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Subject: CONSPIRACY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin
Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord.
Variant Title(s): Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Conspiracy; Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Hyde, Lawrence. 1st Earl Of Rochester; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Jews; Politics & Government; Scott, James. Duke Of Mon


CONSPIRACY, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison
Last Line: All the solar heaters rolled and weaver birds
Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement)


CONSPIRACY, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison
Last Line: It will not be the first time that a jet of living water %topples the head of the beast
Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement)


CONSPIRACY, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mirrors reflect
Last Line: Shatters the gold of a pagan silence
Subject(s): Conspiracy


CONSPIRACY, by TERRY ANN THAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I listen to the sauntering bluejays
Last Line: Not into paradise, but toward flames %pretending kindness
Subject(s): Conspiracy


CONSPIRACY THEORY, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through that taft hotel window, the local radio station's neonized call letters
Last Line: No two of them would ever - ever - really do again
Subject(s): Conspiracy


CONTEMPLATION OF A CONSPIRACY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the table-leg projects into the yellow autumn sunlight
Subject(s): Conspiracy


IMPOSSIBLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Conspiracy is impossible to disprove
Last Line: I have no answers, none
Subject(s): Conspiracy


IN THE BLACK CAMARO, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the orange glow of taillights, I crossed
Last Line: A truck in a thicket a half-mile downstream.
Subject(s): Conspiracy; Insurance & Insurance Agents; Popular Culture - United States; Worry


MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE; AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not the messenger returned?
Last Line: The gory head rolls down the giant steps!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Conspiracy; Falier, Marino (1274-1355); Venice, Italy


RELEASE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O stars, they've left me with you here
Last Line: My quiet spirit and adore.
Subject(s): Conspiracy


THE APHRODISIAC, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Power is my aphrodisiac
Last Line: Before a grenade explodes.
Subject(s): Conspiracy; Politics; Violence; War; Politicians; Political Poetry


WE ALL CONSPIRE, by MARIO BENEDETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You will always be at some border
Last Line: Ragged and lovely as few dreams are
Subject(s): Conspiracy