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Subject: CHINESE LANGUAGE
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth
Last Line: No place to go.
Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism


ON THE TERRACE OF CANG JIE'S INVENTION OF CHARACTERS AT SAN-HUI TEMPLE, by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wilderness temple, its grass-grown terrace at dusk
Last Line: Still like that time when he first invented writing
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Chinese Language; Temples


ONE TO TEN, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yut yee sam see
Last Line: Could you say that again?
Subject(s): Chinese Language; Mathematics


RELIGION OF LETTERS, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let others discover in the range of chinese characters
Last Line: The very soul, religious and abstract, of the place
Subject(s): Chinese Language