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Subject: YANGZI RIVER, CHINA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOVE THE RIVER, HEAVY ON THE HEART, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the river, heavy on the heart, thousandfold hills
Last Line: My hill friends will soon be sending poems to call me home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Variant Title(s): Above The River, Heavy On The Heart (1088)
Subject(s): Heaven; Mountains; Paintings And Painters; Yangzi River, China; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALARM AT FIRST ENTERING THE YANG-TZE GORGES, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above, a mountain ten thousand feet high
Last Line: Will be laid at last in an un-named grave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fear; Yangzi River, China


AT THE YANGZI AND HAN, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: They roll on and on, rippling and surging
Last Line: The fishing boat on its way home
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Han River, China; Yangzi River, China


TRAVELING ON THE YANGZI: 1, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great yangzi curves and embraces wuchang
Last Line: I dream that I am a butterfly still seeking flowers
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Yangzi River, China


TRAVELING ON THE YANGZI: 2, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Misty flowers have already entered cormorant bay
Last Line: This morning startled to find myself at han river's mouth
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Han River, China; Yangzi River, China