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Subject: BARBECUES
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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


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


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


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


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


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