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Subject: EPICUREANISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPICUREAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a man, I fear no can
Last Line: Give me an ice cream pie.
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Food & Eating; Taste (sense)


AN EPICUREAN'S EPITAPH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from my lips the last faint sigh is
Last Line: "and spreads his limbs in peace under the sun-warm'd mould!"
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Epitaphs


EPICURE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've sipped a rich man's sparkling wine
Last Line: Oh, I could eat until I 'bust' %those meals the missus gets me
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Food And Eating


EPICURE. SUNG BY ONE IN THE HABIT OF A TOWN GALLANT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us drink and be merry, dance, joke, and rejoice
Subject(s): Epicureanism


EPICUREAN, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon an everlasting tide
Subject(s): Epicureanism


EPICUREAN, by SAMUEL GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There breathed a soul of pearl and fear
Subject(s): Epicureanism


EPICUREAN, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In childhood's unsuspicious hours
Last Line: O death! Life hath not been too long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Old Age


READINGS BY WAYS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The epicurean (and stoic) philosophers
Last Line: Histories like unread creeks
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Stoicism


THE EPICURE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill the bowl with rosy wine!
Last Line: All are stoics in the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Epicureanism; Food & Eating; Life; Pleasure; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse