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Subject: SLENDERNESS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now goes around me three times
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Desire; Japan; Slenderness; Thought


EPIGRAM ON THE MARRIAGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saint paul has declared, that persons though twain
Last Line: The apostle, methinks, would have altered his tone, %and cried, these two splinters shall make but o
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Marriage; Slenderness


FOUR REDUCTIONS, by ELISABETH RYNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: This, one cannot depict
Last Line: In the mountain's weight
Subject(s): Slenderness


MAKING FUN OF A THIN MAN, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Iwamaro, look! %shall I tell you what
Last Line: Watch your step. Don't dive
Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi
Subject(s): Slenderness


MAX AND JIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Max an' jim / they're each other's
Last Line: She'll haf to eat 'em!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brothers; Obesity; Slenderness; Half-brothers; Thinness


REAL BONES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm glad you're not plump
Last Line: My fingers fasten to
Subject(s): Slenderness


SO SLENDER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a reed
Last Line: You'll dance for me in one of my dreams %so slender
Subject(s): Slenderness


THE THIN PEOP;E, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are always with us, the thin people
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Slenderness; Thinness


WEDDING SONG: 2, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bridegroom dear, to what shall I compare thee?
Last Line: To a slim green rod best do I compare thee.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Slenderness; Wedding Song; Thinness; Epithalamium