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Subject: SAHARA DESERT
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ASTROLOGY IN THE SAHARA, by TURNER CASSITY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The low wind-devils whirl among the camelthorns
Last Line: And how the captive sand we count has its revenge
Variant Title(s): Astrology In The Sahara: Zagor
Subject(s): Sahara Desert


COUNTRY ROADS, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pale morning in june 4 am
Last Line: And skidded back again. %traveling over the great and luminous sahara lit by clouds
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Fields; Roads; Sahara Desert; Travel


HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers
Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself
Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population


IN THE DESERT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never pharaoh's night
Last Line: Shekinah intolerably bright!
Subject(s): Egypt; Sahara Desert


MERSA, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This blue halfcircle of sea
Last Line: Imagining I am one of the dead.
Subject(s): Sahara Desert


SAHARA, by GERVE BARONTI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou, brazen, glittering wanton of the world
Last Line: Thou parched defiant mysterious beauty, sahara!
Subject(s): Sahara Desert


THE BURIAL IN THE DESERT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shadow of the pyramid
Last Line: A field of death surveyed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Funerals; Sahara Desert; Burials


THE DESERT, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uncircumscribed, unmeasured, vast
Last Line: For all futurity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Sahara Desert


THE DESERT DISILLUSION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, ladies who seek for a peek at a sheik
Last Line: But don't go away to sahara!
Subject(s): African Americans; Sahara Desert; Negroes; American Blacks