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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eye's plain version is a thing apart
Variant Title(s): An Ordinary Evening In New Haven, Selection
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


ERYK'S MOBIL, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes in the evening, the gulls come
Last Line: Mondo oscenita ...The corruption of christina
Subject(s): Automobiles; New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 1. THE ANGELS, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a latin king falls, the angels
Last Line: There are many angels in new haven %and a heaven in each one
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 10. VISIONS, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You live with a little dog that no one likes but you
Last Line: Or shaking your box of cornflakes for the morning
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 11. THE POISONED RIVER, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love has its colors too
Last Line: In the light that is love %to no truer waters
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 2. THE Q BRIDGE, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a power line high above the q bridge
Last Line: Transparency and sense
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 3. THE DIVINITY SCHOOL, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the low vault of winter, in snow-suffused night
Last Line: The white face lowered from the sky
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 4. RIP VAN WINKLE, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are giving a reading from your new book of poems
Last Line: For a man who missed his life
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 5. HIS OWN IDEAS, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your grocer doesn't try to sell you produce
Last Line: What else is there but his own ideas?
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 6. VANISHINGS, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In colonial times, new haven was meant to be a major port
Last Line: Where possibility has anchored like a ship
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 7. EVENING OF THE WHALE, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What brings this whale tonight
Last Line: That something destructible %is about to touch ground
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 9. OFFICE OF VITAL STATS, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are two women near retirement age
Last Line: It was as if she challenged the authority of heaven
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 8. BLUE LIGHTS, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When undergraduate christian prince offered his wallet
Last Line: And the division of sub-particles of atoms %at the essence of matter
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


NEW HAVEN SPRING, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I could touch %my tongue to the moon
Last Line: Going somewhere %in half circles
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eye's plain version is a thing apart
Last Line: Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses %a dust, a force that traverses a shade
Variant Title(s): An Ordinary Evening In New Haven, Sels
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


SCIENCE HILL, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a pure air in sterile hoods
Last Line: And a moment's light tossed over %a dim celestial shoulder
Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut


THE BURYING-GROUND, by NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, where are they whose all that earth could give
Last Line: Deep in my stricken heart, and shrine them only there.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; New Haven, Connecticut; Graveyards


THE ELMS OF NEW HAVEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves we knew
Last Line: The hearts he touch'd drew to him.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Hillhouse, James (1754-1832); New Haven, Connecticut


THE PHANTOM SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mather's magnalia christi, / of the old colonial time
Last Line: He had sent this ship of air.
Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728); New Haven, Connecticut; Ships & Shipping