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Subject: SUNBATHING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LA GIALLETTA GALLANTE OR THE SUN-BURN'D EXOTIC BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of the sun, in whom his rays appear
Last Line: And by thy gold show like some copper-mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Beauty; Sunbathing


SEASHORE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over her great museum of lost nations
Subject(s): Seashore; Girls; Sunbathing; Beach; Coast; Shore


SOOTHING THE BURN, by ELIZABETH POLINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister and I, barely teenage
Last Line: I feel her palms gather the burn, open to fire
Subject(s): Grandparents; Sisters; Sunbathing; Vacation


SUNBURN, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A friend compares it to a sunburn
Last Line: Please -- don't %dare touch me again
Subject(s): Skin; Sunbathing


SUNNING ONESELF, by ZHOU MI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My back to the light, I wait for woodsmen and herdsmen
Last Line: My mind joins together with the void
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Sunbathing