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Subject: BALLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALL-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This week it's got so warm that I have been
Last Line: Unless I get first innin's at the bat!
Subject(s): Balls; Children; Play; Childhood


BALLS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throw the blue balls above the twigs of the tree-tops
Subject(s): Balls; Conduct Of Life


CRICKET; AN HEROIC POEM, SELECTION, by JAMES DANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the returning sun begins to smile
Last Line: And often grasps the well-disputed prize.
Alternate Author Name(s): Love, James
Subject(s): Balls; Sports


ENIGMA: 10, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The royal sun with his orbed flame
Last Line: My patroness certainly ever hath been.
Subject(s): Balls


SPRING FEVER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: My right shoulder aches when snow melts, %air softens, and baseballs
Last Line: Citizen, old ballplayer that I am, I walk %my aching shoulder home
Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports; Youth


STOLEN BASES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I run the northern-prairie, small-town blocks
Last Line: The half hour after I run, coming down, coming down
Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports


THE BALL, 1789, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The town is at the ball to-night
Last Line: And they ran away together.
Subject(s): Balls; Conventions; New York City; Assemblies; Meetings; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE BUNTLING BALL, 1884, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O proud new york, that wast new amsterdam
Last Line: When compared with central park.
Subject(s): Balls; Central Park, New York City


THE GOFF; AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM: CANTO 3. VICTORY ON THE LAST GREEN, by THOMAS MATHISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To free the ball the chief now turns his mind
Last Line: The echoing shore resounds castalio's name.
Subject(s): Balls; Golf; Sports; Victory