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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: APPLES Matches Found: 99 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eve upon the first of men Last Line: That adam was not adamant! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve A SHORT HISTORY OF THE APPLE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teeth at the skin. Anticipation Subject(s): Apples A SONG OF APPLE-BLOOM, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not waked in the grey of the day-dawn Last Line: "come, lasses, come, ere our rose-world falls grey." Subject(s): Apples; Fruit A SONG OF APPLE-GATHERING, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harvest is over in mist and moist moon-light Last Line: Joy-worn and grave to its sleep-time at last. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest A VERMONT BREAKFAST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer days speed up so fast Last Line: And glorifies that apple. Subject(s): Apples; Food & Eating; Fruit; Vermont AFTER APPLE PICKING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Last Line: Or just some human sleep. Subject(s): Americans; Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees; United States; America AFTERTHOUGHT ON APPLES, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: While yet unfallen apples throng the bough Subject(s): Apples; Fruit ANOTHER SARAH, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: When winter was half over Last Line: A nation of white petals %a dynasty of apples Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; May (month); Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) APPLE, by AMANO TADASHI Poem Source First Line: In the kitchen of willie mays Last Line: Just for the fun of it... Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE, by MELANIE REHAK Poem Source First Line: An implied corkscrew of peel garners the apple Last Line: Like desire, clear in its message: I want, I want Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE, by VLADIMIR SOLOUKHIN Poem Source First Line: I am convinced that finally %isaac newton Last Line: And with its sweetness %to delight a man Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I could come back from the dead, I would come back Subject(s): Apples APPLE, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning %I cut an apple in half Last Line: Just then Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE BOXES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: Some of our apple boxes come from a hundred miles away: 'moose hill Last Line: Their crowns still shaped by old prunings Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest APPLE CORE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the road / I saw blackbirds Last Line: But the stalks moving Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE PIE ORDER, by AINE MILLER Poem Source First Line: You have to be anglo-saxon to peel them so Last Line: Spiced with clove, her truly celtic excess %a core well worth the waiting Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE RIND, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone else was afraid and spoke to me Last Line: To come back to this beautiful, stupid world? Subject(s): Apples APPLE SAUCE!, by EDITH GRACE BERKNESS Poem Text First Line: John peter said at supper Last Line: If dessert's just apple sauce! Subject(s): Apples; Desserts; Fruit APPLE SEASON, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come up in the orchard with grass to your knees Last Line: We're gathering apples with shout and song, %and we'll taste summer all winter long! Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees APPLE-GATHERING, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Essex flats are pink with clover Last Line: On the red-lit christmas-tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE-GROWING AND CIDER-MAKING; DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An orchard fair, to please Last Line: O the jovial days when the apple trees do bear, %we'll drink and be merry all the gladsome year Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE-PARING NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The biggest basket 'round our place Last Line: That weekly apple-paring night. Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers APPLES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The have gone Subject(s): Apples; Transience; Impermanence APPLES, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: After henry died, his wagon full Last Line: Their bruises turning to cider Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents APPLES, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER Poem Source First Line: I thought we lost a strong summer Last Line: The dark crows %hushed in their trees Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Summer APPLES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before she went from grieving Last Line: Of the apples dropping down. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness APPLES, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The apples fall in the night. The trees are still Last Line: On such matters neither the night nor the apples see much difference Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens And Gardening; Harvest; Trees APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was the clumsy child Last Line: To a continent dark with apples Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Desire; Fruit; Kindness; Trees APPLES FALLING, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, in the close september darkness Last Line: Falling to the ground. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLES FOR SALE, by LEWIS MANSFIELD KNAPP Poem Text First Line: In youthful days I saw old orchards bloom Last Line: I too, my friend, am polished and for sale. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Language; Orchards; Words; Vocabulary APPLES OF HESPERIDES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glinting golden through the trees Last Line: Apples of hesperides! Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology) APPLES ON CHAMPLAIN, by RICHARD KENNEY Poem Source First Line: Oil-slick, slack shocks, ancient engine Last Line: Sudden, weightless, warm Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Lake Champlain AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were four apples on the bough Last Line: Mown from the harvest's middle-floor Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Trees AUGUST WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead heat and windless air Last Line: And the ripe apples fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Harvest; Summer AUTUMN IN GAOL, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: In autumn a friend Last Line: Heavy as the world Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons BARBARA BLUE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old lady named barbara blue Last Line: Apples and all! Subject(s): Spinsters; Avarice; Apples BLOSSOM OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing a song of blossom Last Line: "with little marjory brown." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Snow BY THE ORCHARD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rushing through leaves, they fall Subject(s): Apples CINDER-FRUIT, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the apple fruit Last Line: It is ashen. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Passion; Tantalus (greek Mythology) CROSSED APPLE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard Last Line: You take the rest Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit DOOMED BRIGHT CITY, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Remembering I had sold the sight Last Line: No epitaph is needed for the race. Subject(s): Apples; Cities; Flowers; Fruit; Urban Life EVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: One book has it that eve Last Line: Before she goes to sleep [or, sleeps] Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Man-woman Relationships EVE, ALSO, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holding in my left hand an apple; Subject(s): Apples FOR A BOY IN A BUS DEPOT, by EDUARDO C. CORRAL Poem Source First Line: Moonlight topples %from the star-cabled night Last Line: Wings rimmed with the color of the apple Subject(s): Apples; Boys; Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fruit FORGOTTEN ORCHARD, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: The air is sweet with apples ripening Last Line: Must touch no windfall in the tangled grass. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Orchards; Voices FUJIS, by GINA PARLAPIANO Poem Source First Line: These are my tired apples Last Line: So desperately from its home Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Travel GOLDEN DELICIOUS, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: After the first killing frost had uncolored Last Line: As a dead bouquet, rose %the sweet smell of perishing Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Religion GOOD PHILOSOPHY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I give you an apple, if you love me Last Line: And reflect on how short - lived is beauty Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Pentastichs; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Transience GRANDPA'S APPLE THUNDER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: His wine saps rolled from the edge Last Line: I was twelve years old Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents; Thunder GREEN APPLES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In august we carried the old horsehair mattress Subject(s): Apples; Summer; Family Life; Relatives HARVEST APPLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Out in the orchard, years ago Last Line: "you 'll find a ""honey-core,"" I guess." Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees HESPERIDES, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Golden apples for goddesses Last Line: I will have none. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology) HISTORY OF APPLES, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: It is a sad story from the start Last Line: At the supermarket ever in %this world be the apple of your eye? Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; History IN OUR OCTOBER WINDFALL TIME RED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You learn to eat around the wormholes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Nature; October JUST TO FEEL HUMAN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single apple grew on our tree, which Subject(s): Apples; Adam & Eve; Eve KEEPING STORE, by AMANDA MUTERSPAUGH Poem Text First Line: Out of the land of 'make - believe Last Line: Over a bargain -- then it took tact. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Past MADONNA MIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under green apple boughs Last Line: Being strong as love. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; God; Love; Women MINE HOST OF 'THE GOLDEN APPLE', by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goodly host one day was mine Last Line: Thomas westwood. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit MOONLIT APPLES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the top of the house Last Line: On moon-washed apples of wonder. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees NUNS ARE PEELING APPLES, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: See how they sit in pairs Last Line: A paring down of decades %coils damp in their dark laps Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Nuns OF THE APPLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The apples in the garden bed Last Line: "wherewith the world abounds,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; God; Praise ON APPLES, by DAVID ROSS Poem Source First Line: One is not hale until one inhales Last Line: But you must smell them Subject(s): Apples; Fruit PARING THE APPLE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are portraits and still-lifes Subject(s): Apples; Fruit PARING THE APPLE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are portraits and still-lifes Last Line: Compelling a recognition Subject(s): Apples; Fruit PATCHWORK, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: Into that deep that yields no bright return Last Line: While I sewed seams beneath the apple tree. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Youth; Nightmares PICKING APPLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up there, boys, no time to dream Last Line: "we plumb forgot to salt the sheep." Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas POMONA, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The hive's full of honey, the steading of stacks Last Line: Perhaps not the goddess, but one of her girls! Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Seasons; Women; Fall RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood. Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War RUSSETS, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: From an old hayloft Last Line: Sounder than the new. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit SCENT OF APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One morning, waking %to the fresh scent of apples Last Line: And those ripe mouths, blossoming, %promised everything Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Food And Eating; Fruit; Trees SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lean white birches of the moon Last Line: What came after I do not know. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs SHARING EVE'S APPLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blush not so! O blush not so Last Line: O cut the sweet apple and share it! Variant Title(s): Eve's Sweet Pipin Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Religion; Eve; Theology SIDEWALK PHILOSOPHER, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She did not hope to grace a royal ball Last Line: Because she could not wear a coronet. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Philosophy & Philosophers; Nightmares SONG - FOR NOVEMBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While skies glint bright with Last Line: With all her blossoms blooming. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Fruit; November; Seasons SPRING SONG ON TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms drifting Last Line: May sweetly woos the earth. Subject(s): Apples; Earth; Flowers; Fruit; May (month); World SUITE TO APPLENESS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you love me drink this discolored wine Last Line: Her mountains strewn and crushed. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Christianity; Drinks & Drinking; Fruit; Judgments; Temptation; Wine SUITE TO APPLENESS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the quonset shed unloading the fertilizer Last Line: Losing shape, into a thick green slime and jelly. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fruit; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers SUITE TO APPLENESS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or in the orchard that night Last Line: As an apple. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Christianity; Crows; Fruit; Night; Bedtime SUNDAY MORNING APPLES, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves will fall again sometime and fill Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Apples; Fruit SWEET APPLE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the bough! Last Line: At the end of the bough! Subject(s): Apples; Desire; Fruit TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: I listen to her talk Last Line: It's what I've got Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Apples; Fruit TASTE OF APPLES, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All morning my daughter has been picking apples Last Line: The hard, shiny fruits %I will bite into, one by one, savoring each Subject(s): Apples; Children; Fruit; Mothers And Daughters TELL, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He opens the scullery door, and a sudden rush Subject(s): Apples THE APPLE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, smiling, plucked the apple, then Last Line: As to let adam taste of it! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit THE APPLE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: What is all this fuss about? Last Line: "and shout, ""hurrah for the apple fair!" Subject(s): Apples; Festivals; Fruit; Harvest; Fairs; Pageants THE APPLE WAS A NORTHERN INVENTION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she ate the pomegranate Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Apples; Pomegranates THE APPLE-DUMPLINGS AND GEORGE THE THIRD, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the chase, this monarch drooping Last Line: "then, where, where, where, pray, got the apple in?" Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) THE CROSSED APPLE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard Last Line: You take the rest Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation THE MONGREL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Your laurel hedge, with its broad leaves Last Line: To shrivelled leaves, all limp and sere. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Apples; Cherries; Fruit THE PROUDEST FRUIT, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: Apples are the proudest fruit Last Line: Immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina THE REASON, by HERVEY ALDIS Poem Text First Line: They asked me what ailed her Last Line: "of too much blossoming." Subject(s): Apples; Death; Fruit; Trees; Dead, The THE SONG OF SUMMER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked an apple from off a tree Last Line: On a lower branch is the fruit for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Summer THE UNLUCKY APPLE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the apple that in eden Last Line: She's the apple of my eye. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit TO AN APPLE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were rotten Last Line: To be processed. I think about it %and write of the good in you Subject(s): Apples; Fruit TWELFTH NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here's to thee, old apple-tree" Last Line: And our pockets full too Variant Title(s): A Farmer's And Farm-worker's Toast;apple-howling Song: Devonshire Subject(s): "apples;devonshire, England;fruit; TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Last Line: When he takes the first dangerous bite Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women YOUNG EDEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed from a fairy flagon Last Line: The apple in her hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Apples; Eden; Fairies; Fruit; Love; Poison Ivy; Story-telling; Youth; Elves |
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