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Subject: CARD GAMES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 209 CANAL, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not hell but a street, not
Last Line: Like a mouth to open wider after hours
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


A BALLADE OF PLAYING CARDS, by GLEESON WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To soothe a mad king's fevered brain
Last Line: Puppets of knave, and queen, and king.
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


A DREAM OF GAMES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His fingers hesitate over
Last Line: The loser connected with his law
Subject(s): Scrabble (game); Card Games; Dreams; Playing Cards; Nightmares


A SHUFFLE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a rumpus in the pack
Last Line: Of diamonds and hearts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


ALAS! POOR BRAG, THOU BOASTFUL GAME!', by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Poor brag, thou boastful game! - what now avails thine empty name?
Last Line: Such is the mild ejaculation, of tender-hearted speculation
Subject(s): Card Games; Games


BAD NEWS (MCSURLEY'S BAR), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your flame is married I understand'
Last Line: As we shuffled the cards and played the game.
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Card Games; Gambling; Single People; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting; Bachelors; Unmarried People


BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PLAYINGCARD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First comes the sprightly damsel playingcard
Last Line: For that she dies -- bring on another wife!
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


DON'T WAKE THE CARDS, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since my chronic bad luck
Subject(s): Card Games; Love - Erotic; Playing Cards


FORMS OF SOLITAIRE, by PADDY MCCALLUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The most popular version %is played exclusively
Last Line: Noticing. In conversation. With food. %with god, and the godless
Subject(s): Card Games


GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought
Last Line: That smell of marzipan
Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting


GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought
Last Line: That smell of marzipan
Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships


GAME OF PIQUET, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: See, as you turn a page
Last Line: And death played our the hand %of spades
Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Card Games; Death


I HEAR YOU CALLING ME!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear you calling me--and I
Last Line: I'll say I heard you calling me!
Variant Title(s): I Hear You Calling Me
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


IN DIVES' DIVE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing
Last Line: Let's have another look at another five
Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling


IN THE RATHOLE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A street of madhouses
Last Line: The house always wins, %the madhouse made of cards.'
Subject(s): Card Games


LUCK, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the blackjack table he felt it
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Card Games; Luck


OEDIPAL GHAZAL, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The family in the cabin, playing cards. The cards
Last Line: As if the family lived in a house of cards
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Card Games; Family Life


PLAYERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the spacious bay the sun of afternoon
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


PLAYING PINOCHLE AT LAFAYETTE CLINIC, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the distinct, harsh days
Last Line: Here are the exulting, monstrous translations %of the night
Subject(s): Card Games; Hospitals; Insanity


PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody has given my
Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The


PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody has given my
Last Line: Slow horses and fast women
Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 4. TYROMANCY-DIVINATION BY HOLES AND MOLD..., by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fungi and holes in cheese
Last Line: Who jumps to conclusions
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Card Games; Prophets And Prophecy


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 107, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A house of cards
Last Line: That's the fun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


SOLITAIRE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black queen on the red king
Last Line: Behind like materiel in a trench
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


SOLITAIRE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black queen on the red king
Subject(s): Card Games


SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the oblivion of cards
Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards


SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the oblivion of cards
Last Line: Under the oak trees, completely released
Subject(s): Card Games


TEN MILLS: IN DIVES' DIVE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing
Last Line: Let's have a look at another five
Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting


THE CARD-DEALER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you not drink her gaze like wine?
Last Line: And know she calls it death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Card Games; Women; Playing Cards


THE FACE, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The man with the acid face
Last Line: Who wills to act.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M.
Subject(s): Card Games; Faces; Playing Cards


UPON PLAYING AT OMBRE WITH TWO LADIES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know that fortune long has wanted sight
Last Line: And gives success in every suit -- but hearts.
Subject(s): Card Games; Fortune; Playing Cards


VISITING AUNT AGGIE AND UNCLE LEW'S, by CRAIG PAULENICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cannot recall the whole house
Last Line: Ascension into my own bed
Subject(s): Aunts; Card Games; Children; Uncles