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Subject: AFFLICTION Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1994, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was leaving my fifty-eighth year Last Line: From your own shivering life Subject(s): Affliction; Breasts; Cancer, Breast; Women AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength; Parting AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength BUT, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: The god of laughter and songs long ago Last Line: And yet it has to fit into his heart Subject(s): Affliction; Pain CHAIR, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Day and night it waits for you Last Line: Thus the smile of recognition. %thus the tears Subject(s): Affliction DEBT, by GRACIELA REYES Poem Source First Line: There is a sad debt that cannot be repaid Last Line: Any personal items on the plane Subject(s): Affliction; Aviation And Aviators; Tourists; Travel GRAND HOTEL EUROPA, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The carline thistles wither in the vase on the shelf. No man's land Last Line: Anymore, yet I must sing for them to find peace in my song, finally united Subject(s): Affliction; Introspection; Life HYMN TO THE SUPREME BEING ON RECOVERY FROM .. ILLNESS, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, o immortals! What had I to plead Last Line: A birth of joy - not like the first of tears and woe Subject(s): Affliction; Healing; Revivals; Sickness I AM UPSTAIRS, TRYING TO BE QUIET, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: When I think of her, I think of silence Last Line: They are tearing her limb from limb Subject(s): Affliction; Parents; Youth IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the moon Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a mirror of %ice Subject(s): Affliction; Grief LORD OF TEARS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Let it be: may your ears never hear the fluttering of jackdaws Last Line: Island. It will be too late when you kneel beneath a cruel star Subject(s): Affliction MANUFACTURING DUST, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Does a little teardrop sting? Do your loins already ache? Do you Last Line: Is beyond you. You just sense that grating covers the arrow slit Subject(s): Affliction MISCHIEF MAKING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a tiny dropping Last Line: For a scarcely-guessed mistake! Subject(s): Affliction; Floods MOTHER GOOSE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not pick my rosemary Last Line: Girl, I think we're through' Subject(s): Affliction; Grief MOTHER GOOSE (4), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not pick my rosemary Last Line: And throw them after me Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MURDER OF THE MASTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sat alone in coimbra - the town myself had taken Last Line: Thou art the cause, thou harlot false! In darkness lie thou here' Subject(s): Affliction; Courts And Courtiers; Crime And Criminals; Murder NOSCE TEIPSUM: AFFLICTION, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks Last Line: Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing. Subject(s): Affliction ON RESIGNATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, know this, that he who gave thee breath Last Line: And trust in god thro' his beloved son. Subject(s): Affliction; Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Pain; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PALE ROSE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You laughed uncertainly Last Line: Knowing you wanted red roses again. Subject(s): Affliction; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations POUNDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The christians have beleaguered the famous walls of xeres Last Line: Let's call diego perez the pounder, from this hour Subject(s): Affliction; Knights And Knighthood POUNDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The christians have beleaguered the famous walls of xeres Last Line: Let's call diego perez the pounder, from this hour' Subject(s): Affliction; Knights And Knighthood SAPPHO AND PHAON: 2. THE TEMPLE OF CHASTITY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a rock, coeval with the skies Last Line: While love, his arrows broke, retires forlorn. Subject(s): Affliction; Frost; Ice; Love; Temples; Mosques SLEET STORM, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: There is a thought that haunts me in the night Last Line: Is pain the only soil where splendor grows? Subject(s): Affliction; Beauty; Ice; Night; Storms; Bedtime SONG: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First methought in my affliction Last Line: How I did, ne'er seek to know. Subject(s): Affliction THE ASSIGNATION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said he would meet her but she saw him / not Last Line: And tongue-tied shame that mad excuses muttered. Subject(s): Affliction; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE FAST OF TEBETH, by JOSEPH BEN SAMUEL BONFILS Poem Text First Line: Lo! I recall the siege which fell on me Last Line: "who saith: ""ye waves, but so far shall ye come." Alternate Author Name(s): Tob Elem, Joseph Bar Samuel Subject(s): Affliction; Jews; Sin; Judaism THIRST, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: All vessels are athirst,' the potter went on to say to me Last Line: Vessel, which likewise is a thirsty mouth' Subject(s): Affliction; Emptiness UNDER THE STORYTELLER'S HAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are many heads, all troubled Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Nature; Story-telling |
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