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Subject: TASTE (SENSE)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPICUREAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a man, I fear no can
Last Line: Give me an ice cream pie.
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Food & Eating; Taste (sense)


CANZONE, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider the three functions of the tongue
Subject(s): Pleasure; Taste (sense)


CANZONE, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider the three functions of the tongue
Last Line: Whoever wants to give %only one meaning to that, has untutored taste
Subject(s): Pleasure; Taste (sense)


CHOICE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Milk or cream in your coffee, lad?'
Last Line: Whatever stops it tastin' bad.'
Subject(s): Coffee; Taste (sense)


ENGLISH FLAVORS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard
Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning.
Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary


EPICUREAN PORTRAITS, by ELISA ALBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You tasted of caramel %caramelo the hue of honey
Last Line: I'll begin again. %you tasted of ashes
Subject(s): Creation; Fire; Taste (sense)


EPISTLE TO MR. FOX, FROM HAMPTON COURT: NATURE QUERIES, by JOHN HERVEY (1696-1743)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will the wise elephant desert the wood
Last Line: And eat when hungry, and when am'rous love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey Of Ickworth, Baron
Subject(s): Animals; Elephants; Hunger; Nature; Taste (sense)


NOT I, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some like drink
Last Line: Not I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Taste (sense)


ODE TO GARLIC, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sudden, it came for you
Last Line: Like a child again, you breathe on the world, and it %shines
Subject(s): Garlic; Taste (sense)


OF TASTE; AN ESSAY, SELECTION, by JAMES CAWTHORN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time was, a wealthy englishman would join / a rich plum-pudding to a fat sirloin
Last Line: Midst porcelain elephants and china gods.
Subject(s): Taste (sense)


OUT OF PETRONIUS, by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bird, that's fetch't from phasis floud
Last Line: Unlesse't be rare, what's thought upon?
Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae
Subject(s): Taste (sense)


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)


TASTE MEMORY, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tiny gold plane still
Last Line: And mourn the long memory %of the tongue
Subject(s): Memory; Taste (sense)


TASTER, by GREGORY N. GABBARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sir thomas beecham
Last Line: Always reminded him of zinfandel
Subject(s): Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759); Taste (sense)


TONGUE-TIED, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone just told me our tastebuds die
Last Line: Between my teeth.
Subject(s): Aging; Taste (sense)


TRIOLETS IN THE ARGOLID, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The taste is strong as ever,
Subject(s): Time; Silence; Cell Phones; Taste (sense); Love; Worry


WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Sight; Touch (sense); Taste (sense); Hearing; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances