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Subject: GRAMMAR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 63, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O grammar rules, o now your virtues show
Last Line: That in one speech two negatives affirm!
Variant Title(s): "grammar-rules;""o Grammer Rules, O Now Your Vertues Show;"";
Subject(s): Grammar; Mnemonics


BREAKDOWN, by JAY ROGOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coming from anywhere, your poems, they traveled
Last Line: Distract us from that glory and that end
Subject(s): Grammar; Poetry And Poets


CAUGHT WITH A PRONOUN, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nanosecond before choice itself (?) occurs
Last Line: Not allowed on this reservation
Subject(s): Grammar; Poetry & Poets


CLASSIFICATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that love's a proper noun,' said miss angelia gay
Last Line: "their grammar's not my grammar,"" said miss matila prim."
Subject(s): Grammar; Language; Words; Vocabulary


GRAMMAR, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my world
Last Line: Conjugate the same %as the verb 'life'
Subject(s): Grammar


GRAMMAR AND USAGE, by CHALON EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She remembers a time when everything was deep
Last Line: Giving itself up in the face of life, the endless surfacing %the lonely turns and turning of air
Subject(s): Grammar


GRAMMAR LESSON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking was laughing then
Subject(s): Grammar


GRAMMAR LESSON, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Move into %the past tense %where memory %is negotiable
Last Line: Eliminate verbs %of motion %finally change %to the plural %where you will %never be %lonely again
Subject(s): Grammar; Poetry And Poets


GRAMMAR LESSON, by NICHOLAS RINALDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the arabic of baghdad, there are
Last Line: And there are thirteen different ways %of saying no
Subject(s): Grammar


HOW GIRL WAS TOO RECKLESS OF GRAMMAR, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Matilda maud mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin
Last Line: Speech is silver and it never should be free!
Subject(s): Bodies; Grammar; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


NAUGHTY PREPOSITION, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lately lost a preposition
Last Line: And yet I wondered, 'what should he come %up from out of in under for?'
Subject(s): Grammar


NO RULE TO BE AFRAID OF, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grammar has a rule absurd
Last Line: Why, that is what I'll end it with!
Subject(s): Education; Grammar; Schools; Students


PROPER NOUNS, by JOHN E. REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot master the common nouns
Last Line: Libyssa, or salmydessus.
Subject(s): Grammar


STEPS IN COMPOSITION: FOUR STUDENTS, by DIANE AVERILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I %three years I spend in thailand refugee camp
Last Line: Now, see if you can start a new paragraph
Subject(s): Grammar; Refugees; Schools; Thailand


WORD THOUGH AS A COUPLER, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though is a thick syllable
Last Line: On their flyways against the steel %lines of communication towers
Subject(s): Grammar