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Subject: SPEECH DISORDERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sisters! There's music here
Last Line: To welcome thee I wait -- blest mother! Come to me.
Subject(s): Deafness; Fathers & Daughters; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness


AN INVITATION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my fuf-fuf-fair
Last Line: To witness the bub-bub-beautiful pip-pip-pelican swallow the l-l-live fuf-fuf-fish!
Subject(s): Speech Disorders;zoos; Stuttering;muteness


BORN DUMB, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little love! My little speechless child!
Last Line: The child of our enchantment is born dumb!
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness


CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 1, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this must be a mouth
Last Line: Impossible words, look %at me
Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Surgery


CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 2, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He could spend an hour
Last Line: Made of water, woke convinced %he'd never been who he was
Subject(s): Language; Speech Disorders


FOG-HORN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely that moan is not the thing
Last Line: As our cries were swallowed up and all hands lost
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Voices


FOR THE MUTE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They will blow from your mouth one morning
Last Line: Too many languages for %one mortal tongue
Subject(s): Speech Disorders


HIS NAME WAS KEKO, by THEODORE BRIDGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the kiawe he lies -
Last Line: Sleep well -- little keko --
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Speech Disorders; Beach; Coast; Shore; Stuttering; Muteness


IF I CAN BE BY HER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I d-d-don't c-c-c-are how the r-r-r-obin sings
Last Line: B-b-b-because I'll b-b-b-be by her.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness


INARTICULATE, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Touching your face, I am like a boy
Last Line: In the moment, fulfilled but unable to speak
Subject(s): Markets; Shopping; Speech Disorders


LISPING IN NUMBERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We' got a' uncle writes poetry
Last Line: "it's a purty good little poetry-piece!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Numbers; Poetry & Poets; Speech Disorders; Uncles; Stuttering; Muteness


MUMBLIN' MOTT, by VIRGINIA MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Delightedly devoid of useless brain
Last Line: Who had the sense to be an idiot!
Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fools; Speech Disorders; Idiots; Stuttering; Muteness


MUTE GIRL SPEAKS, by S. MARDIROSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I can smell the ocean
Last Line: No one knows yet
Subject(s): Speech Disorders


MUTENESS, by OLDRICH MIKULASEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not necessary and some things one shouldn't
Last Line: Woman condemned to love %for live
Subject(s): Language; Speech Disorders


NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At what moment in that town
Last Line: Never to speak a word again?
Subject(s): Pain; Silence; Speech Disorders; Towns


PARAPHRASE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The master of the manor house each morn
Last Line: I only s-s-stack the hay.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness


RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more'
Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness


ROAD OPEN AT BOTH ENDS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What would a mute be doing in a phone booth
Last Line: Drive slowly by in cars impossible to see
Subject(s): Speech Disorders


SACRED EPIGRAM: HE TOUCHED HIS TONGUE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ, you command the mute lips to speak; the mute lips speak
Last Line: If then you used a finger, loosing the sealed lips? %don't you need to use your whole hand now, o ch
Subject(s): Miracles; Speech Disorders


SACRED EPIGRAM: MARK 7:32-36, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ, you used your voice and hand together for loosing the tongue
Last Line: The voice sets it loose, but nothing but the whole hand will stop it
Subject(s): Speech Disorders


SHE DOES NOT HEAR, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sh-sh-sh-sh-she does not hear the r-r-r-r-robin sing
Last Line: Her b-b-b-b-by g-g-gosh! She's p-p-plaster paris!
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Nature; Speech Disorders; Turkey; Stuttering; Muteness


SILENCES, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The three-year-old seemed puzzled
Last Line: Your teeth are clenched
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Grief; Silence; Speech Disorders; Tragedy


STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious
Last Line: For the body to blossom into speech
Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women


STUTTERER, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Courage: your tongue has left
Last Line: Where lies of love are fair
Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness


STUTTERER, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Courage: your tongue has left
Last Line: Down to the old mill stream %where lies of love are fair
Subject(s): Speech Disorders


STUTTERER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter where he looks
Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness


STUTTERER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter where he looks
Last Line: Says 'all americans are non- %european in soweto.'
Subject(s): Speech Disorders


THE LISPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Elsie mingus lisps, she does!
Last Line: "ner thup thoop so awful loud!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Speech Disorders; Childhood; Stuttering; Muteness


THE MUTE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning sun seemed fair as
Last Line: Sang gloriously.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Speech Disorders; Bedtime; Stuttering; Muteness


THE STAMMERING WIFE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, deeply in love with miss emily pryne
Last Line: "a dam-age instead of a blessing!"
Variant Title(s): The Stuttering Lass
Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness


THE STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious
Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women; Stuttering; Muteness


TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind
Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness