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Subject: PROMISCUITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SUMMER CAMPAIGN, by J. H. SCRANTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've travelled from the coast of maine
Last Line: Just sixteen sofa pillows.
Subject(s): Promiscuity; Sex


EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand not uttering sedately
Last Line: Let's not say dull things about her.
Subject(s): Love; Promiscuity


FRAGMENTS FOR MY VOYEURISTIC BIOGRAPHER, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Write that I started in barcelona
Last Line: I leave you the fragments the furniture the horrible fatigue
Subject(s): Biography; Gays & Lesbians; Promiscuity; Truth; Biographers


LOVE SONG; FOR RUTHVEN TODD, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, to fall easily, easily, easily in love
Last Line: And easily, love, easily to rest.
Subject(s): Love; Promiscuity; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


THE MAD-DOG, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A prude, at morn and ev'ning pray'r
Last Line: And that this member ne'er lyes still.]
Subject(s): Passion; Promiscuity


THE SWEET HUSSY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his early days he was quite surprised
Last Line: That she was the wicked one - he the good.
Subject(s): Promiscuity


THE WINDOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On allgood road two miles off georgia 41, you round a curve
Last Line: Waiting in that room, patient and promiscuous.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Georgia (state); Promiscuity; Teen Agers


TO A FRIEND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, lizzie anderson! Seventeen men -- and
Last Line: The law is changed into a mouthful of phrases.
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Promiscuity


WILD PLUM, by ADUL TIMA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are unholy who are born
Last Line: Who love better than the earth / wild plum at night
Alternate Author Name(s): Adul Tima
Subject(s): Promiscuity