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Subject: APRIL FOOL'S DAY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth
Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o!
Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day


APRIL FOOL, by ELEANOR PALMER HAMMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Small april sobbed
Last Line: And smiled a rainbow %overhead!
Subject(s): April Fool's Day


APRIL FOOL'S DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first of april, some do say
Last Line: But on this day are people sent %on purpose for pure merriment
Variant Title(s): All Fool's Da
Subject(s): April Fool's Day


APRIL FOOLS, by KATE MASTERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear jack, your letter came today
Subject(s): April Fool's Day


COURT ORDER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My good fool' he %who was a king
Last Line: That friday, it being april, %was all fools' day
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): April Fool's Day


EPIGRAM ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, by JOHN WINSTANLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature is rising from the dead
Last Line: Ah! Chloe, when, my charming fair?
Subject(s): April Fool's Day; All Fools' Day


FIRST OF APRIL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morn the god of wit and joke
Last Line: The god has made us april fools
Subject(s): April Fool's Day


HAMPSHIRE APRIL 1ST RHYME (USED AFTER 12 NOON), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: April fool's gone past
Last Line: When april fool comes again %you'll be the biggest fool again
Subject(s): April Fool's Day


NPM '98, by MICHAEL ROTHENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first day of national poetry month is all fools' day
Last Line: Hopeless procrastination, blameless debauchery %and poetry
Subject(s): April; April Fool's Day; Poetry And Poets


RAVEN, DON'T STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR - CHANT FOR APRIL FIRST, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What pleasanter task for all fools' day than going over all the things
Last Line: At daring even to contemplate such a devastatingly delightful impossibility
Subject(s): April Fool's Day


RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink
Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows!
Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day


SPRING SONG IN FALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my dark age, I know better
Last Line: Or flowers opening for the bee's blast, %ever to be april's fool is my desire
Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Children; Flowers; Spring