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Subject: KNEES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY'S DEFINITION OF KNEES, by SARA D. LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Knees are pretty important
Last Line: Important.
Subject(s): Knees


AGAINST THY KNEES, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against thy knees my pallid brow
Last Line: The kingdom they have robbed me of.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Knees; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Dead, The


BALANCING UP THE STAIRS, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm balancing my slow way up a single flight
Last Line: And transplant while we count our way to paradise
Subject(s): Knees; Walking


CRYSTAL HIGHWAY, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The storm has spent its fury
Last Line: From the finger tips of god!
Subject(s): God; Knees; Prayer; Religion; Theology


LEARNING HOW TO PRAY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I die, I will practice the humble submission
Last Line: All creatures tumbling under the canopy of clouds
Subject(s): Angels; Knees; Prayer; Religion; Soul


ON A KNEE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One said once to get down on a lithesome knee & ask for a fecund
Last Line: The cool modernist new york springtime. Mister & me. We were very gay then
Subject(s): Knees; Marriage


STRANGE KNEES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's one of the ways you see
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Knees; Self