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Subject: PUNS
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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