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Subject: RESORTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMID THE COLORADO MOUNTAINS, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: High black mountain peaks conspire
Last Line: The soft glow of such hours
Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash
Subject(s): Denver, Colorado; Health Resorts


CLOE TO CLARA; A SARATOGA LETTER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear clara - I wish you were here
Last Line: Cloe.
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Saratoga, New York; Spas


DEATH IN LEAMINGTON, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She died in the upstairs bedroom
Subject(s): Death; Health Resorts; Dead, The; Spas


DEATH IN LEAMINGTON, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She died in the upstairs bedroom
Last Line: And tiptoeing gently over the stairs %turned down the gas in the hall
Subject(s): Death; Health Resorts


EAST ANGLIAN BATHE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh when the early morning at the seaside
Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Resorts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


EAST ANGLIAN BATHE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh when the early morning at the seaside
Last Line: The wood smoke and the breakfast and the frying, %and your warm freshwater ripples, horsey mere
Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Resorts; Seashore


FACING THE BATHS OF CARACALLA, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull between the aventine and the caelian
Last Line: Through capena down to the appian way she %spreads her strong torso
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Landscape


LUCASTA TAKING THE WATERS AT TUNBRIDGE, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye happy floods! That now must pass
Last Line: Of virtue, honour, love and bliss.
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Tunbridge Wells, England; Spas


MY BATH, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Come here, good people great and small
Last Line: You'll come forth like a flower that blooms 'neath freshening showers in may!
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Health Resorts; Showers & Showering; Spas


POEM ON THE MINERAL WATERS OF BALLSTON AND SARATOGA, SELS., by REUBEN SEARS                       
Subject(s): Geology; Health Resorts


SANATORIAM, by H. LEYVIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gate, open
Last Line: On your fiery floor %of snow
Subject(s): Health Resorts


SARATOGA ENDING, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Iron, sulphur, steam: the wastes / of all resorts like this
Subject(s): Resorts


SARATOGA ENDING, by WELDON KEES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Iron, sulphur, steam: the wastes %of all resorts like this
Subject(s): Resorts


SICKNESS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we were never stretched in bed, with sickness
Last Line: "neighbors are!"
Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Health Resorts; Sickness; Spas; Illness


SONG OF SARATOGA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray, what do they do at the springs?
Last Line: And that's what they do at the springs!
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Saratoga, New York; Spas


SPINOZA CYCLE: 2, by H. LEYVIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did he get into this sickroom
Last Line: Wake up. Rise up. Recognize me
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677)


STONE MILK, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A backward may, with all the local finches of the fex tal piping in dialect
Subject(s): Graubunder, Switzerland; Resorts; Landscape; Aging


THE BEAUTY OF BALLSTON, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In ballston - once a famous spot
Last Line: A constant rival in my larder!
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-1839); Spas


TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line
Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


VILLAGE SPA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By scribbled names on walls, by telephone number
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Spas


VILLAGE SPA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By scribbled names on walls, by telephone number
Last Line: A juke-box god, enshrined and well at home, %dreadful with neon, shuddering with chrome
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Health Resorts


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': GOLD DUST SPRING, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: You drink each day from gold dust spring
Last Line: Feathered ensigns go to jade emperor's court
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Health Resorts