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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COOKING & COOKS Matches Found: 53 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 |
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