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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FRUIT Matches Found: 229 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DISH OF PEACHES IN RUSSIA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my whole body I taste these peaches Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches A FRUIT-PIECE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon of summer folds Last Line: With heaven's own sacramental wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Summer A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eve upon the first of men Last Line: That adam was not adamant! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A SONG OF APPLE-BLOOM, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not waked in the grey of the day-dawn Last Line: "come, lasses, come, ere our rose-world falls grey." Subject(s): Apples; Fruit A SONG OF APPLE-GATHERING, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harvest is over in mist and moist moon-light Last Line: Joy-worn and grave to its sleep-time at last. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest A SUMMER'S GROWTH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair was the flower which proffers now its fruit Last Line: "not sweet, but very bitter, is this thing!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Fruit; Summer 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 AFTER APPLE PICKING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Last Line: Or just some human sleep. Subject(s): Americans; Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees; United States; America AFTERTHOUGHT ON APPLES, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: While yet unfallen apples throng the bough Subject(s): Apples; Fruit ALL THE FRUIT, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the fruit is ripe, plunged in fire, cooked Last Line: As in a rocking boat on the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Fruit; Men AN ANSWER; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make it glad with a goodly crop Last Line: Repaying the blood that fed the soil. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Trees ANOTHER SARAH, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: When winter was half over Last Line: A nation of white petals %a dynasty of apples Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; May (month); Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) APPLE, by AMANO TADASHI Poem Source First Line: In the kitchen of willie mays Last Line: Just for the fun of it... Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE, by MELANIE REHAK Poem Source First Line: An implied corkscrew of peel garners the apple Last Line: Like desire, clear in its message: I want, I want Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE, by VLADIMIR SOLOUKHIN Poem Source First Line: I am convinced that finally %isaac newton Last Line: And with its sweetness %to delight a man Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning %I cut an apple in half Last Line: Just then Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods APPLE BOXES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: Some of our apple boxes come from a hundred miles away: 'moose hill Last Line: Their crowns still shaped by old prunings Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest APPLE CORE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the road / I saw blackbirds Last Line: But the stalks moving Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE PIE ORDER, by AINE MILLER Poem Source First Line: You have to be anglo-saxon to peel them so Last Line: Spiced with clove, her truly celtic excess %a core well worth the waiting Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE SAUCE!, by EDITH GRACE BERKNESS Poem Text First Line: John peter said at supper Last Line: If dessert's just apple sauce! Subject(s): Apples; Desserts; Fruit APPLE SEASON, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come up in the orchard with grass to your knees Last Line: We're gathering apples with shout and song, %and we'll taste summer all winter long! Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees APPLE-GATHERING, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Essex flats are pink with clover Last Line: On the red-lit christmas-tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLE-GROWING AND CIDER-MAKING; DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An orchard fair, to please Last Line: O the jovial days when the apple trees do bear, %we'll drink and be merry all the gladsome year Subject(s): Apples; Fruit 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 APPLES, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: After henry died, his wagon full Last Line: Their bruises turning to cider Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents APPLES, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER Poem Source First Line: I thought we lost a strong summer Last Line: The dark crows %hushed in their trees Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Summer APPLES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before she went from grieving Last Line: Of the apples dropping down. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness APPLES, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The apples fall in the night. The trees are still Last Line: On such matters neither the night nor the apples see much difference Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens And Gardening; Harvest; Trees APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was the clumsy child Last Line: To a continent dark with apples Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Desire; Fruit; Kindness; Trees APPLES FALLING, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, in the close september darkness Last Line: Falling to the ground. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit APPLES FOR SALE, by LEWIS MANSFIELD KNAPP Poem Text First Line: In youthful days I saw old orchards bloom Last Line: I too, my friend, am polished and for sale. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Language; Orchards; Words; Vocabulary APPLES OF HESPERIDES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glinting golden through the trees Last Line: Apples of hesperides! Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology) APPLES ON CHAMPLAIN, by RICHARD KENNEY Poem Source First Line: Oil-slick, slack shocks, ancient engine Last Line: Sudden, weightless, warm Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Lake Champlain AUBADE: SOME PEACHES, AFTER STORM, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that each Subject(s): Fruit AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were four apples on the bough Last Line: Mown from the harvest's middle-floor Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Trees AUGUST WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead heat and windless air Last Line: And the ripe apples fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Harvest; Summer AUTUMN IN GAOL, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: In autumn a friend Last Line: Heavy as the world Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons AUTUMN PLOUGHING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the beauty of summer Last Line: Though his ploughshare lay me low. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Growth; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers BAKER OF PIES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: This trip rose bakes pumpkin pies Last Line: As we sail out of the twentieth century Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Cooking And Cooks; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Pies BETTER THE SEASONED FRUIT, by ANNA MAY DUDLEY Poem Text First Line: So unimportant! Now that they are gone Last Line: When first the sense is taken unaware. Subject(s): Fruit; Seasons BILBERRIES, by GERDA MAYER Poem Source First Line: On the hillside Last Line: Easy for little %hands Subject(s): Fruit BLOSSOM OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing a song of blossom Last Line: "with little marjory brown." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Snow BOUQUET AND BOWL, by MARGARET A. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Scarlet sparkleberry seeds Last Line: Fall on the juicy tangerines Subject(s): Fruit BROTHER FRANCISCO ANTHONY EATS AN APPLE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the first bite watered his thirst Last Line: Was immortality, he said, or never %to have tasted this fruit Subject(s): Fruit; Religion BRUEGHEL'S HARVESTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Though they stoop and sweat Last Line: Stares out at us, and eats Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest BY NATURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it could be, it would be seven o'clock Last Line: Who will be there for you I promise, always. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers CAKEWALK, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, you make Last Line: Bloodhound ground Subject(s): Fruit; Desire; Love CHELAN, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: In a decades-long dance gomez and alverro Last Line: The bees are gone summer sits overlong %and too much fruit weighs down the trees Subject(s): Fields; Frost; Fruit; Summer CHERRIES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A handful of cherries Last Line: Of cherries to pluck. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit CHERRIES, by JOE LAMB Poem Source First Line: When I was five, we lived in tesuque Last Line: The cherries were thick, sweet, and %yellow Subject(s): Aging; Cherries; Fruit; Memory; Men; Mothers CHERRIES, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I sit eating cherries Last Line: Bought cheap, must last forever Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Selfishness 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 CHERRY PIE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Cherries; Food And Eating; Fruit; Pies CHERRY PIE, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: We're all acquainted with the airy Last Line: Shares the sheets with art Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Nature; Pies CHERRY RIPE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: "these sacred cherries to come nigh, / till cherry-ripe themselves do cry" Subject(s): Admiration;cherries;fruit CHERRY TIME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Tis cherry time, ripe cherry time Last Line: I'll pick and give sweetheart to you! Subject(s): Cherries; Courtship; Fruit; Youth CHERRY TREES A-BLOOM, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the spring's elysian Last Line: Of the cherry trees a-bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit; Smells; Spring; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances CHERRY TREES IN APRIL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: As the branches of cherry trees in april Last Line: Before the blossoming time is past. Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit CHERRY-BUDS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: When cherry-buds appear Last Line: Should not be sung or said. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Love - Loss Of CHERRY-TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cherries of the night are riper Last Line: And you'll be fairies all. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit CINDER-FRUIT, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the apple fruit Last Line: It is ashen. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Passion; Tantalus (greek Mythology) CROSSED APPLE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard Last Line: You take the rest Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit DECRIED, by J. ROY ZEISS Poem Text First Line: Of beauty there will be always Last Line: Condemn the madonna? Subject(s): Beauty; Fruit; Mary And Martha (bible); Sun; Women In The Bible DEDIKATION: 1, by EGITO GONCALVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cherries %two strangers/ we look at the minaret Last Line: Your eyes are laughing/ fiords/ night Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Relationships DISH OF PEACHES IN RUSSIA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my whole body I taste these peaches Last Line: That such ferocities could tear %one self from another, as these peaches do Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches DOOMED BRIGHT CITY, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Remembering I had sold the sight Last Line: No epitaph is needed for the race. Subject(s): Apples; Cities; Flowers; Fruit; Urban Life EATING PERSIMMONS, by STEPHEN AJAY Poem Source First Line: On the roof in late afternoon the himal is Last Line: Bonanza, what a persimmon bonanza! Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Persimmons EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery EVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: One book has it that eve Last Line: Before she goes to sleep [or, sleeps] Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Man-woman Relationships FELIX CULPA, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: When I came out of the pink morning Last Line: And eaten again Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Nature FIELDS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: I am sister of the virgin field Last Line: Rearing the tawny grain. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FLOWER FORTRESS, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER Poem Source First Line: The cherries by the fence are flowering Last Line: Seems to be praying, sceptically, for mercy Subject(s): Cherries; Flowers; Fruit FOR A BOY IN A BUS DEPOT, by EDUARDO C. CORRAL Poem Source First Line: Moonlight topples %from the star-cabled night Last Line: Wings rimmed with the color of the apple Subject(s): Apples; Boys; Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fruit FOR A PICTURE OF ST.DOROTHEA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear a basket lined with grass Last Line: Nor fruit, nor flowers, nor dorothy. Subject(s): Dorothea, St. (4th Century); Flowers; Fruit FORGOTTEN ORCHARD, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: The air is sweet with apples ripening Last Line: Must touch no windfall in the tangled grass. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Orchards; Voices FRUIT SALAD, by TERRI HOOVER DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: Strawberry Last Line: Apples %for my eyes Subject(s): Fruit; Salads; Soul FRUIT SALAD: 1. PEACH, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: There's not much point in trying Last Line: Starts to wrinkle like a passion fruit Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Peaches FRUIT SALAD: 2. STRAWBERRY, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Strawberries with whipped cream Last Line: Lazy as the cream dripping from the whisk Subject(s): Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Strawberries FRUIT SALAD: 3. PEAR, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Most easily hurt of fruits Last Line: We take refuge from our troubles in its sweetness, %wasps burrowing head-first through its pulp Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Pear Trees; Trees FRUIT TREE, by ZSOFIA BALLA Poem Source First Line: We urge on the fruit tree every spring Last Line: That butterfly's death - caterpillar -behold! Has given birth Subject(s): Butterflies; Fruit; Insects; Trees FRUITS OF THE SEASON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a fresh morning of late august in padua. After the night's rain, the Last Line: In love Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Paintings And Painters FUJIS, by GINA PARLAPIANO Poem Source First Line: These are my tired apples Last Line: So desperately from its home Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Travel GOLDEN DELICIOUS, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: After the first killing frost had uncolored Last Line: As a dead bouquet, rose %the sweet smell of perishing Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Religion GOOD PHILOSOPHY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I give you an apple, if you love me Last Line: And reflect on how short - lived is beauty Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Pentastichs; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Transience GRANDMOTHER'S, by ERIC P. ELSHTAIN Poem Source First Line: Jars, ready for future fruits Last Line: Held to the mouth %of the nothing she cradles Subject(s): Fruit; Grandparents GRANDPA'S APPLE THUNDER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: His wine saps rolled from the edge Last Line: I was twelve years old Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grandparents; Thunder GREEN CHERRIES, SELECTION, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I swung / the gate and entered Last Line: To other things. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Harvest HAPPY JACK'S ON OUR SATURDAY MORNING, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: No, she could barely speak about peaches Last Line: It cut my too sweet heart right out.' Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Morning; Peaches HARVEST, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In time, even leaves on Last Line: To gather in my gone years? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest HARVEST APPLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Out in the orchard, years ago Last Line: "you 'll find a ""honey-core,"" I guess." Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees HESPERIDES, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Golden apples for goddesses Last Line: I will have none. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology) HISTORY OF APPLES, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: It is a sad story from the start Last Line: At the supermarket ever in %this world be the apple of your eye? Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; History HOMECOMING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A road that had wound us 20,000 miles Last Line: After all the bell in the garden is silent Subject(s): Fruit; Nuts & Nutting HONEYDEW IN SEASON, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: As soon as I'm pierced by the shock of its sweetness Last Line: I thought it would take years before cycles became apparent %and summer stayed hardly at all Subject(s): Fruit; Summer HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, three days before christmas Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Robins HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, three days before christmas Last Line: The barren mexican mountains Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Robins I NEED TO LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAYS, by SUSAN A. MANCHESTER Poem Source First Line: She eats a nectarine and a steam of juice Last Line: To know her somehow and not feel alone Subject(s): Conversation; Food And Eating; Fruit IN OUR OCTOBER WINDFALL TIME RED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You learn to eat around the wormholes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Nature; October IN THE GARDEN: 6. A PEACH, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any sense in mortal dust remains Last Line: Girl lips, o let me richly swoon away Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches IN THE VERY HEART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Of the sun and %unmasked earth Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Summer; Watermelons JOHNNY ONIONS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loafs along the dock where the little fruit-boats Last Line: That are searching -- ever searching -- for the sea! Subject(s): Fruit JOURNAL, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few Last Line: May work.' Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas KEEPING STORE, by AMANDA MUTERSPAUGH Poem Text First Line: Out of the land of 'make - believe Last Line: Over a bargain -- then it took tact. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Past KIWI, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The stubby brown fur of your outside Last Line: Succulence of fruit, a planet Subject(s): Bodies; Fruit; Men KOKINSHU (2), SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit LAS CALANDRIAS, by CARLOS CORTEZ KOYOKUIKATL Poem Source First Line: In the plazuela in el paso Last Line: To load down yet another tree Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Parks; Trees LATE PEACHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever this is of nature, the peach tree Last Line: Inside each peach, stand by the tree and be Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches LIKE PEACHES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Change speak sway Last Line: Of perfect nexus - save the epicarp - collect the juices %we orchard Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Fruit; Peaches LODI LOST, by JAMES A. GARVEY Poem Source First Line: I dream of a cove and cherries Last Line: Of the lagoon or find the sweet -- dark %fruit Subject(s): Fruit MADONNA MIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under green apple boughs Last Line: Being strong as love. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; God; Love; Women MANGO, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day hot, the air wet felt Last Line: I put my hand on my mouth and bow down Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Fruit; Mango Trees MARASCHINO CHERRIES IN THE A&P, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Were in squat, glass bottles, round and red Last Line: And the world was in the reach of my hand Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Markets MILKING THE RASPBERRY COW, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Each july morning I'm to be found Last Line: I've never been raspberries more than now! Subject(s): Business; Fruit; Grocers; Raspberries MINE HOST OF 'THE GOLDEN APPLE', by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goodly host one day was mine Last Line: Thomas westwood. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit MOONLIT APPLES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the top of the house Last Line: On moon-washed apples of wonder. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees 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 NAMING COLORS', by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: A perfect cream its middle reaches up Last Line: And become the pink and the lighter blue Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Vegetables; Wheat NECTARINES IN FEBRUARY, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN Poem Source First Line: What do children know of life Last Line: There are seasons only fit for wanting %to follow summer's sweetness Subject(s): Fruit; Innocence; Seasons; Summer NETTED STRAWBERRIES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a willow-wren Last Line: The web would tangle and cling. Subject(s): Fruit; Strawberries NEVERTHELESS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a strawberry Variant Title(s): It Is Late, I Can Wait Subject(s): Fortitude; Fruit NEVERTHELESS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a strawberry Last Line: Went through that little thread %to make the cherry red! Variant Title(s): It Is Late, I Can Wai Subject(s): Fortitude; Fruit NO MORE DREAMS OF PERFECT FRUIT, by SHANNON BRAMER Poem Source First Line: Give me the speckled Last Line: Taken into our mouths again Subject(s): Fruit NOTHING STAYS PUT, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The strange and wonderful are too much with us Subject(s): Fruit NOTHING STAYS PUT, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The strange and wonderful are too much with us Last Line: All that we know, that we're %made of, is motion Subject(s): Fruit NUNS ARE PEELING APPLES, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: See how they sit in pairs Last Line: A paring down of decades %coils damp in their dark laps Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Nuns ODE TO THE AVOCADO, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Coddled in my palm, bigger than a hen's egg Last Line: Your green flesh tastes smooth as butter on the tongue Subject(s): Fruit; Mexico; Travel OF THE APPLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The apples in the garden bed Last Line: "wherewith the world abounds,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; God; Praise OH! OH! IS ALL I CAN SAY, by YASUHARA TESISHITSU Poem Source Last Line: On mount yoshino Alternate Author Name(s): Yasuhara Teishsu; Yasuhara Teishitsu Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit ON APPLES, by DAVID ROSS Poem Source First Line: One is not hale until one inhales Last Line: But you must smell them Subject(s): Apples; Fruit OUR CHERRIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "see those cherries, how they cover" Last Line: Anything -- to save our cherries Subject(s): Cherries;fruit OUR OLD VERMONT APPLE POLE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on along through life I go Last Line: A picture of our apple pole. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Fruit; Harvest; Trees; Vermont PARING THE APPLE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are portraits and still-lifes Subject(s): Apples; Fruit PARING THE APPLE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are portraits and still-lifes Last Line: Compelling a recognition Subject(s): Apples; Fruit PATCHWORK, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: Into that deep that yields no bright return Last Line: While I sewed seams beneath the apple tree. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Youth; Nightmares PEACH, by JENNIFER TONGE Poem Source First Line: Come here's Last Line: And what else could he say to that %but yes Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches; Relationships PEACH BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream in fragrant silence wrought Last Line: The blush of nature now betrays. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches PEACH BLOOMS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Tenderly beautiful, beyond compare Last Line: The equal peace of thy majestic calm! Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches PEACH PRESERVES, by ABIGAIL SHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Takes overripe fruit Last Line: Into sturdy gleaming mason jars Subject(s): Fruit; Jelly; Peaches PEACH-BLOSSOM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly the hoar-frost freezes Last Line: And life shall never die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches; Spring; Dead, The PEACHES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: The handful of varieties that grow in this part of the country have Last Line: Peaches, their fragrance blooms at the back of your throat as it passes Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches PEACHES, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mouthful of language to swallow Last Line: Clench me into the sweetness %of your reaches Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches PEACHES, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: I have eaten peach after peach Last Line: Is suitable for resurrection Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches PEACHSTONE, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I do not visit his grave. He is not there Last Line: Till bright as blood the peachstone showed Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches PICKING APPLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up there, boys, no time to dream Last Line: "we plumb forgot to salt the sheep." Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PITSTOP, by EDMUND CONTI Poem Source First Line: Here, alone and sad I sit Last Line: Do I dare eat a peach? Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Peaches PLUMS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Damn the birds (we didn't Last Line: Damn it! We did not eat Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Plums POMEGRANATE SONG, by ANDRE GIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still for a long time you should seek Last Line: That we pop near the fire. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Happiness; Pomegranates; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight; Songs POMONA, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The hive's full of honey, the steading of stacks Last Line: Perhaps not the goddess, but one of her girls! Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Seasons; Women; Fall PRESERVES, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: This summer I shall try preserving Last Line: Into spring. Subject(s): Fruit; Memory; Seasons; Summer; Time PRESERVING-TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All over the land there's a savory smell Last Line: "of marmalade, jelly, and jam" Subject(s): Children;fruit;smells;summer; Childhood;odors;aromas;fragrances RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could only spin a top Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RASPBERRY PICKINGJ, by DANIEL BACHHUBER Poem Source First Line: My son and I found them halfway up the abandoned road, dangerously Last Line: Hung with red lobes larger than coins Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Hunger; Raspberries RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood. Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War RUSSETS, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: From an old hayloft Last Line: Sounder than the new. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit S/HE, IN THE MIRROR, by RACHAEL BECK Poem Source First Line: Waiting for the elevator, polishing my pear Last Line: Make our bows to each other, %head our separate ways Subject(s): Commuters; Fruit SCENT OF APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One morning, waking %to the fresh scent of apples Last Line: And those ripe mouths, blossoming, %promised everything Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Food And Eating; Fruit; Trees SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lean white birches of the moon Last Line: What came after I do not know. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs SHARING EVE'S APPLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blush not so! O blush not so Last Line: O cut the sweet apple and share it! Variant Title(s): Eve's Sweet Pipin Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Religion; Eve; Theology SIDEWALK PHILOSOPHER, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She did not hope to grace a royal ball Last Line: Because she could not wear a coronet. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Philosophy & Philosophers; Nightmares SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 112, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The peach tree on the southern wall Last Line: For grandmamma with her tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 80, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playing at bob cherry Last Line: With the cherry tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit SNOW AND THE PLUM: 1, by LU MEI-PO Poem Source First Line: The plum and the snow both claim the spring Last Line: But the snow can't match a wisp of plum perfume Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fruit; Plums; Poetry And Poets; Spring SOMETIMES I'M DRAGGED. SOMETIMES I'M VERY DRAGGED. THE SUN HITS ME, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Fields; Friendship; Fruit; Harvest SONG - FOR NOVEMBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While skies glint bright with Last Line: With all her blossoms blooming. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Fruit; November; Seasons SONG FOR TITUS WHEN HE ASKS FOR A SECOND DESSERT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Toward something sweet the berry grows Last Line: Delighted captives to the last Subject(s): Blueberries; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees SPRING SONG ON TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms drifting Last Line: May sweetly woos the earth. Subject(s): Apples; Earth; Flowers; Fruit; May (month); World ST. DOROTHEA (LINES FOR A PICTURE), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear a basket lined with grass Last Line: I find another christian here Subject(s): Conversion; Dorothea, St. (4th Century); Flowers; Fruit 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 STRAWBERRY FETE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the hospital grounds that night Last Line: And the perfect strawberries. Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Strawberries STRAWBERRY TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the strawberry, ripening, blushes Last Line: From fields where the berries are thick. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Strawberries; Work; Workers SUITE TO APPLENESS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you love me drink this discolored wine Last Line: Her mountains strewn and crushed. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Christianity; Drinks & Drinking; Fruit; Judgments; Temptation; Wine SUITE TO APPLENESS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the quonset shed unloading the fertilizer Last Line: Losing shape, into a thick green slime and jelly. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fruit; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers SUITE TO APPLENESS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or in the orchard that night Last Line: As an apple. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Christianity; Crows; Fruit; Night; Bedtime SUMMER FRUITS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When scarlet strawberries first were seen Last Line: "chant ""praise the lord, for he is good." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Forests; Fruit; Nature; Strawberries; Woods SUNDAY MORNING APPLES, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves will fall again sometime and fill Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Apples; Fruit SWEET APPLE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the bough! Last Line: At the end of the bough! Subject(s): Apples; Desire; Fruit TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: I listen to her talk Last Line: It's what I've got Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Apples; Fruit TANKA, by ARIWARA NO NARIHIRA Poem Source First Line: If there were no such thing Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO Poem Source First Line: Gazing at them %these blossoms have grown Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO Poem Source First Line: Why should my heart Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO Poem Source First Line: Cherry petals Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit TANKA, by SATO NORIKIYO Poem Source First Line: Let me take a good look Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit TASTE OF APPLES, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All morning my daughter has been picking apples Last Line: The hard, shiny fruits %I will bite into, one by one, savoring each Subject(s): Apples; Children; Fruit; Mothers And Daughters TEN CENTS A POUND, by PAUL BONE Poem Source First Line: The pumpkins are spread out like swollen suns Last Line: I've forgotten which one of us is the planet and which the orbit Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit THE APPLE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve, smiling, plucked the apple, then Last Line: As to let adam taste of it! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit THE APPLE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: What is all this fuss about? Last Line: "and shout, ""hurrah for the apple fair!" Subject(s): Apples; Festivals; Fruit; Harvest; Fairs; Pageants THE APPLE-DUMPLINGS AND GEORGE THE THIRD, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the chase, this monarch drooping Last Line: "then, where, where, where, pray, got the apple in?" Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) 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 BALLAD OF BITTER FRUIT, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wood with its wide arms overspread Last Line: This is king lewis his orchard-ground. Subject(s): Fruit THE CROSSED APPLE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard Last Line: You take the rest Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit THE FRUIT SHOP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown Last Line: "tiens, mademoiselle, c'est le general bonaparte, partant pour la guerre!" Subject(s): Fruit THE FRUIT-GIFT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, just as the tints of autumn'a sky Last Line: And show by one gleaned ear the mighty harvest lost. Subject(s): Fruit THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in a lawn chair Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife. Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE MONGREL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Your laurel hedge, with its broad leaves Last Line: To shrivelled leaves, all limp and sere. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Apples; Cherries; Fruit THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 58, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The peach would bloom through summer Last Line: Long ago was an endless sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Fruit; Past; Peaches; Rot; Decadence THE PROUDEST FRUIT, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: Apples are the proudest fruit Last Line: Immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina THE REASON, by HERVEY ALDIS Poem Text First Line: They asked me what ailed her Last Line: "of too much blossoming." Subject(s): Apples; Death; Fruit; Trees; Dead, The THE RIPEST PEACH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ripest peach is highest on the Last Line: The ripest peach is highest on the tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fruit; Love; Orchards; Peaches THE SONG OF SUMMER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked an apple from off a tree Last Line: On a lower branch is the fruit for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Summer THE SPRAY OF PLUM BLOSSOMS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: She has separated my lord and me Last Line: Or as plum blossoms in early spring. Subject(s): Fruit; Plums; Unfaithfulness; Plum Trees; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Last Line: I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE UNLUCKY APPLE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the apple that in eden Last Line: She's the apple of my eye. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit THE WATER-SPRINGS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arbor and orchard in our soul's south land Last Line: "give also springs of water!" Subject(s): Fruit; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE WEEPING CHERRY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a cherry weep, and why? Last Line: For tincture, wonder at. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF GIRGENTI, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That susceptible man of girgenti Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Old Age; Wealth THROUGH THE I OF THE NEEDLE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: The peach is %a belly dancer's fruit Last Line: And is there death %after %death? Subject(s): Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches TIMES SQUARE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day fell here: %like a drift of dead leaves Last Line: Elephant trumpet and chorus of locust Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Markets; Peaches; Times Square, New York TO AN APPLE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were rotten Last Line: To be processed. I think about it %and write of the good in you Subject(s): Apples; Fruit TO MY CLASS: ON CERTAIN FRUITS AND FLOWERS SENT ... SICKNESS, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale Last Line: Baltimore, christmas, 1880. Subject(s): Flowers; Fruit; Gifts & Giving TO MY FATHER: A NARRATIVE BUILT FROM A ROADSIDE FRUITSTAND, by DAVID W. ELLIS Poem Source First Line: I remember seeing once Last Line: I had stopped, you see, to buy oranges. %I was coming home Subject(s): Fruit; Home TO THE PEACH BLOSSOM, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: A single blossom, brightly moist with dew Last Line: Be glad for wealth with dual power to bless! Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches TRADER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I traded a girl Last Line: Now lie in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Fruit; Love TRANSLATION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The orange tree bears fruit Last Line: Fall, there is food for thought Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Oranges TRIOLET, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Warm from the wall she chose a peach Last Line: She took the wasps for councillors. Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches; Wasps; Yellow Jackets TWELFTH NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here's to thee, old apple-tree" Last Line: And our pockets full too Variant Title(s): A Farmer's And Farm-worker's Toast;apple-howling Song: Devonshire Subject(s): "apples;devonshire, England;fruit; TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Last Line: When he takes the first dangerous bite Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women WHEN AUTUMN'S FRUIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When autumn's fruit is packed and stored Last Line: The birds that have no berry. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fruit WHY WAIT? DO IT NOW: 3. AFTER ALL IS SAID, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I place raw red snapper on a bright blue plate Last Line: September and the smell of pressed grapes Subject(s): Fruit; Grapes; Harvest WILD APPLES, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Bright in september, bright against the sky Last Line: Are not for us to laugh at, o my heart! Subject(s): Birds; Fruit WILD CHERRY, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though one white bunch would crown the tree Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit WILD CHERRY, by MILDRED J. ORR Poem Text First Line: The wild cherry is in bloom Last Line: Wild cherry. I give my heart to you. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Moon; Noon; Wind WILD PEACHES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world turns completely upside down Last Line: And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "when The World Turns Completely Upside Down""; Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Peaches; Seasons YOUNG EDEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed from a fairy flagon Last Line: The apple in her hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Apples; Eden; Fairies; Fruit; Love; Poison Ivy; Story-telling; Youth; Elves |
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