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Subject: INDIAN SUMMER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN AUTUMNAL TONIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mystery is it? The morning
Last Line: With the hale harvest-hands of the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AN INDIAN SUMMER REVERIE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What visionary tints the year puts on
Last Line: And without her the impoverished seasons roll.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


DAY OF THE INDIAN SUMMER, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day of golden beauty!
Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day


ECHO AND SILENCE, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In eddying course when leaves began to fly
Last Line: With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill!
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Mysticism


ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 1, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth. Red earth. And tall grass as far as you can see. You're pressed to the
Last Line: You'll end your way. I, of course, always return. You don't. Which makes all %the difference
Subject(s): Hunting; Indian Summer; Wilderness


FALL PLOWING, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fades indian summer's brief, bright interlude
Last Line: Grim relics that are withered, bleached and gray.
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Plowing & Plowmen


INDIAN SUMMER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When leaves grow sear all things take sombre hue
Last Line: Return to us in some sweet by-and-by
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "there is a time, just when the frost"
Last Line: And smiles to think it's all for him
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: That soft autumnal time
Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day


INDIAN SUMMER, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grain is gathered in
Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day


INDIAN SUMMER, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the line of smoky hills
Last Line: Throughout the long, still autumn day %wild birds are flying south
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn is a warp of fever
Last Line: To pile at her feet for this.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by HELENA COLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all earth's varied, lovely moods
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the boughs of em'rald green
Last Line: Always stay.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the days when birds come back
Last Line: Taste thine immortal wine!
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last there came %the sudden fall of frost, when time
Last Line: Moved silently, as if in dream - %and it was indian summer on the plain
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by HELEN JANE HOPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly through the pine trees
Last Line: All the world is still.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by J. P. IRVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At last the toil encumbered days
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature


INDIAN SUMMER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have strayed from silent places
Last Line: I am gone!
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossoms shaken from their star forms
Last Line: Give me love before you go!
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stillness that doth wait on change is here
Last Line: Shalt dream again—how dying nature smiled.
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons


INDIAN SUMMER, by SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the purple haze that lies
Alternate Author Name(s): Strickland, Susanna
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by BETH PIRSCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is still; there is only the music
Last Line: The golden day is meant for golden dreams.
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Love


INDIAN SUMMER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis indian summer's richest, latest day
Last Line: O saddest indian summer! Fare thee well!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Indian Summer; New Hampshire


INDIAN SUMMER, by DERYN REES-JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes it's as if we're lost
Last Line: Lazily trailing one ungloved hand
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When maples flaunt their colors far and near
Last Line: —presbyterian advance
Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects


INDIAN SUMMER, by MARGARET SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Faint blue the distant hills before
Last Line: Fall of a leaf against the blue.
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


INDIAN SUMMER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere winter puts his icy mantle on
Last Line: Of winter come.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lyric night of the lingering indian summer
Last Line: Lest they forget them.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A silken curtain veils the skies
Last Line: The camp-fires of the past are burning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the battle or the chase
Last Line: Ascends to heaven again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature


INDIAN SUMMER DAY ON THE PRAIRIE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is a huntress young
Last Line: He builds him a crimson nest
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER: 2, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As leaves fall from the trees, the body falls from the soul
Last Line: Dead leaves and dead grass in november, purple in spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE PLEDGE!, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The promise writ in gold to the water's edge
Last Line: The sun he bids stand still till the day is won.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): God; Indian Summer


INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE SIGN!, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This flooding splendour, golden and hyaline
Last Line: And all the fairy lakes are beautiful.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Nature


INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE WORD!, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That makes a thing of flame the water-bird
Last Line: Are not delivered to the insatiable sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Praise


INDIAN SUMMERS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the wall / vine leaves / in his eye
Last Line: No end to the things made out of human talk
Subject(s): Indian Summer


LATE INDIAN SUMMER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rains hold off another week
Last Line: Exhausted and stunned
Subject(s): Indian Summer


LYRIC, by SUN PU-ERH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late indian summer's
Last Line: Plain heart seeing into plain heart
Subject(s): Indian Summer


OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Indian-summer-sun
Last Line: Floods the grape-hung night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature; Trees


REMINISCENT, by HELEN G. STEPHENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today I went to the woodlands
Last Line: Couldn't have been as glorious a thing.
Subject(s): Indian Summer


SEED, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Corn is universal, / so like a roman senator
Last Line: Oh my daughters.
Subject(s): Children; Corn; Indian Summer; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood


ST MARTIN'S SUMMER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As swallows turning backward
Last Line: I have not lived in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Indian Summer


ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though flowers have perished at the touch
Last Line: Sweet summer of st. Martin!
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Martin, Saint (316-397)


THE INDIAN SUMMER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is there sadd'ning in the autumn leaves
Last Line: "what is there sadd'ning in the autumn leaves?"
Subject(s): Indian Summer


THE MINISTRY OF NATURE; OR, THE TEMPLE SERVICE OF THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ordained of god to preach the truth to men
Last Line: Thus nature worships god the whole year through.
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Native Americans - History; Nature; Preaching & Preachers; Seasons


TRANSITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said, in death, upon the face
Last Line: With dreams of may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Variant Title(s): Indian Summer (1)
Subject(s): Hope; Indian Summer; Seasons; Optimism