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Subject: PREHISTORIC ANTIQUITIES
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRE-RAPHAELITE NOTEBOOK, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Time


FOR LOREN EISELEY, by PHILA WITHERELL ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You prowled the house at an hour when even cricket song is stilled
Last Line: Skulls of ancient hunters lay %with bones of prehistoric prey
Subject(s): Eiseley, Loren (1907-1977); Prehistoric Antiquities


FROM AN EXCAVATION ON THE WARRIOR RIVER, by ESTHER BARRETT ARGO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten-seventeen, the numbered label read
Last Line: Stared up again at alabama skies.
Subject(s): Archeology; Mothers; Prehistoric Antiquities


GREENVILLE TREES: THE CHINA-BERRIES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of years ago
Last Line: Yet then too we are beautiful!
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Trees


PREHISTORY, by CHRISTOPHER J. BERMUDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing beneath the skeleton
Last Line: Leaving nothing but fossils %to bear witness
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities


PREHISTORY, by RICHARD PEVEAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Baked like a shepherd's pie, full of flowers
Last Line: Of tablets, the bankbook of the deadly kings
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities


PREHISTORY, by CRISTINA PERI ROSSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since prehistory
Last Line: Is difficult to dismantle %like the vertebrae %of a calcinated %mythological animal
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities