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Subject: LEGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ENEMIES OF ENORMITY, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And thanks to a polymer the chemists jimmied-up in bern
Subject(s): Prostheses; Legs; Cosmetics; Conduct Of Life


EPITAPH ON TOMBSTONE ERECTED OVER MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA'S LEG, by GEORGE CANNING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rests, and let no saucy knave
Last Line: Who never meant to run.
Subject(s): Legs; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


ESSAY: I SAID TO MY LEG: BE STILL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said to my head: be kingly!
Last Line: Of color? The 14 bands of the globe?
Subject(s): Bodies; Essays; Legs


FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY; A PATHETIC BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ben battle was a soldier bold
Last Line: With a stake in his inside.
Variant Title(s): Faithles Nellie Gray
Subject(s): Legs


HER LEGS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fain would I kiss my julia's dainty leg
Last Line: Which is as white and hair-less as an egge.
Subject(s): Legs


MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER FAME, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To gratify stern ambition's whims
Last Line: In their pinchbeck pins and brooches!
Subject(s): Legs


POEM IN WHICH MY LEGS ARE ACCEPTED, by KATHLEEN FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Legs! %how we have suffered each other
Last Line: In the first floating and rising of water
Subject(s): Legs; Love


RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the burial
Subject(s): Legs


RISING FROM A CRAMPED POSITION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That here's blood in my legs
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Legs; Nature; Self; Self-consciousness


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 23, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of your foot, give me the walk
Last Line: And of your stockings, the garter
Subject(s): Legs; Walking


THE HURDLERS, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They near the hurdle full speed
Last Line: Dying beyond the line.
Subject(s): Athletes; Legs


THE LEGLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind goes back to fumin wood, and how we stuck it out
Last Line: Lo! How it's silver-lined.
Subject(s): Legs; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THESE LEGS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their flat earth rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Legs; Mountain Climbing; Nature; Weariness


VERY IDEA OF 2 LEGS, by MARY MOLINARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lower %part of the body, an idea pressed thin
Last Line: Singular and blue-dyed: a desire. An excretion of worms. %glimmering
Subject(s): Beauty; Factories; Labor And Laborers; Legs; Women Immigrants - United States


WHY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you put your legs up
Last Line: So graceful and spontane- %ous movement of a dancer
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Erotic Love; Labrunie, Gerard (1808-1855); Legs