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Subject: OPPORTUNITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DIS ALITER VISUM; OR, LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop, let me have the truth of that!
Last Line: Here comes my husband from his whist.
Subject(s): Old Age; Opportunity; Art & Artists


LOST' OPPORTUNITIES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many words are lightly tossed
Last Line: Speed until you find them
Subject(s): Opportunity


MORNING, by THOMAS CARLYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So here hath been dawning
Last Line: Slip useless away?
Variant Title(s): Today
Subject(s): Opportunity


ONE OF US, by ISTVAN VAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Find one person among us
Last Line: He's one of us - let's drink to that
Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Opportunity; Togetherness


OPPORTUNITY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who binds to himself a joy
Last Line: You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
Variant Title(s): Eternity;several Questions Answered;epigram
Subject(s): Bible; Future Life; Mythology; Opportunity; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


OPPORTUNITY, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With doubt and dismay you are smitten
Last Line: The best work hasn't been done.
Subject(s): Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY, by JOHN JAMES INGALLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master of human destinies am I!
Last Line: I answer not, and I return no more.
Subject(s): Life; Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not know if, climbing up some steep hill
Last Line: Were rocky wall, by which I wept in vain
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY, by ARTHUR KETCHUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know not what the future holds
Last Line: While youth is guest!
Subject(s): Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY, by NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But who art thou, with curious beauty graced
Last Line: "how lightly I have fled beneath thy hand."
Subject(s): Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY, by LOIS MAHAVIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not like the sunset do I fade and die
Last Line: But lo! I come again at close of day.
Subject(s): Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In an old city by the storied shores
Last Line: "o traveler, tomorrow is too late!"
Subject(s): Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream
Last Line: And saved a great cause that heroic day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Variant Title(s): The Broken Sword
Subject(s): Opportunity; Victory


OPPORTUNITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once only did the angel stir
Last Line: The waters ne'er have moved again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Opportunity


OPPORTUNITY TALKS, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes / I am opportunity
Last Line: Opportunity.
Subject(s): Opportunity


SECRET BALLGAME, by ERNST SCHONWIESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Throw away your old ball
Subject(s): Opportunity


SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A different bell
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Life; Nature; Opportunity


THE GOLDEN TEXT, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask for fame or power?
Last Line: And not the next nor next!
Subject(s): Opportunity; Conduct Of Life


TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To get down to cases
Subject(s): Sex; Railroads; Time; Opportunity


WITHIN MY REACH!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That passed, an hour ago!
Subject(s): Opportunity