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Subject: REEDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LESSER ODE, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little reed has been enough
Last Line: Have made the very forest sing.
Subject(s): Forests; Love; Reeds; Singing & Singers; Woods


A REED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am no trumpet, but a reed
Last Line: Then let them leave me in the sedge.
Subject(s): Reeds


NEVER TOO LATE: ISABEL'S SONNET, THAT SHE MADE IN PRISON, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No storm so sharp to rent the little reed
Last Line: And god makes open what the world doth blind.
Subject(s): Lies; Prisons & Prisoners; Reeds; Truth; Convicts


ODELETTE (1), by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little reed is all I need
Last Line: To make the forest sing.
Subject(s): Reeds


ON A REED, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a reed of oaten straw
Last Line: And throw your wicked halves away!
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Reeds


ON THE LIGHT REEDS, by GEORGE O'NEIL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot find the truth that men have told
Last Line: Dispelled ... When I have sought to give it words.
Subject(s): Reeds


PASTORALE AFTER MENDELSSOHN, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pipe, mellow reed, once more the ancient plaint
Last Line: O cruel night, take pity, 'tis for love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Reeds


SMALL SONG, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The reeds give
Last Line: The wind away
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Reeds; Wind


THE FIND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I took a reed and blew a tune
Last Line: Upon a fairy mound.
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fairies; Mythology - Irish; Reeds; Elves


THE REED, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the song of the reed
Last Line: And all the world shall hearken to his singing!
Subject(s): Flutes; Musical Instruments; Nature; Reeds


THE REED, by HENRY BERNARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the memnonian shadows of memphis, it rose from the slime
Last Line: Like vessels of clay.
Subject(s): Reeds; Jesus Christ


THE REED-PLAYER, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By a dim shore where water darkening
Last Line: And there was solitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Reeds


THINKING REED, by PHILLIP FOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You observe the drainage of air, enflamed harvest
Last Line: At winter solstice, a blue heron wades through the reflected sky: %cloud wisps; no memory
Subject(s): Nature; Reeds; Thought