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Subject: SLEEPWALKING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOR THE SLEEPWALKERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I want to say something wonderful
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleepwalking; Nightmares


FOR THE SLEEPWALKERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I want to say something wonderful
Last Line: And wake up to ourselves, nourished and surprised
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleepwalking


NOCTAMBULE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zut! It's two o'clock
Last Line: Mad old world, good morning.
Subject(s): Insomnia; Paris, France; Sleepwalking; Sleeplessness


SECOND SONG OF INSOMNIA, by MARY A. KONCEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A stranger is humming outside my window. He looks like my dead
Last Line: Something that brings night closer to day
Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleepwalking; Waking


SLEEPWALKER, by STEFAN AUGUSTIN DOINAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You - who know too well how treacherous is
Last Line: Which, leaping upon me, will wake me up
Subject(s): Sleep; Sleepwalking


SOMNAMBULISTS' HOTEL, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only sleepwalkers stay there
Last Line: And all vow to stay here should fate ever lead them this way again
Subject(s): Hotels; Sleepwalking; Tourists; Travel


THE FALL, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who does not know that dreadful gulf, where niagara falls
Last Line: "he's been a walking in his sleep, and pitched all down the stairs!"
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Sleepwalking; Waterfalls