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Subject: FINGERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BESTIARY FOR THE FINGERS OF MY RIGHT HAND, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thumb, loose tooth of a horse
Subject(s): Fingers


BESTIARY FOR THE FINGERS OF MY RIGHT HAND, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thumb, loose tooth of a horse
Last Line: His touch is gentle. %it weighs a tear. %it takes the mote out of the eye
Subject(s): Fingers


BRIGHT BEADS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep well, my child, and rest those baby feet
Last Line: A fan-shaped group of little bones ... Bright beads.
Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Fingers; Funerals; Infants; Death - Babies; Burials


EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE FINGERS AND THE TOES, by JOHN FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cramped, you are hardly anything but fidgets
Last Line: Despite your fabrications and your cunning, %the deepest instinct is expressed in running
Subject(s): Fingers; Toes


FINGER DANCE (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dance, thumbkin, dance"
Last Line: "thumbkin, he can dance alone"
Subject(s): Fingers


FINGER DANCE (2), by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dance, foreman, dance
Last Line: Foreman, he can dance alone.
Subject(s): Fingers


FINGER DANCE (3), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dance, longman, dance"
Last Line: "longman, he can dance alone"
Subject(s): Fingers


FINGER DANCE (4), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dance, ringman, dance"
Last Line: "ringman, he can dance alone"
Subject(s): Fingers


FINGER DANCE (5), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dance, littleman, dance"
Last Line: "littleman, he can dance alone"
Subject(s): Fingers


FINGER DANCE (6), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "thumbkin says, I'll dance"
Last Line: "thumbkin says, I'll dance and sing"
Subject(s): Fingers


GRUNT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He'd lived there all his life, was over
Last Line: On banna strand
Subject(s): Fingers; Funerals; Thumbs


HANDS, by HENRY SPIESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hands that in my dream I see
Last Line: And I wait and wait. . . .
Subject(s): Fingers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Hands


INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver
Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us.
Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


LONG FINGERS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The twilight is long fingers and black hair
Last Line: Once touched long fingers, which are not anything
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Fingers


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 8. FINGER PLAY GAME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "one is a boy, pretty and small"
Last Line: And five is strong as a wall
Subject(s): Fingers


MOTHER'S FINGERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mother's fingers fashion wonders
Last Line: And in looking at the pictures, quite forget things done at home
Subject(s): Mothers; Fingers


ON THE LOSS OF HIS FINGER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How much more blest are trees than men!
Last Line: And we in heaven shake hands again.
Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers


SLENDER FINGERS, by CHAO LUAN-LUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slender, delicate, soft jade
Last Line: Yesterday on the lute strings %all their nails were painted scarlet
Subject(s): Fingers


THE BASKET-MAKERS' SONG, by ANDRE THEURIET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Water-willows! Water-willows!
Last Line: Through my fingers bend your billows!
Subject(s): Fingers; Singing & Singers


THE BLACK FINGER, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have just seen a most beautiful thing
Last Line: And why are you pointing upwards?
Subject(s): African Americans; Fingers; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks


THE JOB; FOR TOBEY, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my friend lost her little finger
Last Line: To what's turning in the world.
Subject(s): Accidents; Factories; Fingers; Touch (sense)


THUMB BOLD / THIBITY-THOLD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Mammie's wee man
Subject(s): Fingers


THUMB HE / WIZBEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Little jack-a-dandy
Subject(s): Fingers


TOM THUMBKIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And little dick
Subject(s): Fingers


UPON THE LOSS OF HIS LITTLE FINGER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arithmetic nine digits, and no more
Last Line: How soon mischance hath made a hand of thee.
Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers


UPON THE LOSSE OF HIS FINGER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the five straight branches of my hand
Last Line: First dyes the leafe, the bough next, next the tree.
Subject(s): Fingers


WRITING ABOUT MY HAND, by STAN TYSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knuckle under to an undulating
Last Line: A torn fingernail spirit
Subject(s): Fingers; Hands; Thumbs; Writing And Writers