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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLANTATION LIFE Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PLANTATION BACCHANAL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'en ole mister sun gits tiah'd a-hangin' Last Line: Twill take care of itself. Subject(s): Plantation Life A PLANTATION SCENE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now all you picaninnies dar, come stan' up in er row Last Line: When I wuz onc't er little nig, en stood up in dat row. Subject(s): African Americans; Plantation Life; Negroes; American Blacks BEAUTIFUL CORN, by PEARL BARRETT HOY Poem Text First Line: You talk of beautiful corn Last Line: How can you know? Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Plantation Life BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!" Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring BILL'S BEANS; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the leaves, they're long and curling Last Line: And the brevity of bean. Subject(s): Beans; Food & Eating; Oregon; Plantation Life; Trees BOOK OF THE RISING FIELD, by ANDREW GRACE Poem Source First Line: Chapter 1: the planting Last Line: The arrowheads are cast aside' Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life CHANT AGAINST HAVING TO GO TO THE PLANTATION, by MARIA PEREZ TZU Poem Source First Line: Listen to me, kajval Subject(s): Peace; Plantation Life CHARLESTON PLANTATIONS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: You cannot see them from the road: go far and deep Last Line: Deep in a deathly stillness stand the planters' houses Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Plantation Life DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, de ole plantation landin' Last Line: To de lonesomeness -- dat's all. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi River; Plantation Life; Rivers; Negroes; American Blacks JANET, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The sunlight of her hair Last Line: While planting in the afternoon Subject(s): Plantation Life LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs MONTHS WERE NAMED FOR, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: Time to plant corn Last Line: And big birds in the ripe corn %sang Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life; Soil; Wheat MORNING GLORIES, by JEAN-MARIE WELCH Poem Source First Line: The summer she was told Last Line: Like his prayer Subject(s): Absence; Plantation Life; Prayer PLANTATION, by MINNIE HITE MOODY Poem Source First Line: Here is a world from other worlds apart Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION, by MARGUERITE STEEDMAN Poem Source First Line: They said, 'the land lies here.' we turned Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION BOY, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: The cut sugar stalk is a sickle Last Line: It's a virus or a vaccine Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION DROUTH, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has not rained Last Line: Despite that bright, slow, loud antiphon %it will not rain Subject(s): Drought; Plantation Life PLANTATION MEMORIES, by IRWIN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I heahs a heap o' people talkin', ebrywhar I goes Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY, by BRODDER ROMULUS Poem Source First Line: Spec' de good lawd kows de dif'rance 'twixt de woodchuck and Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION WEDDING, by MARGARET W. HOBSON Poem Text First Line: Down on the old plantation Last Line: "in dem two gals!" Subject(s): Marriage; Plantation Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PORK CHOPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh mammy ca'line %a nigger polack ain't shit Subject(s): Fields; Labor Unions; Plantation Life; Strikes RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could only spin a top Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SAMUEL GORTON, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Days ago,passing through shawomet Last Line: Quietly as a fox on the ends of my toes Subject(s): Death; Peace; Plantation Life; Preaching And Preachers SERVICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dime %in the slot Last Line: And who knows at what price? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Africa; Money; Plantation Life; Service; Smoking SLAVES, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, planter, let humanity prevail.- / perhaps the negro, in his native land Last Line: The blacks should cultivate the cane-land isles. Subject(s): African Americans; Oppression; Plantation Life; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs THE OLD PLANTATION, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O I'm sick an' tired an' lonely Last Line: Kiss 'em good-night now foreveran' then lay me down to sleep. Subject(s): African Americans; Plantation Life; Slavery; Tennessee; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape. Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THOUGHTS AND FLOWERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thoughts grow like flowers overnight Last Line: They will always want to grow. Subject(s): April; Children; Growth; Plantation Life; Childhood WORK TO DO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What busy times the world sees now Last Line: Your wayyou sing! Subject(s): April; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Plantation Life; Spring; Work; Workers |
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