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Subject: LAWNS
Matches Found: 10

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DANDELIONS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions
Last Line: Their birth, and shrivel at the slightest breath, and perish from the earth.
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Lilacs; Weeds


DEAD LEAVES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fallen leaves were lying thick upon the
Last Line: Be all wrong.
Subject(s): Dirt; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Leaves; Nature; Public Health


KEEP OFF THE GRASS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thoughtless fellows blithely pass, and
Last Line: And it will take him nineteen hours to tell just how he views such dubs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Houses; Lawns; Towns


LAWN CARE, by GEORGE S. BASCOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strife slips in like trumpeter vine
Last Line: Lies only brief neglect away %from weedy and indifferent waste
Subject(s): Lawns


LAWN MAINTENANCE BLUES, by DAN LENIHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steve's game is lawn maintenance, mows and edges lawns for
Last Line: Slid down the glass and carmen's snarling face dropped %intoview
Subject(s): Lawns


LAWN ORNAMENTS, by JOHN RICHARD REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mostly, they're hard to believe in
Last Line: Tiny windmills tamely milling air
Subject(s): Lawns


LAWNS OF DELHI, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lawns of the mogul gardens
Last Line: As they crouched over themselves
Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Lawns; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women


POLLEN, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You see it as summer begins
Last Line: The plush, allusive %tremble of pollen
Subject(s): Allergies; Environment; Lawns; Nature; Trees


RAINY NIGHTS, by NANNIE LAURA FORTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: By day my lawn is stark and bare
Last Line: Will turn my lake to barren lawn.
Subject(s): Lawns; Rain


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