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Subject: OIL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEFORE WE MOTHERNAKED FALL, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Oil Fields; Gold


DESERTED DERRICK, by MARY ELIZABETH BRANTLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Towering high above oil-stained lands
Last Line: That cast its rays upon the derrick in an early year.
Subject(s): Petroleum; Ruins; Wells; Oil


ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The furnace tolls the knell of falling steam
Last Line: To bring my morning coffee to a boil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Furnaces; Standard Oil Company; Kilns


HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never before have I so resembled british petroleum
Last Line: Or notional, now that oceans are wheezing to a stop?
Subject(s): Oil & Gas Companies; Environment; Poetry & Poets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


OIL FIELDS AT NIGHT, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night is dark, but in the east a glow
Last Line: Earth yields her buried treasure, sobbing, sobbing.
Subject(s): Oil Fields


OKLAHOMA, by STELLA B. REDDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oklahoma, youngest state of the west
Last Line: Oklahoma.
Subject(s): Greed; Oklahoma; Petroleum; Avarice; Cupidity; Oil


PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: OIL, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Black smoke hides the sun
Last Line: Such a hell as dante saw.
Subject(s): Petroleum; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States


PIONEER: THE VIGNETTE OF AN OIL-FIELD, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the wagons have gone by
Last Line: With church bells quietly ringing!
Subject(s): Oil Fields; Pioneers


SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out
Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup.
Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism


THE HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN, by JOHN UPDIKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In nishapur did khaibar khan
Subject(s): Iran; Petroleum; Persia; Oil


THE OIL FIRE, by GEORGE BOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lightning strikes, a sudden blinding flash
Last Line: Is smouldering ruin, shriveled, seared and black.
Subject(s): Fire; Oil Fields


THE REFINERY, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirsty and languorous after their long black sleep
Subject(s): Oil Fields; Social Commentaries


THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a texas maiden, she came of low degree
Last Line: Had rested there for ages above a flow of oil?
Subject(s): Cowboys; Petroleum; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States