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Subject: PEARS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEAFY WELCOME, by MARY JANE DEW    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pear tree stood by aunt sue's gate
Last Line: "to one and all, a leafy welcome."
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Pears


A PEAR LIKE A POTATO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it worms, having once bitten
Last Line: Like this poor pear
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


ESPALIERED PEAR TREES, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You tack the pear trees to the wall
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Pears


PEAR TREE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver dust
Last Line: In their purple hearts.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PEAR TREE, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As at the bottom of a mirror
Last Line: And go on
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PEAR TREE IN MOONLIGHT, by MERLE PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pierced through with silver lance, tonight I stand
Last Line: Entranced I bear the splendid agony.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PROPOSAL FOR A MONUMENT OF PEARS, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four pears in all, and all of them gigantic
Subject(s): Pears


QUERY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pear tree, why blossom?
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


STUDY OF TWO PEARS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Opusculum paedagogum / the pears are not viols
Last Line: As the observer wills
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


THE FIRST DAYS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing I saw in the morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Bees; Pear Trees; Beekeeping; Pears


THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man in a lawn chair
Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife.
Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears


THE PEAR, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There hangs this bellied pear, let no rake doubt,
Subject(s): Pears


THE PEAR TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "this shade-bestowing pear-tree, thou"
Last Line: Beneath it paused the duke of shaou
Subject(s): Pear Trees;trees; Pears


THE PEAR-TREE, by IWAN GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here once the evenings sobbed
Last Line: And brings you a breath of sea, a memory of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


TO A BLOSSOMING PEAR TREE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful natural blossoms,
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Old Age; Pears


TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears