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Subject: ILL-TEMPERED
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BITCH, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, when he and I meet, after all these years
Last Line: "saying, ""good-bye! Good-bye! Nice to have seen you again."
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ill-tempered; Language; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism


IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often, when I wake from sleep at night
Last Line: Over it, and gulfed me in its deeps below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Ill-tempered; Night; Bedtime


LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old person of newry
Last Line: Within twenty miles' distance of newry
Subject(s): Anger; Ill-tempered; Old Age


O DEAR! HOW DISGUSTING IS LIFE!, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: O bother an ill fitting shoe!
Subject(s): Ill-tempered; Life


POISON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When this strange world speaks ill of me
Last Line: Till every tongue grows sweet and kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Evil; Ill-tempered


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF DOWN, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He alarmed all the people of down
Subject(s): Anger; Ill-tempered; Old Age