night Clubs; Singing And Singers


MANHATTAN NEW YEAR, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street
Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NIGHT CLUB, by LARRY NEAL ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nighttimes' comin' %in this ol'town
Last Line: The doors are open %let the night air in %you and me baby %and all of our friends
Subject(s): Night Clubs


NIGHT CLUB, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the legshows and the brandies
Last Line: The head of god knows whom
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Night Clubs


NIGHT CLUB, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girls, brighter than wine, are clothed and naked
Last Line: Of which the mind too soon ever ceases to think
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R.
Subject(s): Night Clubs


ON 52ND STREET, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down sat bud, raised his hands
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night Clubs; Jazz; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


POOL ROOM IN THE LIONS CLUB, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sure it must be still the same
Last Line: Where the real dark can never come
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Night Clubs; Pool And Billiards


SUN AND FUN, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked into the night-club in the morning
Subject(s): Night Clubs


THE NIGHT AT THE PALAIS, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just fifteen, we had to lie to get in there
Last Line: Still and watched they fly like crazy angels
Subject(s): Night Clubs; Manchester, England; Teenagers; Dancing & Dancers; Friendship; Innocence


WHERE I LIVE, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the lip of a big black vagina
Last Line: Named black los angeles
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Los Angeles; Night Clubs; Violence


WHERE I LIVE, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the lip of a big black vagina
Last Line: She's the baddest piece of ass on the west coast %named black los angeles
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Los Angeles; Night Clubs; Violence