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Subject: IVY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOOK OF VISIONS: THE RETURN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ivy has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since
Last Line: Earth!
Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The


HOLLY AND THE IVY (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Holly and ivy made a great party
Subject(s): Holly; Ivy


HOLLY AND THE IVY (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holly and the ivy %now are both well grown
Subject(s): Holly; Ivy


HOLLY AND THE IVY (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holly and the ivy %when they are both full grown
Last Line: Of all the trees that are in the wood, %the holly bears the crown
Subject(s): Holly; Ivy


HOLLY AND THE IVY (3) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holly and the ivy %when they are both full grown
Last Line: Of all the trees that are in the wood, %the holly bears the crown
Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Ivy


HOLLY AND THE IVY (5), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Holly and ivy made a great parley
Subject(s): Ivy


IVY, by DOROTHY MOSELEY SUTTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We prod and pick the sticky ivy
Last Line: After days of chasing the strangling ivy %so she can breathe free
Subject(s): Ivy


IVY SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fare thee well, dear alma mater
Subject(s): Commencement; Farewell; Ivy


IVY SONG; ON RECEIVING IVY LEAVES .. CASTLE OF RHEINFELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! How could fancy crown with thee
Last Line: And all is thine at length!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Castles; Germany; Ivy; Ruins; Time; Germans


IVY-GROWTH, by LORETTA COWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ivy grows artfully to the sun
Last Line: And cancerous death of trees.
Subject(s): Ivy


LOVE'S TOKEN, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, my conqueror, this ivy wound
Last Line: And clasp at will your ivory and roses?
Subject(s): Birds; Ivy; Love


POISON IVY, by MARGARET HASSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There, and here. Red pocks, full of puss
Subject(s): Poison Ivy


POISON IVY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even then the leaves shone
Last Line: And innocent of harm as they were.
Subject(s): Poison Ivy


POISON IVY, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was, she said -- this exquisite
Last Line: Loquacious, to scratch, or touch
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Poison Ivy


THE HOLLY AND THE IVY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Sweet singing in the choir
Subject(s): Christmas;holidays;ivy; "nativity, The;


THE HOLLY AND THE IVY (4), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "nay, ivy, nay!"
Last Line: "that creye, 'how! How!'"
Variant Title(s): Holly Aginst Ivy
Subject(s): Holly;ivy


THE IVY GREEN, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green
Last Line: A rare old plant is the ivy green.
Variant Title(s): English Ivy
Subject(s): Decay; Ivy; Plants; Rot; Decadence; Planting; Planters


THE IVY; ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou not love, in the season of spring
Last Line: Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Ivy


THE OAK OF OUR FATHERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas for the oak of our fathers, that stood
Last Line: In its beauty, the glory and pride of the wood!
Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Lament; Oak Trees; Parasites; Dead, The


TO THE IVY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark creeping ivy, with thy berries brown
Last Line: Then sweet it is from summer suns to be %with thy green darkness overshadowing me
Subject(s): Ivy


WALL AND IVY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Root that partakes of stone
Last Line: With stone and ivy one.
Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Poison Ivy


YOUNG EDEN, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flushed from a fairy flagon
Last Line: The apple in her hand!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Apples; Eden; Fairies; Fruit; Love; Poison Ivy; Story-telling; Youth; Elves