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Subject: TENTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOY'S TENT, by MALLEVILLE HALLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Slowly and steadily, yellow, red, brown
Last Line: Given safe summer shelter to a little bronzed lad?
Subject(s): Boys; Tents


AT HIS WINTRY TENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only master of his art was he
Last Line: "old friend, good night -- for there is no good-by."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Friendship; Life; Tents; Dead, The


FAITH HEALER COME TO RABUN COUNTY, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seldom is that tent full, but tonight he expects the local radio
Last Line: O sisters come to the altar, lay your hands on the radio.
Subject(s): Healing; Revivals; Tents; Cures; Religious Revivals


INITIATION, by LAURENT TAILHEDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At saint mande. Amid the merry-makers
Last Line: "said, ""you may touch it, sir; it will not bite."
Subject(s): Merchants; Prostitution; Tents; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


LITTLE GREEN TENTS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little green tents where the soldiers sleep
Last Line: When they went to the war away.
Subject(s): Tents; War


OMAR, THE TENTMAKER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis omar, the tentmaker
Last Line: Thy tent while guest with me.
Subject(s): Tents


SILKEN TENT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is as in a field a silken tent
Last Line: In the capriciousness of summer air %is of the slightest bondage made aware
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Tents


TENT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How cool a tent!
Last Line: And what is in that box
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Tents


THE CHARCOAL PAN, by H. HEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though huts like ours were rather scarce
Last Line: Whose names were scarcely known.
Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Fire; Tents; Dead, The; Relatives


THE SCHEIK OF SINAI IN 1830, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift me without the tent, I say
Last Line: That which I thought to see.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand
Subject(s): Moors (people); Tents; War


THE SILKEN TENT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is as in a field a silken tent
Last Line: Is of the slightest bondage made aware
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Tents


THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more
Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque.
Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps


THE TENT, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should a man raise stone and wood
Last Line: The homeless ocean-foam!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Tents


THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes
Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness


THINKING OF TENTS, by REED WHITTEMORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am thinking of tents and tentage, tents through the ages
Last Line: World's end - %sullen achilles
Subject(s): Tents