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Subject: EPIGRAM (AS LITERARY FORM)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through life the poor dolt who lies buried below
Last Line: The inscription upon it will trouble his rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of old, when the church-building coffer was full
Last Line: Congregational chapels require a queen's pig!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stone ox! If we were hungry you would satisfy but little us
Last Line: You never were a calf; though carv'd, you were not carv'd to victual us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


EPIGRAM, by DENIS SANGUIN DE SAINT PAVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tircis makes rhymes as fast as ticking
Last Line: But mine will live when I'm in earth.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Rhyme; Writing & Writers


EPIGRAM, by KERSTIN THOREK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still your impressions
Last Line: We were both defeated
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form)


EPIGRAM, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The buildings of capital, the hives of the killer bees
Last Line: And flew when no-one was looking. He had to live his life again
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Life


TO CHARLEY, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou the poet-gift? Thou hast
Last Line: A sheridan—without his shames!
Subject(s): Brothers; Canada; Epigram (as Literary Form); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers; Canadians