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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOST OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river creeps through arid lands
Last Line: "tain't just what I want, but they'll keep it neat."
Subject(s): Arkansas; Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


AS I STEP OVER A PUDDLE AT THE END OF WINTER, I THINK OF AN ANCIENY CHINESE GOVERNOR, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Po chu-I, balding old politician,
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Middle West; China; Seeking; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The buffaloes are gone
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The buffaloes are gone
Last Line: And the buffaloes are gone
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West


CHANCES R, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red glow on the tables
Last Line: "wichita traversed with streetlight
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


CHANCES R, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red glow on the tables
Last Line: Wichita traversed with streetlight %on the plain
Subject(s): Middle West


CRABAPPLES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweeten these bitter wild crabapples, illinois
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


CRABAPPLES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweeten these bitter wild crabapples, illinois
Last Line: Earth under, they know you from last year, %the year before last year, october sun
Subject(s): Middle West


CRICKET MARCH, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the corn becomes higher
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


CRICKET MARCH, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the corn becomes higher
Last Line: The summer crickets come to a marching army
Subject(s): Middle West


DAYBREAK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daybreak comes first / in thin splinters shimmering
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


DAYBREAK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daybreak comes first %in thin splinters shimmering
Last Line: And day whispers, 'soon now, soon.'
Subject(s): Middle West


FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear
Last Line: By setting-free the soil
Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


FROM A MIDWEST MOTEL WINDOW, by LEN KRISAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the field and far beyond
Last Line: When night comes on, and god's sun stops
Subject(s): Hotels; Middle West; Windows


GIFT OF GRASSROOTS, by WENDELL MINOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a son of the soil
Last Line: Though we are of different seasons, we share a love of the land and are bound together by our grassr
Subject(s): Middle West; Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)


GRASSROOTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grass clutches at the dark dirt with finger holds
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


GRASSROOTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grass clutches at the dark dirt with finger holds
Last Line: Grassroots down under put fingers into dark dirt
Subject(s): Middle West


HARVEST, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the corn stands yellow in september
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


HARVEST, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the corn stands yellow in september
Last Line: They are cut down %and piled high %and burned. %their fire %lights the west in november
Subject(s): Middle West


IN THE MIDWEST, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He saw the iron wings of daybreak struggling
Last Line: He saw the gouged bodies of the unborn
Subject(s): Nature; Middle West


IOWA & OTHER ACCIDENTS, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was snow that afternoon covering the road
Last Line: Always there about to happen
Subject(s): Accidents; Iowa; Middle West; Winter


JOHNNY APPLESEED; A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A midnight cry appalls the gloom
Last Line: In god's grand greenwood chapel.
Subject(s): Appleseed, Johnny; Chapman, John (1774-1845); Middle West; Native Americans; Patriotism; Pioneers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


JUST BEFORE APRIL CAME, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow-piles in dark places are gone
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


JUST BEFORE APRIL CAME, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow-piles in dark places are gone
Last Line: I might ask: who are these people?
Subject(s): Middle West


MAN AND DOG ON AN EARLY WINTER MORNING, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a tall slough grass
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


MAN AND DOG ON AN EARLY WINTER MORNING, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a tall slough grass
Last Line: This is a proud place to come to.'
Subject(s): Middle West


METAMORPHOSIS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When water turns ice does it remember
Subject(s): Middle West; Science; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Scientists


METAMORPHOSIS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When water turns ice does it remember
Last Line: When ice turns back into water does it remember it was ice?
Subject(s): Middle West; Science


MID-WEST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across those plains where once there roamed the indian and the scout
Last Line: The swede with alcoholic breath sets of cabbage out
Subject(s): Middle West


MIDDLE ILLINOIS, by JEFF VANCK ZANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes this state is a lie
Last Line: In the narrow, noiseless huddle, idiot %conferences and death
Subject(s): Middle West


MIDWEST TOWN, by RUTH DE LONG PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farther east it wouldn't be on the map
Last Line: And a great pulse beating strong in towns like these
Subject(s): Middle West


MIDWESTERN ANCESTORS, by MARVIN MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fortified by the truth that
Last Line: Became good corn and good wheat
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Middle West


MIDWESTERN FOUNDATION MYTH, by GEORGE JAY O'LEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cunning oracle withholds the best
Last Line: Heifer wandered onto that great plain
Subject(s): Middle West; Mythology


ODE TO THE MIDWEST, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to be doused
Subject(s): Middle West; Conduct Of Life; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To western woods and lonely plains
Last Line: Than all the eastern sages knew.
Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America; Southwest; Pacific States


PEARL HORIZONS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a prairie fog moon
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


PEARL HORIZONS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a prairie fog moon
Last Line: Takes up again its even smooth november
Subject(s): Middle West


RED AND WHITE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody picks a red rose when the winter wind howls and the
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


RED AND WHITE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody picks a red rose when the winter wind howls and the
Last Line: Dreamy drifts winter and summer - roses and snow
Subject(s): Middle West


ROAN HORSE', by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ran horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness
Last Line: Has a rusty jag of hair between the ears hanging to a white star %between the eyes
Subject(s): Middle West


SITTING IN A SMALL SCREENHOUSE ON A SUMMER MORNING, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten more miles, it is south dakota.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Middle West; Horses; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


SIX FEET SIX WAS DAVY TIPTON, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Big rivers ought to have big men.'
Subject(s): Middle West


STILL LIFE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car
Last Line: Lovers pass whispering.
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


SUMMER GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer grass aches and whispers
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


SUMMER GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer grass aches and whispers
Last Line: Coming; the rain wets the face of the grass
Subject(s): Middle West


THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awake! Awake! My gallant friends
Last Line: Come gaul or briton; if arrayed / for fight - he'll feel a freeman's blade
Subject(s): "harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);middle West;native Americans;tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811);" Midwest;old Northwest;central States;north Central States;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE, by EDWIN FORD PIPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train
Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men.
Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains


THE MOTHERS OF THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mothers of our forest-land!
Last Line: "the dark and bloody ground."
Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; Women; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America


THE PRAIRIE STATES, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude
Last Line: To justify the past.
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


THE ROAN HORSE', by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roan horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness
Last Line: Hanging to a white star between the ears
Subject(s): Middle West; Horses; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


THE TOMB OF THE BRAVE; IN COMMEMORATION OF BATTLE ON WABASH, by JOSEPH HUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When darkness prevail'd and aloud on the air
Last Line: And glory thus bloom o'er the tomb of the brave.
Subject(s): Middle West; Native Americans; Tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TIMBER MOON, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a way the moon looks into the timber at night
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


TIMBER MOON, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a way the moon looks into the timber at night
Last Line: There is a way the moon finds company early in the fall-time
Subject(s): Middle West


TO WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward I had expected reminders: somewhere in the dakota's carpet
Last Line: Men going nowhere, hands pocketed, heels kicking the wall
Subject(s): Middle West; Travel; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Journeys; Trips


TO WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward I had expected reminders: somewhere in the dakota's carpet
Last Line: Men going nowhere, hands pocketed, heels kicking the wall
Subject(s): Middle West; Travel