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Subject: OLEANDERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HOW ABUNDANT IS THE SPRING, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: How green are the oleander trees
Last Line: In a black night, from my cold desert bed
Subject(s): Oleanders; Spring


LABOR, by JUAN DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cut the oleanders
Last Line: With the scent of grass %at my heels
Subject(s): Oleanders


MEMORIES, by MINNIE MCKINNON BOGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: More fragrant seems the oleander bloom
Last Line: Of smiling lips that mock a heart that sighs.
Subject(s): Oleanders


OLEANDER, by LORETTA RANDALL SHARP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blood has not yet clotted
Last Line: Small and cold as her morning yield
Subject(s): Mormons; Oleanders


OLEANDER GROVE, by MARTHA COWELL CALLOWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It wasn't so much
Last Line: To the oleander grove %to hide
Subject(s): Oleanders


RED OLEANDERS, by LYNN RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wandered down a quiet, sandy lane
Last Line: Had shared with me a joyous episode.
Subject(s): Oleanders


WILD OLEANDER, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember the stony hillside
Last Line: Because uncared-for, %tossed away %so only stones could see them
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Oleanders