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Subject: THOMAS, DYLAN (1914-1953)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A THOUSANDTH POEM FOR DYLAN THOMAS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking outside his babylonian binge
Last Line: The chlorophyllous dough of the vast ravens of the future
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


BODIES YOU BROKE, by LENORE BAELI WANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oats we've rolled and bread you broke
Last Line: Or bite us now, your teeth will crack
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights


CAITLIN TO DYLAN: IN MEMORIAM, by MARGARET ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Last Line: How at my sheet went the same crooked worm
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights


CHRISTOPHER ROBIN CHANGES GUARD WITH DYLAN THOMAS, by BILL GREENWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was my fifth year to heaven
Last Line: Until time grips my wrist to wheel us back to a bleating tea
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


CONTEMPT FOR DYLAN THOMAS, by WILFRED WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sir thomas, stark green until he crept acurl
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


DO NOT GO SOBER INTO THAT DIM LIGHT, by ROGER WODDIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rage, rage against the crabby, abbey site
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


DOUBTING THOMAS, by VERNA SAFRAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mopping up his ordinary puke
Last Line: When deft those dragon words %pluck our secret lyre
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights


DYLAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of us had to make the official identification of dylan's body
Last Line: Dylan thomas - a poet (he wrote poems)
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


DYLAN THOMAS, by EUROS BOWEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had harvested the poem's familiar tips
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


DYLAN, WE WERE LIKE THOSE FLIMSY MOONS, by JUNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two moons there are, one laked, one skied
Last Line: Which imperfections yours, which neither's
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights


ELEGY FOR DYLAN THOMAS, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black venus of the dead, what sun of night
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


FOR DYLAN THOMAS ON THE DAY OF HIS DEATH, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Do not go gentle into that good night
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


IN MEMORIAM DYLAN THOMAS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I rejoiced when from wales once again
Last Line: The fff-putt of a triple-feathered arrow %which looks as if it had never moved
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Arrows; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


LIGHT SNOW, by DAVID POLLOCK YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light breaks, the welshman said
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


ON LEARNING THAT DYLAN THOMAS AND WILLIAM STAFFORD WERE BORN SAME YEAR, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The force that through the green fuse
Last Line: A rich yera breathed twice on us, and we were free
Subject(s): Stafford, William Edgar (1914-1993); Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


ST. LUKES, SERVICE FOR THOMAS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white horse innkeeper
Last Line: And strode back to his inn
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


THERE IS NO PARADISE; FOR DYLAN THOMAS, by ANDRE FRENAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cannot hear the music of existence
Last Line: What matters after the poor murmur of the poem %is nothingn ess - not paradise
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


THOU SHALT NOT KILL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are murdering all the young men
Subject(s): Death; Murder; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Dead, The


THOU SHALT NOT KILL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are murdering all the young men
Last Line: In your god damned brooks brothers suit, %you son of a bitch'
Subject(s): Death; Murder; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


THOUSANDTH POEM FOR DYLAN THOMAS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking outside his babylonian binge
Last Line: Our addict, and our angel of defeat
Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)


WRITER AT WORK, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On opening night of his play under milk wood
Last Line: Sill for the fishwife gulls in donkey street
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)