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Subject: ATOMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ATOM, by CLAUDE DU BEAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: A white shaft falls athwart the universe
Last Line: Falls. It is night.
Subject(s): Atoms; Light; Universe


ATOM, by THOMAS THORNELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wake not the imprisoned power that sleeps
Subject(s): Atoms; Religion


ATOMIC COURTESY, by ETHEL JACOBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: To smash the simple atom
Last Line: The atom may %return the compliment
Subject(s): Atoms


ELECTRONS, by ROBERTA BALFOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swirl and toss their lives away
Last Line: Somewhere, some time?
Subject(s): Atoms; Earth; Science; Space & Space Travel; World; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


ESSAY: THE ALIEN & BEAUTIFUL LIGHT OF WAKING, RAIN, NIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At evening / announced on flight
Last Line: Radiant radiant rain
Subject(s): Atoms; Rain; Science; Scientists


I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE', by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having planted our little northern spy at the wrong season
Last Line: This song is a wave forever rolling among the stars
Subject(s): Atoms


NUCLEAR FISSION, by DOYLE HENNESSY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A yea and a nay
Subject(s): Atoms


PRESAGE, by THOMAS THORNELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If, knowing all that now is known
Subject(s): Atoms; Religion


THEY HAVE BLOWN THE TRUMPET, by FLORENCE CONVERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happened in new mexico
Subject(s): Atoms; Religion


TIME OF THE ATOM, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the time of the atom
Last Line: Fall against a graceful body
Subject(s): Atoms; Time