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Subject: TRADITION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BELINDA, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the white gravelled path belinda goes
Last Line: Hiding her subtleties beneath the rose,
Subject(s): Tradition; Women


BURIAL RITES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did anyone ever believe that the dead woman
Last Line: Without expectation. They did them in despair.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Despair; Graves; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many other codices
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many other codices
Last Line: And I studied %I could read him like an open book
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition


DISCOVERY OF TRADITION, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can tell you about this, sure enough %and I'll do the best job I can
Last Line: (and is going on all the time:) say %the rhythm of tradition) goodbye
Subject(s): Tradition


JEWS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pride and humiliation hand in hand
Last Line: They saw reflected in the coming time
Subject(s): Jews;memory;tradition; Judaism


MAHARAJA OF PATIALA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The palace opened sesame
Last Line: Of khaki on my tongue: I said %my children
Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage - Forced; Tradition


NEWPORT, by ALICE DUER MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On these brown rocks the waves dissolve in a spray
Last Line: "to win religious liberty for these?"
Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Sacrifices; Tradition


OLD SARUM; LINES ON THE CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH AT SALISBURY, by ALICE COLBURN BEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old sarum sleeps
Last Line: And mostly we take tea.
Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Superficiality; Tradition; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology


PHI BETA KAPPA POEM; HARVARD, 1914, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve
Last Line: The sunrise kindling all the peaks with fire.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Duty; Harvard University; Idealism; New England; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity


PROCESSION, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A ragged block of rockets breaks up
Last Line: In the humble sincerity of a craftsman
Subject(s): Religion; Tradition; Worship


PROVINCIA, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six o'clock. The cathedral blesses
Last Line: Save you from total softening of the brain
Subject(s): Country Life; Peru; Tradition; Travel


REMEMBRANCE, by ELIZABETH M. COOPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give rosemary for remembrance
Last Line: The memory of a smile.
Subject(s): Memory; Superstition; Tradition


SOME PLACES OUT WEST, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They celebrate the testicle
Last Line: And the heavy weight of their delight
Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; Tradition; West (u.s.)


SUNDAY SUPPER, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something the preacher said
Last Line: This is the body
Subject(s): Death; Tradition


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: IMR EL KAIS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep, ah weep love's losing, love's with its dwelling-place
Last Line: Cumbered the hollow places, drowned in the night-trouble.
Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Love; Poetry & Poets; Tradition


THE MESSAGE OF SETH; AN ORIENTAL TRADITION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prostrate upon his couch of yellow leaves
Last Line: In hope matured to faith, the first man fell asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Faith; Messengers; Tradition; Belief; Creed


THE YELLOW BADGE, by RUTH SCHECHTER ALEXANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hundreds of years agone, my brothers
Last Line: Of the people god called his crown.
Subject(s): History; Jews; Tradition; Historians; Judaism


TRADITION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A poem about tradition could easily be
Last Line: Made eminent in a reflected seeming-so
Subject(s): Tradition


TRADITIONAL, by MANYA COULENTIANOS BEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's there %embedded in us
Last Line: Stubborn, repetitive, %persistent as stone or survival
Subject(s): Tradition


TRADITIONS, by RAMON DE CAMPOAMOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I marked a cross upon a lonely spot
Last Line: A robber here was by a soldier slain'
Subject(s): Tradition


YOUNG ENGLAND - WHAT IS THEN BECOME OF OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let babes and sucklings be thy oracles
Subject(s): England; Tradition