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Subject: PAPER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BRIEF, SYMBOLIC HISTORY OF THE TWO OPPOSED FORCES AT DAILY WORK IN THE UNIVERSE, WITH INTERIM SCEN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Later, in europe, paper mills
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Paper; Writing & Writers; Printing & Printers; Shoah


COMPRESSION, by MARTHA LARSON O'CONNOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paper doll folds herself over head to toe
Last Line: Or the broom to sweep up, away %disappearing her forever
Subject(s): Dolls; Paper; Toys


DESCENT INTO THE HOURS OF THE PEREGRINE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wet umbrella is open in the tub. It's midnight
Last Line: Streaming from the corners of its mouth.
Subject(s): Animals; Aviation & Aviators; Cats; Children; Night; Paper; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Childhood; Bedtime


DOCUMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wait in the house for the arrival of an important person. I pace
Last Line: It's worthless. You're on your own. You always were
Subject(s): Insurance And Insurance Agents; Paper


FOR THE LOVE OF GERALD FINZI: ON PAPER, by MARY LEADER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paper, smooth, and cream, as %the longest oldest petals of the spider
Last Line: Mum I glide along my lips...Not despairing till made-up 'julie' asks: %'does that count?'
Subject(s): Imagination; Paper


FOR THE LOVE OF GERALD FINZI: PAPER, by MARY LEADER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The novel that isn't getting written
Last Line: The bed where you don't lay yourself down. %and then you do
Subject(s): Paper


I REMEMBER GALILEO, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember galileo describing the mind
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Squirrels; Paper; Galileo Galilei


I SURELY UNDERSTAND PAPER AND HOW POETS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So lightly dismisses him with hers
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Paper; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers


IN THE ORIGINAL FIELDS, by SABRINA MARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where I fold and unfold my left arm into november my hair into my sisters
Last Line: It is lonely in a place that can burn so fast
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paper


LETTER, POSSIBILITY, by MICHELE BOWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Copper %today the forecast came by mail
Last Line: When I reach the station I tear %a page from it %I make it yours
Subject(s): Letters; Paper; Postal Service


LOVE'S INSPIRATION, by TRISTAN LECLERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit at the rosewood table
Last Line: And swiftly from my pen the pages darken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Paper; Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Songs


MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 2. RESTORATION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of my heart, when you pick up my paper
Last Line: Put it together again!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Paper


PAPER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some wit of old - such wits of old there were
Last Line: Of all the kinds most precious, purest, best.
Variant Title(s): Metaphorical Papers
Subject(s): Paper


PAPER CARP, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: To-day they drink the wind, the paper carp
Last Line: And that of our wounded son. The gods are good.
Subject(s): Aging; Paper


PAPERMAKING RECIPE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When making the paper, never talk, good paper is made
Last Line: When they reach the clouds the paper is done
Subject(s): Paper


PARCHMENT, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everywhere, it is summer
Last Line: Scorched clean again
Subject(s): Paper


ROBERT BURNS AND MISTER PIERPONT MORGAN, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, heard ye, brither scots, the 'clash'
Last Line: Where his lone heart is sleeping!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Manuscripts; Morgan, John Pierpont (1837-1913); Paper; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers


SCHEHERAZADE, by CALVIN WILLLIAM TRUESDALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The translations at least survived, and the published travel essays, gor
Last Line: He had ever really come into what he was meant to be
Subject(s): Books; Essays; Paper; Publishing; Writing And Writers


SONNET TO SHAKESPEARE, by SARA ALICE HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall not read you yet (some say I should)
Last Line: I'll read you when I am mature and wise.
Subject(s): Paper


SOUS LE FAIX DU FAGOT, by ANDREW SCHENKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I threw a zeugma %in my poem, like la fontaine
Last Line: Dead land or chopping down trees, living
Subject(s): Forests; Paper; Wood


THE PAPER KITE, SELS, by SAMUEL BOWDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The kite, completed thus, is borne along / by some blest leaders
Last Line: With her alike concludes th' advent'rous flight.
Subject(s): Air; Kites; Paper; Sailing & Sailors; Sky; Seamen; Sails


TO A TREE MADE INTO PAPER, by ROBERT SPARKS WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw you when you reached the paper mill
Last Line: To scan your bark for black-shelled beetle-words.
Subject(s): Paper; Trees


TO THE EARL OF OXFORD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pen, ink, and wax, and paper send
Last Line: Thoughts which angels may approve.
Subject(s): Inkstands; Letters; Love; Paper; Peace; Pens & Pencils


WHEN THE GREAT CHINESE PAPERMAKERS CAME TO CUBA, GREAT POETS FOLLOWED, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because of the great stillness, a silence so deep it made the pink carp
Last Line: Surfaces, this heavenly paperupon which to write a firest, lasting word
Subject(s): China; Cuba; Paper; Poetry & Poets