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Subject: BARNS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABANDONED BARN, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone's left the heavy door ajar
Subject(s): Barns


ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS, REMBRANDT, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They entered slowly like birds wanting bread
Last Line: The shadow on her breast is only of her hand
Subject(s): Barns; Cattle; Mothers; Shepherds And Shepherdesses


ARTIST'S BARN CAR, by RACHEL BARENBLAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: How bad a life can it be? Look
Last Line: They hum without need %for vowels, just %like us
Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Cats


BARN, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While we unloaded the hay fron the truck, building
Subject(s): Barns


BARN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am tired of this barn!' said the colt
Last Line: But we looked at him first of all creatures %by the bright strange light of a star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Barns; Christmas


BARN, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring after your death I enter here, opening
Last Line: From doors. The way the barn is ours and earth's dark home
Subject(s): Barns; Death; Love; Memory


BARN, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half hidden by trees, the sheer roof of the barn
Last Line: Of vivid yellow straw, lit by a sun-beam %laden with motes, on the boards of a floor
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Barns


BARN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They should never have built a barn there, at all
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Barns


BARN AND THE DOWN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It stood in the sunset sky
Last Line: So the barn was avenged
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Barns


BARN DOORWAY IN JULY, by JOHN PECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where may heart cut through the mesh of evil and good?
Last Line: Though blank here, I stand in the knowledge. And souls, the bees
Subject(s): Barns; July


BARN FEVER, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody knows how much to make of barns
Last Line: About the days when the farm had farmers on it %as well as the busiest barn for miles around
Subject(s): Barns


BARN LOFT: 1959, by RON RASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: So still I can hear the heat
Last Line: Has caught time suspended there %between an e an a y
Subject(s): Barns


BARN'S DARK DOOR, by PATRICK FRIESEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grain flies
Last Line: The barn's dark door
Subject(s): Barns


BARN-RED IN SPRING, by RACHEL BARENBLAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Small house, barn-red: where else
Last Line: Outside new leaves, bright feathers, expand
Subject(s): Barns; Spring


COUNTRY SEAT, by JAMES ARTHUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: With the farmhouse, my accountant acquired a hilltop barn
Last Line: I cannot see anything, really: four pale lights against the green
Subject(s): Barns; Country Life; Hunting


DARK LOVELY FRUIT, by HELEN BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Black girl, standing in your yellow dress
Last Line: Heart of your storm?
Subject(s): African Americans; Barns; Girls; Negroes; American Blacks


FIRST SNOWFALL, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The calves stand in one corner of the yard
Last Line: To tell the puzzled youngsters: this is snow!
Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Snow


HORSES, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I brace my knee against
Last Line: Heaving between my thighs.
Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Horses


HUNDRED ACRES OF HATE, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crowned at the top of the long green hill
Last Line: Links in a chain around his neck
Subject(s): Anger; Barns; Hate; Solitude


IN AN OLD BARN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tons upon tons the brown-green fragrant hay
Last Line: In day-long contemplation of their dreams.
Subject(s): Animals; Barns


IN THE BARN-YARD'S SOUTHERLY CORNER, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the frost is white on the fodder-stack
Last Line: In the barn-yard's southerly corner.
Subject(s): Barns; Barnyards; Sun


INQUISITIVE BARN, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white-housed village
Last Line: Pokes its red head %into the sun
Subject(s): Barns


IOWA BARN, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light and shadow
Last Line: Could reflect us
Subject(s): Barns; Iowa


LOFT AT NIGHT, by VIRGINIA ABEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dim heaps of summer's fragrant wealth
Last Line: And myriad stillnesses creeps in.
Subject(s): Barns; Night; Bedtime


MEDITATION ON BARNS, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After years in new england I see its stolid barns
Last Line: Or to retreat, where form and anecdote slumber, paradisial and done
Subject(s): Barns; Introspection


OLD BARN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FOGS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's this barn's house? It never had a house
Last Line: The cheapest tramp that came along that way %could mischievously lock him in to stay
Subject(s): Barns


OLD BARNS, by GERARD S. WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's nothing quite so lonely
Last Line: And memories.
Subject(s): Barns; Memory


ON AN OLD BARN CONVERTED INTO A VILLAGE SCHOOL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nigh the old barn one autumn noon I stood
Last Line: This harvest home may seraph voices sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Barns; Schools; Students


PLAYING IN THE BARN, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The barn's the nicest place to play
Last Line: That flies as high as anything!
Subject(s): Barns; Boys; Play


ROOFING THE BARN, by RICHARD G. REYNOLDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: By evening the tarpaper still boiled on the roof of the barn
Last Line: Against the ground, I swore myself to silence
Subject(s): Barns; Buildings And Builders


SHEEP IN THE WINTER NIGHT, by TOM HENNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the barn the sheep were standing, pushed close to one another
Last Line: Stand on end was keeping the answer to itself
Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Fields; Sheep


THE BARN, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While we unloaded the hay fron the truck, building
Last Line: And we rest, having done what men do best
Subject(s): Barns


THE BARN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain-sunken roof, grown green and thin
Last Line: And strikes its kindness cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Barns


THE BARN, by MARY S. WOTKYNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone it stands upon a wind - swept hill
Last Line: And glorified a barn in bethlehem.
Subject(s): Barns


THE DESERTED BARN, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the barn, the sunlight seems
Last Line: Which he has surveyed so long -- was man's
Subject(s): Barns; Forests; Woods


THE HAYLOFT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through all the pleasant meadow-side
Last Line: The happy hills of hay!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 39
Subject(s): Barns


THE OLD BARN, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low, swallow-swept and gray
Last Line: And the lone owl here hid.
Subject(s): Barns


THE OLD BARN, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The barn, the old barn, oh! Its dark walls were rife
Last Line: As bright as the time of the old barn for me.
Subject(s): Barns


THE OLD BARN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FOGS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's this barn's house? It never had a house
Last Line: The widespread doors two stories high
Subject(s): Barns


TO BARNS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise be to barns
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Barns


UNFINISHED BARN, by GEORGE AMABILE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This blond-boned cage of shaved pine
Last Line: By this heartfelt nuance out of the past
Subject(s): Barns