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Subject: ORCHARDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OFFERING FOR MR. BLUEHART, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a place, when I was young
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Orchards; Childhood Memories; Regret


AN OLD ORCHARD IN WINTER, by FLORENCE BOYCE DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was years ago, and no one knows
Last Line: And make the old orchard their wayside inn.
Subject(s): Orchards


AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hills are white, but not with snow
Last Line: And never comes again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Avignon, France; Orchards


APPLES FOR SALE, by LEWIS MANSFIELD KNAPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: In youthful days I saw old orchards bloom
Last Line: I too, my friend, am polished and for sale.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Language; Orchards; Words; Vocabulary


AUTUMN ORCHARDS, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walled with fair azures of the wintering year
Last Line: Of love is colored like the dying year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Orchards; Seasons; Fall


CALIFORNIA ORCHARD, by ELSA GIDLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: August. Burned hills lean towards sunset
Last Line: Plenty rotting on the ranch ground.
Subject(s): Orchards


EVENING ORCHARD, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the beauty of the world
Last Line: And eden's is the orchard thrush.
Subject(s): Nature; Orchards


FORGOTTEN ORCHARD, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The air is sweet with apples ripening
Last Line: Must touch no windfall in the tangled grass.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Orchards; Voices


GOD'S WEATHER: APRIL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shadows fall soft down the haw-whitened hillside
Last Line: The wooing soft south of his weather, god's weather.
Subject(s): Orchards; Seasons; Spring


GOOD-BY AND KEEP COLD, by ROBERT COOPERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frost meant fruit trees and their need
Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Orchards; Poetry And Poets


GOOD-BY AND KEEP COLD, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This saying good-by on the edge of the dark
Last Line: But something has to be left to god.
Subject(s): Orchards


IN AN OLD ORCHARD, by PETER KANE DUFAULT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In an old orchard, which the wasps and flickers
Last Line: Long ladderless, still pitifully gathering all %windfalls onto its damp lap of graves
Subject(s): Orchards


IN BLOOMING ORCHARDS, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I walk 'mid orchard bloom
Last Line: Through mays that manhood ne'er forgets.
Subject(s): Memory; Orchards


IN THE NURSERY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where do you go, bob, when you're fast asleep?
Last Line: Perhaps -- we'll see.'
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Night; Orchards; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime


IN THE ORCHARD, by HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sunny orchard closes
Last Line: Who may revel with the rest?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarme, Brynjolf
Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Spring


IN THE ORCHARD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a giant by the orchard wall
Last Line: Round by the lilac bushes back to you!
Subject(s): Orchards; Supernatural


IN THE ORCHARD, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black bird, black voice
Last Line: You can never choose away from
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Orchards


IN THE ORCHARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave go my hands, let me catch breath and see
Last Line: Ah god, ah god, that day should be so soon.
Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Orchards


KATHLEEN O'DARE, by DOROTHY B. YOST    Poem Text                    
First Line: The evening shades are falling within the orchard grove
Last Line: While the shadows gather in the sky.
Subject(s): Evening; Orchards; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight


LOST ORCHARD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over a lost orchard I have strayed
Last Line: Over the treetops to predestined mates
Subject(s): Orchards


LOVE'S ATTRIBUTES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ceres rules the fields of grain
Last Line: Are consecrate to love.
Subject(s): Demeter; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Orchards; Tears; Ceres


MY ORCHA'D IN LINDEN LEA, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleaded
Last Line: Do lean down low in linden lea.
Subject(s): Orchards


NOON IN THE ORCHARD, by PHYLLIS B. MORDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Among these trees what man could pause
Last Line: That leaves him fed who dares not eat.
Subject(s): Orchards


OF AN ORCHARD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Good is an orchard, the saint saith
Last Line: And in his orchard talk with god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Orchards


OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Full 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 HOME, by MABEL GOULD DEMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The purple lilacs haunt me
Last Line: Upon the polished floor.
Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Lilacs; Orchards


ORCHARD, by TRENT BUSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peaches have had their fling
Last Line: Mothers, as my father, %hidden, takes their fruit, %gentle with the shaking limbs
Subject(s): Orchards


ORCHARD, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although I never saw it, her orchard
Last Line: Did she dream me into life, the way, %today, I dreamed her back from death?
Subject(s): Orchards


ORCHARD, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the first pear
Last Line: I bring you as offering.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Keeper Of The Orchards;priapus
Subject(s): Bible; Orchards


ORCHARD, by GRETEL EHRLICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We go into it at night
Last Line: Tonight so many of them fall
Subject(s): Farm Life; Orchards; Ranch Life; Women - Writers


ORCHARD, by HORACE HOLLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood within an orchard during rain
Last Line: Have been a moment's friend to all alive.
Variant Title(s): In A Garden
Subject(s): Orchards; Rain


ORCHARD, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The evening light slaps the orchard floor
Subject(s): Orchards


ORCHARD, by MICHAEL SPENCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cherry trees, mindless of the field
Last Line: Their stones %white as bones, white as petals in the grass
Subject(s): Orchards


ORCHARD, by JAKE ADAM YORK    Poem Source                    
First Line: First-cold appleweather taps heartwood
Last Line: The sweet wood filling up with song
Subject(s): Orchards


PASTORAL OF THE ORCHARD, by ELINOR SWEETMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: How looked your love, sweet shepherd, yestereven
Last Line: In the orchard by the shore!
Variant Title(s): The Orchard By The Shore: A Pastoral
Subject(s): Orchards


PLENITUDE, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It always pains me - this abundance
Last Line: Promise - there for the taking
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Orchards


POMONA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the golden afternoon!
Last Line: Smiling o'er the orchard wall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Afternoon; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Orchards


SMUDGING, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come out of a california orange grove
Subject(s): Orange; Orchards


THE BUDDING OF THE ORCHARD, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! The budding of the orchard
Last Line: Are returning through the dusk.
Subject(s): Country Life; June; Orchards


THE ELECTRIC ORCHARD, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The early electric people had domesticated the wild ass
Subject(s): Orchards; Electricity


THE FLOWERING ORCHARD; SILK EMBROIDERY, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo silken my garden
Last Line: When summer was hot!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Orchards; Work; Workers


THE HARVEST MOON, by MARTHA ST. JOHN DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The harvest moon rides in to-night
Last Line: And silver hollyhock.
Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Orchards; Stars; Wind


THE LOST ORCHARD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loves and sorrows of those who lose an orchard
Subject(s): Orchards


THE ORCHARD, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O pleasant orchard, emerald leaves
Last Line: To prove the world at last is merry.
Subject(s): Orchards


THE ORCHARD, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midst bitten mead and acre shorn
Last Line: The banners of the spring to be.
Subject(s): Orchards


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 RAMBO-TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn shakes the rambo-tree
Last Line: It's a long, sweet way across the orchard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Orchards; Seasons; Trees; Fall


THE RIPEST PEACH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ripest peach is highest on the
Last Line: The ripest peach is highest on the tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fruit; Love; Orchards; Peaches


THE ROBINS' OTHER NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the orchard-days, when you
Last Line: "we called robins ""bessie-birds."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): May (month); Orchards; Robins


THERE'S A WEDDING IN THE ORCHARD, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a wedding in the orchard, dear
Last Line: And aisles of flowery light.
Subject(s): Marriage; Orchards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THRENODY, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I made a slow lament for you, lost magic
Last Line: Orchards, hurried on, and soon forgot.
Subject(s): New England; Orchards


THRENODY, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In olive leaves a lyre hung
Last Line: And lo! 'tis only wind that grieves.
Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Orchards


TRUE GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a young maiden, in the morning air
Last Line: Than heaped-up flowers no thoughtful care disposes.
Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Roses; Spring; Youth


WALNUT WOOD (CALIFORNIA), by H. O. WISE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The orchard spreads thick roof of green and dun
Last Line: The little winds swing censers where they stir.
Subject(s): Orchards


WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old farm-home is mother's yet and mine
Last Line: To the orchard where the children used to play.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Orchards; Past; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers


WOMEN AND ORCHARDS, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: An orchard in the valley
Last Line: Comforted -- like me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Orchards; Women