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Subject: SAPPHIRES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GEMS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I decked with gems my person fat, they glittered
Last Line: Luck planet.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Sapphires; Stones; Granite; Rocks


ON THE GIFT OF A SAPPHIRE TO MY WIFE ANN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blue stone seems a
Last Line: Most endlessly endure!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sapphires


POWDERS OF THE MERCHANT, by ALEXANDER JAVITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Scarlet spice
Last Line: Swift songs are drumming on the echoes of kol nidre . . .
Subject(s): Cabbala; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Sapphires; Yom Kippur; Kabbala; Kabbalah; Judaism


SAPPHIRE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a dream in which your love's fullness
Last Line: As the world's love before the world was
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers; Sapphires; Stones