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Subject: BICYCLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMONG GOLDFINCHES, by BILL MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am floating in a thin cloud %of them - simulataneous with
Last Line: Teasing like a voice that whispers: %some riders here still believe in angels
Subject(s): Bicycles


BICYCLES, TRICYCLES!, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bicycles! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter
Last Line: Who would buy cycles, failing to try cycles first.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bicycles; Tricycles; Cycling


BICYCLING, by PAT GRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The medical student who rides home on the gitane he took
Subject(s): Bicycles; Medical Students


BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp
Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States


BY BICYCLE, by MATTHEA HARVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not good or bad it's how you get around these
Last Line: Singing and the spokes all spinning in response
Subject(s): Bicycles; Cycling


CORTEGE, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I'm riding down the street with my girlfriend
Last Line: And I don't know if I want to continue %to be in this life %on a bike
Subject(s): Bicycles


LEARNING THE BICYCLE, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The older children pedal past
Subject(s): Bicycles; Children; Cycling; Childhood


MASTER OF THE SITUATION, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your bike's been taken
Last Line: The mountainous weapon of its patience
Subject(s): Accidents; Bicycles; Life; Mountains


MULGA BILL'S BICYCLE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas mulga bill, from eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze
Last Line: A horse's back is good enough henceforth for mulga bill
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Bicycles


MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair
Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY BICYLE HAS NO BELLS, by MICAH ICHEGBEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cycle has no bell, you better give way
Last Line: Alas, a person who eats meat daily hungers for more and more of it
Subject(s): Bicycles; Igede (african People); Sex


OUR BICYCLES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother being the eldest had
Subject(s): Bicycles; Family Life; Cycling; Relatives


OUR BICYCLES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother being the eldest had
Last Line: Me I would cry) leaving me far be- %hind wailing and eating their dust
Subject(s): Bicycles; Family Life


ROOM AND CHAIR, by GERARD DONOVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fluorescence evens out the scenery in the ward
Last Line: Nothing more of effort left %but the letting go
Subject(s): Aging; Bicycles


SUNDAY BAY LOOKOUT CHECK UP, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few party %boats looking for labor
Last Line: False pacific jungle makes no sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bicycles; Grief; Loss; Seasons


THE CYCLISTS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spread on the roadway,
Subject(s): Bicycles; England; Decay; Cycling; English; Rot; Decadence


THE EMBLEM, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last days of the sun
Subject(s): Bicycles; Youth; Bad Bheavior; Cycling


THE RIDER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy told me / if he roller-skated fast enough
Last Line: No matter how slowly they fell.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Solitude; Victory; Cycling; Loneliness


TRAMPLERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why do they trample
Last Line: Near the door of the irish %cancer society?
Subject(s): Bicycles; Collective Behavior; Innocence


TWO RIDES ON A BIKE, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A seventy-degree day in february!
Last Line: It was just the wild raspberries %snug in their lusciousness
Subject(s): Bicycles


VISITATION RITES, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My gentle son is performing tricks for me on his bicycle
Last Line: Just in a flash in the sun he's suddenly perfected, and I'm gone.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Divorce; Farewell; Sons; Youth; Cycling; Parting


WHY ORVILLE & WILBUR BUILT AN AIRPLANE, by JOHN JENKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life, as we all know, is a bicycle
Last Line: Wire baskets filling with rocks
Subject(s): Bicycles