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Subject: ORION (CONSTELLATION)
Matches Found: 14

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHARADE: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first gleams bright 'mid azure shields
Last Line: Illumining the southern sky.
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


FOLLOW WISE ORION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He is just as high
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by ROBERT+(1) ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: How bored the stars must be
Last Line: Wishing to be %swallowed by slow moving cars %named for celestial %bodies and carnivores
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by BARBARA JORDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emissaries come from the pond-a red-winged
Last Line: Its patient and subversive tongue; configurations %of loneliness; stars %rattling in a box
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love orion, his fiery body, his ten stars
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love orion, his fiery body, his ten stars
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far back when I went zig-zagging
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far back when I went zig-zagging
Last Line: Out here in the cold with you %you with your back to the wall
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That's my star
Last Line: The way my hand they cut off hurts pierced as it is by a continual ache
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How oft I've watch'd thee from the garden croft
Last Line: From his light-bearers, whether man or star.
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION, by FUKI WOOYENAKA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now burns orion in the wintry sky
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


ORION'S BELT, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Read this by your own light
Last Line: Everything else mostly fades %in the folds of heaven
Subject(s): Night; Orion (constellation); Stars


PEGASUS, by PIERRE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise
Last Line: The white beast in forbidden heavens leap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Orion (constellation); Soul; Nightmares


UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man must ponder
Last Line: To me unknown.
Subject(s): Beauty; Orion (constellation); Thought; Time; Thinking