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Subject: FEBRUARY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUSY STREET, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All up and down the busy street
Last Line: And that is why they hurry so.
Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; February; Streets; Traffic; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues


A GLEE FOR FEBRUARY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, sing out a song when the nights are long
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): February


A SAILOR BOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I think I'd like to roam
Last Line: Where mother and her kisses are.
Subject(s): Absence; February; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation


A WARM DAY IN WINTER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunshine on de medders
Last Line: W'en hit 's wa'm in febawary.
Subject(s): February


A YEAR'S CAROLS: FEBRUARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan february with weeping cheer
Last Line: But lit with hopes that light the year's.
Subject(s): February; Seasons; Wind


CARTOONS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by STIRLING BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You must have shocked your father when you came
Last Line: We bear or hurl till we or kings fall dead.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1848); February Revolution


CROWS, by ZUELLA STERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The february crows have come
Last Line: And in the fall, the last.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; February; Seasons


EVENING IN FEBRUARY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The windy evening drops a grey
Last Line: Before the fall of babylon.
Subject(s): February


FEBRUARY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The park hangs on to what keeps growing
Last Line: To the end feel like %becoming?
Subject(s): Arabs; February; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Winter


FEBRUARY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold now is the breezes' breath
Last Line: We love so well and dear.
Subject(s): February; Holidays; Valentine's Day


FEBRUARY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the month of february
Subject(s): February


FEBRUARY ETUDE, by STEVEN P. SCHNEIDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You went out and bought the essence of miles davis
Last Line: Listen, the prince is blowing his horn
Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); February


FEBRUARY MORNING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old man takes a nap
Last Line: The snow falls all day long.
Subject(s): Books; February; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Morning; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Reading


FEBRUARY MORNING, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thankful was I to be there
Last Line: First buds of willow.
Subject(s): February; Morning; Nature; Winter


FEBRUARY NOCTURNE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: For me there is a secret on the western slope.
Last Line: You who have left my heart pines and the stars?
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): February; Night; Stars; Bedtime


FEBRUARY SWANS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the hundred swans in west bay
Last Line: Has glazed the window with frost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; February; Love; Solitude; Swans; Loneliness


FROM THE EARTH, A CRY, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O christ! And o christ! In thy name the law!
Last Line: God purifies slowly by peace, but urgently by fire.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1848); Hate; Jesus Christ; Social Protest; War; February Revolution


GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We do not take a car at all, and yet we
Last Line: But never stay abroad to play.
Subject(s): Children; Exchange Students; February; Geography; Travel; Childhood; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips


GLEE FOR FEBRUARY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, sing out a song when the nights are long
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): February


GREETING, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet as the summer breeze
Last Line: Is the love I bear to thee.
Subject(s): February; Flowers; Greetings; Love; Spring


I'M NOT JUST FEBRUARY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
Last Line: I'm quite a big month, after all
Subject(s): February


IN FEBRUARY, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich meanings of the prophet-spring adorn
Last Line: Child tarrying all your life-time in your heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): February


IN FEBRUARY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already the feet of the winter fly
Last Line: And the pulse of the earth begins to leap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): February


IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): February


LADDER FROZEN AGAINST THE SHED, by JAN WEISSMILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The word is 'february', %a few dry leaves, the trees
Last Line: Whole globe plucked from its%- one of its - courses
Subject(s): February; Winter


LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY, 1890, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark to the merry birds, hark how they sang!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): February


LEAP YEAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little month of february
Last Line: But just the shortest month of all.
Subject(s): Calendar; February; Months


LINCOLN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A log cabin, rude and rough
Last Line: Of that dim shadowy firelit room.
Subject(s): February; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


MIRROR IN FEBRUARY, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day dawns, with scent of must and rain
Subject(s): February


MIRROR IN FEBRUARY, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day dawns, with scent of must and rain
Last Line: Not young, and not renewable, but man
Subject(s): February


MY BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little gate my book can be
Last Line: Afar in foreign fields I roam.
Subject(s): Books; February; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips


ODE TO FRANCE (FEBRUARY, 1848), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As, flake by flake, the beetling avalanches
Last Line: Of brotherhood and right.
Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1848); February Revolution


OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have jest about decided
Last Line: "groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; February; Groundhogs; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodchucks


OUTSIDE THE DOOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Outside the door the bare tree stands
Last Line: Until a puffing wind comes by.
Subject(s): February; Snow; Winter


ROUND ONE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take blue under cottonwoods, those prayersticks
Last Line: The first leaves drifted loose, all those souvenirs of august where your face should be
Subject(s): August; February; May (month); November


SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: FEBRUARY: A THAW, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow is gone from cottage tops
Last Line: Crouching to the whizzing storms
Subject(s): February


SNOW LAYERING ROOFTOPS, by TERRI LYNETTE BROWN-DAVIDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mind doesn't seek oblivion. She tells herself this
Last Line: Shooting the oon with her broken kodak, trembling, seduced
Subject(s): February; Snow


SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: FEBRUARY, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In february I give you gallant sport
Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo
Subject(s): February


THE HOUSE CAT, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The house cat sits and smiles and sings
Last Line: He knows a lot of secret things!
Subject(s): February; Secrets


THE POET'S CALENDAR: FEBRUARY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am lustration; and the sea is mine!
Last Line: Without a dirge, I cleanse from every stain.
Subject(s): February


THE POSTMAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The postman goes along the street
Last Line: Than men who richer, wiser are.
Subject(s): February; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: FEBRUARY, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah for pittie! Wil rancke winters rage
Last Line: Hye thee home, shepheard, the day is nigh wasted.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): February; Old Age


THE TELEGRAPH, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wires spread out far and wide
Last Line: And talk to friends in any place.
Subject(s): February; Telegraph; Telegrams


TO A CROW IN FEBRUARY, by CAROLINE M. LORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where a hemlock tree depends its tented boughs
Last Line: And thank him for that friendly raucous note.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; February; Hemlocks


TO AN OLD TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tree must stand, it cannot run
Last Line: And seen ten thousand storms go by!
Subject(s): February; Old Age


TO FEBRUARY, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Build high your white and dazzling palaces
Last Line: Will leave no trace of your stern workmanship.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn
Subject(s): February


WASHINGTON, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: First of our great, we bring
Last Line: Our debt for your great worthiness.
Subject(s): February; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)