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Subject: ETHIOPIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CATTLE FROM ETHIOPIA, by YAHYA FREDERICKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Relentless as minutes
Last Line: Bury everything they hear
Subject(s): Cattle; Ethiopia


ETHIOPA, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O minstrel lyre of ancient ethiop
Last Line: Throughout the world his fellows of the dusk.
Subject(s): Africa; Ethiopia; Haiti; Slavery; Serfs


ETHIOPIA, by KATE DANIELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Niobe lives in the desert, too. %she spends her days bent over
Last Line: Is different. Niobe %bends over, niobe %bends
Subject(s): Ethiopia; Niobe


ETHIOPIA, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! Ethiopia yet shall stretch
Last Line: And find redress from god.
Subject(s): Ethiopia


FAMINE: ETHIOPIA HITS THE TV NEWS AGAIN, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bituminous eyes starestruck
Last Line: Turn the channel. Now %they're gone
Subject(s): Ethiopia; Famine; Television


FASCISTS INTO ETHIOPIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October 2: mussolini invaded ethiopia
Last Line: But became known as a masterwork
Subject(s): Ethiopia; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); U.s. - History


GHOSTS WALK UPON THEIR GRAVES, by NEAL GALLATIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: No longer does the war god beat
Last Line: Ghosts sit upon their graves and wait.
Subject(s): China; Ethiopia; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); War


ODE TO ETHIOPIA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother race! To thee I bring
Last Line: Of ethiopia's glory.
Subject(s): African Americans; Ethiopia; Negroes; American Blacks


QUERY, by HELEN SLACK WICKENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why did you leave the lemon grove
Last Line: And the twisted olive tree?
Subject(s): Ethiopia


RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun
Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World