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Subject: REMBRANDT HARMENSZ VAN RIIJ (1606-1669)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE, by CHARLES WYATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've made up your mind
Last Line: Father yet, %is a distant crow
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


ALL THOSE ATTEMPTS IN THE CHANGING ROOM!, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look for me
Subject(s): Ambition; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


AMSTEL DIKE NEAR TROMPENBURG, C. 1649-50, by CHARLES WYATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dike is a road which curves gently away
Last Line: He draws, and stays behind, over and again
Subject(s): Drawing; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Roads; Water Supply


GLANCE; REMBRANDT'S 'YOUNG GIRL AT AN OPEN HALF DOOR', by ZHENG MIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exquisite are the shoulders receding into the shadow
Last Line: She casts, in a casual evening, a lasting glance at the ever changing world
Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


HORSE IN AMSTERDAM, AFTER REMBRANDT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could read the blazed face
Last Line: In the wilderness of its eyes
Subject(s): Horses; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


IN THE ANTWERP GALLERY, by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shadowed velvet and rosy pearls
Last Line: Rembrandt's portrait of my aunt!
Subject(s): Portraits; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


LAST SELF-PORTRAIT, AS REMBRANDT, FOR INSTANCE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The three birds had sat on the table by the tall
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF BATHSHEBA'S CROSSING, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside a room in amsterdam
Last Line: On tracks and sideroads
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Towns


REMBRANDT - SELF PORTRAIT, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I draw the magnificent dutch girl
Last Line: Get me gold linen!Cold jewels! %let me lightdrench the saddest of men
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


REMBRANDT IN THE STUDIO WITH PUPILS, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do muscles carry us
Last Line: But the only painting you will ever be good at
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poetry And Poets; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


REMBRANDT TO REMBRANDT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And there you are again, now as you are
Last Line: No longer the cold wash of holland scorn.
Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


REMBRANDT'S ETCHING OF A WOMAN PISSING, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We know the squat
Last Line: Life loves life
Subject(s): Etching; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


REMBRANDT'S LATE SELF-PORTRAITS, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You are confronted with yourself. Each year
Last Line: What each must reckon with
Subject(s): Death; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


REMBRANDT/PANTIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A couple if having a vitriolic lulu
Last Line: To the power of x and delicate under the slow turn %of the equally unreadable stars
Subject(s): Marriage; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Self-criticism


THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF BATHSHEBA'S CROSSING, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside a room in amsterdam
Last Line: On tracks and side roads
Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Amsterdam, Netherlands


THE PROGRESS OF ART, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy time! Art's early days!
Last Line: As nothing to the young!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Youth


THOUGHT BY REMVBRANDT'S WIFE AND MODEL DURING PAINTING FLORA, by RAPHAEL RUDNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: So good is he who paints me
Last Line: To make the fruit and leaves whole - and adam again
Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)