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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELFISHNESS Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away in the northland Last Line: A mean and selfish man. Subject(s): Birds; Selfishness; Woodpeckers A PATRIOT I, by JEAN LEWIS MORRIS Poem Text First Line: A patriot I! This is my cry Last Line: I'm a munition maker. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Patriotism; Selfishness; Social Protest; United States; War; America A STATESMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He knew the mask of principle to wear Last Line: Chief eunuch, were but ours the sultan's court! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Duplicity; Politics & Government; Selfishness; Deceit ALIENS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Now that you're finally happy Last Line: Looking for a place they can rest Subject(s): Selfishness AMBITIONS ARE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You don't trade money here Last Line: How old were you when you began to disappear? Subject(s): Ambition; Emotions; Selfishness; Violence BRIER; GOOD FRIDAY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because, dear christ, your tender, wounded arm Last Line: The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Catholics; Humanity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Selfishness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism CHERRIES, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I sit eating cherries Last Line: Bought cheap, must last forever Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Selfishness COLD, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: You've swallowed a wool sock, and you've got Last Line: God bless you! My goodness. God bless you! Subject(s): Cold; Self-pity; Selfishness; Sickness COUPLE ON THE LEFT OF ME, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: Is breaking up the baby Last Line: O walk your body down don't let it go it alone Subject(s): Independence; Pride; Selfishness; Solitude DISSONANCE, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE Poem Text First Line: Light as the bird on a bough was my heart in the morning Last Line: Left me distressed I was selfish enough to be gay. Subject(s): Selfishness EAGLES AND SPARROWS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Without avail the flocks of sparrows try Last Line: While the great eagles take their flight alone Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Selfishness ELEGIAC SONNET: 73. TO A QUERULOUS ACQUAINTANCE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou! Whom prosperity has always led Last Line: Mar the uncommon blessings of thy fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Selfishness ELIMINATE THE I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may not gather gold nor land Last Line: Eliminate the I. Subject(s): Conversation; Selfishness; Selflessness EMPIRE BUILDING, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow I never liked you, john, your ways were crude Last Line: Your smile is pharisaical, your manners rude. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Greed; Hate; Selfishness; Avarice; Cupidity EXCULPATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou dare to blame the woman Last Line: Woman wavers but to seek him -- is not then the fault in thee? Subject(s): Selfishness; Women MAN, by HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man doth usurp all space Last Line: All that interests man is man. Subject(s): Mankind; Selfishness; Human Race MENTAL HORIZONS: 1. MR. SMALLMAN-SELFISHNESS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: With the markets his spirits rise and fall Last Line: Hatched in this lilliputian hive. Subject(s): Christianity; Selfishness; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States NOUS ET VOUS; A GALLIC FABLE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As two young friends were walking out, one day Last Line: Unpitied and alone! Subject(s): Selfishness OBSERVATION, by MARY R. MASTROMARCHI Poem Text First Line: On a bus it is easier to rest on your feet Last Line: Than to sit with a person who wants the whole seat. Subject(s): Selfishness 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 QUANTRAINS: A SELFISH HEART, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How oft our trembling nerves we drug Last Line: That loves its own sweet ease. Subject(s): Selfishness RENUNICATION, by CORINNE CHANDLEE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: It is not selfishness that bids me say Last Line: Not you! Subject(s): Selfishness; Tears SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 3. BY HER AUNT'S GRAVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixpence a week,' says the girl to her lover Last Line: She passively nods. And they go that way. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Selfishness; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement SELFISH PEOPLE (1), by MICHAEL RIGSBY REVERE Poem Source First Line: Selfish people living all alone Last Line: Of everything they need %to keep on living alone Subject(s): Selfishness SELFISH PEOPLE (2), by MICHAEL RIGSBY REVERE Poem Source First Line: All alone Last Line: To keep on living %all alone Subject(s): Selfishness SELFISHNESS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jim kickshaw has a touring car, in which Last Line: Is thanks; they have no assets in the banks. Subject(s): Poverty; Selfishness SELFISHNESS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is so much that you can give to me- Last Line: My lips let fall. Subject(s): Love; Selfishness SONNET: 2, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank thee, love, that thou hast overthrown Last Line: My tiny skiff along thy glorious wake. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Selfishness THE DANCE OF VANITY (MODERN STYLE), by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Selfishness has swept the house Last Line: For the burial of souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Selfishness; Vanity THE DREAM, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, years after your death, I dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Death; Selfishness; Nightmares; Dead, The THE MAN WITHOUT THE HOE, by J. GORDON COOGLER Poem Text First Line: In a dingy little hovel Last Line: Without the hoe. Subject(s): Markham, Edwin (1852-1940); Men; Selfishness; Solitude; Loneliness THE MISER, by BEN ZED Poem Text First Line: A miser once dreamed he had given away Last Line: That as long as he lived he would slumber no more. Subject(s): Jews; Misers; Selfishness; Judaism THE NIBELUNGEN TREASURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was an ancient monarch Last Line: Would quaff his fiery wine Subject(s): Selfishness;treasures THE OLD BEGGAR, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When buttercups break on each grassy side Last Line: And that, if today will not, tomorrow may! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Misfortune; Selfishness THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness' Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne! Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness THE VISITOR (2), by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her beauty is a wasted thing Last Line: Come back and sing again? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Selfishness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE CARTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So in the dirt, amid the filthy smoke and insensate din of the great city Last Line: Dwelling also in the youthful carter. Subject(s): Selfishness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it Last Line: Others a sound of weeping. Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 1, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The gourmet poet breaks Last Line: And compliments to the chef Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Poetry And Poets; Selfishness |
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