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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FOOD & EATING Matches Found: 468 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "APPLE-PIE, APPLE-PIE / PETER LIKES APPLE-PIE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "so do I, so do I" Subject(s): Food & Eating;pies "MARRIOTT, THE GREAT EATER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here to your view's presented the great eater Last Line: Those that feed him councell shall not want Subject(s): "food & Eating;law & Lawyers;marriott, John (d. 1653); 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A BALLAD OF REFRESHMENT, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: The lady stood at the station bar Last Line: (and the bun is old and weary.) Subject(s): Food & Eating; Railroads; Railways; Trains A COLLEGE BREAKFAST-PARTY, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young hamlet, not the hesitating dane Last Line: And leave the soul in wider emptiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): College Sports; Food & Eating; Parties; Philosophy & Philosophers; Shakespeare - Hamlet A COUPLET BY MR. GRAY, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you rise from your dinner as light as before Last Line: Tis a sign you have eat just enough and no more. Subject(s): Food & Eating A CUP OF TEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have sipped, with drooping lashes Last Line: Fragrant laurel round its rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Mythology; Tea; Vision; Nightmares A DESERT DAY, by ALMA LACOCK Poem Text First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A FIG FOR TRADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A fig for trade!' the maiden said Last Line: A fig, for trade! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Merchants; Trade A HEALTH TO HORACE FLETCHER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the ills, the pains and pills Last Line: Our brother, horace fletcher! Subject(s): Fletcher, Horace (1849-1919); Food & Eating A HYME, TO THE LARES PROSPECTIVE POEM, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was, and still my care is Last Line: I'le eat and drink up all here. Subject(s): Food & Eating A LEAN LAMENT, by FERN M. HARLAN Poem Text First Line: I'm sorry that I waited such a long time to be born Last Line: Will give me strength to last until my dinner. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poverty A LONG DAY, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking all this day she may be dead Last Line: Because I took away her bit of bread. Subject(s): Bread; Death; Farewell; Food & Eating; Hunger; Dead, The; Parting A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A MELTON MOWBRAY PORK PIE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange pie that is almost a passion Last Line: And all is not pork that is pie. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies A PARAPHRASE ON...LEVITICUS: 11; CONTAINING REASONS OF PROHIBITIONS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of feathred foules, that fanne the bucksom aire Last Line: Flittyng, with littel leathren sailes dispredde. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Food & Eating; Religion; Theology A PIZZA THE SIZE OF THE SUN, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm making a pizza the size of the sun Subject(s): Food & Eating A RHYME OF THE WEST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL Poem Text First Line: It was reuben steel that led the way, and his mate was palmer jake Last Line: That the wandering winds might ring at will a requiem for the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Friendship; Sacrifices; Dead, The A SEA OF WHEAT, by ALICE BAKER Poem Text First Line: I look at waves on a golden sea Last Line: So rich as a field of wheat. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Wheat A SHORT PANEGYRIC, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the vegetarian nightmare is over and we are back to Subject(s): Food & Eating A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.; Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips; A THANKSGIVING FEAST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two are the last my daughter! Last Line: Will be here thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Feasts; Food & Eating; Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey A TRILOGY: ASHES, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: The outline of a withered tree Last Line: It's five o'clock and time to eat! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating A VERMONT 'DONATION', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny how our ancestors Last Line: With some deliberation. Subject(s): Charity; Churches; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Preaching & Preachers; Vermont; Philanthropy; Cathedrals A VERMONT BREAKFAST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer days speed up so fast Last Line: And glorifies that apple. Subject(s): Apples; Food & Eating; Fruit; Vermont A VERMONT SUNDAY DINNER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sermons, sunday school between Last Line: To get dried beef for dinner. Subject(s): Beef; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Vermont A WICKER BASKET, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Comes the time when it's later Subject(s): Food & Eating A WOMAN FEEDING GULLS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They cry out at the sight of her and come flying Subject(s): Gulls; Food & Eating; Seagulls ABLA, by ANTARA IBN SHADDAD Poem Text First Line: The poets have muddied all the little fountains Last Line: Who will guide me to the dwelling of abla? Alternate Author Name(s): Black Knight; Antarah Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Valleys ABOUT HUSBANDS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Johnson was right. I don't agree at all Last Line: But apt to take his temper from his dinner. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face Last Line: Gie her a haggis! Variant Title(s): To A Haggis Subject(s): Food & Eating AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: DIALOGUE SUNG THE FIRST NIGHT, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tune thy cheerful voice to mine Last Line: That hath our fortunes raised. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Music & Musicians AMAZING FACTS ABOUT FOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I yearn to bite on a colloid Subject(s): Food & Eating;soul;vegetables;waiters & Waitresses AMBROSIA, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sipped and supped and tasted Last Line: Boyhood's bowl of bread-and-milk! Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Childhood AMORETTI: 77, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a dream, or did I see it plain? Last Line: My thoughts the guests, which would thereon have fedd. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Food & Eating AN EPICUREAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I am a man, I fear no can Last Line: Give me an ice cream pie. Subject(s): Epicureanism; Food & Eating; Taste (sense) AN EPISTLE TO J. BL-K-N, ESQ.: ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The point mr. Bl-k-n, disputed upon Last Line: And rejoice in the health of its master;—adieu! Subject(s): Food & Eating; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Locusts; Vegetables ANGELO ORDERS HIS DINNER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, angelo, obese, black-garmented Last Line: Is bare: I, angelo, will sit and eat. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Food & Eating ANIMAL CRACKERS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink Last Line: Having cocoa and animals once more for tea! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Food & Eating ANOTHER INSANE DEVOTION, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Lost; Cats; Food & Eating; Hunger APPLE DUMPLINGS; BY REQUEST, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze not upon my outside, friend Last Line: Beneath the better part. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Food & Eating APPLE SAUCE AND CHICKEN FRIED, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk about the knowledge Last Line: For apple sauce and chicken fried. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating APPLE-PARING NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The biggest basket 'round our place Last Line: That weekly apple-paring night. Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers 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 APRIL IN THE DESERT, by SUDIE STUART HAGER Poem Text First Line: My heart turns gratefully to you Last Line: With you I see the spring! Subject(s): April; Deserts; Food & Eating ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder Last Line: Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Native Americans; Rain; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ARMOR, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I explain myself to a man Last Line: Or to whose funeral. Subject(s): Food & Eating ARTHUR BRYANT'S, KANSAS CITY, MO- OR, CUBAN POET GORGES HIMSELF...., by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entropy is the daily topic here, how sauces ooze off plastic trays Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Restaurants; Food & Eating; Kansas City, Missoufri; Latinos ASPIC AND BUTTERMILK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two foods I hated to eat, / so those were foods he like me to eat Subject(s): Food & Eating AT DEEP MIDNIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Subject(s): Food & Eating; Night; Women - Old Age; Bedtime AT FIVE O'CLOCK; TO K. F. POURING TEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lady rose, round whom black-coated bees Last Line: And time should pause for thee at golden noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tea AT HUSKING TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At husking time the tassel fades Last Line: At husking time. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AT THE LORD'S TABLE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, at thy table I remember thee Last Line: A richer food than earthly bread and wine. Subject(s): Bread; Food & Eating; Tables AT THE WELL, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, see Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I need is a seraph and a pig Subject(s): Pigs; Food & Eating; Boars; Hogs BAKED ALASKA, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will do. It's not Last Line: That's all there is to say, babe, make it a good one for me Subject(s): Food & Eating BALLADE OF THE IDEAL WAITER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some people sigh for a waiter who's humble Last Line: —I want a waiter who'll leave me alone! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners BEARING MYRRH, by ROBERTA ROBERSON CHILDERS Poem Text First Line: The desert welcomes christmas Last Line: In humble reverence. Subject(s): Christmas; Deserts; Food & Eating; Nativity, The BEAUTIFUL MEALS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How nice it is to eat! Last Line: I know 'twas they. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Food & Eating BETTY BOOPER, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is little betty booper Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Popcorn BIG DOG, LITTLE DOG, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one two times the other's size Subject(s): Dogs; Size & Shape; Food & Eating; Height 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 BILLY GOODIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look so neat an' sweet in all yer Last Line: A-eatin'! An' a-eatin'! An' a-eatin'! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Childhood BLACKBERRY EATING, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to go out in late september Subject(s): Blackberries; Food & Eating BLASTING FROM HEAVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mothers; Life BOILING SAP AT NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sugarhouse was jest a shack Last Line: That syrup made at dead of night! Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating; Mountains; Soup; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BREADMAKERS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think god loves the people who bake bread Last Line: I know that god must love the makers of the bread. Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Bread; Food & Eating BREAKFAST, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rush hour, and the short order cook lobs breakfast Subject(s): Food & Eating BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the window, my girls are eating eggs and cereal Last Line: Except a hard one and want me to decide Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Dogs; Contests 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 BREAKING TRAINING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The football player, as he casts aside Last Line: Count nothing now—just see those battlers eat! Subject(s): Dieting; Food & Eating; Football BUMS AT BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily, the bums sat down to eat in our kitchen. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Family Life; Food & Eating; Morning; Relatives BUT WHEN I SAW GRAND CANYON, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The painted desert taught my soul to sing Last Line: And majesty, and silence like a prayer. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grand Canyon, Arizona BY THE CH'EN GATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk as wild geese winged their aery way Last Line: But through me rang the name of kubla khan. Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Dusk; Food & Eating; Tibet; Nightmares CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have got old Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Rivers; Water CAFE TORTONI ('81), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edouard manet (solus) Last Line: I left them—well—a living world! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Food & Eating; France; Restaurants; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Cafes; Diners CAFETERIA FOOD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even when you've been living on Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Food & Eating CAMPASPE: SONG, FR. ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE, by JOHN LYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a bowl of fat canary Last Line: Jove would leap down to surfeit here. Alternate Author Name(s): Lily, John Variant Title(s): A Serving Men's Song Subject(s): Food & Eating CANDIED YAMS', by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 3 boiled whole yams unpeeled and sliced, Last Line: I want to make magic / magic Subject(s): Food & Eating CELERY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celery raw / devlops the jaw Subject(s): Celery; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Mnemonics CHALCEDONY, by EMMA POMEROY GREENOUGH Poem Text First Line: Ages long since, upon the desert waste Last Line: Outlasting that poor home wherein it grew. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating CHAROSET, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and sticky Last Line: Tonight in the mind Subject(s): Jewish Families; Passover; Food & Eating; Ceremonies & Rituals CHAZERET: LETTUCE IN REBELLION, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bland almost as water Last Line: Waving your own new flag Subject(s): Jewish Families; Food & Eating 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 CHERRY PIE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: O cherry pie! A song for thee! Last Line: Owe cherry pie. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Cherries; Food & Eating; Fruit CHRISTIAN BERARD, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Eating is her subject. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Language; Words; Vocabulary CHRISTMAS DINNER AT CHILDS', by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the merchant-men Last Line: To my land a hundred songs. Subject(s): Christmas; Food & Eating; Restaurants; Nativity, The; Cafes; Diners COMPENSATION, by MARION L. BERTRAND Poem Text First Line: Tossed about like thistle-down Last Line: With the countless little things he has spilled! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating COMPLAINT OF THE CONVALESCENT, by GERALDINE MEYRICK Poem Text First Line: When you're sick in bed of something Last Line: "lemon jelly, by and by." Subject(s): Food & Eating; Sickness; Illness CONTENT, NOT CATES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the food, but the content Last Line: More then a feast contenteth me. Subject(s): Food & Eating COOKING, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slide down like a fireman into a cauldron-shaped machine Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets COUNSEL TO THOSE THAT EAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With chocolate-cream that you buy in the cake Subject(s): Cakes;children;chocolates;food & Eating; Childhood CRAZY MENU, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last of his toothpaste, last of his wheat chex, last Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Food & Eating; Grief; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love CROSSING THE DESERT, by MYLES A. J. RHYNES Poem Text First Line: Silently the desert spreads beneath the Last Line: The spanish suns setting, the evening shadows bow. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness CRUSHED, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His hands crushed a lemon Last Line: That would keep you up all night— Subject(s): Food & Eating DAWN IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the first opal presage of the morn Last Line: But bowed to allah. Subject(s): Dawn; Deserts; Food & Eating; Islam; Sunrise DAYS OF 1994: ALEXANDRIANS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lunch: as we close the twentieth century, Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Cancer (disease); Food & Eating; Impermanence DEAD HORSE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the fence line, I was about to call him in when Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals; Food & Eating DECADE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you came, you were like red wine and honey, Subject(s): Food & Eating; Relationships DEEP IN OUR REFRIGERATOR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Food & Eating; Time DESERT, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hereabouts is desert, it's a bad county Last Line: Adding and subtracting itself for ever and ever. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Time DESERT, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sands, unbroken by mosque or minaret Last Line: Born of a brain whose nucleus is fire. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT BEAUTY, by RUTH BROWN JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: Gray sage against gray sand Last Line: Saying farewell behind. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT BRIDE, by MARY MILLER BEARD Poem Text First Line: When sunset colors paint the desert land Last Line: She shuts her eyes and weds him after dusk. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT FLUTES, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: When the night is wrapped in slumber Last Line: I shall rise and follow them. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT HYMN TO THE SUN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arches of the morning sky Last Line: But one who keeps, and shall reclaim his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food & Eating; Sun; World DESERT MOTHER, by BERTA HART NANCE Poem Text First Line: Her husband had been gone for weeks Last Line: That gave her strength to go away. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Mothers; Strength; Dead, The DESERT NIGHT, by FRANCES DAVIS ADAMS Poem Text First Line: This is a land of sleepiness, of stark Last Line: Beneath this mask of quietness and sleep. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT NIGHT, by MARGARET WHEELER ROSS Poem Text First Line: The mountains have put on Last Line: Responsories. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Bedtime DESERT PARABLE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miles above them, miles below Last Line: Than night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Canyons; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat DESERT SONG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I came on from santa fe Last Line: The scent of rain, the scent of rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sante Fe, New Mexico DESERT STORM, by LORIS PICKARD WOOLERY Poem Text First Line: Dark clouds boil up to fill the sky Last Line: Of deafening sound -- the aftermath. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Storms DESERT SUNSET, by BLANCHE W. PORTER Poem Text First Line: Upon the silence of the desert land Last Line: For us -- alone -- upon the desert swell. Subject(s): Deserts; Evening; Food & Eating; Sunset; Twilight DESERT TWILIGHT, by JULIA DAINGERFIELD GLASS Poem Text First Line: Bold, glaring daylight wanes Last Line: In the still, sweet twilight. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT WATERCOLOR, by RUBY BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Green of the palo verde Last Line: With a misted mantle of desert stars. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT WIFE, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: I have shed cold tears so sterile they were saltless Last Line: How can such fruitless years in any manner magnify my god? Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DESERTS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: A desert does not have to be Last Line: When faith is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Deserts; Faith; Food & Eating; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology DIET, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wholsome diet can re-cure a man Last Line: What need of physick, or physitian? Subject(s): Food & Eating; Health; Physicians; Doctors DINING [OR, EATING] OUT ALONE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through two layers of glass Last Line: Of which I am one, dining out alone Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners DINING-ROOM TEA, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were there, and you, and you Last Line: When you were there, and you, and you. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Soldiers' Writings; Tea DINNER IN A QUICK LUNCH ROOM, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn Last Line: And gorge the sticky mess these fools call food! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners DINNER OF HERBS, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dined at a strange old inn with sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Pleasure; Food & Eating; Sorrow; Sadness DORA DILLER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stomach's full of butterflies!' Subject(s): Food & Eating; Caterpillars DUSK ON THE DESERT, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The wind sped mute among the grass Last Line: That sweep the plains at eventide. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating EARNING A DINNER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full oft doth mat. With topaz dine Last Line: Full hardly earneth mat. His dinner. Subject(s): Food & Eating EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My new province is a land of bamboo-groves Last Line: For each breath of the south-wind makes a new bamboo! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Food & Eating EATING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Carve me yet another slice Last Line: And now it gives my heart relief / in sorrow's darksome hour - to dine! Subject(s): Food & Eating EATING THE PIG, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve people, most of us strangers, stand in a room Subject(s): Pigs; Food & Eating; Boars; Hogs ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother! Be the teaties done? Last Line: Zoo I shall goo up out o' the waÿ o' the waggon. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Fathers; Food & Eating; Homecoming; Winter; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers EDEN RETOLD: 5. THE CONFESSION, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on the first day her first word was thou Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Sin; Trees; Food & Eating; Eve EGG ROLLS, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking down first avenue and knew Subject(s): Food & Eating; Roommates EL PONIENTE, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the train the miles are folded by Last Line: It is young air we breathe. This is the west! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States ELEGY FOR A SUICIDE, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, these flowers of the field Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Birds; Childhood EPICUREAN REMINISCENCES OF A SENTIMENTALIST, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think it was spring - but not certain I am Last Line: Were all crying -- I think it was sprats! Subject(s): Food & Eating EPIGRAM: ON A MISER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it be true, as grave historians say Last Line: Death by starvation you've no cause to fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Food & Eating; Misers EPIGRAM: ON DINING WITH STRANGERS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bid me dine with folks unknown Last Line: I stay at home and dine! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Food & Eating EVENING IN THE PANTRY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's lots more fun to eat a pie Last Line: For now and for to-morrow too! Subject(s): Children; Desserts; Food & Eating; Childhood FABLES: 1ST SER. 38. THE TURKEY AND THE ANT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In other men we faults can spy Last Line: Nor for a breakfast nations kill. Subject(s): Ants; Food & Eating; Insects; Turkeys; Bugs FEBRUARY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter. Time to eat fat Subject(s): Winter; Cats; Food & Eating 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 FISH, by SYDNEY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much do I love, at civic treat Last Line: Thee and thy dainty friends to leave. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Sidney Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating FLESH, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hooves were forbidden, but she fed us Subject(s): Food & Eating; Family Life; Relatives FOOD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is always there Last Line: Whatever is you, is pure Subject(s): Food & Eating FOOD OF LOVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to murder you with love Last Line: And you'll begin to die again. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Love; Men; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOODS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My roof is slate, my windows look Last Line: No heart knows. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Food & Eating; Hearts; Cathedrals FOREVER ONWARD, by ROBERT LEE HAWKENSEN Poem Text First Line: O shifting sand of the desert Last Line: Possessed of love and hope. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating FREEDOM, by WINN SKELLEY Poem Text First Line: Winds of the waste land, sweep over me Last Line: To await the dawning of a star. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating FRIDAY LUNCHBREAK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, still wearing their white Last Line: And wrestle, angels of meat. Subject(s): Beef; Calves; Factories; Food & Eating; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FROM A FELUCCA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white tomb in the desert Last Line: And on the sky his calm. Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food & Eating; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FROM THE DESERT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast visited me with thy storms Last Line: In thy dark depths evermore. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though as a republic hamburg was ne'er Last Line: "yes, even to hell in a canter!" Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hamburg, Germany; Publishing; Publishers GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I left cologne on my onward road Last Line: With laurel leaves round their muzzle. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Germany; Germans GLAD HEART AT THE SUPERMARKET, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still more regimented than the daily run Subject(s): Supermarkets; Food & Eating GOOSEBERRY-PIE; A PINDARIC ODE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gooseberry-pie is best Last Line: Praise my pindaric ode? Subject(s): Food & Eating; Odes (as Poetic Form); Pies; Pindar (522-440 B.c.) GRAPEFRUIT, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: M eating breakfast even if it means standing Subject(s): Food & Eating GUINEY-PIGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guiney-pigs is awful cute Last Line: When they's company! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Pigs; Boars; Hogs HALF RATIONS, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He did not sweat. Even in hot weather Last Line: The need he confined himself to in this life Subject(s): Survival; Food & Eating HARD TIMES, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lousy job my father lands Subject(s): Family Life; Food & Eating; Relatives HARVEST, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few rats are gnawing Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Rats; Food & Eating HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need the ceremony of one another, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Cats; Dogs; Food & Eating; Relatives HERBERT GLERBETT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbert glerbett, rather round, Subject(s): Food & Eating HIS CAMEL, by ALQAMATH Poem Text First Line: So leave her, and cast care from thy heart with a sturdy Last Line: Mislikes it, all the choice is to journey on. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips HOW TO EAT ALONE, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: While it's still light out Subject(s): Food & Eating HOW TO EAT WATERMELONS, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you slice a georgy melon you mus' know what you Last Line: De melon make fer me! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Watermelons HOWQUA, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is of three different sorts; although they are not generally Last Line: Nohow-qua, which falls to the lot of those who cannot get any tea at all. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tea HUNTER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field Last Line: By flight of the plumaged implausible bird. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters I ATE TOO MUCH, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate too much turkey Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony I DID NOT ASK OF LIFE, by ALICE BAKER Poem Text First Line: I did not ask of life all that I wished of its rich store Last Line: No boon is worth the name, if not worth the asking. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Life IF WE DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life would be an easy matter Last Line: We could get there if we didn't have to eat. Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Life IMPARTIAL SKIES, by ANNA WHITE HARDINGER Poem Text First Line: You sing a song of arid lands Last Line: To share the sky's expanse! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean IN A CHINESE RESTAURANT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chop suey,' I say to chung li Last Line: I go to chung. Subject(s): Food & Eating IN PRAISE OF SCRAPPLE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Out upon your gibes ironic! Last Line: Grease your graceless adam's apple! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Praise IN THE MOJAVE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starved and passionate desert Last Line: The soft, cool tears of love! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Mohave Desert; Rain; Sky; Mojave Desert INCIDENT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-october, massachusetts. We drive Subject(s): Lobsters; Death; Food & Eating; Dead, The INTESTINE OF TAOS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dirt part of the road is five miles Last Line: Cool summer night in the desert; boulevard of stars. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Love - Complaints; New Mexico INVIATION TO DINNER FROM DR. SHERIDAN TO DR. SWIFT, 1727, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sent to the ladies this morning to warn 'em Last Line: You have a pencil in your pocket. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) JACK SPRAT COULD EAT NO FAT, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: They licked the platter clean Subject(s): Food & Eating JAMES AND THE SHOULDER OF MUTTON, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young jem at noon returned from school Last Line: "and mind what says our sue. " Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Food & Eating; Patience JELLYFISH STEW, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of jellyfish stew Subject(s): Jellyfish; Food & Eating JEREMIAD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After a night of opium and alcohol, edgar poe Last Line: As they sometimes will in baltimore. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating; Hallucinations & Illusions; Parks; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin KINSHIP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great-uncle wilhelm, mennonite, patriarch Last Line: Curse them but don't die. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Food & Eating; Uncles; Relatives KUBLEH; A STORY OF THE ASSYRIAN DESERT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The black-eyed children of the desert drove Last Line: "the like of glorious kubleh. God is great!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating L'ART, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth Subject(s): Paintings & Paintdrs; Food & Eating LAST SUPPER IN MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father-in-law begins the feast Last Line: Kept flying through the leaves. Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers-in-law; Food & Eating; Montana; Prayer LEMON PIE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of gladness Last Line: Which is known as lemon pie. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies LEMUEL'S BLESSING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that know the way Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating LETTERS TO YESENIN: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend. It rained long and hard after a hot week and when I Last Line: Getting brainy and sad, to avoid leaving this physical world. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Food & Eating; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Illness LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John woke on jan. First and felt queer Last Line: And it certainly wasn't the beer Subject(s): Food & Eating;holidays;new Year LITTLE CAMBRAY TAMALES, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two pounds of mestizo cornmeal Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Human Rights LITTLENESSE NO CAUSE OF LEANNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One feeds on lard, and yet is leane Last Line: Jove prospers my meat, more then his. Subject(s): Food & Eating LONE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE DESERT, by BLANCHE POWELL MILLER Poem Text First Line: Oh lone little house on the desert Last Line: Tell us your secret so sad. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Houses; Solitude; Loneliness LONGING, by CLAIRE CAVE Poem Text First Line: I long for the peace of the desert Last Line: And the lull of a silent sea. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Longing; Solitude; Loneliness LOSS OF APPETITE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When julia rang the dinner bell, I used to Last Line: Cabbage and a tart. Subject(s): Appetite; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners LOVE AFTER LOVE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time will come Subject(s): Food & Eating; Drinks & Drinking; Self-love; Wine LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; LUCKY, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever imagining the dire, the sudden Subject(s): Luck; Surgery; Food & Eating; Hair LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 55, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sat round the tea-table drinking Last Line: The tale of thy love, sweet, to say. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Tea MACARONI, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis made of the flour of wheat, so they say Last Line: And don't you forget the chianti! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; Italian Americans; New York City; Pasta; Restaurants; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni; Cafes; Diners MAGNIFICAT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he had suckled there, he began Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Food & Eating; Murder; Mourning; Bereavement MAKING SOAP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last thursday, down by slipshod hill Last Line: To make and own a tub of soap. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Mountain Life - Vermont; Soup; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MAN EATING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man at the table across from mine Last Line: With a pearl-white plastic spoon Subject(s): Food & Eating MANNA, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the night the manna fell Last Line: Enough. Dear lord, what want we more? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Blessings; Food & Eating; God; Hunger MARIANNE MOORE ANNOUNCES LUNCH, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With several well-placed Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Food & Eating MARIE AT TEA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the extremes Last Line: Love, of marriage, the / extreme Subject(s): Change; Food & Eating; Relationships; Tea MATINS: 5, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the holy grains, set Subject(s): Food & Eating; Children; Childhood MEAT WITHOUT MIRTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eaten I have; and though I had good cheere Last Line: Or sup, there wants the incense and the wine. Subject(s): Food & Eating MESA TWILIGHT, by JULIA MAY COURTNEY Poem Text First Line: Day stalks across the mesa floor Last Line: On its world. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating METHUSELAH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Methuselah ate what he found on his plate Last Line: And he lived over nine hundred years Subject(s): Food & Eating;methuselah MEXICAN DESERT, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW Poem Text First Line: Where desert sage and agave are rimmed Last Line: The shallow will tremble in solitude. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Mexico MICKETY MULGA, by T. RANKEN Poem Text First Line: He worked wid us at wantigong Last Line: He 'ad forgot the tea! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Story-telling; Tea MIND, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man looks at his watch to see Subject(s): Food & Eating; Youth; Schools; Family Life; Students; Relatives MINGUS AT DIASPORA, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could say, I suppose, that he ate his way out Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Food & Eating MINNESOTA FATS DESCRIBES HIS YOUTH, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been eating Last Line: They would shoot me the grapes Subject(s): Food & Eating; Minnesota Fats (fictional Pool Hustler) MONA'S TACO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mona, do you know Subject(s): Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners MORNING IN MARRAKESH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in marrakesh we still have to decide Last Line: Black tail points toward the desert Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Morning; Night; Bedtime MOUTHFULS OF FLAVORS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With friends and family Subject(s): Food & Eating MR. FINNEY'S TURNIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Mr. Finney had a turnip Subject(s): Food & Eating;gardens & Gardening;nonsense MUD SOUP, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full 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 MUSIC ON THE DESERT, by KATHERINE NICHOLS OWSLEY Poem Text First Line: The tumble-weeds whirl happily and spin Last Line: To the sudden drumming of the rain. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat; Sun MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Pies MY HATE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hate is like ripe fruit Last Line: I must be stopped. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Hate NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun Last Line: By god-like boys. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NEVADA, by HELENA GRACE BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Where the warm brown sands of the desert lie Last Line: Nevada. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Nevada NEW-MADE HONOUR (IMITATED FROM MARTIAL), by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friend I met, some half hour since Last Line: He's spoilt an honest tradesman and my dinner. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Food & Eating NIGHT IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With star-dust scintillant the vault is sown Last Line: As of some unimaginable thing! Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime; Loneliness NO DYSPEPTICS NEED APPLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it's late, perhaps, for cherry pie" Last Line: And sweeter far is mary in the kitchen making pies Subject(s): Desserts;food & Eating;pies NONSENSE RHYMES: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "chin, chin, chin" Last Line: To gobble up the pigeon pie Subject(s): Food & Eating ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A broken cake, with honey sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Singing And Singing; Food & Eating; Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODES I, 38. AD MINISTRAM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lucy, you know what my wish is Last Line: And tipple my ale in the shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): A Victorian Paraphrase Subject(s): Food & Eating; Simplicity OH, IT IS GOOD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, it is good to drink and sup Last Line: Thy little shining trails of heaven. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France ON A COLD DAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My sacrament of wine and broken bread Last Line: Shall I not drink and bless them one and all? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bread; Food & Eating; Hunger ON A DIET, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ruth of soups and balm of sauces Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets ON A GENTELMAN'S COMPLAINING TO A LADY .. COULD NOT EAT MEAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you told me, sir, your teeth were loose" Last Line: "then make the most of what is writ, / for here is quantum sufficit" Subject(s): Dieting;food & Eating;teeth; Toothaches ON HEARING THE CLIMATE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRAISED, by ETHEL MARY DAVIS Poem Text First Line: There are some places where Last Line: And my delight is an unknown tomorrow. Subject(s): California; Deserts; Food & Eating ON MARRIOT, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for this rescue time; for thou hast won Last Line: Send us no more such eaters, or more meat. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Marriott, John (d. 1653) ON THE GREAT EATER OF GRAYS-INN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a lasting wind! That I may rail Last Line: For writing this, pray god, thou eat not me. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Law & Lawyers; Marriott, John (d. 1653); Attorneys ONIONS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How easily happiness begins by Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Onions; Food & Eating OOLONG, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tea leaves wilted in sunlight are shaken Last Line: Along a rice-paper screen. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tea OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who / are these two women, walking Last Line: America, welcome home. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians OSSO BOCO, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the sound of the bone against the plate Subject(s): Food & Eating OUR BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty; Clemency OUR DAILY BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breakfast is drunk down...Damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty OUT FROM NOONKANBAH, by JOHN WILSON (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: The coolibahs quiver, / the snakewood moans Last Line: Out from noonkanbah. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilo Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Dead, The OUTSIDE THE TOYSHOP, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the door they stand, anear the pane Last Line: Shall manhood's craving miss even these poor crumbs? Subject(s): Bread; Food & Eating; Homeless; Hunger; Poverty OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PARIS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips PARTHENOGENESIS, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Food & Eating; Body, Human PASSING THE SHOP AFTER SCHOOL, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the shop after school, he would look up at the sign Subject(s): Jobs; Money; Life Change Events; Food & Eating PEAS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I eat my peas with honey Last Line: But it keeps them on the knife Subject(s): Dinners & Dining;etiquette;food & Eating;mnemonics;peas; Manners;courtesy PECULIAR, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once knew a boy who was odd as could be Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating PHOENIX, by CORA HOLBROOK MILCHRIST Poem Text First Line: A city of the desert Last Line: A part of our great southwest. Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food & Eating PIE MAN, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am carrying my homemade pies down a cobblestone road Last Line: The shapes of clouds, the wooden sign above the cheese shop Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies POETIC EPIGRAMS: 22. A CRY IN THE DESERT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God is no more nor worse Last Line: Hope sees on the universe. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; God; Hope; Optimism PORK, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one warned me he'd long for loins and hocks Last Line: I look down at my fuzzy slippers and feel better. Uncle waldo hated pig's feet Subject(s): Marriage; Food & Eating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSSESSION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the shepherd in solitude crosses the deformed desert Last Line: Painted voices -- Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Pollution; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains POT ROAST, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a roast Subject(s): Food & Eating; Solitude; Childhood Memories; Loneliness POULAIN, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An orange and blue box of poulain chocolate Last Line: And I pick it up Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tables PRECIOUS STONES; AN INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My cherrystones! I prize them Last Line: E'en greater geese than thou. Subject(s): Clams; Food & Eating PROMENADE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, mind, here we have / our little son beside us Last Line: And have breakfast! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Nature PUMBERLY POTT'S UNPREDICTABLE NIECE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Automobiles; Food & Eating; Cars QUESTING, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The desert shares its loneliness with stars Last Line: In mystery -- slip noiselessly away. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form) RABELAIS AND THE LAMPREYS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the eccentric rabelais was physician Last Line: "but one of most delicious flavour!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): The Doctor And The Lampreys Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lampreys; Physicians; Doctors READING YOUR POEMS IN YOUR HOUSE WHILE YOU ARE AWAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning my first roadrunner Last Line: And give them back, like moonlight. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism RECEIPT FOR AN APPETITE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lad, who sits at breakfast Last Line: Will you try my recipe? Subject(s): Food & Eating RED HILLS AND SKY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother is dirt and I am desert Last Line: Tell me who has not been quieted by this. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Deserts; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating RED MEAT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These tales full of rancorous cankering Last Line: Tale. Subject(s): Beef; Food & Eating REFRIGERATOR, 1957, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More like a vault – you pull the handle out Last Line: That which rips your heart with joy Subject(s): Refrigerators; Food & Eating RILLONS, RILLETTES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rillons, rillettes, they taste the same Last Line: Of the doctrine of the trinity Subject(s): Food & Eating SALAD: BROW, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: O cool in the summer is salad Last Line: And eggs -- boil 'em hard. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Food & Eating SAND, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kazar, the nomad Last Line: In a whirlwind riding. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Wandering & Wanderers SAND HAG, by HAZEL FORBIS Poem Text First Line: The desert sleeps. The moon with tender grasp Last Line: They fall and perish on her burning pyre. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating SAUSAGE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may brag about your breakfast foods you Last Line: For a plate of steaming sausage like the kind my mother fried. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Food & Eating; Sausage 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 SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE THIRD CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When I am in my chair at sea Last Line: As they go walking by. Subject(s): Chairs; Food & Eating; Sea; Tea; Ocean SETTING THE TABLE, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To cut through night you'll need your sharpest scissors. Cut around the birch, the Last Line: And eat it between the two scenes. Your food will taste just right Subject(s): Food & Eating SHRODON FEAR: THE REST O'T, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' after that we met wi' zome Last Line: Behind, a-kickèn o' the stwones. Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Flirtation; Food & Eating; Seasons; Fall; Fairs; Pageants SILENCE, by IDA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: It is still / in the desert Last Line: Brings me solace. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA DELIVERS AN IMPROMPTU SPEECH LOCAL PONDEROSA, by DAVID CITINO Poet's Biography First Line: Go right ahead. Gorge beasts Subject(s): Food & Eating; Religion; Theology SLIMEHEAD (HOPLASTETHUS ATLANTICUS), by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humans eat first with their ears so Last Line: The shy, prolific squid Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mankind; Human Race SMALL, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boa, once when you were small, you ate small things. Last Line: Never the pinkness and honey of the human Subject(s): Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SMILE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just not as much fun without a good Subject(s): Food & Eating; Friendship; Relationships SNAIL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail in his museum Last Line: They swallow the rest Subject(s): Snails; Food & Eating; Theology SOME LITTLE BUG, by ROY ATWELL Poem Text First Line: In these days of indigestion Last Line: Some little bug is going to find you some day. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Germs SOME SCATTERING REMARKS OF BUB'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst I tooked our pepper-box lid Last Line: At's allus at the sund'y-school? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Childhood SONG FOR A VENISON DINNER AT MR. BUNYAN'S, by JOSEPH STANSBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, push 'round the bottle, and let us be drinking Last Line: Has strengthened the hands of these upstart pretenders. Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Friendship; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONG OF THE DESERTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide, open, free, unbounded, vast Last Line: That bondage never yet hath known. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Singing & Singers; Wind SONG OF THE TASTE, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eating the living germs of grasses Subject(s): Food & Eating SONG/FOR SANNA, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hasn't happened / intrudes, so much Last Line: Miss you. Variant Title(s): Song / For Sanna Subject(s): Absence; Food & Eating; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism SONNET TO A DESERT NIGHT, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The desert's magic lure has gripped my soul Last Line: I stand uncovered to the desert night. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating SONORA DESERT POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones who live in the desert Last Line: Of green incredible light Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets SOPA, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That old black goober that I ate Subject(s): Food & Eating SOUTH-DOWN MUTTON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men, when in a rage, inspected Last Line: "I thought you meant to dine down stairs!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Anger; Food & Eating; Temperance; Prohibition SPAGHETTI! SPAGHETTI!, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spaghetti! Spaghetti! / you're wonderful stuff Last Line: You're wonderful stuff Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Pasta; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni SPLITTING AN ORDER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half Subject(s): Food & Eating; Old Age; Man-wiman Relationships SPRING IN THE ARIZONA DESERT, by GRACE HOFFMAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: A tempest of rain Last Line: On the desert. Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring SPRING IN THE DESERT, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Like the rusty bronze of a copper kettle Last Line: A vulture specks the blue. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States SPRING ON THE DESERT, by FRANCES HUNT PRAY Poem Text First Line: The gleaming blue of heaven deserts the sky Last Line: Its hidden soul in flowering radiance. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring SPRNG DAY: BREAKFAST TABLE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white Subject(s): Spring; Food & Eating; Morning STOCK AND VERMONT PUNKINS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what 'twas fun to do Last Line: The same as hide and hair. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Hunger; Migrant Labor; Pumpkins; Vermont; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where dark clouds of curling smoke arise Last Line: Let stoklewath be not the last that's nam'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Household Employees; Hunger; Poverty; Servants; Domestics; Maids STOMACKES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes. So we must reconnect Subject(s): Food & Eating; Puritans SUNSHINE IN THE CUP, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: She poured a cup of tea I still can hold Last Line: And lure the birds to venture down and sup! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Tea SUPPER AT THE MILL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, frances / well, good mother, how are you? Last Line: The supper's ready. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Food & Eating; Mills & Millers; Plays & Playwrights ; Childhood; Relatives; Dramatists TEA, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: Chinese maiden, tea cup in her hand Last Line: In a cup of tea. Subject(s): Asian Americans - Chinese; Food & Eating; Tea; Chinese In The United States TEA PARTY, by ELEANOR (ELINOR) CHIPP Poem Text First Line: My body sits here in the room Last Line: "I've had so nice an afternoon!" Subject(s): Conversation; Food & Eating; Love; Tea TEA-PARTIES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should enjoy, if I was let Last Line: As those of other girls I know!) Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Imagination; Play; Tea; Childhood; Fancy TENDER BUTTONS: APPLE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, cold cream, best Subject(s): Appes; Food & Eating THAT DESERT WASTE, by KATHLEEN O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: My heart is absent from all sorrow Last Line: Will come along with a great fragrant spray. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE A & P, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rolled a tomato in her hand, pink rubber Subject(s): Farm Life; Migrant Workers; Food & Eating; Supermarkets THE ADMIRER, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had before come courting--with pecans Subject(s): Admiration; Courtship; Food & Eating THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. ADVICE TO THE STOUT, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: The languid stomach curses even the pure Last Line: Too fast the gummy nutriment imbibes. Subject(s): Advice; Food & Eating; Health THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. RUSTIC INTERIOR, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Nothing so foreign but th' athletic hind Last Line: Grow wiser, lesson'd by the dropping teeth. Subject(s): Athletes; Food & Eating; Health THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. THE GASTRIC MUSE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: There are, whose blood Last Line: So to be cleared, but foulness will remain. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Health THE BAGEL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped to pick up the bagel Subject(s): Bagels; Dreams; Food & Eating; Nightmares THE BANQUET SONG, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, sweet banquet, lovely banquet Subject(s): Food & Eating THE BLOOMINGFOODS PROMISE, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the ugly man who buys bell peppers Subject(s): Food & Eating; Social Commentaries THE BREAD IS ALL BAKED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "the chimney is their church, the oven is their choir" Subject(s): Bread;food & Eating THE BREAKFAST FOOD FAMILY, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John spratt will eat no fat Last Line: On battle creek near-grub. Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Food & Eating THE CALL OF THE DESERT, by EMILY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Camels kneeling in the desert Last Line: But to desert-dwellers known. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE CAPTAIN'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From pain and peril, by land and main Last Line: "that god's best gift is the wayside well!" Subject(s): Deserts; Disasters; Food & Eating; Shipwrecks; Wells THE CARAVAN IN THE DESERT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it not loneliness, to dwell Last Line: Nor know his steps are on the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Caravans; Deserts; Food & Eating THE CHINA TEA SET, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A china tea set -- just to own Last Line: No friends were left to drink the tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Cups; Food & Eating; Tea THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr smiggs was a gentleman Last Line: "aye, and pick it to the bone." Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Geese; Holidays; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS PIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, guard this night the christmas pie Last Line: To watch it. Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve - Another Ceremony;christmasse-eve, Another Ceremonie Subject(s): Christmas; Food & Eating; Pies; Nativity, The THE CHURCH, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for the food,' we said Last Line: Candle of 'find it.' my life Subject(s): Churches; Food & Eating; Cathedrals THE COLLIER'S WEDDING, SELECTION, by EDWARD CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: At last the beef appears in sight Last Line: So, curtseying, mumbled up his kiss. Subject(s): Brides; Dancing & Dancers; Food & Eating; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CONFESSION, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's somewhat on my breast, father Last Line: I've ate and can't digest. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Food & Eating THE CONTINENT OF REENA AND MARCUS' MARRIAGE, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marcus was most fond of coriander Subject(s): Food & Eating THE CUPBOARD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little cupboard Last Line: For me, me, me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Cupboards; Food & Eating THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oysters we ate, / sweet blue babies Last Line: The woman won Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Oysters; Food & Eating; Coming Of Age THE DELICACIES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hostess, in pink satin and blond hair -- dressed high -- shone beautifully Last Line: Cream cheese and whole walnuts! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Parties THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell (sweet cooke-ham) where I first obtain'd Last Line: Tying my heart to her by those rich chaines. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Farewell; Food & Eating; Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Parting THE DESERT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark I called to you; out of the enfolding / dark you came Last Line: And only the wind that walks by dusk is over us, and god's grave will. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DESERT, by CLAIRE CAVE Poem Text First Line: The desert is a wolf Last Line: The desert is a singer... Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead. Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DESERT, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON Poem Text First Line: I see no flowers growing as I pass Last Line: Your deep dark eyes. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness THE DESERT DEAD, by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: There is a hill of shifting sand Last Line: The lonely desert dead. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE DESERT LAND, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: Good god, can it be you made this place Last Line: Alone in the desert at night! Subject(s): Deserts; Desolation; Food & Eating; Hunger; Solitude; South Dakota; Loneliness THE DESERT WIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went with happy heart (how happy!) a while since Last Line: Hath seared mine eyes. Subject(s): Courtship; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hearts; Love THE DESERT-BORN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the wilds of lebanon, amongst its barren hills Last Line: Why any who has had like me, the night mare on his chest. Subject(s): Arabs; Deserts; Food & Eating THE DESIRE FOR SPACE TRAVEL IS A METAPHOR FOR ESCAPE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas eve, and how deliciously soft-shell crab Subject(s): Homecoming; Food & Eating; Love - Erotic; Christmas; Nativity, The THE DINNER-PARTY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So ...' they said, / with their wine-glasses delicately poised Last Line: For only living flesh can suffer. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Parties THE DIRT EATERS, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever we grew tired and bored of curb ball, Subject(s): Dirt; Food & Eating; Children; Childhood THE DISTRICT TELEGRAPH BOY, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Hear the clatter of those feet Last Line: "get a steak." Subject(s): Beef; Food & Eating; Telegraph; Telegrams THE DUFF, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It was on a sunday morning, the church was far away Last Line: "and fast enough." Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Food & Eating; Dead, The; Wine THE EEL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind eels Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Eels; Food & Eating THE EPICURE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the bowl with rosy wine! Last Line: All are stoics in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Epicureanism; Food & Eating; Life; Pleasure; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE EXPENSIVE MEAL, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Food & Eating THE FARING OF FA-HIEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through gobiland's sea of sand Last Line: I, fa-hien.' Subject(s): Buddhism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Monks; Religion; Travel; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology; Journeys; Trips THE FASTIDIOUS SERPENT, by HENRY JOHNSTONE Poem Text First Line: There was a snake that dwelt in skye Last Line: His breakfast, dinner and tea, oh. Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE FAT MAN IN THE MIRROR, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's filling up the mirror? O, it is not I Subject(s): Mirrors; Food & Eating; Obesity THE FEAST, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovers loitered on the deck talking Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE FLOWER OF THE DESERT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou thus in thy beauty cast Last Line: "by the lonely, loneliest flower!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Deserts; Flowers; Food & Eating THE FRISKING LAMB, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though gay its life, in fact and fable Last Line: In death its fate is lamb-on-table. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lambs THE FUNERAL, by WALTER J. HEGARTY Poem Text First Line: In the 70's we was workin' far back on a big north run Last Line: And we'll plant them next his mother's in the tomb at dusty town! Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Funerals; Procrastination; Dead, The; Burials THE GLUTTON, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fat, pamper'd porus, eating for renown Last Line: No fashion's dupe, no powerful passion's slave. Subject(s): Disease; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Pleasure; Simplicity THE GOLDEN PALACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We go to the golden palace Last Line: Through countless autumns enjoy like felicity Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);food & Eating THE GREAT VOICE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who have heard solemnities of sound Last Line: Silence, that speaks with deafening tones of god. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Silence; Voices THE HASTY PUDDING, by JOEL BARLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye alps audacious, through the heavens that rise Last Line: The wide-mouthed bowl will surely catch them all. Subject(s): Food & Eating THE HAUNCH OF VENISON, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Last Line: You may make a mistake, and think slightly of this. Subject(s): Deer; Food & Eating THE HEATHERBLEND CLUB BANQUET, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 16th of october, in 1894 Last Line: This on my soul and conscience I do confess. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Reunions; Singing & Singers THE HIRED MAN AND FLORETTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hired man's supper, which he sat before Last Line: Of votaries, rounded by the hired man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE INVITATION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sup with thee thou didst me home invite Last Line: I'le bring a fever; since thou keep'st no fire. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Guests; Inhospitality; Visiting THE INVITATION, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going to serve a late lunch Subject(s): Food & Eating THE INVITATION (IN IMITATION HORACE'S EPISTLE TO TORQUATUS), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear doctor -- being you're so kind Last Line: Since nought can more oblige your, sh----ry. Subject(s): Food & Eating THE KING DINES; IMPRESSION, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two people on a bench in boston commons Last Line: Of the day round him for his dining-room. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Boston Common; Food & Eating; Homeless THE LAW OF THE PERVERSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the custom come Last Line: Fore-eating everything, from soup to pie! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Customs, Social; Food & Eating; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Childhood THE LEOPARD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lands where only jackals call Last Line: The jackal's call! Subject(s): Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Imagination; Fancy THE LITTLE TINY KICKSHAW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the little tiny kickshaw that Last Line: O' the little tiny kickshaw that mither sent tae me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love; Mothers THE LOST PUDDING, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss kitty was rude at the table one day Last Line: Without giving kitty one taste. Subject(s): Etiquette; Food & Eating; Girls; Manners; Courtesy THE MEAL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mama, I never stop seeing you there Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mothers; Family Life; Relatives THE MENU, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beg you come tonight and dine Last Line: Excepting alfred tennyson. Variant Title(s): Maecenas Bids His Friend To Dine;another Invitation Subject(s): Food & Eating; New York City; Parties; Smoking; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE ORCHARD FEAST, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, leave the ladders hidden up the boughs Last Line: And lift our loads between us and go home. Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating THE OYSTER, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the water, near the strand Last Line: Beside the luscious oyster. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Oysters THE PEWTER TEA-KETTLE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Once, where upon a slender crane you swung Last Line: Drifts down the years like spice-wind from cathay. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Past; Tea; Teapots THE PHILANTHROPIST, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a brother and sister Last Line: Had lately carried him off. Subject(s): Death; Food & Eating; Funerals; Life; Dead, The; Burials THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 184, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buy meat with blood still dripping Last Line: And both of you finally part Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Food & Eating; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 200, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unfortunate human disorder Last Line: As long as their own are sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 225, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great sea has no limit Last Line: In the open it shines without limit Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 258, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get your own clothes if you're cold Last Line: There's never enough food and clothes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clothing & Dress; Food & Eating; Self-reliance THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 266, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's some advice for meat-eating people Last Line: But can't get out when he's full Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 72, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pigs devour dead human flesh Last Line: Lotuses will bloom in boiling soup Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Humanity; Pigs; Boars; Hogs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 92, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is boundlessly high Last Line: Blind men asking the color of milk Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 95, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haggling over fish and meat Last Line: You'll know it wasn't right Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 12, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take these mortal incarnations Last Line: Before they stop telling lies Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Hell; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 28, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of timid sheep Last Line: Chomp chomp till nothing's left Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Sheep THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 9, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worldly people make me sigh Last Line: Wearing a new set of clothes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Buddha; Buddhists THE POET RELATES HOW HE OBTAINED DELIA'S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mine! What accents can my joy declare? Last Line: And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again. Variant Title(s): Delia's Pocket-handkerchief;love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Food & Eating; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE POETS AT TEA: 1. MACAULAY, WHO MADE IT, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour, varlet, pour the water Last Line: The tea-pot of her sires! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron; Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 10. WALT WHITMAN, WHO DIDN'T STAY MORE THAN A MINUTE, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cup for my self-hood Last Line: Allons, from all bat-eyed formula. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE POETS AT TEA: 2. TENNYSON, WHO TOOK IT HOT, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I am drawing to an end Last Line: O hallelujah! . . . Kindly pass the milk. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron THE POETS AT TEA: 3. SWINBURNE, WHO LET IT GET COLD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sin that was sweet in the sinning Last Line: And take it away! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 4. COWPER, WHO THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cosy fire is bright and gay Last Line: And do not make it strong. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 5. BROWNING, WHO TREAT IT ALLEGORICALLY, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tut! Bah! We take as another case Last Line: The sugar was salt, would the bohea be congo? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 6. WORDSWORTH, WHO GAVE IT AWAY, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little cottage girl Last Line: "you bade me speak the truth." Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THE POETS AT TEA: 7. POE, WHO GOT EXCITED OVER IT, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a mellow cup of tea, golden tea! Last Line: Tea to the n -- th. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 8. ROSSETTI, WHO TOOK SIX CUPS OF IT, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies lie in my lady's bower Last Line: (o weary mother, drive the cows to roost.) Variant Title(s): Oh! Weary Mother Subject(s): Food & Eating; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Tea THE POETS AT TEA: 9. BURNS, WHO LIKED IT ADULTERATED, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weel, gin ye speir, I'm no inclined Last Line: Mix a' thegither. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea THE PRAYER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slender leaves of the acacia trees Last Line: And laid his unvoiced grief on allah's heart. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Mercy; Prayer THE PUMPKIN PIE, OR REASSURANCES ARE ALWAYS FALSE; THOUGH WE LOVE THEM, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pumpkin, / freshly scraped out of its tightly adhering Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies; Pumpkins THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by HENRY FIELDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mighty roast beef was the englishman's food Last Line: O, the roast beef, etc. Subject(s): Beef; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; English THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by RICHARD LEVERIDGE Poem Text First Line: Our fathers of old were robust, stout, and strong Last Line: And o, the old english roast beef! Alternate Author Name(s): Loveridge, Richard Subject(s): Beef; Courage; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English THE SACRAMENT OF FOOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Each meal should be a sacramental feast Last Line: And pass, -- to live more worthily again. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Food & Eating; Religion; Sacraments; Theology THE SCARECROW, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY Poem Text First Line: Under her tilted hat of tuscan rushes Last Line: And evening finds the bushes all stript bare. Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Food & Eating; Scarecrows THE SEA AND THE DESERT, by EDWARD COLLINS DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The sea / and the desert hate each other Last Line: With barrenness and heat and thirst. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SLEEPER, by WINN SKELLEY Poem Text First Line: I sat in the shelter of a rock Last Line: And I moved silently lest my presence should awaken it too soon. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE SORCERER: TEACUP BRINDISI, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eat, drink and be gay Last Line: A pretty stiff jorum of tea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tea THE SPARROW, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sparrows; Food & Eating; Mothers; Miami Beach THE SPECTRE-CARAVAN, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at midnight, in the desert, where we rested on the ground Last Line: See, it dawns!—a joyous welcome neigh our horses to the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Caravans; Deserts; Food & Eating; Mecca; Muslims; Moslems THE SPIRIT OF THE DESERT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An indian rides across the plain Last Line: They fade into the desert-dearth. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat THE TABLE D'HOTE, by JOHN PAUL BOCOCK Poem Text First Line: Tis time - ah me! - to change my coat Last Line: Welcomes me into shadow land! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Love THE TEA TRADER, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Jackson at his counter packing tea Last Line: In mcconnell's grocery store! Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Grocers; Tea; Nightmares THE TEA-PARTY, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not with you, sisters, in your talk Last Line: Turned as they fled, and left me charity. Subject(s): Family Life; Food & Eating; Life; Parties; Sisters; Tea; Relatives THE TEA-TABLE; A TOWN ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint james's noon-day bell for prayers had tolled Last Line: And all again that night at ombre met. Subject(s): Cities; Food & Eating; Tea; Urban Life THE THIRD PERSON, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: I know a man (accounted wise) Last Line: (and very much like you and me.) Subject(s): Fights; Food & Eating 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 TWO OLD BACHELORS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two old bachelors were living in one house Last Line: And from that hour those bachelors were never heard of more. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Nonsense; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE VULTURE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Vultures THE WATCHERS, by ERNEST FAVENC Poem Text First Line: All things were old in that grim grey land Last Line: Three dead men lay on the ground. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE WATCHERS ON THE ROAD, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hill road, the desert road Last Line: With a white and terrible sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Angels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Roads; Paths; Trails THE WHITE BONE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw the city lone Last Line: With the white bone. Subject(s): Cities; Civilization; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hallucinations And Illusions; Urban Life THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food & Eating; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Lions; Nightmares; Work; Workers THURSDAY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting, and vespers done Last Line: "benedicite!" Subject(s): Evening; Food & Eating; Monks; Sunset; Twilight TIS VERY FIT THE AMBROSIA OF THE GODS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis very fit the ambrosia of the gods Last Line: Upon their humble fare Subject(s): Food & Eating TO A SANDWICHMAN, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: In languid, after-luncheon mood Last Line: Betwixt thy wishbone and thy spine! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Food & Eating TO MY MUSE (WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE SHADE OF COLONEL LOVELACE), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Deem me not fickle, in that I Last Line: My bread-and-butter more! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Muses; Survival TO RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ., IN ANSWER TO A LETTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, this tells you as soon as it could Last Line: Of the best of good wishes for the whole of your flock. Subject(s): Animals; Butchers; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares TO SWEET MEAT, SOUR SAUCE; AN IMITATION OF THEOCRITUS OR ANACREON, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As cupid from the bees their honey stole Last Line: Honey to's mouth, but torment to his heart.' Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love - Complaints TO THE COLORADO DESERT, by MADGE MORRIS WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery Last Line: God must have made thee in his anger and forgot. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat TOMORROW, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow we'll see the lightbulb in schenectady Subject(s): Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips TRANSPLANTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother carried the chest x-ray Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Sneezing; Food & Eating; X-rays; Pigs; Boars; Hogs TURKISH PEARS IN AUGUST, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a poem has her own husband Last Line: As turkish pears picked in the garden in august. Variant Title(s): Snow Falling On Snow Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Food & Eating TWENTY BLOCKS, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: The daughters of the rich Last Line: For my soul's quickening. ... Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Upper Classes; Cafes; Diners TWICKHAM TWEER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shed a tear for twickham tweer Subject(s): Food & Eating TWILIGHT ON THE DESERT, by ETHEL FRANCES BARNARD Poem Text First Line: It's twilight on the desert, stillness walks Last Line: That chain immortal soul in mortal loam. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating TWO AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should hasten or cry out Last Line: See, I bring you gifts of silence, and cool snows. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Landscape; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UNCLE BUNGLE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle bungle, now deceased Subject(s): Food & Eating UNCLE SIDNEY'S RHYMES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little rapacity greed was a glutton Last Line: "and hopeless, -- ""he eats like -- he eats like an acid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Rhyme UNDER THE WINDOW: OURO PRETO, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The conversations are simple: about food Last Line: A fountain, where all the world sgill stops Subject(s): Food & Eating UNDUE SIGNIFICANCE A STARVING MAN ATTACHES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Was savory Subject(s): Food & Eating UNHOLY SONNET: 20, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One model asks another, 'what do you eat?' Last Line: Eating down to the perfume of your wrist Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Food & Eating; Resurrection, The; Jesus Christ UNHOLY SONNET: 25, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but pleasure in the bottle's voice Last Line: As butter and olive oil, only pleasure watches Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Pleasure; Food & Eating; Wine UPON A MISER THAT MADE A GREAT FEAST; THE NEXT DAY HE DIED FOR GRIEF, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor 'scapes he so; our dinner was so good Last Line: Throughout all ovid's metamorphoses.] Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Misers; Sorrow; Sadness VALENTINE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too high, too high to pluck Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Disappointment; Food & Eating VERDANT GREEN AND THE CROW, by ROBERT BRUCE Poem Text First Line: Young verdant saddled his horse at the rail Last Line: "a woebegone, gizzard-wrung, ""r-r-r." Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Deserts; Food & Eating; Fools; Idiots VERMONT CORN MEAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What fun it used to be to feel Last Line: To husky boys and yellow meal. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT DRIED BEEF, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sure 'twould give the world relief Last Line: The supreme substance mortals know. Subject(s): Beef; Food & Eating; Vermont VERMONT OYSTER SUPPERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing that I think of more Last Line: Them oyster-suppered nights of yore! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Oysters; Vermont WAITRESSING IN THE ROOM WITH A THOUSAND MOONS, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is difficult at best. The moons desperately want to circle Last Line: The tables. Our leader has left us too Subject(s): Waiters & Waitresses; Food & Eating WASHINGTON'S OVENS, ADAMSES' LETTERS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are stories in which the food is so here Subject(s): Food & Eating; American Revolution WE EAT OUT TOGETHER, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is a fancy place Subject(s): Food & Eating WHAT SMITH KNEW ABOUT FARMING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There wasn't two purtier farms in the state Last Line: And leave agriculture alone -- and the browns. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Horticulture; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE STARS SANG IN THE DESERT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the desert rude Last Line: The radiant silence hung. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Stars; Universe WHEAT FIELDS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an honest dignity in wheat Last Line: And for a fertile yield breathe thanks to god. Subject(s): Bread; Fields; Food & Eating; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHEN MARY MAKES THE BREAD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: When mary makes the bread there gleams Last Line: Our mary can make bread. Subject(s): Bread; Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating WHEN MOTHER STARTS THE APPLE SASS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some fellah says that thoughts are things Last Line: When mother starts the apple sass. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Mothers WHEN THE DESERT BLOOMS, by HENRY GEORGE WEISS Poem Text First Line: Softly the desert breeze Last Line: By the hot sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Flagg, Francis Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating 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. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Cookery WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the wastes of the never never Last Line: Death where the dead men lie. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Dead, The WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: Wished sunday's come: mirth brightens every face Last Line: So long, white conduit house, shall be thy fame.' Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Food & Eating; Houses; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses; Mobs; Crowds; Cafes; Diners WOMAN ON TWENTY-SECOND EATING BERRIES, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's not angry exactly but all business Subject(s): Food & Eating WORTERMELON TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old wortermelon time is a-comin' round ag'in Last Line: Which is the why and wharefore, as you can plainly see. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Watermelons YOUTH, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: You say new york is lovelier than ever? Last Line: But, oh, how gay it was! What prophecies! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; New York City; Restaurants; Youth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Cafes; Diners YUCCA, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: Yucca, yucca, burning white Last Line: Holding high your candle's gleam. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Yucca Plants YUMA, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Weary, weary, desolate / sand-swept, parched, and cursed of fate Last Line: And the dread mirage are there. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating |
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