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Subject: SEEDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CABINET OF SEEDS DISPLAYED, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the original monies of the earth
Subject(s): Religion; Seeds; Theology


BABY SEED SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brown brother, oh! Little brown brother
Last Line: Little brown brother, good-bye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Seeds; Socialism; Spring


BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing
Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!"
Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring


CABINET OF SEEDS DISPLAYED, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the original monies of the earth
Last Line: And think the hurricane, where power lies
Subject(s): Religion; Seeds


EXPERIMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast a lap full of seed
Last Line: Some stinking weed
Variant Title(s): "o Lapwing;""thou Hast A Lap Full Of Seed"";
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters


FIRST SOWN, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peas are the first thing we plant
Subject(s): Peas; Seeds


HERE'S THE SEED, FIRST I DIG, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Where shall I be?
Subject(s): Seeds


I TOOK A LITTLE SEED TO YOU, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Foir that small seed
Subject(s): Seeds; Trees


IN SCORCHING TIME, by ALEX STEVENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Note how the desert takes form, easily as wax. It moves
Subject(s): Seeds


KOKINSHU (14), SELS., by UNKNOWN                       
Subject(s): Seeds


LINES TO A MILKWEED, by GALDYS HIGBEE POLINSKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, lovely weed, and yet it seems a shame
Last Line: Because it's passed.
Subject(s): Landscape; Seeds; Weeds


MY GARDEN OF FRIENDS, by NETTIE STEPHENSON BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love my garden of friends
Last Line: For the gardening is done by god.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Seeds


OMNISCIENCE, by ALEXANDER J. CODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The seeds of time / ah, who may know
Last Line: And the burgeoning trees.
Subject(s): Growth; Seeds


PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by DOROTHY QUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: This age is epochal
Last Line: Half of your seeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs.
Subject(s): Future; Hands; Nations; Seeds; United States; America


PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 5. CROP CIRCLES5, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Left, r9ight, straight
Last Line: 2428426290833 68353
Subject(s): Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Prairies; Seeds


PRAYER TO YEARS, by HELEN ODERKIRK O'ROURKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O my years! Be merciful! Be buoyant!
Last Line: Seeds that beyond oblivion grow.
Subject(s): Future; Prayer; Seeds


SAFE AND SOUND (A LITTLE ACTION SONG), by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Safe and sound in the ground
Last Line: While mr. Rough wind rides around
Subject(s): Plants; Seeds; Winter; Spring


SEED, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O freighted thought, trembling within my mind
Last Line: And destiny is ineluctable!
Subject(s): Seeds; Soul; Spring; Thought; Thinking


SEED LEAVES; HOMAGE TO R. F., by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here something stubborn comes
Last Line: And starts to ramify
Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Seeds; Spring


SEED LEAVES; HOMAGE TO R. F., by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here something stubborn comes
Last Line: Takes aim at all the sky %and starts to ramify
Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets; Seeds; Spring


SEED-TIME, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When trumpet-flowers begin to blow
Last Line: And plant the winged seed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Seeds


SEEDS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world is barren now
Last Line: Where I have always been.
Subject(s): Earth; Seeds; World


SONG OF THE HEMPSEED, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, scatter me well, 'tis a moist spring day
Last Line: And a varied tale shall the hempseed tell.
Subject(s): Seeds; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SONG OF THE SEEDLING; TO ARTHUR SEWELL BUTT, by JOHN HENRY GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell, little seedling, murmuring germ
Last Line: I must reach the sun, the sun.
Subject(s): Seeds


SONG OF THE THREE SEEDS IN THE MACAW'S BEAK, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cracked by that accurate beak
Last Line: The three seeds sung.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Parrots; Seeds; Dead, The


SONG OF THE WAITING LAND, by ELLEN COIT ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: East wind, blowing
Last Line: Dreaming the dream the star showed me.
Subject(s): Seeds; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


SOWING, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a perfect day
Last Line: Saying good-night
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds


SUPPOSE YOU WERE A LITTLE SEED UNDERGROUND, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: To be that flower
Subject(s): Seeds


THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O come, blest spirit! Wheresoe'er thou art
Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Seeds; Cheese; Sheep; Agriculture; Farmers


THE LAST OF MAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plantin' time's already here
Last Line: As to lose his soul.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Seeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE SEED SHOP, by MURIEL STUART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie
Last Line: And in my hand a forest lies asleep.
Subject(s): Seeds


THE SEEDING, by LUCY A. CURRAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my song for you, of the great northwest in the seed-time
Last Line: This is my song for you, who are fed by their bounty.
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific; Seeds


THE SEEDLING, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a quiet little seedling
Last Line: Virtue's fair, unfading flowers.
Subject(s): Seeds


THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now falls the dusk I sit in peace
Last Line: Athwart the starry world.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers


THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peaceful and cool, the twilight grey
Last Line: Seems to my eyes sublimely grand!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers


THE SOWING, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: April is a man
Last Line: And we pray.
Subject(s): April; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters


THINKING IN THE SPACE CAROL TALKS ABOUT, by DEBORAH BYRNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seeds tossed into the wind
Last Line: I call you persephone, and cut the earth open
Subject(s): Reason; Seeds; Wind


WHAT DOES THE SEED WAIT FOR UNDERGROUND?, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And grow and grow till the summer's done
Subject(s): Seeds; Rain


WILD SEEDS, by STEFAN HERTMANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can, cringing against
Last Line: And I think of wild seeds
Subject(s): Seeds; Wilderness