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Subject: ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CANYON WALLS, by IRIS ELIZABETH SPARKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know the deep-browed peace of canyon walls
Last Line: And the silence reigns.
Subject(s): Canyons; Rocky Mountain Range; Silence


CHARLES D'ORLEANS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charles d'orleans goes into the rock
Last Line: And turquoise of course, not the legality %of barbarians. Listen: scythians are edible
Subject(s): History; Language; Rocky Mountain Range; Scythians; Travel


CROSSING THE ROCKIES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At fort morgan, colorado, six cars line up behind the flashing red lights
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range


CROSSING THE ROCKIES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At fort morgan, colorado, six cars line up behind the flashing red lights
Last Line: A dark rumbling - we're over water now - then moving %fasterand even more quietly %further into it
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range


FOR J.A. AS DUSK DEEPENS CANYON, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This time we were passing into night
Last Line: Pyrola
Subject(s): Canyons; Rocky Mountain Range


FOR PURPLE MOUNTAINS' MAJESTY', by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw them today
Last Line: What that song is all about
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range


JUKEBOX IN THE COALFIELDS, by WALTER LOWENFELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's rosefield gardens, richeyville, teen-age coke bar in this appalachian
Last Line: Miner from a word, only in some secret crevice of his blind will-to-be
Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines And Miners; Rocky Mountain Range


MOONRISE IN THE ROCKIES, by ROUTH PICKETT BRADLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've seen the moon rise over vast endless plains
Last Line: Against the glamour of the night.
Subject(s): Moon; Rocky Mountain Range


MOONRISE IN THE ROCKIES, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trembling train clings to the leaning wall
Last Line: And a million firs stand tipped with lucent fire.
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range


ON RECROSSING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN WINTER,AFTER MANY YEARS, by JOHN CHARLES FREMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long years ago I wandered here
Last Line: The brief day's close.
Variant Title(s): The Wanderer
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range


ROCKY MOUNTAIN NIGHT, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: These mountains are too tall; these crags too starkly loom
Last Line: Oh, city noises, break! The world is all too still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range


SUN ON THE ROCKIES, by EDNA SWANSON KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The long white fingers of the dawn
Last Line: Ere night its mantle of darkness spreads.
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range; Sun


THOUGHT IN WHITE WINTER, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mountains high are white with snow
Last Line: For human pity's sake.
Subject(s): Cold; Rocky Mountain Range; Snow; White (color); Winter


WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east
Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States