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Subject: EUTHANASIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF EUTHANASIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In magic books she read at night
Last Line: Of death is love and life.'
Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Magic; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EUTHANASIA, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shining and ponderous goblet
Last Line: My glimmering goblet: the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei
Variant Title(s): Bright Death
Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Dead, The


EUTHANASIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When time, or soon or late, shall bring
Last Line: T is something better not to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Euthanasia


EUTHANASIA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When age comes by and lays his frosty hands
Last Line: The fragrant remnant of memorial flame.
Subject(s): Euthanasia


EUTHANASIA, by MONICA LAMY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a time when you no longer mind
Last Line: Long enough to see the liquidambar turn %and go quickly bald
Subject(s): Euthanasia


EUTHANASIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of a world of pain
Last Line: Ah, the pain again -- it will never be!
Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Memory; Pain; Rain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


EUTHANASIA, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With the faces the dearest in sight
Last Line: A vision of angels -- thus heaven
Subject(s): Euthanasia


EUTHANASIA, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the white refulgent streets
Last Line: A scented sorrow, corseted!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Euthanasia


EUTHANASIA, by SUE ELLEN THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: For sixteen years he did his part
Last Line: We stepped aside for what he ushered in
Subject(s): Euthanasia


EUTHANASIA, by JOHN TODHUNTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, this rich death was best
Subject(s): Euthanasia


EUTHANASIA, by EDWARD WINSHIP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the far horizon, many - hilled
Last Line: As weary winter lays him down to die?
Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Old Age; Winter; Dead, The


HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder
Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks


HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder
Last Line: Fear at its rising %before it was quite unsheathed from reality
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks


MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the nurses, interns, doctors came running full tilt down the hall
Last Line: But that was his job: to just stand there and watch her die.
Subject(s): Duty; Euthanasia; Hospitals; Physicians; Women; Women's Rights; Doctors; Feminism


THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EUTHANASIA (WRITTEN AFTER LONG ILLNESS), by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring to the world, and strength to me, returns
Last Line: A finer fervor trembles on its face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Euthanasia; Sickness; Travel; Illness; Journeys; Trips