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Subject: SIZE & SHAPE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SOLEMN THING IT WAS, I SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "and I sneered — softly — ""small""!"
Subject(s): Life; Size & Shape


ALL I MAY, IF SMALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Less, tho' larger, poor
Subject(s): Size & Shape


AN ANECDOTE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The french ambassador had been to wait
Last Line: The upper rooms are furnish'd worst of all.
Subject(s): Size & Shape


ANY SIZE WE PLEASE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one was looking at his lonely case,
Last Line: And hugged himself for all his universe
Subject(s): Size & Shape


BIG DOG, LITTLE DOG, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The one two times the other's size
Subject(s): Dogs; Size & Shape; Food & Eating; Height


COPE'S RULE, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: According to edward drinker cope,
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Marriage; Survival; Height; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EPIGRAM ON MISS DAVIES; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT MOFFAT INN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ask why god made the gem so small
Last Line: That higher value on it.
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Height


EXCEPT THE SMALLER SIZE, NO LIVES ARE ROUND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are long
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Time; Summer


GIANTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I take no pride in body's growth
Last Line: Deserves a giant's name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Giants; Size & Shape; Height


LITTLE AND LOUD, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little you are; for womans sake be proud
Last Line: For my sake next, (though little) be not loud.
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Height


MEN WITH SMALL HEADS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And women with small heads
Subject(s): Heads; Size & Shape; Height


ON SIM AND SIMON, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though sim, whilst sim, in ill repute did live
Last Line: Simon's a knave at length, and not in figure.
Subject(s): Names; Size & Shape; Height


SHORT AND LONG BOTH LIKES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This lady's short, that mistresse she is tall
Last Line: But long or short, I'm well content with all.
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Height


SMALL, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swatted by a custardy small thing
Subject(s): Size & Shape


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose you stood just five feet two
Last Line: That I made it hard for them?
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Height


TENDER BUTTONS: A LITTLE CALLED PAULINE, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little called anything shows shudders
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Height


THE SIZE OF IT, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew the length of an average penis
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sexual Organs; Size & Shape; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sex Organs; Genitalia


THE SMALL, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The small birds swirl around;
Subject(s): Birds; Size & Shape; Height


THE TOWER, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that the tower is standing
Last Line: Imposed against the sky!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Size & Shape; Height


THEY SAY I'M TOO LITTLE FOR ANY THING!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From a child I've been subject to strife
Last Line: Altho' I'm too little for anything!
Subject(s): Fortune;size & Shape


UPON T.R., A VERY LITTLE MAN, BUT EXCELLENTLY LEARNED, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Makes nature maps? Since that in thee
Last Line: Nature both thrift and prodigal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Learning; Size & Shape; Height