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Subject: LEISURE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOWLING GREEN, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the city's rushing throng
Last Line: On the green.
Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Leisure; New York City - Dutch Period


BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea
Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea; Ocean


BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea
Last Line: Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story
Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea


GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 1, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the august evenings come
Last Line: Of our marionettes %inconsequent, intolerable
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Leisure; Summer


GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 2. EMBARQUEMENT POUR CYTHERE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies, the moon is on its way!
Last Line: Philosophy through a paper straw
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Leisure; Summer; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 3, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On every sultry afternoon
Last Line: Bays %and rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Leisure; Summer


GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 4, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the debris of the year
Last Line: Of street pianos and small beer
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Leisure; Summer


I SMOKE MY PIPE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't extend to every friend
Last Line: And so I smoke my pipe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fortune; Heaven; Leisure; Smoking; Paradise; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


IT'S RAINING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For so long there is nothing to do
Last Line: We are bright, two bulbs nearing the city from a dark roof
Subject(s): Leisure; Walking


LEISURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, and lose not the sweet luring cry
Last Line: And mercy's music be for ever dumb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Leisure; English


LEISURE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I have nothing else to do
Last Line: As lion or as deer.
Subject(s): Leisure


LEISURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this life if, full of care
Last Line: We have no time to stand and stare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Beauty; Leisure; Time


LEISURE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should make no poems any more
Last Line: And half ironic musings of my mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Tired
Subject(s): Leisure


LEISURE; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age
Last Line: The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.
Subject(s): Leisure


SHIRK OR WORK?, by GRACE BORDELON AGATE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is easy to sit in the sunshine
Last Line: Until it has been on his back.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Leisure; Work; Workers


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 69. AUTUMN IDLENESS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This sunlight shames november where he grieves
Last Line: Nor know, for longing, that which I should do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Autumn; Leisure; Seasons; Fall


THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths
Last Line: With tender care and love.
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements