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Subject: HUNCHBACKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEFORMED TRANSFORMED; A DRAMA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out, hunchback! %I was born so, mother!
Last Line: To be her heart as she is mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons
Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


HUNCHBACK, by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hundred women's eyes with love-light shone
Subject(s): Hunchbacks; Physicians


HUNCHBACK, by ROBERT FRIEND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within the house of mirrors
Last Line: Where a hunchless ghost lies drowned
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


HUNCHBACK IN THE PARK, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had followed the hunchback %to his kennel in the dark
Subject(s): Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Wanderers And Wandering


HUNCHBACK OF DUGBE, by WOLE SOYINKA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wondered always where
Last Line: Of dark, and he walks in motley
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


I AM A HUNCHBACK, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a hunchback, yellow faced
Last Line: Good woman, take my arm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


SONNET: 66. SONNET TO GATH, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Country of hunchbacks! - where the strong, straight spine
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


SONNET: 66. SONNET TO GATH, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Country of hunchbacks! - where the strong, straight spine
Last Line: And cluck your children in about your knee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


THE HUNCHBACK, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a hunchback climb over a hill
Last Line: But where god's gone, there's no man knows.
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


THE HUNCHBACK, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If he walked he could not keep beside
Last Line: Was ready for the call.
Subject(s): Hunchbacks


THE SAINT AND THE HUNCHBACK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand up and lift your hand and bless
Last Line: But most to alcibiades.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Hunchbacks