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Subject: PERIWINKLE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` PERIWINKLE, by CICELY MARY BARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In shady shrubby places
Last Line: No great renown have I. Yet who %does not love periwinkle's blue?
Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Periwinkle; Seasons


PERIWINKLE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Periwinkle, magdalen
Last Line: In each chalice-bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Periwinkle


PERIWINKLE DIGGERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hickory, dickory, dock
Last Line: While it's day - and that's good advice too
Subject(s): Periwinkle


PERIWINKLES, by JEAN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day we brought
Last Line: Five-pointed stars of amethyst
Subject(s): Periwinkle


PERIWINKLES, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have seen at low tide on the rocky shore
Last Line: Then we grow old, her lunacy prevails
Subject(s): Periwinkle