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Subject: CENSUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNA IN HUDSON, N. Y, by DENISE BERGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Closing the census
Last Line: I buy a pound of cherries %so ripe they bleed purple %through their skin
Subject(s): Census


CENSUS 1920, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gypsies brought me home
Last Line: Than airy child you got
Subject(s): Census


COUNTING THE FAMILY, by ANNIE F. REDLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: How many in your family?' the census-taker said
Subject(s): Census


HOW BIG?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cities now are waiting
Last Line: Oyster bay.
Subject(s): Census


OLD CHIEF AND THE CENSUS, by CHINUA ACHEBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will not mourn with you
Last Line: Will calculate their gain %and our loss, and make us %any-number-of-million-they-like strong!
Subject(s): Census


THE CENSUS AND THE FAIR DISSENTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rude querist! My feelings your question enrages
Last Line: "till I know what is his who will make me a bride."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Aging; Census; Rudeness; Women; Bad Manners


THE CENSUS-TAKER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening
Last Line: It must be I want life to go on living.
Subject(s): Census


THE PUZZLED CENSUS-TAKER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Got any boys?' the marshal said
Last Line: The lady from over the rhine.
Variant Title(s): Nein' Boys And Girls
Subject(s): Census; Language; Words; Vocabulary


WHAT MICHAEL SAID TO THE CENSUS TAKER, by JAMES RORTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you want to know who I am, I shall tell
Subject(s): Census