|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ABSTINENCE Matches Found: 6 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABSTINENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against diseases here the strongest fence Last Line: Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. Subject(s): Abstinence ASHWEDNESDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Right welcome pleasant bitter day Last Line: Being as gods discerning good & evill. Subject(s): Abstinence; Ash Wednesday; Lent ORTHODOXIES 10, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The last day in a leap year. Beginning night hours Last Line: Pump fell quiet. Now a gray whisper, asked, who is it Subject(s): Abstinence SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY, by JINAPADMA Poem Source First Line: Her navel was a well of loveliness Last Line: In thus preferring abstinence to me Subject(s): Abstinence; Ascesticism THE STOCKMAN'S TALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the campfire's burning brightly, and the coals are glowing red" Last Line: Pass it by as I always have with silent cool contempt Subject(s): Abstinence;alcohol & Alcoholics;brothers;death;story-telling; "half-brothers;dead, The; TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, ESQ., ON SEEING HIS PICTURE ..., by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Artist, whose hand with horror wing'd, hath torn Last Line: Know thou the worst. So much, not more, he can.' Subject(s): Abstinence; Caricature & Caricaturists; Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) |
|