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Subject: PICNICS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RAINY PICNIC DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's raining-raining hard as cats and dogs
Last Line: Could be put off in such a lot of ways.
Subject(s): Children; Picnics; Rain; Childhood; Barbecues


ARCHAEOLOGICAL PICNIC, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this high pasturage, this blunden time
Last Line: One bottle more of fizzy lemonade
Subject(s): Love; Picnics


AUDLEY COURT, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bull, the fleece are cramm'd and not a room
Last Line: Dipt by itself, and we were glad at heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Picnics


CHINESE LANTERNS, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peppers and onions piled in the sink
Last Line: Cutting to the quick, easy way home
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Food And Eating; Guests; Parties; Picnics


CHURCH PICNIC, by LINCOLN FITZELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leaning by a pebble-brook
Last Line: Carve their names on river trees.
Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues


EDEN ROCK, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Picnics; Dead, The; Barbecues


EDEN ROCK, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock
Last Line: I had not thought that it would be like this
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Picnics


GEORGIA DUSK, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue
Last Line: Bring dreams of christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Picnics; Barbecues


IMAGINARY PICNIC, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In me still, she takes me fishing for tadpoles
Last Line: I am glad it has happened to me
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Picnics


IN FERVENT PRAISE OF PICNICS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Picnics is fun 'at's purty hard to beat
Last Line: With our charlotty to the trick-dog show!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues


MAURINE: PART 4, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maurine, maurine! 'tis ten o'clock! Arise
Last Line: Ere I could speak, or change my attitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature; Picnics; Women; Barbecues


MEDITATION WITH BARBECUE, by STEVEN TURLOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Start with a tree, one limb
Last Line: Beneath a pickled moon
Subject(s): Picnics


MR. AND MRS. SCOTT, AND I, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rough-coated sun-burnt oranges
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Picnics


ONCE UPON A PICNIC, by VIVIAN FRENCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out on a picnic, %mom, dad, and me
Last Line: Come back, come back, everyone!
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by DOROTHY ALDIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We brought a rug for sitting on
Last Line: Our sandwiches were different kinds. %I dropped my jelly one
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Picnics


PICNIC, by CATHERINE ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a small beach where everyone returned
Last Line: One of those round shy bugs in june, %never speaking the rest of his life
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by WENDY BISHOP    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a cloth, these flat rocks stacked randomly
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by BRUCE DUCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They put away the plates and lay
Last Line: And the cries slid out, jays and juncos rallied to %see what was the ruckus
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by CHRISTINE GARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a clearing of yellow grass where a deer ran
Last Line: As she is now, like an animal, wanting back inside the house
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light shone down taking the shape of each lie
Last Line: Blacker shadows of spring now that the leaves are %opening, now that they're taking up %place
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by STANLEY HANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When red oak's red lear bud
Last Line: But sometimes we relax %and let the birds watch us
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by HUGH LOFTING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ella, fell a %maple tree
Last Line: Fancy, nancy, %what a spree!
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here was the plan - the sky that day
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunday in inwood park
Last Line: What kind of sunlight is it %that leaves the rocks so cold?
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC, by VALERIE TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The orlon wiggles through the underbrush
Last Line: We'll take along our portable tv
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC IN MAY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The noise of the record player in the grass
Last Line: Say it, say that there is no hope
Subject(s): Hope; Picnics


PICNIC SCENE, by JAMES BERTOLINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lift the wine while history
Last Line: The splendid, unsheathed %talons
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNIC: CENTRAL PARK, by KAY ANN MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the april sky kites glitter
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Picnics


PICNIC: THE LIBERATED, by M. CARL HOLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: En route to the picnic they drive through their history
Last Line: Mounting their private myths of freedom and command, %privileged prisoners in a haunted land
Subject(s): Picnics


PICNICS, by MARCHETTE CHUTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunshine and weiners and pickles and ham
Last Line: Picnics are certainly fun!
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Picnics


SHORE PICNIC, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole vast shelving shore serves for our / platter
Last Line: Green-furred and root enfolding.
Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE ALL OF IT, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Picnics; Swans; Barbecues


THE BEACH PICNIC, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I went down to the outing sea
Last Line: No place for beaus.
Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FISHING PARTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wunst we went a-fishin' - me
Last Line: When I choked! . . . Ma, didn't he?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Picnics; Barbecues


THE PICNIC, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ducks in the pond
Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues


THE SOUVENIR, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing into the wilderness of twisted trees
Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues


THINGS WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PICNIC, by LILA L. ZEIGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1. Who conceived the idea of the picnic, and by whom?
Last Line: 19. Who forgot the sun? %20
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Picnics


WHERE THE PICNIC WAS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where we made the fire
Last Line: For evermore
Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues


WHITSUN, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not what I meant:
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore