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Subject: FERTILITY
Matches Found: 13

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 8/9, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Languor, uselessness & general swamp I'd be or
Last Line: Roving traveler.
Subject(s): Babies; Fertility; Mothers; Infants


CORNKIND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So the rain falls / it drops all over the place
Subject(s): Fertility; Gays & Lesbians; Morris, William (1834-1896); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


CORNKIND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So the rain falls %it drops all over the place
Last Line: Hard and moist and moaning
Subject(s): Fertility; Homosexuality; Morris, William (1834-1896)


FERTILE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are a typical american woman
Subject(s): Fertility; Americans; Women; Human Bheavior


GATHERING MUSHROOMS: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A valley and hillside full of helmet-flowers
Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Fertility; Mushrooms; Morels


GATHERING MUSHROOMS: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A valley and hillside full of helmet-flowers
Last Line: Two by two. Too many to count
Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Fertility; Mushrooms


ILLINOIS FARMER, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Between the fragrant rows of corn he strides
Last Line: Our native labor, there among the maize!
Subject(s): Fertility


MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 5. HOW TO TELL IF YOUR BRIDE IS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is recommended that the husband fill one cloth purse with barley seeds
Last Line: She will bear. If she belches, she will never bear
Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage


PLACENTA, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After he has fallen asleep, after the last nursing
Last Line: Like an angel, like another child I made and lost
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Hospitals; Physicians; Pregnancy; Women


REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes
Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie.
Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection


THE HARVEST, by ARTHUR MILTON POPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man digs with scooping hands for bits of gold
Last Line: And heaven above him finds him very poor.
Subject(s): Fertility; Harvest; Poverty


TO BE BORN AGAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside my mother / I make a little fist
Last Line: "you've been forgiven"
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Mothers; Pregnancy; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery


TOURNAMENT, by CRISTIN BISHARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: One gets to press dough over the door if it sticks so will
Last Line: They lick the chicken clean and pull on bones
Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Superstition