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Subject: TOES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EXPEDIENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As my neat little feet will not fill them enough
Last Line: "since you are, as you tell us, deficient in toe."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Feet; Shoes; Toes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE FINGERS AND THE TOES, by JOHN FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cramped, you are hardly anything but fidgets
Last Line: Despite your fabrications and your cunning, %the deepest instinct is expressed in running
Subject(s): Fingers; Toes


HAIRY TOE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once there was a woman went out to pick beans
Last Line: You've got it!
Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Toes


IN EXTREMIS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw my toes the other day
Last Line: I hid them quickly in my shoes
Subject(s): Toes


IN EXTREMIS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw my toes the other day
Last Line: Now, gnarled and pale, each said 'j'saccuse!' - %I hid them quickly in my shoes
Subject(s): Toes


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 7. TOE PLAY RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here we have a little pullet
Last Line: This one ate it
Subject(s): Toes


THE CORN ON JOSIE'S TOE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The board walk, atlantic city
Last Line: Tis a corn on josie's toe.
Subject(s): Accidents; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Feet; Toes; Walking


TIME AND AGAIN WE'RE CUT DOWN TO SIZE, by MARTIN SORRELL    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Until once more we're cut down to size
Subject(s): Nails (body); Riddles; Toes


TOES, by FREYA MANFRED    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman lost both her big toes
Last Line: Beneath the brussel sprouts %seventy-two toes under
Subject(s): Accidents; Self-doubt; Toes