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Subject: GOSSIP
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW DENOMINATION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebe has lived a life of schism
Last Line: "a plymouth brother or a yarmouth bloater?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Conversion; Gossip


AN AFTERNOON GOSSIP, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is that you sistah harris?
Last Line: To send abe's hatchet home.
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gossip


AT CITOYENNE TUSSAUD'S, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The place is full of whispers - 'mark you, sirs
Last Line: They only look so infinitely tired!
Subject(s): France; Gossip; Murder; Tussaud's Wax Museum


BRIEF LIVES IN NOT SO BRIEF - I, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I yawn at the daily gossip columns
Last Line: How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
Subject(s): Gossip


DON'T EVEN TELL YOUR WIFE, PARTICULARLY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All good men believe that women would rather get rid of a piece of gossip
Last Line: Who says men aren't gossipy? - men say men aren't gossipy
Subject(s): Gossip


FAULTS, by ELIZABETH JOHANNA GARDEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have we a friend and faults has he?
Last Line: There will be many friends for you and me.
Subject(s): Gossip


GOSSIP, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ego's neither here nor there
Last Line: (since mary shelley learned to sew, %we're what they drag the thames with.)
Subject(s): Gossip


GOSSIP, by ELIZABETH JOHANNA GARDEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gossip is a cruel thing
Last Line: And a great deal of gladness we will find here.
Subject(s): Gossip


GOSSIP, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard it said that someone said that some - / one said to him
Last Line: "I don't know what they said he did -- but probably it's so."
Subject(s): Gossip


GOSSIP, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before I knew how cruel
Last Line: For fear they will not sing.
Subject(s): Gossip


GOSSIP AT BOW MILLS, by GERALD CHITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue pines embrace the little church at bow
Last Line: Talking me over, clustered round the mill.
Subject(s): Gossip


GOSSIP THAT NEVER SHOULD BE UNLOOSED IS GOSSIP, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of gossip, and they differ from each other quite a lot
Last Line: Of their failings and then join them in a frank confidential discussion of yours
Subject(s): Gossip


GOSSIPING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the spiders of society
Last Line: In the ingenious torment they contrive.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Gossip


I HAVE IT ON GOOD AUTHORITY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of people who blow through life life a breeze
Last Line: And it you want to get the most out of life why the thing to do is be a gossiper by day and a gossip
Subject(s): Gossip


JUST ANOTHER DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear dublin, you sleep tonight in a bed
Last Line: Will the good word be always late?
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Gossip; Hate; History


LETTERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If these six letters came from birds
Last Line: To lead a chorus full of thunder!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Gossip; Letters


MENAGE, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blinds down!' they cry
Last Line: Open to the sky.
Subject(s): Gossip; Neighbors


NEVER MIND THE OVERCOAT, BUTTON UP THAT LIP, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persons who have something to say like to talk about the arts and politics
Last Line: And from that day to this I haven't breathed it to a living soul
Subject(s): Gossip


NO MERCY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no mercy in the tide, she said
Last Line: Where is the blond child?
Subject(s): Conversation; Gossip; Mercy; Seashore


OUR OWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They walk here with us, hand in
Last Line: Good-by! Good-by! Good-by!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farewell; Gossip; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones


SCANDAL-MONGERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you hear the scandal-mongers
Last Line: They are but the cursed serpents of the earth
Subject(s): Gossip


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SAND MARTINS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed an inland-cliff precipitate
Last Line: Gossip, how wags the world? Well, gossip, well
Subject(s): Gossip; Martins


SUMMER SCHOOL MARMS, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their antics could invite the easy sneer
Subject(s): Gossip


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 126, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of very funny affairs
Last Line: Nobody knows white snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Gossip


THE SKIES CAN'T KEEP THEIR SECRET!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In your new-fashioned world!
Subject(s): Gossip; News


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: News, news, news, my gossiping friends!
Last Line: T is a woman that reigns in hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Gossip; Italy; Travel; Women; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THEY SAY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say that smithman spends his life in
Last Line: "way; but he plays second violin, I often think, beside ""they say."
Subject(s): Gossip; Rumors; Towns


THIS WAS TOLD TO ME IN CONFIDENCE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I do like a little bit of gossip
Last Line: But a little bit of gossip does me good
Subject(s): Gossip


THREE SISTERS, by LILLIAN DURHAM DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three sisters walk our village street
Last Line: If you let them in they will take your bed!
Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Gossip; Sisters


TIDY, by EMELDA DESHAIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: She keeps her dresses clean and stylish
Last Line: About as fast as she can think.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Gossip


TONGUES, by DOROTHY ALDIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be she big or be she little
Last Line: In a wise old cheek.
Subject(s): Gossip


UNRULY TONGUE, by WINIFRED W. GARDNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: If someone repudiate a brother
Last Line: Wagging tongues, the lord will smit.
Subject(s): Gossip


VERSES TO J. RANKINE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a keeper of the law
Last Line: A whaup's I' the nest!
Subject(s): Gossip