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Subject: PROVENCE, FRANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND OF PROVENCE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The lights extinguished, by the hearth I leant
Last Line: May be the truer life, and this the dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Nuns; Provence, France


AIX-EN-PROVENCE, by STEVEN CRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On another side of the world
Subject(s): Provence, France


AIX-EN-PROVENCE, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreamy city where I will doubtless never go
Last Line: Sauguet and, above all! Spectacle de ballets and you
Subject(s): Provence, France


AT A COUNTRY DANCE IN PROVENCE, by HAROLD MUNRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Comrades, when the air is sweet
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Provence, France


AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The children have colds and snore
Last Line: From the plane trees through the dark
Subject(s): Autumn; Provence, France


CHRISTMAS IN PROVENCE, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This age-old church, dream-stricken yesterday
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline
Subject(s): Christmas; Provence, France


COACHES OF TARASCON, by ROBERT FAGLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Travel light-the coaches, look
Last Line: Provence, a highway paved with dreams is waiting- %you and I will travel like the wind!
Subject(s): Provence, France


CYPRESSES OF PROVENCE, by FRANCES REUBELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: By broken shrine of where white roads advance
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Provence, France


DRIVING IN PROVENCE, by JOAN CONNOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can imagine going mad here
Last Line: We're far too happy for awe
Subject(s): Provence, France


GODFREY OF BOULOGNE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon hung low o'er provence vales
Last Line: Twas godfrey of boulogne.
Subject(s): Godfrey Of Bouillon (1060-1100); Provence, France


HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock
Last Line: Swimming overf the mediterranian
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance; Provence, France; Male-female Relations


IN PROVENCE, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky too hot for photographs
Last Line: Changelessness we'll know
Subject(s): Provence, France


LA LANGUE DES TROUBADOURS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Benvengut,' says a sign
Last Line: Here they are heard no more. %adieu, adieu provence
Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Provence, France


MA DAME, MA DOUCE PROVENCE, by PEIRE VIDAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: To breath the air %of fair provence
Last Line: Witless the whiles!
Subject(s): Provence, France


MA PROVENCE, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: En ma provence le ble est toujours vert
Subject(s): Provence, France


MA PROVENCE, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: En ma provence le ble est toujours vert
Last Line: She writes it out in enervating prose %'in my provence, my rose.'
Subject(s): Provence, France


NOCTURNE: IN PROVENCE, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue night, like an angel, came into the room
Last Line: A saintly soul lay bare its innocence to god.
Subject(s): Provence, France


OBSERVE THE LARK, by KATIE LOUCHHEIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hedgerows in provence, cathedrals
Subject(s): Provence, France


OLD SHEPHERD IN PROVENCE, by ROBERT FAGLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frightening, how he recalls my father
Last Line: Ripen the work of my hands upon me, father, %full and ripe as adam in the fall
Subject(s): Fathers; Provence, France; Shepherds And Shepherdesses


PROVENCAL LEGEND, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On his little grave and wild
Last Line: Play-time to that martyr child
Subject(s): Death - Children; Provence, France


PROVENCE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The olive-boughs are black,like blinding hair
Subject(s): Provence, France


PROVENCE, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The shadows are all black
Last Line: Between earth and fire
Subject(s): Provence, France


SESTINA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fair provence, the land of lute and rose
Last Line: Yet have we too known woe, and worn thy rose.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Love - Complaints; Provence, France


SINGERS OF PROVENCE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it beauty for one's head
Subject(s): Provence, France; Singing And Singers


SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning all the almond trees
Last Line: The movement of leaves and stones
Subject(s): Nature; Provence, France; Spring


THE LADY OF PROVENCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The war-note of the saracen
Last Line: She hath lived -- she hath loved -- her task is done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Courage; Provence, France; Valor; Bravery


VOYAGE EN PROVENCE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds in the gardens of avignon
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Provence, France


VOYAGE EN PROVENCE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds in the gardens of avignon
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Provence, France


WIND OF PROVENCE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind of provence, subtle wind that blows
Last Line: O wind of provence, shall I call in vain?
Subject(s): Provence, France