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Subject: DUST
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HANDFUL OF DUST, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stooped to the silent earth and lifted a handful of her dust
Last Line: Who is trying to speak to us?
Subject(s): Death; Dust; Past; Dead, The


A PECK OF GOLD, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dust always blowing about the town
Last Line: We all must eat our peck of gold.'
Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Dust; Gold Rush; Forty-niners


AN OLD BURYING GROUND, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dust/ drifting hillward
Last Line: Dust.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dust; Graveyards


AUTUMN WIND, by ALFRED D. BUTTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break, o wind! / break against the trees
Last Line: Kick up your heels and run away!
Subject(s): Autumn; Dust; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall


BLACK DUST, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be dust %to be dust
Last Line: And %just %blow %away
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Dust


CARRIE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's never an end to dust
Subject(s): Dust


CARRIE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's never an end to dust
Last Line: There is never an end to it
Subject(s): Dust


COLOR OF DUST, by THEODORE OLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now I have learned this much at twenty-five
Last Line: Before the dark -- and may it not be long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted
Subject(s): Dust; Experience


DUST, by DOROTHY ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is dust?
Last Line: And it is dust that keeps my eyes from being blinded by the stars!
Subject(s): Dust


DUST, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dust motes float
Subject(s): Dust


DUST, by DOLORES CAIRNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I said, being humble
Last Line: Of this terrible dust?
Subject(s): Dust; Humility


DUST, by RICK CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Smacked powder cloud in
Last Line: A small cough, and the whispered %advice, keep moving
Subject(s): Dust


DUST, by HENRY CARLILE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where it cleared the roadway in a single bound
Last Line: And where the bobcat's been, the dust still hangs
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dust; Hunting


DUST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If life is dust, is not dust life?
Last Line: Defend their rights as living dust!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dust


DUST, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a child
Last Line: Flowers grow out of dust.
Subject(s): Children; Dust; Childhood


DUST, by BLANCHE M. GARDNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder if the sun and moon
Last Line: Out on a dust-whipped plain!
Subject(s): Dust


DUST, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only my dust is never laid
Last Line: And then unmakes again the world the dance has made.
Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Dust; Dead, The


DUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard them in their sadness say
Last Line: And haunted by all mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Dust; Earth; God; Humanity; Mankind; Dead, The; World; Human Race


DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert
Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion


DUST DEVIL, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through stubble the color of dust, the dust devil
Subject(s): Dust


DUST IN THE EYES, by ROBERT FROST            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes
Subject(s): Dust; Eyes


DUST IN THE EYES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes
Last Line: And blind me to a standstill if it must
Subject(s): Dust; Eyes


DUST MOP, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of
Last Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of the unicorn
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dust; Housekeeping


DUST OF TIME, by VIRGINIA SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: His picture stands upon the shelf
Last Line: (but the gathered dust is all I note.)
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott
Subject(s): Dust


DUST ON DUST, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: After staring at the volcano clearing its throat across ten miles
Last Line: Fine, gray-white, unimportant, common, and personal
Subject(s): Dust


DUST TO DUST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dust to dust!' cries out an ancient church
Last Line: And lo! From every tomb the stone is rolled.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Dust; Funerals; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones


DUST TOO, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is drawn on wings %to light
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dust; Nature


DUST-BOWL, by DAISY LEMON COLDIRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the murky west
Last Line: And the bones of a kiowa!
Subject(s): Drought; Dust


DUST-SONG, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flick me from your broom's end
Last Line: You in my long arms!
Subject(s): Dust


EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns
Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings.
Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FOR STOICS, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO    Poem Text                    
First Line: No monument shall mark
Last Line: But the flesh knows.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dust; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


HEALED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds like a pack of hounds
Last Line: And its face was the face of a mother, and its voice was the voice of a child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Dust; Healing; Storms; Wind; Cures


IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner
Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly
Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth


IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner
Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly
Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth


INTO YOUR EYE, by VENO TAUFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not the foam in the wake of the ship
Last Line: In the guest sweeping a lash into your eye
Subject(s): Drought; Dust; Roads; Travel


LET ME GO DOWN TO DUST, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me go down to dust and dreams
Last Line: Gives its worn body back to earth again.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dust; Night; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE DUST, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the clinging world I guess
Last Line: Ancestral eyes peer forth at me.
Subject(s): Dust; Houses


MOTES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and down, up and down
Last Line: Motes!
Subject(s): Dust


ON THE REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF CALDERON; 1840, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto a tomb more splendid than was thine
Last Line: For lo, thy tomb is portugal and spain!
Subject(s): Bones; Calderon De La Barca, Pedro (1600-1681); Dust; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones


POLISH AND BALM, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dust develops / from inside
Subject(s): Abandonment; Dust; Cleanliness; Desertion


QUERY ULTIMA, by CORINNE THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soon now I shall crumble into dust
Last Line: And the love you give back to me?
Subject(s): Dust


REVERBERATION, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night in the old house of life I lie alone
Last Line: Of my heart's forest a far horn sounds drowsily . . .
Subject(s): Dust; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness


STONE DUST, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods have not yet learned to fear the lover
Last Line: From a crumbling wall.
Subject(s): Dust; Love - Nature Of; Stones; Supernatural; Granite; Rocks


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#34), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man is slag ash soot cinders grime powder embers flakes
Last Line: Sides of a simple box.
Subject(s): Death; Dust; Dead, The


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gauley bridge is a good town for negroes, they let us stand
Subject(s): African Americans; Labor & Laborers; Illness; Dust; Negroes; American Blacks; Work; Workers


THE COURSE OF TIME: PROXIMITIES, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The memphian mummy, that from age to age
Last Line: The clown that long had slumbered in his arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Bones; Dust; Egyptology; Mummies; Mystery


THE DUST, by GERTRUDE HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It settles softly on your things
Last Line: That kissed in some forgotten may....
Subject(s): Dust


THE DUST, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dust blows up and down
Last Line: To-morrow so shall I!
Subject(s): Dust


THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's I have conquered you
Last Line: Curtain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 38, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People crowd by in the dust
Last Line: I think of their pain in the dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dust; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery


THE PRAISE OF DUST, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What of vile dust?' the preacher said?'
Last Line: "of dust and nothing more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Dust


TO DUST RETURNING, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fool! Fool!
Last Line: From dust created, unto dust returns.
Subject(s): Dust


WHERE WE MOVED TO, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sweep and you find fault with sweeping
Last Line: Telling the future: dust tomorrow
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Dust; Moving And Movers


WHY, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For a name unknown
Last Line: So long ago.
Subject(s): Dust; Drinks & Drinking