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Subject: BORES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LA DONNA E PERPETUUM MOBILE, by IRWIN EDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nice mrs. Eberle early had been told
Last Line: Could I but choke her, cut her head off clean, %I mean - well, really, that's just what I mean
Subject(s): Bores; Chatterboxes; Conversation


MY FAMILIAR, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I hear that creaking step
Last Line: Who never, never goes!
Variant Title(s): The Bore
Subject(s): Bores


POOH!, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dainty miss apathy %sat on a sofa
Last Line: But contained just four letters, %and these pronounced pooh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Apathy; Bores


SATIRE: 1.9. THE BORE; A DRAMATIC VERSION OF HORACE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I preach my sermons through a joke
Last Line: From the heavyweight talker of the world!
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Bores


THE BALLAD OF THE BORE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see him come from far
Last Line: Defend us from the bard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Bores


TO A BORE, by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You find great fault with me, my friend
Last Line: You do it best a hundred fold.
Subject(s): Bores