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Subject: FLEAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACAROPHOBIA (FEAR OF SMALL THINGS/INSECTS), by GARY ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She knows there are no simple remedies
Last Line: Or even dream %it's hers
Subject(s): Fear; Fleas


ADDRESS TO TEN THOUSAND FLEAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hence, ye disturbers of my sleep"
Last Line: That I may have some sleep tomorrow
Subject(s): Blood;fleas;sleep


AN INSECTARIAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot wash my dog,' she said
Last Line: "may find no other home."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fleas


APOSTROPHE TO A FLEA, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nimble and unresting flea
Last Line: Our slightly different in degree %but common destiny
Subject(s): Fleas


FABLES: 1ST SER. 49. THE MAN AND THE FLEA, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether on earth, in air, or main
Last Line: That more important fleas might feed.
Subject(s): Fleas


FLEAS, by AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em
Last Line: While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on
Subject(s): Fleas


OLD HOUSE IN MY 40TH YEAR, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clod's stubbornness gives in to my fist
Last Line: The heart down to business %and slapping blood through its swinging door
Subject(s): Fleas


SARCOPSYLLA PENETRANS, by ALTA WRENWICK BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the pesky, ugly and boringest of bugly
Last Line: "no trespassing allowed! Keep off the grass!"
Subject(s): Fleas


THE FLEA, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marke but this flea, and marke in this
Last Line: Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Fleas; Love


THE FLEA, by ROLAND YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: And here's the happy, bounding flea
Last Line: But she can tell and so can he.
Subject(s): Fleas


THE JOLLY MILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a jolly miller lived on the river dee
Last Line: About four hunderd mile!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fleas; Laughter; Marriage; Mills And Millers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives