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Subject: WELLS Matches Found: 60 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABBA JACOB IN THE WELL, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bakar, atul, and clancy lower a bucket Last Line: The ladder cuts through the slanting light / and disappears Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Wells ABILITY TO MAKE A FACE LIKE A SPIDER WHILE SINGING BLUES, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Who knows if they sing in their webs Last Line: What you deserve, a gleam, a solo look, %a song to repair the break of day Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Wells, Junior (1934-1998) ABOVE AND BELOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Water from the well Last Line: Poison struts on top Subject(s): Innocence; Poisons And Poisoning; Water; Wells AT GRANDFATHER'S, by CLARA DOTY BATES Poem Source First Line: The little old-fashioned girl Subject(s): Wells CLEANING THE WELL, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two worlds there are. One you think Subject(s): Wells DARK WELL, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They see you as they see you Last Line: From which to draw, drop after drop, %the terrible poetry of his kind Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wells DESERTED DERRICK, by MARY ELIZABETH BRANTLEY Poem Text First Line: Towering high above oil-stained lands Last Line: That cast its rays upon the derrick in an early year. Subject(s): Petroleum; Ruins; Wells; Oil DRAWING WATER FROM THE WELL AND MAKING TEA, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I get up sick, done looking at my books Last Line: And I can't bear to step on sparse shadows of plums Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Wells EVENING ON THE MOUNTAIN: SONG TO THE MOON THE WELL, by YI KYUBO Poem Source First Line: Blue water ripples the well at the corner of the mossy rock Last Line: That tilting the jar means spilling the moon Subject(s): Moon; Wells FFYNNON FAIR (ST. MARY'S WELL), by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They did not divine it, but Last Line: Itself from the superstition %of others, who ask for more Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wells G.D.W., by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little band of friends were we Last Line: We give to thee our river god! Subject(s): Wells, George D. GIRL IN THE WELL, by AL GABOR Poem Source First Line: After the third day Last Line: Crying under the veils of water Subject(s): Girls; Wells HART-LEAP WELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knight had ridden down from wensley moor Last Line: "with sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." Subject(s): Wells; Monuments I KNOW WHERE WELLS GROW - DROUGHTLESS WELLS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dearer to understand Variant Title(s): Poem: 460; Poem: 69 Subject(s): Wells I'VE HEARD MY NEIGHBOR'S PUMP AT NIGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or else the squeak of a meadow hen Subject(s): Wells; Neighbors INSCRIBED ON A WELL, DERRY HILL, NEAR CHIPPENDHAM, WILTSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here quench your thirst, and mark in well Last Line: Repaid by fresh supplies from heaven %for every cup of water given Subject(s): Wells LOOKING INTO THE WELL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the maples the robins sung Last Line: And its innocent beauty is still the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Innocence; Wells LUCASTA TAKING THE WATERS AT TUNBRIDGE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye happy floods! That now must pass Last Line: Of virtue, honour, love and bliss. Subject(s): Health Resorts; Tunbridge Wells, England; Spas MAIDEN OF MAMA IN KATSUSHIKA, by TAKAHASHI MUSHIMARO Poem Source First Line: In the land of azuma Last Line: And I think of that maid %who drew water here Subject(s): Wells; Women OASIS WELL, by GREGORY A. RYAN Poem Source First Line: Rocks fall Subject(s): Oases; Wells ONCE MORE BREVITY, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Wells; Neighbors PERSONAL HELICON; FOR MICHAEL LONGLEY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, they could not keep me from wells Subject(s): Self; Wells PERSONAL HELICON; FOR MICHAEL LONGLEY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, they could not keep me from wells Last Line: To see myself, to set the darkness echoing Subject(s): Self; Wells PRAIRIE CALM, by ELLEN DRINKWATER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think Last Line: And plenty -- for millions of cattle to drink. Subject(s): Kansas; Prairies; Water; Wells; Plains PUMP. OLD SQUARE IN CRACOW, by JOY DWORKIN Poem Source First Line: Filling this bucket is so sweet when the pump squeaks Last Line: Was still, but for a young girl filling her bucket Subject(s): Wells PUTTING THE CREAM IN THE WELL OF VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We all have seen a sultry spurt Last Line: We storaged down the well. Subject(s): Business; Vermont; Wells; Businessmen; Businesswomen SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL'S WELL; ISLE OF SHOALS, 1790-1892, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maid margaret and I, Last Line: Sir william pepperrell's well. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Man-woman Relationships; Wells; Male-female Relations SOME METAPHYSICS OF JUNIOR WELLS, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: A night universe scallop-edged with his faces Last Line: They are all diferent, easy to tell apart. %they were beginning, birth, newness, and dawn Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Wells, Junior (1934-1998) SONG OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CELEUS, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep the well and dark the water Last Line: Hers who has the brightest eyes. Subject(s): Water; Wells SONG: THE WELL OF OBLIVION, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, they say, a secret well Last Line: But never to forget! Subject(s): Love; Magic; Secrets; Wells SUSPENSION: JUNIOR WELLS ON A SMALL STAGE, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: As the phobic said: it is torture Last Line: A piece of cigarette pack %cellophane a blade of grass and fly it to their unfinished nest Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Wells, Junior (1934-1998) TEGONA OF MAMA, by TAKAHASHI MUSHIMARO Poem Source First Line: In the land of azuma Subject(s): Wells THE BONNIE WEE WELL, by HUGH MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: The bonnie wee well on the breist o' the brae Last Line: And quaffs thy cool waters in noon's gowden sheen. Subject(s): Wells THE CAPTAIN'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From pain and peril, by land and main Last Line: "that god's best gift is the wayside well!" Subject(s): Deserts; Disasters; Food & Eating; Shipwrecks; Wells THE GHOSTS OF AN OLD HOUSE: THE WELL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The well is not used now Last Line: From which he hauled forth buckets of bricks and dirt. Subject(s): Wells THE HOLY WELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell out one may morning Last Line: Crying out for the help of me Subject(s): Jesus Christ;wells THE HOLY WELLS, by JOHN DE JEAN FRAZER Poem Text First Line: The holy wells - the living wells - the cool, the pure Last Line: One blessing that no tyrant hand can taint or take away. Subject(s): Wells THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness THE VILLAGE WELL, by ALEXANDER BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where summer basks on gowany braes / and whins in bloom are gay Last Line: Around the village well. Subject(s): Wells THE WATER HOLE, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd rather lie on my rye grass bed Last Line: Of silence all around. Subject(s): Wells THE WATER TOWER, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a drilling rig clanked inland Subject(s): Wells THE WAY-SIDE WELL, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. Poem Text First Line: A fancy halts my feet at the way-side well Last Line: Fancies clog the way to heaven, and saints miss their crowns. Subject(s): Wells THE WELL, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a spring Last Line: Take me, and weep me on the desolate hills! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Wells THE WELL, by PAUL JOHANN LUDWIG VON HEYSE Poem Text First Line: Yes, wayward girl, be cold and shy Last Line: Whose voice could set the fountain free! Subject(s): Wells THE WELL OF LOCH MAREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm on the breast of loch maree Last Line: On faith's white stones before it. Subject(s): Wells THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A well there is in the west country Last Line: "for she took a bottle to church." Subject(s): Wells; Women THE WELL-DIGGER, by O. E. ENFIELD Poem Text First Line: I picked up the bible this mornin' Last Line: To keep the system primed and repaired! Subject(s): Bible; Wells TO THE MINSTREL GIRL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Th' critic's heel is on ye, sure Last Line: Sure, bless your heart! Ye didn't need, carolyn, my carolin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Girls; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942) TUNBRIDGE WELLS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five this morn, when phoebus raised his head Last Line: Did seem to me by much the wiser creature. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Tunbridge Wells, England VERSES OCCASIONED BY THE SUDDEN DRYING UP..ST.PATRICK'S WELL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By holy zeal inspired, and led by fame Last Line: And from this hour my patronage resign. Subject(s): Wells VILLAGE WELL, by HENRY BARLOW Poem Source First Line: By this well Last Line: The one I first loved by this well Subject(s): Love; Wells WELL, by YVES BONNEFOY Poem Source First Line: You hear the chain striking the wall Last Line: There is joy, then the chain overwhelms it Subject(s): Life; Wells WELL, by JAY MACPHERSON Poem Source First Line: A winter hanging over the dark sky Last Line: I watch the solstice pit become a stair, %the constellations rise Subject(s): Wells WELL UPON THE BROOK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But wells of failless ground! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1091; Poem: 105 Subject(s): Wells WELL WATER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a girl called 'the dailiness of life' Subject(s): Rivers; Wells WELL WATER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a girl called 'the dailiness of life' Last Line: And gulp from them the dailiness of life Subject(s): Rivers; Wells WELL WATER, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The slender wire of the handle Subject(s): Wells WELLS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in a dry well Subject(s): Wells WHAT MYSTERY PERVADES A WELL!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The nearer her they get Subject(s): Water; Wells WILL COGAN'S MAP, by TOM DOMEK Poem Source First Line: Mine are the drills Last Line: Like dust in my skull Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; North Dakota; Prairies; Water Supply; Wells |
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