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Subject: CORAL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CORAL ISLANDS, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Although with lives, submerged and brief
Last Line: A fertile continent.
Subject(s): Coral


CORAL REEF, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea is a circuit of holes
Last Line: Are intelligence: such skill in distribution-equally- %to every pocket of life
Subject(s): Coral


CORALVILLE, IN IOWA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Worldly skiinflints! We have your homestead - remember the one you wanted
Last Line: In several times in this place %then as now, a coral city %is rising from the hardest parts of us
Subject(s): Coral


IN HAITI: 3. BOY ON THE REEF/INFINITY OF DESIRE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three feet below his belly, the reef's
Last Line: Sea fans, past conchs pink as cunts.
Subject(s): Coral; Desire; Haiti; Sea; Ocean


MOLASSES REEF WRECK, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No telling %how many ships
Last Line: Face banishment from these our sovereign %blest shores
Subject(s): Artifacts; Colonialism; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Coral; Disasters; Diving And Divers; Explorers; Seaweed; Shipwrecks; Slavery; Spain; West Indies


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 92, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sailor, come ashore
Last Line: In the stormy sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Coral


THE CORAL GROVE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the wave is a coral grove
Last Line: Through the bending twigs of the coral grove.
Subject(s): Coral


THE CORAL INSECT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toil on! Toil on!
Last Line: While the wonder and pride of your works remain.
Subject(s): Coral; Insects; Sea; Bugs; Ocean


THE CORAL VINE, by LILLIE MAE LUMPKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The loveliest flower that I know
Last Line: I catch the rhythm, make it mine.
Subject(s): Coral