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Subject: DANDELIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A JANUARY DANDELION, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All nashville, is a chill. And everywhere
Last Line: To all that blooming life that might have been.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


BALD HEAD WITH THE FRINGE, by JANE BEESON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Domed candles under a cathedral sky
Subject(s): Clocks; Dandelions; Flowers; Riddles; Time; Weeds


BUTTONS, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hold fast, golden buttons
Last Line: In a lunatic path of laughter and singing.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


CHARADE: 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter my first with a studied grace
Last Line: Not quite rightly spelt, but comparison rare.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION, by KATE LOUISE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is a roguish little elf
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Weeds


DANDELION, by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little soldier with the golden helmet
Last Line: There is only the grass to fight!
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION, by NELLIE M. GARABRANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a dandy little fellow
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dandelion, fuzzy-top, must I stop my play?
Last Line: I've really got to know at once if mother's wanting me.
Subject(s): Children; Dandelions; Flowers; Play; Weeds; Childhood


DANDELION, by EMMET PENDLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dandelion has gone to seed
Last Line: Her daintiness to hold her there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION, by KATHARINE PYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found a little old elfin man
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELION'S PALLID TUBE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That sepulture is o'er
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1519; Poem: 156
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by JOHN ALBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now dandelions in the short, new grass
Last Line: A spirit form, till on the sight it dies.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by MICHAEL BURKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: One year the dandelions decided to play a game
Last Line: Like the sea supplying food although it is killed over and over
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the climbing meadows
Last Line: On earth's green, windy coat.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions
Last Line: Their birth, and shrivel at the slightest breath, and perish from the earth.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Lilacs; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by LUELLA DOWD SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars that fell from heaven last night
Last Line: A promise golden and divine.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The golden dandelion stars
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DANDELIONS, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her on the yellow rise
Last Line: Though I look every day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Vision; Weeds


DANDELIONS IN THE SUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
Last Line: Buying sky and hill and sea
Subject(s): Dandelions


DANDY DANDELION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dandy dandelion wakes
Last Line: His bright and shining crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


GOD'S GOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: God placed a gold mint in the sky
Last Line: All ye with eyes!
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; May (month); Weeds


GOLD HUNTING, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The miser hurries through the town
Last Line: Gather some before you're old!
Subject(s): April; Dandelions; Flowers; Gold; Harvest; Weeds


LATE DANDELIONS, by BEN BELITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dandelions, wrecked on their stems
Last Line: And a scarab aloft on the stem revelation had hallowed
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


LITTLE DANDELION, by HELEN LOUISE BARRON BOSTWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gay little dandelion
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


LITTLE DANDELION, by LULA LOWE WEEDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dandelion stares %in the yellow sunlight
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


MISTAKE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mistake was light and easy in my hand
Last Line: And in the yard such dandelions grew %that bloomed and closed and opened up and blew
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION, by MARTHA E. CUNNINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: She's just a little wayward minx
Last Line: And leave her in disgrace.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O dandelion, rich and haughty
Last Line: More golden than before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose
Last Line: The dandelion!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind


THE DANDELION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With locks of gold today
Last Line: O man, thy fortune told!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Studding the grass with golden sheen
Last Line: Loved by its well-loved light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THE DANDELION (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o dandelion, yellow as gold"
Last Line: And blow my hair away
Variant Title(s): "dandelion, What Do You Do?;
Subject(s): Dandelions;flowers;weeds


THE FIRST DANDELION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close
Last Line: The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 1. DANDELIONS, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around the corolla of dandelions
Last Line: That complete moment of surrender
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dandelions; Flowers; Parents; Weeds


TO THE DANDELION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way
Last Line: On all these living pages of god's book.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


WEEDS, by WALLACE MCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lawn is filled with dandelions
Last Line: And take advantage of this market. %'cause he wants to buy some weed
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


YOUNG DANDELIONS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a bold fellow
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Weeds