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Subject: POPLAR TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AEGEUS: WIND IN THE POPLARS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As in the boughs of a tall poplar-tree
Last Line: Moves 'neath the breeze, and waves her leafy pinions.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


AUTUMN WHIMSIES, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poplar is an old woman,
Last Line: Even into the winter of her discontent!
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Poplar Trees


AUTUMNAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish the poplar tree would shed
Last Line: Again, the long-perished dear delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Autumn; Poplar Trees; Seasons; Fall


BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled
Last Line: Sweet especial rural scene.
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Environment; Holidays; Nature; New Year; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


HERMAE...WHITAKERI, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Binde ye my browes with mourning cyparisse
Last Line: A double life: that neither liu'd afore?
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poplar Trees; Soul; Sun


IN FRANCE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplars in the fields of france
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


OBITUARY WITH POPLAR TREES, by MIRIAM SAGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two white enormous poplars -- its raining
Last Line: Sky without a moon - %illiterate meaning
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


PLANTING THE POPLAR, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because thou'rt not an oak
Last Line: Poplar, by the stream.
Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Soul; Time


POPLAR LEAF, by GEORGE SEFERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It trembled so the wind swept it away
Last Line: My god how I sought for it
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


POPLAR LEAVES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows down the dusty street
Last Line: As fresh as poplar leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Leaves; Poplar Trees


POPLAR TREES ARE HAPPIEST, by HARRY NOYES PRATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poplar trees are laughing trees
Last Line: Of all the trees I know.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


POPLAR'S SHADOW, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was little, when
Last Line: The poplar plume belongs %to what enormous ring?
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


POPLAR: 1, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blinding sky's unkind
Last Line: But the poplar hath her fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Wind


POPLAR: 2, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No gale that heaven could send her
Last Line: Who hears exalt her art.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Noises; Poplar Trees; Storms


POPLARS, by ELIZABETH H. EMERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poplars in winter wear dresses of silver
Last Line: Pouring a river of gold into the sea.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


RATIONAL MAN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His restless glance abruptly drew
Last Line: Took comfort from the poplar trees.
Subject(s): Men; Poplar Trees; Reason; Solitude; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness


STRIFE AND PEACE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow poplar leaves came down
Last Line: Hath entered into peace.
Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Poplar Trees; Sleep


THE HAPPY PAIR, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It came and went so lightly
Last Line: A grandchild and a son.
Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Sea; Ocean


THE LITTLE SHEPHERD'S SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves, the little birds, and I
Last Line: A bird!
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers


THE POPLAR, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, here stands the poplar, so tall and so stately
Last Line: And turn true-love's alphabet all upside down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he.
Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE POPLARS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, a lush green english meadow - it's there I that would lie
Last Line: For a row of wind-blown poplars against an english sky.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Soldiers; World War I; First World War


THE SILVER POPLAR, by HENRY E. PILKENTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a rushing sound in the poplar tree
Last Line: By listening to her whispers low.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


THE TEARS OF THE POPLARS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hath not the dark stream closed above thy head
Last Line: Brother beloved, we are thy funeral trees!
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


THE THREE POPLARS, by PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall have three grey poplar trees above me when I sleep
Last Line: But upright as the staff of one who watcheth o'er his sheep.
Subject(s): Night; Poplar Trees; Sleep; Bedtime


THREE TREES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplar is a french tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees; Poplar Trees


TWIN ROWS OF POPLARS, by MAIMIE A. RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


WHIMSY GIFTS, by ALICE HARLOW STETSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was just a whimsy
Last Line: In a row.
Subject(s): Nature; Poplar Trees