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Subject: LAMPS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALADDIN LAMP, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With luck and the slow hand of the lover
Last Line: In the window blazes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Antiques; Fire; Lamps


BEFORE THE WICK BURNS OUT, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Al said if I didn't
Last Line: The short years before %the wick burns out
Subject(s): Lamps; Relationships


LAMP AND THE BELL, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of this sense of expectation through all the universe
Last Line: I shall not face it with less decision for all that
Subject(s): Bells; Lamps; Night; Time


LAMP BY MY WINDOW, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a lamp
Last Line: Bearing me to sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Lamps; Light


LAMPS OF LABOR, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tall chimneys walk in grim parade, they throng
Last Line: As orisons from towering chimneys rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Lamps; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


LIGHT, by MARY ELIZABETH B. CROUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou one all perfect light
Last Line: We go, to prove they shine.
Subject(s): Lamps; Light


LIGHT AND SHADE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light! Emblem of all good and joy
Last Line: The lord our everlasting light.
Subject(s): Eyes; Lamps; Light; Sun; Vision


MY ANTIQUE LAMP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My antique lamp from old japan
Last Line: And take myself to bed.
Subject(s): Antiques; Lamps; Light; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Bedtime


NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 1. GOOD NIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then [or, when] the bright lamp is carried in
Last Line: Till far to-morrow, fare you well!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 41. North-west Passage: 1
Subject(s): Lamps; Night; Bedtime


PERFECT TIME, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bulb in my bedside
Last Line: My woman & send new %poems out to wormie
Subject(s): Lamps; Light


RUBBING LAMPS, by KAY RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Things beside / aladdin's and
Subject(s): Lamps


SONNET TO THE JUNEBUG, II, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I've got up and lit the lamp, and
Last Line: He'd choked yer dern infernal wizzen shut!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Lamps


THE FIREFLY LAMPS, by ARLETTA B. GRAVES    Poem Text                    
First Line: There must have been fairies in that magic place
Last Line: We'd breath a prayer that our lights would keep.
Subject(s): Fairies; Lamps; Spring; Elves


THE FLOOR LAMP, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He threw his belongings
Last Line: And the suitcase, and turned back
Subject(s): Lamps


THE LAMP, by CHARLES WHITEHEAD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As yonder lamp in my vacated room
Last Line: Shall leave its lamp cold, ere the sun appear!
Subject(s): Lamps


THE LAMP OF HERO, by LOUISE VICTORINE ACKERMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hero's lover, reckless of the storm
Last Line: To cheer our sinking souls!
Alternate Author Name(s): Choquet, Louise Victorine
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Lamps; Mythology; Leander


THE PHILOSOPHER ARISTIPPUS TO A LAMP WHICH WAS GIVEN HIM BY LAIS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Love the lamp' (my mistress said)
Last Line: And where's your boast of apathy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Lamps; Philosophy & Philosophers


THE STATE OF AGE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rub thou thy battered lamp: nor claim nor beg
Last Line: Drops prone and void as any thoughtless dash.
Subject(s): Aging; Lamps