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Subject: BOOKWORMS
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` RIDDLE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A meal of words -- made by a moth
Last Line: For all those words -- and all that eating
Subject(s): Bookworms; Riddles


RIDDLE (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A moth ate words; a marvellous event
Last Line: One whit the wiser when he ate those words
Subject(s): Bookworms; Riddles


SONG OF THE BOOKWORM, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would long for wings to wander
Last Line: When the bookworm flits away!
Subject(s): Bookworms


THE BOOKWORM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole day long I sit and read
Last Line: And more to me than thou!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Bookworms