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Subject: SALMON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLEVEDON VERSES: 6. PER OMNIA DEUS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What moves at cardiff, how a man
Last Line: The true god rushes in the salmon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): God; Salmon


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: ACROSS FROM CELILO FALLS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above goldendale we sat on a power relay tower
Last Line: We danced and sang the dance of the white deer
Subject(s): Rivers; Salmon; Tourists; Waterfalls


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GREAT WHITE FATHER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Engineers %found the great white father dying
Last Line: Bloated with ears and testicles %and human hair
Subject(s): Grandparents; Salmon; Sea Voyages


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE SALMON FESTIVAL, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: At celilo falls the columbia
Last Line: Singing quietly to the salmon
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Rivers; Salmon; Sea Voyages


DEATH LOOKS DOWN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death looks down on the salmon
Last Line: Lying still, always facing the constant motion
Subject(s): Salmon; Death


DESTINATIONS, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday I saw some bears at the top of a waterfall
Subject(s): Bears; Salmon


ELEGY UPON A DEAD SALMON, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For thee no more shall water quechee pour
Last Line: But if thou crest the wave with virgin finn &c --
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Quechee Gorge, Vermont; Salmon


PRAYER TO THE SOCKEYE SALMON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Welcome, o supernatural one, o swimmer
Last Line: Now I will do to you what you came here for me to do
Subject(s): Salmon


SALMON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this shallow creek
Last Line: Dirt from the bottom to cover the eggs
Subject(s): Salmon


SALMON, by JOHN ORMOND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river sucks them home
Last Line: Was this %your glimpse %of holy law?
Subject(s): Rivers; Salmon


SALMON CANS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cats were all right in their place
Last Line: More particular, for sunday breakfast
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Salmon


SALMON PEOPLE, by BARBARA HURD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The kwakiutl believe a thin line
Last Line: Adrift and decomposing %in the sureness of home
Subject(s): Mankind; Salmon


SALMON RIVER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a sweet stream; and so, 'tis true, are all
Last Line: I'll try to prove.
Subject(s): Salmon River, New Hampshire


SILVERSIDES, by FRANCES HATHAWAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great king salmon, come from the sea
Last Line: Down to the tide flow, down to the sea!
Subject(s): Salmon


SPIRIT, by EARLE THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Salmon leaps into fine mist and the old scaffolds
Last Line: And dance for them. We understand each other
Subject(s): Salmon


THE CHIEF'S PRAYER AFTER THE SALMON CATCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o kia-kunae, praise!"
Last Line: Priae! Praise! Praise!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;native Americans;salmon; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE SALMON GILLERS, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the full tide swallows the sandspits
Last Line: Starring the river.
Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fish & Fishing; Salmon; Anglers


THE WONDERFUL FISHING OF PETERKIN SPRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fisherman bold was peterkin spray
Last Line: And he sailed and he sailed and he sailed away.
Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Salmon; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the second moon the
Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time


TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the second moon the
Last Line: Cycle from the sky to the sea
Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time