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Subject: CICADAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CICADA, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chirruping grasshopper, drunken with dew-drops
Last Line: Here, lying under the shade of the plane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Cicadas


ALL NIGHT THE LONE CICADA, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Cicadas


BATTLE AGAINST THE AGE OF CICADAS, by ISAAC CATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: An alien invasion - or something like one
Last Line: I clear away the carnage with a breath
Subject(s): Cicadas


BUT THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR CICADA, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has only one syllable
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cicadas; Nature


CASA NUESTRA: 4, by MARCO MARTOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't you forget it
Last Line: And I'm becoming cautious
Subject(s): Cicadas; Home


CICADA, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lay with my heart under me
Last Line: All parts in place - %or nearly so
Subject(s): Cicadas


CICADA INVASION, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing like it since the signing
Last Line: Can still be put to use. %new planting. New news
Subject(s): Cicadas


CICADA-SHELL, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did it yell?
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Cicadas


CICADAS, by ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sightless, I breathe and touch; this night of pines
Subject(s): Cicadas


CICADAS, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always in unison, they are
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Cicadas


CICADAS, by ONO NO KOMACHI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cicadas sing
Last Line: Tonight, no one %will visit the wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Ono Komachi
Subject(s): Cicadas


CICADAS, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dew-rinsed %their pure notes
Last Line: On its one branch, %alone
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Cicadas


CICADAS, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dew drops bathe their clear, distant tones
Last Line: Though each lives on a different branch
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Cicadas


DREAMS IN A SEASON OF DROUGHT, by GLORIA DYC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cicadas sing
Subject(s): Cicadas


HAIKU, by MASAOKA SHIKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: So few the cicadas
Last Line: The autumn storm
Subject(s): Cicadas


HAIKU, by MATSUMOTO TAKASHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cicadas shrieking
Last Line: Grows steeper still
Subject(s): Cicadas


ITS SLOUGHED-OFF SHELL, by NAITO JOSO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Autumn cicada
Subject(s): Cicadas


JUSTICE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All around the house huge elms and oaks
Subject(s): Cicadas; Elm Trees; Justice; Oak Trees


SILENT AND STILL: THEN, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The cicada's screech
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Cicadas; Zen Buddhism


THE CICADA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "we bless you, cicada"
Last Line: That you might be a god
Subject(s): Cicadas


THE CICADA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "why, ruthless shepherds, from my dewy spray"
Last Line: But grudge not my poor leaf and sip of grassy dew
Subject(s): Cicadas


THE CICADA, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the bloom of the sourest honey was, the cicada is
Subject(s): Cicadas


TO THE CICALA, by FREDERICK TENNYSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blithest spirit of the earth
Last Line: A god -- save immortality!
Subject(s): Cicadas