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Subject: ORDER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods
Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods


B'NAI B'RITH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Adown the vista of the long ago
Last Line: And with its bloom and fragrance fill the earth!
Variant Title(s): I.o.b.b. Poem: 57th Anniversary
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; B'nai Brith; Judaism


B'NAI BRITH, by ROSALIE IDA BLUN STRAUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pause, o ye winds of heaven, pause in your
Last Line: Light! Light! For the night-wrapt world—yea, spread it to the poles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Straus, Mrs. Isidor
Subject(s): Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; B'nai Brith; Judaism


CANTICA: OUR LORD CHRIST: OF ORDER, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Set love in order, thou that lovest me
Last Line: Even this love's heat must be its curb and rein.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Order


CANTICA: OUR LORD CHRIST: OF ORDER, by JACOPONE DA TODI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Set love in order, thou that lovest me
Last Line: Even this love's heat must be its curb and rein.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo
Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Jesus Christ; Order


CHRISTIAN ETHICS: AS IN A CLOCK, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As in a clock, 'tis hinder'd-force doth bring
Last Line: In its relation deep and exquisite.
Subject(s): Order


DOMINION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Patrician overthrown
Last Line: Except the lyric seers.
Subject(s): Earth; Government; Injustice; Order; World


FROM A MOTOR IN MAY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves of autumn and the buds of spring
Last Line: The leaves of autumn guard the buds of spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; May (month); Nature; Order; Seasons; Spring; Fall


FROM HERE TO THERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything needs readiness
Last Line: To shine.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Order


I.O.B.B. POEM: 47TH ANNIVERSARY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The perfume of numberless roses
Last Line: Of brotherly friendship and love.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; Love; Poetry & Poets; B'nai Brith; Judaism


IDEA OF ORDER, by JEFF MOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the woods rose thick and lush in summer
Last Line: We cannot question either, for through law, %through faith, everything becomes possible
Subject(s): Order


IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea
Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds
Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing And Singers


NOVEMBER 23, 1989; AFTER BLAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two rising flukes of green water
Last Line: Must bear away the most meat.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Nature - Religious Aspects; Order; Sea; Ocean


ORDER, by PATRICIA WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never knew how much you suffered, but at your funeral I read from
Last Line: Told me, 'just like that chair over there.'
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Order


ORDERING, by JOHN CALVIN REZMERSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am in the all-night restaurant again, sitting in a booth, just me
Last Line: Are all regulars
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Order; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses


ORDERING, by STEVE WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the clockmaker's faith in reality
Last Line: Of passwords. Of the imagination. Open
Subject(s): Order


PATTERNS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you lay a pattern on life and say, thus shall ye live?
Last Line: For the only sin is death, and the only virtue to be altogether alive and your own authentic self.
Subject(s): Death; Growth; Life; Order; Self; Sin; Dead, The


PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA: EINSTEIN'S EXILE IN AN OLD DUTCH WINTER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My theory withstood the light of the hyades
Last Line: The rose of all roses!
Subject(s): Descartes, Rene (1596-1650); Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Imagination; Mathematics; Order; Fancy


RELIGIO NOVISSIMA, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an order by a northern sea
Last Line: And undispensed sustain its discipline!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Discipline; Law & Lawyers; Order; Prisons & Prisoners; Attorneys; Convicts


THE GREAT DIGEST OF CONFUCIUS, by EZRA POUND    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great learning (adult study, grinding corn in the head's mortatr to fit it
Last Line: "happen. ""take not cliff for morass and treacherous bramble."
Subject(s): Confucius And Confucianism; Discipline; Education; Order; Self-control


THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea
Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds
Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs


THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five
Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


WESTERN WIND (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Westron [western] wynde [wind], when wyll [will] thou [thow] blow
Last Line: And yn [in] my bed agayne [again]
Subject(s): Order; Travel