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Subject: LOTUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LOTUS BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was the dream thou wovest me
Last Line: Mine or thine, returning, seem?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Lotus; Lotos


IF I BECAME A STONE, by SUH JUNG-JU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Lotus, %stone
Subject(s): Lotus


LOTUS, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Steps in the tomb, uneager visitors
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Lotus


LOTUS, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lotus flowers blossomed, and the river was drenched in red.
Last Line: Why, then, didn't people look at the lotus
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Beauty; Lotus


LOTUS, by RYOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: First blooming in the western paradise
Last Line: But I remain in the darkness, too captivated to leave
Subject(s): Lotus; Zen Buddhism


LOTUS LEAVES, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no peace beneath the noon
Last Line: By sailing on the barren sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Fathers; Lotus; Lotos


LOTUS-PICKING GIRL, by YANG WENLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On ruoye creek a girl picking lotus
Last Line: Her song carries under the painted bridge
Subject(s): Lotus


LOTUS-PICKING SONG, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the side, of ruo-ye creek
Last Line: Catching sight of this, someone falters, %a heart breaking for naught
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Courtship; Lotus


LOTUS-PICKING SONG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaves of water chestnuts curl in waves
Last Line: And her hair-pick of dark green jade %falls right into the water
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Girls; Lotus


LYRICS FOR THE GIRLS OF YUE, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A young wu girl from chang-an
Last Line: Fresh make-up bobs in fresh waves, %two scenes of brightness, both marvels
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Girls; Lotus


MOUNTAIN LOTUS, by ISABEL NEILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been drugged by cool white mountain peaks
Last Line: On soft blue waters of infinity.
Subject(s): Lotus; Lotos


ON A JAPANESE NO DANCE, by ALICE ROGERS HAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the spent pipes moan, slow, slow
Last Line: Brocaded beauty shall avail nothing!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Japan; Lotus; Japanese; Lotos


ONE AFTERNOON OF LOTUS PAINTING, by XI MURONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In that july afternoon
Last Line: In that july afternoon, %if you didn't look back
Subject(s): Afternoon; July; Lotus; Paintings And Painters


SONG OF THE LOTUS PICKING, by HO NANSOLHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At south lake the girl picks up lotuses
Last Line: Eager to see the mandarin ducks fly
Subject(s): Lotus


THE LOTOS AND THE LILY: THE LOTOS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drooping in the sunlit streams
Last Line: Glowing in the night-god's arms.
Subject(s): Lotus; Lotos


THE LOTOS FLOWER, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lotos flower trembles
Last Line: In love and the woe of love.
Subject(s): Lotus; Lotos


THE LOTOS-EATERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land
Last Line: O rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Lotus-eaters
Subject(s): Lotus; Mythology - Classical; Rest; Ulysses; Lotos; Odysseus


THE LOTUS, by WILEY E. HOSIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the slime and ooze and mud
Last Line: "something sings."
Subject(s): Lotus; Lotos


THE LOTUS OF THE NILE, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud, languid lily of the sacred nile
Last Line: Then carved its sphinx and reared its pyramid.
Variant Title(s): The Egyptian Lotus
Subject(s): Lotus; Lotos


THE LOTUS POND, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I came at sunset to the lotus pond
Last Line: And shall gather the roots of the lotus buds close about my heart.
Subject(s): Courtship; Lotus; Love; Lotos


THE NILE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a single cloud bedims the sky
Last Line: The nile of ages ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Crocodiles; Egypt; Lotus; Nile (river); Sphinx; Lotos


THE WEDDING OF THE ROSE AND THE LOTOS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wide pacific waters
Last Line: To wed the red red rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Flowers; Lotus; Roses; Lotos


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': MAGNOLIA DELL, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the tips of trees are lotus blossoms
Last Line: In tangled masses they blossom and fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lotus