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Subject: JAMES, HENRY (1843-1916)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER READING A CHAPTER BY HENRY JAMES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "and after angelina, laying down"
Last Line: "sank back upon her pillows, quite fagged out"
Subject(s): "authors & Authorship;books;james, Henry (1843-1916);" Reading


AT THE GRAVE OF HENRY JAMES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow, less intransigeant than their marble
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)


AT THE GRAVE OF HENRY JAMES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow, less intransigeant than their marble
Last Line: For him whose property is always to have mercy, the author %and giver of all good things
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)


GRACEFUL EXIT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it difficult to escape
Last Line: That you musy leave the %books - was it done for me?
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)


HENRY JAMES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the eloquence of the unsaid
Last Line: Silently about the great house of his prose %letting in sunlight into the empty rooms
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)


HENRY JAMES AT NEWPORT, by WELDON KEES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And shores and strands and naked piers
Last Line: The stone-walled fields are featureless
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)


I WALKED OVER THE GRAVE OF HENRY JAMES, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I thought, and took a street-car back to harvard square
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)


MANGOSTEENS, by DANIEL HALL    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: These are the absolute top of the line
Last Line: I want with you more time
Subject(s): Homosexuality; James, Henry (1843-1916); Mangosteens


ON THE CHASTITY OF HENRY JAMES, by RANE ARROYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Piazzas open like
Last Line: Fever. He drinks %chilled wine before %light escapes it
Subject(s): Chastity; James, Henry (1843-1916)


SHIPWRECK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high
Last Line: Feeding everywhere.
Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)


TO HENRY JAMES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adela, adela, adela chart
Last Line: The second dumbfoundered me, adela chart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 18. THE MIRROR SPEAKS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the bells peal far at sea
Last Line: Henry james, shall come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916)