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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - PRE-COLUMBIAN Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FABLE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ages of fire and of air Last Line: Broken mirrors where the world sees itself shattered Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian FABLE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Epochs of fire and air Last Line: Fragments that will never again cohere %broken mirrors in which the world sees itself massacred Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian FACES, FACES, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to that green land Last Line: The far-flung rains shall wash %and winds shall topple over Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian JULY DAWN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a waning crescent Last Line: When curved toward the full it sharpens Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian JULY DAWN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a waning crescent Last Line: Swift to that cluster of evenings %when curved toward the full it sharpens Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian OF THE INCANS: ON THE CONQUEST OF PERU, by JEAN GARRIGUE Poem Source First Line: By what malignancy of secret orders Last Line: The conquest's course before it plunged %to the crevasses that had once been spanned Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian ON A SACRIFICE OF DARKNESS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say you know it is not so, say Last Line: Descending, bright with knives, through a sky %as ignorant as a blind man's eye Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT HER BATH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a satisfaction Last Line: The birds and the flowers / look in Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT HER BATH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a satisfaction Last Line: Glad of a fellow to %marvel at %the birds and flowers %look in Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PRAISE OF ONE POET FOR ANOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You are a red flower of burnt maize Last Line: It is only when you raise up your flowers, here in mexico %that the day flames Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PRAYER FOR A YOUNG WIFE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the damask-velvet gloom Last Line: This woman is too quick and wild. %waken her. Send her home to me Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian RUINS, by IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The taste of time's beyond our wit Last Line: So leads this parable-by the fall-line too: %'all's all rehearsal for the grand adieu.' Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian SHE, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: What was her beauty in our first estate Last Line: And deck the broken stones like saxifrage Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian SHOWER OF GOLD, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Golden, within this golden hive Last Line: The bed they know %may support agony or joy- %to bed they go Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl of the musing mouth Last Line: They were dreams of one %thirsting as for rest, %as I, unblest Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian SWAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I study out a dark similitude Last Line: Sing of that nothing of which all is made, %or listen into silence, like a god Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian THE SWAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I study out a dark similitude Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian THE VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood above you, and the mountain flamed Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood above you, and the mountain flamed Last Line: O mourn for the world as I must this morning %in a cloak which is made of job's-tears Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian WAY DOWN, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time swings her burning hands Last Line: Our best hopes share, as bright, %as peerless as a cock's eye Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian |
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