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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHILD ON TOP OF A GREENHOUSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind billowing out the seat of my britches
Subject(s): Greenhouses


CHILD ON TOP OF A GREENHOUSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind billowing out the seat of my britches
Last Line: And everyone, everyone pointing up and shouting
Subject(s): Greenhouses


FRAU BAUMAN, FRAU SCHMIDT, AND FRAU SCHWARTZE, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone the three ancient ladies
Subject(s): Greenhouses; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Women; Work; Workers


FRAU BAUMAN, FRAU SCHMIDT, AND FRAU SCHWARTZE, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone the three ancient ladies
Last Line: And their snuff-laden breath blowing %lightly over me in my first sleep
Subject(s): Greenhouses; Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women


GREENHOUSE, by BERTOLT BRECHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A while ago, exhausted from watering the frut trees
Last Line: As ever the fragile, delicate beauties %are no more
Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses


IN A GREENHOUSE, by FLORA T. MERCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long rows of dull white boxes filled with / loam
Last Line: To all the beauty of infinity.
Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters


IN THE GREENHOUSE, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pattering of moles
Last Line: Upon me, and you, and the lemon trees
Subject(s): Greenhouses


ON A GREEN HOUSE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, from earth's daedal heights and dingles lowly
Last Line: Than cheops' pile, or artemisia's mound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses


PLANTS IN AN ATTIC APARTMENT, by MAY ALLARD HENNEBERGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, we are a trifle crowded, our furniture lines the walls
Last Line: And we'd live in a veritable jungle if half of the slips took root.
Subject(s): Greenhouses


RED FLOWER, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A horticulturist of sorts, farmer, then gardener
Last Line: Forming a bud, then a flower, about to burst
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Greenhouses; Horticulture


THE FROZEN GREENHOUSE (ST. JULIOT), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a frost
Last Line: And knows it not.
Subject(s): Frost; Greenhouses