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Subject: SELECTIVITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 18. HARD TO BE PLEASED, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See how she picks, and cuts, and casts aside
Last Line: And thus she does her lovers entertain.
Subject(s): Love; Selectivity


FOOL AND FALSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the shrewd and upright man
Last Line: Shun him from the start
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity;honesty


HELSINKI, 1940, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exploding, shattering, burning / big lights in the sky
Last Line: All of whom really felt like living
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Neighbors; Visiting


HERO WANTED, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy's heart is a light heart
Last Line: And hero to a boy!
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines


LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dinner was duckling with tangerine sauce
Last Line: After eveything possible had been said and done
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity


OLD-MADE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The greater mystery it is
Last Line: Of much mature reflection.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Aging; Selectivity


OPINIONS, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We could have been such friends, dear almost-friend!
Last Line: And can my black be white?
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity


PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Choose judiciously thy friends; for to discard
Last Line: For an enraptured public to muse upon over their matutinal muffin.
Subject(s): Friendship – Selectivity; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor


RAHIM MULTANI: 1. KING PRAWNS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When kiran went out of town I took the girls to get haircuts
Last Line: Nights we wore our best saris, women everywhere rustling %in the room
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Youth


STRANGERS IN THE DUSK, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a time when he and I are strangers, in the dusk
Last Line: We love a friend not less because we loved another best.
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Love; Relationships; Strangers


THE CHOICE OF FRIENDS, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One balmy day in gentle june
Last Line: "be careful in your choice of friends."
Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Relationships


THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This brief effusion I indite
Last Line: To charm life's dreary day!
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE INVITATION, by LEONARD WELSTED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Freeman, I treat tonight, and treat your friends
Last Line: You know your friends; you know your bill of fare.
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Visiting


THE LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dinner was duckling with tangerine sauce
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity


THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five
Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THREE GOOD FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't remember how
Last Line: Did she choose to let go %for us
Subject(s): Friendship; Friendship - Selectivity; Love - Loss Of


TO A YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear fellow-artist, why so free / with every sort of company
Last Line: With landor and with donne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship - Selectivity


YOUR LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST, by M. C. HAECKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You call it your little gray home in the west
Last Line: In your little gray home in the west.
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Home; Love; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States