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Subject: PLUMS
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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


BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         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


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 20, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plums are falling
Last Line: Let me be the bride of one
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Plums


EARLY PLUMS, by TAO YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten thousand cold, colorless trees
Last Line: Shadows: closing above my rustic hut
Subject(s): Plums; Zen Buddhism


FOLLOWING THE RHYMES OF 'WRITTEN WHILE VIEWING GREEN-CALYXED PLUM...', by LIU SHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Homesickness, spring thoughts - both lie aslant
Last Line: To sit and lie down with you to admire the fragrant blossoms
Subject(s): Homesickness; Plums


FRAGRANCE FROM SOMEWHERE UNSEEN, by JIANG KUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon's hue of days gobe by
Last Line: Never again to be seen
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Plums; Smells


IT IS THE RIPE RED, by ALAN SHEFSKY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Flesh and tender %and plum and heart
Subject(s): Colors; Food And Eating; Plums


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, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cool evening, the good provider plucked
Last Line: And pit, and flecks of overbrimming foam
Subject(s): Plums


PLUM, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cool evening the master
Last Line: The skin, the pit, and clinging foam
Subject(s): Plums


PLUM BLOSSOMS III, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me that the plums
Last Line: One old man set free
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Plums


PLUM HINT, by YEN CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plums have bloomed, comrades.
Last Line: Are like the ten thousand hearts of our commune members
Subject(s): Growth; Plums; Spring


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 TREE, by DUAN SHUQING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tree of plum flowers, its adornment light and even
Last Line: For I fear the cold blossoms cannot bear the spring
Subject(s): Plums


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


PLUM'S HEART, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've climbed in trees
Subject(s): Plums


PLUMS, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma bruchac lies with closed eyes
Last Line: Her hand moves from yours to accept that gift
Subject(s): Grandparents; Plums


PLUMS, by BOBBY BYRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life, that luscious plum
Subject(s): Plums


PLUMS, by GILLIAN CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When their time comes they fall
Last Line: Formalities. Their black %angles will tear the show
Subject(s): Plums


PLUMS, by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was a 35-cent child, nothing more
Last Line: We were fed on the juicy knots %of that bitterness. Theirs is the jelly %smeared on our morning's br
Subject(s): Children; Plums


PLUMS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Damn the birds (we didn't
Last Line: Damn it! We did not eat
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Plums


PLUMS FAILING WELL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So what if plums fall
Last Line: Small piece by small piece
Subject(s): Plums; Life


SENRYU (87), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As bad as a dyer's
Last Line: From picking plums
Subject(s): Plums


SNOW AND THE PLUM: 1, by LU MEI-PO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plum and the snow both claim the spring
Last Line: But the snow can't match a wisp of plum perfume
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fruit; Plums; Poetry And Poets; Spring


SNOW AND THE PLUM: 2, by LU MEI-PO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plum without the snow isn't very special
Last Line: Together with the plum they complete the spring
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Plums; Poetry And Poets; Spring


TANKA: ON A PLUM TREE BLOOMING BY A STREAM, by ISE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This stream that
Subject(s): Plums


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


THIS IS JUST TO SAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have eaten %the plums
Last Line: They were delicious %so sweet %and so cold
Subject(s): Love; Plums


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


TO A POOR OLD WOMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Munching a plum on
Last Line: Comforted %a solace of ripe plums %seeming to fill the air %they taste good to her
Subject(s): Plums


TRIPTYCH (PLUM TREE), by MARGUERITE BOUVARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plum blossoms brush against my skin
Last Line: That soon she will fly past %this spring, this stretch of grass
Subject(s): Plums


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


WORD PLUM IS DELICIOUS, by HELEN CHASIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And reply, lip and tongue %of pleasure
Subject(s): Language; Plums; Sound