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Subject: PROCRASTINATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHUCK, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm chuck, the chore evader
Subject(s): Procrastination


INDISPENSABLE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is crowded with clever chaps
Last Line: At the time that he says he'll do it!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Procrastination; Work; Workers


NEXT YEAR, by NORA PERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next year, next year,' we say
Last Line: Today, today!
Subject(s): Procrastination


NOT WORKING, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever he was doing, he looks up
Subject(s): Procrastination


NOW, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If something waits, and you should now
Last Line: That makes our duty pleasure.
Subject(s): Procrastination


OPPORTUNITY, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If this befell: at some fair dawning-time
Last Line: Enclose your spirit like a dungeon-grate?
Subject(s): Procrastination


PROCRASTINATION, by JOHN BYROM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If gold be offer'd thee, thou dost not say
Subject(s): Procrastination


PROCRASTINATION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bent on building a house, while as yet a young man
Last Line: The sexton, who housed him at once with his spade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Procrastination


PROCRASTINATION, by GEORGE W. MARKENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wait not until my eyes are dimmed by everlasting night
Last Line: Give me the tokens of your love; and not when I am dead.
Subject(s): Procrastination


PROCRASTINATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady wears a big bouquet
Last Line: She grows more wasteful.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Materialism; Procrastination; Spendthrifts; Vanity; Male-female Relations


PROCRASTINATION, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shun delays, they breed remorse
Last Line: Babel's babes against the rocke.
Variant Title(s): Loss In Delay
Subject(s): Courage; Procrastination; Valor; Bravery


PROCRUSTES'S BED, by BEATRICE HANSCOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A grecian myth tells of a giant grim
Last Line: Fitted to fate by force of circumstance.
Subject(s): Fate; Mythology; Procrastination; Destiny


PROMENADING PSYCHOLOGY, by F. K. CURTIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ego, non-ego, the body, the soul'
Last Line: The devil! The clock! Well, flunking is fine!
Subject(s): Procrastination


SHADOW SHIPS, by NEWTON MARSHALL HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above me sail the shadow ships
Last Line: And gentle breezes softly blow.
Subject(s): Procrastination


SONG FOR DITHERERS, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I journey not whence nor whither
Last Line: With no foe in my dither but me, %I swoon, I lay doon, and I dee
Subject(s): Procrastination


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 90, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetheart, sweetheart, delay no more
Last Line: Now what can all the world avail?
Subject(s): Activity; Procrastination


TALE: 4. PROCRASTINATION, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love will expire - the gay, the happy dream
Last Line: She cross'd, and pass'd him on the other side.
Subject(s): Procrastination


THE DELAYING BRIDE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why so slowly do you move?
Last Line: T'ave your blushes seen by day.
Subject(s): Marriage; Procrastination; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE FUNERAL, by WALTER J. HEGARTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the 70's we was workin' far back on a big north run
Last Line: And we'll plant them next his mother's in the tomb at dusty town!
Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Funerals; Procrastination; Dead, The; Burials


THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many years we've circled round this date
Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk


TO A DEAD BIRD, by ROBERT JAMES KELLOGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet bird, in life thy tuneful voice
Last Line: Robert james kellogg.
Subject(s): Death; Procrastination; Science; Dead, The; Scientists


UPON A DELAYING LADY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come come away
Last Line: To frost or snow.
Subject(s): Procrastination


WE DEFER THINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We say and we say and we say
Last Line: And yesterday is -- where?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Procrastination


WHALAN OF WAITIN' A WHILE, by J. W. GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Longlife to old whalan of waitin' a while
Last Line: And she doesn't mind waitin' a while.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grahame, Jim
Subject(s): Procrastination; Story-telling