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Subject: ARKANSAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOST OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river creeps through arid lands
Last Line: "tain't just what I want, but they'll keep it neat."
Subject(s): Arkansas; Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


ARKANSAS TOWNS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Acorn %back gate %bald knob
Last Line: Urbanette %whisp %yellville %zent
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Arkansas


CONFEDERATE GRAVES IN LITTLE ROCK, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far from these stones, in my country wind shouts
Last Line: Your car, whatever speed you drive
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Little Rock, Arkansas


HILLS OF HOME, by CHARLES T. DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: After long days when I come
Last Line: Gold and jade—the hills of home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T.
Subject(s): Arkansas; Home; Landscape


MY ARKANSAS, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is deep brooding
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Arkansas


SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones
Last Line: I'm just going to school.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts;


STATE OF ARKANSAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is stanford barnes, I come from nobleville town
Last Line: He was the photograph of all the gents who live in arkansas
Subject(s): Arkansas


THE ARKANSAS PRISON SYSTEM, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is like a lyric poem
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Arkansas; Convicts


TRAIN RIDE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things come to an end; / small calves in arkansas
Last Line: No, they go on forever.
Subject(s): Arkansas; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas
Subject(s): Arkansas; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos


VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas
Last Line: Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos %there is no music now in all arkansas
Subject(s): Arkansas; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos