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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAP OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX IN ENGLAND, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathers
Subject(s): Essex, England; Landscape; Maps


A MAP TO THE NEXT WORLD, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who
Subject(s): Maps


A SENSE OF DIRECTION, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was moonless the night I drove my son
Last Line: Am shivering in its draft.
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Maps; Mothers & Sons


AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high
Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way
Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar


AEROGRAM PUNJAB, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sailed by africa, back home [or, pyramids]
Last Line: You're good with maps. Find me [or, what a holiday. I'm a globe]
Subject(s): Africa; Geography; Maps; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


ALIEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The foreign woman %asks for a drink
Last Line: Tattoos of her %sorrows
Subject(s): Exiles; Islands; Maps; Tourists; Travel


AN OLD MAP, by ELIZABETH MORROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: How small and arrogantly safe that world
Last Line: Disclosed the continent of you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Maps; Mediterranean Sea


ASIA, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the window of the school
Last Line: He was grave %and alone in the world
Subject(s): Asia; Death; Graves; Maps; Solitude


BEAUTIFUL ROTHESAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful rothesay, your scenery is most grand
Last Line: After viewing the beautiful scenery of rothesay.
Subject(s): Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got
Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips


CARTOGRAPHER, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this %brittle ground
Last Line: Slides into place %in the sky
Subject(s): Maps


CARTOGRAPHY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out on the border a howl goes up, skinning the cold air
Last Line: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps
Subject(s): Boundaries; Maps; Wings; Borders


CARTOGRAPHY, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The map speaks
Last Line: The sky is not on the map
Subject(s): Continents; Maps; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CARTOGRAPHY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the bird sees what I see
Last Line: When I retrace them I leave my seal, %a map painted %of soul
Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters


DESK, by S. C. HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is flat and cluttered as a kansas town I once drove through but whose
Last Line: Idaho, I want to exist forever
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Maps; United States


FILIGREE OF THE FAMILIAR, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, all the men wear mustaches
Last Line: Linking the outbound voyage to the everyday
Subject(s): Boston; Continents; Maps; Travel


GEOGRAPHY, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In fourth grade we played geography
Last Line: Beyond here there be monsters
Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Maps


GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up
Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips


HOW TO READ A MAP, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The maps expose %seven continents, travel
Last Line: Elegant as cryptograms, %falling and unafraid
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Maps; Travel; Travel Directions; Villages


IN THE LANGUAGE OF MAPS, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mapmaker is measuring the earth
Last Line: The language of maps is constantly changing
Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel


INVENTION OF LONGITUDE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unsolved: frost clotting a broken
Last Line: Who has approached too close to motion
Subject(s): Inventions And Inventors; Maps; Travel


JOURNEYS, by BARBARA CROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: My husband wants difficult things
Last Line: The poem I was going to write today
Subject(s): Hiking; Maps; Roads; Travel


LESSON 10, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a map?
Last Line: Southeast? In the northeast? In the southwest?
Variant Title(s): Simplicity [and Sweet Neglect]
Subject(s): Maps; Nature


MAP, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aventine mount
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Geography; Maps


MAP, by MARK STRAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Composed, generally defined
Last Line: Of how the world might look could we %maintain a lasting, %perfect distance from what is
Subject(s): Maps


MAP FOR LEAVING, by JILL OSIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was over you yesterday
Last Line: I couldn't tell you
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Geography; Maps; Mississippi River; Mount Rainier; Nature; Rivers; Travel


MAP FOR LONG DISTANCES, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is all sharp edges and heated
Last Line: Breeze pushes loose %the tangled winter days
Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Winter


MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY, by CHRIS SEMANSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once when the roof flew off
Last Line: A savage, had a dozen children, and died, %years later, of a common cold gone wild, %his memory clea
Subject(s): Homeless; Maps


MAP TO THE NEXT WORLD, by JOY HARJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who
Last Line: You must make your own map
Subject(s): Maps


MAPMAKER ON HIS ART, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the bronzed, heroic traveller
Last Line: The jungles with their tawny meadows and swamps %where, till the day I die, I will not go
Subject(s): Maps


MAPPARIUM, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In geography class we learn the world
Last Line: I'll take this globe as my own
Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Maps; Travel


MAPS, by ALBERTO BLANCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's start at the beginning
Last Line: Nothing has set foot in a map %nothing is written in poetry
Subject(s): Geography; Islands; Maps; Travel


MAPS, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: High adventure %and bright dream
Last Line: For home-staying %vagabonds!
Subject(s): Maps


MENDOCINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could lose myself in great bursts of work
Last Line: Something reusable like leftovers, %bouillabaisse perhaps
Subject(s): Maps; Mendocino, California; Travel


OLD MAPS, by GLOVER DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Windows in occasional cabins start to glow
Subject(s): Maps


OLD MAPS, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love old maps made long ago
Last Line: I find my pleasure as a rule %is quite diminished
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): Maps; Schools


ON EVERY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The fingerprints of god
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): God; Maps; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects


RIVER MAP AND WE'RE DONE, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By master saville who, conceivably, from accuracy of his drawing of the fort
Last Line: Old hulk - rocky marsh
Subject(s): Maps


SKETCH: EPISODE B AT GOLD CITY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As an aid / for apprehending the vanishing point
Last Line: You
Subject(s): Cities; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Urban Life


TAKING THE OLD ROAD, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday we fell for it again
Last Line: Windows in all the lonely farmhouses
Subject(s): Farm Life; Maps; Roads; Travel Directions


TAOSENO, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even the sun is different here: %more generous along its helioptrope horizon
Last Line: Travels the length of this ruin %this place of silence and sheen
Subject(s): Language; Maps; Travel


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And not simply by the fact that this shading of
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: #name?
Last Line: And finds no horizon %will not be there
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth
Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


THE CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MEADOWS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As he moves to amber from his resinoujs drowning
Subject(s): Fields; Maps


THE CHINAMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Centre of earth!' a chinaman he said
Last Line: His tail: those flames became its funeral-pyre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): China; Hair; Maps


THE MAP, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Composed, generally defined
Last Line: Perfect distance from what it is
Subject(s): Maps


THE MAP MAKERS, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man who made a map
Last Line: For it never took twenty years.
Subject(s): Maps; Stars


THE MAP OF THE WORLD CONFUSED WITH ITS TERRITORY, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a drawer I found a map of the world
Subject(s): Maps; Earth; World


THE PLACE ON THE MAP, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look upon the map that hangs by me
Last Line: And its episode comes back in pantomime.
Subject(s): Maps


THE RAND MCNALLY ATLAS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Belly down on the rug
Last Line: Durango, chinook, ramona, monongahela.
Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Death; Maps; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE TIMES ATLAS; FOR MY MENTOR, LONG DEAD, RICHARD HALLIBURTON, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today was the coldest day in the history
Last Line: That might leave so many dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Halliburton, Richard (1900-1939); Maps; Sea Voyages; Weather


THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All cities are open in the hot season
Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none"
Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America


TO GET TO FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To get to fresno, %you need to turn left
Last Line: Welcome back, fresno. %welcome back home.'
Subject(s): California; Geography; Maps; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration


TOPONYMY, by RALPH GUSTAFSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lens and line
Last Line: Field, what sky.
Subject(s): Geography; Maps


TRAVELING THE MAP, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The map shows me my attempted life
Last Line: Of escape %the shimmer of sky at dusk
Subject(s): Atlantis; Geography; Maps; Mythology - Classical; Travel


TRIGEMINUS, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then we went swimming, on familiar terms with the dead
Last Line: Before the brief since-then
Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel


UNDER GEMINI: 2: A BOY'S ATLAS OF THE HEAVENS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I call these constellations by their fames
Last Line: Or to be fooling anyone but you
Subject(s): Constellations; Maps; Names; Stars