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Subject: CENSORSHIP
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONNET; ADDRESSED TO MR. PHILLIPS, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phillips! The suff'rer less by law than pow'r
Last Line: Scorn is his meed, commiseration thine.
Subject(s): Censorship; Phillips, Sir Richard (1767-1840)


A SUMMONS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of the north-land! Where's the manly spirit
Last Line: Maintain the right!
Subject(s): Censorship; Slavery; Serfs


CARTOONS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My wife rises every few hours to nurse our infant, so these
Last Line: Robots with powerful beams of light
Subject(s): Television; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Censorship; Cartoons & Cartoonists


CENSOR, by IVAN KRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The censor is seated on a stool (or possibly two stools)
Last Line: Censor: I won't stand for any innuendo. Gently, now...That's better...Gently...Very, very slowly...
Subject(s): Censorship; Dancing And Dancers; Human Rights


CENSORED, by DONALD DAVIDSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Censorship


CENSORS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Censors are dead men
Last Line: Breathing of the dead men, %the censors, breathing with relief
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Censorship; Human Rights


CENSORSHIP, by PHILIP BRASFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Censorship would have this pen
Subject(s): Censorship; Prisons And Prisoners


CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains
Last Line: At the moon or the sun!
Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


CENSORSHIP, by LEE UPTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Erasure of hair
Last Line: What was done to our own %that we mush watch?
Subject(s): Censorship


FREEDOM, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For 20 years they hid your words
Last Line: Here, a poem %doesn't upset anyone
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Censorship; Exiles


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 12, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the wood in the dark the postchaise bump'd on
Last Line: It appear'd, though with much mutilation.
Subject(s): Censorship; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 13, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun arose near paderborn
Last Line: Thou dost suffer a sad expiation.
Subject(s): Censorship; Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 22, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More changed than even the city itself
Last Line: Smoked sprats they are commonly known as!
Subject(s): Censorship; Hamburg, Germany


IN THE LAND OF OZ, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: They tell me
Last Line: In the land of oz things are different. %how could judy garland %be so wrong?
Subject(s): Books; Censorship; Story-telling; Witchcraft And Witches


INVOCATION, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Senator smoot (republican, ut.) %is planning a ban on smut
Last Line: Smut if smitten %is front-page stuff
Subject(s): Censorship


LETTER TO A LIBRARIAN, by IRVING LAYTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. P. - ihave heard it rumored
Last Line: While rabelais pipes you to a wished-for death %on a kazoo quaint and silvered
Subject(s): Censorship; Hate; Librarians And Libraries


LIKE CANCER CELLS, IVY, ARTHRITIS, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And loves to take root in your head
Subject(s): Censorship; Riddles


MOCKERY AGAINST THE IRISH CENSORSHIP, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland was better in its dream
Last Line: With american insult! Irish sense is dead
Subject(s): Censorship


MOCKERY AGAINST THE IRISH CENSORSHIP, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ireland was better in its dream
Last Line: With american insult! Irish sense is dead
Subject(s): Censorship


MRS. MALONE AND THE CENSOR, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When mrs. Malone got a letter from pat
Last Line: "it's a ----. Oh, but that's somethin' they won't let me tell."
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Censorship


ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come! Fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go
Last Line: Oliver wendell holmes.
Subject(s): Censorship; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition


PENAL LAW, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burn ovid with the rest. Lovers will find
Subject(s): Censorship; Love - Erotic


PENAL LAW, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burn ovid with the rest. Lovers will find
Last Line: When hands are joined and head bows in the dark
Subject(s): Censorship; Erotic Love


RAIN, by BILLY COLLINS            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Censorship


SALE OF RAMSAY'S HISTORY PROHIBITED IN LONDON, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some bold bully dawson, expert in abusing
Last Line: The king will run mad -- and the book will be sold.
Subject(s): Censorship; England; Ramsay, David (1749-1815); English