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Subject: CONCEIT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMORETTI: 54, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of this world's theatre in which we stay
Last Line: She is no woman, but a sencelesse stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): A Hard Audience
Subject(s): Conceit


BLUFF AND STRUT!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bluff, bluff, and strut your stuff--
Last Line: Talk in large numbers, and then strut your stuff!
Subject(s): Conceit; Duplicity; Lies; Deceit


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. CHERRY RIPE, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a garden in her face
Last Line: Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry!
Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Faces; Love; Youth


SONNET: 73, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Last Line: To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Variant Title(s): "that Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold"";where Late The Sweet Birds Sang;sonnet #73;
Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Conceit; Death; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Old Age; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE COMEBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He made a rep in the minors, and he thought
Last Line: "(and it's cost you a lot of money) that at last you are wanting me!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Conceit; Money; Sports


THE HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE ROOM, by WILLIAM MACQUORN RANKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've always been told that I'm pretty
Last Line: Of the handsomest man in the room.
Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Male-female Relations


THE WIND AND THE MOON, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the wind to the moon, 'I will blow you out
Last Line: She had never heard the great wind blare.
Subject(s): Conceit; Wind