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Subject: PRODIGAL SON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came
Last Line: And all but me asleep!
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


PRODIGAL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brown enormous odor he lived by
Last Line: But it took him a long time %finally to make his mind up to go home
Variant Title(s): The Prodigal: The Brown Enormous Odor He Lived B
Subject(s): Prodigal Son; Smells


PRODIGAL, by EDWARD DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come home! Our eyes grow feeble now
Subject(s): Homecoming; Prodigal Son


PRODIGAL SON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Except for the flies, except that there is not water
Last Line: For little, takes the first step toward home
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Prodigal Son


SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SASKIA: THE PRODIGAL SON IN THE TAVERN, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why reduce myself to rags
Last Line: And the good father will forgive me
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Prodigal Son


THE PENITENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O god of goodness, thou my hope and stay
Last Line: Have wander'd far to feed on husks of swine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): God; Prodigal Son; Repentance; Sin; Penitence


THE PRODIGAL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brown enormous odor he lived by
Variant Title(s): The Prodigal: The Brown Enormous Odor He Lived By
Subject(s): Prodigal Son; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


THE VOICE OF HOME TO THE PRODIGAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! When wilt thou return
Last Line: Oh! When wilt thou return?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Homecoming; Prodigal Son