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Subject: LICE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COMICAL PANEGYRICK ON THAT FAMILIAR ANIMAL, THE LOUSE, by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN                       
Subject(s): Lice


JERUSALEM SONNETS: 1, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The small grey cloudy louse that nests in my beard
Last Line: His silent laugh still shakes the hills at dawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Variant Title(s): The Small Gray Cloudy Louse That Nests In My Bear
Subject(s): Lice


LOUSE-CATCHERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the child's brow, with torment flushing red
Subject(s): Lice


LOUSE-TRAP, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long have I wish'd renowned heroe's praise
Last Line: In scorn a louse-trap call, but more a comb
Subject(s): Lice


SHIH-HOU POINTED OUT TO ME THAT FROM ANCIENT TIMES ..., by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A poor man's clothes - ragged and easy to get dirty
Last Line: Why should I bother to pry into yours?
Subject(s): Lice


THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 1, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A louse crept out of my lady's shift
Last Line: Her pocket turned out for me.
Subject(s): Lice


THE LICE SEEKERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the child's forehead full of red torments
Last Line: Spring up and die unceasingly a wish to cry.
Subject(s): Lice


TO A LOUSE, ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie!
Last Line: And ev'n devotin!
Subject(s): Insects; Lice; Bugs