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Subject: BEARDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEARD FOR A BLUE PANTRY, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bluebeard displayed his wives
Subject(s): Marriage; Cancer (disease); Beards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A LATTER-DAY SAINT, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gray old man, with a descending beard
Last Line: Giving the law, like zeno or zamolxis.
Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Insanity; Beards


DEVOTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grim beard is devoted to hate
Last Line: Devoted to the mobile phone
Subject(s): Beards; Hate


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 7. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE THIRD EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kate can fancy only beardless husbands
Last Line: Her smooth youths she finds all hugely bearded.
Subject(s): Beards; Courtship


THE SPANISH BARBER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What sights abound the world around, let tourists live and learn
Last Line: And, conscious of a triumph, said, servito, señor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Barbers; Beards; Spain


UNION OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica
Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray!
Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism


UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scissors cut the long-grown hair
Last Line: At the forgotten boy I was
Subject(s): Beards; Shaving


UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scissors cut the long-grown hair
Last Line: At the forgotten boy I was
Subject(s): Beards; Shaving


WHO'S BETTER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A god with a beard
Subject(s): Beards