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Subject: SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 7 A.M. - LATE NOVEMBER, by BEN L. HIATT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ALL DAY, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ANCIENT CONVOLUTIONS, by ELAINE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Volcanic steepness
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising
Last Line: Against the wolf in men's hearts?
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising
Last Line: To make you bitter music; how else will you take bonds of the %future, against the wolf in men's hea
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AT SUNRISE ALONG THE AMERICAN RIVER, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vermilion %the road-cuts hold eyes
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AT THE PEAK OF BRIGHT SLEEP, by DIANE P. LANDO    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AUTUMN CROCUS, by HELEN Y. LUKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knew that I would miss you on these steps
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


AUTUMN SUNSET ON THE SIERRA NEVADAS, by DOROTHY BOARDMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the autumn view
Last Line: Over all the landscape valley.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Fall


BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tops of the higher peaks
Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains


BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tops of the higher peaks
Last Line: This flower to its hidden senses
Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains


CARP, by M. ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ukranian fisherman
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


CICADAS, by ARTHUR KUSHNER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains


CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras
Last Line: Many men, along time, comrade
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains


CYCLISTS, by JOHN CHRISTOPHER PINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bent low over the handlebars
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


DEAD IN THE SIERRAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His footprints have failed us
Last Line: And iron is rust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


DECAYING, by JEAN PAPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am like the fruit
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


DECOMPOSTION, by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beast lay
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


EVOLUTION OF SAND, by JEAN PAPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's something about the way
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


FIREWOOD (FOR STEVE SANFIELD), by DOC DACHTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stacked each other
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


FIRST FLIGHT, by JANET CARNCROSS CHANDLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft thud, startled screech
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


FROM THE QUIET STREAM, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


FULL MOON BRIMMING, by JEFF JONES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


GENERAL DELIVERY, by BEN L. HIATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the same at all these small
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


HOME!, by LU CICADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: April again hotly pursuing march
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


I WOULD LIKE, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


IN 1841 WASHOE CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1844, explorers john fremont and kit carson discovered lake tahoe
Last Line: Found what was not lost
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Explorers; Native Americans


IN THE SUN HERE, by SHELLY A. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


LAST GIFT, by LU CICADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To fall away finally
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


LAST WILL & TESTAMENT NO. 1, by ROBYN MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When death comes over me
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MARKING TIME, by TRENT BUSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the bright hilltop
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MICRO / MACRO, by STEVE LAVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The quail go hyperspace
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold'
Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold'
Last Line: On an old trail %all of a summer's day
Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines And Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains


MINING THE AMERICAN, by JON OLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up on the north fork
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


MOTHER LODE SPRING, by NAN TOWNSEND DEGELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was snow curled in the lettuce
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


NIGHT, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


NIGHT THOUGHTS, SIERRA, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Air of thin blue shadow. My campfire shivers
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


NOT SO LONG GONE (FOR THE MAIDU), by DOC DACHTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down by the windmill
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


OCTOBER: SIERRA, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air is blue enough to scratch
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ODE TO A NUCLEAR FRIEZE, by NAN TOWNSEND DEGELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a last late sunday in october
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ON A YANKEE HILL MORNING, by STEVE LAVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Barely smoking oak embers
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ORANGE BLOSSOMS AND SIERRA NIGHT, by SAMUEL ALEXANDER WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet scent of blossoms, through the canyons wide
Last Line: I walk with still, in orange blossom scent.
Subject(s): Night; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Bedtime


OX-EYE DAISY, by LOIS BUNSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hill narrates in flower
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


POND & STREAM, by ANGELA KARSZO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You throw yourself in -
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


POWER OF SNOW, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


PREPARING FOR WINTER, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Despite the storm it's dry again
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


QUALITY OF LIFE, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A load of apples going out
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


RED HILLS '83., by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crimsonflames %swooped the rolls
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ROCK ART PRAYER, by RON PICKUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bathed icons of
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


ROCKBOUND PASS IN JANUARY, by JON OLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cutting foot holds
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SCORPION SUMMER, by TERRY M. PAULSGROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees on the november hillsides
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SIERRA GRANDE DEL NORTE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like fragments of an uncompleted world
Last Line: A line of battle-tents in everlasting snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Variant Title(s): By The Sun-down Seas;the Sierras
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SIERRA KID, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed slimgullion, morgan mine,
Subject(s): Explorers; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


SIERRA NEVADA IN MARCH, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: What an ugly month. Nothing live
Subject(s): March (month); Sierra Nevada Mountains


SIERRA SONG, by STEVE SANFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in the foothills
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SIERRA TRAIL DUST, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Orchid-like, gold mimulus cling
Last Line: With crystal dust and powdered clay.
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SKUNK, by WILL STAPLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I could cage her
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SLIGHT DROPS IN LEDGE POOLS, by JEFF JONES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SNOWFLOWER, by TAMARA DOWNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, daniel I will show you where
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SONORA FOOTHILL WINTER RAINSTORM, by DAVID KUEHNERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rain dropping heavily
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SORRY, by DOC DACHTLER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SPENDING THE WOODPILE WELL INTO JUNE, by JEAN PAPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oaks are casting off
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SPIRIT OF THE WOOD, by PAUL BAUDIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep in the silence of the forest
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SPLITTING CEDAR, by MIKE DIXON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SUNRISE OVER THE SIERRAS, by HENRY MEADE BLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mind me how one day-break long ago
Last Line: And saw jehovah in the rising flame!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Sunrise


SWEET SMELL OF CEDAR SUCKED OUT MY BREATH, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


SWIMMING, by ELAINE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swimming just below the surface
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


TAHOE, by FERNANDO ALEGRIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lake of fire open in the mountain
Last Line: You glide in like a sailboat undetected, %unloading on my dock created being
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains


TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women


TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness
Last Line: The mother she looks like stands at the counter snapping beans
Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women


THE PASS OF THE SIERRA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night above their rocky bed
Last Line: And lead in freedom's van!
Subject(s): Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Sierra Nevada Mountains; Slavery; Serfs


TO GRANDFATHER, by UNKNOWN+74    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


TO GUIDE YOU, HE IS, by DAVID KUEHNERT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall


TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless
Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men'
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring


TURN TO GO, by WILLIAM HOWARTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A million summers before los angeles came
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


WHAT'S THE MATTER,' HE SAYS, TYING ON THE, by JON OLANDER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


WHITETAIL, 2:30 A.M., by DIANE P. LANDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black doe hides
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains


YOSEMITE, by DICK HASTINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunlight %played capriciously
Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains; Yosemite Valley And National Park