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Subject: COOKING & COOKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A KIND OF THEFT, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the season of making vinegars,
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


A POEM SERVED TO ORDER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The caliph ordered up his cook
Last Line: An eel, and not a salmon!
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


A RECEIPT FOR STEWING VEAL, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take a knuckle of veal
Last Line: Will it fill dean and chapter!
Variant Title(s): Receipt To Make Soup; For The Use Of Dean Swift
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mnemonics; Cookery


A RECIPE - FOR CIVILISATION, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely, those sages err who teach
Last Line: That turn'd the spit, to chop up dagon! --
Subject(s): Civilization; Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


A RECIPE FOR SALAD, by SYDNEY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To make this condiment, your poet begs
Last Line: "fate cannot harm me, -- I have dined to-day."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Sidney
Variant Title(s): A Receipt For A Salad;salad;recipe For A Salad
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mnemonics; Salads; Cookery


A RECIPE: ROASTED SUCKING-PIG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cooks who'd roast a sucking-pig
Last Line: "and if he a guest should wish, / let him send for me!"
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks;pigs; Boars;hogs


APPLE SAUCE AND CHICKEN FRIED, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You may talk about the knowledge
Last Line: For apple sauce and chicken fried.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating


APPLE-PIE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When our cook she makes a pie
Last Line: You never et such apple-pie!
Subject(s): Apple Pie; Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Pies; Cookery


BAD COOKING, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it roughens true love's course, and
Last Line: Bills? Bad cooking.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements


BARBECUE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the late light
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


BARLEY BROTH, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If tempers were put up to seale
Last Line: A wretched or a happy weyfe!
Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BEAUTY I WOULD SUFFER FOR, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last week a doctor told me
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks


BLACK KITCHEN, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down around the kitchen
Last Line: That nobody ate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah
Variant Title(s): Ballad Of The Black Kitchen
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks


BREAKFAST IS MY BEST MEAL: OVERHEARD AT CARLSBAD, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breakfast is my best meal, and I reckon it's always been
Last Line: But it fairly makes me sick! Breakfast is my best meal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Family Life; Food & Eating; Cookery; Relatives


CHEF PERNOLLET, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some bards may prate of warriors great
Last Line: On pernollet of belley!
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Cookery


COOKIN' THINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my mother's cookin' things
Last Line: I've helped my mother cook.
Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Mothers; Childhood; Cookery


COOKING AND COURTING; FROM TOM TO NED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dear ned, no doubt you'll be surprised"
Last Line: "you dare to make a due demand, / why, just try cooking pies together"
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks;courtship


CURIOSITY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mammy's in de kitchen, an' de do' is shet
Last Line: W'en dey mammy's cookin' t'ings dat smell so good.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


DEATH IN THE KITCHEN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trim, thou art right! - 'tis sure that I
Last Line: A charnel full of bones!
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


DEDICATION OF THE COOK, by ANNA WICKHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If any ask why there's no great she-poet
Last Line: Will blossom from the ashes of my kitchen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism


EPIGRAM: CRITIC, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A short-order cook is the mealymouthed critic,
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean
Last Line: And red when they are cooked.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean


FISH OIL, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One midnight, I got home from work
Last Line: From the dream of judgment
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Smells


IN YOUR HONOR, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In your honor, a man presents a sea bass
Last Line: The host slices slice after slice of glistening sashimi.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks


KAISEKI, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aunt has developed carpal tunnel syndrome
Last Line: Water flows to what is wet.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Metamorphosis; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


MR. AND MRS. JACK SPRAT IN THE KITCHEN, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About half a box
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Women's Rights; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


MUD SOUP, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had the ham bone, had the lentils
Last Line: Not like isle of innisfree.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Cookery; Feminism


MY UNCLE'S FAVORITE COFFEE SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Serum of steam rising from the cup
Last Line: Nothing will come.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


OATMEAL, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I eat oatmeal for breakfast
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Oatmeal; Cookery


ONE BY ONE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; Cooking & Cooks; Ocean; Cookery


PRO BONO PUBLICO, by PAUL WEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: She knew she had 'a call' to be a poet
Last Line: It's gained -- what's twice as valuable -- a cook!
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Women - Writers


SAINT PASCAL BAYLON / SAN PASCUAL BAILON, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: San pascual pastorcito
Last Line: And also your culinary trickery
Subject(s): Saints; Cooking & Cooks; Language


SALTBUSH BILL'S GAMECOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas saltbush bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way / to town
Last Line: Remarked, 'discharged with a clean discharge -- the assault was justified!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Camping; Cooking & Cooks; Fate; Sin; Camps; Summer Camps; Destiny


SAPPHO BURNS HER BOOKS AND CULTIVATES THE CULINARY ARTS, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Companions of my favorite hours
Last Line: Severest -- disappointed love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Books; Cooking & Cooks; Women - Writers; Reading


SCOTTY'S WILD STUFF STEW, by FRANCIS HUMPHRIS BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cause of all the trouble
Last Line: "what he christened ""wild stuff stoo""."
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poisons & Poisoning; Story-telling; Cookery


SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An average joe comes in
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cookery; Cafes; Diners


SOME SCATTERING REMARKS OF BUB'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wunst I tooked our pepper-box lid
Last Line: At's allus at the sund'y-school?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Childhood


TENDER BUTTONS: MILK, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white egg and a colored pan and a cabbage showing settlement, a constant increase
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


THE ASSISTANT, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've learnt to sift the flour in, and the way it ought / to mix
Last Line: I could be there advising her and licking off the dishes.
Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Childhood; Cookery


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#47) , by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man lives in the flesh, in memory, in absentia, in fact and
Last Line: Scraps and a mouthful of quills.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Cookery; Dead, The


THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens
Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The


THE DUFF, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on a sunday morning, the church was far away
Last Line: "and fast enough."
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Food & Eating; Dead, The; Wine


THE EBONY CHICKERING, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept
Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery


THE JOY OF COOKING, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men don't generally learn it from their mothers
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Mothers; Cooking & Cooks


THE LOVE COOK, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me cook you some dinner.
Subject(s): Love; Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


THE TALE OF THE T -- D, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pastry-cook once moulded up a t --
Last Line: Like weeds on dunghills, stinking, rank and sour.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks


THE TOASTER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


TROUBLE IN DE KITCHEN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dey was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an' de pot
Last Line: Dat he cooled 'em off, I reckon, w'en he puffed an' des went out.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery


WHAT'S THAT SMELL IN THE KITCHEN, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All over america women are burning dinners
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks


WHEN MARY MAKES THE BREAD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When mary makes the bread there gleams
Last Line: Our mary can make bread.
Subject(s): Bread; Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating


WHEN MOTHER COOKED WITH WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not quarrel with the gas
Last Line: When mother cooked with wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers; Cookery


WHEN MOTHER STARTS THE APPLE SASS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some fellah says that thoughts are things
Last Line: When mother starts the apple sass.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Mothers


WHEN THE MISSUS COOKS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our ellen is an honest cook, though overfond of salt
Last Line: "my fancy flies to thursday, which is ellen's ""avenin'"" out."
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Cookery