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Subject: EYEGLASSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BIRTH OF MADAME DELUXE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It didn't start with pains
Last Line: All eyes. Ass first and eager %with rip-roaring hair
Subject(s): Birth; Eyeglasses; Fashion; Vision; Women


GLASSES, by JOSEPH+(2) GREEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was four years old when I broke %my first pair
Last Line: Something I might not ever grow out of
Subject(s): Eyeglasses


GLASSES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wear them. They help me. But I
Last Line: From tabletops, and women frown
Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Spectacles


GLASSES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wear them. They help me. But I
Last Line: From tabletops, and women frown
Subject(s): Eyeglasses


MOCKING SPECTACLES, by YUAN MEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our vision is by nature free
Last Line: His stare would still be a horror
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai
Subject(s): Eyeglasses


MOTHER'S GLASSES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've told about the times that ma can't find her pocketbook
Last Line: Are the ones who have no mother dear to lose her reading glasses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Mothers; Spectacles


MY NEW TRIFOCALS HURT MY NOSE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just to find my way
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Nature; Self; Self-reliance


PRAISING SPECTACLES, by YUAN MEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: How swift is the coming of old age!
Last Line: Dare I your companionship spurn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai
Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Old Age


REVOLT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside of the movies
Last Line: London anachist group
Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Spectacles


REVOLT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside of the movies
Last Line: London anarchist group
Subject(s): Eyeglasses


SPECTRAL DUES, by PIMONE TRIPLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the lens of memory, that smudged bungler
Last Line: Burning, burnt, through the stolen glass
Subject(s): Eyeglasses


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DIPPOLD THE OPTICIAN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you see now?
Last Line: Very well, we'll make the glasses accordingly.
Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Sight; Spectacles