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Subject: TOILETS
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A DESCRIPTION; IN IMITATION OF MILTON, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "of man's important business, and his work"
Last Line: "uncostive, flowing forth in happiest strains"
Subject(s): "lavatories;milton, John (1608-1674);" Toilets


HER RIGHT NAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As nancy at her toilet sat
Last Line: Your chloe, or your nut-brown maid?'
Subject(s): Beauty; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Lavatories; Love; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey; Toilets


HERE I AM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I am / at the toilet bowl
Last Line: At my own foregone conclusion / calmly piss
Subject(s): Lavatories; Toilets


TRIOLET, AFTER CATULLUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Easy is the triolet
Last Line: If you really learn to make it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Lavatories; Rhyme; Toilets