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Subject: GANGES RIVER, INDIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A ROMANCE OF THE GANGES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven maidens 'neath the midnight
Last Line: The river floweth on.
Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Love


GANGES, by MARY MCGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I read not long ago, how all the tide
Subject(s): Ganges River, India


RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun
Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World


SONG, by EMMA ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the ganges' regal stream
Last Line: Within my native land.
Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Rivers


STANDING NEAR THE GHATS ALONG THE GANGES, by WILLIAM KISTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since this is the circumstance of life
Last Line: Into ash, gone without hesitation %into the sky of continuous beginning
Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Life; Travel


THE BAYADERE, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near strange, weird temples, where the ganges' tide
Last Line: Lulls the grim, drowsy cobra on her arm.
Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology; Temples; Mosques


THE GANGES, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sorry but we can't go to the immersions tonight
Last Line: Children watering their charges, the black lulled elephants.
Subject(s): Funerals; Ganges River, India; Memory; Spiritual Life; Burials


THE GANGES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On sweeps the mighty river - calmly flowing
Last Line: Bear as that bears -- where'er thou goest -- blessing!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ganges River, India


TO A STRAY FOWL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor bird! Destined to lead thy life
Last Line: As erst by indus' bank and far ganges.
Subject(s): Birds; Ganges River, India