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Subject: SCARECROWS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GRANNY'S SCARECROW, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tears flowed at the chapel funeral
Last Line: "with the farm sold, none found a cross to fit their clothes when /
Subject(s): Scarecrows


LEDA AND THE SCARECROW, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come as a friend, tyndareus, come in the firelight
Last Line: And crumbling arms beseech the gusty air.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scarecrows


LOCUSTS, ETC., by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The metal birds that agitate
Subject(s): Scarecrows


LONELY SCARECROW, by JAMES KIRKUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: My poor old bones - I've only two
Last Line: Why do you always fly away?
Subject(s): Scarecrows


MR. SCARECROW, by SHEILA BRAINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a ragged old man
Subject(s): Scarecrows


MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot
Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability.
Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces


RAINY NIGHTS, by IRENE THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like the town on rainy nights
Subject(s): Scarecrows


SCARECROW, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rags and tags of what he was
Last Line: To drive the hungry thoughts away?
Subject(s): Scarecrows


SCARECROW, by MICHAEL FRANKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A scarecrow stood in a field one day
Subject(s): Scarecrows


SCARECROW, by MABEL WARD RUDD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like the way you stand at ease
Last Line: Success to almost anything.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Scarecrows


SCARECROW, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, when I picture him, I realize his secret
Subject(s): Scarecrows


SCARECROW, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, when I picture him, I realize his secret
Last Line: In our absence, find some part of ourselves %that does not grow
Subject(s): Scarecrows


SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He strides across the grassy corn
Last Line: Is spring not hard enough to bear %for one at autumn of his year?
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows


SCARECROW IN CAPRI, by KARL WAWRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stands under the white sun
Subject(s): Scarecrows


SLOWLY, by JAMES REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly the tide creeps up the sand
Last Line: The green moss spreads on the old brick wall
Subject(s): Scarecrows


THE SCARECROW, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All winter through I bow my head
Last Line: For harvest once again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Scarecrows


THE SCARECROW, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under her tilted hat of tuscan rushes
Last Line: And evening finds the bushes all stript bare.
Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Food & Eating; Scarecrows


THE SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)                        Poet's Biography
First Line: He strides across the grassy corn
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


TO A SCARECROW, OR MALKIN, LEFT LONG AFTER HARVEST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor malkin, why hast thou been left behind?
Last Line: Stands, in the autumn of his life, alone.
Subject(s): Scarecrows