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Subject: INANIMATE OBJECTS
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SHELF IS A LEDGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't understand by what perversity
Last Line: As he screams in the dark: survive! Survive!
Subject(s): Books; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Inanimate Objects; Survival; Reading


BEFORE YOU CAME, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad
Subject(s): Inanimate Objects


PRIVATE BEACH, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is always the dispossessed—
Last Line: And proper reward for work
Subject(s): Inanimate Objects


RELICS, by SUSAN FIRER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not fountains, grottoes, or statuary, but pieces
Last Line: Us to sleep with when we were your baby girls
Subject(s): Death; Inanimate Objects; Religion


TENDER BUTTONS: OBJECTS, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A carafe, that is a blind glass
Subject(s): Inanimate Objects


THAT WILL TO DIVEST, by KAY RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Action creates / a taste
Subject(s): Inanimate Objects


THE THINGS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I walk in my house I see pictures,
Subject(s): Inanimate Objects