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Subject: HORSESHOES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HORSESHOE CONTEST, by JEFFREY HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: East woodstock, connecticut
Last Line: To be able to do anything %that well
Subject(s): Connecticut; Fourth Of July; Horseshoes


HORSESHOES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half my childhood my father carried in his dusty pocket
Last Line: Clanging on the back porch, among the wind chimes.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Gifts & Giving; Horseshoes; Luck


HORSESHOES, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pitchin' horseshoes as we be
Last Line: "give me strength, o lord, to lose!'"
Subject(s): Horseshoes


HORSESHOES, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's slipping by, tiny aliquots
Last Line: Green beans and a slice of meat
Subject(s): Horseshoes; Medicine; Memory; Physicians


I DIDN'T COME HERE TO PITCH NO HORSESHOES, by WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The acrid smoke of charcoal fire drifts across
Last Line: I didn't come out here to pitch no horseshoes, too %much like hard work
Subject(s): Horseshoes


THE NORMAN HORSE-SHOE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red glows the forge in stirguil's bounds
Last Line: Save of the fairies' emerald ring.
Subject(s): Cavalry; Horseshoes; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father! Here, father! I have found a horse-shoe
Last Line: She may recover; so drive t'other nail in!
Subject(s): Christianity; Curses; Fathers & Sons; Horseshoes; Witchcraft & Witches