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Subject: BOUDICCA (D. 60 A.D.)
Matches Found: 41

BOADICEA; AN ODE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the british warrior queen
Last Line: "shame and ruin wait for you!"
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Boudica; Boadicea


BOUDICA: 1, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the testicles of bulls, over the seven
Last Line: Our words, speaking only in dreams
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 10, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hymns bawled by the chain-gang. Sweeping
Last Line: Men painted blue, its tattered women who don't come
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 11, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thighs and rumps, mirrors, high-class rugs
Last Line: Under the skin, under the bones
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 12, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far from the sea, by wadi and fjord. Fashionable warriors and firedogs
Last Line: Dictates. Hodge-podge of slogans. Kentoc'h mervel, freedom or %death
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 13, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Packs of black dogs, car-horn concerts, eddies of blood; sub-prefects
Last Line: The goose-egg of aging moons. Another shot, gunboat and pillar of %fire, massacre of the druids, the
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 14, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the roots of the sacred wood, the prophet and his flock. Words
Last Line: Caratacus in the cemetery. Harangue, stiff-necked, grit your%teeth. Bro gozh va zadou!
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 15, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: White hyena, trail of insects. Like a rumor, like an eczema, to burst
Last Line: Foot-to-foot fighting, the molotov cocktail, pain eating at the left %breast
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 16, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man-stealer, arsonist, pope joan of this and of that, if only someone
Last Line: Trash cans of these tatterdemalion champs and support-structure
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 17, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mack truck pin-ups, pasionaria with unsubtle step. O boudica
Last Line: Her face towards the flame in the fireplace. She sloughs off a %world incapable of closure
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 18, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fare-up of oghamic codices. Sufferance on twenty-five acres of
Last Line: Tread of boots up country. Triumph arches and boneyards. %red eagles and wearing forefathers
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 19, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What region of wild radishes with grinite pipers. Above the
Last Line: Love, till the joints go stiff. Wound and salt. From single solitude %to the solitude of a hundred t
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 2, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the sacred wood to bitter fifedoms
Last Line: Burning beneficent anxiety
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 20, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What merchandise do the villages throw up
Last Line: Stamp the ground in a ring
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 21, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toutatis, thanatos, elliptical divinities, biodegradable ...
Last Line: Pickpockets imminent
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 22, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the oppidum girls in shorts and t-shirts
Last Line: Barkers, mobilized, surround her with familial haze
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 23, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dress done up, neck a burnt umber
Last Line: The children of excrement have beaming cheeks
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 24, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Periplus of the salmon, the waterway's
Last Line: We putter around in the ferns and in the furze. Death, my eye
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 25, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nomenclature of rites, tender hands for the
Last Line: Rebel love and business as usual
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 26, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stained glass of an ancient winter
Last Line: Sweat and tears no longer do anybody ill
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 27, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's from here and reveals time past to do
Last Line: With its warm ashes
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 28, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aerial views, soundings, excavations
Last Line: The people burlesqued
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 29, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tough woman tyrannized by so much night
Last Line: The blood of open hands. Tangling sources
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 3, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gaps in the landscape, and a particular way of
Last Line: Good stories that could. The impossible
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 30, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day within night, night within day
Last Line: Wind smites the typewriters
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 31, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Touching the white stones in the clearing
Last Line: The oilcloth, the book wide open
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 32, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's the sky, the broom-field, the four walls
Last Line: Onto that central region
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 33, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: History of the peace after orgasm
Last Line: The luck of not being eternal
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 34, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night of fiction, friction of the stars
Last Line: Boudica vying with angela, anjela
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 35, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: After decapitated bell-towres, nudity
Last Line: Legends of a besieged people
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 36, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A century of needles. The thorns shrink back
Last Line: On the verge of the lips
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 37, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flies and their avatars, in concentric flight
Last Line: Sleeping on her side among the ferns turned to coal, knees t
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 38, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Convene the landscape for the disclosure
Last Line: It must have been intentional
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 39, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: End of winter: from atom to meteor, the thaw
Last Line: Two-edged words, or three-edged
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 4, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Geography of the colonizer, from the fenced-off
Last Line: Tons of mud, the gods bamboozled
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 40, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: From red to violet, meteorological flares
Last Line: Death of the queen, toppled
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 5, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grammarian and philologist, in obscure
Last Line: Racing, courage in spurts
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 6, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faithful wives, unlicked tots, adolescents down
Last Line: Speak out before winter e
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 7, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At carhaix, the cracked mirror, blood-stained
Last Line: Loving them. From old saw to gordian knot
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 8, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: From nantes to carhaix, the savings-and-loan
Last Line: To answer. Powder-barrels. Cities of refuge
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 9, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straight line of jet planes, snake-bright metal
Last Line: Garden / torture garden
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest