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Subject: DUNES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DUNE SONNET, by MAX EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was so lonely on the dunes today
Last Line: Or laughed to us in shots of silver spray!
Subject(s): Dunes


DUNE HEATH, by ALLEN PLANZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under dwarf pitchpine %sarsaparilla %lofts a bell of leaves
Last Line: Grow cyanotic. Tawny foam piles %on the laminar flow
Subject(s): Dunes


IN THE DUNES, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you close your eyes in such a silence, death
Last Line: And that dry whisper as the sand in sleep keeps shifting
Subject(s): Death; Dunes; Sleep


ON THE DUNES, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that my tasks are done, and fast
Last Line: Blue-flowered on the sandy spurs.
Subject(s): Death; Dunes; Dead, The


ON THE SAND DUNES, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! The sand dunes are warm
Last Line: To weep by the salt sea shore.
Subject(s): Dunes; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


PORTRAIT IN SINISTER LIGHTS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Doom walks with her
Last Line: And doom will walk with her.
Subject(s): Dunes; Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Stars; Iliad; Odyssey


SAND DUNES, by DOROTHY WHITTINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mountains of shifting sand
Last Line: Is crushed by the shifting sand!
Subject(s): Dunes


SAND DUNES AND SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blue skies and bluer sea with its white teeth showing
Subject(s): Dunes


THE DUNES, by LAURA B. ANNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out where the sand is mountain high
Last Line: This rare place of beauty I love best.
Subject(s): Dunes; Nature


THE DUNES, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the sand the slant rain falls in vain
Last Line: Pricks space in universal emptiness.
Subject(s): Dunes; Rain


THE VOICE AMONG THE DUNES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard the sea-wind sighing
Last Line: Breathes drownëd sighs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dunes; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean