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Subject: HORTICULTURE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, by STODDARD KING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To raise a fine garden
Last Line: Keep them in the back yard, %where they belong!
Subject(s): Horticulture


HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O you chorus of indolent reviewers
Last Line: Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Critics & Criticism; Horticulture; Poetry & Poets


HORTICULTURAL HORTATION, by PEGGY L. SHRIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Talk to your houseplants
Last Line: Reason enough to mumble clumsy thanks %should houseplants need appreciation, too
Subject(s): Horticulture


HORTICULTURE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my mother's moser uncles
Last Line: Being invited to their house to tasted a little slice of miracle
Subject(s): Horticulture; Iowa


HORTICULTURE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my mother's moser uncles
Last Line: To taste a little slice of miracle
Subject(s): Horticulture; Iowa


HORTICULTURE, by ELAINE FOWLER PALENCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reluctant to see reality
Last Line: I hope to find the shape of a larger story
Subject(s): Horticulture


HORTICULTURIST, by PETER WILD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always afraid of robbers
Subject(s): Horticulture


PORTRAIT OF ORPHEUS AS A YOUNG HORTICULTURIST, by SAM KASHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Orpheus is digging a hole in our garden
Last Line: Will remain empty and blind as a star
Subject(s): Horticulture


RED FLOWER, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A horticulturist of sorts, farmer, then gardener
Last Line: Forming a bud, then a flower, about to burst
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Greenhouses; Horticulture


THE FAUN, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! Sir, I have seen you sniffing and snoozling
Last Line: "and scare itself to spasms."
Subject(s): Horticulture


THE NEW EDEN; MEETING OF BERKSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce could the parting ocean close
Last Line: Till ocean is its only wall!
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Drought; Horticulture


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