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Subject: CRICKETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RECEIPT TO CURE A LOVE FIT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tie one end of a rope fast over a beam
Last Line: And leave all the rest of the work to the string
Subject(s): Crickets;healing;love;swings; Cures


AUTUMN CRICKET, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the warm hush of the autumnal night
Subject(s): Autumn; Crickets; Seasons


CHIRRUPY-CRICKET, by MARTHA BANNING THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a chirrupy cricket as guest in my room
Alternate Author Name(s): Eden, Patience
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKET, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the cricket's song %a green star
Last Line: Is clothed in splendor
Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Crickets; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons


CRICKET, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little inmate, full of mirth
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKET, by VINCENT STARRETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cricket sings upon the - no! Not that!
Last Line: Lone obligato to my lonely dream.
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKET, by JOHN STRULOEFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world had tossed it at an angle
Last Line: And then went silent
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKET HEARD, by IZUMI SHIKIBU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although %the cricket's song
Last Line: Has not words, %still, %it sounds like sorrow
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the evening, I sit near my poker and tongs
Last Line: My friend the cricket and I.
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKET SONG, by YI HYONGGI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cricket ripples sorrow
Last Line: A piece of masterpiece!
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKETS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spetember. Wild aster. Fox grapes
Last Line: Come back as our heartbeats
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKETS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spetember. Wild aster. Fox grapes
Last Line: Come back as our heartbeats
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKETS, by HELEN GOLDBAUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night, lying close, warm and soft, permits no movement
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKETS, by HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pipe, little minstrels of the waning year
Subject(s): Crickets


CRICKETS AT DAWN, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the crickets chirp
Last Line: One by one.
Subject(s): Crickets


CRY OF THE CRICKETS, by SATO NORIKIYO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Grows weak and more distant
Subject(s): Crickets


EARTH HAS MANY KEYS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The cricket is her utmost %of elegy to me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 177
Subject(s): Crickets


HAIKU, by WATANABE SUIHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The noisy cricket
Last Line: On the wet lawn
Subject(s): Crickets


I LIKE, by ESTHER WEBSTER SKILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like polka dots. And molasses. And spanish antiques
Last Line: At night!
Subject(s): Crickets


IN THE MONTH OF GREAT HEAT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is time to leave'
Subject(s): Crickets; Heat


IRISH MUSIC, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: No brilliance in the sweetgum this year. A fall so mild
Last Line: But stood ready to pen and take them in
Subject(s): Crickets


JACK FROST AND THE CATY-DID, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard - 'twas on an autumn night
Last Line: To fan her wakeless dream.
Subject(s): Crickets; Winter


KAGURA: CRICKET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cricket's angry, furious!
Subject(s): Crickets


POEMS TO A BROWN CRICKET, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke / just about daybreak and fell back
Last Line: In a book that is shining
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Crickets


POEMS TO A BROWN CRICKET, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke %just about daybreak and fell back
Last Line: At the small golden door of your body till you wake %in a book that is shining
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Crickets


SALVAGE, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard the crickets all about
Last Line: Against the winter and the dark.
Subject(s): Crickets; Nature


SILVER SWANS: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the half moon
Last Line: Still, behind the gas heater
Subject(s): Crickets


SONG OF THE BUILDERS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a summer morning
Subject(s): Crickets; Conduct Of Life


SUMMER NIGHT, by DOROTHY E. STROH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cricket, cricket / what can you know of
Last Line: That burns and grieves?
Subject(s): Crickets; Summer


THE ANT AND THE CRICKET, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a silly young cricket, accustomed to sing"
Last Line: "if you live without work, you must live without food"
Subject(s): Crickets


THE CRICKET, by VINCENT BOURNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little inmate, full of mirth
Last Line: Half a span compared with thee.
Subject(s): Crickets


THE CRICKET, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The twilight is the morning of his day
Subject(s): Crickets


THE CRICKET, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The humming bee purrs softly o'er his flower
Last Line: Unmoved by cricket song of thee or me.
Subject(s): Crickets


THE CRICKET, by FRANCIS GALATIA YEOMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cricket lifts a tiny voice
Last Line: The singing of the grass.
Subject(s): Crickets


THE CRICKET IN THE PATH, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: She passed through the shadowy garden, so tall and so white
Last Line: "while I live, I will sing."
Subject(s): Crickets


THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead
Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket
Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green little vaulter in the sunny grass
Last Line: In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Variant Title(s): To Grasshopper And Cricket;on The Grasshopper And Cricket;to The Grasshopper And The Cricket
Subject(s): Crickets; Grasshoppers; Insects; Bugs


THE LAST CRICKET, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bulb of the moon with white fire fills
Last Line: And puts away his pipe -- and stops.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Crickets


THE NATURALIST'S SUMMER-EVENING WALK, by GILBERT WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When day declining sheds a milder gleam
Last Line: Leander hastened to his hero's bed.
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crickets; Nature; Owls; Wings


TO A CRICKET, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Merry cricket, twittering thing
Last Line: Partner in our jollity.
Subject(s): Crickets


TO AN OBSCURE POET WHO LIVES ON MY HEARTH, by CHARLES LOTIN HILDRETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why shouldst thou cease thy plaintive song
Last Line: My troubled dreams.
Subject(s): Crickets


TO THE CRICKET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chiming seas may clang; and
Last Line: Thou poor plebeian minstrel of the hearth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Crickets; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


TWAS LATER WHEN THE SUMMER WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Keeps esoteric time
Subject(s): Crickets; Time; Seasons


WHEN PLAINTIVELY AND NEAR THE CRICKET SINGS, by NORA MAY FRENCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now evening comes. Now stirs my discontent
Subject(s): Crickets