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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GRASS Matches Found: 90 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PASSING HAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us rest ourselves a bit! Last Line: It farewell a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Kisses; Nature A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers A TRIBUTE OF GRASSES, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, vast head, with silver cloud of hair Last Line: Here by the eastern sea. Subject(s): Grass; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) BADLANDS, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: We want to take visitors to see grass Last Line: Dry crotch in a sea of grass Subject(s): Grass; Ranch Life BETWEEN THE FOUR PADS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fragrance of grass Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grass; Nature BLADE OF GRASS, by FREDERICK VICTOR BRANFORD Poem Source First Line: Horses I saw, and on the horses gods Subject(s): Grass BLOWING GRASS, by SARAH BIXBY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In narrow nuuanu Last Line: That rise and find no rest. Subject(s): California; Grass CHANT, by BOB VANCE Poem Source First Line: Where is the smell of sweetgrass here Last Line: The smell of %sweet %grass Subject(s): Camping; Grass; Nature CHANTING OF AROMATIC GRASSES, by XU YUAN Poem Source First Line: The year's commencement, the sun's first light Last Line: Not shrinking from frost's imposition Subject(s): Grass CLUMP OF GRASS, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: That's a merciless name to call Last Line: Than to be called a clump of grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Grass COLOUR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at the grass Last Line: Look at the grass Subject(s): Colors; Drowning; Grass; Refugees CUT GRASS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cut grass lies frail: Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Grass; Transience; Lawn Mowers; Impermanence CUT THE GRASS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Grass CUT THE GRASS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful Last Line: Less then total is a bucketful of radiant toys Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Grass DUELING WITH GLASS BLADES, by MA RUYU Poem Source First Line: Gathering emerald greenery, roaming fragrant plants Last Line: At the end succumbs to roadside mud Subject(s): Grass EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise! Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World FACE IN THE FIELD, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow yielded thirteen bales an acre Last Line: See? Every year the grass renews itself %with shoots and leaves and, ultimately, flowers Subject(s): Grass FAUN, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI Poem Text First Line: Pour me my bath of sunlight Last Line: Drenched with spring fragrance of trees. Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Trees FIDDLEHEADS, by JORDAN SMITH Poem Source First Line: They're in the backyard, under the woody scrub Last Line: Ours, though we will forget even the chord at the root of it Subject(s): Grass; Nature FORMER BARN LOT, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a fence here Last Line: Like green fire. Subject(s): Grass FROM THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, for a moment, all is well Last Line: Nay, life is love; love lasts, o heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grass; Life; Love; Nature GARDENER, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the lawn he walks with cycling hands Last Line: For this he stands in weariness, %tired as a teapot, feeling the small of his back Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Grass; Roses GARDENS, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: One can raise more in a garden than he'd think Last Line: Over and over in a hundred ways. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grass GLORY OF THE GRASS, by CLAIRE WALLACE FLYNN Poem Source First Line: In what far, judean field Last Line: Seeing but dimly as we pass %the ancient glory of the grass! Subject(s): Grass; Jesus Christ GRASS, by BYOK NAMKUNG Poem Source First Line: Grass, summer grass Last Line: And you can tread gently on me %as I now tread on you Subject(s): Grass; Immortality; Love GRASS, by PAUL EDWARD CORLETT Poem Text First Line: I walked among the cathedrals Last Line: Is very kind! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grass; Graveyards GRASS, by KIM SUYONG Poem Source First Line: Grass lies flattened Last Line: Skies clouded, grass roots lies flattened before anything Subject(s): Grass GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grass; War; Graveyards; Dead, The GRASS FINGERS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touch me, touch me Last Line: With your tiny, timorous toes. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Grass; Negroes; American Blacks GRASS FLOWER, by KIM YANKSHIK Poem Source First Line: Remembering those far-off days I have passed lonely Last Line: On the grass blade I lie down %and pluck a grass flower Subject(s): Grass GRASS STUDIES, by ANNE CORAY Poem Source First Line: If we can't be aether Last Line: The bend of the awn in wind Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Nature; Wheat GRASSES, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laurel and eucalyptus, dry sharp smells Last Line: With which the scattered details make advance Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Grass GREEN GRASS SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stepping on the green grass Last Line: The bells would ring, the cats would sing, %so we'll all clap together Subject(s): Grass GREENNESS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me is there anything lovelier Last Line: Hushing the heart that beats and beats and beats? Subject(s): Grass; Leaves HAIR ON YOUR BODY, by DAVID HART Poem Source Last Line: Would tickle my face Subject(s): Grass; Riddles HAYING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rustic idyl of the ardent days Last Line: And all its face is odorous again. Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Summer; Sun; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HIGH PLAINS RAG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But like remorse Last Line: It can never stop . Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains HYMN 9, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A breath of roses in the wind doth seize on me Last Line: God.my heart is at ease! Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Roses; Soul; Spring I AM FASHION'S TOY, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Give to me of the bright green leaves Last Line: Now, the dream is past. I am fashion's toy. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Fashion; Grass I FIX MY EYES ON A BLADE OF GRASS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Calm, sad, resigned Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mowing & Mowers; Grass IN CENTRAL EUROPE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When you cross through the grass in central europe, you see Last Line: When the bamboo grows, %when the bamboo reaches the sipapuni%when each ring reaches the sipapuni %th Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Europe; Forests; Grass; Roads; Travel IN THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am one with waving things Last Line: I am one with waving things. Subject(s): Dreams; Grass; Snow; Soul; Nightmares IN THE GRASS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to lie in long grasses! Last Line: To bask in the light of your sky! Subject(s): Grass INFLATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The unknowns enrich the grass Last Line: Inflate the bellies of the famous. Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Poverty JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June in the grass! Last Line: Summer is here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LONG FEUD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, without bloodshed, can there be Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Grass LONG FEUD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, without bloodshed, can there be Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Grass MAKING THE WOOD, by LOIS CANFIL Poem Text First Line: The blade of grass lifts clod beyond its weight Last Line: To make the fibered wood which builders use. Subject(s): Forests; Grass; Mankind; Nature; Woods; Human Race METAMORPHOSIS OF GRASS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The grass on a grave grows faster than memory. A green down blanket Last Line: And in the house the carpet turns to hair, like a meadow Subject(s): Grass METAPHOR OF GRASS IN CALIFORNIA, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seeds of certain grasses that once grew Last Line: As such men fall, these fell, but silently Subject(s): Literary Form; California; Grass MOWING DAY, by DAVID RIGSBEE Poem Source First Line: Just when grass dreams it isn't wheat Last Line: And get down to gesturing and pointing Subject(s): Grass; Mowing And Mowers MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER Poem Text First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power. Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY JOY HAS FALLEN IN THE GRASS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My joy has fallen in the grass, good people of the plain, fortunate Last Line: Fallen in the grass, help me to find it again. Subject(s): Grass; Happiness; Love - Loss Of; Joy; Delight NOVEMBER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will come back to you and you to me Last Line: I will come back to you and you to me. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grass; November; Sea; Trees; Ocean ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills Last Line: But when will the earth respond? Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains PLANTAIN, by JARED CARTER Poem Source First Line: Now they are calling - these ambient grasses Last Line: Times when we lay down in windless places Subject(s): Grass; Nature PREMONITION, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay close down upon the rocks Last Line: As the shadow of the motion of a grass-blade in my palm. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Grass PROUD HOLLYCOCK, by MARGUERITE BULLER Poem Source First Line: The hollycock with crimson bells Last Line: Where under tiny spears of jade %the tiny insects pass Subject(s): Grass SAID A BLADE OF GRASS, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Grass SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light foot and tight foot Last Line: The stars are overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Evening; Grass; Morning; Sunset; Twilight SONG OF THE GRASS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Grass SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: APPRENTICED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot Last Line: And parson stood within the rails, a-marrying me and thee, o.' Subject(s): Grass; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs SPRING GRASS, by CHEN DEYI Poem Source First Line: No one planted the spring grass Last Line: Sadly it faces the evening breeze Subject(s): Grass TANGLED SUNRAYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aslant from yonder sunlit hill Last Line: Mid the damp grass their race is run. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grass; Wind THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear her crying Last Line: To find her before I die! Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass so little has to do Last Line: I wish I were a hay! Subject(s): Grass; Spring THE GRASS, by EMMA LEE GLENN Poem Text First Line: So patiently throughout the day and night Last Line: It covers all the mound with emerald dress. Subject(s): Grass THE GRASS, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: How is the grass set free? Last Line: Or lovelier to behold! Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Grass THE GRASS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful and fresh the grass returns Last Line: When the grass blooms both joy and fear I know. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Grass THE GRASS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It all hangs now on a blade of grass Subject(s): Grass; Longing THE GRASS GROWS FAR, by NATHAN BRYLLION FAGIN Poem Text First Line: The grass grows far from the city's iron breath Last Line: Leaving the gesture of a trembling wake. Subject(s): Grass THE GRASS IS VERY GLAD FOR RAIN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: For washing grass and window pane Subject(s): Grass; Rain THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, long long" Last Line: And the grass on the mountain Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE GRASS STEALERS, by J. MURRAY ALLISON Poem Text First Line: In australia where the cattle tracks Last Line: Or some other watercourse. Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Grass THE GREEN GRASS OF OLD IRELAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green grass av owld ireland! Last Line: By reason av the green grass av owld ireland. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grass; Green (color); Ireland; Irish THE HOP-GARDEN: BOOK 2: THE NAIL IN THE GRASS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the bag thy hops the rustic treads Last Line: With indignation at the negro's nail. Subject(s): Grass; Slavery; Serfs THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in a lawn chair Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife. Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears THE LAURELS ARE FELLED, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled Last Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled. Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grass; Laurels; Lilies; Woods THE LEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do zay that a travellen chap Last Line: An' went vurder wi' them than a dreat. Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Property; Roads; Social Protest; Avarice; Cupidity; Possessions; Paths; Trails 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 MOWER'S SONG, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind was once the true survey Last Line: What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me. Subject(s): Grass THE MOWING, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the voice of high midsummer's heat Last Line: May cheer the herds with pasture memories. Subject(s): Grass; Mowing And Mowers; Nature; Summer THE VOICE OF THE GRASS, by SARAH ROBERTS BOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere Last Line: Creeping, silently creeping everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, Sarah Subject(s): Grass; Trees THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries. Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny THIS LAWN, A CARPET ALL ALIVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of sweetly-breathing flowers Subject(s): Lawns; Grass TOKENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green mwold on zummer bars do show Last Line: To eyezight's woone, but two to thought. Subject(s): Grass; Seasons; Storms; Summer; Winter TUSSOCK, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tussock soaks up the sun Last Line: The drippings from the roof begin to mark time in the barrel Subject(s): Grass; Spring VOICE OF THE GRASS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Grass VOICE OF THE GRASS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere Subject(s): Grass WALKING THROUGH A NARROW STRIP OF WOODS, by TOM HENNEN Poem Source First Line: Pines, as always, pried at the sky with their tips, ignoring the wind mak Last Line: Are allowed to pity everything, except ourselves Subject(s): Grass; Nature; Pine Trees; Trees; Wood |
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