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Subject: OHIO RIVER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALONG THE OHIO, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Athwart a sky of brass long welts of gold
Last Line: Beheld it flowing fair.
Subject(s): Ohio River


ALONG THE OHIO - NOVEMBER, by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let there be wind over this place forever
Last Line: The last horseman, reining in his steed.
Subject(s): Autumn; Ohio River; Seasons; Fall


EDGES, by DAVID LEIGHTTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Design and skill slipped us on evening's breeze
Last Line: In civil hands; human vintage of earth
Subject(s): Night; Ohio River


ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only doesn't the ohio
Last Line: In rags, half in radiance.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Grief; Hudson River; Nature; Ohio River; Plane Trees; Rivers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Sycamores


WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI, by CARL SANDBURG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A young thing in spring green slippers, stockings, silk vivd as lilac-time gras
Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Ohio River


WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A young thing in spring green slippers, stockings, silk vivd as lilac-time gras
Last Line: It la belle riviere meaning a woman easy to look at
Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Ohio River


WINGED BEAUTY, by VIRGINIA PAULINE SPRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mad audubon, whom failure could not blight
Last Line: And motile beauty, ever on the wing!
Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851); Beauty; Nature; Ohio River