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Subject: SPIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALONZO AND IMANEL, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As he spoke, he beheld on the sea-beaten stand
Last Line: Clasp'd at length in his joyful embrace.
Subject(s): Love; Spies


CHILDHOOD OF A SPY, by DICK DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Much earlier than most he found
Last Line: And, vindicated, he will hear %their cry of candor and despair
Subject(s): Spies


EPIGRAM: 59. ON SPIES, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spies, you are lights in state, but of base stuff
Last Line: Stink and are thrown away. End fair enough.
Subject(s): Spies


FOR EACH AGE, ITS AMULET, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each illness has its demon, burning you with
Last Line: Taped and stolen from every living person
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Spies; Jewish Families


LIGHT READING, by VASSAR MILLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spies whisper through my air condition units
Last Line: So, ringed with ghouls and corpses, I am safe
Subject(s): Literary Form; Spies


PERFIDIA, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You don't know who these people are, or what
Subject(s): Spies


PERFIDIA, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You don't know who these people are, or what
Last Line: And the redhead at the bar lets you buy her a drink
Subject(s): Spies


SPIES (SPIES? SPIES.), by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are everywhere. / they float
Subject(s): Spies


SPIES (SPIES? SPIES.), by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are everywhere. %they float
Last Line: Lonely version of love, I think. The air %goes cloudy ... I fell his gaze ... %who does he report to
Subject(s): Spies