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Subject: CHERRIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees
Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


CHERRIES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A handful of cherries
Last Line: Of cherries to pluck.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


CHERRIES, by JOE LAMB    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was five, we lived in tesuque
Last Line: The cherries were thick, sweet, and %yellow
Subject(s): Aging; Cherries; Fruit; Memory; Men; Mothers


CHERRIES, by LUCIEN STRYK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I sit eating cherries
Last Line: Bought cheap, must last forever
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Selfishness


CHERRY PIE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O cherry pie! A song for thee!
Last Line: Owe cherry pie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Cherries; Food & Eating; Fruit


CHERRY PIE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Cherries; Food And Eating; Fruit; Pies


CHERRY RIPE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a garden in her face
Last Line: "these sacred cherries to come nigh, / till cherry-ripe themselves do cry"
Subject(s): Admiration;cherries;fruit


CHERRY TIME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis cherry time, ripe cherry time
Last Line: I'll pick and give sweetheart to you!
Subject(s): Cherries; Courtship; Fruit; Youth


CHERRY-BUDS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: When cherry-buds appear
Last Line: Should not be sung or said.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Love - Loss Of


CHERRY-TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cherries of the night are riper
Last Line: And you'll be fairies all.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


DEDIKATION: 1, by EGITO GONCALVES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cherries %two strangers/ we look at the minaret
Last Line: Your eyes are laughing/ fiords/ night
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Relationships


FLOWER FORTRESS, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cherries by the fence are flowering
Last Line: Seems to be praying, sceptically, for mercy
Subject(s): Cherries; Flowers; Fruit


GREEN CHERRIES, SELECTION, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I swung / the gate and entered
Last Line: To other things.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Harvest


KOKINSHU (2), SELS., by UNKNOWN                       
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


MARASCHINO CHERRIES IN THE A&P, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were in squat, glass bottles, round and red
Last Line: And the world was in the reach of my hand
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Markets


OH! OH! IS ALL I CAN SAY, by YASUHARA TESISHITSU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: On mount yoshino
Alternate Author Name(s): Yasuhara Teishsu; Yasuhara Teishitsu
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


OUR CHERRIES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "see those cherries, how they cover"
Last Line: Anything -- to save our cherries
Subject(s): Cherries;fruit


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 80, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Playing at bob cherry
Last Line: With the cherry tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


TANKA, by ARIWARA NO NARIHIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there were no such thing
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gazing at them %these blossoms have grown
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why should my heart
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cherry petals
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let me take a good look
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


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 WEEPING CHERRY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a cherry weep, and why?
Last Line: For tincture, wonder at.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


WILD CHERRY, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though one white bunch would crown the tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit


WILD CHERRY, by MILDRED J. ORR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wild cherry is in bloom
Last Line: Wild cherry. I give my heart to you.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Moon; Noon; Wind