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Subject: IMITATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FAGGED OUT; A POEM WITHOUT ENERGY ENOUGH TO FIND RHYMES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to let go
Last Line: Oh, I want to let go.
Subject(s): Imitation; Poetry & Poets; Weariness; Fatigue


FOREST LAWN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like an amusement park, the cemetery grounds
Last Line: Is death and reproduction.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Imitation; Graveyards; Dead, The


IMITATIONS OF WALT WHITMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who am I?
Subject(s): "imitation;poetry & Poets;singing & Singers;whitman, Walt (1819-1891);


PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: INTRODUCTORY, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou beautiful, o my daughter, as the budding rose of april?
Last Line: Ladies shall marvel at its beauty, and a lord shall pluck it at the last.
Subject(s): Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor


PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Choose judiciously thy friends; for to discard
Last Line: For an enraptured public to muse upon over their matutinal muffin.
Subject(s): Friendship – Selectivity; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor


PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF PROPRIETY, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Study first propriety: for she is indeed the pole-star
Last Line: Tasteth of the cork.
Subject(s): Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor


PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF READING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Read not milton, for he is dry, nor shakespeare
Last Line: And if thou canst not realize the ideal, thou shalt at least idealize the real.
Subject(s): Books; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor; Reading


THE BALLAD OF IMITATION, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If they hint, o musician, the piece that you played
Last Line: And the man who plants cabbages imitates, too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Imitation; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets