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Subject: PREHISTORIC PEOPLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CREATIVE URGE, by EMMA BRADFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through all the ages
Last Line: Creative urge is everlasting.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Prehistoric Peoples


IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the neolithic age savage warfare did I wage
Last Line: And -- every -- single -- one -- of -- them -- is -- right!
Subject(s): Prehistoric Peoples


ONCE THE PREHISTORIC MAN, by JAMES RAGAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Of earth's black rock, %bottomless, without breath %or voice
Subject(s): Prehistoric Peoples


PREHISTORIC SMITH; QUATERNARY EPOCH - POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man sat on a rock and sought
Last Line: And wagged his tail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg
Subject(s): Evolution; Prehistoric Peoples; Tails


THE FIRST STORY, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid seaweed on a sultry strand, ten thousand years ago
Last Line: So he wrote the first of stories with his little fingernail.
Subject(s): Babies; Octopuses; Prehistoric Peoples; Writing & Writers; Infants


THE INVENTION OF FILM, by MATTHEA HARVEY            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Prehistoric Peoples


THE INVENTION OF LOVE, by MATTHEA HARVEY            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cace woman and the cave man lie side by side
Subject(s): Love; Prehistoric Peoples


THE PHANTOM COASTERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coasters of the past are back
Last Line: And troy town's wreck behind them lies.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prehistoric Peoples; Skeletons; Dead, The; Paradise


TO PALEOLITHIC MAN (RESTORED IN A MUSEUM), by FANNY HODGES NEWMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My father! Lo, thy hundred thousand years
Last Line: To leave thee standing naked, nameless, here?
Subject(s): Museums; Paleontology; Prehistoric Peoples; Art Gallerys