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Subject: LAVATORIES
Matches Found: 11

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First Line: "of man's important business, and his work"
Last Line: "uncostive, flowing forth in happiest strains"
Subject(s): "lavatories;milton, John (1608-1674);" Toilets


CONVENIENCES, by JUDE STEFAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: #name?
Last Line: Where very suddenly a drunk dwarf bursts %--into tears
Subject(s): Lavatories


HER RIGHT NAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As nancy at her toilet sat
Last Line: Your chloe, or your nut-brown maid?'
Subject(s): Beauty; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Lavatories; Love; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey; Toilets


HERE I AM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I am / at the toilet bowl
Last Line: At my own foregone conclusion / calmly piss
Subject(s): Lavatories; Toilets


HERE I AM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I am %at the toilet bowl
Last Line: Calmly piss
Subject(s): Lavatories


LAVATORY ATTENDANT, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slumped on a chair, his body is an s
Last Line: Turns medusa on her head %and wipes the floor with her
Subject(s): Lavatories; Raine, Craig (b.1944)


RUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death, thou shalt die' he quotes to himself
Last Line: At the same time
Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Lavatories; Shame


SEAT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The politician sat on the most
Last Line: He'll be up in time for the next election
Subject(s): Elections; Lavatories; Politics


STRAINING ON THE TOILET, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lightning bug feels
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Fireflies; Lavatories; Nature


TRIOLET, AFTER CATULLUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Easy is the triolet
Last Line: If you really learn to make it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Lavatories; Rhyme; Toilets


WOMEN'S ROOM IN PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by KATE DANIELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Covered with rags and cardboard and nothing
Last Line: Carrying away its cargo of men
Subject(s): Homeless; Lavatories; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Women