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Subject: OLYMPIC GAMES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACTRESSES I'VE KNOWN GROW YOUNGER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wounds, I won three olympic gold medals
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Olympic Games; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


AND THE SORROW, by MIRIAM A. COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here! Any to be my sons so a scream spears me
Last Line: What must a jew train so for not sports?
Subject(s): Jews; Olympic Games; Terrorism


BLACK WINGS, by REGINALD SINCLAIR LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: God must have cut you
Last Line: Past odin feasting on the souls of %long-dead heroes?
Subject(s): Olympic Games; Track Athletics


THE FIRST NEMEAEAN ODE OF PINDAR, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauteous ortygia, the first breathing place
Last Line: Bull, centaur, scorpion, all the radiant monsters there.
Subject(s): Olympic Games


THE GOLDEN ROAD TO BARCELONA: 1992, by MARTIN FAGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: We athletes who, with sternest discipline
Last Line: We took the golden road to barcelona.'
Subject(s): Olympic Games


THE SECOND OLYMPIQUE ODE OF PINDAR, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen of all harmonious things
Last Line: Is equally impossible.
Subject(s): Olympic Games


TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 5. TO THE SAME, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Accept of these olympian games the crown
Last Line: -- have those immortals more? --
Subject(s): Olympic Games; Victory