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Subject: RETROSPECTION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CITIES OF GOLD, by MICHAEL BOWDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At an edge of sleep the sentences in a reporter's head begin to fracture
Last Line: Fuck you at the stars and her old man over and over
Subject(s): Cities; Retrospection; Revolutions


FLASHBACK, 1973, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the car breaks down
Last Line: Seat of that hurt %all the way downtown
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Love; Retrospection; Teenagers


GETTING TO KNOW YOU, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We slept into one another
Last Line: We were relative strangers.
Subject(s): Marriage; Retrospection; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


GOING BACK HOME, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing sadder than returning
Last Line: Steeple, and in its shade were planted people who once were chums of mine.
Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Retrospection


MY SWEET HOME IS NO LONGER MINE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And ah! When life's summer is flown-my fond home-should I
Last Line: Bright symbol of future repose,-I will ever think of thee sweet %home!
Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Memory; Retrospection; Solitude


PLAINT OF A YOUNG LAWYER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rain runs rivers down the streets, the fog is on the / sea
Last Line: A youth-renewal fountain.
Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Retrospection; Youth


PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can still remember
Last Line: Cover the couch with plastic? %return to cuba? %I can still remember you. %sitting there
Subject(s): Cuba; Memory; Mothers; Portraits; Retrospection


RETROSPECT, by MARY MOSES MUNDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I feel the blood ooze from my heart
Last Line: But now it tugs no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mundt, Mrs. Karl E.
Subject(s): Retrospection


THE SPIRIT IS TRUE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where is the old-time dartmouth, the dartmouth
Last Line: But the spirit is true in me and you though we be more spick and span.
Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Retrospection


WHAT WE HAVE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the mountain / the neighbor's dog, put out in the cold
Last Line: That I think, when looking back, was happiness.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Happiness; Poverty; Retrospection; Relatives; Joy; Delight