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Subject: FIG TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FALL, by HARRIET ZINNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It came suddenly. You had created it. It had not been there before. This
Last Line: Not created that. But who had planted the fig tree in that northern %garden?
Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Fig Trees; Mourning; Seasons


FIG, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Under the green leaf hangs a little pouch
Last Line: And you have dared to eat a universe
Subject(s): Fig Trees


SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 1. SYCHOMANCY-DIVINATION WITH LEAVES OF....., by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am particularly fond of figs
Last Line: Epithelium, is saying: yes
Subject(s): Fig Trees; Magic; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Predestination; Prophets And Prophecy; Superstition


THE FIG TREE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old as the world,
Subject(s): Fig Trees


THE FIG-TREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First go-between in fallen man's defence
Last Line: Wherewith to hide his shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Fig Trees


THE FIG-TREES OF GHERARDESCA, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye brave old fig-trees! Worthy pair
Last Line: The girlish glee! Old friends, farewell!
Subject(s): Farewell; Fig Trees; Parting


THE NEW APOCRYPHA: THE FIG TREE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With all of the rest of my troubles my fig tree's withered and gone
Last Line: If this be the work of faith, then faith itself is a curse.
Subject(s): Faith; Fig Trees; Belief; Creed


UNDER THE FIGTREE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like drifts of balm from cedared glens, those darling memories come
Last Line: And I forget how lone we sit beneath this old figtree.
Subject(s): Fig Trees