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Subject: ST. PATRICK'S DAY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost
Last Line: This underpass is endless
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day


GREEN BEER, by JAMES J. MCAULEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On saint paddy's day, the jukebox plays
Last Line: The raven tearing at his eye
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Beer; Drinks And Drinking; Holidays; Parties; St. Patrick's Day


I'LL WEAR A SHAMROCK, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Patrick's day is with us
Last Line: And I am irish, too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day


I'M IRISH ON THE ONE SIDE, SCOTTISH ON THE OTHER, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wrap up the rotgut'
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day


SAINT PATRICK, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandered from the antrim hills
Last Line: With the druid groves of oak.
Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day


SHAMROCK, by MAURICE DE GUERIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When april rains make flowers bloom
Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day


ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by S. W. GILLIAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, glory for the imrald isle
Last Line: St. Pathrick's day!
Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day


ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mavourneen, swate isle
Last Line: "I'm praisin' st. Patrick an' ""wearin' the green."
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day


ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seems to me st. Patrick's day
Last Line: And blossoms sleep beneath the snow.
Subject(s): Green (color); Ireland; March (month); St. Patrick's Day; Irish


THE GREEN LITTLE SHAMROCK OF IRELAND, by ANDREW CHERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle
Last Line: The sweet little, green little shamrock of ireland.
Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day


THE SHAMROCK, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When april rains make flowers bloom
Last Line: I feel its tears upon my hand.
Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day


THE WEARIN' O' THE GREEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?"
Last Line: "and where, please god, I'll stick to wearin' o' the green"
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;patriotism;st. Patrick's Day; Liberty;irish


THE WEARING OF THE GREEN, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, patrick dear, and did you hear
Last Line: And wear the living green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Ireland; St. Patrick's Day; Irish


WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin
Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel