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Subject: MADAGASCAR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONSENT AND UNION, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, ramatoa, ramatoa! %-what is it? %-just come here
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Madagascar


DEATH, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: You leaves of grass, you slender reeds
Last Line: But it is the beloved that causes death
Subject(s): Madagascar


DESIRE, HESITATION, DECLARATION, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blue-rooted onion, %blue-leaved sugar cane
Last Line: I am used to sleeping alone
Subject(s): Madagascar


FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 4. THE BOOLA-BOOLA MAID, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wilds of madagascar dwelt a boola-boola maid
Last Line: As she sings this song with glee
Subject(s): Madagascar; Nonsense


GOOD AND EVIL, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: That path, that path %turns here and turns there
Last Line: For I am tired of your speeches, you men
Subject(s): Madagascar


HOW A CAKE OF SOAP SAVED MADAGASCAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in heathen madagascar, to the missionary band
Last Line: And honor, not the least of all, to that fine cake of soap!
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Madagascar; Missions & Missionaries; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


MOCKERY AND HUMOR, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: The marovatana are loud-mouthed, but cannot orate
Last Line: It is small, but it surely struck the upper nape of the neck
Subject(s): Madagascar


PARENTS AND CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is that man in front of you?
Last Line: When they come in, their meal is ready
Subject(s): Madagascar


POVERTY AND WEALTH, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the rustling of bark from banana shoots
Last Line: The gaunt cattle are not licked by their companions
Subject(s): Madagascar


PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does blame resemble?
Last Line: Let the earth and the sky be joined
Subject(s): Madagascar


PRIDE, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your friend is not the winter grass
Last Line: I am not beautiful, but proud
Subject(s): Madagascar


REFUSAL, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even if the sun were my father, %even if the moon were my mother
Last Line: -let me follow my path, for we are too closely related %(to marry)
Subject(s): Madagascar


REGRETS, REPROACHES, AND INDIFFERENCE, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am an ant, an ant
Last Line: That I may find the goodness I have not found
Subject(s): Madagascar


RIVALS, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: Broken rush following the raft, %broken reed following the canoe
Last Line: Love your wife, %but do not abandon me
Subject(s): Madagascar


SEPARATION AND ABANDONMENT, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell the clouds to wait, %for the wind is subsiding
Last Line: You are summoned by the watchman's challenge
Subject(s): Madagascar


THINGS MEN HAVE TOLD ME, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my father was a boy he fell down in a stony
Last Line: My future in those first strange words
Subject(s): Language; Madagascar; Travel


VARIANTS, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tsararaka signs the guinea-hen
Last Line: Does not fear what simmers
Subject(s): Madagascar


WAR, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: In haste the clouds would mass together
Last Line: And no one may challenge us
Subject(s): Madagascar


WISDOM AND FOOLISHNESS, by UNKNOWN+454    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white egret does not forsake the cattle
Last Line: If you have red-spear
Subject(s): Madagascar