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Subject: UMBRELLAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OLD UMBRELLA, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old umbrella in the hall
Last Line: While I this simple rhyme indite.
Subject(s): Umbrellas


BALLADE OF THE PINK PARASOL, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray thee where is the old-time wig
Subject(s): Umbrellas


BALLADE OF THE PINK PARASOL, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray thee where is the old-time wig
Last Line: But where is the pink parasol?
Subject(s): Umbrellas


BELLA HAD A NEW UMBRELLA, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Umbrellas; Rain


CASUALTIES: 19. THE FLOOD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain of events pours down
Last Line: Who were at home on sea, air, and land
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Umbrellas; Water


JOURNAL, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few
Last Line: May work.'
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas


MY NEW UMBRELLA, by M. M. HUTCHINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a new umbrella
Subject(s): Umbrellas


PARASOLS, FIFTY-NINE CENTS, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: By rows of tight-sheathed chinese parasols
Last Line: And purpled blues, what dream could help but sink!
Subject(s): China; Umbrellas


SZENRYU, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Days I've got
Subject(s): Umbrellas


THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a toadstool / crept a wee elf
Last Line: First were invented.
Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Umbrellas; Childhood; Elves


THE SUNSHADE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah - it's the skeleton of a lady's sunshade
Last Line: The vain things thought when she flourished this?
Subject(s): Umbrellas


THE UMBRELLA, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because, in hot countries
Last Line: Into the heart of the storm
Subject(s): Umbrellas


UMBRELLA, by ANN STANFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a king of shadow
Last Line: Toward the blue circle come, %and suddenly are home
Subject(s): Umbrellas


UMBRELLAS, by GEORGE SZIRTES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even now I cannot help thinking of them
Last Line: Or a stick, like the day before yesterday, %or the meetings of a wartime cabinet
Variant Title(s): Even Now I Cannot Help Thinking Of The
Subject(s): Riddles; Umbrellas


WEATHER, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Umbrellas; Rain