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Subject: CACTUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CACTUS, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: That cactus recalled the despairing gestures
Subject(s): Cactus


CACTUS, by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO    Poem Source                    
First Line: That multitude of moulded hands
Last Line: And guard their springs afar from man's cruelty
Subject(s): Cactus


CACTUS, by APRIL HALPRIN WAYLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't dare come near,'
Last Line: Poised to pierce... %beware!
Subject(s): Cactus; West (u.s.)


CACTUS FLOWER, by LAURA STILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cactus blooms %not according to season
Last Line: Is reason enough %to fade
Subject(s): Cactus; Deserts; Flowers; Food And Eating


CACTUS SEED, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Radiant notes
Last Line: Pricking multiple leaves at his wondrous story.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cactus


CEREUS BLOOMS, by RUBY BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Refuged in purple shadows
Last Line: A desert cereus blooms.
Subject(s): Cactus


FOOL'S ERRAND, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone, like a feather in the air
Subject(s): Beauty; Cactus; Clowns; Girls


NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like jacob son of isaac
Last Line: And poured the holy oil.
Subject(s): Cactus


NIGHT-BLOOMING CACTUS, by JOHN BENSKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: This has little to do with the flower
Subject(s): Cactus


NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS, by MARY DILLINGHAM FREAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night is fair, - too fair for us to stay
Last Line: And drained of all the glory of to-night.
Subject(s): Cactus; Night; Bedtime


NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so for nights
Last Line: We spoke %in whispers when %we spoke %at all
Subject(s): Cactus


NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS, by WALKER WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wrapped in the night, each feels this
Last Line: This is one long year's diadem.
Subject(s): Cactus


ORGAN CACTUS, by DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up from the desert desolate and bleak
Subject(s): Cactus


THE CRAB CACTUS BLOOMS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today a miracle was swiftly wrought
Last Line: "a ""christmas carol,"" bursting into bloom!"
Subject(s): Cactus; Christmas Carols; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Leaves; Nature


THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so for nights
Subject(s): Cactus


THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower of the moon!
Last Line: Flower of the moon!
Subject(s): Cactus


TO THE CACTUS SPECIOSISSIMUS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hung thy beauty on such rugged stalk
Last Line: To cling to thee.
Subject(s): Cactus


TO THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS (WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT), by MRS. SWIFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, glorious flower!
Last Line: Like them, sweet flower, I shall have pass'd away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lorrain, Miss
Subject(s): Cactus


TO THE SAGUARO CACTUS TREE IN THE DESERT RAIN, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had no idea the elf owl
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Cactus