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Subject: TOKYO
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No sooner was I come to this strange roof
Last Line: But still, I saw a ghost, and lacked one child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Tokyo


BUILDING THE LIBRARY, TOKYO UNIVERSITY; NIGHT SCENE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like men of fire, in painful night
Last Line: For the great muse to come!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Tokyo Imperial University; Library; Librarians


CITIES: 6. TOKIO, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mad dogs of war
Last Line: To beg from door to door.
Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Peace; Tokyo; War; Buddha; Buddhists


IMPERIAL HOTEL, by NAKANO SHIGEHARU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, it's the west
Last Line: And vomits a vile stink %over all our heads
Subject(s): Imperial Hotel (tokyo)


ON A SMALL DOG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Animula vagula blandula, foundling dear
Last Line: And so to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Tokyo


PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO FIRST: 3. THE TEMPLES OF TOKIO, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rest, in mausoleums grand
Last Line: Beneath the waving bamboo-trees.
Subject(s): Temples; Tokyo; Mosques


STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 3. WASHINGTON, D.C., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't lose any important papers
Subject(s): Tokyo; Washington, D.c.


THE AUTHOR'S LAST WORDS TO HIS STUDENTS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive what I, adventuring highest themes
Last Line: The voice of your devotion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Tokyo Imperial University; Educators; Professors