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Subject: ELECTRICITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACTION OF ELECTRICITY, by ERASMUS DARWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nymphs! Your fine hands ethereal floods amass
Subject(s): Electricity; Mnemonics


CAMPO SANTO, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I learned to say no I the old language
Last Line: Backroads, humming, they are blind
Subject(s): Electricity; Schools; Students


DEAR MADAME, DEAR SIR - A FOUND POEM, by SUSAN THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The electricity is feeble on the island
Last Line: You would be waked up %by the songs of the birds
Subject(s): Electricity


EARLY LESSONS IN ELECTRICITY, by CAROL POTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two feet of snow at the door, and the power gone three days
Last Line: The dark field with her eyelids glowing
Subject(s): Electricity; Home; Winter


ELECTRIC LIGHT-VERSE, by L. ALLEN BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some wicked holding company controls
Last Line: Than do without my nightly incandescence!
Subject(s): Electricity


ELECTRIC LOVE, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm glad to have ther mystery
Last Line: With enough juice to read by %in the middle of the night
Subject(s): Electricity


ELECTRICITY FAILS A WHOLE STATE, by TERESE SVOBODA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Citizens don't smoke on their porches
Subject(s): Electricity


IN TESLA'S LABORATORY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the dark what ghostly figures press!
Last Line: Listen! That murmur is of angels' wings.
Subject(s): Electricity; Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)


NOVEMBER BLUE, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O heavenly colour, london town
Last Line: The throng go crowned with blue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Electricity; England; London; Street Lights; English


PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long
Last Line: To their last temptation.
Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary


POWER PLANT, by RON BLOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the riverbanks, cottonwoods bloom
Last Line: The dismal waters as the moon keeps pace, bursting open on a cottonwood
Subject(s): Electricity; Light


PYLONS, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The secret of these hills was stone, and cottages
Last Line: Dreaming of cities %where often clouds shall lean their swan-white neck
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Electricity


STATIC, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a shocking winter when the deacons
Last Line: His holy feet, ready to shock the hell out of everybody
Subject(s): Churches; Electricity; Religion


STATIC HOLDS A GRUDGE, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So, why do I court electricity, rub my feet [or, skate]
Last Line: Onto what blackness I can hold [or, can be held] from the water's depth
Subject(s): Electricity


THE ELECTRIC BULB, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: An electric bulb was heard to say
Last Line: "but that I wished to shine!"
Subject(s): Electricity


THE ELECTRIC ORCHARD, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The early electric people had domesticated the wild ass
Subject(s): Orchards; Electricity


THE SOUTH-FORELAND ELECTRIC LIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From calais pier I saw a brilliant sight
Last Line: Her shining honour and her moral might.
Subject(s): Electricity; Light