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Subject: MUSHROOMS
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A MEDIC GATHERS MUSHROOMS FOR HIS LADY, by GRACE STONE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Atropin for muscarine --
Last Line: We have not trod.
Subject(s): Herbs; Mushrooms; Poisons & Poisoning; Morels


EATING ROASTED MATSUTAKE MUSHROOMS, by ISHIKAWA JOZAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You gather them in the shade of pine trees
Last Line: Like the cremation of little naked monks!
Subject(s): Mushrooms


FAIRY RING, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the horse-mushrooms make a fairy ring
Last Line: And bite away, like time, the tender stone
Subject(s): Mushrooms


GATHERING MUSHROOMS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain comes flapping through the yard
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


GATHERING MUSHROOMS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain comes flapping through the yard
Last Line: Lie down with us and wait
Subject(s): Mushrooms


GATHERING MUSHROOMS: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem 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


LITTLE MUSHROOMS, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Free little toad-stools
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MAIDS AND MUSHROOMS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oddly fashioned, quaintly dyed
Last Line: Would not injure anybody.
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


MORELITY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavy thatch of needle and leaf
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


MORELS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wet gray day - rain falling slowly, mist over the
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


MORELS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wet gray day - rain falling slowly, mist over the
Last Line: Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch %avove the meadow: %it was like feasting up
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MORELS, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years of abuse and neglect
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOM HUNTING IN LATE AUGUST, PETERBOROUGH, N.H., by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drosophila wing of the morning moon
Last Line: I stumble out into the sunlight. %I pucker my lips at the morning moon. %and I eat
Subject(s): Mushrooms; New Hampshire


MUSHROOM HUNTING IN THE JEMEZ MOUNTAINS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking in a mountain meadow toward the north slope
Last Line: And hear them vanish in the white-pored silence.
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


MUSHROOM HUNTING WITH MAXINE, by JANA HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cascade national forest, dirt road
Subject(s): Cascade Range; Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again, the sun cool in the half-light of trees
Last Line: Even now as you step on one, a dozen more come into focus
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


MUSHROOMS, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again, the sun cool in the half-light of trees
Last Line: Hidden near that hollowed cave of wood, and how, %even now as you step on one, a dozen more come int
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold toadstools under moist moons growing
Last Line: By demons spoken under earth %had set them there with smiles of sterile mirth
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by JOEL CHACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A quarter mile from here
Last Line: The peter's-end of an infant saint
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never gave a thought to them at first
Last Line: Full of the knowledge of darkness
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Variant Title(s): Field Mushroom
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by MARK MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen! %lisping in leaf-mould
Last Line: Plush and belly-up %they nudge the rotting air
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the dead could be
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


MUSHROOMS, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the dead could be
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Overnight, very whitely, discreetly
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


MUSHROOMS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overnight, very whitely, discreetly
Last Line: Our foot's in the door
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lounging
Last Line: From these ghostly funnels %poison-crammed
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I offer to suate
Last Line: Lips: 'no need %for buttons on a shroud.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T.
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the rain touches the rough
Subject(s): Mushrooms


MUSHROOMS, by ALLEN C. WEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the trees, amanitas
Last Line: Beautiful white %smooth-bulging umbrellas of death
Subject(s): Mushrooms


ON A PAINTING OF MUSHROOMS, by YUN SHOU-P'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A single rock from cinnabar hill
Last Line: Eat them and you will grow wings. %swallow them - they are good for your complexion
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Paintings And Painters


RAREST OF THE ESCULENTS, ITS DISTRIBUTION, by ROGER GARFITT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Chew softly, undressed or with a little yoghurt
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Riddles


STALKING THE WILD MUSHROOM, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gourmet's roulette. %you need a guidebook
Last Line: People have died
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Poisons And Poisoning


THE MUSHROOM IS THE ELF OF PLANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That mushroom — it is him!
Subject(s): Mushrooms


THE WILD MUSHROOM, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well the sunset rays are shining
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels


TOADSTOOL WOOD, by JAMES REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The toadstol wood is dark and mouldy
Subject(s): Mushrooms; Supernatural


TOADSTOOLS, by ELIZABETH+(1) FLEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not a bit windy
Subject(s): Mushrooms


WILD MUSHROOM, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well the sunset rays are shining
Last Line: They are a help to man
Subject(s): Mushrooms