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Subject: PANAMA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF PANAMA, by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chuff! Chuff! Chuff!' an' a mountain-bluff
Last Line: As we lift the landscape along!
Alternate Author Name(s): Runyon, Damon
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


A WELCOME TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To north and south, and east and west
Last Line: Is camped upon the bay!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Festivals; Panama; World's Fairs; Expositions; Fairs; Pageants


CUT ACROSS; A SONG OF THE PANAMA CANAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says new york to yokohama
Last Line: "visit often, -- cut across!"
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


DARIEN, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silently upon a peak in darien
Last Line: Kissed -- and let in the eager waters there.
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


GOETHALS, THE PROPHET ENGINEER, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man went down to panama
Last Line: By the prophet-engineer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Variant Title(s): Goethals
Subject(s): Goethals, George Washington (1858-1928); Panama


IDYL OF THE MOUNTAIN, by DEMETRIO FABREGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you not seen two springs of pure water, among
Last Line: Slowly yours will go on drawing nearer to mine!
Subject(s): Mountains; Panama; Togetherness


LIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS; POEM ON UNION OF THE OCEANS AT PANAMA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Espousal of the vast, void seas
Last Line: And fear be as a tale that's told.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Southern Cross; Canal Zone


PANAMA, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An embarrassingly public dogfight
Last Line: North of the rio grande
Subject(s): Panama


PANAMA, by MATTHEW FURBUSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down where america's not rich but thin
Last Line: Advancing, of course, always advancing- %toward a land that buys its primitives
Subject(s): Panama


PANAMA, by ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the early twenties
Subject(s): Panama


PANAMA, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the oceans twain have waited
Last Line: But -- the hand that ope'd the gate shall forever hold the key!
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


PANAMA, by JULIA VINOGRAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're having a nice little war
Last Line: Will drive away in his sleigh %to the north pole %where all the candy is. %want som candy, little gi
Subject(s): Panama


PANAMA HYMN, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord of the sundering land and deep
Last Line: And marry sundered deep to deep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Panama


PANAMA! MY PANAMA!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the dumps of the canal zone, in the
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Panama Canal


PANAMA: THREE PICTURES, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out of the sultry sky the great moon / beams
Last Line: And rest, refreshing rest, hangs over all.
Subject(s): Forests; Panama; Pioneers; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips


PANAMA; HOME OF THE DOVE-PLANT OR HOLY GHOST FLOWER, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time the lord drew back the sea
Last Line: Let all men pass who come in love.)
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Plants; Canal Zone; Planting; Planters


THE CHRIST OF PANAMA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the heart of the world
Last Line: Set we the image of christ!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Panama Canal; Peace; Statues; Canal Zone


THE FLAG; AN INCIDENT OF STRAIN'S EXPEDITION, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never have got the bearings quite
Last Line: Only -- we couldn't read the chart.
Subject(s): Isthmus Of Darien, Panama; Panama Canal; Patriotism; Strain, Isaac G. (1821-1857); Canal Zone


THE PATH TO PANAMA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring your dredges, uncle sam
Last Line: Along the path to panama.
Subject(s): Panama. American Invasion, 1989; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PRESIDENT (THE PANAMA TOLLS), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He plead for honor and the country's good
Last Line: But left to history the ungrudging sort.
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Canal Zone


THE SHIP CANAL FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, by FRANCIS LIEBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rend america asunder
Last Line: "make the ocean free."
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Canal Zone


THE TIDES AT PANAMA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As effort gigantic
Last Line: "to prevent trust-promotion."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Canal Zone


TO THE PANAMA CANAL, by BENIGNO PALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail, prodigy of human effort, emblem of freedom
Last Line: Nobly to the sacrifice, to exclaim: 'for the good of the %world!'
Subject(s): Freedom; Latin America - History; Panama Canal


VICTORY IN PANAMA, by SALVATORE GALIOTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gringos are invading.'
Last Line: Panama was an %even greater victory than grenada
Subject(s): Panama. American Invasion, 1989


WE INVADED TWO WEEKS LATER, by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's so humid in panama
Last Line: I empty my pockets of bright balboas
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Panama. American Invasion, 1989