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Subject: GREEN (COLOR)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN IRISH FANTASY, by JOHN FRANKLIN BLUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It so happens that I was born in cork'
Last Line: "it helps us think as we plant we shall reap."
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Trinity, The; Irish


ANTAGONISTS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green shoots, we break the morning earth
Last Line: The footfall of her enemy.
Subject(s): Green (color); Leaves


GRANT ME LOVE THAT I MAY BLOOM AND GREEN, by NIZAR KABBANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen, my lady
Last Line: And now, by the grace of love, %I bloom and green
Subject(s): Green (color); Relationships


GREEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear nature's love color, as man's is red
Last Line: Weaving an endless metamorphosis.
Subject(s): Green (color); Metamorphosis


GREEN BRANCHES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wave, wave, green branches, wave me far away
Last Line: Joy of my heart, my life, my prince, my lover!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Green (color); Love; Nature; Trees


IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I praise god that he chose the green
Last Line: To wrap our sweetheart-mother in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Colors; God; Green (color); May (month); Praise


IN THE FANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lightly the breeze
Last Line: The stiffness of stalks. . . .
Subject(s): Fenway Park, Boston; Green (color)


IN THE GREEN WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green wood, by a green slope
Last Line: My heart goes crying and soaring yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Green (color); Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods


LEAVES FALLING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaves falling in numbers speak of
Last Line: As oracles there is something in the soil
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Green (color); Leaves; Spring; Trees


LEAVES, SHADOWS, AND DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen all things pass and all men go
Last Line: Grey shadows in the grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gray (color); Green (color); Leaves; Shadows; Dead, The; Nightmares; Grey (color)


SHADES OF GREEN, by FORREST BENJAMIN ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I too am partial to the shades of green
Last Line: They'd be a tree -- a bush -- the flowers -- sods.
Subject(s): Green (color); Plants; Planting; Planters


SPRING AND AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green ripples singing down the corn
Last Line: And full of winter pain.
Subject(s): Corn; Gold; Green (color); Pain; Winter; Suffering; Misery


ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seems to me st. Patrick's day
Last Line: And blossoms sleep beneath the snow.
Subject(s): Green (color); Ireland; March (month); St. Patrick's Day; Irish


THE CANDLE A SAINT, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green is the night, green kindled and appareled
Subject(s): Green (color); Candles; Saints


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 GREEN LADY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey spring twilight, the mild light, the shy light
Last Line: Comes and goes like a mist of green, a gentle ghost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Green (color); Spring


THE GREEN MONTH, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What of all the color shall I bring you for your fairing
Last Line: Green I'll wear within my hair, and green upon my heart.
Subject(s): Green (color)


THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small towns are for knowing who's poor
Last Line: No more than the dress itself / of green
Subject(s): Green (color); Poverty; Tailors; Towns; Dress Makers


THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way you see it first is through
Last Line: Before we're through with tea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting


THE WEARER OF THE GREEN; TO MY FRIEND JOHN JAMES DONOGHUE, M.D., by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis now just a year since, come saint patrick's day
Last Line: Unfortunate divil—he laughed at the green!
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Irish