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Subject: ATHEISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth
Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.'
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect


ATHEISM: FAITH, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware of doubt - faith is the subtle chain
Last Line: That questions of thy faith, the cold external doubt.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Atheism; Doubt; Faith; Life; Skepticism; Belief; Creed


ATHEISM: REASON, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The infinite speaks in our silent hearts
Last Line: Who, though divorced from good, bow to the lord of hosts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Atheism; Death; Reason; Soul; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ATHEISM; THE ONLY GROUND OF DISCONTENT, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If reason does each private person bind
Last Line: That none but atheists can be discontent.
Subject(s): Atheism


DIXIT INSIPIENS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, it was only a trickle
Last Line: If only disbelief was more like faith.
Subject(s): Atheism; Religion; Science; Spirituality; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Scientists; Feminism


EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone
Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man.
Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FREE-THINKERS, SELS., by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To hear all beings, prov'd mechanick
Last Line: Are what you grow, by dint of reading
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Atheism


I AM AN ATHEIST WHO SAYS HIS PRAYERS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Atheism; Social Commentaries


IN MY VIEW, by TUKARAM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I am spending %my own life
Subject(s): Atheism


IN OUR OWN IMAGE, by THEODORE OLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are no gods. Apollo-ashtoreth
Last Line: Died of our unbelief!
Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted
Subject(s): Atheism; Faith; Lies; Mythology; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology


ON A LINE FROM VALéRY BY WAY OF CAROLYN KIZER: TOUT LE CIEL VERT SE MEURT. LE DERNIER ARBRE BRûLE., by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole green sky is dying
Subject(s): Atheism


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE VILLAGE ATHEIST, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye young debaters over the doctrine
Last Line: Shall possess it.
Subject(s): Atheism


STAYING POWER, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like gorky, I sometimes follow my doubts
Last Line: And a voice you love whispers hello
Subject(s): Atheism; Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936)


THE ATHEIST AND THE ACORN, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks the world is oddly made
Last Line: Nor scull have kept them in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Atheism


THIRD EPIGRAM: ON AN ATHEIST, by ANNE KILLIGREW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Posthumous boasts he does not thunder fear
Last Line: But that the villaine, atheist was to boot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne
Subject(s): Atheism


TO AN ANTHEIST IN A SPIRITUAL CRISIS, by MARJORIE POWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You pace wrench gray office carpet
Last Line: I will listen for your voice
Subject(s): Atheism; Religion