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Subject: PEONIES
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Last Line: White pivoine of manet same feast for the eyes and laying open of the flesh of the poem by same over
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Peonies; Poetry And Poets


COMPANION PIECE TO CHEN XIANG'S 'PEONIES ON A WINTER DAY': 1, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single bloom of beguiling red
Last Line: And will not allow these idle flowers %even the briefest respite
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Peonies


GROWING PEONIES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time I grew peonies
Last Line: And a paradisal scent %rare as water in the desert
Subject(s): Peonies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships


LIKE THE PEONIES (TO 'TEACHER'), by E. P.    Poem Text                    
First Line: You are like the peonies
Last Line: To give yourself away!
Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Nature; Peonies


PEONIES, by MICHAEL BORICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma called them pineys, and I didn't know why
Last Line: And smiles, when she kneels and takes the pineys in her hand
Subject(s): Peonies


PEONIES, by CHU SHU-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With thousands of fetching poses they display their exquisite scents
Last Line: For whole kingdoms have fallen for them
Subject(s): Peonies


PEONIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer grew, broadened out
Last Line: With his banner of hay
Subject(s): Peonies


PEONIES, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
Subject(s): Peonies


PEONIES, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the yard, peonies burst their white hearts
Last Line: An infant, an infinity, a crisis, an end
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Peonies


PEONIES AT DUSK, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White peonies blooming along the porch
Last Line: A loved one’s face
Subject(s): Peonies


PEONY, by KIMBERLY LYONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How such a tightly wound ball
Last Line: Outside %any diameter
Subject(s): Peonies


PEONY, by BOBBY CAUDLE ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am trying my hand at this
Subject(s): Peonies


PEONY AFTERNOON, by SUH JUNG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where you are
Last Line: The flicker of your lashes %as you wake
Subject(s): Peonies


RENGA: PEONY FALLEN, by YOSA BUSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peony fallen, and a heap of two or three petals
Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson
Subject(s): Peonies


RHAPSODY OF PEONIES, by SALLIE MACON GARLAND PIPPEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: All my world is glad today
Last Line: Ambrosial feast, the peony!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pippen, Sally Macon Garland
Subject(s): Peonies


SELLING TATTERED PEONIES, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Facing the wind, my sighs are stirred
Last Line: That he has no way to buy
Subject(s): Aging; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Peonies; Women


SELLING WILD PEONIES, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sigh into the wind at how often the flowers fall
Last Line: Then, my dear prince, you will regret that they are no longer for sale
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Peonies


THE DAY OF THE PEONIES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the day of the peonies. My dfaughter
Last Line: Of feasted day, half holy and half daft
Subject(s): Peonies


TILL PEONIES BLOOM, by YUNSIK YONGNANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will await my spring
Last Line: Till peonies bloom again
Subject(s): Peonies


TO S. E. D, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks, thanks, dear friend, for your present
Last Line: And your kindly thoughts of me.
Subject(s): Friendship; Peonies