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Subject: WHIPS
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ART OF WRITING: 9. THE RIDING CROP, by LU CHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes your writing is a lush web of fine thoughts
Last Line: A whip is always more help than harm; %stop revising when you've got it right
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Whips; Writing And Writers


IX, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What a trap: the stone the light
Last Line: From whose hands we can receive bread
Subject(s): Exiles; Punishment; Whips


JIM'S WHIP, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, there it hangs upon the wall
Last Line: And thinking of me still.
Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Whips; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SONG OF WHIP-PLAITING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dawn I gathered cedar-boughs
Last Line: I am thy woman
Subject(s): Whips


THE BIRCHED SCHOOLBOY: CONCLUSION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would my master were a wat (a hare)
Last Line: What availeth me though I say nay?
Subject(s): Children;punishment;whips; Childhood


THE TALE OF A KANGAROO'S HEAD, by A HUGHES MCC.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've a truthful reputation, boss, as you can well believe
Last Line: So I calls my little history, a bomer;—so it air!
Subject(s): Kangaroos; Story-telling; Whips


WHIP TAIL OF THE ONE-EYED CHIEF, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This motley quilt in oils
Last Line: Stare of lady field hand
Subject(s): Animals; Colonialism; History; Paintings And Painters; Slavery; West Indies; Whips