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Subject: LIQUORICE
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRAHMA'S CUP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lift the cup of brahma high!
Last Line: And he receives me into him.
Subject(s): Brahma; Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Liquorice; Wine


CHARADES (1), by CASSANDRA ELIZABETH AUSTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Should you chance to suffer thirst
Last Line: And may be fairly called a drug
Subject(s): Liquorice


CLIMB, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, like a whip, at the foot of the stairs
Last Line: And heard the door shut on their shame
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Liquorice


COGNAC, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each summer I would coddle a bottle of cognac
Last Line: Future still flush with desire
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Friendship; Liquorice; Parties; Reunions


NIGHT, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: These days we're advised
Last Line: And our beautiful bottles sunk in the sand
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Liquorice; Women And War


STILL LIVES WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE: 1. A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP, by PETER MARKUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had gone with his father into detroit to look at used cars, though
Last Line: Like a man who had just awakened from a good night's sleep
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Liquorice