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Subject: HONESTY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A JUST MAN, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A just man's like a rock that turnes the wroth
Last Line: Of all the raging waves, into a froth
Subject(s): Honesty


AN EPITAPH ON TRUE, HER MAJESTY'S DOG, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If wit or honesty cou'd save
Last Line: And mend your own, by true's behaviour.
Variant Title(s): True's Epitaph
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs; Faith; Honesty; Belief; Creed


BILL MAYNE'S STORY, by R. HOLT    Poem Text                    
First Line: They were yarning in the bar-room of a shanty in the west
Last Line: Bout that truthful little story told by mayne.
Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8
Subject(s): Fights; Honesty; Story-telling


DOUBTING THOMAS, by LILLIAN F. HODGES    Poem Text                    
First Line: My friend the skeptic sees no truth in man
Last Line: My friend would give his soul for faith like mine.
Subject(s): Honesty


EMBLEM, by FRANCIS QUARLES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but he
Subject(s): Honesty


ENDS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud talk in the overlighted house
Last Line: But some mean what they say
Subject(s): Honesty; Divorce


FAIR PLAY FOR TICHBORNE AND KENEALY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me the man of honest heart
Last Line: Of good old english metal
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;honesty;law & Lawyers


FOOL AND FALSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the shrewd and upright man
Last Line: Shun him from the start
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity;honesty


FOR THE TEACHER, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was a boy
Last Line: Her teaching had taken hold
Subject(s): Honesty; Teaching And Teachers


HONESTY, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Money doesn't grow on trees, my mother said
Last Line: In water I waited for incoming tide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Grandparents; Honesty; Money; Mothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


HONESTY, by JEAN EARLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always a 'snapper-up of trifles
Last Line: Sen against time and light, %its colour is
Subject(s): Honesty


HONESTY, by CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Physical sadness: the child is too still
Last Line: Nothing excessively %twisted, just a table, window, %bed. Why lie about it (lie about it.)
Subject(s): Honesty


HONESTY, by ROXANN JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel your love
Subject(s): Honesty


HONESTY, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe anna won't arrive
Last Line: Rebuking paradise, groping for the cat
Subject(s): Honesty


HONESTY, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe anna won't arrive
Last Line: Rebuking paradise, groping for the dog
Subject(s): Honesty


HONESTY, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Asylums: yes, those gray dull planes
Subject(s): Honesty


HONESTY, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throughout the world if it were sought
Last Line: That sweet accord is seldom seen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Of Dissembling Words;throughout The World;epigram: 32
Subject(s): Honesty


HUGH THORNDYKE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Egalton's hills are sunny
Last Line: Are all we need below.
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Work; Honesty


IN ANSON'S TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They may have been crude men, and sadly dense,
Last Line: In anson's time.
Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Honesty; Ignorance; Sports; Dullness; Stupdity


INGENIOUS OVERSOUL, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am akin to failure. Dreams too high
Last Line: Not judge a star as but a shining stone.
Subject(s): Ambition; Honesty


INTEGRITY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He made honest doors
Last Line: And on a cross he died!
Subject(s): Carpenters; Honesty; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth


JACK HONEST, OR THE WIDOW AND HER SON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jack honest was only eight years of age when his father died
Last Line: And I'm sure they will find it the safest and the best!
Subject(s): Honesty


LADIES DON'T GO THIEVING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh don't we live in curious times
Last Line: And don't go out a - thieving
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;duplicity;honesty;women; Deceit


LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thine honest heart is unto me
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Honesty


METAMORPHOSES: THE GOLDEN AGE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When faith and honesty with willing hand
Last Line: And blest content prolonged the golden reign.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Flowers; Honesty; World; Belief; Creed


MOTHER-RIGHT, by DEBORAH POPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whatever truth is
Last Line: Wincing my heart, %a step before they do
Subject(s): Honesty; Mothers; Truth


MY GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I own a dog who is a gentleman
Last Line: God grant I may be worthy of my dog!'
Subject(s): Animals;dogs;friendship;gentility;honesty;loyalty


NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 17TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To gather wealth through fraud do not presume
Last Line: A little evil got will much consume.
Subject(s): Honesty


OUR OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O it's good to ketch a relative 'at's
Last Line: When he wags yer hand as honest as an old dog wags his tail!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Honesty


PHILOMELA: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is love once disgrac'd
Last Line: Than lead a wanton life with shame.
Variant Title(s): Chastity: An Ode
Subject(s): Deception; Goddesses & Gods; Honesty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations


PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S ODE [THAT SHE SANG IN HER ARBOR], by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting by a river's side
Last Line: No sweet love but honesty.
Subject(s): Deception; Honesty; Introspection; Love; Mankind; Human Race


SINCERE POET, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sincere poet is obsessed with the authenticity of his feelings
Last Line: He doesn't even need to be sincere
Subject(s): Emotions; Honesty; Poetry And Poets; Sincerity; Suicide


SONG: 60, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart and service to you proffered
Last Line: Reward your servant liberally.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 78, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am ready and ever will be
Last Line: Although I have not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love


SQUATTERS AND THE REDUCTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some squatters have commenced to shear
Last Line: "but if you want a thorough doing - / why, just try the overflow"
Subject(s): Deception;honesty;labor & Laborers;sheep;wages; Salaries


TAM SAMSON'S ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Has auld kilmarnock seen the deil?
Last Line: Tam samson's leevin'!
Subject(s): Honesty


THE GOAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one thing nobly worth while
Last Line: And that is an honest soul.
Subject(s): Honesty


THE GOLDEN SCHLEMIEL, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Honesty; Poverty; Conduct Of Life


THE HONEST LITTLE BOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once there was a little boy
Last Line: Because he never tells a lie
Variant Title(s): The Boy Who Never Told A Lie
Subject(s): "honesty;presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


THE MODELS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dick and bryan were at play
Last Line: Will act like dick and bryan.
Subject(s): Boys; Honesty


THE NIMMERS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two foot companions once in deep discourse
Last Line: "will neither steal, nor fileh,—but will be plaguy ""nimmers!"
Subject(s): Honesty


THE NOBLE LIFE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True worth is in being, not seeming
Last Line: Whatever his fortunes or birth.
Variant Title(s): Nobility
Subject(s): Honesty; Religion; Theology


THE NUANCES OF MENDACITY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No master in mendaciousness, no keen
Last Line: "he says: ""I like a joke as well as anybody, but—"
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Honesty


THE OLD VIRTUES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old-fashioned virtues are not out of
Last Line: Murmur good-bye, they show us how sportsman-like delegates die.
Subject(s): Honesty


TRUTH, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There danger dwells where dwells not truth
Last Line: The soul that knows her not is dead.
Subject(s): Honesty; Truth


TRUTH, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A jewel hidden in the depths
Last Line: Should think to know his place.
Subject(s): Honesty; Truth


TWO HORSES AND A DOG, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Without external reference
Last Line: Wearing dogtags with scripture on them
Subject(s): Honesty; Humility; Morality; Ethics


VITAL TRUTHS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vital truths are old and gray; they're old
Last Line: Adopt; the truths which seem grotesquely new don't count, and may be dropped.
Subject(s): Honesty; Truth


WHAT I WANT TO SAY, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is as simple as it can be
Subject(s): Honesty