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Subject: ORANGES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When france with civil wars was torn
Last Line: To heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Oranges; Trees; Versailles, Frances; War


AGE OF ORANGE: A HISTORY INFERRED FROM SENTENCES IN THE OXFORD, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year 1200, st. Dominic planted an orange
Last Line: And so back to orange fizz and the ritual conference
Subject(s): Dictionaries; History; Language; Oranges


APRIL ORANGE BLOSSOMS, by THOMAS CASEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enthroned upon the leafy bough
Last Line: To house the blossom in a hive.
Subject(s): Oranges


AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: AN ORANGE GROVE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The short sweet purple twilight dreams
Last Line: That stirs it from cicalas shrill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Dreams; Dusk; Oranges; Nightmares


BLENHEIM ORANGES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone, gone again
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Oranges; World War I; First World War


BLENHEIM ORANGES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone, gone again
Last Line: For the schoolboys to throw at - %they have broken every one
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Oranges; World War I


BURNING THE ORANGE PEELS, by J. T. BARBARESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenever it became too rank
Last Line: Like an abandoned wing
Subject(s): Oranges; Smells


CIRCUMSTANCES, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It ripen'd by the river banks
Last Line: And -- wish them at the devil!
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Oranges


CITRUS FREEZE, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the north, along orange blossom trail,
Subject(s): Oranges


DENVER STREET, by WILLARD JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A garish flare of magazines
Last Line: And navels before breakfast!
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Oranges; Youth; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


I NO LONGER DILUTE THE ORANGE JUICE, by JENNIFER CHRIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I mixed the frozen orange juice concentrate
Last Line: I no longer dilute the orange juice
Subject(s): Oranges


IMPERFECT IS OUR PARADISE, by JOY KATZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: An orange leaf on every finger bowl: a dozen tongues
Last Line: The not desiring so much more than this: an orange leaf %on every finger bowl.
Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Oranges


IN MY ORANGE-GROVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orbs of autumnal beauty, breathed to light
Last Line: In spheres of gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Oranges


LATE OCTOBER, by KAY MULLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaves rose-hip red, remnants of orange
Last Line: At home she would be waiting, %wash-bucket and whistling kettle
Subject(s): Home; October; Oranges


ON THE WING: 1 [AL VUELO], by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little sun %silent on the table
Last Line: It lacks something: %night
Subject(s): Oranges


ORANGE, by JOANNA FUHRMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father learned to meditate
Last Line: Sorry, she said, I'm sorry
Subject(s): Oranges


ORANGE, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The age of awakening: bright
Last Line: Squeezing out of it the gold
Subject(s): Oranges


ORANGE SUTRA, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to take you in, peel and all
Last Line: And upright at once
Subject(s): Oranges


ORANGES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wait. That taste, it's already bursting
Last Line: With the juice that fills you with such joy!
Subject(s): Oranges


ORANGES, by BEN SARA OF SANTAREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yonder stands the orange-tree
Last Line: And the sweets of their perfume.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Sara; Ibn Sarah
Subject(s): Oranges


ORANGES FROM PALESTINE, by MIKE MAGGIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the table %oranges from palestine
Last Line: On the table, across the room %the sweetest oranges my tongue has evr seen
Subject(s): Oranges


SPANISH ORANGES, by DOUGLAS DUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They strip so easily
Last Line: Love and the place of it, roots, %children and wife
Subject(s): Oranges


STOLEN MOMENTS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What happened once so now it's best
Last Line: We ate an orange and there were purple flowers %on the table and we still had hours
Subject(s): Love; Oranges; Passion; Sex


THE FLORIDA ORANGE, by W. C. BAUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tree gold, sun gold
Last Line: Flowerland's feast of health.
Subject(s): Oranges


THE ORANGE PICKER, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was tempted to the grove by its odor
Last Line: These oranges have failed me
Subject(s): Oranges


THE UNRIPE ORANGE, by AL-ASAMM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little daughter of the grove
Last Line: There his hand laid over it.
Subject(s): Oranges


TO ORANGES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You thousand yellow worlds from spain
Last Line: Along the babel length of strand!
Subject(s): London; Oranges


TRANSLATION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The orange tree bears fruit
Last Line: Fall, there is food for thought
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Oranges


YOUR OFFERING, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole hollow globe of orange, balanced
Last Line: Its juice, pulp, and even the seeds
Subject(s): Oranges