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Subject: ONIONS
Matches Found: 17

DEVELOPER'S LANDSCAPE: WATCHING THE ONIONS, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doctors crept into the onion fields
Last Line: Of the imagined will walk us to farms %and lay us down near onions to be healed
Subject(s): Onions


LULLABY OF THE ONION, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: An onion is frost
Last Line: Stay ignorant of what's happening, %and what is going on
Subject(s): Onions; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)


LULLABY OF THE ONION, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The onion is frost
Subject(s): Onions


MONOLOGUE FOR AN ONION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not mean to make you cry
Last Line: A heart that will one day beat you to death
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Onions


ONION, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mornings when the sun is white as dried gristle
Last Line: Innocently it summons
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Onions


ONIONS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How easily happiness begins by
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Onions; Food & Eating


ONIONS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rooster pheasant crows in the gully
Last Line: To the cellar, where they will remain for months
Subject(s): Onions; Pregnancy


PEELING ONIONS, by DINA ELENBOGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You loved to watch me undress
Last Line: That tonight I peeled onion, %and when I threw away their tiny jackets %everything inside me wept
Subject(s): Onions; Tears


PEELING ONIONS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only to have a grief
Subject(s): Onions; Tears


PEELING ONIONS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only to have a grief
Last Line: These old tears in the chopping bowl
Subject(s): Onions; Tears


RIDDLE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world's wonder, I liven wenches
Last Line: And after our meeting moisten her eye
Subject(s): Onions; Riddles


RIDDLE: 15, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sombreros over sombreros
Last Line: Will need a year to guess in
Subject(s): Onions;riddles


RIDDLE: 5, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I went up to town
Last Line: And wept with it
Subject(s): Onions;riddles


THE ONION, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mornings when the sun is white as dried gristle
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Onions


THE ONION, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like sadness, has its flower and its root
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Onions


THE TRAVELING ONION, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think how far the onion has traveled
Last Line: Disappear.
Subject(s): Humanity; Onions


[LULLABY OF THE ONION], by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: An onion is frost
Last Line: Never mind what happens %or what's to come
Subject(s): Onions; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)