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Subject: DENTISTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DENTIST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity
Last Line: John brown is filling his last cavity
Subject(s): Dentists


A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, picked for jury duty, managed to get through
Last Line: She knows him indispensable. Like voltaire.
Subject(s): Dentists; Guilt; Mothers; Trials; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


A TALE OF TOOTH, by HENRY E. HORNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Big billy bull / of bungendore
Last Line: "and said, ""you crimson cows, no more!"
Subject(s): Dentists


BARRY, by EULA BISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mom said, 'maybe barry will smile more when he gets his new teeth.'
Last Line: With logs, hollowed out with a chainsaw
Subject(s): Dentists; Teeth


DENTIST, by ROSE FYLEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to be a dentist with a plate upon the door
Last Line: I should go riding up and down upon the velvet chair
Subject(s): Dentists


DENTIST, by JUDITH NICHOLLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love to visit my dentist
Last Line: Well, then I'm not so keen
Subject(s): Dentists


EPITAPH ON A DENTIST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stranger, approach this spot with gravity
Subject(s): Dentists


IN THE WAITING ROOM, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, %I went with aunt consuelo
Last Line: And it was still the fifth %of february, 1918
Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor And Laborers; Pain; World War I


LAUGHING GAS: PART !, by ALLEN GINSBERG            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dentists


MY DENTIST, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In childhood who my first array
Last Line: And framed for me a mouth-piece new? %my dentist
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Dentists


ODE TO A DENTAL HYGIENIST, by EARNEST ALBERT HOOTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hygienist, in your dental chair
Subject(s): Dentists


PAINS-TAKING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take pains,' growled the tooth to the dentist
Last Line: "you'll have taken most pains of the two."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dentists


ROOT CANAL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the anesthetic
Subject(s): Dentists


SMILE!, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dentist was doctor alexander.
Last Line: Only their smiles left to grin and bear it
Subject(s): Dentists


THIS IS GOING TO HURT JUST A LITTLE BIT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thing I like less than most things is sitting in a dentist chair
Last Line: He wants his teeth in good condition is so that won't have to go to the dentist
Subject(s): Dentists


TOOTHPULLER WHO WANTED TO TURN A MOUTH INTO A GRINDING MACHINE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O you who eat with someone else's teeth
Last Line: And feels the same as pulling off your head
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Dentists; Food And Eating; Teeth