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Subject: BLACK (COLOR)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER OZ, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Deeper and deeper / asleep
Subject(s): Black (color); Death; Rest; Dead, The


ANOTHER SONNET TO BLACK IT SELF, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou black, wherein all colours are compos'd
Last Line: All revelation unto man denies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Black It Self
Subject(s): Black (color)


ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 7, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When nature made her chief work, stella's eyes
Last Line: To honour all their deaths, who for her bleed.
Subject(s): Black (color); Eyes


BLACK AND WHITE, by GRACE SCHULMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: White stones, frost, doves, icelight, icewind
Last Line: Mocking the raucous clash of black-and-white
Subject(s): Black (color); White (color)


BLACK DRUM, by ENID SHOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last the fish thrashed
Last Line: Every silence, was a roar
Subject(s): Black (color); Drums; Musical Instruments


BLACK HERALDS, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know!
Last Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know!
Subject(s): Black (color); Death; Ignorance; Pain; Religion


BLACK LAGOON, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Living, he'd found, was about breathing. Deep
Last Line: As long in this earth as the deep and its two %new faces would allow
Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Water


BLACK PINE TREE IN AN ORANGE LIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me what you see in it :
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Orange (color); Black (color)


GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM), by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ad reinhardt's black, in 'abstract painting 33'
Last Line: And lets leak through the dead white underneath
Subject(s): Black (color); Kline, Franz (1910-1962); Paintings And Painters; Reinhardt, Ad (1913-1967); Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Stella, Frank (b. 1936); Still, Clyfford (1904-1980); Reinhardt, Adolf Frederick


GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM), by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ad reinhardt's black, in 'abstract painting 33'
Last Line: And lets leak through the dead white underneath
Subject(s): Black (color); Kline, Franz (1910-1962); Paintings And Painters; Reinhardt, Ad (1913-1967); Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Stella, Frank (b. 1936); Still, Clyfford (1904-1980)


INCANTATION, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white well
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): White (color); Black (color)


LABORER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I work for what I get
Last Line: To her children.
Subject(s): Black (color); Discontent; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Dissatisfaction; Work; Workers; Serfs


MALAGUENA, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Death
Last Line: Leaving and coming in
Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Death; Horses


MY BLINDNESS, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh blackened knight, murderer of my day
Last Line: Without a cause, until I'm claimed by death?
Subject(s): Black (color); Blindness; Death; Eyes; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The


ON ELLEN GOING WRONG, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tittle tattle!' said black shoes
Last Line: "tittle tattle!"" said black shoes."
Subject(s): Black (color); Gold; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


SONG OF THE RIDER, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Cordoba
Last Line: Distant and alone
Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Horseback Riding; Travel


SONNET OF BLACK BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Black beauty, which, above that common light
Last Line: Our darkness which can make us think it dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Variant Title(s): Of Black Beauty
Subject(s): Black (color)


THE BROWN BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While the two contraries of black and white
Last Line: You more than any may be dignifi'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Beauty; Black (color); Brown (color); White (color)