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Subject: METAMORPHOSIS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACTION AND THOUGHT; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a world where struggle and stern toil
Last Line: "them that will hear, -- ""despair not! It is I."
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Faith; Metamorphosis; Thought; Belief; Creed; Thinking


APACHE PLUME; 6. ENTELECHY, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Placing long-stemmed sunflowers in a vase
Last Line: Your sharp wild cries.
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


BEFORE COMPLETION, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gaze through a telescope at the orion nebula
Last Line: Persimmons ripening on leafless trees.
Subject(s): Loss; Metamorphosis


BLEEDING ROCK;OR THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A NYMPH INTO STONE, by HANNAH MORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where beauteous belmont rears her modest brow
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


BOOK OF HAROLD: METAMORPHOSIS, by JENNIFER REGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shrugged off by the midland bank and trust
Last Line: Lunged forth and bit the up and coming %teller in his cage
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


CLAYFELD'S METAMORPHOSIS, by ROBERT PACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Despite his nightly cup of chicken soup
Last Line: To strut forth human in the sun
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


GREEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear nature's love color, as man's is red
Last Line: Weaving an endless metamorphosis.
Subject(s): Green (color); Metamorphosis


HUNT AS METAMORPHOSIS, by JOHN MILLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a dance that filters through the leaves
Last Line: And the skinless face sets in a vixen grin %while the beagles whistle through cottesmore and quorn
Subject(s): Hunting; Metamorphosis


INSTANTS OF METAMORPHOSIS, by SIDHVESWAR SEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An instant or other of the time %of metamorphosis
Last Line: Or in dormant array %that receives a language to wake again
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


KAISEKI, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aunt has developed carpal tunnel syndrome
Last Line: Water flows to what is wet.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Metamorphosis; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


KAKFA'S OTHER METAMORPHOSIS, by LEONARD GASPARINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Franz kakfa had a nightmare
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Metamorphosis


METAMORPHOSIS, by LISL AUF DER HEIDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flower planted
Last Line: When it sweetens %your tongue
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


METAMORPHOSIS, by SIMIN BEHBAHANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our metamorphosis was such
Last Line: We best deserve
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


METAMORPHOSIS, by MICHAEL GUTTENBRUNNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You soared westward above the wood
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


METAMORPHOSIS, by JACQUELINE MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fog light dripping in the eucalyptus leaves near morning
Last Line: Poking a stick into flames
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


METAMORPHOSIS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Always it happens when we are not there
Last Line: Listen, lovers of wind, the leaves are here
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


METAMORPHOSIS, by JORGE DE SENA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Next to the thistles, a god lay sleeping
Last Line: Image, memory (merely), aspiration? %from near or far, indistinguishable
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


METAMORPHOSIS, by EDITH SODERGRAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What blessedness in the wind...
Last Line: Will the future not come if I call it?
Subject(s): Metamorphosis


THE STRING DIAMOND, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An apricot blossom opens to five petals
Last Line: Sensing in slow seconds the tilt of the milky way.
Subject(s): Grief; Metamorphosis; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TRANSFIGURER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sweet to hear thy name on friendly tongue
Last Line: For thou art love, and loved, and lover all.
Subject(s): Faith; Love; Metamorphosis; Religion; Transfiguration; Belief; Creed; Theology


THERE'S LIFE IN A MUSSEL; A MEDITATION, by GEORGE FAREWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come here, thou proud pretender unto arts
Last Line: T'imbibe the quintessence of flowing sweets.
Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Metamorphosis


UPON THE KING'S CORONATION (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange metamorphosis! It was but now
Last Line: All melancholy clowds vanisht away.
Subject(s): Metamorphosis