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Subject: MONTAGUE, JOHN (B. 1929)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN INTERLUDE * OF RARE BEAUTY, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The seal in the depraved wave
Last Line: No more than our affection / for naming.
Subject(s): Beauty; Montague, John (b. 1929)


HER PET, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk the floor, read, watch a cop-show, drink
Last Line: And labored with it to bring on its end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montague, John (b. 1929)


INHERITANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even in her nineties she recalled
Last Line: Once again to feel them soothe me.
Subject(s): Memory; Montague, John (b. 1929)


MEN, WOMEN, AND EARTH, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early in the morning the hermit wakes
Last Line: Earth nourishes what no one can see.
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Montague, John (b. 1929); Male-female Relations; Human Race


NIGHT-PIECE, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's that scratching
Last Line: In sleep. Night creeps by.
Subject(s): Montague, John (b. 1929); Night; Sleep; Bedtime


SONG, by SAMUEL BECKETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Age is when to a man / huddled o'er the ingle
Last Line: On the earth again.
Subject(s): Aging; Montague, John (b. 1929)