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Subject: INDIANA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EXPATIATION ON THE COMBINING OF WEATHERS AT THIRTY ...., by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, ammons rolled the octaves slow
Last Line: In only person, which was the blues
Subject(s): Indiana


BRIDGE: 2. POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER: INDIANA, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning glory, climbing the morning long
Last Line: Stranger, %son, %my friend
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Flowers; Indiana; Morning Glories


FINDING THE KEY, by JOSEPH CHANEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: First week in indiana
Last Line: That tells you %yes
Subject(s): Automobiles; Indiana


INDIANA, by DONALD W. BAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wild night of lightning and wind
Last Line: The mysteries of the coherent paragraph. %later a committee sat and bickered
Subject(s): Indiana


INDIANA, by MATTHEW GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the town where I live women once built
Last Line: While behind us %the sky goes off forever
Subject(s): Indiana


INDIANA, by LORI LUBESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is indiana and we are crying
Subject(s): Indiana


INDIANA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our land - our home! The common
Last Line: "the land elysian, marveling ""this is ours!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Peace; Liberty


INDIANA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Land of rivers! Moving down
Subject(s): Indiana


INDIANAPOLIS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A passion for roman order seized the plains
Last Line: And porch-swing sex like a window box in bloom
Subject(s): Indianapolis, Indiana


JULY IN INDIANA, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wispy cuttings lie in rows
Last Line: Out of the mothering dust, out of the dry corn land
Subject(s): Indiana


MORNING IN THE HILLS, by MARY LARKIN-COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mongst the hills of indiana
Last Line: Mongst those indiana hills!
Subject(s): Indiana


NORTH FROM DEADWOOD, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm driving home through our national grasslands
Last Line: Just standing there and weeping
Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Driving And Drivers; Indianapolis, Indiana; Travel


OCTOBER IN INDIANA, by JOHN ROBERT MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not the brown oakleaf, nor the sumach's red
Last Line: To read old stories by the winter's fire.
Subject(s): Indiana; October


OLD INDIANY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old indiany, 'course we know
Last Line: Of both town and country lots.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Indiana; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You might call this / the far side of the river
Subject(s): Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Ohio; Rivers; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


REGARDIN' TERRY HUT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sence I tuk holt o' gibbses' churn
Last Line: Around the streets o' terry hut!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Indiana; Towns


SHOOTING OF JOHN DILLINGER OUTSIDE THE BIOGRAPH THEATER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy sunday
Last Line: With three unknown vice presidents, benjamin harrison, and james whitcomb riley, %who never held any
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Indiana


THE DUNES OF INDIANA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a sky as green as a juniper berry
Last Line: Old memphis, or old bactria....
Subject(s): Indiana


THE EVERLASTING HILLS, by BESSIE WILLIAMS OSMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in dear old indiana
Last Line: In the everlasting hills.
Subject(s): Courage; Indiana; Valor; Bravery


THE HUNDRED DAYS' MEN; ILLINOIS, MAY, 1864, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis time the corn was planted, the latest wheat was sown
Last Line: But joyfully, in busy may, gave up our thousands more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Government; Illinois; Indiana; Ohio; Soldiers; U.s. - History


THE POET GOES TO INDIANA, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you a half-dozen things
Subject(s): Indiana; Country Life


THE SHOOTING OF JOHN DILLINGER OUTSIDE THE BIOGRAPH THEATER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy sunday
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Indiana


THIS IS INDIANA, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In a homeland of hoosiers, %and basketball fans!
Subject(s): Indiana


THOMAS AND NANCY LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fit us for humblest service,' prayed
Last Line: Will hallow their repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (1784-1818); Lincoln, Thomas (1778-1851); Parents; Presidents, United States; Liberty; Parenthood


WABASH VIOLETS, by EARL MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What? Sho'! You don't! Do you mean it, though?
Last Line: My love for them now is sp'iled.
Subject(s): Boston; Flowers; Indiana; Marigolds; Poppies; Violets


WRECKING YARD, by MARTIN WALLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midwinter.An oilstone sky.The river's diesel-slow frieght of ice
Last Line: Worlds geared inside worlds
Subject(s): Ice; Indiana; Winter