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Subject: BLUE (COLOR)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNUNCIATION, by TINA BARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a van eyck painting a woman waits
Last Line: Raise my arms inside his blue overcoat
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Blue (color)


APPROACHING BLUE, by MARCEL BEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She spoons blue from a barrel
Last Line: Flickering shoe and blue hand
Subject(s): Blue (color); Russia


BAVARIAN ROADSIDE, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave the chicory where it stands
Last Line: Like a blue wine brewed in air.
Subject(s): Bavaria; Blue (color)


BLUE, by JULIET KAUFMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day the overcast ended just west of here
Last Line: Zenith of stars obscured by thin, unclouded air
Subject(s): Blue (color); Sky


BLUE MONDAY, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue of the heaps of beads poured into her breasts
Subject(s): Blue (color)


BLUE MONDAY, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue of the heaps of beads poured into her breasts
Last Line: It is blue %it is blue %it is blue
Subject(s): Blue (color)


BLUE THREAD: AN ELEGY, by LYNNE KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two girls playing at death
Last Line: Be part of the world %that goes on without us
Subject(s): Blue (color); Change; Death


BLUE ZONE, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ann's ocean was above her head this afternoon
Subject(s): Blue (color)


BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tops of the higher peaks
Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains


BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tops of the higher peaks
Last Line: This flower to its hidden senses
Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains


CALIFORNIA, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue, blue, april blue
Last Line: Gold, gold, gold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Blue (color); California; Colors; Gold


CHEAP BLUE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill blue among the leaves I summer
Subject(s): Blue (color); Money


CHLOE, M.A, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Careless rhymer, it is true
Last Line: Violet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Blue (color); Secrets; Sin; Women


FRAGMENTARY BLUE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why make so much of a fragmentary blue
Last Line: If only gives our wish for blue a whet.
Subject(s): Blue (color)


HORSENECK BEACH ODALISQUE, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gunmetal blue, then iris blue, then turquoise
Last Line: Sat patiently and watched the sunset come
Subject(s): Blue (color); Sea; Seashore


LA CHAISE BLEUE, by RUTH FAINLIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shadows are moving across a wall
Last Line: The blue chair stands empty
Subject(s): Blue (color); Chairs; Home


LAST BLUE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You want to get the color blue right
Last Line: It always sounded like that--everything living
Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors


LAST BLUE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You want to get the color blue right
Last Line: It always sounded like that - everything living
Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors


NEW SPRING: 18, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sweetly lookest on me
Last Line: Over my heart the while.
Subject(s): Blue (color); Innocence


NIGHT, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: No roofs are here to mark the roll of heaven
Last Line: Candle light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew
Subject(s): Blue (color); Night; Bedtime


POINT LOMA SONNETS: 6. BLUE, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes when afternoon has written peace
Last Line: A pool of lupins bluer than her eyes.
Subject(s): Blue (color); Point Loma, California


SCISSORS, PAPER, SPHINX, by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue river. Blue figures moving
Last Line: Bride. Dancing on a windowsill
Subject(s): Blue (color); Riddles; Scissors


SMOKEHOUSE BLUES, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bluebird of happiness, once in a blue moon
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Blue (color)


SOMETHING IN BLUE, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue everywhere in the sounds we make, dissolves
Subject(s): Blue (color)


TAMARACK BLUE, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As any brush-wolf, driven from the hills
Last Line: Something in palsied mullein troubles me.
Subject(s): Blue (color); Christianity; Wolves


THE BLUE WAKE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the blood-red sun sank in the western sky
Last Line: To furnish her a home.
Subject(s): Absence; Blue (color); Sea; Wakes; Separation; Isolation; Ocean


THE CLEAR BLUE, by JEAN COCTEAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: The overture of the sky cries ah! In fireworks
Last Line: It cries ah! And oh! All god will fall as gently as a curtain at the opera.
Subject(s): Blue (color); Sky


TO A CHALK-BLUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Butterflies, butterflies, delicate downy ones
Last Line: Oh, bold little, old little, blue bit of june!
Subject(s): Blue (color); Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


VISION FROM THE BLUE WINDOW, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the round window, everything is blue
Last Line: I was seeing all shades of blue
Subject(s): Blue (color)


WONDER, by SARAH ARVIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What makes the inside of a glacier blue?
Last Line: -the obvious is easy to forget.'
Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors; Glaciers; God; Nature