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Subject: LAWN MOWERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OLD FIELD MOWED FOR APPEARANCES' SAKE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My loud machine for making hay
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers


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


LYING IN THE GRASS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between two russet [or, golden] tufts of summer grass
Last Line: The mowers are all gone, and I go too.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mowing & Mowers; Youth; Lawn Mowers


MOWING, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Easing the land into one long-plotted scene,
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers


MOWING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was never a sound beside the wood but one
Last Line: My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mowing & Mowers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers


MOWING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleepy and suburban at dusk,
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Bees; Lawn Mowers; Beekeeping


REAPERS, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Rats; Seasons; Lawn Mowers


SCYTHE SONG, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mowers, weary and brown, and blithe
Last Line: Over the clover, over the grass!
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers


THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O. Aye! They had woone child bezide
Last Line: Aye! The zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Mowing & Mowers; Death - Babies; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers


THE LAST MOWING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow
Last Line: I needn’t call you by name
Variant Title(s): Mowing
Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing & Mowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers


THE MOWER, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whet thy scythe, mower
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers


THE MOWER, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Death - Animals; Hedgehogs; Lawn Mowers


THE MOWERS, by MYRON B. BENTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sunburnt mowers are in the swath
Last Line: Swing, swing, swing!
Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers


THE TRANSLATION, by MARK VAN DOREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ant and shrew / and marmot, going
Last Line: As I die.
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers


THE TUFT OF FLOWERS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went to turn the grass once after one
Last Line: Whether they work together or apart.'
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; War; Lawn Mowers


VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate
Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing."
Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains


VERMONT FARMING TOOLS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leakiest roof in all vermont
Last Line: As dry as our insides.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Machinery & Machinists; Mowing & Mowers; Tools; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers