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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PEACE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a voice across the nation like a mighty ocean-hail
Last Line: He sends us sailing on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Hope; Kentucky; Sailing & Sailors; Voices; Optimism


AFTER A VISIT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I be'n down in ole kentucky
Last Line: An' I want o' go ag'in.
Subject(s): Kentucky


AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wide, open, free lay the land
Last Line: And locked the door after him
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


AGAIN LITVAKS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees bent under the burden of cool shining
Last Line: The strange script--four cornered and new
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


ALL THE WAY HOME, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old hog, stung by hamstrings
Last Line: On inclined sapling frames. %what remained was scattered bones
Subject(s): Kentucky


ALMA, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father's steady stride, legs chopping
Last Line: We do will turn back, surprise us %when we least expect it, need it most
Subject(s): Kentucky


AMONG THE TIGER LILIES, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister and I hid behing lilies
Last Line: And crossed our hearts, swore to secrets, %as wily as barn cats teasing a mouse
Subject(s): Kentucky


ANSWER TO DUNBAR'S 'AFTER A VISIT', by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: So, you be'n to ole kentucky
Last Line: Of her hospitality.
Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Kentucky


AT CAVE-IN-ROCK PARK, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the threat of sudden storm
Last Line: On my lap and shiver as cold rain %rushes down the windshield
Subject(s): Kentucky


AT DANIEL BOONE'S MONUMENT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And is this stone his monument?
Last Line: A requiem sweet and soft.
Subject(s): Boone, Daniel (1734-1820); Kentucky


AT KENTUCKY LAKE, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We huddle in pairs
Last Line: In the world of eater and eaten, %at the base of kentucky dam
Subject(s): Kentucky


AUNT MARY'S PRONOUNS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood beside rhubarb to watch aunt mary
Last Line: Changing as we speak to dreamlike oddities %at some vague and future time
Subject(s): Kentucky


BATTLE OF SOMERSET, by CORNELIUS C. CULLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gazed, and lo! Afar and near
Last Line: And cease this bloody strife.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


BLUE GRASS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The broad felds of kentucky
Last Line: By the resounding laughter of black children
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


BUSINESS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old trails run far and wide
Last Line: Aha! I said right away that it'll be all right.'
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


CAIRO, ILLINOIS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charles dickens called it eden
Last Line: Man sells dusty comic books, toby jugs, glass, %and cashes acheck, refusing identification
Subject(s): Kentucky


CALAMITY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once, on a hot summer's day
Last Line: The menfolk gathered %and went to the city
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


CHILDREN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: These are the names of the children
Last Line: Attended the child like two mothers
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tree, philosophizes sam
Last Line: The other was the young david, %dorothy's son
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


CITY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The community started to grow
Last Line: Bordered by thick green woods
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


CLEO AT THE ORGAN, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday cleo pumped the organ
Last Line: The notes rose thin as her pinched face, %flat as her stomach beneath the full skirt
Subject(s): Kentucky


CLIMB UP, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he bought the old tompkins place
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


COURTING IN KENTUCKY, by FLORENCE EVELYN PRATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When mary ann dollinger got the skule daown thar on injun bay
Last Line: "an' mary ann says, tremblin, yet anxious-like. ""I be."
Variant Title(s): The Schoolma'am's Courting
Subject(s): Courtship; Kentucky; Women


DAVID, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gentle little boy with the brown eyes
Last Line: Of his grandfather's old, boney hands
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


DAY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! The bright wonderful days
Last Line: And cover me with dixie's blue sky...
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


DEATH, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile life continued
Last Line: And he sobbed out loud %like a small and helpless child
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


DIXIE LAND, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The powerful skilled hunters from the hills
Last Line: Hooray, hooray, for dixie, hooray!'
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


DRIFTER, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You two fingers squeaked the double-edged
Last Line: Your hands stuffed into empty pockets, %your shoulders hunched against the wind
Subject(s): Kentucky


DRIVING FROM WATER, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Searching for ducks, follow the creek
Last Line: With power over wars, our lives, our deaths, %while we feed hens, drive ducks from the water
Subject(s): Kentucky


DUST, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: White winter came again
Last Line: Made the sign of the cross at the grave, and cried to the wind
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


END OF THE PACK, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the day drew to a close
Last Line: And they withdrew into the night
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


EVENING SHADOWS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the mother's sick bed
Last Line: The end of every beginning, the end of all ends
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


FAMILY REUNION, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the slow days of august, we met
Last Line: Of the paradise I would leave soon %with the sins of eve upon me
Subject(s): Kentucky


FEUD, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We imagined father at the white
Last Line: Harangues inciting young men to kill %or be killed for rights to water
Subject(s): Kentucky


FIRE STORMS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emma's grief explodes over pine and elm
Last Line: Turns to cinders, her one remaining son %will go again into the black veins of earth
Subject(s): Kentucky


FOOD FOR THE CHILDREN, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eight years old, I sit by a large woman
Last Line: I put my hand to her face, %sensing for the first time %a hunger never satisfied
Subject(s): Kentucky


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


FOXFIRE, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We walked home with neighbors
Last Line: And leaves that sometimes rise, lighting %boundries of our lean and narrow lives
Subject(s): Kentucky


GIFT OF MILK, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I follow father's footsteps to the barn
Last Line: I raise the cup to my lips, taste sweet %milk, warm with the odor of cow's breath
Subject(s): Kentucky


GOD HAS TAKEN, GOD HAS GIVEN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cold let up. A blue
Last Line: He cuts into the neck with a dull knife
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


GREEN TOBACCO WORMS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heat waves vibrate
Last Line: Him to like me, not knowing %what it is I want
Subject(s): Kentucky


GREENHORN COMES, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a greenhorn turns up
Last Line: Across the hills and dales of kentucky
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


HAZARD, KENTUCKY, 1942, by JO NEACE KRAUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1942 in hazard, kentucky
Last Line: Strolling out to mail their letters
Subject(s): Kentucky; Soldiers; Women


HOME, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When josh led the family into
Last Line: That one was jake
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


HOW THEY FELT, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night the family listened
Last Line: It would be and what place %she had in it
Subject(s): Kentucky


HUNGER, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hunger started to gnaw at him
Last Line: And thomas obeyed. He went
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


IN THE END-OF-SUMMER LIGHT, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart, my tired heart, sings elegies
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


IN THE NEW LAND OF CANAAN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a fresh, clear, summer day
Last Line: And sees in everything the hand of god
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


IN THE SHADOW OF OAK, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We come together at night in the shadow
Last Line: I can never be porcelain; %I will always be clay
Subject(s): Kentucky


IN-LAWS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a sunny afternoon
Last Line: The world is not a wanton world, my young man
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


IN-LAWS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old josh, with a cigar in his mouth
Last Line: Good night, neighbor
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


ISHMAEL, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: People say she was always old. Hagen
Last Line: Children say hagen is calling, %ish-sh-sh-mael. Ish-sh-sh-mael!
Subject(s): Kentucky


JACOB, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clean-cut, firmly built, supple
Last Line: Until vivian came into his life
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


JAKE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young duckling pipped out of the egg
Last Line: And the mother keeps silent, hears and does not speak
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


JEW AND GENTILE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Severe, cutting north winds
Last Line: Of the old kentucky home and old glory
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


JOHN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women, whiskey, horses
Last Line: Of full blown flowers, %of fields, and of a new day
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


JOSHUA, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When josh bought old tompkins' place
Last Line: And we spread out in the land
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


JUSTICE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The large chamber of the courthouse
Last Line: Have pity on a stray nigger!
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


KENTUCKY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come on along %be happy-go-lucky
Last Line: Come on along - %to old kentucky
Subject(s): Kentucky


KENTUCKY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It seems somewhere still clangs a chain
Last Line: And the gentle south wind caresses %and carries not a whisper of hate
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


KENTUCKY BELLE, by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer of 'sixty-three, sir, and conrad was gone away
Last Line: Ah! We've had many horses since, but never a horse like her!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kentucky; Morgan, John Hunt (1825-1864); United States - History


KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEER, by JESSE HILTON STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring in kentucky hills will soon awaken
Subject(s): Kentucky


KENTUCKY PHILOSOPHY, by HARRISON ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You wi'yam, cum 'ere, suh, dis minute
Last Line: "ef you don't want a lickin' all over, be sho dat dey allers go ""punk""!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H.
Subject(s): Kentucky


KIN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yard expanded and grew
Last Line: Against the old forgotten set of mishna
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


KIVERS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, I've sev'ral kivers you can see
Last Line: "the kiver's favoring your face today!"
Subject(s): Kentucky; Weaving & Weavers


LIFE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Youth lived its full life
Last Line: And out on the distant street %came the incantation: shma-yisroel!
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


LITVAKS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last to show up were
Last Line: Moved in and spread out %in the rich and blessed south
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


LIVING ALONE WITH JESUS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can it be %I am the only jew residing in danville, kentucky
Last Line: Out of your damaged hands
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jews; Kentucky; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


MEN OF HARLAN, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the level country, where the creeks run straight and wide
Last Line: "here come the men of harlan, men of harlan, riding by."
Subject(s): Harlan County, Kentucky


MORNING, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The farmer threw open the door of the barn
Last Line: Do not let the jew budge from this place.'
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


MOVING THE OLD ROSE, by PAUL HICKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soil is not soft in eastern kentucky
Last Line: Of the old rose we are moving from his mother's house
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Fields; Kentucky


MUSSIC LESSONS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her hands stumbled over the keyboard
Last Line: Dancing rythm in the turning of a phrase, %as sweet to her mind as molasses
Subject(s): Kentucky


MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun shines bright on our old kentucky home
Last Line: For our old kentucky home far away.
Variant Title(s): My Old Kentucky Home, Good-night!;my Old Kentucky Home, Negro Song
Subject(s): Absence; African Americans; Homesickness; Kentucky; Separation; Isolation; Negroes; American Blacks


NEIGHBORS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The people were raw, strong, and hard
Last Line: A gift from the thin pastor
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


NEW LIFE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small tree stands on hard rocky ground
Last Line: Don't worry. With god's help, it'll be all right
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


NIGHT OF DREAMS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stall was fragrant
Last Line: To the wished for a promised land. Amen
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


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


ON CAMPUS IN KENTUCKY, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: This huge maple lifts its rosy flame
Last Line: Rose-gray ashes drifting from cornices
Subject(s): Kentucky; Poetry And Poets


ON PITCHING TENTS: 1, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The preacher's voice sprayed church walls
Last Line: Wher we'd pitch our tents %when we grew up
Subject(s): Kentucky


ON PITCHING TENTS: 2, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We kicked ripe sheaths
Last Line: And wash away in the swimming hole %on the back of his farm
Subject(s): Kentucky


OUT OF INNOCENCE, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At ten I climbed stairs to the dormer attic
Last Line: Of those walls, was raised to life, %headlong out of innocence
Subject(s): Kentucky


PARTING, FR. YUNGE YURN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The picture of my final parting from home
Last Line: And wrapped my face in the curtain of the ark
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


PRESERVING THE IMAGE, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Winters, retired scholar of ancient
Last Line: Or bring boxes of truffle torte to friends %who've acquiered the taste
Subject(s): Kentucky


SATURDAY NIGHT, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When george gets his weekly pay
Last Line: George, her man, is in a deep sleep
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


SHAWHAN, KENTUCKY: WINTER 1978, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees explode outward
Last Line: In the snow and fiercely live
Subject(s): Despair; Kentucky; Labor And Laborers; Snow; Winter


SHIVAREE, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Darkness hid the gold and crimson
Last Line: Clucked their tongues, and complained %of local marriages going wrong
Subject(s): Kentucky


SHOLEM ALEYKHEM--A JEW, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who knows from where and how
Last Line: As if she wanted to ventilate the house
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


SILK SHIRT, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tom had a shirt of heavy silk
Last Line: To the saint it brings life, and to the villain death
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


SINS OF THE FATHERS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: They gave grandfather a 'whipping boy'
Last Line: Stories about the whipping boy, %and our teeth are on edge
Subject(s): Kentucky


SISTER, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sopping biscuits in sweet milk gravy
Last Line: Radiant in the sun's fire. %we shut our eyes against the light
Subject(s): Kentucky


SOWING SEED, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men in bibbed overalls plod
Last Line: With headlights flogging the dark. %only a few travel the highways
Subject(s): Kentucky


SPRING RAINS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clay roads as slippery as glue
Last Line: We stood until both were quiet, %the same breath shared %between us
Subject(s): Kentucky


SYNAGOGUE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing on a quiet street
Last Line: What we do, we do-- %but candles we bless!
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky; Synagogues


THANKSGIVING, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It rained the whole day
Last Line: And it put the red haze to sleep
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY (3), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye gentlemen and ladies fair
Last Line: "oh! Kentucky, / the hunters of kentucky"
Subject(s): "kentucky;new Orleans, Battle Of (1815);soldiers;war Of 1812;


THE LONE GRAVE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a dreary mountain top
Last Line: These tokens of our love!
Subject(s): Bull Mountain, Kentucky; Confederate States Of America; Graves; Confederacy; Tombs; Tombstones


THINGS FLOW TOGETHER: 1936, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father sits on the porch swinging at noon
Last Line: They lisp on my dry lips more ominous %than wind rattling corn, brown from drought
Subject(s): Kentucky


THINGS FLOW TOGETHER: 1988, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand by a chapel in kenya on the road
Last Line: And dung huts where believers in the god %inkai count history in cattle and myth
Subject(s): Kentucky


THOMAS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When brother george and sister maggie
Last Line: Until his foolishness in knocked out of his head
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


THOSE SMALL DEATHS, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had almost forgotten those small deaths
Last Line: And mourns the gurling cries %that still echo in her sleep
Subject(s): Kentucky


TO MARY AND TSELIA, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the earth on which I tread
Last Line: Made radiant by its glow, made happy by its bounty
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


UNITY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the meantime, lithuania began to merge with america
Last Line: On which were written numbers and names
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


UP CARR CREEK, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ways of the world are a-coming - up cyarr!
Last Line: Old folks will bide by the old ways -- up cyarr.
Subject(s): Kentucky


VIVIAN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first pioneers who
Last Line: Went to the old, good-natured pastor %and married
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago
Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet.
Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


WASHING OF FEET, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother washed my daughter's bleeding
Last Line: Feet, and I saw myself as beautiful %in her image
Subject(s): Kentucky


WEEKDAY SERMON, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The passionate service was in progress
Last Line: Oh, mary don't ya weep!
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


WINTER, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: That year saw a winter
Last Line: From blue strips between white clouds
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


WINTER VIEW FROM THE PORCH, by STACY JOHNSON TUTHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stars burn holes in a brittle sky
Last Line: Expanse of fire and frost, aloneness %is a permanence she must remember
Subject(s): Kentucky


YEARS LATER, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When david grew up and became a man
Last Line: In that grave waiting beside his wife's
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


YOU ARE TIRED OF SUN AND FROLIC, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Yes, we're tired, tired and wretched; %husha, hushabye
Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky


YOUNG KENTUCKY, by JESSE HILTON STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: I came the womack road from sandy bridge
Subject(s): Kentucky


ZOLLICOFFER, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: First in the fight, and first in the arms
Last Line: Dead on the field of glory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk (1812-1862)