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Subject: WINDOWS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WINDOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I woke in the darkness
Last Line: They were. But I remember
Subject(s): Sleep; Windows


ALL DAY: WINDOW-BARS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I lie still
Last Line: From dawn to dark!
Subject(s): Birds; Insects; Windows; Bugs


APRIL (FROM A HOSPITAL WINDOW), by R. P. HARRISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is hard to sit
Last Line: Her ploughtime ditty!
Subject(s): Hospitals; Windows


BALTHUS, THE WINDOW, by ADAM SOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've heard this one before
Last Line: Like brushstrokes in the air
Subject(s): Jews - United States; Windows


BEFORE A WINDOW, by HELEN BLODGETT ERWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, little boy who gazes through the glass
Last Line: "I only say, ""you know, they soon would break."
Subject(s): Happiness; Longing; Windows; Joy; Delight


CASEMENT WINDOWS, by CLARISSA BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A casement window's a magic thing
Last Line: After prudently lifting a window sash?
Subject(s): Windows


DARWIN'S WINDOW, by ELENA KARINA BYRNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She would not enter a room without windows, a church without
Last Line: Consideration, closed on the counted, colorless squares of broken glass
Subject(s): Windows


FACTORY WINDOWS ARE ALWAYS BROKEN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Something is rotten - in denmark. %end of the factory-windowsong
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Factories; Windows


FERNS IN A WINDOW, by PEARL HOBSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Primitive children of the woods
Last Line: Dreams only are lifted the bars.
Subject(s): Freedom; Prisons & Prisoners; Windows; Liberty; Convicts


FOR KATRINA'S WINDOW; IN HER GARDEN OF YADDO, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the window's message
Last Line: Let in every ray of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Windows


FROM A MIDWEST MOTEL WINDOW, by LEN KRISAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the field and far beyond
Last Line: When night comes on, and god's sun stops
Subject(s): Hotels; Middle West; Windows


I AM GERMAN: LEAK, by GARY DUEHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still, when train windows flash past the river's
Last Line: When what's important lies there untalked about, numb
Subject(s): History; Railroads; Windows


LOOKING FROM THE WINDOW, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair hedwig lay at the at window, to see
Last Line: All night, at the time for a spectre.
Subject(s): Love; Windows


MELANCHOLY OF STORM WINDOWS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We touch them at the raw turns
Last Line: Ambiguous, we have no place %where we, once screwed, can say, that's it
Subject(s): Storm Windows


METEOROLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl
Last Line: Even the best days
Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming


MORNING WINDOWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brightest thing a house can do
Last Line: Are scintillant to see!
Subject(s): Morning; Sun; Windows


MY WINDOW GARDEN, by IVA H. DREW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have a little garden box
Last Line: And always birds to sing.
Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Gardens & Gardening; Windows


NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Open the window now
Last Line: A wideawake mind
Subject(s): Nature; Windows


NOW CLOSE THE WINDOWS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now close the windows and hush all the fields
Last Line: But see all wind-stirred.
Subject(s): Windows


OF THREE OR FOUR IN A ROOM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Address and no one to receive them
Subject(s): Human Rights; Windows


ON A WINDOW IN DONINGTON CHURCH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest, if they but knew it, how blest they are
Last Line: And for such sowers all the year is spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Churches; Windows; Cathedrals


ON FAIRFORD WINDOWS, SELS., by WILLIAM STRODE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know no paint of poetry
Last Line: And christ, as in a glass we see
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Churches; Windows


OVERDOING IT, by TARA FENLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: After slouching for some time throught he halls
Last Line: I'm closing her %down
Subject(s): Reason; Suicide; Windows


PICTURES, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My house has magic windows in its walls
Last Line: Who has these magic windows in his home.
Subject(s): Windows


PORTAL, by ANDREW GENN-DORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go. The cattle evaporate into mist
Last Line: A barefoot race toward meeting
Subject(s): Windows


THE LAST MAN: LIFE A GLASS WINDOW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let him lean
Last Line: Knuckles the pane, and. ...
Subject(s): Death; Life; Windows; Dead, The


THE ORIEL WINDOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray in the country church, alas!
Last Line: Down—down through the oriel window!
Subject(s): Death; Love; Windows; Dead, The


THE ROSE WINDOW, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This window hath seen many a dame and lord
Last Line: The unfading blossom of the rose there limned.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Windows


THE WINDOW, by HILDA RIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She opened wide the window, drew
Last Line: Its beauty challenged and consoled.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Windows; Fall


THE WINDOWS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delaunay wrote on / the back of his simultaneous windows
Last Line: Bowl of fruit full of light
Subject(s): Windows; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets


THE WINDOWS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The windows are the house's eyes
Last Line: That look out over fields and skies
Subject(s): Windows


TO 'MY LADY DUCHESS' WINDOW' IN THE PALACE OF URBINO, by ANNIE BEECHER SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Closed the window, / closed and dead
Last Line: While a new world goes its way.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wellesley College; Windows


TO-DAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day is a room
Last Line: Upon that side.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Windows


UPON FAIRFORD WINDOWS, by RICHARD CORBET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, you anti-saints, why glass
Last Line: The inside, dross, the outside, saint
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Churches; Windows


WINDOW, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here come I back, and find her window fast
Subject(s): Windows


WINDOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I woke in the darkness
Last Line: They were. But I remember
Subject(s): Sleep; Windows


WINDOW, by PATTI TANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She opens the window
Last Line: The sun has bleached the sky %white
Subject(s): Windows


WINDOW BLIND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You keep the blind of our north window drawn
Last Line: From clarity there, unseen, unfaltering, and true.
Subject(s): Light; Man-woman Relationships; Windows; Male-female Relations


WINDOW IN THE POEM, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In painting after painting -- sacred or secular
Last Line: Would this be bravery or cowardice
Subject(s): History; Paintings And Painters; Windows


WINDOW TRIMMER, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He took some little, dark-red shoes
Last Line: I wonder what became of him?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Windows; Nightmares


WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now
Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by.
Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; Streets; Windows; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues


WINDOWS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The windows of the place wherein I dwell
Subject(s): Windows


WINDOWS, by THOMAS MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The windows of our flat: their shutters
Last Line: Their liveried coachmen are throwing %wet oats at the windows of our flat
Subject(s): Windows


WINDSHIELD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are supposed to roll your windows up
Last Line: Of yours, man, right in his bones
Variant Title(s): Windowglass
Subject(s): Automobiles; Windows; Cars


WINDSHIELD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are supposed to roll your windows up
Last Line: Of yours, man, right in his bones
Variant Title(s): Windowglas
Subject(s): Automobiles; Windows


WIPERS 2, by IOANNA CARLSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bigness of the arc going each way
Last Line: A new thought the glass speaks, %come back, come back
Subject(s): Rain; Windows


YOUTH, by LUCY KENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The suddenness of life was mine
Last Line: Was like a shoulder in the breeze.
Subject(s): Life; March (month); Rain; Windows; Youth