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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A JANUARY DANDELION, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All nashville, is a chill. And everywhere
Last Line: To all that blooming life that might have been.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


A WEED, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall a little weed grow?
Last Line: In death find god?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Weeds


A WEED GREEN, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Goes after life
Subject(s): Weeds


ASOLANDO: INAPPREHENSIVENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We two stood simply friend-like side by side
Last Line: "I said, ""vernon lee."
Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Lee, Vernon (violet Paget) (1856-1935); Weeds; Perception


AUGUST 20-21, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the age of loosestrife
Subject(s): August; Weeds


AUGUST 20-21, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the age of loosestrife
Last Line: He loves the wetness, he hates the violent sneezing
Subject(s): August; Weeds


BALD HEAD WITH THE FRINGE, by JANE BEESON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Domed candles under a cathedral sky
Subject(s): Clocks; Dandelions; Flowers; Riddles; Time; Weeds


BINDWEED, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intelligence does help, sometimes
Last Line: Whose intelligence mirrors ours, twist for twist
Subject(s): Weeds


BINDWEED, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intelligence does help, sometimes
Last Line: Whose intelligence mirrors ours, twist for twist
Subject(s): Weeds


BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most farms, in any place you please
Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers


BURNING THE RAIN FOREST, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched webster hold an ax blade to a gray
Last Line: And child, I can see the smoke from illinois
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Memory; Rain Forests


BUTTONS, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hold fast, golden buttons
Last Line: In a lunatic path of laughter and singing.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and
Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors


CHARADE: 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter my first with a studied grace
Last Line: Not quite rightly spelt, but comparison rare.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


CRABGRASS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poison or blowtorch %it-only a trace root
Last Line: Partner, she says-let me catch my breath
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Weeds


DANDELION, by KATE LOUISE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is a roguish little elf
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Weeds


DANDELION, by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little soldier with the golden helmet
Last Line: There is only the grass to fight!
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION, by NELLIE M. GARABRANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a dandy little fellow
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dandelion, fuzzy-top, must I stop my play?
Last Line: I've really got to know at once if mother's wanting me.
Subject(s): Children; Dandelions; Flowers; Play; Weeds; Childhood


DANDELION, by EMMET PENDLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dandelion has gone to seed
Last Line: Her daintiness to hold her there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION, by KATHARINE PYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found a little old elfin man
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION'S PALLID TUBE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That sepulture is o'er
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1519; Poem: 156
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by JOHN ALBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now dandelions in the short, new grass
Last Line: A spirit form, till on the sight it dies.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by MICHAEL BURKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: One year the dandelions decided to play a game
Last Line: Like the sea supplying food although it is killed over and over
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the climbing meadows
Last Line: On earth's green, windy coat.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions
Last Line: Their birth, and shrivel at the slightest breath, and perish from the earth.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Lilacs; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by LUELLA DOWD SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars that fell from heaven last night
Last Line: A promise golden and divine.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The golden dandelion stars
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her on the yellow rise
Last Line: Though I look every day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Vision; Weeds


DANDY DANDELION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dandy dandelion wakes
Last Line: His bright and shining crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


FANTASY ON THE WEEDS, by HONG YUNSUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The weeds grown on the hill
Last Line: Tunkling its bells %around the hill
Subject(s): Weeds


FIREWEED, by ELNA L. VON PINGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woodsman and his ax have conquered
Last Line: On slopes where once great forests trod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rasmussen, Elna
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Trees


FRENCH PARK, by MAGDA GUTAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ashes hover above the neat park
Last Line: And the swans begin their dance shyly
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Forests; Parks; Smoke; Trees


FROM A PRAIRIE, by BEATRICE BRISSMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like to watch
Last Line: A conqueror of space.
Subject(s): Tumble-weeds


GEORGICS: WEEDS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still to the full-grown plant is added care
Last Line: With sharpen'd hook, by vows invoke the shower
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Weeds


GOD'S GOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: God placed a gold mint in the sky
Last Line: All ye with eyes!
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; May (month); Weeds


GOLD HUNTING, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The miser hurries through the town
Last Line: Gather some before you're old!
Subject(s): April; Dandelions; Flowers; Gold; Harvest; Weeds


JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road
Last Line: "and blur the dream!"
Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


JUST THE WIND FOR A SOUND, SOFTLY, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a weed whose name I've meant all summer
Last Line: Like your own body to you. And now I can't forget
Subject(s): Weeds; Memory; Love


LATE DANDELIONS, by BEN BELITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dandelions, wrecked on their stems
Last Line: And a scarab aloft on the stem revelation had hallowed
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


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


LITTLE DANDELION, by HELEN LOUISE BARRON BOSTWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gay little dandelion
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


LITTLE DANDELION, by LULA LOWE WEEDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dandelion stares %in the yellow sunlight
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


LONG LIVE THE WEEDS, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long live the weeds that overwhelm
Subject(s): Weeds


MISTAKE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mistake was light and easy in my hand
Last Line: And in the yard such dandelions grew %that bloomed and closed and opened up and blew
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


NORTH HILLOCK, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On north hillock of south mountain
Last Line: Bright like fire against the green grove
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Hiking; Zen Buddhism


PORTRAIT: TUMBLE-WEEDS, by ANNIE LAURIE SNORF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like fat little kewpies
Last Line: Your eyes and sleep.
Subject(s): Tumble-weeds


PRAIRIE VAGABOND, by JANE SLOAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tumble-weed, / now gone to seed
Last Line: With picket-fence for tether.
Subject(s): Tumble-weeds


PREFACE, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sonja henie,' the young girl
Last Line: Darnel, ragweed, wortle
Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T.
Subject(s): Failure; Poetry & Poets; Weeds


SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now
Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology


SELF-PORTRAIT, by CECIL BODKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeds grow shamelessly
Last Line: Like ahses on the top of my head, %--or perhaps %like gunpowerder
Subject(s): Weeds


SMOKE, by H. PAULINE ZEBO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like cigarette smoke
Last Line: Away.
Subject(s): Smoking; Weeds; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


TALL AMBROSIA, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the signs of autumn I perceive
Last Line: For what old crime of theirs I do not gather
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weeds; Fall


THE DANDELION, by MARTHA E. CUNNINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: She's just a little wayward minx
Last Line: And leave her in disgrace.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O dandelion, rich and haughty
Last Line: More golden than before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose
Last Line: The dandelion!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind


THE DANDELION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With locks of gold today
Last Line: O man, thy fortune told!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Studding the grass with golden sheen
Last Line: Loved by its well-loved light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o dandelion, yellow as gold"
Last Line: And blow my hair away
Variant Title(s): "dandelion, What Do You Do?;
Subject(s): Dandelions;flowers;weeds


THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave
Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys


THE FIRST DANDELION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close
Last Line: The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE SPARK FROM THE ENGINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wood by the side of the railway is burned
Last Line: And to the son I shall not see.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fire-weeds


THE WAYSIDE WEEDS, by ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dreamy day with opalescent sky
Last Line: And kinship of all floral things assert.
Subject(s): Fields; Weeds; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE WEEDS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lawn, beside the red house
Last Line: In the dusk of late summer.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers & Sons; Plants; Weeds; Planting; Planters


THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 1. DANDELIONS, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around the corolla of dandelions
Last Line: That complete moment of surrender
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dandelions; Flowers; Parents; Weeds


THREE DREAMS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed that you were dreaming
Last Line: Dreamed of you
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Morning; Weeds


THREE WEEDS; FIREWEED, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For towhees, mice, and mule deer, fireweed blazes
Last Line: Of a woman in a pickup, pulling over %to let him in. The burning. The flowering.
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Nature


THREE WEEDS; HORSETAIL, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swishing the flat backs of boxwood and stone,
Last Line: The compost pile, until one stalk, one augur %of empire, clears the wall and lopes away.
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Weeds


THREE WEEDS; PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another interloper staking out its claim-
Last Line: The plowman cuts a switch of willow-herb and whips %the backs of broad animals, clearing the air.
Subject(s): Nature; Weeds


TO THE DANDELION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way
Last Line: On all these living pages of god's book.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


TUMBLEWEED, by RAMONA CARDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood in the shelter of a great tree
Last Line: Leaving me there
Subject(s): Weeds


TUMBLEWEED, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Detachable. The mobile american par excellence
Last Line: To dignify becoming sprung from dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Weeds


TUMBLEWEED, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning the march wind is huge, and there are many of them
Last Line: Facing the moat they have to get across %as the gods sail by all day, at sixty miles an hour, free
Subject(s): Weeds


TUMBLEWEED, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On 'the day of great routes'
Last Line: In the soul
Subject(s): Tumble-weeds


TUMBLEWEED, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here comes another, bumping over the sage
Subject(s): Weeds


TUMBLEWEED, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here comes another, bumping over the sage
Last Line: Here comes another, flopping among the sage
Subject(s): Weeds


TUMBLEWEEDS, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tumbleweeds listen when the wind speaks
Subject(s): Weeds


WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge
Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery!
Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime


WEEDS, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars and grass
Last Line: Come forward. A man loves you
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars and grass
Last Line: Come forward. A man loves you
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by ROBERTO TINOCCO DURAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The green weeds that grow
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by ANGELA GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: After I had slashed the briars
Last Line: That delicate human beings %are known as weeds
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What cruel savages are weeds!
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by MARY M. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curbside they crouch
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by HANNAH KAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight, when the town is asleep %I shall gather weeds
Last Line: Of weeds untended %yet strangely durable
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pigrush, the poverty grass
Last Line: The wind scattered milkweed across the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by WALLACE MCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lawn is filled with dandelions
Last Line: And take advantage of this market. %'cause he wants to buy some weed
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


WEEDS, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She planted marigolds because they kept
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Weeds


WEEDS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White with daisies and red with sorrel
Last Line: The blood too bright, the brow accurst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by SARAH PROVOST    Poem Source                    
First Line: In yarrow, in thistle, the small joy
Last Line: Went into someplace that was home %and would have stayed
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He lives in suburbia
Last Line: Believes he needs %them growing %around him to %keep him alive
Subject(s): Weeds


WEEDS ABOVE THE SNOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is nature's garden
Last Line: And are comforted.
Subject(s): Weeds


WHAT I LEARN WEEDING, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dandelion root can grow two feet long
Last Line: And sunburst of maddened flower!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Weeds


WORMWOOD, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father tells the story
Last Line: That could have killed him
Subject(s): Healing; Medicine; Sickness; Weeds


YOUNG DANDELIONS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a bold fellow
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Weeds