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Subject: NORTH, THE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AVIATION, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is lonelier than what's human: a group of them
Subject(s): North, The


FIFTH NOETIC HYMN, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I swear to god we think the way we see
Subject(s): North, The


HEART O' THE NORTH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And when I come to the dim trail-end
Last Line: Eternity passing over.
Subject(s): Canada; Future Life; North, The; Canadians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


HOME, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas midnight -- midnight in a southern clime
Last Line: There brighter skies, but fonder hearts are here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Home; Nature; Night; North, The; Bedtime


HOW I GET HOME TONIGHT, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I turn north on 1, past my dad's old place, the land
Last Line: In that welcome, who could possibly be there
Subject(s): North, The; Travel Directions


IN THE NORTHERN TOWNS, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are familiar with absences
Last Line: Country in the park
Subject(s): North, The; Towns; Travel Directions


MEN OF THE NORTH, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Conquering nations all come from the north
Last Line: Men of the north! You are welcome to all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; North, The; Tyranny & Tyrants; British Empire; England - Empire


MID-LIFE, LOOKING NORTH, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tendering motes in falls of light
Last Line: Iron-lunged, a soul turning into things
Subject(s): New York City; North, The


NORDLAND, by MADELYN CAMRUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: This winter I've lost the feeling
Last Line: In that space, so empty and so clean
Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; North, The; Winter


NORTH, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the north is a wild land, a splendid and a fair
Last Line: With a song upon my lips and a shouting in my heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): North, The


NORTH, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: North is weather, winter and change
Subject(s): North, The


NORTH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The north which looks toward the north
Last Line: The north which looks toward the north, strict and blunt
Subject(s): North, The


NORTH, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ancients knew the sorrows of exile
Subject(s): Exiles; North, The


NORTH AND SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the north I wove a dream
Last Line: In the silence of the dream I found fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grapes; North, The; Southern States; Nightmares; South (u.s.)


NORTH PLACE, by SARA WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The orange sky like water boiling in a pot
Last Line: Any lit window could be the one
Subject(s): North, The


NORTH WINDOW, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Landscaped with frost and zippered fast with ice
Last Line: Reality or a disabled chair.
Subject(s): Cold; North, The; Winter


SPRING IN THE NORTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days
Last Line: You're doubly dear because you come so late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): North, The; Spring


THE EMPIRE STATE, by LUCY BURGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They tell me of lands that are fairer than
Last Line: And free men are tilling thy soil.
Subject(s): New York City; North, The; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE FAR NORTH, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The far north is a frozen land
Last Line: In any kind of land to play
Subject(s): North, The


THE NORTH, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ancients knew the sorrows of exile
Subject(s): Exiles; North, The


THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE, by MANLEY H. PIKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There grows a fair palmetto in the sunny southern lands
Last Line: In one grand whole, as one soil bears the palmetto and the pine!
Subject(s): North, The; Palmetto Trees; Pine Trees; Reconciliation; Southern States; Trees; South (u.s.)


THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTH, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sea blood slumbering in our veins
Last Line: That the old north spirit moves again.
Subject(s): North, The; Seashore; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore


TO THE NORTH, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I give three calls to the north
Last Line: Come forth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): North, The


TUBINGEN, by ELISABETH BORCHERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once I stood down there
Last Line: As if the darkness were illuminated
Subject(s): North, The; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping


WATER LACE AND WHITE EYES, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the mist rising
Last Line: In the northern dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Bones; Frost; Ice; North, The; Snow