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Subject: PLEIADES (CONSTELLATION)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: AN AUTUMN MORNING IN SKOKOKU-JI, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night watching the pleiades
Subject(s): Anger; Pleiades (constellation)


FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: AN AUTUMN MORNING IN SKOKOKU-JI, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night watching the pleiades
Last Line: The first time I have %ever seen them close
Subject(s): Anger; Pleiades (constellation)


PLEIADES, by ARTHUR HENRY ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night I saw the pleiades again
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation)


PLEIADES, by MARY BARNARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are heard of as a choir of seven
Last Line: What girl or star sings now %like a swan on the yellow river?
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation)


PLEIADES FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I view seven sisters
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation)


PLEIADES FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I view seven sisters
Last Line: Who says: it happened. That's all. It just happened. %and runs on
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation)


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 54, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the golden hunter go
Last Line: Is here upon my breast.
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation); Autumn


THE LOST PLEIAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And is there glory from the heavens departed?
Last Line: Shines not the less for that one vanished star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation)


THE LOST PLEIAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A story from the stars; or rather one
Last Line: But turns to death on touching earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation)


THE LOST PLEIAD, by ARTHUR REED ROPES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas a pretty little maiden
Last Line: As merope or sterope -- I can't recall her name!
Alternate Author Name(s): Roos, Adrian
Subject(s): Girls; Pleiades (constellation); Stars; Women


THE LOST PLEIAD, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in the sky
Last Line: The desolate home they blessed?
Subject(s): Death; Pleiades (constellation); Dead, The


THE PLEIADES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By day you cannot see the sky
Last Line: To feel that they had stars for toys!
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation)