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Last Line: "sow a character, you reap your destiny"
Subject(s): Character


A CHARACTER, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His face is truly of the roman mould
Last Line: Till hands that plighted troth shall reunite.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Character


BLACK WEB, by SONYA J. BERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kissing under the sparkling city lights
Subject(s): Character; Morality


CHARISMATIC, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her small jaws work
Last Line: Into the burning stable
Subject(s): Character


CHINA'S BRAVEST GIRL; THE LEGEND OF HUA MU LAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The emperor called for the pipa player
Last Line: Is loved by the chinese people %and retold each generation
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hua, Mu-lan (legendary Character); Legends, Chinese


DUALITY; FROM ME SPRING GOOD AND EVIL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Who gave thee such a ruby flaming heart
Last Line: O'erthrown but in the unconflicting spheres.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Character; Evil; Good; Human Abnormalities; Pain; Peace; Deformities; Suffering; Misery


FIRST DEERFLY EMERGED SOLSTICE MORNING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Among his fly friends he's a nice guy
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Bush, George; Character; Friendship; Nature


GEORGE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Didn't own much
Last Line: Be poor and follow me
Subject(s): Character; Farm Life; Men; Poverty


HEREDITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That swollen paunch you are doomed to bear
Last Line: And yet, away, you charnel thing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Character; Evil; Heritage; Heredity


HIDDEN TALENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady you took into dinner
Last Line: "who never lets any come out."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Character; Jokes


I LIKE PERRY MASON BEST IN BLACK AND WHITE, by DENISE NOE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For it was a world the principle of uncertainty had yet to amend
Subject(s): Mason, Perry (fictional Character); Television


MOCKER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He makes good wine, relishes dregs
Last Line: Prefers crutches to legs
Subject(s): Character


MOODS, by A." "DELLA CRUSCAN [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pluck from their dark and rocky bed
Last Line: The bosom of the welkin sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): "della Cruscan, A.;
Subject(s): Character;heads


MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall
Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet.
Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady
Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My uncle believed he had
Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self


PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My uncle believed he had
Last Line: And go about his business
Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self


PERSONALITY; TO ANN, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A ray of sunlight flutters in my heart
Last Line: Of golden lilies breathing in the sun.
Subject(s): Character; Nostalgia; Relationships


ROUNDED WITH A SLEEP, by KRISSY BRADY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're coarse and dry
Last Line: And how they will be remembered in this %illusion of left or right
Subject(s): Anger; Character; Fathers; Memory


RUGGED FACES, by MARY R. HARTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the hills and mountains
Last Line: A friend to all mankind.
Subject(s): Character; Faces; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


SHAFRO, by TERRANCE HAYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that my afro's as big as shaft's
Last Line: I grow beautiful as the theatre dims
Subject(s): Shaft (fictional Character); African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


SKETCH OF HIS OWN CHARACTER, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune
Last Line: But left church and state to charles townshend and squire.
Variant Title(s): Gray On Himself
Subject(s): Character; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


THE CASE OF DOMINEERING JOHN ALEXIS UPHAM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When john alexis upham was a little lad of / two
Last Line: She always did, she always does exactly as he orders.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Character


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: DEDICATION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is somewhat like painting the lily
Last Line: Of thoughts which are portrayed by you.
Subject(s): Beauty; Character; Flowers; Lilies


WHO'D WANT TO BE A MAN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With his heart
Last Line: And where is the rain?
Subject(s): Character; Grief; Men; Sorrow; Sadness


YOUNG FANNY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A change hath come over young fanny
Last Line: "the reason we mortals may know."
Subject(s): Change; Character