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Subject: ORIOLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you
Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


BALTIMORE ORIOLE, by SARA V. PRUESER    Poem Text                    
First Line: An oriole made / his flaming flight
Last Line: In the dusky pine.
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Orioles; Wings


ORIOLE AND POET, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little bird of the bruised wing
Last Line: Thy sorrow shall teach me how to sing.
Subject(s): Orioles


ORIOLE SONG, by MARION PELTON GUILD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The orioles are tilting
Last Line: With magic of the may!
Subject(s): Orioles; Wellesley College


SIR ORIOLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a merry world
Last Line: Happy sir oriole!
Subject(s): Orioles


THE ORIOLE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun on the oriole's flashing breast
Last Line: Sing on, by the rosy apple-flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Birds; Orioles


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 289, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An oriole on a flowering branch
Last Line: And tears fall in the wind of spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Orioles


TO AN ORIOLE, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: How falls it, oriole, thou hast come to fly
Last Line: Desire unspeakably to be a bird?
Subject(s): Orioles


TO HEAR AN ORIOLE SING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "no sir! In thee!"
Subject(s): Orioles; Songs


ZENITH: WALKER CREEK 3. MAKING MUCH OF ORIOLES, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teetering high in the feathers of an elm
Last Line: I've tossed the branch behind a lilac bush
Subject(s): Orioles