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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COLORADO JUNE DAWN, by HARRIET A. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is magic interlacing of the shadows and the sun
Last Line: Since you are here to share my glee.
Subject(s): June; Magic; Morning; Summer; Sun


A JUNE DAY, by WILLIAM HOWITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who has not dreamed a world of bliss
Last Line: Than the proud minstrel's echoing strings.
Variant Title(s): A Summer Noon
Subject(s): June; Nature; Noon


A JUNE DAY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a red-winged blackbird singing
Last Line: That never will come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): June


A JUNE-TIDE ECHO, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long sad time, when the sky was grey
Last Line: And never a joy does the niggard bring.
Subject(s): June


A NIGHT IN JUNE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White as a lily moulded of earth's milk
Last Line: As in a lover's heart his sweetheart's name.
Subject(s): June


A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you
Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


A YEAR'S CAROLS: JUNE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong june, superb, serene, elate
Last Line: That brings forth peace from shining strife.
Subject(s): June; Seasons; Thunder


ADLESTROP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I remember adlestrop
Last Line: Of oxfordshire and gloucestershire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Adlestrop, England; England; June; Time; English


ALL IN JUNE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A week ago I had a fire
Last Line: To wriggle out of hollow flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer


B-52'S, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Against summer, the leaf-lovely wide and lively trees
Last Line: They lean over and touch the rose dead
Subject(s): June; Social Protest


BALLADE OF JUNE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lilacs glow, and jasmines climb
Last Line: With sir love among the roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Love; Roses


CANOE RIDE, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We follow along the river
Last Line: The other movement is grace
Subject(s): June


CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand / and shape a shady land
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War


CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand %and shape a shady land
Last Line: We never yet had lost a man %or known what death could do
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii


CELEBRATION FOR JUNE 24, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before you, I was living on an island
Last Line: And love is never love, that cannot give love up
Subject(s): Islands; June; Love


CHANTICLEER, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The green of the rooster pauses among the hens
Last Line: Sparrows, and he walks among his matrons in peace
Subject(s): June


CLOUDY JUNE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the hedge the spearman thistle towers
Last Line: Nor tell me I am I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; June; Landscape; English


D-DAWN - JUNE 6, 1944, by MARGARET MCGARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father, sitting on the side of your startled bed
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


D-DAY + ALL THE YEARS, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What daddy did on opening day? Yes, well
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


D-DAY ODE FOR DEAN, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, up on the scaffold
Last Line: He meant to join them there %and never fall to harm
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


DOWN AROUND THE RIVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noon-time and june-time, down around the river
Last Line: Noon-time and june-time down around the river!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; June; Rivers


DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart
Last Line: Dumb in june!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs


EARLY JUNE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring's over, over. The gold meadows / tarnish
Last Line: Already the leaves falling, and the brave boughs grown leaner.
Subject(s): June; Summer


EARLY WINTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown grass, picked out with red of bushes, tones
Last Line: For long-withholden loveliness of june.
Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; June; Winter


ELEGY FOR A SOLDIER, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The city where I knew you was swift
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)


ELEGY FOR A SOLDIER, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The city where I knew you was swift
Last Line: Audre lorde, neruda, amichai, senghor, %and you, june jordan
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)


EVEN THE BATS, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the june twilight, we looked without knowing why
Last Line: Where shadows leave the breast and fly away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Evening; June; Sunset; Twilight


FARMER BOY, by JACK DE LA PAIX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bees dot the lattice
Last Line: Once again.
Subject(s): June


FROM JUNE TO JUNE, by NORMAN STAUNTON DIKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two lovers 'mong the weedy brake
Last Line: They bring their son and heir.
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; June; Heirs


FULL EARLY IN THE MORNING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): June


I KNOW IT IS JUNE, by JAMES HARVEY SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: And now it is june
Last Line: That all of his rapture is surging in me?
Subject(s): June


IN FOUNTAIN COURT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fountain murmuring of sleep
Last Line: Soon, love, come soon.
Subject(s): Fountains; June


IN JUNE, by NORA PERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So sweet, so sweet the roses in
Subject(s): June; Nature


IN JUNE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who saw the june come? Wel-a-day!
Last Line: June has been here before.
Subject(s): June


JACOB, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: All, everywhere, and now, and high and low
Last Line: Finds blessing in the wound, the limping thigh
Subject(s): June


JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: June in the grass!
Last Line: Summer is here.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


JUNE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: June is here, the month of roses, month of brides and month of bees
Last Line: And affording for his rest hours many a cool and sweet retreat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): June


JUNE, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yon dragonfly is friends with me
Last Line: That weds red rose to rose.
Subject(s): June


JUNE, by MARY N. MCDONALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Laughingly thou comest / rosy june
Last Line: And a place beside the loved ones, who are safely gather'd there
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mary N.; Bleeker, Mary N.
Subject(s): June


JUNE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O queenly month of indolent repose!
Last Line: All hail the peerless goddess of the year!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): June; Wind


JUNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, cuckoo, come
Last Line: To my mind to live in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Summer
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer


JUNE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunny, balmy june is here
Last Line: For all school-girls and boys.
Subject(s): June; Vacation


JUNE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is rich
Subject(s): June; Nature


JUNE (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gazed upon the glorious sky
Last Line: To hear again his living voice.
Subject(s): June; Nature


JUNE (2), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There, through the long, long summer hours
Subject(s): June


JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There on the top of the down
Last Line: As the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): June


JUNE GALES, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yellow wing that summer stretches far
Last Line: Falls downward the morning star
Subject(s): June


JUNE IS SUCH A BONNY TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Butterflies and happy things
Subject(s): June


JUNE NIGHTS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the long day dies in summer and flowers are closing
Last Line: Lurks all night long low down on the skyline gray.
Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime


JUNE NIGHTS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In summer, when the day is gone
Last Line: Dawn waits its hour.
Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime


JUNE ON THE MERRIMAC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O dwellers in the stately towns
Last Line: Be glad for earthly joy!
Subject(s): June; Merrimac (river)


JUNE RAPTURE, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green! What a world of green! My startled soul
Subject(s): June


JUNE SANG THE RIVER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: June sang the river, june sang the sky
Last Line: You are lovely all seasons – but in june far the best!
Subject(s): June


JUNE'S COMING, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now have come the shining day
Last Line: With current fresh as morning dew.
Subject(s): June


JUNE'S DAUGHTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair lady june, proud queen of all the year
Last Line: And not for month or maid shall autumn wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): June


JUNE, 1864, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why darkly veiled, like mourning bride
Last Line: In nature I have found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): June; Nature


KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell you what I like the best
Last Line: And obleeged to you at that!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): June; Nature


LATE JUNE, by ROSANN KOZLOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sad is the woman who wears pearls
Last Line: Desire to cup the woman's chin and kiss the sadness %from her neck
Subject(s): June; Sun; Women


LAUREL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the road in the month of june
Last Line: Than any mood of roses!
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; June; Roads; Roses; Paths; Trails


LILIES IN THEIR ARMS, by HAZEL S. MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There will be brides in june-time; they will go
Last Line: Remember brides are tender, fragile things.
Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Flowers; June; Lilies; Nightmares


LITANY FOR D-DAY: 1944, by HENRY MORTON ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Epaulettes of farragut, / powder-horn of boone
Last Line: Not to be safe, but free.
Variant Title(s): Litany For A New A.e.f.
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy (france), Invasion Of


MAURINE: PART 1, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune
Last Line: To hide the glorious sun, ere it should rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; June; Love; Women; Joy; Delight


MAY AND JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: May trips in the dance
Last Line: But june follows after!
Subject(s): June; May (month)


MEMORIAM, by RUTH FORMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I light a candle %you died today
Last Line: Burn a flame %that does not die
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)


NEGLECT, by ANNETTE MASON SWIFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: June
Last Line: Remembered . . .
Subject(s): June


NIGHTHAWKS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the blue valleys and the farther hills
Last Line: They drifted into distance and were gone
Subject(s): June


NORMANDY BEACH, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The waves on the normandy coast jump heavily toward us
Last Line: Lonely companion, %there's something I have to tell you but I don't know what
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy, France; World War Ii


O ROSE OF JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O rose of june! In humble guise
Last Line: O rose of june!
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Roses


O, NOW'S THE HOUR, WHEN AIR IS SWEET, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will drink the cup of love
Subject(s): Love; June


OCTOBER-JUNE, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Something priceless to behold
Last Line: Singing-sad october-june.
Subject(s): June; October


OH HEART BE GLAD, by LILLIE REED ZORTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh heart, be glad, be strong as one who knows
Last Line: Oh heart be glad!
Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Hearts; June; Sunset; Twilight


ONCE WHEN ARCTURUS SHONE, by MABEL POSEGATE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only the young can say
Last Line: Trailing the sky.
Subject(s): June


PERSPECTIVE: ANNIVERSARY, D-DAY, by MARY KARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hauled the army footlocker thunking
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


PREMISES IN RAIN, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In weather that rains we are all falling
Last Line: Our cunning is our hope, and we are more than trees
Subject(s): June


REMEMBERED SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked an autumn lane, and ne'er a tune
Last Line: Soft songs on hearts that loved us, long before?
Subject(s): Autumn; June; Seasons; Silence; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs


REMEMBRANCE DAY, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind the statue of st. Teresa of the flowers
Last Line: Were apple orchards blossoming
Variant Title(s): Fal
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Memory; Soldiers; War


ROBERT, ALMOST JUNE, by KEVIN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Double bloom columbine line the front porch
Last Line: No luck falls too fast, no bells ring too soft to hear
Subject(s): June


SCHULE IN JUNE, by ROBERT BAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no a clood in the sky
Subject(s): June; Schools


SCIROCCO, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly as feathers / that fall through the twilight
Last Line: Floats like a shadow adrift on the pastures.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): June; Love; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers


SHADOWS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the year were june
Last Line: How could I weep?
Subject(s): June; Night; Bedtime


SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: JUNE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now summer is in flower and natures hum
Last Line: Then must they fade as pride oer custom showers %its blighting mildew on her feeble flowers
Subject(s): June


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 37, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The days are clear
Last Line: And june!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): June; Time


SONG TOWARD HARVEST, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a day around us
Last Line: The cries, the cries of going
Subject(s): June


SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: JUNE, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In june I give you a close-wooded fell
Last Line: Throughout the world be counted debonair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo
Subject(s): June


SPRING LILT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the silver mist
Subject(s): June


SPRING: 4. JUNE, by DIANE HUETER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She checks the sky and the clothesline
Last Line: To be richer and richer
Subject(s): June


THAT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You and I, and that night, with its perfume and glory
Last Line: My rival who found us, and waltzed you away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): June; Love; Night; Violins; Bedtime


THE BUDDING OF THE ORCHARD, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! The budding of the orchard
Last Line: Are returning through the dusk.
Subject(s): Country Life; June; Orchards


THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a balmy summer morning
Last Line: In the dim chill dawn of day!
Subject(s): Dawn; June; Sunrise


THE GROUND-ROBIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a low birch-tree just outside my window
Last Line: Sing on, ground-robin, sing!
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; June; Love; New Hampshire; Robins; Summer; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NATURALIST ON A JUNE SUNDAY, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My old gardener leans on his hoe
Last Line: "amen!"" says he."
Subject(s): June; Nature - Religious Aspects


THE PILLOW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the earth have I made me a pillow
Last Line: When, at the last, on her breast they have laid me!
Subject(s): June; Pillows


THE POET'S CALENDAR: JUNE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine is the month of roses; yes, and mine
Last Line: I am the fairest daughter of the year.
Subject(s): June


THE RACE OF THE BOOMERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleak o' the dawn, and the plain
Last Line: The indian's heart-wrung wail for his hapless hunting grounds.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dawn; Death; June; Pain; Soldiers; Sunrise; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JUNE, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, collin, here the place whose pleasaunt syte
Last Line: And wett your tender lambes that by you trace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): June; Love - Complaints


THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, april, she with mellow showers
Last Line: More wealth brings in, then all those three.
Variant Title(s): The Four Sweet Months
Subject(s): April; July; June; Spring; Summer


THE TURN OF THE YEAR, by JAMES L. PENNYPACKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down by the marsh the twigs of the maples are flaming
Last Line: May kiss the tips of her fingers.
Subject(s): Holidays; June; New Year


THE WILD ROSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High climbs june's wild rose
Last Line: The clouds of an evetide's wreath.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; June; Roses


THREE ROSES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just when the red june roses blow
Last Line: My world was gained and lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Roses


THUNDERSTORM, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: This evening could be outer darkness. Clouds
Last Line: Was to forgive or, at the worst, to warn
Subject(s): June


TO A JUNE BREEZE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the city streets
Last Line: Pray her remember!
Subject(s): June


TO JOAN OF ARC ON D-DAY, by MARY THERESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joan, be swift at the parapet
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Joan Of Arc (1412-1431)


TO JUNE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Month of the perfect love
Last Line: Thou canst not dull the pang, but oh! Tune every chord to song!
Subject(s): June


TO MY CHILDREN: 8. JUNE, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies are blue
Last Line: Be sung -- be sung.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): June


TO ONE WHO COMES NOW AND THEN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you come in, it seems a brighter fire
Last Line: Above you smile or frown.
Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Change; June


VETERAN, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the field, the wood
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Veterans; World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War


WALK IN THE EVENING, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the very green of the evening
Last Line: Before the whispering serpent wakes and talks
Subject(s): June


WHEN JUNE IS COME, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When june is come, then all the day
Last Line: Oh, life is delight when june is come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): June


WHY WAS JUNE MADE?, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why was june made? Can you guess?
Last Line: June was made for happiness!
Subject(s): June; Happiness


WILL, by JAN HELLER LEVI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: (drum) %it comes, like all the most important messages, %blurred
Last Line: That june could come, with all her complicated flowers, %into july
Subject(s): Jordan, June (1936-2002)


WOOD THRUSH, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dusk a trush gently voices bells
Last Line: A saint's evangel on a demon's air
Subject(s): June


WOODLAND JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, june is quite an idle elf, I think
Last Line: A twinkling brook where pan is piping low.
Subject(s): Forests; June; Woods


WORLD OF CLOVER, WHITE AND RED, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: It's really june
Subject(s): Clover; June