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Subject: HEADS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL QUIET IN THE HEADS, by GEORGE SINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great egret cocks its tensile neck
Last Line: Deploys soundlessly on the wind
Subject(s): Egrets; Heads


BAD MEMORY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of all your brain once knew
Last Line: Pulling closed its heavy iron gate
Subject(s): Heads; Memory; Past; Reason


CAT-TAILS, by KEN HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: They stand in opaque dark
Last Line: As onyx waters caress their feet.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Heads


COMING TO A HEAD, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The head is a finale of flesh and muscle, surge to the finish
Last Line: But I can't find myself
Subject(s): Bodies; Faces; Heads


DISSECTION OF A BEAU'S HEAD, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We found by our glasses, that what at first sight
Last Line: We'll reserve the coquette for another occasion.
Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


EXPERIEMENT, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a short subject before the main feature
Subject(s): Heads


FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you known the roar of an estranging city
Subject(s): Heads; Statues; City & Town Life


GONE TO HER HEAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "there was a young lady, quite rich"
Last Line: Had fallen asleep at the switch
Subject(s): Animals;heads;rats


HEADS, HEARTS, AND HANDS, by GEORGE W. BUNGAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heads that think and hearts that feel
Last Line: Heads poised over hearts that feel.
Subject(s): Hands; Heads; Hearts


INNER LANDSCAPE, by SANDOR WEORES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I squeeze the minutes out of stone
Last Line: Out of cricket songs
Subject(s): Heads; Memory; Thought


MEN WITH SMALL HEADS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And women with small heads
Subject(s): Heads; Size & Shape; Height


MEN WITH SMALL HEADS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And women with small heads
Last Line: Just your average heads, %in america
Subject(s): Heads; Size And Shape


MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 1. LARGE HEAD OF DIEGO, by THOMAS AVENA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jut- %eared thinned
Last Line: Most beautiful %pathetic head
Subject(s): Heads


MOODS, by A." "DELLA CRUSCAN [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pluck from their dark and rocky bed
Last Line: The bosom of the welkin sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): "della Cruscan, A.;
Subject(s): Character;heads


ON KEEPING ONE'S HEAD, by CHARLES L. GROVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Head-hunters of the amazon
Last Line: Not weirdly ornamental, %like a halloween punkin.)
Subject(s): Amazons; Heads; Hunting


ONLY A THOUGHT, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas only a passing thought, my love
Last Line: Only a passing thought.
Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Thought; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


PAINTED HEAD, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By dark severance the apparition head
Subject(s): Heads


PAINTED HEAD, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By dark severance the apparition head
Last Line: To spread the hyacinthine hair and rear %the olive garden for the nightingales
Subject(s): Heads


SECOND ANSWER, by SABRINA MARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The attic hides in the attic
Last Line: All I can say is that I'be been to the cellar and come back%with a jar of bruised quiet humming
Subject(s): Attics; Heads


TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Colored hats are necessary to show that curls are worn by an addition
Subject(s): Fashion; Hats; Heads


TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Colored hats are necessary to show that curls are worn by an addition
Last Line: Pearls and little ways. A large hat is tall and me and all custard whole
Subject(s): Fashion; Hats; Heads


THOUGHTS ON ONE'S HEAD, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A person is very self-conscious about his head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Heads


UPON THE THEME OF LOVE: THE BODY, A FANCY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nerves are france, and italy, and spain
Last Line: Where life, which passes through, great danger finds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Bodies; Heads; Humanity; Life; Skin