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Subject: POTATOES Matches Found: 116 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A LAMENT FOR THE POTATO, A.D. 1739", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there is woe, there is clamour, in our desolate land" Last Line: "and shield us in the death-hour by thy strong, protecting hand" Subject(s): Ireland - Famine;potatoes ALICE POTATO, by THOMAS ZVI WILSON Poem Source First Line: Solanum tuberosum: %a talmudic study Last Line: Curls into self, %must rot to resurrect Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes AMERICAN HERITAGE POTATO, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lying just under potation Last Line: Or a choctaw who has tasted its higher essence Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes AMERICAN POETRY, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: A poetry sudden as rain flood Last Line: Quaking, %invincible white Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ARSH POTATOES', by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Roscoe's strictly a meat-and-potatoes man,' Last Line: Would you commence to pass the arsh potatoes.?' I say Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes AT A POTATO DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mechanical digger wrecks the drill Last Line: Then, stretched out on the faithless ground, spill %libations of cold tea, scattered crusts Subject(s): Farm Life; Potatoes BANKING POTATOES, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy would drop purple-veined vines Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Family Life; Potatoes; Relatives BANKING POTATOES, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy would drop purple-veined vines Last Line: & by mid-winter we had tunneled %back into the tomb of straw%unable to divide love from hunger Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Family Life; Potatoes BEFORE THE HUNGER: MEGAN'S BLESSING, by MARGARET BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: What an awful dream Last Line: Than a stew to witness %your glory Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes BELLADONNA, by DENNIS FINNELL Poem Source First Line: Apparently, my people begin and end in iowa Last Line: A homely thing, mostly water and edible Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes BEST MEALS OF MY LIFE, by JOSEPH DUEMER Poem Source First Line: When I crack an egg Last Line: Life of the body, %life of the mind Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were french, I'd write / about breasts Subject(s): Breasts; Love - Erotic; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I were french, I'd write %about breasts Last Line: Bogart is staring at lauren bacall's breasts %as if they might start speaking Subject(s): Breasts; Erotic Love; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes CALIFORNIA POTATOES, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: The peruvian restaurant served Last Line: With earth, water, and air Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes CHOICE, by DONNA TRUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Potatoes were a delicacy Last Line: And the occasional %potato Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes COMMENT ON AN OBSERVATION BY ONE OF MY MASTERS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But that's because back in the time of plato Last Line: Choke discourse on the matter of roast beef Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes CONCERNING NECESSITY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's quite true we live Last Line: Right here where I live Subject(s): Potatoes CORK EXAMINER, DECEMBER 4, 1846: MORE STARVATION, by ANNA MORTAL Poem Source First Line: Twas the sight of my bridey's hand, chewed Last Line: Sweet as anything I'd ever heard Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between my finger and my thumb Subject(s): Food Habits; Poetry & Poets; Potatoes DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between my finger and my thumb Last Line: The squat pen rests. %I'll dig with it Subject(s): Food Habits; Poetry And Poets; Potatoes DIGGING POTATERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, you'll pick the dustiest day Last Line: And dream of saratoga chips. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Potatoes; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers DIGGING POTATOES, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Idaho russets, late beauties of hebron Last Line: With baco bits, butter and salt Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes DIGGING POTATOES, 1950, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evenings we went out alone to that long field Last Line: In the dark drinking beer like old army buddies Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes DIRTY ENGLISH POTATOES, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Steam-cleaned, so groundless you'd believe Last Line: Unreal meals risen from sheer mist Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes DREAMING OF FRENCH FRIES BEHIND THE PROJECTS IN FAR ROCKAWAY, by DENNIS BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The black bitch cat scratched the rat's jelly-brain clean Last Line: West, do some surfing, and kick back for some eats with mom Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes DUCHESS POTATOES, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My people grew potatoes Last Line: They were called 'duchess' Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes END OF ALL HISTORY, by KENNETH JOHN SMITH Poem Source First Line: That all came out jumbled in all the different heads, napoleon Last Line: Potatoes don't pick themselves Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes FAMINE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All over ireland, survivors held wakes Last Line: Waited a potato too long, prayed a day too hard Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes FAMINE'S END, by JUDY LONGLEY Poem Source First Line: Reassured when the moon's pale flesh Last Line: Into the dark, let us nurture new vine Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes FOR PLANTING CAMOTES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, poor orphan Last Line: With her I shall heal %I , just a poor person Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Potatoes IDAHO POTATO FIELD, by EDITH M. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Two wee lads in a dark brown field Last Line: In brown, to fill? Subject(s): Idaho; Potatoes IF YOU'RE LOST', by S. B. SOWBEL Poem Source First Line: A renowned interpreter of %the stars once said Last Line: For life at a forgotten address.' Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes IN JANA'S GARDEN, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in july, in jana's weedy garden Last Line: For all you can give Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes IN PERU, THE QUECHUANS HAVE A THOUSAND WORDS FOR POTATO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I hold my cut finger to the ice water Last Line: Before climbing up the mountain Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes IN PRAISE OF THE POTATO, by DAVID WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Potato, sojourner north, first sprung Last Line: You'd drive it up, into a flower Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes INSULTED AND THE INJURED (THE SPEAKER IS A SMALL POTATO OVERLOOKED, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I, underground giant, waiting to be fried Last Line: Rises - %(I'm sun, I fill the sky) - %and lours Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes LA PAPA, by RUDOLFO ANAYA Poem Source First Line: In spanish potato is papa Last Line: This is the way with words Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes LETTER TO A FORMER MOTHER SUPERIOR, by MARY KAY RUMMEL Poem Source First Line: In a drawer in the kitchen %onions kneel Last Line: They come to claim me %these tellers of silence Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes LILA'S POTATOES, by LELAND BARDWELL Poem Source First Line: They asked me to write a poem Last Line: I'm glad it was the sun Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes LONG LIVE THE POTATO; VIVA LA PAPA!, by ANGELA DE HOYOS Poem Source First Line: ...To borrow from the song: in spain Last Line: Simply what it is: la papa Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes MAN IN NOVOSIBIRSK, by H. L. HIX Poem Source First Line: Leaning into the handlebars Last Line: Another man gathers mushrooms Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes MISHIPASINGHAN, LUMCHIPAMUDANA, ETC, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days, anything is wonderful. In its Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes MISHIPASINGHAN, LUMCHIPAMUDANA, ETC, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days, anything is wonderful. In its Last Line: He eats it. And there's only one word Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes MOLLY O'ROURKE CLEARY EXPLAINS, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER Poem Source First Line: We were aristocrats in clare Last Line: Told irish stories, though we were %always aristocrats, I'm sure Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes OF POTATOES, by TRISH REEVES Poem Source First Line: We didn't plan our lives this way Last Line: Still wanting to have a bit more %than the poor Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ON HEARING THAT A POTATO COSTS $70 IN SARAJEVO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Potato: for want of it the irish invaded boston Last Line: Abundant in the skins of the coveted, ubiquitous, %though sometimes unafforadable potato Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ONE MAN'S POTATO CHIP, by DIANA VON ZWECK Poem Source First Line: History repeats a work of Last Line: She, the wild brushstroke. A visionary desire Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ONE POTATO, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She buys a potato Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ONE POTATO, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She buys a potato Last Line: That given time, ripen Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes OUTSIDE, by SUSAN WHITMORE Poem Source First Line: Wind whips red %and orange against window glass Last Line: Flower memory, fleshy green Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes PASSACAGLIA, by LEQUITA VANCE-WATKINS Poem Source First Line: Potato, you thunder along Last Line: For a baritone of years Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes PEELING POTATOES, by PHILIP MILLER Poem Source First Line: In the kitchen %everything looked worn Last Line: Staring hard %at the old winter moon Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes PEELING POTATOES, by LENORA STEELE Poem Source First Line: I do not think that I Last Line: My clothes line is a perfect %gospel of deceit Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Potatoes PITCHING THE POTATOES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a semipro pitcher in the city Last Line: In a snapshot from thirty years ago Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POEM, by BOB HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Once when I was little I knelt before an onion Last Line: Then the onion opened and inside was a potato Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POEMS, POTATOES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Potatoes; Poetry & Poets POTATO, by PAM BERNARD Poem Source First Line: Mother prepared them every night Last Line: Down to me, a wedge, raw %and beaded with milk Subject(s): Mothers; Potatoes POTATO, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The potato reminds one of an alert desert stone. And it belongs Last Line: Would be a lot of plat...' Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lowly potato %incas told time Last Line: To a modest sacrament %omen, buried inheritance Subject(s): Potatoes POTATO, by LILLIAN E. CURTIS Poem Source First Line: What on this wide earth Last Line: That though homely, our heart can be %like that of the homely potato Subject(s): Potatoes POTATO, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In haste one evening while making dinner Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In haste one evening while making dinner Last Line: Hand-me-down clothes on the line Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO, by ROCHELLE RATNER Poem Source First Line: The potato is on the dishrack Last Line: Some stay there longer than others Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO, by RODERICK TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: Before the frisk of snow Last Line: Until it wasn't anymore Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An underground grower, blind and a common brown Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An underground grower, blind and a common brown Last Line: Awkward and milky and beautiful only to hunger Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO CELLAR, by MEG HUBER Poem Source First Line: Stretched out on a roof Last Line: To soften the floor %beneath our backs Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO CONFLICTS: 1. UNSUNG SPUD FIGHTS AXIS POWERS, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: In the captured photo alum, attic-dusted and insect-infested Last Line: The graf zeppelin, dumping ballast on his bespeckled face Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO CONFLICTS: 2. CANNON FODDER, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: All that's needed is three or four feet of plastic pipe Last Line: Current and turning to catfish fodder Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO CONFLICTS: 3. GARDEN CASUALTIES, by WALTER BARGEN Poem Source First Line: Green spring and I'm racing through intersections Last Line: Blind as a root, dumb as a tuber Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO ESCAPE, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: When I was fifteen I stood Last Line: To all the future world? Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO GARDEN, by JEANETTE REDENIUS Poem Source First Line: I remember watching benjie Last Line: From the compost %last summer Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO HARVEST, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A high bare field, brown from the plough, and borne Last Line: Down the dusk hillside %lumbers the wain; and day fades out like smoke Subject(s): Harvest; Potatoes POTATO SOUP, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: In the early years she helped her mother plant peels Last Line: Down to this, bringing the bottle up slow to meet her lips Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Mothers; Potatoes; Soup POTATOES, by DAVID DONNELL Poem Source First Line: This poem is about the strength and sadness of potatoes Last Line: In the cellars of poor farmers all over america %the potatoes sit quietly on top of each other growi Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATOES, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neglected for days, for weeks Last Line: Have started to turn, growing shorter Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATOES, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: You eat whatever you can Last Line: White tubers to keep one sane Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATOES, by DAISY RHAU Poem Source First Line: The man I love cooks me potatoes Last Line: Still this taste I would always know - %korea, china, peru Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATOES CORIANDER, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Harbored inside a much-thumbed joy of cooking Last Line: Yield: two servings...Plus souvenirs of john! Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATOES OF THE FIELD, by THOMAS MICHAEL MCDADE Poem Source First Line: Boone understands %how tough it would be Last Line: A tale that gives boone hope %and a shiver Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes PRINCESS, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING Poem Source First Line: Don't stare at me Last Line: I'm happy not to see Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes RISKS, by MALCOLM GLASS Poem Source First Line: You know the risks when you wok Last Line: Of potatoes descend %to bury you Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ROAST POTATOES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the wholesale produce market Variant Title(s): Roasting Potatoes Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ROAST POTATOES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the wholesale produce market Last Line: Lacking, and for the young, %unknown to memory Variant Title(s): Roasting Potatoe Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ROOTS: TO MY DAUGHTER, by VIRGINIA RINALDY TERRIS Poem Source First Line: You told me you were growing potatoes Last Line: As if planting themselves Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SEEING A BASKET OF LOBELIA THE COLOR OF A BATHROBE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that time I read a book about a girl prone Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SEEING A BASKET OF LOBELIA THE COLOR OF A BATHROBE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that time I read a book about a girl prone Last Line: The tears stored in roots brought out for food Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SEX AND THE SINGLE SPUD, by ANN SLEGMAN Poem Source First Line: Hot. Steaming hot Last Line: Than when I am romancing the spud Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SIMPLE THING, by LEATHA KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Standing at my stove, potatoes to be mashed Last Line: Is all she'll hear me say Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SKIBBEREEN THE FAMINE PIT, by JOHN KNOEPFLE Poem Source First Line: It was only that the poor Last Line: They had the deep eyes Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SKINNING, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: They say the peel is where you get Last Line: Carving and say %'you eat em' Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SPRAYING THE POTATOES, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The barrels of blue potato-spray Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Potatoes SPRAYING THE POTATOES, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The barrels of blue potato-spray Last Line: Of the spraying barrels he is not lolst %or till blossomed stalks cannot cannot weave a spell Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Potatoes SPUDS, by BRIAN DALDORPH Poem Source First Line: Now if'n yous go on a motor trip Last Line: An' make it home on potheen Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SUSTENANCE, by JASON SANTALUCIA Poem Source First Line: It should have been enough that we were poor Last Line: It was a kind of purity, I said, and believed it Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SWIMMING LESSON, by WYATT TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: Go under. %put your whole head in Last Line: Your whole life %into it Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And not simply by the fact that this shading of Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: And finds no horizon %will not be there Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE DUCHESS POTATOES, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My people grew potatoes Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes THE POTATO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'm a careless potato, and care not a pin" Last Line: When the earth is hoed up to my stem Subject(s): Potatoes THE POTATO HARVEST, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A high bare field, brown from the plough, and borne Subject(s): Harvest; Potatoes THE POTATOES' DANCE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down cellar,' said the cricket Last Line: "who gives potatoes eyes." Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Potatoes THE TRYST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Potato was deep in the dark under ground Last Line: Till they met in a brunswick stew. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Food & Eating; Potatoes; Tomatoes THE VEGETABLES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She bore only the heart Subject(s): Artichokes; Asparagus; Cauliflowers; Herbs; Corn; Celery; Bell Peppers; Potatoes THIS SPUD'S FOR YOU, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of solanum tuberosum, that vagrant vegetable Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes THIS SPUD'S FOR YOU, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of solanum tuberosum, that vagrant vegetable Last Line: We can lift our voices. All together now Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes TODAY THE GRANDPA DUG POTATOES, by OPAL WHITELY Poem Source First Line: Today the grandpa dug potatoes in the field Last Line: The star gleams on their leaves Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes TONIGHT, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN Poem Source First Line: I stand in the kitchen scrubbing Last Line: And slam the lid down on potatoes Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes TONIGHT I THANK THE POTATO, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: Bare hands wash Last Line: Holds us by the thumb Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes TOURISTS, POTATOES, AND GENOCIDE, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: A former girlfriend praises my new place Last Line: For some tiny trace of what happened Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes TWO: INHALE AND RAISE THE ARMS. BEND BACKWARD, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: You, I accuse. %you, michael moon Last Line: Mend yourself, %come forth Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes VAN GOGH'S THE POTATO EATERS, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Not ever to sit down, a part of one another Last Line: Ruddy at the unspoken, ravening Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes VARIATIONS ON THE EDIBLE TUBER, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thing I hate most is eating potatoes Last Line: Condition however extreme %this new feeling Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes WIDOWER, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: She took such good care of him Last Line: Of the miracles. She knew all along Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes YORK KIDNEY POTATOES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One farmer giles, an honest clown Last Line: "none but york kidneys does for mashing." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Potatoes; Agriculture; Farmers |
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