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Subject: GREETINGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GREETING, by JOSEPH TWYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: To my very best friend! To you, dear friend
Last Line: Till every heart is full.
Subject(s): Friendship; Greetings; Love; Wishes


A NEW YEAR GREETING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark, the new year bells are pealing
Last Line: Start the new year well today!
Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight


A NEW YEAR'S HYMN, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consuming fire! Eternal love!
Last Line: Thy will be done!
Subject(s): Greetings; Holidays; New Year


AN OLD-FASHIONED WELCOME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing cheers a fellow up just like a hearty greeting
Last Line: "if but the cheery host exclaims: ""come in! We're glad to see you!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Greetings


BETTY TO HERSELF, by EDWARD W. BANNARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: How kind they have been to their betty!
Last Line: My cup is o'erflowing indeed!
Subject(s): Greetings; Love; Money


DAKOTA GREETING, by TIMOTHY MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frosted sign is a frozen ditch
Last Line: Home to hundreds of friendly folks %and one mean son-of-a-bitch
Subject(s): Greetings; Signs And Signboards


FRIEND, by MARJORIE DUGDALE ASHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How well the soul responds
Last Line: Unto the greeting of its kin.
Subject(s): Greetings


GREETING, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road is long 'tween here and there
Last Line: A word of greeting to you, friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Friendship; Greetings


GREETING, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet as the summer breeze
Last Line: Is the love I bear to thee.
Subject(s): February; Flowers; Greetings; Love; Spring


GREETINGS, by SUSAN LASHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if one of the humbler statues %in the park - robert burns, schubert
Last Line: Order, and the million forms of farewell
Subject(s): Farewell; Greetings; Language; Parks; Statues


I GREET THEM LUSTILY, by C. K. TOREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saunter along the back streets
Last Line: I greet them the same and with immeasurable joy.
Subject(s): Greetings


MORNING, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day hath risen from her sleep
Last Line: For that benignant smile fills every one with cheer!
Subject(s): Greetings; Morning; Waking


MY WELCOME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have waited for thy coming, love
Last Line: The truest, fondest sign.
Subject(s): Greetings


ON THE NEW YEAR, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis past: - another year for ever gone
Last Line: And lead my soul to peace—to bliss—to thee!
Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Joy; Delight


SALUTATION, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, perhaps yet unborn, that some day shall read these rhymes
Last Line: What love, what longing, my brother, speaks to you from this page!
Subject(s): Greetings


THE NEW YEAR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clock struck twelve in the tall church tower
Last Line: Which the wise are swift to see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Greetings; Holidays; New Year


THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road
Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TWO GREETINGS: 1. SALVE!, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce from the void of shadows taken
Last Line: Become more beautiful, as man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Greetings; Life; Love; Religion; Theology


THE TWO GREETINGS: 2. VALE!, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now fold thy rich experience round thee
Last Line: As salve! In a sweeter tongue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Greetings; Religion; Theology


THE WELCOME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Anither bairn cam' hame
Last Line: In the hearts o' mither an' me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Greetings; Homecoming; Love


THE WELCOMING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were alone what time you said
Last Line: Of that first welcoming.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Greetings


TO LORD DUNSANY (ON HIS RETURN FROM EAST AFRICA), by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For you I knit these lines, and on their ends
Last Line: And where the weeds among the flowers do spring.
Subject(s): Africa; Greetings; Plunkett, Edward [dunsany] (1878-1957)


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OFF GASPE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few small huts, a narrow strip of cultivated land
Last Line: Have!
Subject(s): Greetings; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips