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Subject: DWARFS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DWARF IN UNION SQUARE WITH HAT, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cornell and burckhardt are wandering around union square
Last Line: This is the whole picture in one shot. %now crop and print
Subject(s): Dwarfs; Photography And Photographers; Union Square, New York City


HALOS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four tiny folk
Last Line: And less lonely.
Variant Title(s): Less Lonely
Subject(s): Books; Dwarfs; Hats; Reading


OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses
Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery


ON ELPHI THE DWARF, FARNDALE, YORKSHIRE, by J. L.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Elphi bandy legs
Last Line: Not a buss fra ony lass
Subject(s): Dwarfs


ON READING THE MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET, by ELIZABETH FITZGERALD HANLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I can remember in my father's house
Last Line: Infinite passion and revolt and pain.
Subject(s): Dwarfs; Memory


ON SEEING AT A CONCERT, THE PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF A DWARF, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Helpless, unprotected, weary
Last Line: For, stranger, you have felt for me.
Subject(s): Dwarfs


PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION; FOR PAMELA STEWART, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's best, when watching the surprising levitations
Last Line: Set aside like land, will be blessed by rain.
Subject(s): Children; Dwarfs; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Childhood


SONG OF THE DWARF, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think my soul is straight and good
Last Line: And dogs will have none of it
Subject(s): Dwarfs