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Subject: POISONS & POISONING
Matches Found: 14

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEDIC GATHERS MUSHROOMS FOR HIS LADY, by GRACE STONE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Atropin for muscarine --
Last Line: We have not trod.
Subject(s): Herbs; Mushrooms; Poisons & Poisoning; Morels


A SUPPER AT MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small but gorgeous was the chamber
Last Line: Wine and sigh alike are death!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Brinvilliers, Marie De (1630-1676); Poisons & Poisoning


AN ELEGY ON SIR THOMAS OVERBURY; POISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had not thy wrong, like to a wound ill cur'd
Last Line: An antidote against the silent grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613); Poisons & Poisoning; Tower Of London


DEARTH, by VIRGINIA RICHARDS CASABONA    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is / this night a poignant/superfluity
Last Line: Of you!
Subject(s): Poisons & Poisoning


DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child,
Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The


LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady
Last Line: Was folded in a pannier.
Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean


REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue
Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes!
Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers


SCOTTY'S WILD STUFF STEW, by FRANCIS HUMPHRIS BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cause of all the trouble
Last Line: "what he christened ""wild stuff stoo""."
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poisons & Poisoning; Story-telling; Cookery


STRATEGY, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some, cupid kills with arrows
Last Line: Poison-oak.
Subject(s): Poisons & Poisoning


THE DAY THAT WAS THAT DAY, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind rose, and the wind fell
Subject(s): Women; Despair; Loveless; Poisons & Poisoning; Family Life; Relatives


THE DUN COW AND THE HAG, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka
Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem.
Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women


THE LAST MAN: MEDITATION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bitter past
Last Line: Even as I taste it.
Subject(s): Future; Past; Poisons & Poisoning


THE NETTLE-KING, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a nettle both great and strong
Last Line: But he said not a word, and went his way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Poisons & Poisoning; Planting; Planters


TO A RATTLE SNAKE READY TO STRIKE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fork-tongued, furtive charmer!
Last Line: And cruel, primal curse.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Poisons & Poisoning; Rattlesnakes