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Subject: MUMMIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO THE MUMMY AT BELZONI'S EXHIBITION, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!)
Last Line: The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Variant Title(s): To A Mummy;to The Alabaster Sarcophagus, Deposited In The British Museum
Subject(s): Life; Mummies


CHILD'S ADDRESS TO THE KENTUCKY MUMMY, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, mistress mummy, since thus you've been found
Last Line: Trick'd out in the jewels kept by you?
Subject(s): Mummies


CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY; BRITISH MUSEUM, CASE NO. 6807, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A heap of crumbling bones
Last Line: More fair than she.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mummies; Museums; Art Gallerys


FOR AN EGYPTIAN BOY, DIED C. 700 B.C., by MARY KELLEY BARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a hollow child delicate, frail
Last Line: The flesh distills into a bettle's shell, %sacred despite disgust, protective, real
Subject(s): Mummies


GRAUBALLE MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if he had been poured %in tar, he lies
Last Line: Of each hooded victim %slashed and dumped
Subject(s): Mummies


HORNET'S NEST, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: This huge bubble of chewed wood
Last Line: It furiously with a stick
Subject(s): Death; Mummies


LOVE, WEEPING, LAID THIS SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! An old song, yellow with centuries!
Last Line: Troy trembles like a reed before the blast!
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mummies; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey


MUMMIES, by JUDY HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steven and I walk through
Last Line: Yes, son,' %worrying %maybe we all are
Subject(s): Mummies


MUMMIES, by NICANOR PARRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: One mummy walks on snow
Subject(s): Mummies


MUMMY MEETS HOT-HEADED NAKED ICE-BORERS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Djedmaatesankh-temple musician, wife of paankhntof
Last Line: Gauze dripping from her shrivelled, childless hands
Subject(s): Ice; Mummies; Quarrels


MUMMY'S HAND, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poorest were cleared out simply, gutted
Last Line: For your wrist. Feared, devout, simple. You, now, gutted
Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Mummies


ON SENESIS' MUMMY, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, too, when beauteous senesis
Last Line: To drop as blossoms do apart?
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mummies


PUNISHMENT, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can feel the tug
Subject(s): Mummies; Punishment


PUNISHMENT, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can feel the tug
Last Line: And tribal, intimate revenge
Subject(s): Mummies; Punishment


SONG:SO WHY DOES THIS DEAD CARNATION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So why does this dead carnation hold
Last Line: From the useless past a kind of present power
Subject(s): Carnations; Mummies


THE COURSE OF TIME: PROXIMITIES, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The memphian mummy, that from age to age
Last Line: The clown that long had slumbered in his arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Bones; Dust; Egyptology; Mummies; Mystery


THE GRAUBALLE MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if he had been poured / in tar, he lies
Subject(s): Mummies


THE TOLLUND MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some day I will go to aarhus
Subject(s): Mummies; Primitive Man; Tollund Man; Cavemen


TOLLUND MAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some day I will go to aarhus
Last Line: I will feel lost, %unhappy and at home
Subject(s): Mummies; Primitive Man; Tollund Man


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemidorus, farewell
Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell."
Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips