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Subject: CYPRESS TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breasts of white camellias lead the way
Last Line: "that soothe her with an echoed, ""innocent."
Subject(s): Camellias; Cypress Trees; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Ocean


ACQUA FREDDA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By acqua fredda's cloister-wall
Last Line: Long lost to me, is treasured there.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Life; Soul; Youth


BALLAD OF AN OLD CYPRESS, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of the shrine of zhu-ge liang
Last Line: It has always been true that the greatest timber %is hardest put to use
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Cypress Trees


CONTACT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O flame-shaped cypresses
Last Line: It is they who light the stars?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Stars


CYPRESS, by JOSE A. CALCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Should you pass by my grave
Last Line: Of that sad cypress tree!
Subject(s): Absence; Cypress Trees; Graves; Love - Loss Of


CYPRESSES, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon they talk of evening and at evening
Last Line: Teaching birds in little schools, by little skills %how to be shadows
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Night


CYPRESSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tuscan cypresses %what is it?
Last Line: And mechanical america montezuma still
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Etruscan Civilization; Florence, Italy


CYPRESSES, by NANCY SCHOENBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pulled by the roots from a hot southern town
Subject(s): Cypress Trees


CYPRESSES OF PROVENCE, by FRANCES REUBELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: By broken shrine of where white roads advance
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Provence, France


EVERGREEN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though thieving centuries grip ageing trees
Last Line: And clouds enough to thunder rain on death!
Subject(s): Clouds; Cypress Trees; Rain


FROM THE CASTELLO, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My window is a frame for one dark tree
Last Line: I shall possess thee now for all my days!
Subject(s): Castles; Cypress Trees; Flowers; Lilacs; Vision


GRANITE AND CYPRESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children of
Last Line: And people are so shaken
Subject(s): Future; Cypress Trees


HER VOICE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes have already transfixed him
Last Line: He is quiet.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Eyes; Voices


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 2. VOICE OF A YOUTHFUL TURK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew
Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you!
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The


PIETY OF THE CYPRESS, by ALFONSINA STORNI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traveler: this cypress tree that soars
Last Line: You stumble, human, upon heaven
Subject(s): Cypress Trees


RHAPSODY ON PINE AND CYPRESS, by ZUO FEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How grand and luxuriant these wondrous trees
Last Line: Like the southern mountains they are forever tranquil
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Pine Trees; Trees


SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the narrow, splintering, slatted floor of the dock
Last Line: Their bones showing like veins in a tiny leaf?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Fish & Fishing; Solitude; Swamps; Anglers; Loneliness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


SPRING UNDER THE CYPRESSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the cypresses, here in the stony
Last Line: Sings here alone, and is lost to the bushes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Italy; Spring; Italians


THE CYPRESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ivory bird, that shakest thy wan plumes
Last Line: Long in the shadow of the cypress tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Birds; Cypress Trees


THE CYPRESS-TREE OF CEYLON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sat in silent watchfulness
Last Line: Our souls should keep with thee!
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Sri Lanka; Ceylon


TO A CYPRESS; ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark and mysterious watcher of the dead
Last Line: To wander in thine ancient spell.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Ghosts; Grief; Secrets; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO THE YEW AND CYPRESS TO GRACE HIS FUNERAL, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Both you two have / relation to the grave
Last Line: Thankfull to you, or friends, for me.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Funerals; Yew Trees; Burials


TREES AGAINST THE SKY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pines against the sky
Last Line: Trees and the infinite sky
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Oak Trees; Olive Trees And Olives; Palm Trees; Pine Trees; Trees


TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 14, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower of the cypress, little bitter bloom
Last Line: Tight round my breast to kill the heart beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Love - Complaints; Tuscany, Italy


WIND IN THE CYPRESS, by MARY BEALE CARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind in the cypress, - sing to me!
Last Line: Like broken chords from a harp unstrung.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Wind