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Subject: BACON, FRANCIS (1561-1626)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLERIHEW, by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When their lordships asked bacon %how many bribes he had taken
Last Line: He had at least the grace %to get very red in the face
Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C.
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Bribery; Philosophy And Philosophers


EVOLUTION: TWO FIGURES WITH MONKEY, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every lightbulb is a hammer
Last Line: Calling us names, everything we deserve
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Evolution; Paintings And Painters; Philosophy And Philosophers


HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU FRANCIS BACON, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the metro the man across
Last Line: The brain the joke with therefore I am
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Language; Philosophy And Philosophers


RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Scientists


RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites
Last Line: Language forbidden, the world learned bacon's
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy And Philosophers; Science


SCREAM (FRANCIS BACON), by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A head slit open by a scream
Last Line: What is left may be called peace
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy And Philosophers


SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I doubt it not - then more, far more
Last Line: A mystic cipher waits infolded.
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Dramatists; Philosophy & Philosophers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)