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Subject: JORDAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling
Last Line: In every language and opened its doors.
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


ELEGY FOR A SOLDIER, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The city where I knew you was swift
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)


ELEGY FOR A SOLDIER, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The city where I knew you was swift
Last Line: Audre lorde, neruda, amichai, senghor, %and you, june jordan
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)


JORDAN (1), by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who says that fictions only and false hair
Last Line: Who plainly say, my god, my king.
Subject(s): Jordan River; Truth; Worship


JORDAN (2), by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first my lines of heavenly joys made mention
Last Line: Copie out onely that, and save expense.
Subject(s): Jordan River


MEMORIAM, by RUTH FORMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I light a candle %you died today
Last Line: Burn a flame %that does not die
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)


ON 'EVE TEMPTED BY THE SERPENT' BY DEFENDENTE FERRARI, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rare spirit remembered now with a pang
Last Line: Or easy but possible and we fall.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Jordan, Barbara (1936-1995); Temptation


SOUTHERN DAWN, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was walking near the hotel in the evening
Last Line: Anything but love's poor simple feeling
Subject(s): Jordan; Urchins, Street


WILL, by JAN HELLER LEVI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: (drum) %it comes, like all the most important messages, %blurred
Last Line: That june could come, with all her complicated flowers, %into july
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)