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Subject: BRAZIL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS GREETING; FROM A NORTHERN START-GROUP TO A SOUTHERN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, brazilian brother - thy ample place is ready
Last Line: The height to be superb humanity.
Subject(s): Brazil; Christmas; Brazilians; Nativity, The


A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ; WRITTEN ON EVE OF JOURNEY TO BRAZIL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the mountains talked together
Last Line: Bless them now and evermore!
Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Brazil; Farewell; Science; Brazilians; Parting; Scientists


ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the time of year
Last Line: And a weak mailed fist %clenched ignorant against the sky
Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls


BABBLING, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cabralism. The civiliation of the donees. The willing
Last Line: Dance. The vegatation. Brazilwood
Subject(s): Brazil; Ethnic Identity; History; Poetry And Poets


BLACK GIRL FULO, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now it so happened she came
Last Line: That black girl fulo!
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Brazil; Rape; Slavery


BRAZIL, by RONALD DE CARVALHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this hour of pure sunlight
Subject(s): Brazil


BRAZIL, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To go to the edge is to discover
Last Line: Upon love's narcissistic enterprise
Subject(s): Brazil


CACHOEIRA, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We slept, woke, breakfasted, and met the man
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Cachoeira, Brazil; Tourists; Slavery; Convents; Serfs


EVOCATION OF RECIFE, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Recife %not the american venice
Last Line: Recife, now dead, bighearted recife, recife brazilian as my %grandfather's home
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Brazil; Childhood Memories; Grandparents


FREEDOM IN BRAZIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With clearer light, cross of the south
Last Line: Go out and leave thee free.
Subject(s): Brazil; Freedom; Slavery; Brazilians; Liberty; Serfs


HIEROFANT, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's impossible to live
Last Line: To attend the plangent calf
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Brazil; Paintings And Painters


IN BRAZIL I LEAPT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into it, a onetime-only trick
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Brazil; Nature; Self


IN PORTUGUESE, by ADELIA PRADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spider, cork, pearl
Last Line: Your arm brushing up against mine
Subject(s): Brazil; Language; Poetry And Poets


INSPIRATION, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where even at the height of summer
Last Line: Gallicism crying in the wilderness of america!
Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; South America; Travel


INSTRUMENT FACTORY, BRAZIL, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's simple enough to give away the coins in your heart, when dust settles
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Musical Instruments; Sao Paulo, Brazil


NOCTURNE, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lights from the cambuci district on nights of crime
Last Line: Get-a you roast-a yams!
Subject(s): Brazil; Prostitution; Women


OFF TO PASARGADA, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm heading off to pasargada
Last Line: I'm heading off to pasargada
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Brazil


OSWALD DEAD, by FERREIRA GULLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday in sao paulo they buried
Last Line: Was a national flag
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Poetry And Poets; Sao Paulo, Brazil


PORTUGUESE MISTAKE, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the portuguese arrived
Last Line: The portuguese
Subject(s): Brazil; Language


PROCESSIONS, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monotonies of my retinas
Last Line: Seem to me just so many monkeys, just so many monkeys
Subject(s): Cities; Sao Paulo, Brazil


RIVERMAN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got up in the night
Last Line: The dolphin singled me out; %luandinha seconded it
Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft And Witches


SAO PAULO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Buildings to the horizon, an accretion
Last Line: Of heaven, transparently, the muchness hushed
Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil


SAO PAULO SIGHS (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 14), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sighs in sao paulo
Last Line: From sulfur
Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sighs


SENTENCES: BRAZIL, by TONY HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the lone man in his wattle lean-to
Last Line: Edible necklaces %and caged red birds
Subject(s): Brazil; Travel


SHYNESS, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so the men smile, and I smile back at them. And if I opened my
Last Line: If I keep my head down, low to my body, I think I can almost disappear
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Travel


SUBVERSIVE, by FERREIRA GULLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poetry %when she comes
Last Line: And promises to set the country on fire
Subject(s): Brazil; Human Rights; Poetry And Poets


SYMPHONY, by BORGHILD LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brazilian palm-trees
Last Line: Walking to the sea --
Subject(s): Beauty; Brazil; Girls; Brazilians


THE ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the time of year
Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls; Brazilians


THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that black forest, where, when day is done
Last Line: "and change to praise the cry of a lost soul?"
Subject(s): Birds; Brazil; Brazilians


THE RIVERMAN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got up in the night
Last Line: Luandinah seconded it
Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft & Witches; Brazilians; Porpoises