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Subject: HERBS
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First Line: Atropin for muscarine --
Last Line: We have not trod.
Subject(s): Herbs; Mushrooms; Poisons & Poisoning; Morels


A SELLER OF HERBS (A RHYME OF A BALTIMORE MARKET), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black, comely, of abiding cheer
Last Line: And just as full of bees!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Markets; Poetry & Poets; Supermarkets


A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a thing a garden is
Last Line: To bid grow, to increase!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription


CHARM OF THE NINE HEALING HERBS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mugwort recalled %what you showed us all
Last Line: And the waters clear forever
Subject(s): Herbs; Medicine


CHARTREUSE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away in the french alps near grenoble the carthusian monks
Last Line: The airport falls, if it isn't the life we expected, something close
Subject(s): Arabs; Herbs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins


COTTAGE MUSK, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or in caprice or through neglect
Last Line: You'll find it nowhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Herbs; Dead, The


ESSENTIAL OILS ARE WRUNG, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In ceaseless rosemary
Subject(s): Herbs


FENNEL, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is there to say about fennel - with its heavy
Last Line: Vegetable. As much a beginning as an end
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Herbs; Poetry And Poets


GARDEN OF THE WOMEN ONCE FALLEN: OF BITTERNESS HERB, by LORNA GOODISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You knotted the spite blooms into a bouquet-garni
Last Line: From wooden spoons of must-suck-salt
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Herbs; Women


HABITAT: TIME AND PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is out by the stand of windbreak-trees, under
Last Line: It keeps me down to size
Subject(s): Birds; California; Fields; Herbs; Nature


HERB-GATHERER, by SARA BARD FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Herb-gatherer, learned in the lore
Last Line: Find him a star-span taller every night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Herbs


HERBAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love-lies-bleeding now is found
Last Line: Now in any common ground.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Flowers; Herbs


HERBS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A serviceable thing
Last Line: And not the sons of men?
Subject(s): Herbs


HERBS & SPICES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mint 3b
Last Line: Nutmeg p
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Food And Eating; Herbs


LINES WITH A GIFT OF HERBS, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer's residue %in aromatic leaf
Last Line: Have all their might conserved %in treasure, finally
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Herbs; Marcus Aurelius (121-180)


MOLY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightmare of beasthood, snorting, how to wake
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Herbs


MOLY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightmare of beasthood, snorting, how to wake
Last Line: Dreaming the flower I have never seen
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Herbs


ON HIS MISTRESS'S GARDEN OF HERBS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heartsease, an herb that sometimes hath been seen
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Herbs


TARAHUMARA HERBS, by ALFONSO REYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tarahumara indians have come down, %sign of a bad year
Last Line: In heaps upon the ground-- %perfect in their natural natural science
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Herbs; Medicine; Native Americans; Plants


THE HERB SHOP, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a charming little shop
Last Line: And breathe its faint perfume.
Subject(s): Herbs; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE THREE WREATHS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three wreaths make I in the wood
Last Line: Down the wind of hallowmas!
Subject(s): Forests; Herbs; Woods


THE VEGETABLES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She bore only the heart
Subject(s): Artichokes; Asparagus; Cauliflowers; Herbs; Corn; Celery; Bell Peppers; Potatoes


TULIPS, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are the breathing that passes
Last Line: Over and over for all our days
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Herbs; Nature; Tulips