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Subject: MOSS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTERLIFE; IN MEMORY OF HOWARD MOSS, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of a brown-paper cocoon %let a pale dress be wrestled
Last Line: How distant the dead, just out of reach %the earth turns dustier %than you would remember
Subject(s): Moss, Howard (1922-1987)


BON ESPOIR Y GIST AU FOND!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One shimmering opal is all the air
Last Line: And we are not yet the devil's food!
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Moon; Moss; Secrets; Nightmares


DEAR HM; FOR HOWARD MOSS, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunset. The sea is rowdy tonight
Last Line: To the one long look back
Subject(s): Moss, Howard (1922-1987)


FEATHERS AND MOSS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The marten flew to the finch's nest
Last Line: Say 'good-by'
Subject(s): Birds; Moss


MOSS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O rain-bred moss that now dost hide
Last Line: And warn me of the time that's gone.
Subject(s): Memory; Moss; Nature; Winter


MOSS, by ROBERT B. SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not so much groundcover as groundcover
Subject(s): Moss


MOSS, by NANCY WILLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A green sky underfoot
Last Line: Under the snow
Subject(s): Moss; Nature


MOSS AND FEATHER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Pools but reflect his shape and form
Last Line: And twenty when the moon is up!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Moss


MOSS IN THE HAMPTONS, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought I knew something %about loneliness, but I was wrong
Last Line: I'd never been so far east before
Subject(s): Moss, Howard (1922-1987)


MOSS ON A WALL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim dreams it hath of singing ways
Last Line: And rains are sobbing on the sea.
Subject(s): Moss


MOSS-GATHERING, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To loosen with all ten fingers held wide and limber
Subject(s): Moss


MOSS-GATHERING, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To loosen with all ten fingers held wide and limber
Last Line: As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration
Subject(s): Moss


MOUNTAIN MOSS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It lies amongst the sleeping stones
Last Line: When each, you know, was loved of each.
Subject(s): Moss


SPANISH MOSS, by FRANCES LANCE FERRERO    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wisp and a tangle
Last Line: Or blot this dear picture from southland and me!
Subject(s): Moss; Wellesley College


THE SPRIG OF MOSS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lived in munich a poor, weakly youth
Last Line: And be your only comforter in all your lonely hours.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Explorers; Moss; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Granite; Rocks


TO AVIS KEENE, ON RECEIVING A BASKET OF SEA-MOSSES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks for thy gift
Last Line: Making their lives a prayer!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Moss


TO MY FRIEND AND PATRON, M. K. ESQ., by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And can my simple harp be strung
Last Line: For thee, my father, and my friend?
Subject(s): Friendship; Kent, Moss