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Subject: PASSIVITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CANAL BANK WALK, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Passivity


CANAL BANK WALK, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Last Line: From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Passivity


I NEVER EVEN SUGGESTED IT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know lots of men who are in love and lots of men who are
Last Line: I recommend to you this moral: %in real life it takes only one to make a quarrel
Subject(s): Conformity; Passivity


LYING AWAKE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This moth caught in the room tonight
Last Line: And turn him out toward living. Yet %we don't: we take things as they are
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Moths; Passivity


PASSIVE PERIOD, by A. G. WHEELER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One cool day, I awoke
Last Line: Their names, and shapes %crickets make one last call %to escape their silent fate
Subject(s): Passivity


PASSIVITY, by MARY ELIZABETH FULLERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Call not on comfort lest she come
Subject(s): Passivity


PLAIN SONG, by LYNNE MARTIN BOWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I keep a plain inside myself that doesn't exist
Last Line: Stuck to his hair, his skin, his tired feet
Subject(s): Passivity


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: FLESH WILLING, SPIRIT ..., by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In some ways yes we're nothing but
Last Line: Flesh was willing but the spirit is weak
Subject(s): Passivity