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Subject: ROOMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEMORY, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: And I remember that this room was mine
Last Line: The winds that have no voice.
Subject(s): Rooms


A PLACE OF REFUGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In this my den the haunting muse
Last Line: In this my den.
Subject(s): Calm; Quiet Life; Rooms; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


BATHROOM HOLDS ITS BREATH, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although there is never an end
Last Line: Rozsa hasn't washed karl's towel in weeks
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Budapest, Hungary; Rooms


BORROWED HOUSE, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This isn't our table, that wasn't our bed
Last Line: And be heard from: peaches, pears, and apricots %vendettas, charms, and prayers
Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted; Prairies; Rooms


COREOPSIS INTELLIGENCE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a stuffed room
Last Line: Puts them miles ahead of %anyone in the room
Subject(s): Reason; Rooms


CYNTHIA'S ROOM, by MRS. L. H. CAULFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cynthia's room is white and green
Last Line: For then there's cynthia about.
Subject(s): Rooms; Presence


DISLOCATED ROOM, by RICHARD SIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was night for many miles and then the real stars in the purple sky
Last Line: Digging out the bullet and holding it up to the light
Subject(s): Bullets; Night; Rooms


DIVIDING THE DARK INTO PARCELS, by PATRICIA BARONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ones who stay awake all night
Last Line: Won't my mother %come
Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Rooms; Sickness


GOING TO BED, by MARIAN MCMUNN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time for bed and the stairs are dark
Last Line: And you can't see nothing-at-all!
Subject(s): Rooms


HIS ROOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm home again, my dear old room
Last Line: Their sweethearts' and talk love to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Memory; Rooms; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares


HOTEL, by GAYLE GIBLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thousand rooms in a beautiful home
Last Line: This home is a grotesque fantasy.
Subject(s): Home; Hotels; Rooms; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HOTEL ONTARIO, by RUBEN MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fractured sun through the crossbeamed skylight
Last Line: To break the glass door
Subject(s): Hotels; Rooms; Tourists


HOTEL ROOM, CANTICLE, by MELODY GOETZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't want to go to the party-nothing to say, too tired to be funny, &
Last Line: (this is how we are, are you listening
Subject(s): Conversation; Hotels; Rooms


IN AN OLD NURSERY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A prim old room where memories stir
Last Line: Of some walled garden!
Subject(s): Babies; Past; Rooms; Infants


IN THE BEDROOM, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sheets are linen
Last Line: To the creaking on either side of the door
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Rooms


IN THE STUDY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nicest place in all the house
Last Line: Just as wise and big as he.
Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Rooms; Childhood


INCENSE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her boudoir is ornamented with
Last Line: Only by their singular frequency
Subject(s): Property; Rooms; Women; Possessions


INCENSE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her boudoir is ornamented with
Last Line: Only by their singular frequency
Subject(s): Property; Rooms; Women


LITTLE ROOM, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
First Line: Little room, you're kind and still
Last Line: Not the friendly soul, you are / little room
Subject(s): Rooms; Home


LIVING ROOM, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How can we make friends before one of us dies
Last Line: Your lonely spirit might hang on and care
Subject(s): Rooms


MADNESS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wardrobe towers above the table lamp
Last Line: Who rearranges with impartial feet %the silence in the caverns of a skull
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Variant Title(s): Longitud
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Old Age; Rooms


MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM: KANSAS CITY, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Limestone %concrete and steel
Last Line: And 'country gardens' on the piano
Subject(s): Kansas City, Missouri; Rooms


MY STUDIO, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love it, yet I hardly can tell why
Last Line: Flowed in the poets' sparkling hippocrene.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Rooms


NEW TENANT, by BERYL V. THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: She led me to the second floor
Last Line: She'd rented me a tree!
Subject(s): Rooms


ON MOVING TO THE NAROPA CAMPUS FALL 1991, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This for the tuesday morning
Last Line: Snow %on the way in the foothills
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moving And Movers; Rooms; Universities & Colleges


ONE NIGHT, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The room was poor and shabby
Last Line: In my solitary house, I'm drunk that way again
Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P.
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Rooms


PAX BEATA, by MARY RACHEL NORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've closed my door and I am all alone
Last Line: I've closed my door and I am all alone.
Subject(s): Rooms; Solitude; Loneliness


PLATZPOEM: BASEMENT, by ALICIA RABINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Many drums inhabit this smoky basement, subdividing space/like ski poles...
Last Line: They lay it in its chair like a broom against the wall which holds the whole room up
Subject(s): Cellars; Rooms


PLATZPOEM: MY NEW ROOM, by ALICIA RABINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a monk. The light barely burns
Last Line: And together we'll look at your dark window
Subject(s): Monks; Rooms


PRIVATE ROOM, by DAVID CHORLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old pastoral painted
Last Line: Better to hear the snap %of a prostitute's brassiere
Subject(s): Privacy; Prostitution; Rooms


READING ROOM, by KRISTIN FOGDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Feet like running
Last Line: And says the words without a sound
Subject(s): Books; Rooms


RECTANGULAR HOLE IN THE LIVING ROOM WALL, by BRADLEY PAUL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was eleven inches wide %and half as high
Last Line: With pounds of water %laid on top
Subject(s): Rooms; Walls


REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics
Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women


REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics
Last Line: I'm going to give her everything I own
Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women


ROOM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come to my yellow room
Last Line: Upon the resurrection of my hands
Subject(s): Home; Rooms


ROOM, by PEGGY ANN TARTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've heard all this before
Last Line: And hovering over the little, broken house
Subject(s): Rooms


ROOM, by RENEE WEISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The room's so tightly fit
Last Line: The room fills up with room. He is, %is everywhere
Subject(s): Rooms


ROOM ABOVE, by SUPRITHA RAJAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The occupants of the room
Last Line: As the edge of a long skirt shyly escapes %the closing heavy door
Subject(s): Neighbors; Rooms


ROOM BELOW THE RIVER, by AL MAGINNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every summer a few bridge divers disappear
Last Line: All the downward commands of gravity
Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Rooms; Water


ROOMS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Patio 2b
Last Line: Kitchen p
Subject(s): Houses; Rooms


ROOMS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the heaviness of official rooms
Last Line: (outside an organ's singing in the road!)
Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Houses, Deserted; Memory; Rooms; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The


SEPARATE ROOMS, by DAVID E. JOYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We started out with king size
Last Line: Begging us for separate rooms
Subject(s): Family Life; Rooms


SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is a room unlike a moor?
Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house
Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 4
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Moors (land); Rooms


THE AE WEE ROOM, by ELLEN C. NICHOLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's years sin' last we left it - oh, sae weel's I mind the day!
Last Line: The thocht o' puirtith's happy days in ae wee room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Mrs. James
Subject(s): Rooms; Women


THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then
Last Line: In the other poem.
Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary


THE GHOST CHAMBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the lonely room
Last Line: Of the forsaken room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Rooms


THE ROOM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With crayons and pieces of paper
Last Line: The white room swallowing what was passed.
Subject(s): Imagination; Rooms; Fancy


THE ROOM OF THE HOUSEHOLD, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a room I love dearly - the sanctum of bliss
Last Line: With a tinge on my cheek and content in my breast.
Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Rooms


THE SIGNET, by ELIZABETH STANTON HARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within four walls that hold
Last Line: Once upon a time.
Subject(s): Rooms; Time


TWO FROM THE MONTEREY HOTEL: 1. LET'S RAISE A GLASS OF PORT TO THE OLD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Didn't know much about the old guy
Last Line: Weighing as much as two full golf bags
Subject(s): Hotels; Monterey, California; Old Age; Rooms


VISIT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome to abu dhabi
Last Line: Alright by me.
Subject(s): Birds; Falcons; Guests; Rooms; Visiting


YOUR NAME ON IT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just
Subject(s): Names; Rooms


YOUR NAME ON IT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just
Last Line: There's always the window, your signature
Subject(s): Names; Rooms