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Subject: ORCHIDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ORCHID, by ROUTLEDGE CURRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old mahogany fireplace
Last Line: To a point.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Orchids; Spring


AN ORCHID, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must have been asleep
Last Line: Fading through the pages
Subject(s): Orchids; Love – Complaints


ORCHID ABD ROCK, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have painted them in the same mild tones of grayish green
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Orchids


ORCHIDS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Freaks of bright crystal, airy beauties fair
Last Line: Without one touch of contact with the ground
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Orchids


ORCHIDS, by MARGARET OLIVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Orchids are prized because their cost is high
Last Line: Who covet beauty only in scarcity.
Subject(s): Orchids


ORCHIDS, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They lean over the path
Subject(s): Orchids


ORCHIDS, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They lean over the path
Last Line: Loose ghostly mouths %breathing
Subject(s): Orchids


TO PIERROT RETURNING TO HIS ORCHID, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spider, with the freckles of a clown
Subject(s): Spiders; Orchids


WHITE ORCHIDS, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They do not use the air
Last Line: Yet fierce with grace %and riveting
Subject(s): Absence; Orchids