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Subject: SCREENS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOLDING SCREEN, by KIM SUYONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Screen shuts me out from anything
Last Line: On the red seal of its painter, %sixty-seven-year-old master
Subject(s): Screens


HE MADE THIS SCREEN, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not of silver nor of coral
Subject(s): Creation; Screens


HE MADE THIS SCREEN, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not of silver nor of coral
Last Line: Designating here, a bower; %there, a pointed passion-flower
Subject(s): Creation; Screens


ON THE CARVED STONE SCREEN OF WU KUI, THE HAN-LIN ACADEMICIAN, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When dawn's rays enter the woods
Last Line: But unfortunately I have grown very old %and can't keep you company
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Screens


OU-YANG XIU ASKS ME TO WRITE A POEM ON A STONE SCREEN HE OWNS, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who sent you that stone screen
Last Line: Biting back their fury, weep %in secret mansions of the tomb
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Screens


SCREENS (IN A HOSPITAL), by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They put a screen around his bed
Last Line: But - jove! - I'm sorry that he's dead
Subject(s): Patriotism; Screens; Women; World War I


SONG FOR A LANDSCAPE SCREEN, by ZHENG YUNDUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I own a piece of fine eastern silk
Last Line: Long I face this painting with these useless, deep regrets
Subject(s): Li Cheng (919-967); Screens; Yang Qidan (589-618)


TO A SCREEN-MAKER, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not of silver nor of coral
Last Line: Hanging high.
Subject(s): Screens