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Subject: SELF-SATISFACTION
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FULFILMENT, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you ask, o soul?
Last Line: "shall ever be the token for the onset."
Subject(s): Life; Self-satisfaction; Soul


HAG RIDING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why / is what I ask myself
Last Line: I ride I ride
Subject(s): Africa; Hope; Life; Self-satisfaction; Optimism


HAG RIDING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why %is what I ask myself
Last Line: Over the rump of the day and honey %I ride -- I ride
Subject(s): Africa; Hope; Life; Self-satisfaction


INVOCATION BY A SMALL BED, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The water bubbles in the radiator. And the ebb and flow of the sea
Last Line: I'm untouchable. And thrilled to learn there is no other way
Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Life Change Events; Self-satisfaction


MELODY GRUNDY, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take me or leave me, cries
Subject(s): Self-satisfaction


SOCIAL SCIENCE', by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy souls, that mingle with your kind
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Self-satisfaction


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NOTHING LESS THAN ALL, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All, all - and nothing less than all
Last Line: And shall be content with nothing less than all.
Subject(s): Identity; Self-satisfaction