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Subject: TOOTHACHES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing about a shark is - teeth
Last Line: I’ll never know now! Well, goodbye
Subject(s): Sharks; Teeth; Toothaches


ADDRESS TO THE TOOTHACHE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My curse upon thy venom'd stang
Last Line: A fowmond's toothache!
Variant Title(s): To The Toothache
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


ALL THE WIDE GRIN OF HIM, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is hovering in the air, there, in the highest
Last Line: Soft, unsuspecting, milk rimming its grin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Cats; Smiles; Teeth; Toothaches


AN UNSUSPECTED FACT, by EDWARD CANNON    Poem Text                    
First Line: If down his throat a man should choose
Last Line: And he would wipe his feet on that!
Subject(s): Nonsense; Teeth; Toothaches


BABY'S GOT A TOOTH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The telephone rang in my office today, as it often has tinkled before
Last Line: "baby, my dear, has a tooth."
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches


CLEAR TEETH, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rows of them are quarried from dusty
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


CURE FOR TOOTHACHE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why you should suffer so much pain
Last Line: "as ma does,—in a basin?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches


DREAM, VAGINA DENTATA, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has something to do with sex, I've read.
Last Line: And incisors from my antarctic mouth
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE LOSS OF HIS TEETH, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ultimate / in the un-romantic
Last Line: Got the teeth in your mouth
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Teeth; Washington, George (1732-1799); Toothaches


JENNY WI' THE AIRN TEETH, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a plague is this o' mine
Last Line: Frichten muckle men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some asked me where the rubies grew
Last Line: The quarelets of pearl.
Variant Title(s): The Rock Of Rubies, And The Quarries Of Pearls
Subject(s): Pearls; Rubies; Teeth; Toothaches


LUMBAGO, by DANIEL CARMICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If horror's cup is no yet full
Last Line: I'll back lumbago.
Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches


ON A GENTELMAN'S COMPLAINING TO A LADY .. COULD NOT EAT MEAT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "you told me, sir, your teeth were loose"
Last Line: "then make the most of what is writ, / for here is quantum sufficit"
Subject(s): Dieting;food & Eating;teeth; Toothaches


RIDDLE: TEETH AND GUMS, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty white horses / upon [or on] a red hill
Last Line: Now they stand still.
Subject(s): Riddles; Teeth; Toothaches


THANK YOU, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thank you for giving me the chance
Subject(s): Advertising; Teeth; Self; Careers; Toothaches


THE CANDOR OF JULIAS TEETH, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White as zenobias teeth, the which the girles
Last Line: Of rome did weare for their most precious pearles.
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


THE REBUKE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said brown -- 'when I, myself to rid
Last Line: "you might have talk'd gum-arabic!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Teeth; Toothaches


THE TOOTH, by REBEKAH CARMICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O look not, lady, with disdain
Last Line: Were all their loss a tooth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hay, Mrs.
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


THE TOOTHACHE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Last night, though I had fifty souls
Last Line: I could not help cry out -- 'the devil!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


THE TOOTHACHE CURED BY A KISS, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fate's now grown merciful to men
Last Line: As to his heaven, retir'd.
Subject(s): Kisses; Teeth; Toothaches


TO OUR HOUSE-DOG CAPTAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain! We often heretofore
Last Line: To drive the pauper from the yard.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Teeth; Trust; Toothaches


TOM'S TOOTH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The word went forth in fairyland
Last Line: And nevermore came back.
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches


TOOTHACHE, by W. [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: To have it out or not? That is the question
Last Line: "with this regard his footsteps turns away, / scared at the name of dentist"
Alternate Author Name(s): W.
Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare, William (1564-1616);teeth;" Toothaches


TOOTHACHE, by JOHN YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: My sympathy wi' robin gangs
Last Line: For curing sairest heartaches.
Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches


TOTH FARRY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the back of the charm-box, in a sack, the baby
Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches


WHEN THE FIRST TEETH GO, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It is infancy's old age
Last Line: Let the first teeth go!
Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches