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Subject: SUNFLOWERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEFORE THIS, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the minutes
Last Line: The small door of their lives
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Sunflowers; Trees


FAIRYLAND, by JOHN R. REID    Poem Text                    
First Line: When mild september breezes blow
Last Line: To smile at you.
Subject(s): Sunflowers


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 10, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Primrose, and phlox, and clytie (as I call
Last Line: And discord dreamwise vanish from it all.
Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England; Sunflowers


ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills
Last Line: But when will the earth respond?
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


SUNFLOWER, by ANZAI HITOSHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the edge of a country road
Last Line: Only when I stand beside %this one flower
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The traveller who crossed les halles at summer's end
Last Line: Andre breton he said may pass here
Subject(s): Paris, France; Sunflowers; Travel


SUNFLOWER, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What sower walked over earth
Last Line: Let the calm hands of grief come. %it's not all as evil as you think
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Plants; Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me the sunflower to plant in my garden here
Last Line: Bring me that flower impassioned of the light
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you asleep, a sunflower, black seed, gold
Last Line: Mountains and woods, reflect, white brothers, %reflect, reflect upon suffering, sleep
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunflower, of flowers
Last Line: You wear a girl's / bonnet behind?
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunflower, of flowers
Last Line: You wear a girl's %bonnet behind?
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dean young vacuums he hears
Last Line: Clouds that were his idea
Subject(s): Men; Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dean young vacuums he hears
Last Line: Clouds that were his idea
Subject(s): Men; Sunflowers


SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the
Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision; Fancy; Railways; Trains


SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the
Last Line: Motive riverbank sunset frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown %vision
Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision


SUNFLOWERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I brought you %a sunflower
Last Line: In the garden of your face %turns toward the light
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Happiness; Love; Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The dials of these honeyed clocks
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by C. L. EDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a field of sunflowers
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by DINA ELENBOGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sunflowers are turning
Last Line: Shabbat is too long with so much sun, %too long without flowers, with broken wings
Subject(s): Jews - Women; Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by ALICE B. FOGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: So sated, with sunlight, summertime, and seeds
Last Line: Bone, and soul, and the darkness in everything
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To fall asleep upon a profusion of sunflowers, thinking of the
Last Line: Desire, only desire, prevents the perversion of joy. And of these syllables
Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What green clocks the drought unwinds
Last Line: The sunflower in the fissured earth rises %by other rules
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How bold, how vivid the sunburst of your bloom
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by JOHANNA A. REISWITZ SAINT-VINCENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A field of smiling faces, large and round
Subject(s): Sunflowers


SUNFLOWERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My tall sunflowers love the sun
Subject(s): Sunflowers


THE FLOWER-GIRL, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose or jasmine?
Last Line: And the sunflower of thy heart!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Sunflowers


THE SUNFLOWER, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me the sunflower to plant in my garden here
Subject(s): Sunflowers


THE SUNFLOWER WOMAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the sunflower here in this strange island
Last Line: That part of me which is god.
Subject(s): Happiness; Sun; Sunflowers; Joy; Delight


THE SUNFLOWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah sun-flower! Weary of time
Last Line: Where my sun-flower wishes to go.
Variant Title(s): Ah Sunflower
Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Sunflowers


TO THE SUNFLOWER, by ROBERT WALPOLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail! Pretty emblem of my fate!
Last Line: I'd meet my phillis with delight.
Subject(s): Sunflowers


YELLOW, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mad about yellow, %faithful follower of %sunflowers
Last Line: I paint blind and drunk %glorying in my work
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Sunflowers; Yellow (color)


YELLOW SUNFLOWER OF SZECHWAN, by CHANG YU+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rare flower, leaf-fringed, of tender yellow gold
Last Line: I almost thought it was her lover's mouth imprinted in the center
Subject(s): Sunflowers