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Subject: PURPLE (COLOR)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung
Last Line: Between the silence and the wind.
Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean


LULLABY, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purple, / purple. / purple
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Purple (color)


PURPLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purple %the color of a queen, is this
Last Line: A rank for iodine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 776; Poem: 87
Subject(s): Purple (color); Witchcraft And Witches


PURPLE BERRIES, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My bird flew yester morn from its cage
Last Line: That priests would have me fear.
Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Purple (color); Liberty


PURPLE IS FASHIONABLE TWICE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be an emperor
Variant Title(s): Poem: 980; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Purple (color)


TO SPRING; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O ver purpureum!' -- violet-colored spring!
Last Line: Her brightest purple on our lips and noses!
Subject(s): Purple (color); Spring