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Subject: CARNATIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRESENTATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's a clove carnation, dear
Last Line: Of my heart's consuming flame!
Subject(s): Carnations; Desire; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


CARNATIONS, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carnations and my first love! And he was seventeen
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Carnations


FULL WOMAN, CARNAL APPLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full woman, carnal apple, hot moon
Last Line: Until it is and is not more than lightning in the darkness
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Carnations; Hearts; Togetherness; Women


GARDEN RIVALS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pansy in the garden-bed
Last Line: "likes the larkspur best of all!"
Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


LOVE'S COMPARINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carnations and lilies are hueless
Last Line: Wherever her feet may fare.
Subject(s): Carnations; Faces; Flowers; Hair; Laughter; Lilies; Love; Spring


MR. DOBSON & THE AFTER-LIFE OF CARNATIONS, by WONG MAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there are secrets
Last Line: The flowers each in a different shade of dark %he believes in them
Subject(s): Carnations


SONG:SO WHY DOES THIS DEAD CARNATION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So why does this dead carnation hold
Last Line: From the useless past a kind of present power
Subject(s): Carnations; Mummies


SONGS: 8. I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I have had love and the sun's light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 44, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My beloved is prettier
Last Line: Which open out in the morning
Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 91, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the garden of love
Last Line: Which I have set in you
Subject(s): Carnations; Gardens And Gardening; Love


TO LIGHT THE CANDLES, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: (to those who wear the white carnation on mother's day)
Last Line: For her own.
Subject(s): Carnations; Love; Mother's Day


WHILE TRYING TO RIVAL YOUR HAIR, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into dirt, into smoke, into dust, into darkness, into nothingness
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships


WHITE CARNATION, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's to the white carnation
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Carnations