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Subject: BROWN (COLOR)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUTUMN, by MYRTLE W. CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whirling, swirling, swept from branches
Last Line: In place of change that's for the best.
Subject(s): Brown (color); Leaves


BROWN SEQUENCE, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's more the color of faith than
Last Line: Is what you should dance on
Subject(s): Brown (color)


BROWN TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now are the valleys brown 'twixt bluest hills
Last Line: And they walking two and two, queens by their gowns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Brown (color); Nature; Spring; Trees


DECOR, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown dominates this bar
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Brown (color); Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


DECOR, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown dominates this bar
Last Line: As if life is a long curing
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Brown (color)


THE BROWN BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While the two contraries of black and white
Last Line: You more than any may be dignifi'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Beauty; Black (color); Brown (color); White (color)