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Subject: WILLOW TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My head on moss reclining
Last Line: And nothing but the willow / remained there to be seen
Subject(s): Willow Trees


ACTUAL WILLOW, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once when I looked at willows, I would say
Last Line: Seems fanciful and beutiful enough for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


ANCIENT WILLOW, by DIANA RIVERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Entering this new chapter, a new land spreads before you
Last Line: The inner path of the moonshell glimmers silver
Subject(s): Willow Trees


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 140, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Willows by the eastern gate
Last Line: And now the morning star shines pale
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Willow Trees


COMPOSED ON THE THEME WILLOWS BY THE RIVERSIDE, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kingfisher green lines the deserted shore
Last Line: They startle dreams and compound the gloom
Subject(s): Willow Trees


FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 4. PINDARIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again, sweet willow, wave thee!
Last Line: Why stays my love?
Subject(s): Pindar (522-440 B.c.); Willow Trees


GREEN WILLOW IS MY GARLAND, by JOHN HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All a green willow, willow, willow
Subject(s): Willow Trees


HAIKU, by MASAOKA SHIKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: They've cut down the willow
Subject(s): Willow Trees


HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Last Line: If I were a young animal ready to turn home at dusk
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees


LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain was over, and the brilliant air
Last Line: Good god, and what is all this beauty for?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Variant Title(s): Landscapes
Subject(s): Beauty; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Vision; Willow Trees


OLD WILLOW, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With his cane
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Willow Trees


ON THE WILLOW BANK, by YEN CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The riverbank is white like silver.
Last Line: And ahead will keep on flying
Subject(s): Spring; Willow Trees


PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree
Last Line: In the shining weather.
Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood


PUSSY WILLOWS, by ELIZABETH BRADY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perhaps they are pearls from the robe of / the night
Last Line: Have I solved your sweet secret at last?
Subject(s): Spring; Willow Trees


PUSSY-WILLOWS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Damp dead trees, / damp dead leaves
Last Line: Is in the willows!
Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Spring; Willow Trees


SAUCHS IN THE REUCH HEUCH HAUCH, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's teuch sauch grwoin' I' the reuch heuch hauch
Last Line: Sall god's ain sel' them wile
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Willow Trees


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: COLUMBUS CHENEY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This weeping willow!
Last Line: As well as for us?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE GREEN WILLOW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree
Last Line: "aye me, the green willow must be my garland"
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE LAUGHING WILLOW, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To see the kaiser's epitaph
Last Line: Would make a weeping willow laugh.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Laughter; Willow Trees


THE OPTIMIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing
Last Line: The optimistic willow spoke of spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hope; Willow Trees; Optimism


THE WEEPING WILLOW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, all nature throbs with joy
Last Line: And sings thanksgiving songs of praise.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My parent stem was nurtured in the soil
Last Line: And who that sorcery will dare impeach?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW GARLAND, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A willow garland thou did'st send
Last Line: Come forth and sweetly dye.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW TREE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tree of the gloom, o'erhanging the tomb
Last Line: "oh, bury me under the willow tree!"
Subject(s): Graves; Willow Trees; Tombs; Tombstones


THE WILLOW TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Willow! In thy breezy moan
Last Line: Ever, willow! Willow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): The Willow Song
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW, OR THE ROSE-PROP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I hew thee down, thou mighty bower?
Last Line: While thou hast soar'd aloft, to toss and sigh!
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree
Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries.
Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny


THE WILLOWS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober
Last Line: And this nightingale, kept by one shear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Willow Trees


TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing
Last Line: It means you are a boy.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


TO THE WILLOW TREE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art to all lost love the best
Last Line: Come to weep out the night.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Willow Trees


TREES IN AUTUMN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden starred, lapped in silver brocade
Last Line: To each breeze that stirs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Eucalyptus Trees; Leaves; Plane Trees; Seasons; Willow Trees; Fall; Sycamores


UNDER THE WILLOWS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frank-hearted hostess of the field and wood
Last Line: All life washed clean in this high tide of june.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


UNDER WILLOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under willows among the graves
Last Line: She shall die at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love; Seasons; Willow Trees


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': WILLOW WAVES, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lacy trees, touching in separate rows
Last Line: That suffer from parting in the spring breeze
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Willow Trees


WEEPING WILLOW TREES, by NELL GRIFFITH WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weeping willow trees
Last Line: Are peaceful trees.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O willow, why forever weep
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by ELIZABETH DELMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the clan of willows
Last Line: But remember, without us you can't make a hit %in the beautiful white english game
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Awakening spring: how many leaves!
Last Line: Who would enjoy just the brows of her eyes?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by LINDA MCCARRISTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One willow, bending over the river
Last Line: I fathom you for an instant: %waking to your stone in silt %and embracing him
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If not, why should the willow bend? It bends
Last Line: Past blood and tissue where remembrance lies
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved a tree in my boyhood, a tree
Last Line: So harshly that even the roots came up %shaking the whole garden
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by HAROLD FEHRSEN SAMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a blue valley far from me
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My neighbor's willow sways its frail
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a woman washing clothes by the river bank
Last Line: One in purple, one in pink, as a present to his father
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW BRANCH LYRIC, by XIANG LANZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green trees, shady and cool, make the tavern flag fresh
Last Line: All the willow branches broken by the springtime wind - and still he does not know
Subject(s): Farewell; Willow Trees


WILLOW BRANCH SONG, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the days when they were first planted before the calyx tower
Last Line: Whom would they mourn, these dew-laden leaves that seem to weep?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POEM, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a willow when summer is over
Last Line: Into the water and on the ground
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POEM, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a willow when summer is over
Last Line: Into the water and on the ground
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a willow when summer is over
Last Line: Into the water and on the ground.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POOL, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the willows scarcely shook their leaves
Last Line: "—is there a curse upon the barren woman?"
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW SONG; FOR FRANCES HOROWITZ, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went down to the railway
Subject(s): Horowitz, Frances (1938-1983); Willow Trees


WILLOW SONG; FOR FRANCES HOROWITZ, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went down to the railway
Last Line: The first one was the rose bay willow
Subject(s): Horowitz, Frances (1938-1983); Willow Trees


WILLOW TREE, by ANNA C. ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: With movement light and airy now
Last Line: Yellow tips and then disband.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How now, shepherd, what means that?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW WARE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On grandmamma's table is waiting for me
Last Line: "that beautiful, queer, little land of blue"
Subject(s): Grandparents;legends;willow Trees; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers


WILLOW'S STARS, by SARA-LOUISE HEILBRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You told me to look up and see the stars
Last Line: And you the weeping willow tree.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOWS, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the little river
Last Line: That were once so fair
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WITHOUT HER SCARVES, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has a twisted body
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Willow Trees


WORDS ON WILLOW BRANCHES, by WU XIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the house willows burgeon like the painted eyebrows of a beautiful woman
Last Line: He just produces a new branch where the old one broke off before
Subject(s): Farewell; Willow Trees