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Subject: DRYADS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MERRY HEART: DRYAD OF THE PEANUT TREE, by THELMA LUCILE LULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the dryad of a peanut tree
Last Line: "the frisky sentence, ""you're a nut, nut, nut!"
Subject(s): Dryads; Nuts & Nutting


CHORUS OF THE DRYADS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these who come again
Last Line: The secret that she knows so well!
Subject(s): Dryads


DRYADS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dryads dwell in easter woods
Last Line: The dryads dwell in easter woods!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Dryads


FAIRY FOOT, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once I had it too
Last Line: Dryad of the beech!
Subject(s): Dryads; Fairies; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Elves


ON THE DIFFICULTY OF CONJURING UP A DRYAD, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Imagination; Writing & Writers; Dryads; Fancy


STRAYED, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunburned dryad of the lanes
Last Line: For the swallows in the eaves.
Subject(s): Dryads; Smoke; Sun


THE DRYAD, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a dryad cloistered in a tree
Last Line: Between the cruel, careless world and me!
Subject(s): Dryads


THE DRYAD OF THE PINE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, forest sweetheart! Over land and sea
Last Line: Her heart on mine, unmuffled by the dark.
Subject(s): Dryads


THE DRYADS, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was a lonely seeker of lost health
Last Line: Knowing he lives, for I have seen his face.
Subject(s): Dryads


THE FESTAL HOUR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When are the lessons given
Last Line: So darkly pressed and girdled in by death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Dryads; Rome, Italy; Stonehenge; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark


THE LOOSED DRYAD, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the bole of the oak tree I start! There he bound me
Last Line: Sunrise kindles the east, and the woodland is sleeping!
Subject(s): Dryads