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Subject: COCK-FIGHTING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 12. LIFE FOR LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the brave birds of mars feel half that rage
Last Line: Than rival lovers that dare fight and die.
Subject(s): Cock-fighting; Love


THE COCK, by HERMAN FETZER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me a hot summer
Last Line: Says the cock.
Alternate Author Name(s): Falstaff, Jake
Subject(s): Chickens; Cock-fighting; Spring; Summer


THE COCK-FIGHT, by TS'AO CHIH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our wandering eyes are sated with the dancer's skill
Last Line: "then I shall not leave without winning the match!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Cock-fighting


THE COMBAT OF THE COCKS, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name
Last Line: I yield, and give to wisbeach cock the day.
Subject(s): Cock-fighting