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Subject: SOUTH DAKOTA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAKOTA IDYL, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn, gray, purple, gold!
Last Line: With the treasure of her heart.
Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women; South Dakota; Parting; Squaws


BUTTES IN SOUTH DAKOTA BADLANDS, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seen through the mist of years
Last Line: The buttes remain.
Subject(s): South Dakota


CAT-TAILS, by KATHERINE TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then thousand regal cat-tails stand
Last Line: Once held the drifting, desert sands at bay.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains


DAKOTA HOME, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dakota, I have looked from heights on places
Last Line: Empire and haven, my dakota home.
Subject(s): Home; South Dakota


DAKOTA SHOWERS, by A. W. RANSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining wheat and corn
Last Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining corn and wheat.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Rain; South Dakota; Wheat; Agriculture; Farmers


DAKOTA SPRING, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The days are dusty coal men
Last Line: Waltzing to a prairie lullaby.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


EVENING OF A TERRITORIAL FOURTH, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The location gang of engineers
Last Line: Of the pioneers, of the south dakota to be.
Subject(s): Flags - United States; National Songs; Pioneers; South Dakota; American Flag; National Anthems


GOLDEN AUGUST IN DAKOTA, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road up to high skylines
Last Line: With shining, blessed hands.
Subject(s): South Dakota


HOMETOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our town has history enough
Last Line: Could show me finer sights than home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Home; South Dakota


METAMORPHOSIS, by J. A. PETERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh god, how I hate these dull barren plains
Last Line: And I'd never go east again.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


MOUNT RUSHMORE, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When titans, sportive, hurled you high
Last Line: The annals of a race!
Subject(s): Heroism; Mount Rushmore (south Dakota); Titans (mythology); Heroes; Heroines


MY STATE-SOUTH DAKOTA, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mine is a state of prairie loveliness
Last Line: —the argus leader
Subject(s): South Dakota; United States; America


NIGHT FALLS ON THE BRIDGE, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sand, sand, sand
Last Line: South dakota, nebraska.
Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers


OUR SOUTH DAKOTA FLOWER, by KATHERINE TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon unumbered knolls and buttes it gleams
Last Line: When comes to us that consummating light.
Subject(s): South Dakota


PIONEERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dakota pioneers, / your valiant spirit lingers in the west
Last Line: We dedicate to you!
Subject(s): Pioneers; South Dakota


PIONEERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lure of the wide expanses, lure of the sunset land
Last Line: Smiting the human harp.
Subject(s): Pioneers; South Dakota


SAPPHO IN SOUTH DAKOTA, by BRUCE FELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The deceptive sun
Last Line: It's august, and cynics %have begun to appear
Subject(s): South Dakota


SOUTH DAKOTA, by MARC MUNROE DION    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sioux walk the rails between
Subject(s): South Dakota


SOUTH DAKOTA, by YORK SAMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great rivers of land
Last Line: Pinching craw of yellow lode.
Subject(s): South Dakota


SOUTH DAKOTA MEMORY, by MARY YORK SAMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blow the horn, beat the drum, %and from the white frame house I'll come
Last Line: Keeping your distance with a double dip cone
Subject(s): South Dakota


SOUTH DAKOTA SCENERY, by WAYNE KVAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Make my poems as simple as
Subject(s): South Dakota


THE BAD LANDS, by JESSIE M. GILMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bad lands raise their lovely shoulders
Last Line: As harmonies unsung.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


THE BAD-LANDS OF DAKOTA, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think that when god made the bright, fair land
Last Line: God thought of us, and shaped that beauty rare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): God; Religion; South Dakota; Theology


THE BOBBIN-WINDER, by JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH ARCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw time sitting on a stool
Last Line: And a thing of beauty wrought.
Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers


THE CALL OF THE WEST, by ZELDA F. MELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear you the call of your own free west
Last Line: She shall claim her own again.
Subject(s): South Dakota; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE DESERT LAND, by MARGARET DELANEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good god, can it be you made this place
Last Line: Alone in the desert at night!
Subject(s): Deserts; Desolation; Food & Eating; Hunger; Solitude; South Dakota; Loneliness


THE GHOST OF YOUR WASTED PAST, by J. A. PETERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You may scoff at ghosts for all I care
Last Line: The ghost of your wasted past.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Life; Past; South Dakota; Supernatural


THE HALF-BREED (ON A JOURNEY WITH HIS WHITE RELATIVES), by AGNES MARIE SERUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let them push on and with them that spirit
Last Line: Our sires were buried in this prairie sod.
Subject(s): Native Americans; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PAINTED GOD, by MAY MCKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a sioux!
Last Line: I have spoken.
Subject(s): South Dakota


WESTERN HOKKU, by MARGARET SLACK FUHRMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our happiness is
Last Line: And a coyote's cry.
Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains


WHAT OF BEAUTY, by OLIVE CHRISTENSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: What of beauty is there here?
Last Line: It would be best to die here.
Subject(s): Beauty; South Dakota


WHEN I WAS A COWBOY, by ARTHUR A. FLAKOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was a cowboy I rode a horse that was wild as a storm
Last Line: —arthur a. Flakoll, aberdeen
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cowboys; South Dakota


WILD GEESE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: High in the april air
Last Line: Back to her southern home.
Subject(s): Geese; South Dakota; Spring


YOUR MART AND MINE, by MABEL A. HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wish I could sing of the cities
Last Line: In shop, or in office, or wide-sloping hill.
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Hearts; South Dakota