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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clorinda met me on the way
Last Line: "a new hat just like mine."
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France


GYPSIES ON THE MOVE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prophet tribe with burning eyes set forth
Last Line: The familiar empire of oncoming shades
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bohemians; Callot, Jacques (1592-1635); Engraving And Engravers


GYPSIES ON THE ROAD, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prophet-tribe with burning eyes set out
Last Line: Familiar empires of oncoming night
Subject(s): Bohemians; Callot, Jacques (1592-1635); Engraving And Engravers


IF YOU HAD A FRIEND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you had a friend strong, simple, true
Last Line: You haven't? I wonder . . . What of god?
Subject(s): Bohemians; Friendship; Paris, France


IN BOHEMIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! My dear! I'm back again
Last Line: Ere it drowns me, kate, my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Poetry & Poets; Spring; Travel; Journeys; Trips


LINES FOR A WORTHY PERSON WHO HAS DRIFTED .. CHELSEA REVEL, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a very curious fact
Last Line: And what my father used to say, %is good enought for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P.
Subject(s): Bohemians


ODE TO BOHEMIANS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars at night
Last Line: From colorful individuals
Subject(s): Bohemians


ODE TO BOHEMIANS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars at night
Last Line: You colorful individuals
Subject(s): Bohemians


PROBLEM IN SOCIAL GEOMETRY--THE INVERTED SQUARE!, by RAY DUREM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen the smallest minds of my generation
Last Line: When you tire of pot %try thought
Subject(s): Bohemians


RETURN TO MARSH STREET, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twice, now, I've gone back there, like a part-time ghost
Last Line: Bearable
Subject(s): Bohemians; Easter; Holidays; Los Angeles; The Resurrection


ROOM 5: THE CONCERT SINGER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm one of these haphazard chaps
Last Line: I often wonder what's her story.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Neighbors; Paris, France; Singing & Singers


THE BOHEMIAN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me the livery of no other man
Last Line: (come, why not don my spangled jacket?)
Subject(s): Bohemians


THE BOHEMIAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in my garret bleak and bare
Last Line: "hunger and thirst and cold."
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France


THE BOHEMIAN DREAMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because my overcoat's in pawn
Last Line: I doze and doze and doze.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Idleness; Paris, France; Sleep; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE DEATH OF MARIE TORO, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're taking marie toro to her home in pere-la-chaise
Last Line: For marie toro, gutter waif and queen of queens, is dead.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The


THE JOY OF BEING POOR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich
Last Line: Old chap, let's haste, I'm mad to taste the joy of being poor.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France; Poverty


THE LAST BOHEMIANS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We meet in a cheap diner and I think, god
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Bohemians; Old Age


THE PHILISTINE AND THE BOHEMIAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a philistine spick and span
Last Line: Don't try to pass for a philistine.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France; Philistines


THE WISTFUL ONE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought the trails of south and north
Last Line: "you'll have it -- when you're dead."
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France


YES!, by GEORGE HENRY JESSOP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it true?' - that's the doubtful suggestion
Last Line: I can't give you up.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Love