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Subject: CHANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DUPLICATE GAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A game of whist? Who could resist
Last Line: A game of whist?
Subject(s): Chance; Deception; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


GIVE ME A CHANCE, by THOMAS T. BLEWETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me a chance to do my work
Last Line: Give me a chance.
Subject(s): Chance; Youth


PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is random as a rolled pair of dice
Last Line: Love life's randomness: the rolled pair of dice.
Subject(s): Chance; Heaven; Human Behavior; Life; Paradise; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


SOME DAYS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From possibility
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Chance; Nature


THE LIFE OF TOWNS: PUSHKIN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has rules
Last Line: Or will be by the time our eyes are ember
Subject(s): Chance; Love


WE MET BY CHANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We met by chance! Yes, I recall
Last Line: We met by chance!
Subject(s): Chance; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


YOU STEP IN THE SAME RIVER ONCE ONLY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The bruised fingers of what might have been
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Chance; Life; Nature; Time