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Subject: JESTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLADE OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am an ancient jest!
Last Line: I am a merry jest!
Subject(s): Jesters


CLOWNS' DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother fools from everywhere
Last Line: Let us use it soberly.
Subject(s): Clowns; Death; Humorists; Jesters; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The


DREAM, by ELLEN M. ACTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jester, spin your silver ball
Last Line: "in the silver ball!"
Subject(s): Jesters


FOOL, by HENRY BAERLEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ever, ever,' the lady said
Subject(s): Jesters


ON THE DEATH OF THULENE THE KYNGE'S JESTER, by JEAN PASSERAT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sire, thulene is dead. I have seen his grave
Last Line: But unto poets brynges but emptye coffers.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesters; Dead, The


RAHERE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rahere, king henry's jester, feared by all the norman lords
Subject(s): Court Jesters; Rahere (d. 1144)


SONNET ADDRESSED TO HENRY III ON THE DEATH OF THULENE, KING'S FOOL, by JEAN PASSERAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thulene is dead, my lord. I saw his funeral
Last Line: She's selmd favored poets in the best of times
Subject(s): Court Jesters; Henry Iii, King Of France (1551-1589)


THE JESTER CONDEMNED TO DEATH, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the kings of scanderoon
Last Line: "I'll die, so please you, of old age."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Jesters; Sin; Dead, The


YORICK'S SKULL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor jester! Still upon the stage
Last Line: Sans brains or tongue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Jesters