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Subject: SOCCER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOOTBALL PLAYER, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could paint you, friend, as you stand there
Last Line: Sinew and breath and body; it would live.
Subject(s): Soccer


BOY JUGGLING A SOCCER BALL, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After practice: right foot %to left foot, stepping forward and back
Last Line: As he wanders, on the last day %of summer, around the empty field
Subject(s): Soccer; Sports


ECLOGUES: WINTER, by ALEXANDER BARCLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The winter snowes, all covered is the grounde
Last Line: If thou bide, faustus, thereof thou shalt have some
Variant Title(s): Eclogue:
Subject(s): Soccer; Winter


ENGLAND GERMANY, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boys were risen right out of their seats
Subject(s): Soccer; Crowds


MATCH AT FOOT-BALL, SELS., by MATTHEW CONCANEN                       
Subject(s): Soccer


POEM TO THE GRIMSBY TOWN FOOTBALL TEAM ... 1936, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's wishing luck to grimsby town
Last Line: For, as certain as these words I pen, %you're going to win the cup
Subject(s): Soccer


POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney
Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him
Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories


STANLEY MATTHEWS, by ALAN ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not often, con brio, but andante, andante
Last Line: He rehearses steps, soloist in compulsions of a dream
Subject(s): Soccer


THE BEWTEIS OF THE FUTE-BALL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brissit brawnis and broken banis
Last Line: Thir are the bewteis of the fute-ball
Subject(s): Soccer


THEY'RE MARKED MEN. THEIR PARK IS LIKE AN OPEN PRISON, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With efs and cant as they tussle over the moon
Subject(s): Riddles; Soccer


TRIVIA; THE ART OF WALKING THE STREETS OF LONDON (COMPLETE), by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through winter streets to steer your course right
Last Line: This work shall shine, and walkers bless my name.
Variant Title(s): The Art Of Walking The Streets Of London
Subject(s): Soccer


VILLAGE GREEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thatched roofs green with moss and grass stand round
Last Line: With trousers daubed in mire and face all black.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Soccer; Villages; English


WINTER GENERATIONS, by JEFFREY SKINNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you think back it is all white
Last Line: To their soccer practice in the snow
Subject(s): Soccer; Winter