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Subject: PEACHES
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First Line: With my whole body I taste these peaches
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


COUPLE SHARING A PEACH, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not the first time
Subject(s): Peaches; Togetherness


CROWS WHO TRY TO BE CORMORANTS DROWN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snails; peaches; bishop, elizabeth (1911-1979);
Last Line: Seeds inside a tangled nest of membrane, skin
Subject(s): Snails; Peaches; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)


DISH OF PEACHES IN RUSSIA, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my whole body I taste these peaches
Last Line: That such ferocities could tear %one self from another, as these peaches do
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


FRUIT SALAD: 1. PEACH, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's not much point in trying
Last Line: Starts to wrinkle like a passion fruit
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Peaches


HAPPY JACK'S ON OUR SATURDAY MORNING, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, she could barely speak about peaches
Last Line: It cut my too sweet heart right out.'
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Morning; Peaches


HOMEWORK, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lest the fair cheeks begin their shrivelling
Last Line: I cupboarded these pickled peaches in time's despite
Subject(s): Literary Form; Peaches; Time


IN THE GARDEN: 6. A PEACH, by EDWARD DOWDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If any sense in mortal dust remains
Last Line: Girl lips, o let me richly swoon away
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


LATE PEACHES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever this is of nature, the peach tree
Last Line: Inside each peach, stand by the tree and be
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


LIKE PEACHES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Change speak sway
Last Line: Of perfect nexus - save the epicarp - collect the juices %we orchard
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Bodies; Fruit; Peaches


PEACH, by JENNIFER TONGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come here's
Last Line: And what else could he say to that %but yes
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches; Relationships


PEACH BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream in fragrant silence wrought
Last Line: The blush of nature now betrays.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


PEACH BLOOMS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Tenderly beautiful, beyond compare
Last Line: The equal peace of thy majestic calm!
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


PEACH PRESERVES, by ABIGAIL SHAFFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Takes overripe fruit
Last Line: Into sturdy gleaming mason jars
Subject(s): Fruit; Jelly; Peaches


PEACH-BLOSSOM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightly the hoar-frost freezes
Last Line: And life shall never die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches; Spring; Dead, The


PEACHES, by JANE BROX    Poem Source                    
First Line: The handful of varieties that grow in this part of the country have
Last Line: Peaches, their fragrance blooms at the back of your throat as it passes
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches


PEACHES, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mouthful of language to swallow
Last Line: Clench me into the sweetness %of your reaches
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


PEACHES, by CONNIE WANEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have eaten peach after peach
Last Line: Is suitable for resurrection
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches


PEACHSTONE, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I do not visit his grave. He is not there
Last Line: Till bright as blood the peachstone showed
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


PITSTOP, by EDMUND CONTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, alone and sad I sit
Last Line: Do I dare eat a peach?
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Peaches


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 112, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The peach tree on the southern wall
Last Line: For grandmamma with her tea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 58, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The peach would bloom through summer
Last Line: Long ago was an endless sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Fruit; Past; Peaches; Rot; Decadence


THE RIPEST PEACH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ripest peach is highest on the
Last Line: The ripest peach is highest on the tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fruit; Love; Orchards; Peaches


THROUGH THE I OF THE NEEDLE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The peach is %a belly dancer's fruit
Last Line: And is there death %after %death?
Subject(s): Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches


TIMES SQUARE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day fell here: %like a drift of dead leaves
Last Line: Elephant trumpet and chorus of locust
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Markets; Peaches; Times Square, New York


TO THE PEACH BLOSSOM, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A single blossom, brightly moist with dew
Last Line: Be glad for wealth with dual power to bless!
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches


TRIOLET, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Warm from the wall she chose a peach
Last Line: She took the wasps for councillors.
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches; Wasps; Yellow Jackets


WILD PEACHES, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the world turns completely upside down
Last Line: And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): "when The World Turns Completely Upside Down"";
Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Peaches; Seasons