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Subject: SMELLS Matches Found: 87 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BLURRY PHOTOGRAPH, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree azalea overwhelms the evening with its scent Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Time; Smells; Memory; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances A BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it was not my home Last Line: The window smelled just the same Subject(s): Plums; Smells; Plum Trees; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances A HOUSEHOLD HINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she practices, my jealous wife" Last Line: Done up in naphtha-balls Subject(s): Marriage;smells; Weddings;husbands;wives;odors;aromas;fragrances AFTER A FEW WHIFFS OF ANOTHER WORLD, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances AFTERMATH, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: Withered petals in the gloom Last Line: Is the aftermath. Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances ALIEN, by DONALD JEFFREY HAYES Poem Source First Line: Do not stifle me with the strange scent Subject(s): Smells AMORETTI: 64, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming to kiss her lips (such grace I found) Last Line: But her sweet odour did them all excell. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The Garden Of Beauty Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances ANOTHER ON HER (JULIA), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I choose but love and follow her Last Line: The storax, spiknard, myrrhe, and ladanum. Subject(s): Love; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances AROMATHERAPY, by LIANNE SPIDEL Poem Source First Line: The crafty shop, claustrophobic Last Line: And cheap chocolate, mothballs, %oilcloth and old dutch Subject(s): Smells AUTUMNAL, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: I can only tell you Last Line: Only the smoke wasn't like a scarf. It was only like smoke which smelled bad Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Smells BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it was not my home Last Line: The window smelled just the same Subject(s): Plums; Smells BURNING THE ORANGE PEELS, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: Whenever it became too rank Last Line: Like an abandoned wing Subject(s): Oranges; Smells CHERRY TREES A-BLOOM, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the spring's elysian Last Line: Of the cherry trees a-bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit; Smells; Spring; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances COLOGNE; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In koln, a town of monks and bones Last Line: Shall henceforth wash the river rhine? Variant Title(s): Epigram;expectoration The Second Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances DYSLEXIA, by D. RODMAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Downwind, the smell of honey and pumpkin Last Line: Hating honey and pumpkins and the ghost of his harvest Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Honey; Pumpkins; Smells EPIGRAM, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: A perfume of colors invaded margot Last Line: On her fresh clothes Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Perfume; Smells EPITAPH OF A STINKING POET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stinks a poet, I confess Last Line: Yet wanting breath stinks so much less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FISH OIL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One midnight, I got home from work Last Line: From the dream of judgment Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Smells FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain / mesquite Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire! Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FOUNDATIONS: I. WEATHER REPORT, by NICK BARRETT Poem Source First Line: I loved it when we abondoned what we knew Last Line: Night, always, less of the world rearranged than we hoped Subject(s): Night; Smells; Weather FRAGRANCE, by MAGDELEN EDEN BOYLE Poem Text First Line: Fragrance of heliotrope is she Last Line: Where she dwells. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FRAGRANCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The woodsman loves the smell of pines Last Line: From the gardens of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FRAGRANCE FROM SOMEWHERE UNSEEN, by JIANG KUI Poem Source First Line: The moon's hue of days gobe by Last Line: Never again to be seen Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Plums; Smells FRAGRANT HANDS, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange arrangement to comfort the heart Last Line: Except love, but only when it begins Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Flowers; Hafez (1326-1390); Prisons & Prisoners; Smells; Hafiz (1326-139); Convicts; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FRAGRANT HANDS, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange arrangement to comfort the heart Last Line: Nothing in this world is without terrible barriers- %except love, but only when it begins.' Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Flowers; Hafez (1326-1390); Prisons And Prisoners; Smells FULFILLED, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: I am wed, but not to flesh Last Line: Future and present and grinning past. Subject(s): Flies; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fishy smell Last Line: In the water weeds Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Smells HIS SMELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of my father's life Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Smells; Dead, The; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances HIS SMELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of my father's life Last Line: Smelling him, breathing him in %as you would breathe the air deeply before going into exile Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Smells HOUSE IN WINTER, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: Winter sweetens my house with its fragrance Last Line: Treasure your moment in this winter-gentled house! Subject(s): Houses; Smells; Winter I GAVE A SWEET SMELL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saints are like roses when they flush rarest Last Line: To-morrow blots out sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances INCENSE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: These long green sticks I shall burn Last Line: My soul may catch and hold the fragrance. Subject(s): Incense-trees; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances INFINITUDE, by HATTIE MEYERS Poem Text First Line: The fragrance of a baby's breath Last Line: In life's colander. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances JACK AND ROGER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poem Text First Line: Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say Last Line: And with the self-same weapon, too! Variant Title(s): Impromptu Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances LAVENDER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just for experiment I am burning the lavender Subject(s): Fire; Lavender; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances LAVENDER, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just for experiment I am burning the lavender Last Line: And the box full of silk, I was such an enemy Subject(s): Fire; Lavender; Smells LOSS AND RESTORATION OF SMELL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dull to the year's first odours, I rebelled Last Line: Fresh triumphs for it, when the spring comes in. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances LOVE PERFUMES ALL PARTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I kisse anthea's brest Last Line: When she lyes with jove, then she. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances OLD SCENTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nosegay matilda twined for me Last Line: I weep at the thought with speechless sadness. Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances OLFACTORY UTILITY, by ERIKA MIKKALO Poem Source First Line: But suicides have a special language Last Line: Sniff the undersides of their wings Subject(s): Breath; Poetry And Poets; Smells ON A GENTLEMAN WHOSE MISTRESS HAD AN ILL BREATH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers 'tis said are blind Last Line: Nor egypt-like, adore a nauseous leek. Subject(s): Halitosis; Love; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances ON SIR COD THE PERFUMED, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That cod can get no widow, yet a knight Last Line: I scent the cause: he woos with an ill sprite. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances PAINTING ORCHIDS, by XUE SUSU Poem Source First Line: In the empty valley a lady of surpassing beauty Last Line: Its secluded fragrance rare, but unoticed Subject(s): Smells PAVILION FOR LISTENING TO FRAGRANCE, by CHANG YU+(2) Poem Source First Line: Brilliant, bright - the flowers of the cold season! Last Line: No smelling, and also no hearing at all - %back to the mystery of the primal one Subject(s): Smells POEM FOR INTEGRATION, by ALVIN SAXON Poem Source First Line: Voltaries know Last Line: The rose soft belly %beyond the flicker of %a puffed-out candle Subject(s): Smells PRESERVING-TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All over the land there's a savory smell Last Line: "of marmalade, jelly, and jam" Subject(s): Children;fruit;smells;summer; Childhood;odors;aromas;fragrances PRODIGAL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brown enormous odor he lived by Last Line: But it took him a long time %finally to make his mind up to go home Variant Title(s): The Prodigal: The Brown Enormous Odor He Lived B Subject(s): Prodigal Son; Smells PUNGENT EVENING, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Source First Line: In the air that staggers between seashells Last Line: And the burning smell of grilled crabs, %and this wet shirt Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Night; Sea; Smells RELICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This flower that smells of honey and the sea Last Line: Who knows but I what memories too take flight? Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Smells; Nightmares; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SCENT AND JEWELS, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, why blend these dying sweets Last Line: For ever wear the light of its own stainless snow Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers; Smells SCENT OF IRISES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A faint, sickening scent of irises Last Line: Forget each other and the bruise of our bodies' clash.] Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Iris (flower); Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SCENTS, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet white clover Last Line: Bowed by rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SENSE OF SMELL, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smells - how many Last Line: How many delights? %how many adieus? Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Smells SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA PRAISES THE SENSE OF SMELL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lion and lamb, lion's den Last Line: Our bouquet of every day Subject(s): Smells SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO 8TH GRADE: SMELL CONSIDERED ... LOVE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a lesson in higher math Last Line: After heat, the race, the chase, go on Subject(s): Love; Smells SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA'S BRIEF HISTORY OF SMELL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers and morticians know the mortal sense Last Line: The humanity, the savior's flesh was heavenly Subject(s): Smells SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA, ON HEARING THAT KANT DISREGARDED ... SMELL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well that's fine for him, but how Last Line: Angels wafting over earth to trumpet %the sweet meaty beastliness of us Subject(s): Smells SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE LECTURES ANATOMY CLASS: DOCTRINES OF THE NOSE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upright now, we're two feet to high to smell Last Line: We can't help but read its scents on every wind Subject(s): Smells SKUNK CABBAGE, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: The skunk cabbage with its smug and opulent smell Last Line: For the foul magenta of its gorgeous heart Subject(s): Skunk Cabbage; Smells SMELL OF MOON TIGER, BURNING, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Daughter, it is as you wrote: nothing electrical Last Line: I slept, contained, safe from falling lizards Subject(s): Smells SMELL ON THE LANDING, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the decay begins, the sun Last Line: To the dead life on our stairs once %more ourselves in ourselves alone Subject(s): Smells SMELLS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it that the poets tell Last Line: A ship smells best of all to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SMELLS, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Source First Line: Through all the frozen winter Last Line: Of grass the whole world over Subject(s): Seasons; Smells SMELLS (JUNIOR), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy smells like tobacco and books Last Line: She smells exactly like hot buttered toast! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SNIFF, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When school is out, we love to follow Last Line: And poke our noses into flowers! Subject(s): Play; Schools; Smells SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are scented with woods after rain Last Line: And the raindrop shed from the daisy's eye. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but sweet music wakes Last Line: My own beloved! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONNET: EARTH ODORS - AFTER RAIN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life-yielding fragrance of our mother earth! Last Line: What balm shall fall from yonder ominous cloud! Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SWEET FERN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The subtle power in perfume found Last Line: Ablaze on lonely hills. Subject(s): Ferns; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SWEET NOSEGAY: SMELLS, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now I have a nosegay got Last Line: By smelling to the same Subject(s): Smells THE FRANKINCENSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my off'ring next I make Last Line: Love may smell the frankincense. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE LADY'S DRESSING ROOM, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) Last Line: Such gaudy tulips rais'd from dung. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE ODOUR, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hands are jewels to the eye Last Line: If I the use of each don't apprehend. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 84, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White whisk and sandalwood handle Last Line: It's used to direct lost men Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Perfume; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE PRESCIENCE OF THE ROSE, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out imprisoning petals - velvet red Last Line: Be all unfolded and revealed to me? Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE PRODIGAL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brown enormous odor he lived by Variant Title(s): The Prodigal: The Brown Enormous Odor He Lived By Subject(s): Prodigal Son; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE SYLPH, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen not nor known Last Line: Between two gowns! Subject(s): Genius; Life; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE WHITE ROSE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose of the desert! Thou art to me Last Line: Of glory, like the pure white rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Leaves; Roses; Smells; Thorns; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances TO THE MOST FAIR AND LOVELY MISTRIS, ANNE SOAME, LADY ABDIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So smell those odours that do rise Last Line: More lik'd by her, or lov'd by mee. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances TO THE SAME SIR COD, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The expense in odours is a most vain sin Last Line: Except thou could'st, sir cod, wear them within. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances TOBACCO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing in the world like it; you can tell aristotle.' Last Line: At how much it costs, think too what fun it is Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Lungs; Smells; Smoking; Substance Abuse TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son smells of peace when I lean over him Last Line: We suddenly realize as we grow the smell of peace vanishes out fo our lives Subject(s): Peace; Smells; Sons UNTITLED, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Pine flower's blooming,' says Last Line: Can you imagine %this scent? Subject(s): Pine Trees; Smells; Trees UPON JULIA'S UNLACING HER SELF, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, if thou canst, (and truly) whence doth come Last Line: A scent, that fills both heaven and earth with it. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances WANDERER'S BOUQUET, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Once one year, and I don't know when Last Line: Where the hand of a new wanderer extends the bouquet, %is the child coming to receive it? Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Wanderers And Wandering WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sight; Touch (sense); Taste (sense); Hearing; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances WHEN THE STAGE GITS IN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pap'll git a letter, 'nd uncle zed a book Last Line: Ill be here when the stage gits in. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Pancakes; Postal Service; Smells; Stagecoaches; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances |
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