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Subject: PUPPETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. ORLANDO FURIOSO .. PUPPET, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A painted flat as houselights dim becomes
Last Line: Orlando, sword aloft, speak: what happens next?
Subject(s): New York City; Puppets


DANCES, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Right on stage %pulling, wrestling each
Last Line: Radio making a welt on her face
Subject(s): Audiences; Dancing And Dancers; Plays And Playwrights; Puppets; Theater And Theaters


FINGER PUPPETS IN THE ATTIC DOLLHOUSE, by JOHN REIBETANZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: If they, more petite
Last Line: Unraveling years %the tissue of apocalypse?
Subject(s): Dolls; Puppets; Toys


ICICLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Puppets dangle from the tips of her glances
Last Line: In darkest africa, they club her to death.
Subject(s): Ice; Puppets; Marionettes


LITTLE CLOWN PUPPET, by CAROLYN HAYWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little clown puppet began to fret
Last Line: But the little clown puppet, he parachusted!
Subject(s): Puppets


MAGUS, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The few, the lucky, make their way
Last Line: There is nothing it does not know about the stars.
Subject(s): Christmas; Puppets; Nativity, The; Marionettes


ORIENTAL PHANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes the sky
Last Line: Marionettes . . .
Subject(s): Asia; Gays & Lesbians; Puppets; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Marionettes


PRINCESS SUMMER FALL WINTER SPRING, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or was it princess fall winter spring summer?
Last Line: Who once loved your heart and face?
Subject(s): Puppets; Childhood Memories


PROLOGUE TO THE FARCE OF PUNCH TURNED SCHOOLMASTER, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gallants, our business is to let you know
Last Line: And powdered beaux shall show their parts in greek.
Subject(s): Puppets; Marionettes


THE NAUGHTY MARIONETTE, by STELLA LAVINA OLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy gracious pardon, grant, o tree
Last Line: Refusing to be good!
Subject(s): Puppets; Marionettes


THE PUPPET PLAYER, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes it seems as though some puppet player
Last Line: Twitching the strings with slow sardonic grin.
Subject(s): Puppets; Marionettes


THE PUPPET SHOW: 17, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To make men act as senseless wood
Last Line: And shows some error in the brain
Subject(s): Puppets; Marionettes


THE PUPPET SHOW: 18, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He that would thus refine on thee
Last Line: And stand confessed the greater fool
Subject(s): Puppets; Marionettes


THE PUPPET-SHOW: 16, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell tom he draws a farce in vain
Last Line: Nor pedantry for humor pass
Subject(s): "puppets;sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738);" Marionettes


THE PUPPETS, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our life is but a puppet show
Last Line: Just so the puppet dances!
Subject(s): Puppets; Women; Marionettes


TO THE PUPPET, WIND, by GORDON JOWERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow, blow, I defy you, wind
Last Line: From going where my fancy wishes.
Subject(s): Bodies; Freedom; Puppets; Wind; Liberty; Marionettes