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Subject: HEADACHES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FIVE POEMS, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She's at the mirror. I need to get
Subject(s): Headaches


HEADACHE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Headache! Thou bane to pleasure's fairy spell
Last Line: For ever jingle wisdom's funeral knell.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hate; Headaches; Mythology; Wisdom


HEADACHE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The letters of the alphabet
Subject(s): Alphabets; Headaches


HEADACHE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The letters of the alphabet
Last Line: The maker of the alphabet %had a headache
Subject(s): Alphabets; Headaches


HEADACHE, by NANCY WHYTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Headaches are the worst of pain
Last Line: I know it always does with mine
Subject(s): Headaches


HEADACHE FOR THE AGES, by MITCH ADELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close the door here'
Subject(s): Headaches


HEADACHE THAT WASN'T THERE, ISN'T THERE, by MARVIN SOLOMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You take the two pills, anyway
Last Line: The automatic turning ankle %of the headache of the will
Subject(s): Headaches


HEADACHES FULLY EXPLAINED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When curious pandora, luckless lass
Last Line: Before they come to me!
Subject(s): Headaches


I'VE A PAIN IN MY HEAD, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And so will I too ma'am
Subject(s): Headaches; Pain


MIGRAINE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ambushed by / pins and needles
Subject(s): Headaches


NIGHTMARE, FR. IOLANTHE, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you're lying awake with a dismal headache
Last Line: Long—ditto ditto my song—and thank goodness they're both of them over!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Variant Title(s): Lord Chancellor's Song
Subject(s): Dreams; Headaches; Nightmares


ON A HEADACHE, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When stretch'd on one's bed
Last Line: For our friends and our souls to provide.
Subject(s): Headaches; Pain; Suffering; Misery


THE HEADACHE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My head doth ache
Last Line: And physic.
Subject(s): Headaches


THE HEADACHE. TO AURELIA, by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurella, when your zeal makes known
Last Line: I'll still write on, and you shall rail.
Subject(s): Headaches


TO MINERVA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my temples throb, my pulses boil"
Last Line: "then, pallas, take away thine owl, / and let us have a lark instead"
Subject(s): Headaches;minerva


WRITTEN .. AUTHOR'S BATHING AT TEIGNMOUTH, FOR THE HEAD-ACHE, by JANE CAVE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst on the beach I stood, my courage fainted
Last Line: While I to neptune tune the grateful lyre!
Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Headaches; Showers & Showering