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Subject: CHESTNUT TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHESTNUT IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house, the
Last Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house for wooing and for wedding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Chestnut Trees; Home; Love; Marriage; May (month); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CHESTNUTS, by JOHN ENGELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing so imprisoned the young light
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


CHESTNUTS ARE FALLING, by LILIAN MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: First
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only doesn't the ohio
Last Line: In rags, half in radiance.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Grief; Hudson River; Nature; Ohio River; Plane Trees; Rivers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Sycamores


HAMPSTEAD: THE HORSE CHESTNUT TREES, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the top of a low hill
Last Line: Hardening tender green %to insensate lumber
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Hampstead, England


HORSE CHESTNUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My conkers, they are shiny things
Last Line: O laddies, only wait a bit, %I'll shake them down to you!
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Fairies; Flowers; Seasons


HORSE CHESTNUT TREE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boys in sporadic but tenacious droves
Last Line: Which we held in idea, a little handfull
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


LINES ON DR. ROBERT SMITH, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you ask why old focus silvanus defies
Last Line: But because he has writ about seeing.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Chestnut Trees


POND IN THE LAKE, by HANS FAVEREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pond lies in the middle of the lake
Last Line: Repeated the message, at which he %understood, dying just like that
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Lakes


THE CHESTNUT TREE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Misshapen seed! Thy uncouth form
Last Line: Bloom in immortal verdure there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Brattleboro, Vermont; Chestnut Trees; Industrial Revolution; Kennicott, Benjamin (1718-1783)


THE HORSE CHESTNUT TREE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boys in sporadic but tenacious droves
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


THE LAURELS ARE LAID NOW, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who'll go with me a-nutting
Last Line: "the laurels are laid low."
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Laurels


THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has not heard, how many ages since
Last Line: To weary, then deceiue, the hearing sence.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Gifts & Giving; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE WIND IN THE TREES; CHESTNUT IN APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chestnut is a candlestick
Last Line: Make christmas trees for spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Spring


UNDER THE CEDARCROFT CHESTNUT, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trim set in ancient sward, his manful bole
Last Line: Tampa, florida, february, 1877.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees