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Subject: BUTTONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUTTON BOX, by GRACE SCHULMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sea animal stalked its prey
Last Line: You had your buttons, sewed on tight
Subject(s): Buttons; Mothers


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 19. TELLING THE BUTTONS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "girl, a pearl, single, won"
Last Line: "widow, worried, married, nun"
Subject(s): Buttons


SEWIN' BUTTONS ON, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every time my mother sews
Last Line: But she says it is the nicest plan she ever, ever heard!
Subject(s): Buttons; Children; Mothers; Sewing; Childhood


TENDER BUTTONS: IN BETWEEN, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In between a place and candy is a narrow foot-path that shows more
Subject(s): Buttons


TENDER BUTTONS: IN BETWEEN, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In between a place and candy is a narrow foot-path that shows more
Last Line: Ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining
Subject(s): Buttons