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Subject: POPPIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALIFORNIA SONG, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I come to you with a gift in my hand
Last Line: The scent of the fields where the poppies grow.
Subject(s): California; Flowers; Poppies


A TRIOLET, by JOSEPHINE BYINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cheerful sight
Last Line: Is a bed of poppies.
Subject(s): Poppies


BURIALS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few townspeople, the police on their evening rounds
Last Line: And did not tempt him %with any desire to return
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Memory; Poppies


BUTTERFLY WINGS, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some far off summer day, when you shall see
Last Line: Oh, magic touch of dusky velvet wings!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Magic; Poppies; Bugs


CALIFORNIA POPPIES, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With dreams, and dust of dreaming, sweet and dim
Last Line: And slender stems to break when you have drained it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Poppies


COPA D'ORO, by E. DORCAS PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poppies! / bright tongue of living flame
Last Line: Melted in one!
Subject(s): Poppies


COPA DE ORO (CALIFORNIA POPPY), by INA DONNA COOLBRITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy satin vesture richer is than looms
Last Line: Brimmed with the golden vintage of the sun.
Subject(s): Plants; Poppies; Planting; Planters


FAREWELL TO POPPIES, by EVA BRUDNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The whole field of poppies billowed, my beloved!
Last Line: Popies the last I shall see as they close %over my sinful earth
Subject(s): Poppies


FIELD OF RED POPPIES, by DANIEL SIMBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can see them now, I think, bowing against absence and trusting us
Last Line: And it still matters. Because it's voiced
Subject(s): Fields; Legends; Poppies


GARDENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wide, fair gardens, the rich, lush gardens
Last Line: "where we kissed the mother and said ""good-night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Poppies


GIPSY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poppies that in spring I sow
Last Line: Calling the heart they know
Subject(s): Gypsies; Poppies; Red (color)


GREAT COMRADE OF THE NORTH, SWEET GIANT OF POPPIES AND, by AGUSTI BARTRA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Steel rose!
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Poppies; Roses


HEROES, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A flower in a weedy field
Subject(s): Poppies


IN PRAISE OF POPPY FLOWERS, by HUANG YUANJIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is deeply ashamed that the long sword achieved nothing
Last Line: A vanished soul keeps its name from olden times
Subject(s): Poppies


IN THE POPPY FIELD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mad patsy said, he said to me
Last Line: And danced for very ecstasy!
Subject(s): Poppies


MAIDS IN MAY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three maids there were in meadow bright
Last Line: To little children of the poor
Subject(s): Children; Girls; May (month); Poppies


NINE BLACK POPPIES FOR CHAC, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The junta was jubilant around the mortised fountain
Last Line: Irrigating pink in the eternal spring rains.
Subject(s): Bodies; Faith; Murder; Poppies; War; Belief; Creed


NOVEMBER POPPIES, by HILARY CORKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walked with you this eleventh in the coppice
Last Line: Every november the thin red legions are mustered %and they flower like clockwork in her bitterest ho
Subject(s): Holidays; Poppies; Veterans Day


ODE TO THE POPPY, by HENRIETTA O'NEIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not for the promise of the labour's field
Last Line: Burst these terrestial bonds, and other regions try!
Subject(s): Poppies


ODE TO THE POPPY, by HENRIETTA O'NEILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not for the promise of the laboured field
Last Line: Burst these terrestrial bonds, and other regions try.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyle, Henrietta
Subject(s): Poppies


ODE TO THE POPPY, by CYNTHIA TAGGART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though varied wreaths of myriad hues
Last Line: Affliction lost its power.
Subject(s): Poppies


OTHER POPPIES, by ANDREA ZANZOTTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Proud with barbarous pride and bloodlust
Last Line: And in horrible poppies did die
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lost in a field of heavy petalled poppies
Last Line: Beyond the limits of time %only the gray embossed canvas
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poppies; Summer


POPPIES, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ladies, softly fair
Last Line: First gleaned with boaz in among the corn.
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by HENRI COLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking from comalike sleep, I saw the poppies,
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poppies blooming all around
Last Line: At midnight's darksome hour.
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Poppies; Sleep


POPPIES, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lilies, lilies not for me
Last Line: But forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a field of soft, unruly poppies
Last Line: To do almost anything
Subject(s): Flowers; Poppies


POPPIES, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poppies send up their
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in
Last Line: She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in.
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains sway with flame
Last Line: With timbrel, shawm and quire.
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crimson poppies, bright as the crimson morning
Last Line: Under the wind's touch!
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses to make you remember
Last Line: Poppies to make you forget.
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES, by FFRIDA WOLFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poppies in the garden, they all wear frocks
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES / INNOKENTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day's on fire
Last Line: Whose scalps burn under the white sky
Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Poppies


POPPIES IN JULY, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little poppies, little hell flames
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES IN JULY, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little poppies, little hell flames
Last Line: But colorless. Colorless
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES IN LUDLOW CASTLE, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through halls of vanished pleasure
Last Line: A-top of ludlow keep
Subject(s): Ludlow, England; Poppies


POPPIES IN OUR WHEAT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let no blame upon us fall
Last Line: Poppies grew amidst our wheat.
Subject(s): Poppies; Wheat


POPPIES IN THE GARDEN, by FFRIDA WOLFE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPIES IN THE WHEAT, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along ancona's hills the shimmering heat
Last Line: Lithe poppies ran like torchmen with the wheat.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Variant Title(s): Poppies On The Wheat
Subject(s): Farm Life; Poppies; Agriculture; Farmers


POPPIES OF THE RED YEAR; A SYMPHONY IN SCARLET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The words that I have written
Last Line: "which we hold aloof in silence."
Subject(s): Poppies; Red (color)


POPPIES OPENING, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poppies droop their buds
Last Line: For a moment, the wind ceases to blow
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPY, by PARK SONG'YONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ready to faint when held
Last Line: Dance drunk with dancing
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poppy flaunts a petticoat
Last Line: As the wind goes and blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Poppies


POPPY FIELDS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You say this poppy blooms so red
Last Line: To rise, a poppy field of france?
Subject(s): Fields; Poppies; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


POPPY: FANTASTIC EXTRAVAGANCE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare
Last Line: My wither'd dreams, my wither'd dreams.
Subject(s): Children; Poppies; Childhood


RED POPPIES, by OLIVE STODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My strong hands
Last Line: To my bed!
Subject(s): Poppies


RED POPPIES (IN THE SABINE VALLEYS NEAR ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the seeding grass
Last Line: And the tall corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): Red Poppies In The Sabine Valleys Near Rome
Subject(s): Italy; Poppies; Rome, Italy; Wind; Italians


RED POPPIES IN THE CORN, by W. CAMPBELL GALBRAITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've seen them in the morning light
Last Line: Red poppies in the corn.
Subject(s): Poppies; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War


SAINTS' POPPIES, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere there are weeds beside the long road
Subject(s): Poppies


SEA POPPIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amber husk
Last Line: As your bright leaf?
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Poppies


SILENCE, by SLAVKO JANEVSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When poppies tear themselves away
Last Line: For poppies silence is golden
Subject(s): Poppies; Silence


SONNET: 71. TO THE POPPY, by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While summer roses all their glory yield
Last Line: Thou flimsy, showy, melancholy weed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Poppies


SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs
Last Line: An idyl of love and spring.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Poppies; Seasons; Spring


THAT'S IT THEN ISN'T IT, by DENNIS COOLEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Scraped them %flying
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Poppies


THE GARLAND OF SLEEP, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wreath of poppy flowers
Last Line: As if it were a tomb.
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Poppies; Sleep; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin


THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish


THE POPPIES, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the garden of your joyous care
Last Line: And in my love you live.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Poppies; Dead, The


THE POPPY, by SARAH HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Light weed, whose poisoned scent with sickly power
Last Line: And with thy balm assuage the fevered brain.
Subject(s): Poppies


THE POPPY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who roams by wild-flowered ditch or hedge
Last Line: Of death -- sleep -- health -- oblivion -- in a weed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Poppies


THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey
Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow.
Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE POPPY-ROOM, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wide-open-windowed in the morning time
Last Line: They will return in peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Poppies


THE SEA-POPPY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A poppy grows upon the shore
Last Line: Where she sits shivering and forlorn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Plants; Poppies; Planting; Planters


THE VALLEY OF WHITE POPPIES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the grey pastures and the dark wood
Last Line: I am alone now among the silent grasses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Poppies; Salvation; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE WHITE POPPY, by MARIA ABDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast no power to charm our eye
Last Line: I trace his care for man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A.
Subject(s): Poppies


WABASH VIOLETS, by EARL MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What? Sho'! You don't! Do you mean it, though?
Last Line: My love for them now is sp'iled.
Subject(s): Boston; Flowers; Indiana; Marigolds; Poppies; Violets