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Subject: DRAGONFLIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DRAGON FLIES, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What drinks the dragon fly, that dart of blue light
Subject(s): Dragonflies


DRAGON-FLY ('SNAKE-STANGER') SONG FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snakestanger, snakestanger, vlee aal about the brooks
Last Line: While aal the littull bad bwoys shall only lick the dish
Subject(s): Dragonflies


DRAGONFLY, by CHISOKU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Only eye
Subject(s): Dragonflies


DRAGONFLY, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Book says 'most predacious.' book says 'fastest
Subject(s): Dragonflies


DRAGONFLY, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Book says 'most predacious.' book says 'fastest
Last Line: Stillness at great speed) %beside still water
Subject(s): Dragonflies


DRAGONFLY, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Itinerant clarinet
Last Line: On the loosestrife's whips. %on the air. On my lips
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Dragonflies


DRAGONFLY, by ROBERT S. OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glassy wings
Last Line: Waiting --
Subject(s): Animals; Dragonflies


DRAGONFLY, by THEODORE HARDING RAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winged wonder of motion
Subject(s): Dragonflies; Fireflies


DRAGONFLY-MOTHER, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was setting out from my house
Last Line: Acts os passage, hovering %journeys over the fathomless waters
Subject(s): Dragonflies


DRAGONFLYER, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dragonflyer, dragonflyer
Last Line: Spider, sunfish, bee, and frog-- %lights upon her favorite log
Subject(s): Dragonflies


ENCHANTED ENCHANTED DRAGONFLY, by LARRY EVERS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Shaking %shaking %shaking
Subject(s): Dragonflies


EVENING, by IDUNA BERTEL FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreamy, poising dragonflies
Last Line: Known once, in a dream.
Subject(s): Dragonflies; Evening; Sunset; Twilight


HUNTER'S MOON, by STEPHEN SANDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: An airborne dragon- %fly brash with first frost
Last Line: Door, a sun-banked stone, %any warm thing
Subject(s): Dragonflies


ROWING ACROSS THE LAKE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Stop it. It's sunday
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dragonflies; Nature; Sex


THE DRAGON FLY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream
Last Line: Who fancy so unjust a thing!
Variant Title(s): Lines To A Dragon-fly
Subject(s): Dragonflies


THE DRAGONFLY, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are made of almost nothing
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dragonflies


THE DRAGONFLY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now, when my roses are half buds, half flowers
Last Line: His breast, my dear, how lovely was his breast!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dragonflies


THE DRAGONFLY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beauteous dragonfly's dancing
Last Line: The fair but cruel pretender!
Subject(s): Dragonflies


THE DRAGONFLY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dragonfly blue's all the fashion
Last Line: Perfidious, and unstable.
Subject(s): Dragonflies


THE DRAGONFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is skimming o'er a stagnant pool
Last Line: "I get my education."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dragonflies


THE DRAGONFLY-MOTHER, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was setting out from my house
Subject(s): Dragonflies


THE TURN OF A DRAGONFLY'S WING, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Being but man, forbear to say
Last Line: Hover, and whip away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Dragonflies


TO A DRAGON FLY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You hail from dream-land, dragon-fly?
Last Line: When you go home to-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Dragonflies