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Subject: DISTRUST
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANCIENT BALLAD: KING DON SANCHO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Time it is to pay, urraca %if your promise you would hold
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Distrust; Exiles; Hate


BIRD, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: So this bird comes, and under his wing is a crutch
Subject(s): Distrust


BUILDING TRUST, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I liked it when he fucked me
Last Line: Be trusted, not by anyone
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Love – Complaints; Distrust; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


CELIA HAS A THOUSAND CHARMS, by ROBERT GOULD    Poem Text                    
Last Line: But then she's false, as well as fair.
Subject(s): Distrust


DISTRUST (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To safe-guard man from wrongs, there nothing must
Last Line: Heare all men speak; but credit few or none.
Subject(s): Distrust


DISTRUST (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What ever men for loyalty pretend
Last Line: Tis wisdomes part to doubt a faithfull friend.
Subject(s): Distrust


ELIDORE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her beauty came to his distrustful heart
Last Line: To illume a heart, that had its grace, its power, misdeemed.
Subject(s): Beauty; Distrust


EOLUS, by LILIAN ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, sweet trembling violet
Last Line: The wind is a faithless lover.
Subject(s): Distrust; Love - Complaints


FAIR DAYS: OR DAWNS DECEITFUL, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair was the dawn, and, but e'en now, the skies
Last Line: As men, the heavens have their hypocrisie?
Subject(s): Distrust; Hypocrisy


FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was still a boy, an' mother's pride
Last Line: An' thank en, I do veel a little shy.
Subject(s): Distrust; Friendship - False Friends; Practical Jokes; Fair Weather Friends; Pranks


IMPREGNABLE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At times I grow distrustful of repose
Last Line: To keep you safe, and deathless, and alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Distrust


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 2. FINLAY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Finlay, next landlord (I'll abridge the tale),
Last Line: A hard but honest man', as people say.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Distrust; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Possessions


MAGRITTE'S LE VIOL: THE RAPE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was shown, at first, behind a black curtain
Last Line: Good taste's sword faithfully flaming %between what's wicked and me
Variant Title(s): Magritte's Le Vio
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Distrust; Rape; Sex


NO CONSTANCY IN MAN, by HENRY LAWES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Begone, begone thou perjured man
Last Line: No constant thought remain in man.
Subject(s): Distrust


THE TROUBLES OF MATTHEW MAHONEY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a little town in devonshire, in the mellow september moonlight
Last Line: And matthew mahoney dearly does her love.
Subject(s): Distrust; Love; Marriage; Repentance; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Penitence


TRUST AND DISTRUST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Distrust thyself, but trust his grace
Last Line: That jesus faileth never.
Subject(s): Distrust; Jesus Christ; Love; Trust