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Subject: COLLEGE SPORTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COLLEGE BREAKFAST-PARTY, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young hamlet, not the hesitating dane
Last Line: And leave the soul in wider emptiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): College Sports; Food & Eating; Parties; Philosophy & Philosophers; Shakespeare - Hamlet


A CREW POEM, by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: So happy were columbia's eight
Last Line: The cock-swain almost crew.
Subject(s): College Sports; Columbia University; Rowing


CARLISLE FOOTBALL SONG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our fathers, heap long time ago
Last Line: Us maul each pale-faced sinner!
Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Singing & Singers


FAREWELL, O KING!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farewell, king football! 'tis with keen regret
Last Line: Die as king football goes upon his way!
Subject(s): College Sports; Football


OBJECTS OF PITY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Full many a big and brawny youth
Last Line: Who can neither play nor shout!
Subject(s): College Sports; Lament; Pity


PLACE, by BOB HICOK            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A speedball at the old college above olmsted's
Subject(s): College Sports


PLACE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A speedball at the old college above olmsted's
Last Line: More sustaining than panic, bones %to cherish as if unearthing treasure
Subject(s): College Sports


THE CHEER LEADER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arrayed in white, e'en on the coldest day
Last Line: A reigning sovereign, in imperial poise!
Subject(s): Collective Behavior; College Sports; Sports; Mobs; Crowds


THE COLLEGE CHEER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The football heroes are but shapes that go
Last Line: To tell how the college spirit never dies!
Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Sports; Universities & Colleges


THE FOOTBALL CASABIANCA, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy stood on the football field
Last Line: "they get some gasoline!"
Subject(s): College Sports; Fields; Football; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE QUARTERBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He's a lively little fellow, much the smallest in
Last Line: Yet this battered little demon turns up grinning at the close!
Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Sports


THE RED AND THE RED AND BLACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the big red team and the red and black
Last Line: Big red and red and black!
Subject(s): College Sports; Football


THE WAY OF AN INDIAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The red man ranged the forests--hunted game
Last Line: He's civilized, but he has lots of fun!
Subject(s): College Sports; Football