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Subject: MAINE (STATE)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods
Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods


COURTHOUSE, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The legal arm has reached up from the sea
Last Line: Picks out in gilt the letters of the law
Subject(s): Law And Lawyers; Maine (state)


DESERT OF MAINE, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Like organs were the bethel hills
Subject(s): Maine (state)


DIORAMA: MAINE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cup my palm around the day
Last Line: By the slenderest and brightest of ropes
Subject(s): Maine (state)


DOWN EAST AND UP ALONG THE FRINGY COAST OF MAINE, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Maine (state); Nature


FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman
Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on
Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime


FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman
Last Line: In answer to what was being insisted on
Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night


FOG, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gauze of morning, the hidden
Last Line: The shroud, then ... Conflagration
Subject(s): Maine (state); Morning; Seashore


FROM MAINE, by ANITA GAEBLER KNIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Carried from coast line
Last Line: Like an empty shell, regretfully.
Subject(s): Maine (state); Shells; Conchology


ICE HOUSE, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The walls are of rough plank
Last Line: Where winter is in keeping
Subject(s): Maine (state)


LAND O' PINES; OLD HOME WEEK IN MAINE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not least of stars thy star
Last Line: That star is dear.
Subject(s): Forests; Maine (state); Pine Trees; Woods


MAGIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We passed old farmer boothby in the field
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Maine (state); Farm Life; Boats; Landscape; Agriculture; Farmers


MAINE, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far in the sunset's mellow glory
Last Line: Stained by ocean's breath of brine.
Subject(s): Maine (state)


MAINE, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving north at sunset, we were sure we'd
Subject(s): Maine (state); Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


MAINE, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving north at sunset, we were sure we'd
Last Line: Out of the wilderness and we were much obliged
Subject(s): Maine (state); Night; Travel


MAINE SHORE, by DOROTHY ALDIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea once more. And I'd half forgotten
Subject(s): Maine (state)


MAINE TRAIL, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come follow, heart upon your sleeve
Subject(s): Maine (state)


MAINE WOODS IN WINTER, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I have climbed the hillside to discover
Subject(s): Maine (state)


ON BUYING A MAINE FARM, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The house should be white
Last Line: To swing overhead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Maine (state); Agriculture; Farmers


SKUNK HOUR; FOR ELIZABETH BISHOP, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nautilus island's hermit / heiress still lives through winter in her spartan
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Skunk Hour
Subject(s): Maine (state); Skunks


SKUNK HOUR; FOR ELIZABETH BISHOP, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nautilus island's hermit %heiress still lives through winter in her spartan
Last Line: Drops her ostrich tail, %will not scare
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Skunk Hou
Subject(s): Maine (state); Skunks


SUBJUNCTIVE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose marie antoinette had come to wiscasset
Last Line: And herself going milking with a silver milking pail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Maine (state); Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France


SUNRISE: MAINE COAST, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Half the horizon is the sea
Subject(s): Maine (state)


THE BELL-BUOY, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bell buoy off manana sings twenty miles to sea,
Last Line: And many miles, inland . . . It reaches me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Buoys; Islands; Maine (state); Water


THE TRAIN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Accident could be a god to little boys
Last Line: We said, with intonation, what a shame.
Subject(s): Accidents; Maine (state); Railroads; Rain; Strangers; Railways; Trains


THREE OF A KIND, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three of us without a care
Last Line: Leave the gods to rule the rest, %and good-by, sorrow!
Subject(s): Hiking; Maine (state)


WATER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a maine lobster town
Subject(s): Maine (state); Sea; Ocean


WATER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a maine lobster town
Last Line: In the end %the water was too cold for us
Subject(s): Maine (state); Sea


WATERCOLOR MAINE, by C. DREW LAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The buoy bell sings bar harbor
Last Line: The painter lifts her brush and starts her painting
Subject(s): Maine (state)


WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo
Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live.
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark
Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes
Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea; Words; Vocabulary; Ocean


WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark
Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes.'
Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea