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Subject: DEGAS, EDGAR (1834-1917)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER DEGAS' 'COMBING THE HAIR', by ALLISON BENNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way a woman's hair is painful - pulled
Last Line: And the usual death: their inverted embrace
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Hair; Paintings And Painters; Women


DEGAS'S LAUNDRESSES, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You rise, you dawn
Last Line: It’s your winding sheet
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Laundry & Laundering; Paintings & Painters; Women


DEGAS'S LAUNDRESSES, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You rise, you dawn
Last Line: It's your winding sheet
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Laundry And Laundering; Paintings And Painters; Women


DEGAS: WOMAN COMBING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So the hair, too, %can be played?
Last Line: On her soft flesh tell us %from what score she performs
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Paintings And Painters


DEGAS; THE DANCING CLASS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prtending he keeps
Last Line: Gratefully, as though they were crumbs
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Paintings And Painters


IMPORTANCE OF DICTIONARIES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mallarme told degas that poems
Last Line: More colorful and stimulating
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Dictionaries; Language; Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898); Paintings And Painters


PASTELS BY DEGAS, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those shoulders. An erotic thing submerged in duration
Last Line: And only a red mane flickered in the abyss
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Paintings And Painters


WOMAN COMBING; DEGAS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So the hair, too
Last Line: On her soft flesh tell us %from what score she performs
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Paintings And Painters