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Subject: PRESERVATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ENCHANTED BAMBOO ARROW, by LARRY EVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enchanted enchanted bamboo arrow
Last Line: Decaying %decaying %decaying
Subject(s): Fights; Landmark Preservation; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39)


GLORY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on
Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescued
Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music & Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001)


GLORY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on
Last Line: For rushing to the rescue %as if you'd heard yourself performing
Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescue
Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music And Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001)


PRESERVATION, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This afternoon we walked the rise
Last Line: Dark, on the featheredge of gathering
Subject(s): Preservation


PRESERVES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I found the preserves in the cellar
Last Line: Of what passes, what preserves
Subject(s): Preservation


THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide
Last Line: The song of a million years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains


TO JAMES FORBES ON HIS BRINGING ME FLOWERS FROM VAUCLUSE, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet spoils of consecrated bowers
Last Line: Nor, like my verse is born to die.
Subject(s): Flowers; Forbes, James (1749-1819); Preservation