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Subject: APPLE TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GOOD RULE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A farmer, who owned a fine orchard, one day
Last Line: So, what you're ashamed to do, don't do at all.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Cures; Sin; Conduct Of Life


AFTER APPLE PICKING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Last Line: Or just some human sleep.
Subject(s): Americans; Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees; United States; America


AN APPLE BOUGH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath its ruddy burden proudly bending
Last Line: And only empty lives fall ever dead.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


AN APPLE GATHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree
Last Line: Fell fast I loitered still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


AN APPLE TREE IN FRANCE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An apple tree beside the way
Last Line: They put to death an apple tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Apple Trees; World War I; First World War


AN APPLE-TREE RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here stands a good old apple tree
Last Line: "holla, boys, holla, hip hip hurrah!"
Variant Title(s): Apple Howling Song: Surrey
Subject(s): "apple Trees;surrey, England;trees;


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM WESLEY MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you seen an apple orchard in the spring?
Variant Title(s): An Apple Orchard In The Sprin
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by HELEN ADAMS PARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is there anything in spring so fair
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by ARTHUR LEONARD PHELPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shy, amorous %the brown-haired dryads
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard
Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why do they come? I know, I know
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The orchard trees are white
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Nature; Spring; Trees


APPLE ORCHARD, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the apple orchard she sat on a small wood bench
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Lust


APPLE SEASON, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up in the orchard with grass to your knees
Last Line: We're gathering apples with shout and song, %and we'll taste summer all winter long!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees


APPLE-BLOSSOM, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossom of the apple trees
Last Line: Swift as joy to come and go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Apple Trees


APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the clumsy child
Last Line: To a continent dark with apples
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Desire; Fruit; Kindness; Trees


APPLES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long poles support the branches of the orchards in new hampshire
Last Line: Next year the trees will rest and apples will be few
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


EVE WAKES IN THE GARDEN, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One the first day she wakes under a shade
Last Line: Is hot, the smell of blossoms thick about her
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; Eden; Trees


HARVEST APPLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out in the orchard, years ago
Last Line: "you 'll find a ""honey-core,"" I guess."
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees


IN THE SHADE OF THE OLD APPLE TREE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's barely room enough under the branches
Last Line: Ready for almost anything
Subject(s): Apple Trees


MOONLIT APPLES, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the top of the house
Last Line: On moon-washed apples of wonder.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees


MORNING AFTER, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside of town the green hills roll
Last Line: Hold on to the same dollar bill
Subject(s): Apple Trees; September; Trees


OH, WHEN I DIE, by WILLIAM LAIRD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poet names his burial-stead
Last Line: I wonder, those bright other orchards are?
Alternate Author Name(s): Laird, William
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Death; Trees; Dead, The


OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees; Cadavers


OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard
Last Line: It seemed better that we kept alive
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees


OLD LADY WITH DISPOSABLE RAIN HAT, by MICHAEL TUTTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have heard of apples in korea
Last Line: They are certainly unwrapped %and misted now and then
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


ORCHARD WASSAIL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's to thee %old apple-tree!
Last Line: Holla, boys, holla! %huzza!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


OUR OLD VERMONT APPLE POLE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As on along through life I go
Last Line: A picture of our apple pole.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Fruit; Harvest; Trees; Vermont


SCENT OF APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning, waking %to the fresh scent of apples
Last Line: And those ripe mouths, blossoming, %promised everything
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Food And Eating; Fruit; Trees


SONG OF APPLE-TREES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song of apple-trees, honeysweet and murmurous
Last Line: Avalon of the heart's desire, avalon of the hidden shores.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Avalon (legend); Desire; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Trees; Nightmares


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEVER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in that wasted garden
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Time


SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow
Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees


THE APPLE TREE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the essential prose
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE APPLE TREE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was hiding in the crooked apple tree
Last Line: He fled, as if he heard some thing behind!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Children; Trees; Childhood


THE APPLE TREE, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old john had an apple tree, healthy and green
Last Line: Nor forgets what we try to conceal.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are walking in the woods along the coast
Last Line: And then he wanders among strangers all he wants
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Apple Trees; Male-female Relations


THE BOYS AND THE APPLE TREE, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As william and thomas were walking one day
Last Line: "although but in stealing an apple. "
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE CRAB APPLE TREE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, solitary, blow!
Last Line: Fair boughs by the roadside.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE GOLD HESPERIDEE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Square matthew hale’s young grafted apple tree
Last Line: To walk a graver man restrained in wrath
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE MARK, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where should he seek, to go away
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE OLD APPLE-TREE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a memory keeps a-runnin'
Last Line: Neath the old apple tree.
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE OLD APPLE-TREE, by ANN S. STEPHENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am thinking of the homestead
Last Line: Reverberate on earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wintherbotham, Ann
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE TREE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let us plant the appple tree
Last Line: "on planting the apple-tree."
Subject(s): Apple Trees


TO A YOUNG APPLE TREE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been wondering about you
Last Line: Of brown sandal-wood!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


TREES OF KNOWLEDGE, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's all about the trees, then
Last Line: It's all about the trees now
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; God; Knowledge; Religion; Trees


TWAS 30 YEARS AGO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: & when the birds were hushed
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Deforestation


WITH A SPRAY OF APPLE BLOSSOMS, by WALTER LEARNED    Poem Text                    
First Line: The promise of these fragrant flowers
Last Line: And send this snowy spray to thee.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Holidays; Trees