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Subject: GRAPES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BACCHUS, by JACK MERTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blood of full grapes swells my wooden goblet
Last Line: Before the barred door of eternity.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Grapes; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


BURGUNDY, by GLADYS ADELINA LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Siege!
Last Line: On streaming blood-red burgundy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewys, Georges
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grapes; Vines & Vineyards; Wine


CATAWBA WINE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This song of mine / is a song of the vine
Last Line: On the banks of the beautiful river.
Subject(s): Grapes


CLUSTERED GRAPES, by HELEN BURWELL CHAPIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the rays of late september's sun
Last Line: Sink swiftly, strike and leave spilt juice to rot.
Subject(s): Grapes; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


FEAR, by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not only this golden moment's wine
Last Line: And there is nothing for you but the taste of the grapes!
Subject(s): Fear; Grapes; Pain; Suffering; Misery


GRAPES, by SISTER MARIS STELLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then there were the grapes turned purple in the sun
Last Line: Pockets and let the sun pour down on you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava
Subject(s): Grapes


GRAPES FROM THORNS, by DOROTHY HOMANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the golden wood on golden days
Last Line: But not the story.
Subject(s): Grapes


HUNTING MUSCADINES, by JOHN HENRY BONER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Floating on the gentle yadkin in an olden-time canoe
Subject(s): Grapes


JONES ENLIGHTENED, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At bordeaux, when autumn had ripen'd the vine
Last Line: "now the reason I know why they call it la fitte."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grapes; Wine


NORTH AND SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the north I wove a dream
Last Line: In the silence of the dream I found fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grapes; North, The; Southern States; Nightmares; South (u.s.)


SUGGESTED BY A BUNCH OF ENGLISH GRAPES, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We did not wear a leafy crown
Last Line: To brim her dimpled lap.
Subject(s): Grapes


THE FOX AND THE GRAPES, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fox of gascon, though some say of norman descent
Subject(s): Foxes; Grapes


THE FOX AND THE GRAPES, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An hungry fox with fierce attack
Last Line: Who lessen what they can't come at.
Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Grapes; Allegories


THE GRAPE-VINE SWING, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lithe and long as the serpent train
Last Line: Does the maiden still swing in thy giant clasp?
Subject(s): Grapes; Trees


THE GRAPES OF MALAGA, by FLORENCE WENNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In spain the grapes of malaga
Last Line: To hell-draughts have been ground!
Subject(s): Grapes; Malaga, Spain


THE REVELLER; A VINEYARD SONG, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unwreathe thy brow! Thy cheek outvies
Last Line: Love's imageless eternity!
Subject(s): Grapes; Singing & Singers; Vines And Vineyards


TO A BUNCH OF GRAPES; RIPENING IN MY WINDOW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cluster of pregnant berries, pressed / in luscious warmth together
Last Line: With pleasure glowing.
Subject(s): Grapes


VINTAGE, by KOSTAS KRYSTALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the creeping vine blooms and spreads her tendrils
Subject(s): Grapes


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 GRAPES, by WILLIAM DORESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The thick mauve fragrance lingers
Last Line: Dreams I lean over and shut them %with my clammy shuddering hands
Subject(s): Grapes; Love; Nature


WILD GRAPES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What tree may not the fig be gathered from
Last Line: That I need learn to let go with the heart.
Subject(s): Grapes