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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing
Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers


A TRUST I KEEP, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A trust I keep, which time may not efface
Last Line: With thankful heart that he may strive at all!
Subject(s): Trust; Truth; Virtue


BORROWED THOUGHTS: 1. FROM 'LAVATER', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trust him little who doth raise
Last Line: Trust him least and last of all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Hearts; Thought; Trust; Thinking


COMMUNION: 1. FIDES, by ARVIA MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on a peak of limitless ascent
Last Line: Radiant upon the starless precipice of birth.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Future Life; Trust; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


CONFIDENCE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a man who hunts for snakes, and
Last Line: Around; that sort of salesman's wearing bells, wherever he is found.
Subject(s): Trust


EIGHT FOR ORNETTE'S MUSIC, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the pain is greater
Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Trust; Coleman, Orenette (1930-2012


EIGHT FOR ORNETTE'S MUSIC, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the pain is greater
Last Line: It will never be any different
Subject(s): Love; Music And Musicians; Trust


EPIGRAM: 28, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accused though I be without desert
Last Line: Except thou mind to put thy friend to pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Trust; Dead, The


FATHER AND SON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: While we enjoy this meat, my son
Last Line: A tongue that told no lie?'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Trust


FRAGILITY OF TRUST, by LAURIE CALHOUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I suppose
Last Line: Yes, after that, all is through
Subject(s): Trust


HEART, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its hinges rustless, / restless; opening / and shutting on trust
Last Line: To hive our dust!
Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Love; Trust


IF THOU COULDST KNOW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think if thou couldst know
Last Line: Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Trust


LIFE'S ANSWER, by HENRY ALFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not if or dark or bright
Variant Title(s): Contentment; Trus
Subject(s): Trust


LIKE HORSES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In their long black coat they love the back roads
Last Line: They never will
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Trust


LINES WRITTEN FOR A WIFE, by ELAINE V. EMANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within a little while he may forget
Last Line: So I will trust, and wait him through my sorrow.
Subject(s): Trust


MISTRUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You look at me with wan, bright eyes
Last Line: "let her be free, let her be free""?"
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Relationships; Trust; Wandering & Wanderers


MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 23, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds sing 'I love you, love' the whole day through
Last Line: Possesses the dear trust that each gives each.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Trust


MYSTERIES, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clouds, with a little light between
Last Line: The beating of my heart.
Subject(s): Trust; Faith; Knowledge


NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 28TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trust not a man unknown; he may deceive thee
Last Line: Tis best not seem to doubt, although you do.
Subject(s): Trust


ODE TO ILLUSIONS, by JESSICA JEUNE CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bewildered, groping - though I try
Last Line: The tender roots of hope and trust.
Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Hope; Trust; Optimism


PENETRATION AND TRUST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleek as a lizard at round of a stone
Last Line: When it is no tyrant who leaves me lone!
Subject(s): Love; Trust; War


ROADSIDE POEMS: WHAT THE LORD SAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trust my father, saith the eldest-born
Last Line: Little ones, I pray you, come to god!
Subject(s): Fathers; God; Love; Trust


SONG: 107, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Absence, alas / causeth me pass
Last Line: In this dolour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Trust; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


SONG: 110, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild
Last Line: And all for your love, my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods


SONG: 76, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Defamed guiltiness by silence unkept
Last Line: From doing amiss, will I live again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Betrayal; Forgiveness; Guilt; Trust; Clemency


SONNET: 22, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love and fortune and my mind, remember
Last Line: And all my thoughts are dashed into dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 31
Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Trust


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 20, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though you see me with two women
Last Line: To look on but not to buy
Subject(s): Trust


TANKA, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear and loud
Last Line: Trust me as your wife
Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru
Subject(s): Trust


THE CREDULOUS CHILD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The older ones that know me best
Last Line: That trusts me through and through.
Subject(s): Children; Trust; Childhood


THE KING OF THE CROCODILES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, woman, why without your veil?
Last Line: And I will make a meal of thee.
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Courts & Courtiers; Crocodiles; Egypt; Grief; Mothers; Trust; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MIGHTY MUST, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come mighty must!
Last Line: Shall be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Time; Trust


THE PROMISE, by KATHARINE SPRINGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the way my neighbor's gardens grow
Last Line: So promises heaven we shall rejoin our friends.
Subject(s): Friendship; Trust


THE RAINBOW (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father of all! Thou dost not hide thy bond
Last Line: My word, once given, shall never pass away.'
Subject(s): Rainbows; Trust


THE SANCTUARY: 7. INVOCATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stoop not from thy proud, lonely sphere
Last Line: Attain thy side.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Trust


THE TEMPEST, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were crowded in the cabin
Last Line: When the morn was shining clear.
Variant Title(s): Ballad Of The Tempest;the Captain's Daughter
Subject(s): Storms; Trust


THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEE (A SONG FOR THE TIME), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If a trustee in trusting doth trust him a trust
Last Line: "and the trust that he trusted, and the trustee -- they bust"
Subject(s): Trust


THE TRUSTS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A noble word gone wrong! O men of might
Last Line: When to your trust will you be grandly true?
Subject(s): Business - Monopolies; Trust


THERE IS NOTHING IN VAIN: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a mission, no doubt, for the mole in the dust
Last Line: And the agents are needed, for god has supplied.
Subject(s): Agents; Missionaries & Missions; Pride; Thought; Trust; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27. LOVE, AND NEVER FEAR, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never love unless you can / bear with all the faults of man
Last Line: Then like, and love, and never fear!
Variant Title(s): Advice To A Girl
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Complaints; Masculinity (psychology); Trust


TO M -, FROM ABROAD, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As, gazing on the pleiades
Last Line: I trust thy love. Trust thou in mine!
Subject(s): Trust


TO MAKE THE WIFE KIND, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To make the wife kind, and to keep the house still
Last Line: As to make, by your jealousy, horns for yourselves.
Subject(s): Jealousy; Marriage; Trust; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO OUR HOUSE-DOG CAPTAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain! We often heretofore
Last Line: To drive the pauper from the yard.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Teeth; Trust; Toothaches


TO SOLITUDE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am weary of the working
Last Line: Wind about a thousand hills.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Solitude; Trust; Optimism; Loneliness


TRUST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trust is a trembling thing
Last Line: So speaking with your enemies in the gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Trust


TRUST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sadly bend the flowers
Last Line: Shall come the morning smile.
Subject(s): Trust


TRUST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I came, I go, at his behest
Last Line: Strong as a father's tenderness.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Trust


TRUST, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even here %among the cornstalks frozen in the mud
Last Line: Keeps wanting to know %for what crime she was abandoned
Subject(s): Trust


TRUST (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Searching for strawberries ready to eat
Last Line: Our hearts would be lighter than air
Subject(s): Birds;strawberries;trust


TRUST (1), by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when hopes have vanished, one and all
Last Line: Hence, though he slay me, I will trust him still.
Subject(s): Trust


TRUST (2), by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away with all life's memories
Last Line: Until I touch thy hand.
Subject(s): Trust; God


TRUST AND DISTRUST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Distrust thyself, but trust his grace
Last Line: That jesus faileth never.
Subject(s): Distrust; Jesus Christ; Love; Trust


TRUST FOR THE DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because in a day of my days to come
Last Line: To my rest in his home above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Sufficient Unto The Day
Subject(s): Love; Trust


TRUST GOD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Trust nothing but the starlight's silv'ry beaming
Last Line: But in the sight of mankind never bow.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Trust; Belief; Creed; Theology


TRUST IN GOD, by NORMAN MACLEOD (1812-1872)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Courage, brother! Do not stumble
Last Line: Trust in god, and do the right.
Variant Title(s): Rhymes For Hard Times
Subject(s): God; Trust


TRUST IN WOMEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When nettles in winter bring forth roses red
Subject(s): Trust;women


TRUST YOU MUST, by JULIUS C BRUTTO    Poem Text                    
First Line: A learned man was asked one day
Last Line: "god has granted all equal share."
Subject(s): Faith; Trust; Belief; Creed


TRUST; NAOMI, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot know if good or ill
Last Line: Thou art beside me still.
Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Trust; Women In The Bible


TWO LOVES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep within my heart of hearts, dear
Last Line: Yours, and yours alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Trust


WAVE-WON, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I hunger so
Last Line: To idolize the perfect world, to taste of love at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love; Trust


WHEN EVER DID I, by HWANG JINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When ever did I break trust? When
Last Line: Yet I have nothing now to do with sound
Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Trust


WOMAN'S FAITH, FR. THE BETROTHED, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman's faith, and woman's trust
Last Line: And I believed them again ere night.
Variant Title(s): Faith In Unfaithfulness
Subject(s): Faith; Love; Trust; Women; Belief; Creed