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Subject: MARIGOLDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act
Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots


HOW MARIGOLDS CAME YELLOW, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jealous girls these sometimes were
Last Line: Yellow, markt for jealousie.
Subject(s): Flowers; Jealousy; Marigolds


IN A GARDEN, by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along my fence
Last Line: Fell in my garden.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Iris (flower); Marigolds


MARIGOLD, by WILLIAM FORREST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The god above, for man's delight
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


MARIGOLD, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She moved through the garden in glory because
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Flowers; Marigolds


MARIGOLD, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Homely, forgotten flower
Last Line: And fades in thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


MARIGOLD, by ALLEN UPWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even as the seed of the marigold
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


MARIGOLDS, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The marigolds are nodding
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Nature


MARIGOLDS, by LOUISE DRISCOLL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you like marigolds?
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


MARIGOLDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With a fork drive nature out
Last Line: Love must ever yet return.
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


MARIGOLDS, by BETH HOUSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the fourth day the nausea can't keep down
Last Line: Into itself like a sprout groping towards to sun
Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Marigolds


MARSH MARIGOLDS, by GODFREY FOX BRADBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slatey skies and a whistling wind
Subject(s): Marsh Marigolds


MARSH MARIGOLDS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the water-meadows
Last Line: Against the time of sleep
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Marigolds; Seasons


SAIL-BOAT (BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI), by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: All day your snowy sails, rose marigold
Last Line: With music of a magic ocean shell.
Subject(s): Anchors; Flowers; Marigolds; Sea; Ocean


STILL DAYS AND STORMY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday the wind blew
Last Line: Is she yet mine?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marigolds; Wind


THE HUMMING-BIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a monster bee
Last Line: Into a murmurous sound of wings too swift for sight!
Subject(s): Flowers; Hummingbirds; Marigolds; Summer; Wings


THE MARIGOLD, by GILLES DURANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the modest violet
Last Line: But most I love the marigold.
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


THE MARIGOLD, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When with a serious musing I behold
Last Line: Which merit not the service we bestow....
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Poetry & Poets


THE SOLSEQUIUM, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like [lak] as the dumb solsequium, with care
Last Line: Fareweill, with patience perforce till day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Mythology - Classical; Sun


TO MARYGOLDS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give way, and be ye ravisht by the sun
Last Line: And as he shuts, close up to maids again.
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds


WABASH VIOLETS, by EARL MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What? Sho'! You don't! Do you mean it, though?
Last Line: My love for them now is sp'iled.
Subject(s): Boston; Flowers; Indiana; Marigolds; Poppies; Violets


WEEDS, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She planted marigolds because they kept
Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Weeds