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Subject: DEFORESTATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUILDING BOOM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The avenue of willows leads nowhere
Last Line: Their beauty cannot save them
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Deforestation


IMPROVED FARM LAND, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall timber stood here once, here on a corn belt farm along the monon
Subject(s): Deforestation; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


SABBATHS, 1985, VII, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the great trees were felled
Last Line: The woods' floor starred with bloom
Subject(s): Nature; Deforestation


SURFACES AND MASKS; 30, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They cut down the last tree
Last Line: Kept behind stone walls?
Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Deforestation


THE FOREST, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You should lie down now and remember the forest,
Subject(s): Forests; Deforestation; Loss; Woods


THE LUMBERJACKS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They entered eden
Subject(s): Eden; Deforestation


TWAS 30 YEARS AGO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: & when the birds were hushed
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Deforestation


WHO ROBBED THE WOODS?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What will the fir-tree – say?
Subject(s): Deforestation