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Subject: BOWLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUE BOWL, by LYNN MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything is in the blue bowl which is empty
Last Line: Things able to hold, be held by other things
Subject(s): Bowls; Life


BOWL, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world as a goldfish bowl remains
Last Line: From the stilled glob of its own %clarified eye
Subject(s): Bowls; Life


BOWL, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For what emperor
Subject(s): Bowls


BOWL, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For what emperor
Last Line: I never tie %to think of this
Subject(s): Bowls


FOR JANE BRADLEY WITH A PORRINGER, by HAL SUMMERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never may your games be drawn
Last Line: Not just her abstract nouns
Subject(s): Porringers (bowls)


LEISURE, by EDITH EDWARDS WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bit of clay
Last Line: And coloring.
Subject(s): Bowls


LITTLE CARVED BOWL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I always wanted
Last Line: But today someone gave me %a little carved bowl
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Bowls


MY MOTHER (GIVING ME THE ORIENTAL BOWL), by LYNNE KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's bone china, so thin toward the edge
Last Line: The blue lilies lift their wings
Subject(s): Bowls


THE TURQUOISE BOWL, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bowl in the hand is the earth
Last Line: The winged sun sting its side like a bee.
Subject(s): Bowls; Earth; World


TO A FULLER BOWL, by GENEVA VERSTEEG    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a case of love at first sight on my part
Last Line: It broke my heart -- and took a chip out of you!
Subject(s): Bowls


TO AN OLD BLUE BOWL, by FRANCES E. STREET    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ghosts of long - dead women bend with me
Last Line: And bind myself to life as these dead women now are bound to me!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Bowls


WOMAN WITH THE EMPTY BOWL, by MONIKA LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She has an empty bowl
Last Line: That hands are empty bowls %even as they clasp
Subject(s): Bowls; Women