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Subject: WINDMILLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARIZONA POEMS: 4. THE WINDMILLS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The windmills, like great sunflowers of steel
Last Line: And the choking gurgle of tepid water.
Subject(s): Clouds; Windmills


MILL, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the harbor at st. James
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Mills And Millers; Windmills


MILL ACCIDENT, by KATHRYN BLACKBURN PECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright burns the pain against his breast and throat
Last Line: "he hears his comrades murmur, ""hell! He's done."
Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Windmills; Dead, The


MY LITTLE CAPE COD MAIDEN, by KATHERINE FINNIGAN ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I brought her from the sand - dunes
Last Line: With the sea-weed in her hair.
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Windmills


ON AN OLD SUSSEX MILL-POST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The windmill is a couris thing
Last Line: To jump about and get things ready, %or else the mill will soon run empty
Subject(s): Sussex, England; Windmills


THE MILL, by EMILE VERHAEREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly in the depths of the night the windmill turns
Last Line: The old mill that turns and, weary, turns, and dies.
Subject(s): Old Age; Windmills


THE MILL (2), by EMILE VERHAEREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in grey dusk the mill turns faltering
Last Line: On the old mill that turns and turns and dies
Subject(s): Old Age; Windmills


THE WINDMILL, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold! A giant am I!
Last Line: And all is peace within.
Subject(s): Windmills


THE WINDMILL, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Desolate windmill, eyelid of the distance
Last Line: Life, as a windmill grinds the bread of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Windmills


VERSAILLES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day at versailles the great louis survey'd
Last Line: "is remov'd, as we see, but the wind is there still."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Windmills; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


WINDMILL, by GILLIAN CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the stillest day
Last Line: Holding the earth's breath
Subject(s): Windmills


WINDMILL, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To have ears for immaterial things
Last Line: The sack is light-he figures, once in the street, %he can run with it
Subject(s): Windmills


WINDMILL, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you should bid me make a choice
Subject(s): Windmills


WINDMILL ON THE CAPE, by WILLIAM VINCENT SIELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How long this giant hugged and spanned
Subject(s): Windmills