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Subject: NORTH POLE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 90 NORTH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain
Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; North Pole; Pain; Suffering; Misery


90 NORTH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe
Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain
Subject(s): North Pole; Pain


FLIGHT OVER THE POLE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poised over the pole
Last Line: And a vague emotional affinity.
Subject(s): North Pole; Physics


GOALS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the horrors of the north
Last Line: And seeks the common good of man.
Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


NORTH POLE, by ROBERT LUNDAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Science for the non-scientist
Last Line: Labled 'north pole' %and catching the light
Subject(s): North Pole; Travel


NORTHERN LIGHTS, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind a mighty monarch's throne
Last Line: Like angels, in dreams by night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Aurora Borealis; North Pole; Northern Lights


ODE TO CAPTAIN PARRY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Parry, my man! Has thy brave leg
Last Line: And tempt the fates no more!
Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


PEARY & HENSON REACH THE NORTH POLE, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Donaldo, stephen and I
Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D.
Subject(s): North Pole; Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)


PEARY AND THE NORTH POLE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Divinely curious
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): North Pole; Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)


POLAR EXPLORATION, by STEPHEN SPENDER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our single purpose was to walk through snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Variant Title(s): The North
Subject(s): North Pole


POLAR EXPLORATION, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our single purpose was to walk through snow
Last Line: Only with bears and fish, a staring eye, %a new and singular sex?
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Variant Title(s): The Nort
Subject(s): North Pole


THE POLAR QUEST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unconquerably, men venture on the quest
Last Line: To find the mystic floodway of the north.
Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean


THE SONG OF THE NORTH POLE FLAG, by ELSA BARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the banner of the earth's farthest goal
Subject(s): North Pole; Flags


THE ULTIMATE NORTH, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now doth the north his inmost secret yield
Last Line: This blending of valhall and niffleheim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): North Pole


THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The real is not what happens but what is
Last Line: Only the stars, which do not know, can tell
Subject(s): North Pole; Stars


WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Parry seeks the polar ridge
Last Line: The public little knows -- the publisher too much.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; North Pole; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855)