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Subject: BOTTLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOTTLE OF THE OLD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This tawny old port has quite lost all its smack
Last Line: "pray, what bin is it from?"" ""from the has been,"" said jack."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Bottles; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


AN EGYPTIAN PULLED GLASS BOTTLE IN THE SHAPE OF A FISH, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we have thirst
Last Line: Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword by their polish.
Subject(s): Bottles; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


ANECDOTE OF THE JAR, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I placed a jar in tennessee
Last Line: Like nothing else in tennessee.
Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Bottles; Civilization; United States; America


BEER BOTTLE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the burned- / out highway
Subject(s): Bottles


BOTTLE-O!, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ain't the kind of bloke as takes to any steady job
Last Line: There's nothing like an empty bottle-o!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Bottles; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Wine


BOTTLE-SCRUE, SELS., by NICHOLAS AMHURST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The patten, fan, and petticoat
Last Line: And serve with bottle-scrues the nation
Subject(s): Bottles


BOTTLES IN THE BOMBED CITY, by LES A. MURRAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They gave the city a stroke. Its memories
Last Line: When the stroke came, every bottle winked at its neighbour
Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan
Subject(s): Bombs; Bottles; Manchester, England; Stroke


DEAR TOM THIS BROWN JUG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dear tom, this brown jug which now foams with good ale"
Last Line: So here's to my lovely sweet kate of the vale
Subject(s): Bottles;death;drinks & Drinking;friendship; "dead, The;


THE LEATHER BOTTEL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I survey the world around
Last Line: So I wish
Subject(s): Bottles;drinks & Drinking