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Subject: PLUM TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although it was not my home
Last Line: The window smelled just the same
Subject(s): Plums; Smells; Plum Trees; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


JACK HORNER, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little jack horner / sat in a corner
Last Line: And said, what a good boy am I!
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


PLUM TREE, by VIRGINIA WOODSON FRAME CHURCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Plum tree / I do not wonder
Last Line: "beyond the cold."
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


PLUM TREES, by RANKO    Poem Text                    
First Line: So sweet the plum trees smell!
Last Line: A fall of purest snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Reinko; Takakuwa Ranko
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass
Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet.
Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE PLUM ON THE SILL, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold at its poles and blush
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


THE PLUMS, by ALPHONSE DAUDET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, since you ask me, this is how
Last Line: We fell in love -- it was the plums!
Subject(s): Birds; Love - Beginnings; Orchards; Plums; Plum Trees


THE SPRAY OF PLUM BLOSSOMS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has separated my lord and me
Last Line: Or as plum blossoms in early spring.
Subject(s): Fruit; Plums; Unfaithfulness; Plum Trees; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THIS FOR THAT, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What will I have for breakfast?
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Plums; Plum Trees


THIS IS JUST TO SAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have eaten / the plums
Subject(s): Love; Plums; Plum Trees


TO A POOR OLD WOMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Munching a plum on
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


TYPHUS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole earth was covered with snow,
Last Line: We were poor—a box was worth something
Subject(s): Epidemics; Plums; Death; Plum Trees; Dead, The


WILD PLUM, by ORRICK JOHNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are unholy who are born
Last Line: Wild plum at night.
Subject(s): Evil; Plums; Plum Trees


WILD PLUM BLOSSOMS, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seafoam and mist and moonbeams
Last Line: Robed in their bridal lace.
Subject(s): Flowers; Plums; Trees; Plum Trees