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Subject: MIRAGES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASLEEP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am abandoned to a dream
Last Line: As she glides at my side
Subject(s): Dreams; Deserts; Mirages


HOT WEATHER IMAGININGS, by T. R.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I feigned a fountain, mossy-lipped
Last Line: There never came a breeze!)
Subject(s): Dreams; Heat; Mirages; Nightmares


LANDING, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a pure white cloud that hung there
Last Line: Direction to their endless drift.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Clouds; Mankind; Mirages; Sky; White (color); Human Race


MIRAGE, by A. LEWIS BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes when traveling a dusty road
Last Line: Again they see -- their home.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mirages


MIRAGE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a will o'-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking
Last Line: O lord, how long -- how long . . . . . . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mirages; Peace


MIRAGE, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a man on a horse
Last Line: Then the horseman was gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles
Subject(s): Mirages


MIRAGE, by DOROTHY CRUIKSHANK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here with the ocean in front of me
Last Line: Like eyes that I knew in the long ago.
Subject(s): Mirages


MIRAGE, by MABEL A. HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the spaces wild and free
Last Line: And see the love-light in your face.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mirages


MIRAGE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a city islanded in light
Last Line: Clear to the eyes, lost to the feet of men.
Subject(s): Cities; Mirages; Urban Life


MIRAGE, by W. T. K.    Poem Source                    
First Line: At twilight distance %across the weed-mist of the meadow
Last Line: Stare weed-hours %into darkness %and are gone
Subject(s): Mirages


MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethereal mountain
Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethereal mountain
Last Line: Can one believe you are not a mirage
Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains


MIRAGE, by C. ALBERT LOUGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A maiden glides in still of night
Last Line: She left her lovely gown of snow.
Subject(s): Mirages


MIRAGE, by EUGENIE CATHERINE PAUL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the sweet solemnity of night
Last Line: I brushed away the tears, and it was gone.
Subject(s): Mirages


MIRAGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hope I dreamed of was a dream
Last Line: From a dream's sake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love; Mirages


MIRAGE, by SARAH BIXBY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shimmer, shimmer, summer air
Last Line: In meadows brown and dry.
Subject(s): Mirages; Wellesley College


MIRAGE - THE PASSING WEST, by ELIZABETH GARBUTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tall poplars shiver in the summer heat
Last Line: And poplar trees are shivering in the heat.
Subject(s): Mirages; West (u.s.) - Exploration


THE MIRAGE, by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the bay are low-lying cliffs
Last Line: The magnificent fortified castles of sea-kings.
Subject(s): Mirages