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Subject: PERSPIRATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ON THE FIELDS OF RUGBY, by M. ANNE SWEET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water bleeds from my face
Last Line: Naked in a wind of bitter blades?
Subject(s): Perspiration; Sports


PERSPIRATION, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poor dear / looked dreadfully bored
Last Line: Cambric kerchief?
Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Perspiration; Soul; Sweat


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES PRE-MED CLASS: DOCTRINES OF SWEAT, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three million sweat glands
Last Line: Our brief and desperate rain
Subject(s): Perspiration


SWEAT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lacrimae [or lachrymae] of the body, for whom do you weep?
Last Line: Dark circles stain its clothes beneath the armpits
Subject(s): Bodies; Perspiration


UPON JULIA'S SWEAT, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wo'd ye oyle of blossomes get?
Last Line: All rich spices thence will flow.
Subject(s): Perspiration; Sweat