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Subject: MARTIAL (40-104)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER MARTIAL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roblinus in our leading literary
Last Line: Shot must come from a pot which %is used to relieve his (distress)
Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Martial (40-104)


AN ANGINAL EQUIVALENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For those little stabs of pain
Subject(s): Electrocardiography (ekg); Martial (40-104); Women


ANGINAL EQUIVALENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For those little stabs of pain
Last Line: Quod satiat - which will she be?
Subject(s): Electrocardiography (ekg); Martial (40-104); Women


EPIGRAMS: BOOK I, 1, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He unto whom thou art so partial
Last Line: Post-obits rarely reach a poet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Variant Title(s): Post-obits And The Poets;preface
Subject(s): Martial (40-104); Poetry & Poets


IN IMITATION OF MARTIAL'S EPIGRAM, 5, 21, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, dearest friend, it my good fate might bee
Last Line: Knows a man how to live, and does he stay?
Subject(s): Martial (40-104)


POETASTER: SONG (4), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I freely may discover
Last Line: Neither her peevishness annoy me.
Subject(s): Martial (40-104)


THE POET'S LIFE: FROM MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS, by GARY SCHMIDGALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Much too long' you say, velox, censorious
Subject(s): Martial (40-104)


TO THE GHOST OF MARTIAL, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Martial, thou gav'st far nobler epigrams
Last Line: Thou flattered'st thine, mine cannot flattered be.
Subject(s): Martial (40-104)