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Subject: OBELISKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLEOPATRA AND CHARMIAN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm dying, yes, charmian, dying
Last Line: And lock up the back kitchen door.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Death; Dead, The


ODALISQUE ON THE OBELISK, by JOHN GALLAHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: And I was thinking crazy that's what I was thinking
Last Line: We can never be -) %and easing back
Subject(s): Obelisks


REFLECTIONS ON CLEOPATHERA'S NEEDLE [OR, PADDYS' REFLECTIONS], by CORMAC O'LEARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: So that's cleopathera's needle, bedad
Last Line: An' a poor little asp did yer bizzness at last!
Subject(s): Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks)


THE OBELISK, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the river side
Last Line: With hope and fear.
Subject(s): Obelisks


TIBER, NILE, AND THAMES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The head and hands of murdered cicero
Last Line: Breadless, with poison froze the god-fired breath?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); London; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


TO THE OBELISK DURING THE GREAT FROST, 1881, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sign post of the desert! Obelisk
Last Line: Is this the sun which fired thine orient day?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Obelisks