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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NATURE NOTE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four or five whippoorwills
Last Line: September the twenty-third
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


A WHIPPOORWILL IN THE WOODS, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night after night, it was very nearly enough
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


ANTIPODAL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk that brings the whippoorwill
Last Line: Here and now?
Subject(s): Birds; Stones; Trees; Whipporwills; Granite; Rocks


AT THE TOUCH OF A BIRD, by LILLIAN IONE OLSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sought adventure's path when twilight came
Last Line: A whistling bird had taught me brotherhood!
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow
Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!"
Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime


I HAVE HEARD WHIPPOORWILLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You say that I have grown so strange
Last Line: That sing in kelser park.
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Love; Whipporwills


NATURE NOTE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four or five whippoorwills
Last Line: Their latest that I remember, %september the twenty-third
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


PRICELESS GIFTS, by OLIVE MAY COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found silver today in the cadence and trill
Last Line: Of that gay little song of the whippoorwill.
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 10. ASSUAGEMENT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How close tonight the whippoorwill
Last Line: But love's star-builded roof.
Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Moon; Whipporwills


THE MOUNTAIN WHIPPOORWILL (A GEORGIA ROMANCE), by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the mountains, it's lonesome all the time
Last Line: An' then the noise of the crowd began.
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From yonder wooded hill
Last Line: The legend thou hast heard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you remember, father
Last Line: "a passing thrill, -- ""whippoorwill!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Birds; Fathers & Sons; Whipporwills


THE WHIPPOORWILL'S SONG, by ELIZABETH COX GILLILAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whippoorwill is calling
Last Line: Twill be home to me.
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


THE WHIPPOORWILL'S SONG, by FRANCHEN HAUSER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Often at dusk, before twilight
Last Line: Every burden I had.
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


TO ANNIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the lids of dusk are falling
Last Line: As tranquil a delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Night; Whipporwills; Bedtime


WHIP POOR WILL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the twilight, mystical, dim
Last Line: Whip poor will!
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


WHIPPOORWILL, by JOEL BENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the summer nights, when the world's tumult stills
Subject(s): Birds; Transcendentalism; Whipporwills


WHIPPOORWILL, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above long woodland ways that led
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


WHIPPOORWILL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird of those hours when the night
Last Line: I would lead the moon in all its phases home
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


WHIPPOORWILL, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is indecent of this bird
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


WHIPPOORWILL, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: When de whippo'will cry
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


WHIPPOORWILL AWAKES, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills


WHIPPOORWILL IN THE WOODS, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night after night, it was very nearly enough
Last Line: Listen!' she said he'd said. 'did you hear it? %that was a whippoorwill.' and she (and I) never forg
Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills