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Subject: TWINS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PROBLEM, by GEORGE PARMLY DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My love's face is exceeding fair
Last Line: My love, you see, is twins.
Subject(s): Twins


A TALE OF ELSINORE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease
Last Line: And from that day the house of cronberg was cursed no more.
Subject(s): Brothers; Children - Lost; Twins; Half-brothers


ANALEPSIS, by JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mere oranges tempted you back
Last Line: In ours, every lack is felt twice
Subject(s): Sisters; Twins


EYES AND EARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Would that the powers that made my eyes so keen
Last Line: Before I knew their names by leaf or bark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Twins


FOR BERENICE, by PIERRE BENOIT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Berenice, your sister, the edomite queen
Last Line: Resembles the marshes of tyre and of sidon.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sisters; Twins; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


LITTLE-GIRL-TWO-LITTLE-GIRLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm twins, I guess, 'cause my ma say
Last Line: "an' good little girl's comed back to stay."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Girls; Mothers; Twins; Childhood


MISSING NATALIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most of my friends don't know I was born a twin. She was born sixty-three
Last Line: Together. She left without me
Subject(s): Absence; Children - Lost; Disappeared Persons; Sisters; Tragedy; Twins


ON TWIN-SISTERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "fair marble, tell to future days"
Last Line: That death mistook them both for one
Subject(s): Death;epitaphs;twins; "dead, The;


POETS ARE BORN NOT MADE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My nose is out of joint
Last Line: Anything they write.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets; Twins


RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: GEMINI, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sinks when I rise
Last Line: On two sides of a tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Stars; Twins


SIAMESE TWINS, by THOMAS RABBITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: At midnight on the by-pass near the mall
Last Line: And there is the one heart you have to share
Subject(s): Twins


SIAMESE TWINS, RIO DE JANEIRO, 1907, by JOHN BRADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I, dr. Chapot prevost, present for your
Last Line: May the lord forgive us all
Subject(s): Twins


SIGNIFICANT OTHER, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1811, in siam
Last Line: In the bed beside him, %died of fright
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Human Abnormalities; Twins


SONG OF A WOMAN WITH TWINS, by MYRTLE EBERSTEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ou! Ou! Ou!
Last Line: Ou! Ou! Ou!
Subject(s): Twins


THE ILLUSION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not the genes and the genes are not me
Last Line: I am the simple sieve that drinks the universe.
Subject(s): Self-criticism; Twins


THE TWINS, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In form and feature, face and limb
Last Line: And buried brother john!
Subject(s): Twins


THE TWINS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Con was a thorn to brother pro
Last Line: Old con would contradict him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Twins


THE TWINS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Likeness mas made them animal and shy
Subject(s): Twins


THE TWINS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good and bad are in my heart
Last Line: That the other was the best.
Subject(s): Evil; Identity; Men; Twins; Virtue


THE TWINS: 1, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One's the pictur' of his pa
Last Line: A-ridin' and a-rompin' in the breeze!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Faces; Love; Twins


THE TWINS: 2, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're the twins from aunt marinn's
Last Line: Iram, coram, dago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fathers; Names; Twins


TWINS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Siamese twins: one, maddened by
Last Line: Resolved at length to misbehave %and drink them both into the grave
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Twins


TWINS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: April, on whose wings
Last Line: Now seems too divine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Twins


TWINS (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In form and feature, face and limb
Subject(s): Twins


YLETTE AND YVONNE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ylette was born the same day as yvonne
Last Line: Knew there are earthly joys an angel misses.
Subject(s): Twins