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Subject: GERANIUMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GERANIUM, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: How can you stand it -- looking at things?
Last Line: Marry it? Are you so sure %of your position in the world?
Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Geraniums; Vision


GERANIUM, by DAN STRYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pruned tidy in your
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums


GERANIUM, by THOM VANDER VEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you think natalie goldberg would have offered
Last Line: Label the unintelligible crumbs: %dehydration of geranium
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums


GERANIUMS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stuck in a bottle on the window-sill
Last Line: Nor need to barter blossoms for a bed.
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums


RED GERANIUM AND GODLY MIGNONETTE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine that any mind ever thought a red geranium!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Mignonettes


RED GERANIUM AND GODLY MIGNONETTE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine that any mind ever thought a red geranium!
Last Line: Oh, for some other beauty, some other beauty %that blossomed at last, red geranium, and mignonette
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Mignonettes


RED GERANIUMS, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life did not bring me silken gowns
Last Line: And red geraniums aflame upon my window sill.
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums


RED GERANIUMS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She says she believes in reincarnation
Last Line: The sudden emotion the confusion then nothing?
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


RED GERANIUMS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She says she believes in reincarnation
Last Line: Is this what causes these unexpected over-sweepings: %the sudden emotion, the confusion, then nothin
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Reincarnation


RED GERANIUMS, by MARCIA LEE MASTERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear father, was I nothing but a swirl of leaves
Last Line: Because she thristed so for love %and hungered so for life %and never found them-- %you planted red
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums


REFLECTION, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Geraniums
Last Line: With such unsubtle gaiety at their belts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Geraniums


REVERSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes it is surely true
Last Line: Wish that the holidays came sooner!
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Flowers; Geraniums; Graves; Love; Sin; Tombs; Tombstones


SENT WITH A FLOWER POT, BEGGING A SLIP OF GERANIUM, by CHRISTIAN MILNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've sent my empty pot again
Last Line: And trouble you no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums


THE GERANIUM, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,
Subject(s): Geraniums


TO A GERANIUM WHICH FLOWERED DURING THE WINTER WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Native of afric's arid lands
Last Line: And downy leaves of vernal hue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums


WILD GERANIUMS, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunlight through the new leaves
Last Line: About the size and softness of your palm
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums