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Subject: FREE WILL & DETERMINISM
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMORETTI: 67, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as a huntsman after weary chase
Last Line: So goodly wonne, with her owne will beguyld.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): "lyke As A Huntsman After Weary Chace,"";
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism


I COULD, by ELIZABETH WARREN JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could live riotously / from sun to sun
Last Line: As moonlight on a frosted sill.
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism


INDEPENDENCE DAY, by DARA WIER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We'd incorporated a laundry lending motion
Last Line: To praise the courage of our leader
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism


LITTLE WHITE CHURCH, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Us free will baptists walked a thin tightwire
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Worship; Christianity; Free Will & Determinism


MIDWAY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So blithe the birds sang in the trees
Last Line: Or care will catch me soon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; Nature


PRO FEMINA: ONE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From sappho to myself, consider the fate of women
Last Line: Flux, efflorescence -- whatever you care to call it!
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; History; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Male-female Relations; Feminism


WILL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Had I my will, I would -. And what
Last Line: And then mine owne mine owne should be.
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism