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Subject: PLANTATION LIFE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PLANTATION BACCHANAL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: W'en ole mister sun gits tiah'd a-hangin'
Last Line: Twill take care of itself.
Subject(s): Plantation Life


A PLANTATION SCENE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all you picaninnies dar, come stan' up in er row
Last Line: When I wuz onc't er little nig, en stood up in dat row.
Subject(s): African Americans; Plantation Life; Negroes; American Blacks


BEAUTIFUL CORN, by PEARL BARRETT HOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You talk of beautiful corn
Last Line: How can you know?
Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Plantation Life


BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing
Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!"
Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring


BILL'S BEANS; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the leaves, they're long and curling
Last Line: And the brevity of bean.
Subject(s): Beans; Food & Eating; Oregon; Plantation Life; Trees


BOOK OF THE RISING FIELD, by ANDREW GRACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chapter 1: the planting
Last Line: The arrowheads are cast aside'
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life


CHANT AGAINST HAVING TO GO TO THE PLANTATION, by MARIA PEREZ TZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen to me, kajval
Subject(s): Peace; Plantation Life


CHARLESTON PLANTATIONS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You cannot see them from the road: go far and deep
Last Line: Deep in a deathly stillness stand the planters' houses
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Plantation Life


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, de ole plantation landin'
Last Line: To de lonesomeness -- dat's all.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi River; Plantation Life; Rivers; Negroes; American Blacks


JANET, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sunlight of her hair
Last Line: While planting in the afternoon
Subject(s): Plantation Life


LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee
Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs


MONTHS WERE NAMED FOR, by BESMILR BRIGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time to plant corn
Last Line: And big birds in the ripe corn %sang
Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life; Soil; Wheat


MORNING GLORIES, by JEAN-MARIE WELCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The summer she was told
Last Line: Like his prayer
Subject(s): Absence; Plantation Life; Prayer


PLANTATION, by MINNIE HITE MOODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is a world from other worlds apart
Subject(s): Plantation Life


PLANTATION, by MARGUERITE STEEDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They said, 'the land lies here.' we turned
Subject(s): Plantation Life


PLANTATION BOY, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cut sugar stalk is a sickle
Last Line: It's a virus or a vaccine
Subject(s): Plantation Life


PLANTATION DROUTH, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It has not rained
Last Line: Despite that bright, slow, loud antiphon %it will not rain
Subject(s): Drought; Plantation Life


PLANTATION MEMORIES, by IRWIN RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heahs a heap o' people talkin', ebrywhar I goes
Subject(s): Plantation Life


PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY, by BRODDER ROMULUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spec' de good lawd kows de dif'rance 'twixt de woodchuck and
Subject(s): Plantation Life


PLANTATION WEDDING, by MARGARET W. HOBSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down on the old plantation
Last Line: "in dem two gals!"
Subject(s): Marriage; Plantation Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


PORK CHOPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh mammy ca'line %a nigger polack ain't shit
Subject(s): Fields; Labor Unions; Plantation Life; Strikes


RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we could only spin a top
Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash.
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SAMUEL GORTON, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Days ago,passing through shawomet
Last Line: Quietly as a fox on the ends of my toes
Subject(s): Death; Peace; Plantation Life; Preaching And Preachers


SERVICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dime %in the slot
Last Line: And who knows at what price?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Africa; Money; Plantation Life; Service; Smoking


SLAVES, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet, planter, let humanity prevail.- / perhaps the negro, in his native land
Last Line: The blacks should cultivate the cane-land isles.
Subject(s): African Americans; Oppression; Plantation Life; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs


THE OLD PLANTATION, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O I'm sick an' tired an' lonely
Last Line: Kiss 'em good-night now forever—an' then lay me down to sleep.
Subject(s): African Americans; Plantation Life; Slavery; Tennessee; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs


THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast
Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape.
Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


THOUGHTS AND FLOWERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thoughts grow like flowers overnight
Last Line: They will always want to grow.
Subject(s): April; Children; Growth; Plantation Life; Childhood


WORK TO DO, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What busy times the world sees now
Last Line: Your way—you sing!
Subject(s): April; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Plantation Life; Spring; Work; Workers