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Subject: INGENUITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VERMONT GENERAL-UTILITY MAN, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We used to have a man in town
Last Line: That bested jerry king.
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Neighbors; Vermont


BALLADE OF BLUE CHINA, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a joy without canker or cark
Last Line: In the reign of the emperor hwang.
Subject(s): China (porcelain); Ingenuity


DISASTER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas ever thus from childhood's hour
Last Line: If some big dog should swallow tiny.
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Pets


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE BANCO GROSSO, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like many romans %the ingenious sprezzante
Last Line: Taken back to the hospital [or, must be carried back to the hospital]
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Figurines; Ingenuity; Paintings And Painters


LINES TO MISS FLORENCE HUNTINGTON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet maiden of passamaquoddy
Last Line: "there's none like the skoodoowabskooksis, / excepting the skoodoowabskook!"
Subject(s): Ingenuity


METRICAL FEET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trochee trips from long to short
Last Line: Bred racer.
Variant Title(s): Lessons For A Boy
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets


MOTHERHOOD, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She laid it where the sunbeams fall
Last Line: "and only hear the noise she's making!"
Subject(s): Eggs; Hens; Ingenuity


MY LOVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I only knew she came and went
Last Line: The fairest thing that ever grew / atween me and the skies
Variant Title(s): My Genevive
Subject(s): Ingenuity


NOCTURNAL SKETCH; BLANK VERSE IN RHYME, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even is come; and from the dark park, hark
Last Line: Woes!
Subject(s): Ingenuity


ODE TO A HUMAN HEART, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind thamyris, and blind maeonides
Last Line: [note: lines are taken from famous poems]
Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman
Subject(s): Ingenuity


ON THE BRINK, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch'd her as she stoop'd to pluck
Last Line: And that's the moral.
Subject(s): Ingenuity


PHYSICS, by WILLIAM WHEWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no force however great
Last Line: That shall be accurately straight.
Variant Title(s): Found Poem
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Physics


RAILROAD RHYME, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singing through the forests
Last Line: Riding on the rail!
Variant Title(s): Rhyme Of The Rail;riding On The Rail
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Railroads; Railways; Trains


THE COLLEGIAN TO HIS BRIDE: BEING A MATHEMATICAL MADRIGAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "charmer, on a given straight line"
Last Line: "equal, - o, divine ecstatics, - / based on hutton's mathematics!"
Subject(s): Ingenuity;mathematics


THE COSMIC EGG, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a rock, yet uncreate
Last Line: But the alligator was potentator.
Subject(s): Ingenuity


THE HEN, by MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A famous hen's my story's theme
Last Line: "and then -- review it."
Alternate Author Name(s): Asmus
Subject(s): Hens; Ingenuity


THE LAWYER'S INVOCATION TO SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays
Last Line: Hail, as aforesaid, coming spring!
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Law & Lawyers; Spring; Attorneys


THE SONG OF THE INGENUES, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the ingenues
Last Line: Of libertines.
Subject(s): Hearts; Ingenuity; Singing & Singers


THE V-A-S-E, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the madding crowd they stand apart
Last Line: Sinistra quum bostonia.
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Vases