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Subject: IRIS (FLOWER)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COURT LADY STANDING UNDER CHERRY TREE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is an iris
Last Line: And of the iris stalk that is broken in the fountain.
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Japan; Japanese


IN A GARDEN, by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along my fence
Last Line: Fell in my garden.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Iris (flower); Marigolds


IRIS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The entire sky %splendid %fan %of clouds
Last Line: Cupolas %of the mauve %season
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


IRIS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The iris was yellow, the moon was pale
Last Line: The iris-heads in a row.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


IRIS, by ROBERTA HOLLOWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green tall leaves by the water's side
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


IRIS, by HILDA MARY HOOKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Iris by the riverside
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


IRIS, by CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS PHELPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou knowest not the parching
Last Line: Beneath the rainbow rim!
Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Iris (flower); Virginity; Vestals


IRIS, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a train inside this iris
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Death; Dead, The


IRIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ere yet the sun is high
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


IRIS FLOWERS, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother let me go with her
Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


IRISES, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a vase of gold
Last Line: The way that the buds unfurl!
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


IRISES ON THE TABLE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing more than irises
Last Line: Diminished by all purple sweetness here I love
Subject(s): Colors; Iris (flower); Love


LOUISIANA IRIS, by BIN RAMKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hybridizing naturally, they come
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Plants - Breeding


MYSTERY: 2, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In her petals, blue iris folds
Last Line: Only clear mid-day skies.
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Mystery; Secrets


SCENT OF IRISES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A faint, sickening scent of irises
Last Line: Forget each other and the bruise of our bodies' clash.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


SEA IRIS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weed, moss-weed
Last Line: In our nostrils.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Iris (flower)


SEA IRIS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do the murex-fishers
Last Line: Stained among the salt weeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Iris (flower)


THE BEDS OF FLEUR-DE-LYS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High-lying, sea-blown stretches of green turf
Last Line: The beds of fleur-de-lys.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God had called us, and we came
Last Line: We will set it out to grow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Iris (flower); Paradise


THE IRIS, THAT SEXUAL FLOWER, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was standing in the frozen garden
Last Line: That bucket, in sexual water
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Sex


TO IRIS, by MILDRED SPARKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have a fitting name
Last Line: Oh, sun, curl not with brown the petals of the iris.
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Names


WHITE IRIS, by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tall and clothed in samite
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


WILD IRIS, by DENISE BARRETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the dark and secret place
Last Line: But I, I could not pick one now.
Subject(s): Iris (flower)


YOU SAY THIS IS THE IRIS?, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their wonders nameless go
Subject(s): Iris (flower)