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Subject: PIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "APPLE-PIE, APPLE-PIE / PETER LIKES APPLE-PIE", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "so do I, so do I"
Subject(s): Food & Eating;pies


(PRETTY) GOOD RECIPE FOR PIE, by CHARLES WILKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take a pound of chicken feathers
Last Line: And serve with cheddar cheese %(serves six)
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Pies


A MELTON MOWBRAY PORK PIE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange pie that is almost a passion
Last Line: And all is not pork that is pie.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies


ABSTRACTING APPLE PIE, by BETTY COOK ROTTMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each time I ask for apple pie
Last Line: In the fruit and in my life...%even an apple is so much more
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


APPLE PIE, by BEATRICE HAWLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the round wood table
Last Line: First one, then the other, %on the shoulder
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


APPLE PIE IN PIZZALAND, by MAURA DOOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are apologising to one another
Last Line: Ring and clatter of pizzaland forks on plates
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies; Pizza


APPLE-PIE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When our cook she makes a pie
Last Line: You never et such apple-pie!
Subject(s): Apple Pie; Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Pies; Cookery


APPLE-PIE AND CHEESE, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full many a sinful notion
Subject(s): Cheese; Food And Eating; Pies


BAKER OF PIES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: This trip rose bakes pumpkin pies
Last Line: As we sail out of the twentieth century
Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Cooking And Cooks; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Pies


BITTERSWEET, by ANN L. ZOLLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you hungry? The wife says. In the freezer I have rhubarb pie
Last Line: Then we'll look across blood to the side sweet as clover andsay, %remember the glory? Remember the l
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


BOMB APPETIT!, by COLIN MCNAUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you eat one more slice of pie
Last Line: Oh, that's a risk I'll gladly take. %but just in case - stand clear!
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


CHERRY PIE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Cherries; Food And Eating; Fruit; Pies


CHERRY PIE, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're all acquainted with the airy
Last Line: Shares the sheets with art
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Nature; Pies


GOOSEBERRY-PIE; A PINDARIC ODE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gooseberry-pie is best
Last Line: Praise my pindaric ode?
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Odes (as Poetic Form); Pies; Pindar (522-440 B.c.)


GRANDMA'S BERRY-PIE, by CLARA LOUISE ANGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to go to grandma's when vacation days come round
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


GREEN GRAPE PIE, by WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Athro haley
Last Line: When we cut the crust %of mama's supper pie %giant emeralds %spilled out on our cracked %plates
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


GUSTATORY ACHIEVEMENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last thanksgiving'-dinner we
Last Line: Lawzy! I kin taste 'em yet! %yes, an' custard-pie, an' mince! %an'-I-ain't-et-no-pie-since!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Holidays; Pies; Thanksgiving Day


HOT MINCE PIE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood upon the coping of the tallest building
Last Line: How much of real excitement lurks in mother's %hot mince pie
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


IF ALL THE LAND WERE APPLE-PIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


IF ALL THE WORLD WAS [WERE] APPLE PIE, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: What should we have for drink?
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


IN PRAISE OF PIE, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to weave a pretty rhyme
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


KEY LIME PIE, by RAY CLARK DICKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sits down to a rich cultural menu of menudo
Last Line: To her the antics of a luna moth trying to mate on the %ceiling with a monarch butterfly
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


LEMON PIE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is full of gladness
Last Line: Which is known as lemon pie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies


MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Pies


MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes
Last Line: She says she loves him. No way %could it be worse
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Food And Eating; Pies


NO DYSPEPTICS NEED APPLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it's late, perhaps, for cherry pie"
Last Line: And sweeter far is mary in the kitchen making pies
Subject(s): Desserts;food & Eating;pies


PARSON'S SOCIABLE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They carried the pie to the parson's house
Subject(s): Clergy; Food And Eating; Parties; Pies


PIE MAN, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am carrying my homemade pies down a cobblestone road
Last Line: The shapes of clouds, the wooden sign above the cheese shop
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies


PIE MAN, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am carrying my homemade pies down a cobblestone road
Last Line: Think of the color of the shutters, the painted bridge, %theshapes of clouds, the wooden sign above
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


PUMPKIN PIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When melancholy days come round and leaves get brown and red
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


PUMPKIN PIE, OR REASSURANCES ARE ALWAYS FALSE; THOUGH WE LOVE THEM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pumpkin, %freshly scraped out of its tightly adhering
Last Line: Do you think it will set?' %'of course, %it will be delicious.'
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies; Pumpkins


RESIGNATION, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish you would not mention it
Last Line: To say-'what must be, must!'
Subject(s): Conformity; Food And Eating; Pies


SCHOOLBOY'S FAVORITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fer any boy 'at's little as me
Last Line: Hurrah fer the fun! - is the puddin' %done?-- %hurrah foer the punkin-pie!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies


STORY BEHIND BLACKBERRY SOUR CREAM PIE, by LESLIE PATTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was a baby, my mother
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Mothers; Pies


THE CHRISTMAS PIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, guard this night the christmas pie
Last Line: To watch it.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve - Another Ceremony;christmasse-eve, Another Ceremonie
Subject(s): Christmas; Food & Eating; Pies; Nativity, The


THE PUMPKIN PIE, OR REASSURANCES ARE ALWAYS FALSE; THOUGH WE LOVE THEM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pumpkin, / freshly scraped out of its tightly adhering
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies; Pumpkins


WHAT SPOILED THE POT PIE, by WALT HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well - one time down in gastinal
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies