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Subject: ECHOES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ECHO, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: He deemed it dead,-the sound of that which flew
Last Line: He stood on life's sere slopes,—they met again.
Subject(s): Death; Echoes; Dead, The


AN ECHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keats! Keats!
Last Line: His brother-bird.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Thrushes


ECHO, by DOROTHY F. BLACKWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peeved, petulant, slience tugged when
Subject(s): Echoes


ECHO, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who called?' I said, and the words
Last Line: Wailed to and fro.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Echoes


ECHO, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who called?' I said, and the words
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Echoes


ECHO, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How like your mother, child!' I said
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Echoes


ECHO, by BOB HICOK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He or she let go of my wife and me
Last Line: Blood disappears into water without blame
Subject(s): Echoes; Miscarriage


ECHO, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He or she let go of my wife and me
Last Line: Blood dissolves in water without blame
Subject(s): Echoes


ECHO, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked of echo, t' other day
Last Line: "quoth echo (sotto voce), -- ""take her!"
Variant Title(s): Ego Et Echo; A Fantasy
Subject(s): Echoes; Women


ECHO (RIDDLE), by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never sleeping, still awake
Subject(s): Echoes; Riddles


ECHOES, by MARGARET ROOT GARVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Snapped! - is the string of the harp
Last Line: But who so eloquent as they!
Subject(s): Echoes; Musical Instruments; Silence


ECHOES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The might that shaped itself through storm
Last Line: Within a world of dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Echoes; Love - Nature Of; Thought; Thinking


ECHOES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where of old, responsive / as the wind and foam
Last Line: "of all the vanished past, we echoes only stay!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Echoes; Memory


ECHOES, by MARY ELLEN TANNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Standing by the gateway
Last Line: Of the vanished years.
Subject(s): Echoes


GHOSTS ON THE NORTHERN LAND OF UR; CIRCA 2100 C.E., by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With bits of pale colored chalk
Last Line: That is still being slaughtered in our childhood...
Subject(s): Buddhism; Echoes; Sickness; Time; War; Buddha; Buddhists; Illness


IN THE SHADOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We walk within the shadow, and we feel its
Last Line: But the shadow fades at dawning, and the east is flecked with gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Rest; Shadows


LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, by JOZE UDOVIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stars, and sky's crickets, %sang in night's meadow; as it approached
Last Line: And its heart %a diving swallow
Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Melodies; Singing And Singers; Voices


THE AFTER-ECHO (2), by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long the echoes love to play
Last Line: And touches all the soul to tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Time


THE HOURS; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The meadows are empty. There are two villages
Last Line: We were always counting our losses.
Subject(s): Bells; Echoes; Loss; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Villages


THE MOUNTAIN ECHO, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At sad slow pace across the vale
Last Line: "the grave is best!"
Subject(s): Echoes; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


THE MOUNTAIN ECHO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, it was the mountain echo
Last Line: For of god, -- of god they are.
Subject(s): Echoes


THE PRINCESS; A MEDLEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir walter vivian all a summer's day
Last Line: From those rich silks, and home well-pleased we went.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Echoes; Mothers; Religion; Sea; Supernatural; Women's Rights; Theology; Ocean; Feminism


TO AN ECHO, by PAULINE GARNER CURRAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you a raven / of the dark octaves
Last Line: As I now turn to the song of a moth?
Subject(s): Echoes


TO THE ECHO; IN A CLEAR NIGHT UPON ASTROP WALKS, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, lovely nymph, where dost thou dwell?
Last Line: And harmony thy dress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Echoes


VILLONELLE, by MAX JACOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me the song that the sirens sang
Last Line: And my songs? May they come back to me!
Subject(s): Echoes; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs