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Subject: CREMATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AD CINERARIUM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who in this small urn reposes
Last Line: If but soundly he reposes!
Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


CHAPEL IN THE PINES, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It looks like an observatory: a white dome
Last Line: My leg muscles - light as orpheus, I rise
Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Parents


COSMETICS, by MARY STEWART HAMMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cremation? Honey, you've got to be kidding
Subject(s): Cremation


CREMATION, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your bones refused to burn
Last Line: You'd be stubborn in death?
Subject(s): Cremation


CREMATION, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your bones refused to burn
Subject(s): Cremation


CREMATION, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burn him? Burn him up?'
Last Line: Leaned into the years, %sifting with love that ample dust
Subject(s): Cremation


CREMATION, by DOROTHY LA PELL-SUBOTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is there left after cremation
Subject(s): Cremation


CREMATION, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The new fall's milkweed
Subject(s): Cremation


CREMATION, by DAVID MCKAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thunder rocks is the knob on top
Subject(s): Cremation


CREMATION BY A BURNING ADMIRER OF SIR HENRY THOMPSON, by WILLIAM SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: To urn, or not to urn? That is the question
Last Line: And shudder at cremation.
Subject(s): Cremation; Epitaphs; Thompson, Sir Henry (1820-1904)


FINAL AGITATION, by PAT D'AMICO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his will, the curmudgeon has stated
Last Line: He can still cause a little dust-up!
Subject(s): Cremation; Death


MY FATHER'S BODY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First they take it away,
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Fathers; Corpses; Funerals; Cremation; Cadavers; Burials


PRAISE FOR AN URN; IN MEMORIAM: ERNEST NELSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a kind and northern face
Last Line: They are no trophies of the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Cremation


THE LEAPING POLL, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR.    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: At early morning when the earth grows cold
Last Line: Looking for death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey
Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Skulls; Dead, The


THE SCATTERING OF EVAN JONES'S ASHES, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Judith moves like a dancer
Last Line: Quickened by evan's ashes
Subject(s): Cremation; Funerals; Burials


UPON PRUE, HIS MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this little urn is laid
Last Line: Spring the purple violet.
Variant Title(s): Upon Prew His Maid
Subject(s): Cremation; Devonshire, England; Grief; Household Employees; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He tells me his mother carries his father's ashes
Last Line: The relative comfort of silence.
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cremation; Forgiveness; Legacies; Child Abuse; Clemency


WILL, by LAURA NEWTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I am dead %burn me
Last Line: Then throw my ashes in the creek
Subject(s): Cremation