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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CENTURY, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Personally I can't figure out the scale of things
Subject(s): Millenium


ASTRAEA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O poet rare and old!
Last Line: As now in heaven!
Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Millenium; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest


BIRTHING: 2000, by PANCHO AGUILA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Get thee to the mountains
Subject(s): Millenium; Prisons And Prisoners


BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CENTURY, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Personally I can't figure out the scale of things
Last Line: In the sunlight before the century turns on them
Subject(s): Millenium


CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How patient man is in his time
Last Line: Gesture, withdraw into damnation
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent


EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last storm, when hawks
Last Line: Doves did not know where to fly, and
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium


MANIFEST OF A BOAT LEAVING ON THE EVE OF THE 3RD MILLENNIUM, by ALBINO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one satchel you'll be carrying newsprint, comics dark
Last Line: Before climbing up the twisted manila rope ladder, home
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; Survival


MILLENIUM, by KRISTJANA GUNNARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The slow frost of morning and pink
Last Line: Of the last tin-coloured cloud of dawn
Subject(s): Millenium


MILLENNIAL TREE, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Won't I be done by then?
Last Line: Or won't we be done with ourselves by then?
Subject(s): Millenium


MILLENNIUM, by ROBIN S. CHAPMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At twentieth century's end I'm ready to accept
Last Line: Thousand years, a stick of kindling, a torch, %a brand, a scion for grafting
Subject(s): Millenium


MILLENNIUM'S ORPHAN, by BOB RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: First a grandfather goes. Then you forget
Last Line: Bring out the candles - we're taking a bath - and gin %on the rocks, %for two, %too. %hold the child
Subject(s): Memory; Millenium


THE CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How patient man is in his time
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature; Second Coming Of Christ


THE DAWNING, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! What time wilt thou come? When shall that cry
Last Line: Watching the break of thy great day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): The Second Advent
Subject(s): Dawn; Millenium; Sunrise


THE EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last storm, when hawks
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE MILLENNNIUM (APOLOGIES AS USUAL), by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When earth's last evil is righted, and
Last Line: The shouts and the cheers and the tumult in a world of things as they are!
Subject(s): Millenium


THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jaded light of late july
Last Line: The new, the true millennium!
Subject(s): Justice; Law & Lawyers; Millenium; Socialism; Attorneys


THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


TO R.K., by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will there never come a season
Last Line: And the haggards ride no more?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Variant Title(s): Lapsus Calami;the Millennium
Subject(s): Haggard, Rider (1856-1925); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Mankind; Millenium; Human Race


VERSE AT THE MILLENNIUM, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER PRESFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking back upstream, beyond
Last Line: Guarding its wounded pride
Subject(s): Millenium; Nature