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Subject: HONEY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANCESTRY, by NANCY BAILEY MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In tiny adelstrop still buzz the bees
Last Line: And honey crystallizes on the shelf to tease
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects


BEE, by ENRIQUE ALVAREZ HENAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wee sovereign of the forest dense and gray
Last Line: And white wax for the tapers of the dead
Subject(s): Bees; Forests; Honey; Insects


BEES, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a bear ransacked their hive, strewing wood, wax
Last Line: The bees swarmed the locked doors, fireplace screen, floor. The house %hummed
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Nature


DYSLEXIA, by D. RODMAN WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Downwind, the smell of honey and pumpkin
Last Line: Hating honey and pumpkins and the ghost of his harvest
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Honey; Pumpkins; Smells


FESSLER'S BEES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talkin' bout yer bees,' says ike
Last Line: "fore he went to floridy!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


HONEY AT THE TABLE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It fills you with the soft
Subject(s): Honey


HONEY DRIPPER, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little arms ripped out
Subject(s): Honey


HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How slight a thing may set one's
Last Line: So bitter, yet so sweet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Blessings; Honey; Youth


HONEY HARVEST, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late in march, when the days are growing longer
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects


HONEY-HARVEST, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Setting of summer all golden and sun's setting
Last Line: Store -- else thou starvest -- store memories dear and olden.
Subject(s): Honey


LEAST BEE THAT BREW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The amber quantity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 676; Poem: 87
Subject(s): Honey


ODE TO THE BEE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herds, blythsome tune your canty reeds
Last Line: That lyart time can ne'er impair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Praise; Beekeeping; Bugs


RANCH OF THE FAN (TIERRA CLIENTE), by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down on the ranch they brought in honey
Last Line: I have been tasting it ever since.
Subject(s): Honey


REMEMBERING LOVES AND DEATHS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They happened in us
Last Line: That was pure honey, once
Subject(s): Denver, Colorado; Honey; Salt Lake City, Utah


SHARD, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the ravages that took the bees by storm
Variant Title(s): Last Drop
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


STINGS, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs
Last Line: The mausoleum, the wax house
Subject(s): Honey; Women


SWEET HONEY-SUCKING BEES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Was ever dart so sharp ah then you die
Subject(s): Bees;honey;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


TELLING THE BEES, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the old man draws his last breath
Last Line: Wondering which humming body might be his
Subject(s): Bees; Fields; Honey; Insects


THE HISTORY OF HONEY, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The history of honey' by an aged mandarin
Last Line: And he got the ancient essence of the very sweetest things.
Subject(s): Honey


THE HONEY BEAR, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Billie holiday was on the radio
Subject(s): Honey; Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness


WILD HONEY, by RAYMOND HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Still in my fingers the stings
Last Line: And a starless breeze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD HONEY, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where hints of racy sap and gum
Last Line: The pollen-dust of centuries!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs