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Subject: NOON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 NOON INTERVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A deep, delicious hush in earth and sky
Last Line: The wand waves, and the dozer sinks away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Earth; Noon; Sleep; Summer; World


A NOON SONG, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are songs for the morning and songs for the night,
Last Line: To his home by the way of the west
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Noon


AT NOON - AND MIDNIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far in the night, and yet no rest for him!
Last Line: For god was with him, and he laid his face with hers and wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Noon; Sleep


AT ONE AGAIN: 1. NOONDAY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two angry men -- in heat they sever
Last Line: And 'tis my season to curb and quell
Subject(s): Noon


BEWILDERED, by ETHEL KNIGHT FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blossom sere hangs on the tree
Last Line: And take the half-blown rose?
Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Noon; Trees; Bedtime


DAWN, NOON AND DEWFALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn, noon and dewfall! Bluebird and robin
Last Line: And fiddle on the kitchen wall a-jes' a-eechin' fer me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Noon; Robins; Sunrise


DAY: NOON, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fervid on the glitt'ring flood
Last Line: Brighten'd by the beams of noon.
Subject(s): Landscape; Nature; Noon


ELEMENTAL, by BREWSTER GHISELIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noonday once more:.
Subject(s): Noon


GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 2. IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May be it was her littleness, may be
Last Line: And cherished her; her tears became my tears.
Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Noon; Tears; Childhood


GLION - NOON, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From glion on an august noon
Last Line: Standing immutably alone.
Subject(s): Glion, Switzerland; Noon


GRACE BEFORE MEALS: NOON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Noon has come with peace and cheer
Last Line: Lord, we thank thee evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): God; Noon; Prayer


HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming
Last Line: For the silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness


HYMNS OF A DAY: NOONTIDE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the weary noonday heat
Last Line: For this noontide rest with thee!
Subject(s): Noon


IN GATINAIS: REPOSE AT NOON, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bee, that the thyme doth sing, how clear thy hum doth ring in the
Last Line: Ear!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life; Noon; Beekeeping; Bugs


MORNING IS THE PLACE FOR DEW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dukes — for setting sun!
Subject(s): Morning; Noon; Night


NOON, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All how silent and how still
Last Line: Caring not to stir at all, %till the dew begins to fall
Subject(s): Noon


NOON, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun had thrown its noontide ray
Last Line: Bright blossom of a future ripening flame!
Subject(s): Noon


NOON, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Noon whose kingdom summer is, spread wide along the plain's expanse
Last Line: Seven times thy heart made stronger in the furnace of thy loss.
Subject(s): Noon; Weariness; Fatigue


NOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the hills and far away
Last Line: And has joined us with a nod.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Kisses; Noon; Wisdom; Dead, The; World


NOON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time the bittern, solitary bird
Last Line: Save where the wagtail interrupts the noon.
Subject(s): Birds; Noon


NOON AT MONTEREY, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933)    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sail upon the blue, a little mist
Last Line: My love!
Subject(s): Monterey, California; Noon


NOON QUATRAINS, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day grows hot, and darts his rays
Last Line: We may again enjoy the day.
Subject(s): Heat; Noon


NOON: 1, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night of sleep is always near
Last Line: To throb upon a human breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Noon


NOON: 2, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You claim an early twilight, sweet
Last Line: As 'neath your eye-lids dies the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Noon


NOONTIDE, by JOHN LEYDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a shivering canopy reclined
Last Line: To join thy music, save the listless bee.
Subject(s): Nature; Noon


ORGAN SONGS: NOONTIDE HYMN, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love thy skies, thy sunny mists
Last Line: I love, then, ten times more!
Subject(s): God; Love; Nature; Noon; Prayer


SECURITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The noonday smiles to hear
Last Line: As fathomless as gloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Night; Noon; Bedtime


THE BLUE NOON, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the whole sky is vestured silken blue
Last Line: Show their gold underside.
Subject(s): Noon


THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE NOON STACK, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midi
Last Line: Midi
Subject(s): Noon


TIDE AT NOON, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the time comes that he can sail no longer
Last Line: Float bridges of boats and dead bodies from the mud, like corks
Subject(s): Noon; Sailors And Sailing; Tides


WILD CHERRY, by MILDRED J. ORR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wild cherry is in bloom
Last Line: Wild cherry. I give my heart to you.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Moon; Noon; Wind


WIND (1), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's like the light,-- %a fashionless delight
Last Line: Best when it's done,-- %the everlasting clocks %chime noon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 297; Poem: 30
Subject(s): Noon; Wind