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Subject: SELFISHNESS
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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