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Subject: EXHIBITIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WELCOME TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To north and south, and east and west
Last Line: Is camped upon the bay!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Festivals; Panama; World's Fairs; Expositions; Fairs; Pageants


AT THE FIREMEN'S EXHIBITION, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night: and london's ancient hallows
Last Line: Spreads the great tent-maker's round.
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Writers, European; World's Fairs; Expositions


AT THE KESA EXHIBIT: 1. SONG OF A ROBE'S MAKING, by KELLY PARSONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between each stitch there is %the mudra pause, the ritual %pose
Last Line: The needle of the invisible %and I am sewing myself %into your rooms
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Sewing


AT THE KESA EXHIBIT: 2. I WILL ASK FOR BIRDS, by KELLY PARSONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I enter the gallery %I remember that I am
Last Line: White cranes circling %the cliffs of my body. %I want a song I can wear
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Sewing


ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are
Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions


BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Add to your show, before you close it, france
Last Line: America's applause, love, memories and good-will.
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Paris, France; World's Fairs; Expositions


DEMONSTRATION: WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1965, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blood-inked political leaflets pelted village streets
Last Line: Women's house of d
Subject(s): Booksellers; Exhibitions; History; Macdougal Street, New York City; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Tourists


EXHIBITION, by KATHRYN BUDD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solemn smiles in gilded frames
Last Line: Battered-beaten-bold beauty isn't for sale
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Exhibitions; Museums; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


HUMMINGBIRD EXHIBIT [SAN DIEGO ANIMAL PARK], by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Adjusting each time to their junglized air
Last Line: From time to time among them till I find my way again %to an exit and the first thinning blast of ca
Subject(s): Birds; Exhibitions


INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 1, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flee from london, good my walter! Boundless jail of bricks and gas
Last Line: Landscape-lords are left alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Colors; Exhibitions; Landscape; Paintings & Painters; World's Fairs; Expositions


LINES FOR GARETH AND JANET DUNLEAVY, by JAMES LIDDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I exhort and invoke for you
Last Line: And the stars have arrived
Subject(s): Constantinople; Exhibitions; Marching And Marches; Pens And Pencils; Writing And Writers


LUSTMORD (RETROSPECTIVE: NEW YORK SCHOOL), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the tiny bones %lie in rows on the table
Last Line: And she'd seem happy, as perhaps she is
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Exhibitions; Museums; New York City; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists


NEW YORK CITY WORLD'S FAIRS 1939 AND 1964, by JUDITH BAUMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We visited the world's fair
Last Line: Shaped tent to pick him up again
Subject(s): Exhibitions; New York City


ODE SUNG AT THE OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet
Last Line: Her flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions


PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are you, lady? - naught is here
Last Line: Were half as silent as their pictures!
Variant Title(s): Every-day Characters: Portrait Of A Lady
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Portraits; Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain; World's Fairs; Expositions


THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW, FLEMINGTON, VICTORIA, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lumbering tractor rolls its panting round
Last Line: Quiet lakes and milking sheds; 'fares please, fares please.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Farm Life; World's Fairs; Expositions; Agriculture; Farmers


THE CRYSTAL PALACE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With ganial foire / thransfuse my loyre
Last Line: This cristial exhibition.
Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions


THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1862 (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great exchanges press each other's heels
Last Line: The dog returns in snowy wilds to roam.
Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions


THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1862 (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They snuff the breath of intervening seas
Last Line: Our sense of brotherhood and charity!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions


THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As o'er a sea untried and dark
Last Line: Throw open wide the door!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Oregon; Roads; World's Fairs; Expositions; Paths; Trails


THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brothers from far-away lands
Last Line: The storm from the wave and the night from the day!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions


THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immurmurous hall, with aisles of grateful shade
Last Line: The flower of man's creative, god-like mind!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; History; Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York; World's Fairs; Expositions; Historians


THE SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, while orion, flaming south
Last Line: On holy paths -- on sacred ways and sweet.
Subject(s): Australia; Exhibitions; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659); World's Fairs; Expositions


TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos; Childhood; World's Fairs; Expositions


TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die
Last Line: And I will learn to love you as a zebra whom I did not love as a human being
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos


UNTITLED MERIDIANS, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half in the matter universe, and half outside, where things are ideas
Last Line: Random wants. We don't have to kill each other for the peace of a %thousand years. In this world I c
Subject(s): Airships; Exhibitions; Museums; Peace


WEBFOOT IN THE LEAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, I've been to see the capers
Last Line: That can make a bigger track.
Subject(s): Davenport, Homer (1867-1912); Exhibitions; Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913); World's Fairs; Expositions


WELCOME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the front gate of trinity college
Last Line: At the book of kells
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Reproductive System; Tourists


WORKMAN'S CHORAL SONG; AT OPENING OF DUTCH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No monster of iron on gunpowder fed
Last Line: "we, too, have out rest and our heaven"
Subject(s): Exhibitions;labor & Laborers; World's Fairs;expositions


WORLD'S FAIR, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The crowd moves forward on the midway
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions


WORLD'S FAIR, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The crowd moves forward on the midway
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Exhibitions


WORLD'S FAIR, by HUGH STEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were %architecture, %they were cities of the
Last Line: I am an %amalgam of loves
Subject(s): Exhibitions