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Subject: FRONTIER & PIONEER LIFE
Matches Found: 12

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GOLDEN DREAM, by KATHRYN ROESER DUNLAP    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun came out of the east
Last Line: And found a place in the west.
Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Frontier & Pioneer Life; West (u.s.); Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Southwest; Pacific States


A PIONEER WOMAN, by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A statue stands in a city block
Last Line: "to lie in an unmarked grave."
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Statues; Heroines


GEOGRAPHY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is required of us is the recognition of the frontiers between
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life


LARABELLE; CANTO FIRST, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a wide and far extended plain
Last Line: Of johny green and charming larabelle.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers


PIONEER WOMAN, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: One thought of ivory and precious lace
Last Line: And worshiped beauty by a candle's light.
Variant Title(s): Pioneer Mother
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers


PIONEER WOMAN, by ELIZABETH DE MARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want my own to come to me
Last Line: When lo, my heart's at rest.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers


RED RIVER VALLEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From this valley they say you are going
Last Line: Is the prayer of the red river girl
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life


SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chickens crowing on sourwood mountain
Last Line: Devil's in the women if they take a notion
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life


SYMBOL OF OUR COUNTRY, by MAUD MCKINSEY BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cabin stands in clearing, unkempt, deserted
Last Line: Songs of the fearless.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Progress; United States - History


THE ORPHAN GIRL (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'no home, no home!' cried a little girl"
Last Line: Where there's room for bread for the poor
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life;orphans;poverty; Foundlings


THE WATERS OF LUNG-T'OU (THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER), by HSU LING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road that I came by mounts eight thousand feet
Last Line: That I ever lived in the streets of hsien-yang.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiao-mu
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Frontier & Pioneer Life; Nature


TO A SILVER BIRCH, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never knew until I crossed the prairie
Last Line: For now at last I see.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Prairies; Trees; Plains