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Subject: SPAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLOE TO CLARA; A SARATOGA LETTER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear clara - I wish you were here
Last Line: Cloe.
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Saratoga, New York; Spas


DEATH IN LEAMINGTON, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She died in the upstairs bedroom
Subject(s): Death; Health Resorts; Dead, The; Spas


LUCASTA TAKING THE WATERS AT TUNBRIDGE, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye happy floods! That now must pass
Last Line: Of virtue, honour, love and bliss.
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Tunbridge Wells, England; Spas


MY BATH, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Come here, good people great and small
Last Line: You'll come forth like a flower that blooms 'neath freshening showers in may!
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Health Resorts; Showers & Showering; Spas


SICKNESS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we were never stretched in bed, with sickness
Last Line: "neighbors are!"
Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Health Resorts; Sickness; Spas; Illness


SONG OF SARATOGA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray, what do they do at the springs?
Last Line: And that's what they do at the springs!
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Saratoga, New York; Spas


THE BEAUTY OF BALLSTON, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In ballston - once a famous spot
Last Line: A constant rival in my larder!
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-1839); Spas


VILLAGE SPA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By scribbled names on walls, by telephone number
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Health Resorts; Spas