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Subject: CHERRY TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HALF-DEAD BLACK CHERRY TREE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM MY CHILDHOOD HOUSE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remnant of some lost orchard
Last Line: Toward your slow heart.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children; Childhood


A LITTLE BOY AND A CHERRY TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Was washington!
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children


A POEM ON MORAL LEADERSHIP AS A POLITICAL DILEMMA, by JUNE JORDAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Morality; Cherry Trees; Ethics


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees
Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A WELL, AND THE CHERRY TREES SWAYING, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their whispers—the splash of the pails
Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


AT AUNTY'S HOUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One time, when we'z at aunty's house
Last Line: When we et on the porch!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Aunts; Cherry Trees; Country Life


CHERRIES, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the tree the farmer said
Last Line: F. E. Weatherley.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Robins


CHERRY BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Frailest and first to stand
Last Line: The parent tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY RAIN, by MARY ATHEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: No petals fall as silently
Last Line: Within the heart, and not the eye.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY TREE, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chaffinch flies fast
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her gnarled sleep it
Last Line: She knows nothing about babies
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Homosexuality; Poetry And Poets; Trees


CHERRY TREE IN AUTUMN, by MARIE DAVIES WARREN BECKNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cherry tree bends by a cinder walk
Last Line: My face against its barrenness.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY TREES A-BLOOM, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the spring's elysian
Last Line: Of the cherry trees a-bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit; Smells; Spring; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


CHERRY TREES IN APRIL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the branches of cherry trees in april
Last Line: Before the blossoming time is past.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit


CRIMSON CHERRY TREE, by HENRY TREECE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There is no sweeter sight, I swear, in heaven
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


DISCOURAGED CHERRY TREE, by KATHLEEN MILLAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter was so late in coming
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


EPISODE OF THE CHERRY TREE, by MILDRED WESTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: An ill-advised %and foolish thing
Last Line: A patriot %who would not lie
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


HER CHERRY-TREE ABLOOM, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I mind the jauntin'-cars a jinglin'
Last Line: Roun' my lone, wee room!
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cherry Trees; Driving & Drivers; Memory


JAPANESE CHERRIES, by KATHERINE MARIE CORNELIA BREGY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I carried a burden of bitterness
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 110, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh fair to see
Last Line: Oh fair to see!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THE CHERRY BOUGH, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a new poet's and a new friend's honor
Last Line: "your bough is dying."
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Friendship


THE CHERRY BOUGHS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, now the heavenly cherry boughs
Last Line: In the stopping of the wind.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THE CHERRY TREE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perched on the fifth rung of the ladder, the girl
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her gnarled sleep it
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE CHERRY TREE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come from your bed, my drowsy gentleman!
Last Line: Beneath the cherry bush, a rondelay.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children; Childhood


THE CHERRY TREES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cherry trees bend over and are
Last Line: This early may morn when there is none to wed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Trees; War; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE DEAD TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I had a cherry tree, one day
Last Line: On my dead cherry tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THREE SONGS OF LOVE (CHINESE FASHION): 1. THE MANDARIN SPEAKS, by WILLIAM A. BEATTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cherry blossom
Last Line: Fragrance?
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


TO A. E. HOUSMAN, by MARGARET ASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your fifty springs and seven more you saw
Last Line: Whose soul still lingers here in songs, too few?
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Singing & Singers; Soul; Spring; Songs


TO CHERRY-BLOSSOMES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye may simper, blush, and smile
Last Line: When as cherries come in place?
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CHERRY, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Branches of wild cherry!
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CHERRY, by MALCOLM LOWRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We put a prop beneath the sagging bough
Last Line: Whose longing was to wash away to sea
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CHERRY BRANCHES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lithe sprays of freshness and faint perfume
Last Line: Let life or death be the fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CHERRY TREE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here be rural graces, sylvan places
Last Line: A long long sigh to the darling tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Cherry Trees