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Subject: HYACINTHS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HYACINTH FOR EDITH, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now that the ashen rain of gummy april
Last Line: Of our lost innocence, our ghostly childhood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Hyacinths; Past; Childhood


ADMONITION FOR SPRING, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look away now from the high lonesome hills
Last Line: The heavy hyacinth remembering death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A.
Subject(s): Hyacinths; Spring


HYACINTHS, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A poem might be
Last Line: All is said!
Subject(s): Hyacinths


HYACINTHS TO FEED THY SOUL, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft
Last Line: Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi
Subject(s): Hyacinths


IDYLL 7. OF HYACINTHUS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus tried all his means, and thought of new
Last Line: But fate made remedies remediless.
Subject(s): Hyacinths


SAPPHO, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How could a water hyacinth
Last Line: Is a mist of dust?
Subject(s): Hyacinths; Sappho (610-580 B.c.)


SONNET: THE HYACINTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in this wrecked storm-wasted garden-close
Last Line: Of some love-laden, fair athenian girl?
Subject(s): Hyacinths


SONNET: TO A HYACINTH IN JANUARY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet household hyacinth, whose dainty breath
Last Line: More full and fragrant than the promised joy.
Subject(s): Hyacinths; Winter


THE HYACINTH GARDEN IN BROOKLYN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A year ago friends
Last Line: In paradise.
Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Gardens & Gardening; Hyacinths


TO A HYACINTH SONG, by VIRGINIA STAIT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It captured me beyond the color's riot
Last Line: And I am unconfessed!
Subject(s): Hyacinths