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Subject: MILK
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBIGUITY AS A BOWL OF MILK, by JAMES TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their valence
Last Line: Pallid syntaxes %of(f) the land
Subject(s): Language; Milk


AN UNFINISHED PICTURE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis mary the milkmaid singing
Last Line: With richard the keeper whistling.
Subject(s): Courtship; Milk; Singing & Singers; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Songs


BABY'S PANTOUM, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie in my crib midday this is
Last Line: Mamma's sweeping or else boiling water for tea.
Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Literary Form; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids


CAESARIAN, by CAMILLE DU BARRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Woman, you are big with child
Last Line: Alas, little mother, you are dead!
Subject(s): Babies; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids


CLIMATIC SORCERY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When frost's all on our winder, an' the snow's
Last Line: Ner his mustache ain't white, ner he ain't old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Milk; Summer; Weather; Milkmen; Milkmaids


CORNERSTONE FARM, by ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dolor of the ruined barn
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


DRINK OF MILK, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the girdered dark
Last Line: He puts the mug to his head, %grunts, and drains it clean
Subject(s): Milk


FIRST SUMMER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time I felt like a mother
Last Line: To keep a small flame going
Subject(s): Babies; Love; Milk; Mothers; Pregnancy


HUSBANDRY, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: And what does the farmer's daughter think
Last Line: And thinks: 'when I marry, I'll marry a farmer.'
Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fathers And Daughters; Girls; Milk


HYMN TO THE DAIRYMAIDS ON BEACON STREET, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetly solemn see them stand
Last Line: This is the whey, this is the life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


LYNTON VERSES: 3, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Milk! Milk! Milk!
Last Line: Ah, mary, mary!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MEND IT NOW, by RUTH MCGRAIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a bowl of thick rich cream
Last Line: I'll eat my cream, myself.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILK, by GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Milk of orange, peach, raspberry, rosewater
Last Line: Just as dull critics milk these words to white
Subject(s): Milk


MILK, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From time to time the placid
Last Line: From cut bank
Subject(s): Calm; Milk; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILK, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Given your birth, I am the glue of the cosmos.
Last Line: Never forget me
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Love; Milk; Pregnancy


MILK AND BUTTER LADY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma churned and minded the flies
Last Line: And there wasn't any use %in being that particular
Subject(s): Butter; Grandparents; Milk


MILK FOR THE CAT, by HAROLD MONRO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the tea is brought at five o'clock
Last Line: Three or four hours unconscious there.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILKING, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cushy cow, bonny, let down thy milk
Last Line: If thou wilt let down thy milk for me.
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILKING, by ELLEN DANIELS PANTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thrum, thrum, thrum! With a spurt and a splash
Last Line: Loiter to pasture -- milking's done!
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILKING SIAN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls
Last Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Advice; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Milk; Voices; Paradise; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILKING TIME, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When supper time is almost come
Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILKING TIME, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When supper time is almost come
Last Line: He hands it to me through the fence
Subject(s): Cows; Milk


MILKMAID, by LAURIE LEE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl's far treble, muted to the heat
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILKMAID, by LAURIE LEE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl's far treble, muted to the heat
Last Line: The girl dreams milk within her body's field %and hears, fa r off, her muted children cry
Subject(s): Milk


MY MOTHER'S MILKMAN, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloyce hamilton, / a slender tan man in white uniform
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MY MOTHER'S MILKMAN, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloyce hamilton, %a slender tan man in white uniform
Last Line: With cream from california's %pellissier dairy
Subject(s): Milk


NEW ILK OF MILK, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I take off my bra
Last Line: Go ahead. Cry, baby
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Milk


ONE COW, TWO MOOS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We used to have a single cow
Last Line: She gives us half-and-half
Subject(s): Cows; Milk


ORIGINS OF MILK, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mushrooms grow in my thighs
Last Line: I long to be an apple tree standing in your garden
Subject(s): Introspection; Love - Loss Of; Milk


OUR SON SWEARS HE HAS 102 GALLONS OF WATER IN HIS BODY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere a mistaken word distorts the sum
Last Line: That nobody could break.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Milk; Parents; Water; Wine; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Parenthood


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 27, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brownie, brownie, let down your milk
Last Line: No sweeter scented than your breath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


SONNET ABOUT MILK, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, I discovered milk, my bloodthirsty
Last Line: My rubber soles squeak on the cement floor. %I should have changed shoes long ago
Subject(s): Milk


STABLE, by ROBERT+(2) LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not mary, but near %and darker than the throat
Last Line: And takes %back the blood-pail, %full of milk
Subject(s): Milk; Stables


SUFFOLK DAIRY SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you with me will go, my love
Last Line: I will have thee, my love, %so let the milk pail stand still
Subject(s): Milk


THE COW-BOY'S SONG, by ANNA MARIA WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mooly cow, mooly cow, home from the wood
Last Line: "the mooly cow only said, ""moo-o-o!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Wells, A. M.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE HEIFER, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old herder's daughter, thou whose hands are skilled
Last Line: And hold it slung until her store be spent.
Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE HUMAN PORTFOL;IO, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To express milk, like expressing a feeling
Subject(s): Horses; Milk; Body, Human; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE MILKMAID, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a daisied bank
Last Line: If fred would not prefer that other one.
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE MILKMAID, by JEFFREYS TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: A milkmaid, who poised a full pail on her head
Last Line: "hatched."
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE MILKMAID; A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the grass I see her pass
Last Line: Or blooms the eglantine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE MILKMAN, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The milkman, so at least it's said
Last Line: I've never seen him!
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE MILKMAN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early in the morning, when the dawn is on the roofs
Last Line: And hang my reins upon a hook, as I've seen casey do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE VERMONT 'HIRED MAN', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hired man we knew of yore
Last Line: The past and present hired man.
Subject(s): Cattle; Cows; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Milk; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE VIRTUES OF CARNATION MILK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Carnation milk is the best in the land
Last Line: You just punch a hole in the son of a bitch
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen;milkmaids


VERMONT CHEESEMAKING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When white grass makes the pasture white
Last Line: Your man is 'mazing fond of cheese.
Subject(s): Cheese; Milk; United States; Vermont; Milkmen; Milkmaids; America


YOU HAD TO MILK THE COWS AT 5 A.M., by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even udders can become brutal clocks
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Nature