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Subject: UNGRATEFULNESS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FRANCISCA DILIGENTE; MAY TO AUGUST, 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more 'indifferent to fate
Last Line: In watchings round the golden gate.
Subject(s): Ingratitude; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Ungratefulness


INGRATITUDE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four bluish eggs all in the moss!
Last Line: Never a heart could break!
Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness


INGRATITUDE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Am I a fool?
Last Line: No mercy be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness


INGRATITUDE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When burdened by a load of care
Last Line: Content as parasites to live.
Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness


ON BRUTUS, AN ODE: HEAVY GOING, by JOHN SHEFFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From mighty caesar, and his boundless grace
Last Line: And if, alas, he fail'd, 'twas only by mistake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of
Subject(s): Brutus (marcus Junius Brutus); Errors; Friendship - False Friends; Ingratitude; Mistakes; Fallacies; Fair Weather Friends; Ungratefulness


SONNET: INGRATITUDE, by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ingratitude, how deadly is the smart
Last Line: Drags the loose knee and intermitting step.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness


THE JOURNEY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRYMAN: A DEATHBED, by JOHN HAWTHORN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little house there stood within a glen
Last Line: Before a wretch that used his parents ill....
Subject(s): Family Life; Ingratitude; Poverty; Relatives; Ungratefulness


THE STAFF AND THE SCRIP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who rules these lands?' the pilgrim said
Last Line: Thy jealous god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness


TO A SQUIRREL, by DONN BORING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I made a cagey friend today who I think is worth the price
Last Line: Without a word of thanks.
Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness


UNGRATEFULNESS, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie
Last Line: Defrauding thee, who gavest two for one.
Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness