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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELFLESSNESS Matches Found: 15 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SOLILOQUY ON THE COURSE AND CONSQUENCE OF A DOUBTING MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse, I doubt, I reason, and debate Last Line: A blessed christian, or a cursed fool. Subject(s): Doubt; Reason; Selflessness; Solitude; Thought; Skepticism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Thinking 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 FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand Last Line: And it is day! Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue FIGHT; THE TALE OF A GUNNER AT PLATTSBURGH, 1814, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jock bit his mittens off and blew his thumbs Last Line: The world made free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Variant Title(s): Fight Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Plattsburg, Battle Of; Selflessness; War Of 1812; Liberty HOLY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I eat only sleep and air Last Line: And I will be so slight that I will pass through all of you %silently %like wind Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Self-consciousness; Selflessness HOW SHOULD THEY KNOW ME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are those who deem they know me Last Line: The gift of self-knowledge were last! Subject(s): Selflessness; Solitude; Loneliness MY NEIGHBOR'S ROSES, by ABRAHAM GRUBER Poem Text First Line: The roses red upon my neighbor's vine Last Line: Is grown for you, upon your neighbor's vine? Subject(s): Brotherhood; Selflessness ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs PRESAGING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am like a flag unfurled in space Last Line: And thrust myself forth and am alone in the great storm. Subject(s): Selflessness; Solitude; Loneliness SIGN FOR MY FATHER, WHO STRESSED THE BUNT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the rough diamond Last Line: I'm getting a grip on the sacrifice. Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Selflessness; Sports SPENDTHRIFT, by MARY HOPE CABANISS Poem Source First Line: She was a spendthrift with herself; gave all Subject(s): Selflessness SYLVIA, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And you wonder how will you escape? Last Line: Time to go Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Selflessness THE DUCHESSE'S RED SHOES; AFTER PROUST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swann has visited the duc and duchesse de guermantes Last Line: The chaos of a small pond. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Selflessness; Dead, The THE FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coffin, as I past across the lane Last Line: For it pleased god to take her to his mercy. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Faith; Mothers; Selflessness; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Belief; Creed TWONESS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Marriage of body and soul, how Last Line: To where I can read it Subject(s): Books; Selflessness; Writing And Writers |
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