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Subject: SEQUOIA TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RESTING-PLACE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sea of shade; with hollow heights above
Last Line: Tired earth may taste heaven's honey-dew of rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Rest


AMONG THE REDWOODS, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell to such a world! Too long I press
Last Line: Along the sea of space to grander things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Trees; Redwoods


BEHIND THE REDWOOD CURTAIN, by NATASHA WING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Redwood trees rise like skyscrapers
Last Line: Behind the redwood curtain
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees


FOR ALICE WALKER (A SUMMERTIME TANKA), by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Redwood grove and war
Last Line: "you say, ""these sweet trees: this tree"
Subject(s): Walker, Alice (b. 1944); Congo (republic); Sequoia Trees; Belgian Congo; Redwoods


GIANT TREE, by LUCILE LE CLERCQ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Giant tree within the wood
Last Line: Giant tree within the wood.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


KIND, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't understand it
Last Line: And with a flower
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees


LENIN'S SEQUOIA, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In car-infested california
Last Line: There's no sequoia? %yes, there is!
Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei
Subject(s): California; Sequoia Trees


LIGHTS AMONG REDWOOD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the streams here, ledge to ledge
Last Line: At their rosy immanence
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Travel


MEMORIES, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You remember, big tree, the year of the hurricane
Last Line: Who is dead.)
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


REDWOODS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains are moving, rivers are hurrying
Last Line: Turning in our heads the stars and clouds, %considering whom to please
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees


REDWOODS, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not all the piles of rome and greece
Last Line: And point the ancient stars.
Subject(s): History; Sequoia Trees; Historians; Redwoods


REDWOODS AT REDWAY, by DAISIE E. B. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: At redway, lies a massive, fallen tree
Last Line: Until eternity . . . And never die.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


SEQUOIA, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the middle of the ancient woods
Last Line: Debating silence, and losing again
Subject(s): Nature; Sequoia Trees


SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A california song
Last Line: To build a grander future.
Subject(s): California; Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


THE REDWOOD, by GRACE COOMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In majesty the mighty redwood stands
Last Line: Ever reaching up to heaven and to god.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


THE REDWOODS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains are moving, rivers are hurrying
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


THE SUMMIT REDWOOD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only stand high a long enough time your lightning
Last Line: Star, secret against the supreme sky
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


THUMBPRINT, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost reluctant, we approach the block
Last Line: Can all our aspirations and our dreams %leave but filamentous line or two?
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sequoia Trees; Time


TO A REDWOOD TREE, by PHILIP H. DODGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out the stronghold of the earth to rise
Last Line: Nor man regard thy majesty the less.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


TWO SLICES OF SEQUOIA, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without rooted fingers to clutch
Last Line: With, and as thick as trust
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


TWO-GALLON REDWOOD, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pat bought a young redwood
Last Line: Back yard know its fate
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees