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Subject: SPONGES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGY FOR A SPONGE: 1, by RICHARD SIEBURTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Singer of things (de varietate rerum)
Last Line: Mute world %our motherland %things %at a loss %for love
Subject(s): Sponges


ELEGY FOR A SPONGE: 2, by RICHARD SIEBURTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Materials ... %the rian, the fern, the ripe blackberry, the packing crate, the
Last Line: Ita res accendent lumina rebus kindled by the light of things %to wind the clock at the heart of the
Subject(s): Sponges


ELEGY FOR A SPONGE: 3, by RICHARD SIEBURTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The question being %will these things
Last Line: A faery %foetus %or crimped %cosine: %a cockade, %a hearing aid
Subject(s): Sponges


ELEGY FOR A SPONGE: 4, by RICHARD SIEBURTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blood has drained from the sponge
Last Line: Francis ponge: %one more thing %among the missing
Subject(s): Sponges


ELEGY FOR A SPONGE: 5, by RICHARD SIEBURTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Parti pris des choses = compt tenue de mots
Last Line: Words' content %to take the part %of things
Subject(s): Sponges


GIVE ME A SPONGE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me a sponge and some clear, clean water
Last Line: Them now from all this touch of tainted death
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Sponges


SEDIMENT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are such a well-rounded sponge
Last Line: And I tasting of sediment
Subject(s): Sponges


SPONGE FISHERS, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sponge fishers of crete went down to the sea
Last Line: Of the hardy and the brave.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sponges; Ocean


SPONGES, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bought two sponges
Last Line: Turning each toward the light, %those many vacant chambers
Subject(s): Sponges