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Subject: TULIPS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TULIP IN A VASE, by NELL MAYNARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did you ever
Last Line: Within your hand!
Subject(s): Tulips


A YELLOW YULIP, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow tulip in the room's warmth opens
Last Line: In the room's warmth opens
Subject(s): Tulips


CUPS OF THE TULIPS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tip forward, spilling their snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Snow; Tulips


GOOD GRACIOUS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say there is a fairy in every streak'd tulip
Subject(s): Tulips


INDISCRETION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red tulip-buds last night caressed
Last Line: Why did you show your hearts to her?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Love; Tulips


LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I considered the tulip tree
Last Line: And the wind came trembling %into the dusk among the leaves
Subject(s): Tulips


ON A MARCH MORNING, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a tulip in this air
Last Line: God has passed this way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): March (month); Tulips


PORTRAIT SONNETS: 3, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was so much the way that tulips bloom
Last Line: And perfect things about brief-living clay.
Subject(s): Tulips


STATELY LADY, by FLORA SANDSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a stately lady
Subject(s): Tulips


THE TULIP BED AT GREELEY SQUARE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know that oasis, fresh and fair
Last Line: Is better equipped for the world's hard fight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Tulips


TO A BED OF TULIPS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright tulips, we do know
Last Line: As time had never known ye.
Subject(s): Tulips


TULIP, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old begum of frome
Last Line: How happy the yogis in leicester!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Tulips


TULIP, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A slender goblet wreathed in flame
Subject(s): Tulips


TULIP BLOOMS, by BARBARA RUTH COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All the tulips by her yard / were warped
Last Line: On brave lips, pale and thin.
Subject(s): Tulips


TULIPS, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thousand tulip bulbs she bought last autumn
Last Line: The beauty that she grubbed and planted for.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Spring; Tulips; Planting; Planters


TULIPS, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are the breathing that passes
Last Line: Over and over for all our days
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Herbs; Nature; Tulips


TULIPS, by PHRONSIE IRENE MARSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flashes of color, living color
Last Line: But drop beside the yellow bowl -- and die.
Subject(s): Colors; Heaven; Tulips; Paradise


TULIPS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Tulips


TULIPS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here
Last Line: The water I taste is warm and salt, like the sea, %and comes from a country far away as health
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Tulips


TULIPS, by LAURA A. RIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think that tulips came to me in may
Last Line: Should also make so dark a thing as death.
Subject(s): Tulips


TULIPS, by VESTA C. WESTFALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a garden where gay tulips grow
Last Line: That dawn may find them of herself, a part.
Subject(s): Colors; Gardens & Gardening; Tulips


TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street
Last Line: When they see the bright, red, beautiful flowers in my window.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Museums; Poetry & Poets; Tulips; Art Gallerys


TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street
Last Line: When they see the bright red beautiful flowers in my window
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tulips


UNE TULIPE, by FRANCOIS COPPEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O rare fleur, o fleur de luxe et de decor
Subject(s): Tulips


WHY?, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why does the flower bloom?
Last Line: And I still plead!
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Graves; Tulips; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones