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Subject: DICTIONARIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGE OF ORANGE: A HISTORY INFERRED FROM SENTENCES IN THE OXFORD, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year 1200, st. Dominic planted an orange
Last Line: And so back to orange fizz and the ritual conference
Subject(s): Dictionaries; History; Language; Oranges


DICTIONARY, by CARLOS DE OLIVEIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Side %by side
Last Line: The icy ache %of water
Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language


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


MORE BEST JOKES OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by BILL KNOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I vow to live always at trash point: to
Last Line: To the inchworm's socialization progress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William
Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Lips; Progress; Words; Vocabulary


PUNISHMENT, by KATHERINE VARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: As soon as he was old enough to read
Last Line: And cutting a narrow pathway to her heart
Subject(s): Children; Dictionaries; Punishment


READ THIS CAREFULLY, by BOB RAINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When friends I'm trying to amuse
Last Line: Best leave this for another day. %okay?
Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Mothers


THE NEED FOR DICTIONARIES II, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is named
Last Line: By its disguises.
Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Words; Vocabulary


THE ZEALLESS XYLOGRAPHER; DEDICATED TO THE END OF THE DICTIONARY, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A xylographer started to cross the sea
Last Line: In a xanthic xebec went sailing the main.
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Dictionaries; Sea; Ocean


THERE IS A WHOLE WORLD INVOLVED IN ME, by MARTYN CRUCEFIX    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Hard as you might look, you are not mentioned here
Subject(s): Dictionaries; Riddles