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Subject: WIGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOUGHT LOCKS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden hair that gulla wears
Last Line: For I know where she bought it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Hair; Wigs; Toupees; Hairpieces


MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot
Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability.
Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces


STATE OF THE UNION: 24. WHERE DO THEY ALL GO?, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where do they all go, the big wigs
Last Line: Are unable to make the land yield
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Wigs


THE POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth!
Last Line: "you stupid puppy—you have spoil'd my wig!"
Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4
Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces