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Subject: WILLIAMS, ROGER (1604-1683)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CANONICUS AND ROGER WILLIAMS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Content within his wigwam warm
Last Line: "yea, and his own soul did he save / from burning in hell-fire"
Subject(s): "canonicus (american Indian Leader);providence, Rhode Island;williams, Roger (1604-1683);


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 1. SALUTATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are of two sorts and come immediatley before the body. The pro
Last Line: So slow otherwise %so close
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 10. OF THE SEASON OF THE YEERE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have thirteen moneths and are content to settle for
Last Line: Membranes %undercuts the alibi
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 11. OF TRAVELL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: What paths their swift of foot have cut in history and philosophy
Last Line: Inside and add %it up to zero
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 12. CONCERNING THE HEAVENS AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which they adore, above acknowledging colonization. The stellar
Last Line: Take territory %from imperative
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 13. OF THE WEATHER, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: It may bee wondred why, new england being 12 neerer to
Last Line: Big masculine history %on tap
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 14. OF THE WINDS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Accounts for eight cardinalls flying out of context though
Last Line: Tongue tied %into another language
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 15. OF FOWLE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Auchaui. Gone afowling. The crows eat up the sky, and
Last Line: Of certain planets %totally opaque
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 16. OF THE EARTH AND FRUITS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are exact and punctual in the bounds of property and
Last Line: All terms are %physical
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 17. OF BEASTS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Netasuog. Cattell. Is the name the indians give tame beasts
Last Line: Though without clear %direction into prey
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 18. OF THE SEA, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: A site of passage, of dreadful to move on, of depth between
Last Line: Beyond displacement %in exchange
Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Sea; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 19. OF FISH AND FISHING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rising from sleep teeming with cold, bass, mackerel, salmon
Last Line: As equal opportunity
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 2. OF EATING AND ENTERTAINMENT, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Indian corne, boiled with free will and predestination is a
Last Line: All flesh considered %as a value
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 20. OF THEIR NAKEDNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have a two-fold nakednesse they scan for traces of the
Last Line: It's for the birds to flock %a semblance %of together
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 21. OF RELIGION, THE SOULE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They won't deny englishman's god made english men, but
Last Line: With curtains drawn %to higher aspirations
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 22. OF THEIR GOVERNMENT AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caunounicus, the elder sachim, far removed from probability
Last Line: The elements lie %evenly in periods
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 23. OF MARRIAGE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flesh, considered as cognitive region, as opposed to undifferentiated
Last Line: Through periods of waxing and weaning
Subject(s): Language; Marriage; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 24. CONCERNING THEIR COYNE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Indians are ignorant of europe's coyne yet call it moneash
Last Line: Does not differ
Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 25. OF BUYING AND SELLING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amongst themselves they trade great plains of experience
Last Line: Cosaumawem. You aske too much
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 26. OF DEBTS AND TRUSTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are desirous to come into debt and have bequeathed
Last Line: Of keeping warm not infinite
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 27. OF THEIR HUNTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: First they pursue their game in grammatical components when they drive the wood
Last Line: And home, time and %the western world
Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 28. OF THEIR GAMING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their public games, whether cards (rushes), dice or football
Last Line: A necessary part %of the material world
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 29. OF THEIR WARRE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surplus valor comes as messenger and heaves ambush. Shottash
Last Line: My self the self of others
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 3. CONCERNING SLEEPE AND LODGING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They will sleepe without the doores, above sea-level, with
Last Line: An empty %promise %lodged against me
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 30. OF THEIR PAINTINGS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1. They paint their garments
Last Line: Refinanced memory %washes white
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 31. OF SICKNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The indians' misery appeares they have no physick other
Last Line: By fatigue %at this point %of the instep
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 32. OF DEATH AND BURIALL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: He that hath death in his house blackes his face. Soot clotted
Last Line: Be understood forward %or backward
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 4. OF THEIR NUMBERS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Without the help of wall street, how quick they are in
Last Line: Could come apart %and tell %their seeds
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 5. OF THEIR RELATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hold it red and wear it on their skin, a bond prey to
Last Line: To make it safe to have a self
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 6. OF THE FAMILY AND BUSINESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sloemne word, family, that no one trained to explore celestial
Last Line: Their gums their genes their lovingly
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 7. OF THEIR PERSONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great bunch of hayre raked from darkness, yet as organized
Last Line: Like fog in anywhere
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 8. OF DISCOURSE AND NEWES, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tiding on condition, a corresponding sign to sound which our
Last Line: Matter how %he can't forget
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 9. OF THE TIME OF THE DAY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: How high the sun
Last Line: The frame around the body
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Time; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


ROGER WILLIAMS, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do I sleep amid the snows
Last Line: And so the pine boughs cover me.
Subject(s): Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Williams, Roger (1604-1683); Religious Conflict


ROGER WILLIAMS, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen to his rich words, intoned
Last Line: In liberty and law.
Subject(s): Providence, Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)