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Subject: PILLOWS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` PILLOW, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plump mate to my head, you alone absorb
Last Line: When the morning discloses your wrinkles
Subject(s): Pillows


PILLOW, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plump mate to my head, you alone absorb
Last Line: The strange night with me, and are depressed %when the morning discloses your wrinkles
Subject(s): Pillows


PILLOW OUTSIDE THE GARAGE IS REAL, by TERRY STOKES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was not there last night when
Last Line: Right there, at the top of the wooden stairs
Subject(s): Pillows


PILLOW-STUFFING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neighbor languid over the way
Last Line: What your pillow's stuffed with!
Subject(s): Pillows; Sleep


STORY OF BABY'S PILLOW, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: These are the eggs that were put in a nest
Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie
Subject(s): Babies; Pillows


THE PILLOW, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The head that oft this pillow press'd
Last Line: To heaven his gentle spirit rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Pillows; Religion; Theology


THE PILLOW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the earth have I made me a pillow
Last Line: When, at the last, on her breast they have laid me!
Subject(s): June; Pillows