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Subject: DIETING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BREAD, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The staff of life is on diets now
Last Line: The laughter seeping through the cellophane
Subject(s): Bread; Dieting


BREAKFAST SONG IN TIME OF DIET, by STODDARD KING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take, o take the cream away
Last Line: Doctor's orders. Pass the bran
Subject(s): Dieting


BREAKING TRAINING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The football player, as he casts aside
Last Line: Count nothing now—just see those battlers eat!
Subject(s): Dieting; Food & Eating; Football


CURL UP AND DIET, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some ladies smoke too much and some ladies drink too much and some ladies pray
Last Line: But not so much that you cut yourself if you happen to embrace or kissome
Subject(s): Dieting; Women


DIET, by MAUREEN BURGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sat in the pub
Subject(s): Dieting; Women


LASTING, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fish oils,' my doctor snorted, 'and oily fish
Last Line: The heart's tough muscle-weak still in gratitude
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Aging; Dieting; Food And Eating; Health


LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old person of dean
Last Line: Would make me too fat, %that cautious old person of dean
Subject(s): Dieting; Old Age


ON A GENTELMAN'S COMPLAINING TO A LADY .. COULD NOT EAT MEAT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "you told me, sir, your teeth were loose"
Last Line: "then make the most of what is writ, / for here is quantum sufficit"
Subject(s): Dieting;food & Eating;teeth; Toothaches


THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. DIET, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enough of air. A desert subject now
Last Line: The old descending, in their turns to rise.
Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Dieting; Health; Veins; Arteries


VEGETABLES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carrots (raw) 2b
Last Line: Lettuce p
Subject(s): Dieting; Food And Eating; Vegetables