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Subject: ASSES & MULES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BRIEF PEDIGREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother was a mare
Last Line: Some other families die out.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Asses & Mules


ADVICE TO A LADY [IN AUTUMN], by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Asses' milk, half a pint, take at seven, or before
Last Line: And those you may end, when you please to be kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mnemonics; Mules


AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask't phisitions what their counsell was
Last Line: Whether thou be a mad dog, or a mankind asse.
Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Dogs; Mankind; Mules; Human Race


ATTENDANTS, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mild-eyed oxen and the gentle ass
Last Line: Something that chanced because the inn was full.
Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Oxen; Nativity, The


GEE AND HAW, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fellah had a pair of mules
Last Line: And that's good sense and that's good law.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules


HORSE AND ASS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A train was rushing along one day
Last Line: Will never want his oats and hay.
Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Hearts; Horses; Nature; Railroads; Mules; Railways; Trains


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world's an ass, the world can't see
Last Line: How rapturously glowing.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Ignorance; Kisses; Mules; Dullness; Stupdity


MAGGOTS OF FLATTERY, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ass will with his long ears fray
Last Line: Blown maggots in by flatterers.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mules


MULE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whereas the donkey neighs its ardor
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mules


NEAPOLITAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naples seems mostly mountains and mules
Last Line: But to fancy them flies!
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mountains; Naples, Italy; Mules; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OLD MULE, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It stands within the barn lot, strangely still
Last Line: The shadow of the cross may yet be seen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mules


THE ASS CLOTHED IN THE LION'S SKIN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear fled before a wily ass that clad
Last Line: The only witness of their valiance.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Duplicity; Fables; Masks; Mules; Deceit; Allegories


THE ASS OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If I was like st. Francis
Last Line: The ass of christ by name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Heaven; Jesus Christ; Saints; Paradise


THE ASS SPEAKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the little ass of christ
Last Line: The whip, for jesus christ his sake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Christmas; Duty; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary; Theology


THE ASSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God did forbid the israelites, to bring
Last Line: His detestation to all slothfulnesse.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mules


THE COW AND THE ASS, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside [or, hard by] a green meadow a stream used to flow
Last Line: "I really believe that the fellow is right."
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Asses & Mules; Cows; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


THE DONKEY, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When fishes flew and forests walked
Last Line: And palms before my feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Bible; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Mules; Theology


THE MULE, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw him standing in a barren field
Last Line: And yielded up the ghost?
Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton
Subject(s): Asses & Mules


THE MUSICAL ASS, by TOMASO DE YRIARTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fable which I now present
Last Line: May shine for once, -- by accident.
Alternate Author Name(s): Iriarte, Tomaso De; Iriarte, Tomas De
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Fables; Nature; Allegories


THE TRAINED ASS, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm the trained ass, the very ass who can
Last Line: In my nightmare to count the very stars.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Mules; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery


THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 1, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus homer, describing the pestilent lot
Last Line: In the next I shall prove it, as clear as a whistle.
Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Cruelty; Wilderness; Mules


WHEN DACEY RODE THE MULE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas to a small, up-country town
Last Line: When dacey rode the mule.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Asses & Mules