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Subject: CELIBACY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CELIBACY, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a brown isle of lough corrib
Last Line: That darken on the water
Subject(s): Celibacy


CELIBACY AT TWENTY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After I broke up with someone
Subject(s): Celibacy


CELIBACY AT TWENTY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After I broke up with someone
Last Line: Entered the pit I did not want ever to come up out of it
Subject(s): Celibacy


CELIBATE, by MAGGIE ANDERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this fire, a place I used to live
Last Line: Burning down to soft cold ashes %on the still-warm bricks of the hearth
Subject(s): Celibacy


NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What pleasures shall he ever find
Last Line: To show the man so blest once breath'd the vital air.
Subject(s): Celibacy; Pleasure


PLEASURE, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A naken jaina monk
Last Line: Once naked, once even intangible
Subject(s): Celibacy; Lust; Pleasure