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Subject: COLORADO (STATE)
Matches Found: 16

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near no name, colorado
Last Line: I knew I'd lost it.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes


BURLESQUE ON COLORADO'S GOLD-MINING DAYS, by LILLIAN HANSON WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am looking for a gold mine
Last Line: That's the truth! I'm not a liar! %I wanna gold mine that's all mine!!
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Gold Mines And Miners


CACHE LA POUDRE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole world / (which you said I was
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


COLORADO, by FLORA BELLE DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Colorado, you are glorious
Last Line: Near the mountains of our god.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Rest; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


COLORADO, by GERTRUDE FLORENCE NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poets have sung the praises
Last Line: You'll find heaven very near.
Subject(s): Colorado (state)


END OF DROUTH, by GEORGIA MOORE EBERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The healing rains have come, and once again
Last Line: And meadow-larks fling out their happy lay.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Drought


FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings
Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons


INTO THE POPLAR TREES, by ROBERT W. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are no mailboxes on the side of the highway
Last Line: I go on waiting, as cars and constellatins pass
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Smoking


MOON, COLORADO, SNOW, by SUSAN TICHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Horn creek lake, 10 p.M.
Last Line: Rock from which the walls of prison are made
Subject(s): Cold; Colorado (state); Night; Snow


THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado
Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains


TO A FRIEND I CAN'T FIND, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What about this, after all
Last Line: The living started digging out
Subject(s): Absence; Colorado (state); Friendship; Separation; Isolation


TO THE COLORADO DESERT, by MADGE MORRIS WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery
Last Line: God must have made thee in his anger and forgot.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat


WALKING WITH FATHER IN COLORADO, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everywhere I followed him back in time
Last Line: I knelt and drank from the shining in my hands
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Snow; Travel; Winter


WATERSHED, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the land is tilted / like a gambrel roof. The world
Last Line: The knife that cuts the rain in two, the lie
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WILDCAT LEDGE (COLORADO), by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The platte, long wandering but caught at last
Last Line: "with their exultant cry: ""the hills! The hills!"
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Platte River; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have the mane
Last Line: Across the worlds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire
Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips