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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PASSING HAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us rest ourselves a bit!
Last Line: It farewell a little while.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Kisses; Nature


A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds
Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection
Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers


A TRIBUTE OF GRASSES, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Serene, vast head, with silver cloud of hair
Last Line: Here by the eastern sea.
Subject(s): Grass; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


BADLANDS, by THELMA POIRIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We want to take visitors to see grass
Last Line: Dry crotch in a sea of grass
Subject(s): Grass; Ranch Life


BETWEEN THE FOUR PADS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The fragrance of grass
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grass; Nature


BLADE OF GRASS, by FREDERICK VICTOR BRANFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Horses I saw, and on the horses gods
Subject(s): Grass


BLOWING GRASS, by SARAH BIXBY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In narrow nuuanu
Last Line: That rise and find no rest.
Subject(s): California; Grass


CHANT, by BOB VANCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the smell of sweetgrass here
Last Line: The smell of %sweet %grass
Subject(s): Camping; Grass; Nature


CHANTING OF AROMATIC GRASSES, by XU YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year's commencement, the sun's first light
Last Line: Not shrinking from frost's imposition
Subject(s): Grass


CLUMP OF GRASS, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: That's a merciless name to call
Last Line: Than to be called a clump of grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grass


COLOUR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at the grass
Last Line: Look at the grass
Subject(s): Colors; Drowning; Grass; Refugees


CUT GRASS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cut grass lies frail:
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Grass; Transience; Lawn Mowers; Impermanence


CUT THE GRASS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Grass


CUT THE GRASS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful
Last Line: Less then total is a bucketful of radiant toys
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Grass


DUELING WITH GLASS BLADES, by MA RUYU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gathering emerald greenery, roaming fragrant plants
Last Line: At the end succumbs to roadside mud
Subject(s): Grass


EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow
Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise!
Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World


FACE IN THE FIELD, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The meadow yielded thirteen bales an acre
Last Line: See? Every year the grass renews itself %with shoots and leaves and, ultimately, flowers
Subject(s): Grass


FAUN, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pour me my bath of sunlight
Last Line: Drenched with spring fragrance of trees.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Trees


FIDDLEHEADS, by JORDAN SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're in the backyard, under the woody scrub
Last Line: Ours, though we will forget even the chord at the root of it
Subject(s): Grass; Nature


FORMER BARN LOT, by MARK VAN DOREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once there was a fence here
Last Line: Like green fire.
Subject(s): Grass


FROM THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, for a moment, all is well
Last Line: Nay, life is love; love lasts, o heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grass; Life; Love; Nature


GARDENER, by CRAIG RAINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and down the lawn he walks with cycling hands
Last Line: For this he stands in weariness, %tired as a teapot, feeling the small of his back
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Grass; Roses


GARDENS, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: One can raise more in a garden than he'd think
Last Line: Over and over in a hundred ways.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grass


GLORY OF THE GRASS, by CLAIRE WALLACE FLYNN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In what far, judean field
Last Line: Seeing but dimly as we pass %the ancient glory of the grass!
Subject(s): Grass; Jesus Christ


GRASS, by BYOK NAMKUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grass, summer grass
Last Line: And you can tread gently on me %as I now tread on you
Subject(s): Grass; Immortality; Love


GRASS, by PAUL EDWARD CORLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked among the cathedrals
Last Line: Is very kind!
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grass; Graveyards


GRASS, by KIM SUYONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grass lies flattened
Last Line: Skies clouded, grass roots lies flattened before anything
Subject(s): Grass


GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo
Last Line: Let me work.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grass; War; Graveyards; Dead, The


GRASS FINGERS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch me, touch me
Last Line: With your tiny, timorous toes.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Grass; Negroes; American Blacks


GRASS FLOWER, by KIM YANKSHIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remembering those far-off days I have passed lonely
Last Line: On the grass blade I lie down %and pluck a grass flower
Subject(s): Grass


GRASS STUDIES, by ANNE CORAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If we can't be aether
Last Line: The bend of the awn in wind
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Nature; Wheat


GRASSES, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laurel and eucalyptus, dry sharp smells
Last Line: With which the scattered details make advance
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Grass


GREEN GRASS SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stepping on the green grass
Last Line: The bells would ring, the cats would sing, %so we'll all clap together
Subject(s): Grass


GREENNESS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me is there anything lovelier
Last Line: Hushing the heart that beats and beats and beats?
Subject(s): Grass; Leaves


HAIR ON YOUR BODY, by DAVID HART    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Would tickle my face
Subject(s): Grass; Riddles


HAYING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rustic idyl of the ardent days
Last Line: And all its face is odorous again.
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Summer; Sun; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HIGH PLAINS RAG, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But like remorse
Last Line: It can never stop .
Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains


HYMN 9, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A breath of roses in the wind doth seize on me
Last Line: God.—my heart is at ease!
Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Roses; Soul; Spring


I AM FASHION'S TOY, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Give to me of the bright green leaves
Last Line: Now, the dream is past. I am fashion's toy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Fashion; Grass


I FIX MY EYES ON A BLADE OF GRASS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Calm, sad, resigned
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mowing & Mowers; Grass


IN CENTRAL EUROPE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you cross through the grass in central europe, you see
Last Line: When the bamboo grows, %when the bamboo reaches the sipapuni%when each ring reaches the sipapuni %th
Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Europe; Forests; Grass; Roads; Travel


IN THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am one with waving things
Last Line: I am one with waving things.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grass; Snow; Soul; Nightmares


IN THE GRASS, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O to lie in long grasses!
Last Line: To bask in the light of your sky!
Subject(s): Grass


INFLATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The unknowns enrich the grass
Last Line: Inflate the bellies of the famous.
Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Poverty


JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: June in the grass!
Last Line: Summer is here.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


LONG FEUD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, without bloodshed, can there be
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Grass


LONG FEUD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, without bloodshed, can there be
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Grass


MAKING THE WOOD, by LOIS CANFIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blade of grass lifts clod beyond its weight
Last Line: To make the fibered wood which builders use.
Subject(s): Forests; Grass; Mankind; Nature; Woods; Human Race


METAMORPHOSIS OF GRASS, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grass on a grave grows faster than memory. A green down blanket
Last Line: And in the house the carpet turns to hair, like a meadow
Subject(s): Grass


METAPHOR OF GRASS IN CALIFORNIA, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The seeds of certain grasses that once grew
Last Line: As such men fall, these fell, but silently
Subject(s): Literary Form; California; Grass


MOWING DAY, by DAVID RIGSBEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just when grass dreams it isn't wheat
Last Line: And get down to gesturing and pointing
Subject(s): Grass; Mowing And Mowers


MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair
Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY JOY HAS FALLEN IN THE GRASS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My joy has fallen in the grass, good people of the plain, fortunate
Last Line: Fallen in the grass, help me to find it again.
Subject(s): Grass; Happiness; Love - Loss Of; Joy; Delight


NOVEMBER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will come back to you and you to me
Last Line: I will come back to you and you to me.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grass; November; Sea; Trees; Ocean


ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills
Last Line: But when will the earth respond?
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


PLANTAIN, by JARED CARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now they are calling - these ambient grasses
Last Line: Times when we lay down in windless places
Subject(s): Grass; Nature


PREMONITION, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay close down upon the rocks
Last Line: As the shadow of the motion of a grass-blade in my palm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Grass


PROUD HOLLYCOCK, by MARGUERITE BULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hollycock with crimson bells
Last Line: Where under tiny spears of jade %the tiny insects pass
Subject(s): Grass


SAID A BLADE OF GRASS, by KAHLIL GIBRAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Subject(s): Grass


SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light foot and tight foot
Last Line: The stars are overhead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Evening; Grass; Morning; Sunset; Twilight


SONG OF THE GRASS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Grass


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: APPRENTICED, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot
Last Line: And parson stood within the rails, a-marrying me and thee, o.'
Subject(s): Grass; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs


SPRING GRASS, by CHEN DEYI    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one planted the spring grass
Last Line: Sadly it faces the evening breeze
Subject(s): Grass


TANGLED SUNRAYS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aslant from yonder sunlit hill
Last Line: Mid the damp grass their race is run.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grass; Wind


THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you not hear her crying
Last Line: To find her before I die!
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds


THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass so little has to do
Last Line: I wish I were a hay!
Subject(s): Grass; Spring


THE GRASS, by EMMA LEE GLENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: So patiently throughout the day and night
Last Line: It covers all the mound with emerald dress.
Subject(s): Grass


THE GRASS, by MAY LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How is the grass set free?
Last Line: Or lovelier to behold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony
Subject(s): Grass


THE GRASS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful and fresh the grass returns
Last Line: When the grass blooms both joy and fear I know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Grass


THE GRASS, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It all hangs now on a blade of grass
Subject(s): Grass; Longing


THE GRASS GROWS FAR, by NATHAN BRYLLION FAGIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The grass grows far from the city's iron breath
Last Line: Leaving the gesture of a trembling wake.
Subject(s): Grass


THE GRASS IS VERY GLAD FOR RAIN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: For washing grass and window pane
Subject(s): Grass; Rain


THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, long long"
Last Line: And the grass on the mountain
Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE GRASS STEALERS, by J. MURRAY ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In australia where the cattle tracks
Last Line: Or some other watercourse.
Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Grass


THE GREEN GRASS OF OLD IRELAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green grass av owld ireland!
Last Line: By reason av the green grass av owld ireland.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grass; Green (color); Ireland; Irish


THE HOP-GARDEN: BOOK 2: THE NAIL IN THE GRASS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in the bag thy hops the rustic treads
Last Line: With indignation at the negro's nail.
Subject(s): Grass; Slavery; Serfs


THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man in a lawn chair
Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife.
Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears


THE LAURELS ARE FELLED, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled
Last Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled.
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grass; Laurels; Lilies; Woods


THE LEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They do zay that a travellen chap
Last Line: An' went vurder wi' them than a dreat.
Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Property; Roads; Social Protest; Avarice; Cupidity; Possessions; Paths; Trails


THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's I have conquered you
Last Line: Curtain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists


THE MOWER'S SONG, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind was once the true survey
Last Line: What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.
Subject(s): Grass


THE MOWING, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the voice of high midsummer's heat
Last Line: May cheer the herds with pasture memories.
Subject(s): Grass; Mowing And Mowers; Nature; Summer


THE VOICE OF THE GRASS, by SARAH ROBERTS BOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere
Last Line: Creeping, silently creeping everywhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, Sarah
Subject(s): Grass; Trees


THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree
Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries.
Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny


THIS LAWN, A CARPET ALL ALIVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of sweetly-breathing flowers
Subject(s): Lawns; Grass


TOKENS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green mwold on zummer bars do show
Last Line: To eyezight's woone, but two to thought.
Subject(s): Grass; Seasons; Storms; Summer; Winter


TUSSOCK, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tussock soaks up the sun
Last Line: The drippings from the roof begin to mark time in the barrel
Subject(s): Grass; Spring


VOICE OF THE GRASS, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Grass


VOICE OF THE GRASS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere
Subject(s): Grass


WALKING THROUGH A NARROW STRIP OF WOODS, by TOM HENNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pines, as always, pried at the sky with their tips, ignoring the wind mak
Last Line: Are allowed to pity everything, except ourselves
Subject(s): Grass; Nature; Pine Trees; Trees; Wood