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Subject: SUGAR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high
Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way
Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar


DOVECOTT MILL: 4. SUGAR-MAKING, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiftly onward the seasons flew
Last Line: The dear old hills that hemmed them round.
Subject(s): Sugar


DOWN WITH MONEY EXCHANGE, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh cibernetic fairy
Last Line: Down with the silk-mart!
Subject(s): Business - Failures; Depressions, Economic; Labor And Laborers; Money; Sugar


LITTLE BROTHER'S SECRET, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my birthday was coming
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Birthdays; Sugar


LITTLE BROTHER'S SECRET, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my birthday was coming
Last Line: And now it will all be melted. %oh the darling
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Birthdays; Sugar


LOAD OF SUGAR-CANE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The going of the glade-boat
Last Line: When they rise %at the red turban %of the boatman
Subject(s): Boats; Sugar


LOST SUGAR CUBE WILL PURSUE YOU IN HELL, by BENJAMIN IVRY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To coat the torment of the tabletop
Subject(s): Hell; Sugar


LUNDU, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight, if I sleep on this bank
Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Sugar; Agriculture; Farmers


MAPLE-SUGAR SONG, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho-yo-ho! Ho-yo-ho-hol! -- yo-ho!
Last Line: Ho!
Subject(s): Sugar


PRICE OF SUGAR, by FRANCES B. WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A summer under open skies
Subject(s): Justice; Sugar


SUGAR CANE, by GRACE NICHOLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something %about sugar cane
Last Line: Below them %quietly
Subject(s): Sugar


SUGAR CANE MAN, by FAUSTIN CHARLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who am I %black
Subject(s): Blacks; Labor And Laborers; Sugar


SUGAR CUBE, by MARYANN FRANTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: As you reach for keys in your purse
Last Line: You want another
Subject(s): Sugar; Taste (sense)


SUGAR-MAKING, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The crocus rose from her snowy bed
Last Line: Of the cup of life together.
Subject(s): Sugar


THE LOAD OF SUGAR-CANE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The going of the glade-boat
Subject(s): Boats; Sugar


THE SUGAR-CANE: THE SHAME OF FRANCE, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: False gallia's sons, that hoe the ocean isles
Last Line: And, with abhorrence, reprobate the name.
Subject(s): France; Grocers; Plants; Salespersons; Sugar; Planting; Planters; Selling


WHAT SHE CRAVED, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother sugared grapefruit; / my father salted it
Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers; Sugar


WHAT SHE CRAVED, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother sugared grapefruit; %my father salted it
Last Line: Ticking through running down days
Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers; Sugar