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Subject: DON QUIXOTE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DON QUIXOTE, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gaunt, rueful knight, on raw-boned, shambling hack
Last Line: Dear, foiled enthusiast, teach our hearts to feel!
Subject(s): Don Quixote


DON QUIXOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smiles for him, yes, and tears -- but most of all
Last Line: Who wrought so beautifully -- in his dream!
Subject(s): Don Quixote; Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Nightmares


DON QUIXOTE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind thy pasteboard, on thy battered hack
Last Line: And charge in earnest ... Were it but a mill!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Don Quixote


DON QUIXOTE, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest of all the heroes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Don Quixote


DON QUIXOTE, by HANNELORE JOSEPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you died sane, oh jester of the universe
Last Line: Of all humanity -- we're all in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Don Quixote; Insanity; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness


MESTIZO (2), by JUAN R. SEQUEIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My clay heart taps
Last Line: A longing for corn %on my tongue
Subject(s): Don Quixote


PARABLE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read how quixote in his random ride
Subject(s): Life Choices; Don Quixote


THE RUSTY MAN (BY A SOURED ONE), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In la mancha he mopeth
Last Line: Of a fool serene.
Subject(s): Don Quixote