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Subject: BEANS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASOLANDO: THE BEAN-FEAST, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was the man - pope sixtus, that fifth, that swineherd's son
Last Line: "that I have appetite, digest, and thrive -- that boon's for me."
Subject(s): Beans


BEAN FIELDS, by MARGARET HASSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They labor along the straight lines of their
Last Line: Opening here, closing there
Subject(s): Beans; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor And Laborers


BEANS, by BO CHATMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't want no more navy beans : boys I don't want no more
Last Line: Run to the little house in the back : couldn't shut the door
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Beans; Blues (music)


BEANS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having planted %that seven mile plot
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Beans


BEANS ARE, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beans are july. Beans are the hot dust
Subject(s): Beans


BEANS BEANS BEANS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandson and I are doing up the beans
Last Line: Between bush and pole
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Beans


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


BROAD BEAN SERMON, by LES A. MURRAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beanstalks, in any breeze, are a slack church parade
Last Line: Even the last few, weeks off yet, misshapen as toes
Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan
Subject(s): Beans


SO YESTERDAY WAS BEAN DAY, by MICHELLE LEIGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: So yesterday was bean day, devil day, and that's why in the early white
Last Line: Old devils, bean day gets you every time!
Subject(s): Beans; Food And Eating; Harvest


THE BEAN, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bean! / say, buddy, the more I have seen
Last Line: Has got it all over the bone and the muscle.
Subject(s): Beans


THE JUMPING BEAN, by RICHARD HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sun in a warm streak
Last Line: Poor bean's dead!
Subject(s): Jumping Beans


THERE'S A BOWER OF BEAN-VINES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a bower of bean-vines in benjamin's yard
Last Line: Is that bower of bean-vines in benjamin's yard.
Subject(s): Beans; Humor