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Subject: WATCHMEN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WATCH IN THE NIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Watchman, what of the night?
Last Line: Night is over and done.
Subject(s): Death; Night; Watchmen; Dead, The; Bedtime


DOLLY IN THE RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When dolly tiptoed in the rain
Last Line: The shameless sun peeped out to see.
Subject(s): Charm; Rain; Watchmen; Women


DUEL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I foresee a day when the stranger
Last Line: April rain
Subject(s): Death; Devil; Duels; Serenity; Strangers; Watchmen; Wisdom


EARTH AND SEA, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Children screaming in the playful sea
Last Line: Old man in the earth, watch over me.
Subject(s): Children; Sea; Watchmen


NIGHT WATCH, by GYULA ILLYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small but persistent pain
Last Line: Than pass the word on?
Subject(s): Enemies; Watchmen


NIGHT WATCHMAN OF PONT-AU-CHANGE, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the night watchman of rue de flandre
Last Line: Even if hidden by clouds it will still be there %goodmorning, goodmorning, with all of my heart bonj
Subject(s): France; Surrealism; Watchmen; World War Ii


OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to look at what happened
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen; Enigmas; Oddities


OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to look at what happened
Last Line: Like death comes out of disease, %I want to look at what happened
Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen


THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A small light, fugitive, peers
Last Line: Shreds minute from minute?
Subject(s): Watchmen; Night; Bedtime


THE WATCH BY NIGHT, by EMMA LEE GLENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Centurion, centurion
Last Line: Could keep immanuel from his throne.
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Watchmen


THE WATCHERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trains go roaring past by day and flashing by at night
Last Line: Who never know the world is wide—and do not want to know!
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Watchmen; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE WATCHMAN, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watchman, the judgment is at hand, give warning
Last Line: "stands not a stone."
Subject(s): Death; Peace; Watchmen; Dead, The


WATCHMAN'S SONG FROM KENDAL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ho, watchman, ho! %twelve is the clock!
Last Line: And hostile hand; %twelve is the clock!
Subject(s): Watchmen