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Subject: RED (COLOR)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL IN RED, by EILEEN MATHIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red for santa's fur-lined cloak
Subject(s): Red (color)


CHEEK OF JUNE, by ELIZABETH MORROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Roses are red for summer's blood runs sealed
Last Line: Knowing they pledge their faith in summer's heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Summer


FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row
Last Line: A sunrise. The snow.
Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares


FLAME, by E. L. F. VAN DYKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lips too red / hair like a crow's wing
Last Line: Gone to god.
Subject(s): Red (color)


GIPSY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poppies that in spring I sow
Last Line: Calling the heart they know
Subject(s): Gypsies; Poppies; Red (color)


HERE COMES ANOTHER RED POEM, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A red-haired mother and her red-haired daughter
Last Line: On their red-letter day
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Red (color)


I KNOW THE WAY OF THE WILD BLUSH ROSE, by WILLARD EMERSON KEYES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know the way of the wild blush rose
Last Line: For the love of a maid is for aye and aye!
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Red (color); Roses; Summer; Sun


INVITATIONS TO THE DEAD, by SUSAN GRIMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: My husband loves the color red
Last Line: A welcome to love and decay
Subject(s): Red (color)


MARS BEING RED, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being red is the color of a white sun where it lingers
Subject(s): Red (color)


MORNING, NIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meet a red-haired woman in the morning
Last Line: Red-haired woman moving on the floor, %dancing time will never ask for more.
Subject(s): Hair; Love; Red (color); Women


POPPIES OF THE RED YEAR; A SYMPHONY IN SCARLET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The words that I have written
Last Line: "which we hold aloof in silence."
Subject(s): Poppies; Red (color)


RED, by SUSAN SHERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red means stop!
Last Line: As one is pulled by the future %to be acknowledged & met
Subject(s): Politics; Red (color)


RED IS FOR WINTER, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coffee steams in a silver urn
Last Line: I have red books and a fire in the grate.
Subject(s): Red (color); Winter


RED MEAT - FRAGMENTS OF STESICHOROS: 1. GERYON, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Geryon was a monster everything about him was red
Last Line: Secret pup at the front end of another red day
Subject(s): Red (color)


RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, by VALERIE WOHLFELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red stripe of valor, of war
Last Line: And knows the world all the same
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Red (color); Wings


RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Archilochus colubris %...The red he uses has an astonishing vibration
Last Line: From whose body the whirring begins
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Love; Poetry And Poets; Red (color)


THE CARNIVAL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the autumn-tide is the carnival tide
Last Line: Does the king of the carnival care?
Subject(s): Carnivals; Red (color)


THE EAGLE FLIES; A SONNET SEQUENCE: 5. THE RED HOUR, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The maple burns to airy lemon leaves
Last Line: Until their slow wrath blazed bloodily out.
Subject(s): Red (color)


THE PRESCIENCE OF THE ROSE, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From out imprisoning petals - velvet red
Last Line: Be all unfolded and revealed to me?
Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


THE SCARLET FEATHER, by HAZEL RAWSON CADES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did you think I'd follow you
Last Line: If you should turn -- and follow me.
Subject(s): Red (color)


THE TWO FLAMES, by ELOISE BRITON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind my mask of life there lies a shrine
Last Line: My leaping flames, the red one and the white.
Subject(s): Fire; Friendship; Life; Love; Passion; Red (color); White (color)


THE WINE, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red is the body's own deep song
Last Line: That is the wine of life
Subject(s): Wine; Red (color)


WORK WITHOUT RED, by JAN WEISSMILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This one is called 1948
Last Line: Is obscure of color, pure and inert
Subject(s): Red (color)