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Subject: CONCEPTION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVICE TO A WRITER IMAGINING CONCEPTION AND BIRTH, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love
Last Line: Dispense with history, the transitory passions of people's wants %words are dropping fast
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Parents


CHOOSING MY CONCEPTION, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother at a party in a blue dress
Last Line: Of a blue dress falling, and soon, %and randomly I will exist
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Conception; Creation


COLD WAR: MY PARENTS AS NEWLYWEDS, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the russians pushed the red button
Last Line: She never intended to make it past the corner store %she would wait forever till the sky turned to r
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Crime And Criminals


CONCEPTION, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will collapse beneath this tender task
Last Line: Within their thick green tongues
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Memory; Nature


CONCEPTION, by EDA LOU WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am not barren though I shall conceive
Last Line: Since we conceive within a stranger's womb.
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery


HERITAGE, by LAURA HELENA BROWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see the gallows - o my son! My child!
Last Line: Not guilty, but the blighted fruit of war!
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Death; Guilt; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The


HONEYMOON CONCEPTION (1952), by BRAD LEITHAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night, though not a flake fell, the snow deepened...
Last Line: Smooth and rich-bellied, as if big with child.)
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Honeymoons


IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by J. T. BARBARESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was leased out like pasture
Last Line: Swift and sterile justice
Subject(s): Birth; Conception


MARIA MINOR, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I conceived. And sorrow
Last Line: To mash my head.
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness


OBSERVATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who to the north, or south, doth set
Last Line: His bed, male children shall beget.
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mnemonics; Child Birth; Midwifery


ST. URSULA'S ORIGIN, by BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I %could tell %the truth
Last Line: Just how %I was %conceived
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Truth


THE HUSBAND'S VIEW, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can anything avail
Last Line: To maids, is a useful thing!'
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Child Birth; Midwifery


THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dewdrop of the darkness born
Last Line: Wherewith was veiled divinity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary


TOWARD A CONCEPTION, by CAMERON K. GEAREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steve's chickens did nothing
Last Line: Don't say child. Say: the wing is broken
Subject(s): Birth; Conception


TWO BODIES, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two bodies, balanced in mass and power,
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conception; Male-female Relations


WHEN I WAS CONCEIVED, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was 1945, and it was may
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Child Birth; Midwifery


WHEN I WAS CONCEIVED, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was 1945, and it was may
Subject(s): Birth; Conception