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Subject: DIOGENES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AND SO, I THINK DIOGENES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I told them to look at an apple-tree
Last Line: "they do but wander home,"" I said."
Subject(s): Diogenes


DIOGENES, by MAX EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A hut, and a tree
Last Line: But to clear away his shadow.
Subject(s): Diogenes


DIOGENES, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day's calumnies, / midnight's translucencies
Last Line: Be thanked for it?
Subject(s): Diogenes


IN PRAISE OF WINE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "diogenes, surly and proud"
Last Line: "philosophers, poets, or kings"
Subject(s): Diogenes;drinks & Drinking


THE TOMB OF DIOGENES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'tell me, good dog, whose tomb you guard so well'"
Last Line: Yes: but the stars are now his dwelling-place'
Subject(s): Cemeteries;death;diogenes;graves; "graveyards;dead, The;tombs;tombstones;