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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - PRE-COLUMBIAN
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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