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Subject: CYCLING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BICYCLES, TRICYCLES!, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bicycles! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter
Last Line: Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles first.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bicycles; Tricycles; Cycling


BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp
Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States


BY BICYCLE, by MATTHEA HARVEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not good or bad it's how you get around these
Last Line: Singing and the spokes all spinning in response
Subject(s): Bicycles; Cycling


LEARNING THE BICYCLE, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The older children pedal past
Subject(s): Bicycles; Children; Cycling; Childhood


MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair
Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OUR BICYCLES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother being the eldest had
Subject(s): Bicycles; Family Life; Cycling; Relatives


THE CYCLISTS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spread on the roadway,
Subject(s): Bicycles; England; Decay; Cycling; English; Rot; Decadence


THE EMBLEM, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last days of the sun
Subject(s): Bicycles; Youth; Bad Bheavior; Cycling


THE RIDER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy told me / if he roller-skated fast enough
Last Line: No matter how slowly they fell.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Solitude; Victory; Cycling; Loneliness


VISITATION RITES, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My gentle son is performing tricks for me on his bicycle
Last Line: Just in a flash in the sun he's suddenly perfected, and I'm gone.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Divorce; Farewell; Sons; Youth; Cycling; Parting