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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PUNS Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GAME OF TENNIS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The court is rolled, the net is set Last Line: "and cry: ""come, help me find her!" Subject(s): Love; Puns; Sports; Tennis A PARADOX, by HERBERT ERNEST DAY Poem Text First Line: Tis a curious fact, but a fact very old Last Line: You can keep a fire hot by keeping it coaled. Subject(s): Comedy; Puns CAUTIONARY VERSES, by THEODORE HOOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little dears, who learn to read, pray early, learn to shun Last Line: But parents ne'er should let you go unpunished for a pun! Alternate Author Name(s): Hook, Theodor Variant Title(s): Advice To Children;puns Subject(s): Prudence; Puns; Caution EPISTLE FROM ALGIERS (TO HORACE SMITH), by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear horace! Be melted to tears Last Line: I will palm no more puns upon you. Subject(s): Algiers; Puns; Smith, Horace (1779-1849); Travel; Journeys; Trips IMPROMPTU. TO KATE CAROL, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from your gems of thought I turn Last Line: The bright I-dea, or bright dear-eye. Subject(s): Puns LOVE/SNOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When people say they love me I tell them/I wish I could stop thinking of robert Last Line: Give me a loaf of bread -- I loaf you!/frost whenever it snows Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Frost; Grief; Loss; Puns; Winter OLD FASHIONED FUN, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that old joke was new Last Line: When your old joke was new. Subject(s): Jokes; Puns POEM OF MEDICINE PUNS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I, belladonna, am the wife of a man named wahoo Last Line: So furze tell me what you mean and don't make such a rhubarb Subject(s): Medicine; Puns THE AUTOMATIC PUN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the pun that auto be Last Line: This one. Subject(s): Puns THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only king by right divine Last Line: The king -- my king -- can do no wrong. Subject(s): Puns THE MERMAID OF MARGATE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On margate beach, where the sick one roams Last Line: With the spirit of peter fin! Subject(s): Biffen, Sarah (1784-1850); Margate, England; Mermaids & Mermen; Puns; Seashore; Biffin, Sarah; Beach; Coast; Shore |
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