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Subject: PEAR TREES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEAFY WELCOME, by MARY JANE DEW    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pear tree stood by aunt sue's gate
Last Line: "to one and all, a leafy welcome."
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Pears


A PEAR LIKE A POTATO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it worms, having once bitten
Last Line: Like this poor pear
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


BOOK OF ODES: 16, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That broad and spreading sweet pear
Last Line: Lord shao rested there
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


ESPALIERED PEAR TREES, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You tack the pear trees to the wall
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Pears


FRUIT SALAD: 3. PEAR, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most easily hurt of fruits
Last Line: We take refuge from our troubles in its sweetness, %wasps burrowing head-first through its pulp
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Pear Trees; Trees


HAIKU, by MASAOKA SHIKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peeling pears
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


HAIKU, by MIZUHARA SHUOSHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pear blossoms
Last Line: Mild, misted sky
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR BLOSSOMS, by HSU WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring rain spring
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR LIKE A POTATO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it worms, having once bitten
Last Line: Here in the sun of a somewhat cloudy morning
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver dust
Last Line: In their purple hearts.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PEAR TREE, by PHYLIS EICHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet essence of pear blossom
Last Line: Spring has opened your white buds %to light, insect lovers, %the promise of heavy fall fruit
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As at the bottom of a mirror
Last Line: And go on
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PEAR TREE, by CAROL FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As at the bottom of a mirror
Last Line: Empty, I will feel my niggardly heart %and go on
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by PATRICIA HOOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing ever comes %of this tree, not
Last Line: And nothing had ever tasted %so sweet, so good
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jewel called citrine is yellow. And so are my pears
Last Line: Beneath the pear tree - will become - another pear tree
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by E. ELIZABETH LONGWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love our old pear tree
Last Line: For me and the bears
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Play; Trees


PEAR TREE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this squalid, dirty dooryard
Last Line: Like the waste-man's little daughter %in her first communion dress
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE IN MOONLIGHT, by MERLE PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pierced through with silver lance, tonight I stand
Last Line: Entranced I bear the splendid agony.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


QUERY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pear tree, why blossom?
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


QUERY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pear tree, why blossom?
Last Line: In an agony's %sproutings) it must
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


SADNESS AND STILL LIFE, by BIN RAMKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a heavy bowl two pears
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


STILL LIFE, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six pears on a kitchen window-sill
Last Line: My other life is nothing
Subject(s): Growth; Pear Trees; Trees


STUDY OF TWO PEARS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Opusculum paedagogum / the pears are not viols
Last Line: As the observer wills
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


STUDY OF TWO PEARS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Opusculum paedagogum %the pears are not viols
Last Line: The pears are not seen %as the observer wills
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


THE FIRST DAYS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing I saw in the morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Bees; Pear Trees; Beekeeping; Pears


THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man in a lawn chair
Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife.
Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears


THE PEAR TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "this shade-bestowing pear-tree, thou"
Last Line: Beneath it paused the duke of shaou
Subject(s): Pear Trees;trees; Pears


THE PEAR-TREE, by IWAN GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here once the evenings sobbed
Last Line: And brings you a breath of sea, a memory of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


TO A BLOSSOMING PEAR TREE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful natural blossoms,
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Old Age; Pears


TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears


TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun
Last Line: When he takes the first dangerous bite
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women