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Subject: CHRYSANTHEMUMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SWEETNESS, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sweetness, then a softness
Last Line: Chrysanthemum, on mine.
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


BESIDE A CHRYSANTHEMUM, by SUH JUNG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: To bring one chrysanthemum
Last Line: And I could not sleep
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Insomnia


BESIDE THE CHRYSANTHEMUM, by SUH JUNG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a chrysanthemum to bloom
Last Line: I had to spend sleepless hours
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


CHRYSANTHEMUM, by DUAN SHUQING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hoarded for holiday wine
Last Line: Together we will conquer the fifth-watch frost
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by PARK NAMSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chrysanthemums madden the ground
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: November with mysterious feet
Last Line: Hid in each misty fold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the last red leaves are shining in the rich / october sun
Last Line: And the fury of the tempest whirl athwart the darkening day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shaggy-headed urchins from the gardens of japan
Last Line: Doom of blast and frost and snowdrift on the summer's throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


DWELLING IN PEACE ON THE DOUBLE NINTH, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was dwelling in peace and loved the name 'double ninth.'
Last Line: The quiet life has indeed many joys, %there is something achieved in just lingering on
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Life


EARLY CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by GU RUOPU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having a special love
Last Line: Under the frosts of autumn
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


KOREAN MUMS, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside me in this garden
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums


LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM, by HELENE MAGARET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gray-hearted hawks and clouds were harried by
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


LINES ADDRESSED TO A WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM, PRESENTED TO THE WRITER, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair gift of friendship, and her ever bright
Last Line: Thou bloom'st the fairest 'mid the frosts of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Winter


NEW YEAR'S EVE IN ANGKOR WAT, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if envious of the gods
Last Line: Was he the enemy? Is he, too, %another god?
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Holidays; New Year


ORDER OF THE BLACK CHRYSANTHEMUM, by CAROL JANE BANGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was no taking of solemn vows
Last Line: On each tightened wrist a blot of ink %feathers out like a hybrid flower
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Plants - Breeding


PRESENTED TO LIU CHING-WEN, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lotus withered, no more umbrellas to the rain
Last Line: And now too: citrons yellow, tangerines still green
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Zen Buddhism


THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chrysanthemums alone the garden wears
Last Line: -- as also our sad hearts!
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should this flower delay so long
Last Line: By the great face behind.
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


THE YELLOW CHRYSANTHEMUM, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The golden glory of its heart has entered in to mine
Last Line: Happiness such as I have never known is mine.
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers


WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by WEI YE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thick fog? Lots of frost?
Last Line: It's fine to reas %at night
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Zen Buddhism


WILD CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by NO CHUN-MYUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: How lonesome autumn would look
Last Line: Here is for thee the soft cushion, reed-plumes
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers