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Subject: VASES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ETRUSCAN VASE, by JEAN NUCHTERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am resilient and in love
Subject(s): Etruscan Civilization; Vases


GRACE AND LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two flower-enfolding crystal vases she
Last Line: Their starry more from her and me, unite.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Vases


LIKE A FRIENDSHIP MARRED, by ANN WOODBURY HAFEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I once had an opaline dresden vase
Last Line: Disfigures the lady's face.
Subject(s): Vases


MARRIAGE, by PATRIC PEPPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've poured into me
Last Line: On the white table cloth, %vase and water one
Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Vases


NEEDLE, by KAY RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not even a / needle is left
Subject(s): Vases


ON A BLUE VASE, by JAY HOPLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a blue vase but no flowers
Last Line: I have no flowers. My neighbor has them all
Subject(s): Flowers; Vases


ON A GREEK VASE, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Divinely shapen cup, thy lip
Last Line: And dwelleth now, that maiden's soul.
Subject(s): Vases


QUATORZAINS: 6. A FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lover is a slender, glowing urn
Last Line: Deep-caverned in a fringed lake of blue.
Subject(s): Love; Metaphor; Vases; Similes


ROSEBUDS IN CLOISONNE, by GERTRUDE M. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A priceless thing - my vase of cloisonne
Last Line: Of rosebuds in a vase of cloisonne?
Subject(s): Artifacts; Vases


THE BROKEN VASE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, here thou art in ruins, brilliant vase
Last Line: Above the wrecking ministry of time.
Subject(s): Vases


THE CYPRUS VASE, by ROSALIND TRAVERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A twilight breeze, of honied scent impassioned
Last Line: Three thousand years ago?
Subject(s): Antiquities; Cyprus; Vases


THE FIRE VASE, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the potter to the flower pots: 'it's a question of design
Last Line: He saw love's lost illusions safe within the potter's vase.
Subject(s): Flowers; Pottery And Potters; Vases


THE V-A-S-E, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the madding crowd they stand apart
Last Line: Sinistra quum bostonia.
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Vases


THE VASE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how tall and straight I stand
Last Line: But an enclosure upon emptiness?
Subject(s): Vases


THE VASE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a vase of odour lay
Last Line: Shall turn to fragrant balm in heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Vases


THE VASE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boredom and terror, and the older
Last Line: And green, exotic birds in flight.
Subject(s): Boredom; Introspection; Life; Terror; Vases; Ennui


THE VASE, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heavy hammer sounded through the air
Last Line: I cursed the dawn and wept across the dark.
Subject(s): Vases


TREAD THE DARK: 53. THE VASE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how tall and straight I stand
Last Line: But an enclosure upon emptiness?
Subject(s): Vases


VASE THAT IS MARRIAGE, by ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The vase is the painted figure
Last Line: Put some flowers in, or not lack the desire?
Subject(s): Marriage; Metaphor; Vases