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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WEEDS Matches Found: 95 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A JANUARY DANDELION, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All nashville, is a chill. And everywhere Last Line: To all that blooming life that might have been. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds A WEED, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall a little weed grow? Last Line: In death find god? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Weeds A WEED GREEN, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Goes after life Subject(s): Weeds ASOLANDO: INAPPREHENSIVENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We two stood simply friend-like side by side Last Line: "I said, ""vernon lee." Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Lee, Vernon (violet Paget) (1856-1935); Weeds; Perception AUGUST 20-21, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the age of loosestrife Subject(s): August; Weeds AUGUST 20-21, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the age of loosestrife Last Line: He loves the wetness, he hates the violent sneezing Subject(s): August; Weeds BALD HEAD WITH THE FRINGE, by JANE BEESON Poem Source Last Line: Domed candles under a cathedral sky Subject(s): Clocks; Dandelions; Flowers; Riddles; Time; Weeds BINDWEED, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intelligence does help, sometimes Last Line: Whose intelligence mirrors ours, twist for twist Subject(s): Weeds BINDWEED, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intelligence does help, sometimes Last Line: Whose intelligence mirrors ours, twist for twist Subject(s): Weeds BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most farms, in any place you please Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers BURNING THE RAIN FOREST, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I watched webster hold an ax blade to a gray Last Line: And child, I can see the smoke from illinois Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Memory; Rain Forests BUTTONS, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Hold fast, golden buttons Last Line: In a lunatic path of laughter and singing. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors CHARADE: 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enter my first with a studied grace Last Line: Not quite rightly spelt, but comparison rare. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds CRABGRASS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Poison or blowtorch %it-only a trace root Last Line: Partner, she says-let me catch my breath Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Weeds DANDELION, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: He is a roguish little elf Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Weeds DANDELION, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little soldier with the golden helmet Last Line: There is only the grass to fight! Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION, by NELLIE M. GARABRANT Poem Source First Line: There's a dandy little fellow Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dandelion, fuzzy-top, must I stop my play? Last Line: I've really got to know at once if mother's wanting me. Subject(s): Children; Dandelions; Flowers; Play; Weeds; Childhood DANDELION, by EMMET PENDLETON Poem Text First Line: The dandelion has gone to seed Last Line: Her daintiness to hold her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION, by KATHARINE PYLE Poem Source First Line: I found a little old elfin man Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION'S PALLID TUBE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That sepulture is o'er Variant Title(s): Poem: 1519; Poem: 156 Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by JOHN ALBEE Poem Text First Line: Now dandelions in the short, new grass Last Line: A spirit form, till on the sight it dies. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: One year the dandelions decided to play a game Last Line: Like the sea supplying food although it is killed over and over Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the climbing meadows Last Line: On earth's green, windy coat. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions Last Line: Their birth, and shrivel at the slightest breath, and perish from the earth. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Lilacs; Weeds DANDELIONS, by LUELLA DOWD SMITH Poem Text First Line: The stars that fell from heaven last night Last Line: A promise golden and divine. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: The golden dandelion stars Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her on the yellow rise Last Line: Though I look every day. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Vision; Weeds DANDY DANDELION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dandy dandelion wakes Last Line: His bright and shining crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds FANTASY ON THE WEEDS, by HONG YUNSUK Poem Source First Line: The weeds grown on the hill Last Line: Tunkling its bells %around the hill Subject(s): Weeds FIREWEED, by ELNA L. VON PINGEL Poem Text First Line: The woodsman and his ax have conquered Last Line: On slopes where once great forests trod. Alternate Author Name(s): Rasmussen, Elna Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Trees FRENCH PARK, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: Ashes hover above the neat park Last Line: And the swans begin their dance shyly Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Forests; Parks; Smoke; Trees FROM A PRAIRIE, by BEATRICE BRISSMAN Poem Text First Line: I like to watch Last Line: A conqueror of space. Subject(s): Tumble-weeds GEORGICS: WEEDS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still to the full-grown plant is added care Last Line: With sharpen'd hook, by vows invoke the shower Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Weeds GOD'S GOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: God placed a gold mint in the sky Last Line: All ye with eyes! Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; May (month); Weeds GOLD HUNTING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The miser hurries through the town Last Line: Gather some before you're old! Subject(s): April; Dandelions; Flowers; Gold; Harvest; Weeds JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road Last Line: "and blur the dream!" Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips JUST THE WIND FOR A SOUND, SOFTLY, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a weed whose name I've meant all summer Last Line: Like your own body to you. And now I can't forget Subject(s): Weeds; Memory; Love LATE DANDELIONS, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: The dandelions, wrecked on their stems Last Line: And a scarab aloft on the stem revelation had hallowed Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds LINES TO A MILKWEED, by GALDYS HIGBEE POLINSKE Poem Text First Line: Ah, lovely weed, and yet it seems a shame Last Line: Because it's passed. Subject(s): Landscape; Seeds; Weeds LITTLE DANDELION, by HELEN LOUISE BARRON BOSTWICK Poem Source First Line: Gay little dandelion Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds LITTLE DANDELION, by LULA LOWE WEEDEN Poem Source First Line: The dandelion stares %in the yellow sunlight Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds LONG LIVE THE WEEDS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long live the weeds that overwhelm Subject(s): Weeds MISTAKE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: The mistake was light and easy in my hand Last Line: And in the yard such dandelions grew %that bloomed and closed and opened up and blew Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds NORTH HILLOCK, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: On north hillock of south mountain Last Line: Bright like fire against the green grove Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Hiking; Zen Buddhism PORTRAIT: TUMBLE-WEEDS, by ANNIE LAURIE SNORF Poem Text First Line: Like fat little kewpies Last Line: Your eyes and sleep. Subject(s): Tumble-weeds PRAIRIE VAGABOND, by JANE SLOAN Poem Text First Line: Tumble-weed, / now gone to seed Last Line: With picket-fence for tether. Subject(s): Tumble-weeds PREFACE, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sonja henie,' the young girl Last Line: Darnel, ragweed, wortle Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Failure; Poetry & Poets; Weeds SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology SELF-PORTRAIT, by CECIL BODKER Poem Source First Line: Weeds grow shamelessly Last Line: Like ahses on the top of my head, %--or perhaps %like gunpowerder Subject(s): Weeds SMOKE, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Like cigarette smoke Last Line: Away. Subject(s): Smoking; Weeds; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TALL AMBROSIA, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the signs of autumn I perceive Last Line: For what old crime of theirs I do not gather Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weeds; Fall THE DANDELION, by MARTHA E. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: She's just a little wayward minx Last Line: And leave her in disgrace. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dandelion, rich and haughty Last Line: More golden than before. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose Last Line: The dandelion! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind THE DANDELION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With locks of gold today Last Line: O man, thy fortune told! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Studding the grass with golden sheen Last Line: Loved by its well-loved light. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o dandelion, yellow as gold" Last Line: And blow my hair away Variant Title(s): "dandelion, What Do You Do?; Subject(s): Dandelions;flowers;weeds THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE FIRST DANDELION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close Last Line: The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE SPARK FROM THE ENGINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The wood by the side of the railway is burned Last Line: And to the son I shall not see. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fire-weeds THE WAYSIDE WEEDS, by ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE Poem Text First Line: A dreamy day with opalescent sky Last Line: And kinship of all floral things assert. Subject(s): Fields; Weeds; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE WEEDS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn, beside the red house Last Line: In the dusk of late summer. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers & Sons; Plants; Weeds; Planting; Planters THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 1. DANDELIONS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Around the corolla of dandelions Last Line: That complete moment of surrender Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dandelions; Flowers; Parents; Weeds THREE DREAMS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that you were dreaming Last Line: Dreamed of you Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Morning; Weeds THREE WEEDS; FIREWEED, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For towhees, mice, and mule deer, fireweed blazes Last Line: Of a woman in a pickup, pulling over %to let him in. The burning. The flowering. Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Nature THREE WEEDS; HORSETAIL, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swishing the flat backs of boxwood and stone, Last Line: The compost pile, until one stalk, one augur %of empire, clears the wall and lopes away. Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Weeds THREE WEEDS; PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another interloper staking out its claim- Last Line: The plowman cuts a switch of willow-herb and whips %the backs of broad animals, clearing the air. Subject(s): Nature; Weeds TO THE DANDELION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way Last Line: On all these living pages of god's book. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds TUMBLEWEED, by RAMONA CARDEN Poem Source First Line: I stood in the shelter of a great tree Last Line: Leaving me there Subject(s): Weeds TUMBLEWEED, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detachable. The mobile american par excellence Last Line: To dignify becoming sprung from dust Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Weeds TUMBLEWEED, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning the march wind is huge, and there are many of them Last Line: Facing the moat they have to get across %as the gods sail by all day, at sixty miles an hour, free Subject(s): Weeds TUMBLEWEED, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On 'the day of great routes' Last Line: In the soul Subject(s): Tumble-weeds TUMBLEWEED, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes another, bumping over the sage Subject(s): Weeds TUMBLEWEED, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes another, bumping over the sage Last Line: Here comes another, flopping among the sage Subject(s): Weeds TUMBLEWEEDS, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Tumbleweeds listen when the wind speaks Subject(s): Weeds WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime WEEDS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stars and grass Last Line: Come forward. A man loves you Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stars and grass Last Line: Come forward. A man loves you Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by ROBERTO TINOCCO DURAN Poem Source First Line: The green weeds that grow Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by ANGELA GREENE Poem Source First Line: After I had slashed the briars Last Line: That delicate human beings %are known as weeds Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What cruel savages are weeds! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by MARY M. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Curbside they crouch Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by HANNAH KAHN Poem Source First Line: Tonight, when the town is asleep %I shall gather weeds Last Line: Of weeds untended %yet strangely durable Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pigrush, the poverty grass Last Line: The wind scattered milkweed across the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: The lawn is filled with dandelions Last Line: And take advantage of this market. %'cause he wants to buy some weed Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds WEEDS, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She planted marigolds because they kept Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Weeds WEEDS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White with daisies and red with sorrel Last Line: The blood too bright, the brow accurst. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by SARAH PROVOST Poem Source First Line: In yarrow, in thistle, the small joy Last Line: Went into someplace that was home %and would have stayed Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: He lives in suburbia Last Line: Believes he needs %them growing %around him to %keep him alive Subject(s): Weeds WEEDS ABOVE THE SNOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is nature's garden Last Line: And are comforted. Subject(s): Weeds WHAT I LEARN WEEDING, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN Poem Source First Line: A dandelion root can grow two feet long Last Line: And sunburst of maddened flower! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Weeds WORMWOOD, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: My father tells the story Last Line: That could have killed him Subject(s): Healing; Medicine; Sickness; Weeds YOUNG DANDELIONS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a bold fellow Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Weeds |
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