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Subject: TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
Matches Found: 10

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GOOD DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A certain gentleman, whose yellow cheek
Last Line: "how! -- why you'll see blue pillars at the door."
Subject(s): Sickness; Travel Directions; Illness


A PLAIN DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In london once I lost my way
Last Line: And all round the square.
Subject(s): London; Travel Directions


CROSS-ROADS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain beat in our faces
Last Line: To what we each loved best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Rain; Travel Directions


GRIN AND BEAR LEFT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't want to be classed among the pedantics
Last Line: Dinner cold is on a ridge, a ledge, a knoll, a rise, or a hill
Subject(s): Travel Directions


HIGHWAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems too enormous just for a man to be
Last Line: Than to places you can reach by going on
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Roads; Travel Directions


HOW I GET HOME TONIGHT, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I turn north on 1, past my dad's old place, the land
Last Line: In that welcome, who could possibly be there
Subject(s): North, The; Travel Directions


HOW TO READ A MAP, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The maps expose %seven continents, travel
Last Line: Elegant as cryptograms, %falling and unafraid
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Maps; Travel; Travel Directions; Villages


IN THE NORTHERN TOWNS, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are familiar with absences
Last Line: Country in the park
Subject(s): North, The; Towns; Travel Directions


SATAN'S HIGHWAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With satan joyously leading the way
Last Line: They follow the road to his old home town.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Roads; Towns; Travel; Travel Directions; Walking; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


TAKING THE OLD ROAD, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday we fell for it again
Last Line: Windows in all the lonely farmhouses
Subject(s): Farm Life; Maps; Roads; Travel Directions