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Subject: POCAHONTAS (1595-1617)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These episodes are taken
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617)


OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Powhatan was conqueror
Last Line: Our mother, pocahontas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War


PLAYING POCAHONTAS, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Playing pocahontas was paula's weekend work
Last Line: Their endless battle %and no one noticed
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617)


POCAHONTAS, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the barren sand
Last Line: And breathes a prayer for him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


POCAHONTAS [JANUARY 5, 1608], by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wearied arm and broken sword
Last Line: Saved a captive englishman.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


POCAHONTAS' CROSSING, by CLAIRE BATEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At sea she learns diamonds: white silk on white linen
Last Line: The world's end; she dances to keep from falling
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617)


STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c.
Variant Title(s): Enough
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c.
Last Line: It was enough; it is enough %if present faith mend partial proof
Variant Title(s): Enoug
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617)


THE LAST MEETING OF POCAHONTAS AND THE GREAT CAPTAIN [JUNE, 1616], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a stately hall at brentford
Last Line: "take my hand, and let us follow the great captain to his queen."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Smith, John (1580-1631); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These episodes are taken
Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS [APRIL 5, 1614], by MRS. M. M. WEBSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: That balmy eve, within a trellised bower
Last Line: Shall raise the choral hymn from eve till morn.
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Rolfe, John (1585-1622); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America