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Subject: SEPTEMBER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas such a big pie that I knew
Last Line: Or else I'd have been eaten, too!
Subject(s): Dreams; September; Nightmares


A YEAR'S CAROLS: SEPTEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, kind september, friend whose grace
Last Line: The fervent fields that knew thee near.
Subject(s): Seasons; September; Sky


AFTER VACATION, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The first day at school is the very best
Last Line: If all days were first days then school would be fun.
Subject(s): Schools; September; Students


ALONE AND TOGETHER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a lovely lonely day
Last Line: It is such fun to be together!
Subject(s): Children; Play; September; Solitude; Childhood; Loneliness


ANOTHER SEPTEMBER, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreams fled away, this country bedroom, raw
Subject(s): September


ANOTHER SEPTEMBER, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreams fled away, this country bedroom, raw
Last Line: Moving like women: justice, truth, such figures
Subject(s): September


AUTUMN, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Capricious little poem and sapling rhyme
Last Line: These listless leaves take warmer harmonies?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


BLISS, by EMMA STRAUB    Poem Source                    
First Line: These shit-covered lakes, empty driving ranges
Last Line: Strike me down now if this isn't perfectly lovely
Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Peace; September; Teenagers


BLUE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When god made everything
Last Line: And eyes like yours for you.
Subject(s): September; Sky


COLORED COUNTRIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From greenland's icy mountains to / far-off borneo
Last Line: Geography that's studied so.
Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Greenland; September; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DUCKS IN SEPTEMBER, by FREYA MANFRED    Poem Source                    
First Line: From my frosted window
Last Line: We have so far to go.'
Subject(s): Ducks; September


EARLY SEPTEMBER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The swallows have not left us yet, praise god
Last Line: Grief in his eyes, some ache at his great heart.
Subject(s): September


END OF FUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rover lies all in a heap
Last Line: School began to-day!
Subject(s): Children; Schools; September; Childhood; Students


EUGENE FIELD BORN SEPTEMBER 3, 1850, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: At night when the rockaby lady comes
Last Line: And wrote it out plain in a small book for you.
Subject(s): Biography; Field, Eugene (1850-1895); September; Story-telling; Biographers


FOR NICHOLAS, BORN IN SEPTEMBER, by TOD PERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You bring the only changes to the season
Last Line: A wind I never knew blow through my bones
Subject(s): September


GIANT-LAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lanterns swinging to and fro
Last Line: The trees are only waving grass.
Subject(s): Children; September; Childhood


GOD'S WEATHER: SEPTEMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: All gold! Down the hillside peep clumped daisies golden
Last Line: Sends a cheer down the year to just weather—god's weather.
Subject(s): Autumn; Months; Seasons; September; Weather; Fall


IN SEPTEMBER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still are the meadowlands, and still
Last Line: My lute can never say.
Subject(s): September


LANGUID SEPTEMBER, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the trees, orange and green
Last Line: Yellow maple leaves flutter down.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


MAGIC, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take some little words
Last Line: Made from little words.
Subject(s): Books; September; Story-telling; Reading


MORNING AFTER, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside of town the green hills roll
Last Line: Hold on to the same dollar bill
Subject(s): Apple Trees; September; Trees


QUATRAINS: SEPTEMBER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now at the grave of summer stands
Last Line: There runs a rosary of gold.
Subject(s): September


SEASIDE PLATIA, by DONNA J. GELAGOTIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mid-september. %seats stare
Last Line: Blow away from her face
Subject(s): Seashore; September


SEPTEMBER, by GEORGE ARNOLD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is the voice that calls
Last Line: Passing the fairest glories of the present!
Subject(s): Nature; September


SEPTEMBER, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My leaning birch is yellower today
Last Line: And half a troubled thought of growing old.
Subject(s): September; Wellesley College


SEPTEMBER, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is the iron weed
Last Line: Only too soon.
Subject(s): Seasons; September


SEPTEMBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind and the robin's note today
Last Line: In robes of wisdom's wearing.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Matron fair, ripe, rich, and glowing
Last Line: Of joyous, grateful praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Nature; September


SEPTEMBER, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The darkening sky is as it's supposed to be
Last Line: Your skin becoming skin for the first time
Subject(s): September


SEPTEMBER, by ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring is past and over these many days
Last Line: A chance light meaninglessly shines and it is spring.
Subject(s): September


SEPTEMBER, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always, I am stupefied
Last Line: Windswept dome %of heaven
Subject(s): September


SEPTEMBER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden-rod is yellow
Last Line: I can never forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Autumn; Memory; Seasons; September; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir goldenrod stands by and grieves
Last Line: And tranquil goes the queen to die.
Subject(s): Nature; September; Summer


SEPTEMBER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer days an-ending
Last Line: A month of sweet delight.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by MARK TRUSCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drawn to this blue
Last Line: This motion %boiling itself down
Subject(s): Language; September


SEPTEMBER, by CARLOS WILCOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sultry summer past, september comes
Last Line: From some tall beech, fast falling through the leaves.
Subject(s): September


SEPTEMBER, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: September, shall I dance awhile with you?
Last Line: B. Y. Williams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y.
Subject(s): September


SEPTEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden in the garden
Last Line: September's going by!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Weather; Fall


SEPTEMBER DARK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air falls chill
Last Line: O dews, weep on uncomforted!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Katydids; Night; September; Bedtime


SEPTEMBER DAY, by MARTHA LINSLEY SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sweeping sadness in the day
Last Line: She weaves of golden beauty and despair.
Subject(s): Day; September


SEPTEMBER FIRST, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky turned over sometime in the night
Last Line: A page turned in the dark
Subject(s): Love; September


SEPTEMBER IDYLL: IN THE HAMMOCK: CHAMEANE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky of green and gold, tremulous, delicate
Last Line: And the arresting slender fingers of the grass.
Subject(s): September


SEPTEMBER IN AUSTRALIA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest
Last Line: With thy voices for ever!
Subject(s): Australia; September


SEPTEMBER IN THE NORTH, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O love, do you remember
Last Line: "when you and I are wed!"
Subject(s): Marriage; September; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SEPTEMBER TRANSIENT, by R. P. HARRISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a mellow pleasantness about
Last Line: Where laughing autumn's feet have lightly tript.
Subject(s): September; Transience; Wandering & Wanderers; Impermanence; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SEPTEMBER WOODLANDS, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not sadness in the wood
Last Line: They dream with countenance sedate %not melancholy
Subject(s): Forests; September


SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harvest awakes the morning still
Last Line: Making amid their strains divine %all songs in vain so mean as mine
Subject(s): Harvest; September


SO COMES THE SUMMER'S CLOSE, by JEAN LANGILLE RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a sullen day / a day of mist and
Last Line: That promise snow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: STASIS, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the leaves change, light transforms these lucid
Subject(s): August; September; Weather


THE ARTIST ON PENMAENMAWR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That first september day was blue and warm
Last Line: Among the snowy gulls and summer spray.'
Subject(s): September; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE MAYOR'S CHILDREN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To be the mayor's children it must be
Last Line: And let you be the chiefest one in every kind of play.
Subject(s): Children; September; Childhood


THE PALACE OF PAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September, all glorious with gold, as a king
Last Line: Pine ridge: september, 1893.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); September; Temples; Mosques


THE POET'S CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bear the scales, where hang in equipoise
Last Line: The hunter's moon reigns empress of the night.
Subject(s): September


THE RED MONTH, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden morning / hello! Hello!
Last Line: Hello! Hello!
Subject(s): Love; September


THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JULY, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde
Last Line: Thou hast such doubt to climbe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): September; Shepherds & Shepherdesses


THE TRAFFIC MAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The traffic man stands in the square
Last Line: When his day's work is done.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; September; Traffic; Work; Workers


TRAINS IN THE GRASS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's fun to watch the trains go by
Last Line: And see the smoke curls die away.
Subject(s): Children; September; Travel; Childhood; Journeys; Trips


WAIFS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Between the road and garden bed
Last Line: And bore it home triumphantly—ah, then, it knew at last!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; September


WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind
Last Line: To write his name
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WRITTEN ON A BRIDGE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When soft september brings again
Last Line: And find thee changeless, pont-y-wern.
Variant Title(s): Pont-y-wern
Subject(s): Bridges; September; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen