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Subject: AMISH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMISH, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The amish are a surly sect
Last Line: The licensed fools who travel far %to gaze upon these simple folk
Subject(s): Amish


AMISH ADOLESCENT, by ANNE-RUTH EDIGER BAEHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stands by the corral
Subject(s): Amish; Teenagers


AMISH BARNS, by WILLIAM R. MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They burn at night
Last Line: The open road, a flash %of flying steel
Subject(s): Amish


AMISH OKTOBERFEST, by MICHAEL CAREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus, it was hot
Last Line: And soon after, as a joke, %she did
Subject(s): Amish


BLUEPRINTS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a long way off I can see the cross-
Last Line: Be the planner's. This one touched my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Amish; Farm Life; Memory; Mennonites; Agriculture; Farmers


MENNONITE HILLS IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA, by LEONARD KRESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fat sheep drift across the ridge
Last Line: Open up in front of you, %as close in right behind
Subject(s): Amish; Religion


MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts; Mennonites


MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance
Last Line: That we lift, as chaff lifts, toward god
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles


SOLSTICE BAY, by ROBIN BECKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Equidistant from origins and destinations, I balanced like the sun on the
Last Line: Something of it-anything-again and again
Subject(s): Amish


THE AMISH, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The amish are a surly sect
Last Line: To gaze upon these simple folk
Subject(s): Amish; Mennonites


WHY WE FEAR THE AMISH, by ROBIN BECKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because they are secretly jewish and eat matzoh on saturday
Last Line: By their pure walk and practice do they eye us from their carts
Subject(s): Amish