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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DINNERS & DINING Matches Found: 38 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRILOGY: ASHES, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: The outline of a withered tree Last Line: It's five o'clock and time to eat! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating A VERMONT 'DONATION', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny how our ancestors Last Line: With some deliberation. Subject(s): Charity; Churches; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Preaching & Preachers; Vermont; Philanthropy; Cathedrals A VERMONT SUNDAY DINNER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sermons, sunday school between Last Line: To get dried beef for dinner. Subject(s): Beef; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Vermont ALEXANDER VI DINES WITH THE CARDINAL OF CAPUA, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next, then, the peacock, gilt Last Line: Mhm! Kiss your poor old father, little rose! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Alexander Vi, Pope (1431-1503) ARTIFACT: TWO INK ON POTTERY FRAGMENTS: 7TH-8TH C.A.D., by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...Behold, another 4 Last Line: Fireworks out on the river Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Salads; Vegetables BETTY BOOPER, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is little betty booper Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Popcorn CANDLELIGHT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing the porch in the hazy dusk Last Line: Had granted its permission Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CARVING AND GILDING, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see,' said our host, as we enter'd his doors Last Line: "pray less of your gilding, and more of your carving." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Hospitality; Superficiality; Visiting CELERY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celery raw / devlops the jaw Subject(s): Celery; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Mnemonics COCKTAIL HOUR, by MARGARET E. MCINTYRE Poem Text First Line: Between the dusk and the twilight Last Line: It must be upheld, to get by. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Drinks & Drinking; Dusk; Smoking; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes DINING [OR, EATING] OUT ALONE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through two layers of glass Last Line: Of which I am one, dining out alone Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners DINNER PARTY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire is lit in the hearth, and flickers Last Line: Lifts his cup, and calls for more wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Conversation; Dinners & Dining; Fire; Guests; Tableware; Visiting; Cutlery; Forks; Plates DREAM BARKER, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat Last Line: Bone dry, old, in a dry land, jim, my jim Subject(s): Dreams; Dinners & Dining FLAMES LIGHT UP THE ROUGH WALLS AND EARNEST FACES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With none among the travelers about you Last Line: A little chapel in a housedress of windless pink dawn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dinners & Dining; Housekeeping; Housewives; Estrangement; Outcasts GOING OUT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hold your hands up to the light Last Line: We stand in it like a room. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Hunger; Longing I ATE TOO MUCH, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate too much turkey Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony LOSS OF APPETITE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When julia rang the dinner bell, I used to Last Line: Cabbage and a tart. Subject(s): Appetite; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners MISS NOBODY'S CHRISTMAS DINNER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One might travel this wide world over & over Last Line: An emblem too true of this make-believe world. Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Guests; Hospitality; Parties; Nativity, The; Visiting PEAS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I eat my peas with honey Last Line: But it keeps them on the knife Subject(s): Dinners & Dining;etiquette;food & Eating;mnemonics;peas; Manners;courtesy PECULIAR, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once knew a boy who was odd as could be Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an ancient england in the new Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SONG FOR A VENISON DINNER AT MR. BUNYAN'S, by JOSEPH STANSBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, push 'round the bottle, and let us be drinking Last Line: Has strengthened the hands of these upstart pretenders. Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Friendship; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SPAGHETTI! SPAGHETTI!, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spaghetti! Spaghetti! / you're wonderful stuff Last Line: You're wonderful stuff Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Pasta; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where dark clouds of curling smoke arise Last Line: Let stoklewath be not the last that's nam'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Household Employees; Hunger; Poverty; Servants; Domestics; Maids TABLE MANNERS, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: When teddy bears are brought to table Last Line: As if they lived in town. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Etiquette; Tableware; Manners; Courtesy; Cutlery; Forks; Plates THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr smiggs was a gentleman Last Line: "aye, and pick it to the bone." Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Geese; Holidays; Nativity, The THE DIET, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Last night my supper, as I fed Last Line: By thy sweet grace an endlesse feast shall reap. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Gluttony; Mortality; Temptation THE DINING ROOM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rather dull cupboard here Last Line: "good morning, mr. Jammes, how are you today?" Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Memory; Spiritual Life; Voices; Visiting THE DINNER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Many a guest is coming Last Line: Never a one will be here! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining THE EEL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind eels Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Eels; Food & Eating THE FEAST OF THE 'MUTCHES', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a lamiter, girzie, or I wad hae been Last Line: To gentles an' grannies to meet yet in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Poverty; Women THE LOW BLACK SQUARE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is a table Last Line: They're just some flowers Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Restaurants; Tables; Visiting; Cafes; Diners THE OLD HAYMOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old haymow's the place to Last Line: Ac' ha'f-way like a gentleman! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE TABLE D'HOTE, by JOHN PAUL BOCOCK Poem Text First Line: Tis time - ah me! - to change my coat Last Line: Welcomes me into shadow land! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Love THE VULTURE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Vultures TO A NORWEGIAN MACKERAL, by MARGERY DOUD Poem Text First Line: Through deep and clear and singing Last Line: To see you swimming here in melted butter. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Fish & Fishing; Anglers TO RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ., IN ANSWER TO A LETTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, this tells you as soon as it could Last Line: Of the best of good wishes for the whole of your flock. Subject(s): Animals; Butchers; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares VERMONT OYSTER SUPPERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing that I think of more Last Line: Them oyster-suppered nights of yore! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Oysters; Vermont |
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