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Subject: DAFFODILS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAFFODIL, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure-throated flower
Subject(s): Daffodils


COUNTRY RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Daff-a-down-dill has now come to town
Last Line: In a yellow petticoat and a green gown
Subject(s): Daffodils


DAFFODIL, by JUDITH CORDARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quick-- %think something not daffodil
Last Line: How her head lilts %on its green stem
Subject(s): Daffodils


DAFFODIL AND DAISY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deck'd in many gems of morn
Last Line: That one sweet pearl the daisy wore.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Daisies; Flowers


DAFFODIL GOLD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold of the daffodil, drawn
Last Line: Touch thou my pulses with spring!
Subject(s): Aging; Daffodils; Spring


DAFFODIL POEM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember the cloud on its blue bicycle
Last Line: Just as it began to snow.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations


DAFFODIL SONG, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The horns of yellow
Subject(s): Daffodils


DAFFODILS, by ROBERT GARLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I return from far away
Last Line: A halo in the april sun.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Spring


DAFFODILS, by CAROLINE HAZARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden sun looks gladly down
Last Line: Ye golden-throated daffodils!
Subject(s): Daffodils; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


DAFFODILS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If daffodils were merely yellow flowers
Last Line: In my love's gentle heart when she was young.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Daffodils; Dreams; Love; Nightmares


DAFFODILS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day the war against iraq begins
Subject(s): Iraq War (2003); Daffodils


DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act
Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots


DAFFODILS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fathered by march, the daffodils are here
Last Line: Gone like a snatch of song upon the stair.
Subject(s): Daffodils


DAFFODILS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In spite of cold and chills
Last Line: We have the daffofils
Subject(s): Daffodils


DAFFODILS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered lonely as a cloud
Last Line: And dances with the daffodils.
Variant Title(s): The Daffodils
Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers


DAFFODILS AT DUSK, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Daffodils, with eyes / turned always toward the east
Last Line: As darks descend!
Subject(s): Daffodils


DIRECTIONS FOR SPRING, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watch the daffodils. Though they are not up yet
Last Line: You will lose your last method of knowing sorrow: %you will recognize only love
Subject(s): Daffodils; Love; Religion


DIVINATION BY A DAFFADILL, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When a daffodil I see
Last Line: Lastly, safely buryed.
Subject(s): Daffodils


EASTER: SENSATIONS OF APRIL (2), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daffodils %long yellow sunlight fills
Last Line: Irritate the imagination %or the nerves
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Easter; Holidays


FAUST BOOK: FAUST AND THE DAFFODILS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Top of the morning to you
Last Line: Only the best will do for helen
Subject(s): Daffodils; Faust


FOR A FLYLEAF OF HERRICK'S POEMS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In devon, when the year was new
Last Line: Saved by a snatch of song.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets


FRIENDSHIP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alter? When the hills do
Last Line: I will of you!
Subject(s): Daffodils; Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


GENUS NARCISSUS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The road I walked home from school
Subject(s): Daffodils


IN PERDITA'S GARDEN, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fie, daughter! When my old wive liv'd, upon
Subject(s): Daffodils; Gardens And Gardening


LOVE VARSES TO THE BUCHEOUS DAFFODEL, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! My shweet daffodel's eyes
Last Line: I'll drink off a bottle of wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Diction


MONASTIC, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Carefully, as if you are celibate
Subject(s): Daffodils; Spring


ONLY THE DAFFODILS, by CLARA LOUISE LUKENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a spot where I have buried a sorrow
Last Line: Only the startled daffodils!
Subject(s): Daffodils


PERHAPS YOU'D LIKE TO BUY A FLOWER?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But not an hour more!
Subject(s): Daffodils


PERSEPHONE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stepped upon sicilian grass
Last Line: "the daffodil, the daffodil!"
Subject(s): Daffodils; Daughters; Demeter; Light; Mythology; Persephone; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 4. LES PAPILLONS NOIRS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A black sedan draws along the woods stopping
Last Line: "what to throw away."
Subject(s): Bodies; Daffodils; Habits; War; Women


SEE THAT THERE BE STORES OF LILIES, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Called by shepherds of daffodils
Subject(s): Daffodils


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 20, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Growing in the vale
Last Line: Sweet daffadowndilly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): "growing In The Vale"";
Subject(s): Daffodils


THE DAFFODIL, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She wore one day a yellow hat
Last Line: "I rather like the line."
Subject(s): Beauty; Daffodils


THE DAFFODIL, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the southern breezes blow
Last Line: Flower of love and chivalry!
Subject(s): Daffodils


THE TRAVELLER, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When march was master of furrow and fold
Last Line: "the gate is open -- be quick, be quick."
Subject(s): Daffodils; March (month); Spring


TO AN EARLY DAFFODIL; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard spring!
Last Line: To fill the lonely wit caught his gold.
Subject(s): Daffodils


TO DAFFODILS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O yellow flowers that herrick sung!
Last Line: O yellow flowers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Daffodils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets


TO DAFFODILS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair daffodils, we weep to see / you haste away so soon
Last Line: Ne'er to be found againe.
Variant Title(s): To Daffadills
Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence


WHEN EARLY PRIMROSES APPEAR, by RICHARD DALTON WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I hail the new reviving year, %and soothing hope my bosom fills
Subject(s): Daffodils


WITH A COPY OF HERRICK, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh with all airs of woodland brooks
Last Line: Of daffodils.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets


WITH DAFFODILS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I send you daffodils, my dear
Last Line: Are you the only firmament.
Subject(s): Daffodils; Eden; God; Heaven; Paradise