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Subject: SEEKING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER ALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought your search was over. So I thought
Last Line: "and sigh indeed for home in banishment."" --"
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): A Discovery
Subject(s): Seeking; Home; Peace; Heaven


AS I STEP OVER A PUDDLE AT THE END OF WINTER, I THINK OF AN ANCIENY CHINESE GOVERNOR, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Po chu-I, balding old politician,
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Middle West; China; Seeking; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


BEYOND, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you would have sweet flowers to smell
Last Line: Where songs are always heard!
Subject(s): Seeking


ESCAPIST - NEVER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is no fugitive—escaped, escaping
Last Line: All is an interminable chain of longing
Subject(s): Seeking


HAUNTED STREETS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, haply walking in some clattering street
Last Line: We stretch out yearning hands and grasp -- the air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Memory; Seeking


I AM BOUND, I AM BOUND, FOR A DISTANT SHORE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the barren sands of a desolate creek
Subject(s): Seeking


LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The eternal woman by the wayside waits
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Seeking


LOOKING FOR BILLY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He could be anywhere
Subject(s): Seeking


LORD I AM HERE. - BUT, CHILD, I LOOK FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I bring thee to the haven where thou wouldst be
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Sea; God; Seeking; Salvation


MAN SAILS THE DEEP A WHILE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your colours still shall fly
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seeking


MORNING SONG, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a mellower light just over the hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Seeking; Morning


NOT HEAT FLAMES UP AND CONSUMES, by WALT WHITMAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wafted in all directions o love, for friendship, for you
Subject(s): Nature; Love; Seeking


PIETA, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hunted heaven
Subject(s): Seeking; Patience


SEEKING, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In many a shape and fleeting apparition
Last Line: And burnt in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Seeking


STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A thousand seekers seek the light
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Seeking


THE FINDER FOUND, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will you, sometime, who have sought so look, and seek
Subject(s): Seeking


TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The golden city come in view
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Seeking