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Subject: RUMORS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPIGRAM: 36. RUMORS, by JOHN HENRY OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Errors from error, as rumors from rumor grow
Last Line: One flake at a time to cover the world with snow
Subject(s): Rumors


FLEET-FOOTED RUMORS, by MUSHAKOJI SANEATSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you try to hide from them
Last Line: Rumors may be slower %than my pen
Subject(s): Rumors


RED SWAN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Purple necks and green, fat drakes whiter than easter
Last Line: To burn for a moment in the shape of a swan.
Subject(s): Birds; Curiosities & Wonders; Lakes; Rumors; Enigmas; Oddities; Pools; Ponds


REFLECTIONS ON ESPIONAGE: 9/12 (TO IMAGE), by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I just heard that you had returned earlier
Subject(s): Espionage; Rumors


REFLECTIONS ON ESPIONAGE: 9/12 (TO IMAGE), by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I just heard that you had returned earlier
Last Line: Rumors of life, mere events (still, that woman %I wonder what the chilly lake said of it?
Subject(s): Espionage; Rumors


RUMOR, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open your ears! For which of you will stop
Subject(s): Rumors


RUMOR, by XUEFEI JIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rumor is launched into the sky
Last Line: Who, from now on, %groans every night
Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin
Subject(s): Rumors


RUMOR ABOUT ME WANDERS AND SPREADS, by BELLA DIZHUR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sorrowful or merry, my poem will remain %within the living reeds
Subject(s): Rumors


RUMORS: A FAMILY MATTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dates escape me. At any rate aunt thelma lived on in grief
Last Line: Not too late to remember with kindness
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Problems; Rumors


RUMOUR AND SLANDER, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rumour was the messenger
Last Line: Appear'd ten thousand slanders, all his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Defamation; Rumors; Slander; Libel


THE EVERLASTINGS; FOR L.P. SNYDER AND KARMA WANGMO, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the village it must be a clear night with the light of a red
Last Line: It is the thunder at dawn!
Subject(s): Death; Rumors; Sea; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Ocean


THE MYSTERY MAN, by NETTIE PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Going home in the dusk from the township
Last Line: Dan kelly, the brother of ned!
Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Dogs; Rumors


THEY SAY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say that smithman spends his life in
Last Line: "way; but he plays second violin, I often think, beside ""they say."
Subject(s): Gossip; Rumors; Towns