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Subject: SELF-GRATIFICATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARMELLE NICHOLAS'S ACCOUNT OF HERSELF, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the god of my love, in the morning,' said she
Last Line: "could have nothing more added than what I possess."
Subject(s): Self-gratification


EAGLE AND THE DRY LEAF, by SANTIAGO H. ARGUELLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day the eagle said, with pride: 'none can soar up %like me!
Last Line: Then higher than the eagles the dry leaves rise and soar!
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Irony; Self-gratification


HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT ARCHITECTUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A summer's night
Last Line: Symphonic songs in stone.
Subject(s): Pride; Self-gratification; Self-esteem; Self-respect


I'M SIXTY-TWO AND CAN DROP DEAD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I kissed the river's cold moving lips
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self-gratification


LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Please say something really good
Last Line: Something glowing - %and sign my name
Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Labor And Laborers; Self-gratification


OPEN WINDOWS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through windows open wide, the free air flows
Last Line: That beg to share.
Subject(s): Self-gratification; Selfishness


SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For I, my mother, I
Last Line: The flower of the town %it was I
Subject(s): Admirals; Self-gratification


SONG OF THE SELF-STIMULATOR, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Johnny had a steamboat
Subject(s): Self-gratification; Sex


THE KING OF DREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some must delve when the dawn is nigh
Last Line: Every man is a king of dreams!
Subject(s): Dreams; Self-gratification; Nightmares


THE TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, FAIRE QUEENE OF JEWRY: CHORAL SONG, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those mindes that wholy dote upon delight
Last Line: That care for nothing being in their power.
Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess
Subject(s): Jews; Self-gratification; Judaism


THERE'S SO MUCH I MISS, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: What sort of hunger, %what sort of thirst
Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Self-gratification


TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 13, by PETER BLUE CLOUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chauvinist poet
Last Line: Often became %great wizards
Subject(s): Self-gratification