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Subject: ENCYCLOPEDIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOY WITH BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He holds a volume open in his hands
Last Line: That used to mark america's dangerous shores
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Poetry And Poets


EPITAPH ON THE PROOFREADER OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Majestic tomes, you are the tomb
Last Line: They laid the index on his grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Encyclopedia


FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chirotherium tracks occur
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Mammals; Reproductive System; Women; Sex Organs; Genitalia


FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the encyclopedia %are facts on which you can't improve
Last Line: The female hyena, it is %very large'
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Mammals; Reproductive System; Women


GIC TO HAR, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp
Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude; Loneliness


GIC TO HAR, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp
Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude


ONE VOLUME MISSING, by RITA DOVE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green sludge of a riverbank
Last Line: No zebras, no virginia, / no wars
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Healing; Cures


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 7. PROPOSAL FOR REVISION .. SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The people can be made to swallow anything
Last Line: In his fat fingers its pages flare
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)