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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands
Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine!
Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks


AJANTA, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we went to the caves at ajanta, the bus
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves


AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns


AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave
Last Line: This cave where the myth enters the heart again
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves


AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns


AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream
Last Line: Great sensual shoulders in the web of time
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves


AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns


AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky
Last Line: I am plunged deep. Must find the midnight cave
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves


AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns


AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter
Last Line: Try to live as if there were a god
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves


AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns


AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast
Last Line: The journey, and the struggles of the moon
Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves


AS IN A GLASS: 1. TIME, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through this dark cavern I carry a torch to light me
Last Line: Time is the torch I carry in my hand.
Subject(s): Caves; Light; Caverns


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 23, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the witch's entertainment
Last Line: Ah, he rush'd to meet his doom!
Subject(s): Caves; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Caverns


BAT CAVE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cave looked much like any other
Last Line: Encrusted with shit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Variant Title(s): Return To Bali
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


BLIND-FISH CAVE, by SUSAN TERRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere high on the transparent mountain
Last Line: Within echoes of a reality too edgy to control
Subject(s): Caves; Fishing And Fishermen; Lakes


CAVE, by DIANE MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dripping fingers point and press inexorably to earth
Last Line: And point to earth
Subject(s): Caves; Nature


CAVE COUNTRY, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the farms were the rivers
Last Line: Under the waking, the blind fish swam
Subject(s): Caves


CAVE OF SOMNUS, FR. METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the cimmerian land, deep-caverned, lies
Last Line: And countless herbs, of night the drowsy store.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


CAVE OF STAFFA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd
Last Line: Has deigned to work as if with human art!
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns


CAVE OF STAFFA (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye shadowy beings, that have rights and claims
Last Line: Yon light shapes forth a bard, that shade a chief.
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns


CAVE OF STAFFA; AFTER THE CROWD HAD DEPARTED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks for the lessons of this spot - fit school
Last Line: Of softest music some reponsive place.
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns


CAVERNS; WRITTEN OF COLOSSAL CAVE, KENTUCKY, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aisles and abysses; leagues no man explores
Last Line: An ancient causeway of forgotten hell.
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


CAVES, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the hour of sleep a woman enters her own body
Last Line: Waiting like eggs to begin
Subject(s): Bodies; Caves; Women


CLAY BISON IN A CAVE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clay-tan, eyeless
Subject(s): Caves; Paintings & Painters; Paleontology; Caverns


COUGNAC, 2007, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mutilated man shall mount the mammoth,
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong
Last Line: A white baton flew up!
Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bats have not heard a word of their literary reputation
Last Line: Will cause its cave to be burned to ashes
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Blood; Caves; Vampires; Wings


FIRE IN THE OLD WAY, by FLORENCE FRIESEN LARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, so young!' you groan of the photo
Last Line: How we knew to keep that flame %burning
Subject(s): Caves; New Mexico; Pictures; Travel; Vacation


FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope smiled when your nativity was cast
Last Line: As the supreme artificer ordained.
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns


FORESTS AND CAVERNS, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have stood in forests, so old and vast
Last Line: Hath been filled up by a newer birth
Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M.
Subject(s): Caves; Forests; Kentucky


IDENTITY PROBLEM IN THE MAMMOTH CAVES, by WILLARD R. ESPY    Poem Source                    
First Line: O pendant stalactite
Last Line: If you are you, or her - %an upright stalagmite?
Subject(s): Caves


INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent
Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures.
Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness


INSCRIPTIONS: 1. FOR A GROTTO, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To me, whom in their lays the shepherds call
Last Line: Wise pallas and the immortal muses own.
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


JUKEBOX IN THE COALFIELDS, by WALTER LOWENFELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's rosefield gardens, richeyville, teen-age coke bar in this appalachian
Last Line: Miner from a word, only in some secret crevice of his blind will-to-be
Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines And Miners; Rocky Mountain Range


KANHERI CAVES, by DOM MORAES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over these blunted, these tormented hills
Last Line: When the clouds lift, he'll glimpse the miles-off sea
Subject(s): Caves


LETTER 2, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Searching the cave gallery of your face
Last Line: Darkness for a last acre to devour
Subject(s): Caves


LYDSTEP CAVERNS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in these fretted caverns whence the sea
Last Line: Better the droughts, the steeps, the glare of life!
Subject(s): Caves; Wales; Caverns; Welshmen; Welshwomen


MAURINE: PART 5, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A visit to a cave some miles away
Last Line: E'en to the dregs, this bitter cup of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Caves; Hope; Love; Pain; Caverns; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't remember the name of the story
Last Line: Crying my name among blind fish, %wanting so much to come home
Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents


NATURAL RESOURCES, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft black bituminous nights of childhood
Last Line: On great dark pedestals of love
Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines And Miners


OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth
Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh.
Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails


ON A CAVE, by ANYTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, traveller, this hollow rock beneath
Last Line: In these cool streams that from the cavern burst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes
Subject(s): Caves; Rest; Travel; Caverns; Journeys; Trips


PURE ELEMENT OF WATERS! WHERESOE'ER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their anguish,—and they blend sweet songs with thine
Subject(s): Springs; Water; Caves


SALSETTE AND ELEPHANTA, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis eve -- and o'er the face of parting day
Last Line: And seeks redemption from the incarnate god.
Subject(s): Elephanta Caves, India; Hinduism; Religion; Salsette (island), India; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology


SALVE!, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To live within a cave - it is most good
Last Line: They have a cheerful warmth -- those ashes on the stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


SECRET CAVERN, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Underneath the boardwalk, way, way back
Last Line: None of all the other children know!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Caves; Imagination


TEMPLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have devoted more than one day simply
Last Line: Pine-cones are strewn like roses
Subject(s): Caves; Temples; Thought


THE CAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Once, in that cave, I heard my breath
Last Line: Back to the open light and home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


THE GROTTO OF EGERIA, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gush of waters! - faint and sweet and wild
Last Line: And commune with a spiritual bride!
Subject(s): Caves; Egeria (nymph); Rome, Italy; Caverns


THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't remember the name of the story
Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone
Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 163, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a single cave
Last Line: I have the primordial buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ascesticism; Buddhism; Caves; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists; Caverns


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 33, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We slip into tientai caves
Last Line: And going for a long long time
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Hell; Caverns


THE SEA-SIDE CAVE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the dead of night by the side of the sea
Last Line: Where some murdered man must be.
Subject(s): Caves; Caverns


THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Curious to see caverns
Subject(s): Lakes; Caves; Youth; Aging; Disappointment; Pools; Ponds; Caverns


WELCOME, TO THE CAVES OF ARTA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such subtile filigranity and nobless of construccion
Last Line: It is some poor touristers, in the depth of obscure cristal,%wich deceased of their emocion on a pas
Subject(s): Caves; Mallorca; Tourists