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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COOKERY Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A KIND OF THEFT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the season of making vinegars, Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery A POEM SERVED TO ORDER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The caliph ordered up his cook Last Line: An eel, and not a salmon! Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery A RECEIPT FOR STEWING VEAL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a knuckle of veal Last Line: Will it fill dean and chapter! Variant Title(s): Receipt To Make Soup; For The Use Of Dean Swift Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mnemonics; Cookery A RECIPE - FOR CIVILISATION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely, those sages err who teach Last Line: That turn'd the spit, to chop up dagon! -- Subject(s): Civilization; Cooking & Cooks; Cookery A RECIPE FOR SALAD, by SYDNEY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To make this condiment, your poet begs Last Line: "fate cannot harm me, -- I have dined to-day." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Sidney Variant Title(s): A Receipt For A Salad;salad;recipe For A Salad Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mnemonics; Salads; Cookery 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 BARBECUE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the late light Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery BARLEY BROTH, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If tempers were put up to seale Last Line: A wretched or a happy weyfe! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BREAKFAST IS MY BEST MEAL: OVERHEARD AT CARLSBAD, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breakfast is my best meal, and I reckon it's always been Last Line: But it fairly makes me sick! Breakfast is my best meal. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Family Life; Food & Eating; Cookery; Relatives CHEF PERNOLLET, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some bards may prate of warriors great Last Line: On pernollet of belley! Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Cookery COOKIN' THINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother's cookin' things Last Line: I've helped my mother cook. Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Mothers; Childhood; Cookery CURIOSITY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mammy's in de kitchen, an' de do' is shet Last Line: W'en dey mammy's cookin' t'ings dat smell so good. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery DEATH IN THE KITCHEN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trim, thou art right! - 'tis sure that I Last Line: A charnel full of bones! Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery EPIGRAM: CRITIC, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A short-order cook is the mealymouthed critic, Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean Last Line: And red when they are cooked. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean MR. AND MRS. JACK SPRAT IN THE KITCHEN, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About half a box Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Women's Rights; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MUD SOUP, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had the ham bone, had the lentils Last Line: Not like isle of innisfree. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Cookery; Feminism MY UNCLE'S FAVORITE COFFEE SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serum of steam rising from the cup Last Line: Nothing will come. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery OATMEAL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I eat oatmeal for breakfast Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Oatmeal; Cookery ONE BY ONE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Soldiers; Cooking & Cooks; Ocean; Cookery SCOTTY'S WILD STUFF STEW, by FRANCIS HUMPHRIS BROWN Poem Text First Line: The cause of all the trouble Last Line: "what he christened ""wild stuff stoo""." Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poisons & Poisoning; Story-telling; Cookery SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An average joe comes in Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cookery; Cafes; Diners TENDER BUTTONS: MILK, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white egg and a colored pan and a cabbage showing settlement, a constant increase Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery THE ASSISTANT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've learnt to sift the flour in, and the way it ought / to mix Last Line: I could be there advising her and licking off the dishes. Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Childhood; Cookery THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#47) , by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lives in the flesh, in memory, in absentia, in fact and Last Line: Scraps and a mouthful of quills. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Cookery; Dead, The THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The THE EBONY CHICKERING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery THE LOVE COOK, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me cook you some dinner. Subject(s): Love; Cooking & Cooks; Cookery THE TOASTER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery TROUBLE IN DE KITCHEN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dey was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an' de pot Last Line: Dat he cooled 'em off, I reckon, w'en he puffed an' des went out. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery WHEN MOTHER COOKED WITH WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not quarrel with the gas Last Line: When mother cooked with wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers; Cookery WHEN THE MISSUS COOKS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Our ellen is an honest cook, though overfond of salt Last Line: "my fancy flies to thursday, which is ellen's ""avenin'"" out." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. 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