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Subject: RAINBOWS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RAINBOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A rainbow is god's pledge of peace
Last Line: Or clinging to a rose.
Subject(s): Colors; Earth; Rain; Rainbows; World


A RAINBOW FOUNDATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a spider built a cobweb on a rainbow bright and gay
Last Line: "with foundations not so showy, but more firm and permanent!"
Subject(s): Insects; Rainbows; Spiders; Bugs


ABOVE MONTEFIRIDOLFI, by LYNNE LAWNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clouds hang their fingers over the land and let the threat drop
Last Line: Towards rainbows that will, when they want to, appear before us
Subject(s): Rain; Rainbows


ANALYSIS, by GEORGE ELLISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A high clear chord will tear my heart
Last Line: That I remember all my days.
Subject(s): Love; Moon; Rainbows


BERWICKSHIRE RAINBOW RHYME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rainbow, rainbow, haud awa' hame
Last Line: Your bairn lies greeting like to die, %and the big teardrop's in his e'e
Subject(s): Rainbows


BUBBLES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves
Subject(s): Bubbles; Rainbows


CANTILENA MUNDI, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the rainbows rise through sunset rains
Last Line: "to-morrow all the world is not."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Presence; Rainbows; Voices; Separation; Isolation; World


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 51. 'RAINBOW', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a rainbow in the east
Last Line: She defied what was bidden
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rainbows


DO SOMETHING, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the world seems cool to you
Last Line: Blends with hope's bright river.
Variant Title(s): Three Old Saws
Subject(s): Life; Rainbows


GREEK SPRING; MARCH, ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rainbows, rainbows! O fantastic vision
Last Line: Or is it the snows again?
Subject(s): Greece; Hope; Rainbows; Spring; Winter; Greeks; Optimism


HE HAD A GOOD YEAR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While he was going blind. Autumnal light
Last Line: He said, “he would see things this way.”
Subject(s): Autumn; Blindness; God; Rainbows; Seasons; Fall; Visually Handicapped


HILL WALKER, by IDRIS CAFFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A girl picks purple heather
Last Line: Words to fall away, hardly spoken
Subject(s): Girls; Rainbows; Walking


HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn
Last Line: That call across the world to me.
Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War


I WEAR BRIGHT COLOURS, by ELMA MITCHELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But I'm fading away, fading away
Subject(s): Rainbows; Riddles


LOVE'S MIST, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rainbows shine when clouds have parted, but their bril-
Last Line: Which had best been left enveloped in the mists of love's delight.
Subject(s): Love; Mist; Rainbows


NORDIC, by JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rainbows and stardust found no room
Last Line: "has cradled you as well as me."
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rainbows; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A RAINBOW AT NIGHT, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bow that spans the storm is beautiful
Last Line: Even man feels that the night is made for god.
Subject(s): Night; Rainbows; Bedtime


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen?
Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime


PROMISE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a rainbow in the sky
Last Line: It is the autograph of god
Subject(s): Rain;rainbows


QUIET, by HELEN AMANDA CORLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you know where the rainbow ends?
Last Line: And there I found the pot of gold.
Subject(s): Rainbows; Silence


RAINBOW, by JEAN MUTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like dew on the blossoms
Last Line: And the rainbow, I kissed.
Subject(s): Mist; Rainbows; Tears


RAINBOW (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stood twice ten thousand warriors on green grass
Last Line: And, sleeping, smiled again that night - his head upon %his pillow
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Rainbows


RAINBOW GOLD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is a rainbow where all colors blend
Last Line: Will you behold the fabled pot of gold!
Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Rainbows; Paradise


RAINBOW NEVER TELLS ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Except the birds were here!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 76; Poem: 9
Subject(s): Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Rainbows


RAINBOW-SHIMMER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day upon the hillside
Last Line: It's deep in mother's heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Hearts; Rainbows; Soul


RAINBOWS, by M. ANNETTE PAPAYANAKOS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tear-drops laved a ripple-sound
Last Line: From the dusk of a shower.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rainbows; Sky


RAINBOWS, by JESPER SVENBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once the memory of the spring flood had receded
Last Line: Here at the tree line, among the increasingly whiter %silver branches
Subject(s): Rainbows


SONNET: 7. TO THE EVENING RAINBOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mild arch of promise! On the evening sky
Last Line: Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease.
Subject(s): Hope; Rainbows; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism


SONNET: THE DOUBLE RAINBOW, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the passions and desires of man
Last Line: Soft with remembered grief and happiness.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Rainbows; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE GREAT ADVENTURE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We saw the arc of the rainbow stand up o'er the garden wall
Last Line: Back to the things that pay!
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE HALF-RAINBOW, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The groups of autumn flowers were all ablaze
Last Line: Like heaven's half-bow, a true tho' broken sign.
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Rainbows are lovely things
Last Line: Would come again, and again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft falls the mild reviving shower
Last Line: The rainbow in the cloud!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! The surety
Last Line: And minds the covenant 'twixt all and one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, how the rainbow doth appeare
Last Line: That nothing shoots, but war and woe.
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See on one hand / he drops his bright roots in the water'd sward
Last Line: Mask'd with such violet disallow their green?
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fairies built a bridge
Last Line: From here to far-away.
Subject(s): April; Rain; Rainbows; Spring


THE RAINBOW, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a rainbow that appears
Last Line: If love's clear rainbow did not gleam!
Subject(s): Life; Love; Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What fruit of all thy blossom shed
Last Line: "to heights of poesy."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still young and fine! But what is still in view
Last Line: Thou dost but court cold rain, till rain turns fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the lovely arch
Last Line: And the bow was gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hung on the shower that fronts the golden west
Last Line: Caught from the leaden rack and shining rain!
Subject(s): Rainbows


THE RAINBOW (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father of all! Thou dost not hide thy bond
Last Line: My word, once given, shall never pass away.'
Subject(s): Rainbows; Trust


THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart leaps up when I behold
Last Line: Bound each to each by natural piety.
Variant Title(s): "my Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"";my Heart Leaps Up;
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nature; Rainbows; Religion; Work; Workers; Theology


THE RAINBOW: OR CURIOUS COVENANT, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine eyes, like clouds, were drizling raine
Last Line: No more wo'd drown mine eyes, or me.
Subject(s): Bible; Rainbows; Religion; Theology


TIE-DOWN OF A BONSAI, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A ladder propped against a rainbow
Subject(s): Bonsai; Language; Music & Musicians; Rainbows; Words; Vocabulary


TO THE RAINBOW, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
Last Line: That first spoke peace to man.
Subject(s): Rainbows


UNFULFILLED, by EDITH WYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rainbow's arch against the sky
Last Line: I wish my rainbow could be round!
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Rainbows; Optimism


WE SHALL BE SATISFIED, by SUSAN KELLY PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The course of the weariest river
Last Line: "we shall be ""satisfied."
Subject(s): Rain; Rainbows; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


WE SHALL FIND THE CUBE OF THE RAINBOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eludes the finding out
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1484; Poem: 151
Subject(s): Rainbows