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Subject: FIREPLACES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARM; FOR OUR NEW FIREPLACE TO STOP ITS SMOKING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wood, burn bright; o flame, be quick
Last Line: My brown-eyed girl comes down for tea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Fireplaces


A WINTER-EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty on my hearth-stone blazing!
Last Line: And I bow down in silence, shadowy hosts!
Subject(s): Fireplaces


BLAZING, by LUIGI FONTANELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the blazing matters
Last Line: To make the flame be flame again
Subject(s): Fire; Fireplaces


CASTLE IN THE FIRE, by MARY JANE CARR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The andirons were the dragons
Last Line: Riding away together, %the lady and the knight
Subject(s): Fireplaces


DEDICATION FOR A FIREPLACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This hearth was built for thy delight
Last Line: For many, many days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Fireplaces


FINAL YEAR, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the year when the abandoned cottage in the woods
Last Line: Loosening its grasses and garlands
Subject(s): Fireplaces; Lumber And Lumbering


FIRESIDE, by JAMES BINNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fire is such a thing as might be known
Last Line: Content with warmth and safety from the years.
Subject(s): Contentment; Fireplaces; Heat


FIRESIDE DREAMS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old colonial fire-place!
Last Line: To build a house around it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Fireplaces


FOR MY FIREPLACE, by HARRY NOYES PRATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pine bough, pine bark
Last Line: Listening through the year.
Subject(s): Fireplaces


GATHERING WOOD FOR THE WINTER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soft rasp of a bow saw
Last Line: Like split loaves of fresh bread
Subject(s): Cold; Fireplaces; Winter; Wood


HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things
Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs


KNEELING WITH HERRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear lord, to thee my knee is
Last Line: Loved as the rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fireplaces; God; Home; Prayer


NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire
Last Line: Presently to die.
Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods


SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 8. THE FIRESIDE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With what a live intelligence the flame
Last Line: Make talk, love, music, poetry in one.
Subject(s): Fireplaces


SOMETHING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting by the glimmer
Last Line: Something after all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fireplaces; Shadows; Soul


SONG OF THE OPEN FIREPLACE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When silly sol in winter roisters
Last Line: It's time for bed
Subject(s): Fireplaces


SPICEWOOD, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky
Last Line: And all familiar as a cup, a chair.
Subject(s): Fireplaces; Wood


THE COAL-FIRE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, we'll light the parlor fire
Last Line: But coal of each sex shall contribute its part.
Subject(s): Fireplaces; Guests; Winter; Women; Visiting


THE OPEN FIRE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There in the flame of the open grate
Last Line: Dreaming there by the open grate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Fireplaces


THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though days do gain upon the night
Last Line: A-look'd on as I look'd on you.
Subject(s): Chairs; Comfort; Fireplaces; Marriage; Nostalgia; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


WINTER'S EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou of home the guardian lar
Last Line: And open its shy midnight rose!
Subject(s): Fireplaces; Home


WOOD FIRES, by GERTRUDE PERRY STANTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the fireplace the flames leap high
Last Line: A spirit of content and reverent praise.
Subject(s): Fireplaces