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Subject: KEYS
Matches Found: 18

COWSLIPS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children run and leap
Last Line: Go where they please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Heaven; Keys; Childhood; Paradise


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 36. GOLD THE PICKLOCK, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden key unlocks the iron door
Last Line: It proves like quicksilver in virgin-lap.
Subject(s): Gold; Keys; Love


IN BAHIA HONDA, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light a blunder, a gaffe
Subject(s): Florida Keys; Swimming & Swimmers


KEY, by JOHN DICKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The key! The key!
Last Line: Formations of yellow birds %over the evening train
Subject(s): Keys; Memory; Secrets


KEY, by EMILY BLANCHE MANN GROBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: They who have old houses should save the keys
Last Line: Going in and out; -- as it was long before.
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Keys; Relatives


KEY, by MAX JACOB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When milord of framboisy came back from the war, his wife scolded
Last Line: No longer there. It was already in the cluny museum: a huge key %shaped like a tree trunk
Subject(s): Keys


KEY, by MAX JACOB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sire of framboisy returned from war
Last Line: It was an enormous key in the shape of a tree trunk
Subject(s): Keys


KEY, by JOHN ORMOND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its teeth worked doubtfully
Last Line: The key %engages and the bolt gives to me %some walls enclosing furniture
Subject(s): Keys


KEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hold a key in my hand
Subject(s): Keys


KEY, by ROBERT B. SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Picking up one from the multitude ringing the maple
Last Line: As it unlocks what aims withing the seed %to make its long climb upward and be freed
Subject(s): Keys


REMINDER, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: Haven't you forgot your keys?
Last Line: You won't forget your keys again!
Subject(s): Keys; Memory


SKELETON KEY, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O with what key
Subject(s): Keys


SKELETON KEY, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O with what key
Last Line: O let me %get in
Subject(s): Keys


THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is my key to happiness
Last Line: My sugar and my cream.
Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


THE KEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hold a key in my hand
Last Line: Guiltless turn to that mouth
Subject(s): Keys; Houses


THE RING, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I carry it on my keychain, which itself
Subject(s): Rings; Keys; Divorce


TO NOWHERE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I carry my keys like a weapon
Last Line: On a mission to nowhere
Subject(s): Fear; Keys; City & Town Life


YOU HELD MY HAND, by MARIA MORAVSKY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The engine stalled just before the dark
Last Line: You held my hand.
Subject(s): Florida Keys