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Subject: MELONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASIA AT NIJNI-NOVGOROD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me a melon of khiva
Last Line: And the spicy melons of asia!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Melons; Nijni-novgorod, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


FIESTA MELONS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In benidorm there are melons
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Melons


GREEN-STRIPED MELONS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They lie / under the stars in a field
Last Line: The sign of their ripeness
Subject(s): Melons; Conduct Of Life


MELONS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breast-shaped, boat-shaped, ball-shaped, wrinkled, smooth
Last Line: A vine without a melon, without purpose, %no expectation, noreward, no melon
Subject(s): Melons


MELONS, by GREG KUZMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I put my time into the ground
Last Line: Even in the cooled off nights %I burned
Subject(s): Melons


MELONS, by MOISHE YUNGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On small donkeys they bring in suns
Last Line: And looks around for someone to come %to redeem him
Subject(s): Melons


THE MELON, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a melon fresh from the garden
Subject(s): Melons; Death; Hornets; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives