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Subject: COMING OF AGE Matches Found: 25 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMERICAN MANHOOD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dull ache that is midnight for a boy Subject(s): Teenagers; Boys; Night; Coming Of Age; Bedtime BEDTIME READING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after the sun falls into the sea Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Coming Of Age; Mythology EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look here, marcus aurelius, we’ve come to see Last Line: Ts tentacles sewing a rupture I had nursed for too long Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Middle Age; Aging; Libya; Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Mythology; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives EROTIC ENERGY, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't tell me we're not like plants Subject(s): Plants; Coming Of Age; Girls; Planting; Planters FATHER AND SON, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The FIELDS OF LEARNING, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we go out into the fields of learning Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Learning FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Advice; Girls; Coming Of Age; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature GODOLPHIN HORNE, WHO WAS CURSED WITH THE SIN OF PRIDE, AND BECAME A BOOT-BLACK, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Godolphin horne was nobly born Last Line: Who blacks the boots at the savoy Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Pride; Coming Of Age; Satire; Social Commentary; Self-esteem; Self-respect HELEN BIDS FAREWELL TO HER DAUGHTER HERMIONE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is time before I go Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; Coming Of Age; Parting HIDE AND SEEK, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the things to win at. There I am, Subject(s): Coming Of Age HISTORY OF MY HEART, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives M. ON HER THIRTHIETH BIRTHDAY, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I could be a yogi Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Parents; Death; Parenthood; Dead, The MAN COMING OF AGE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What rime, what tinsel pure and chill Subject(s): Coming Of Age MANY MANSIONS, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last majority attained Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Farewell; Coming Of Age; Parting MENTAL MOMMY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school at six years old, first grade, Subject(s): Mothers; Coming Of Age; Prisons & Prisoners; Insanity; Hospitals; Convicts; Madness; Mental Illness OH FAIR AND FLEET WITH EAGER FEET , by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: No sweeter thing than love Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Love RAIN SONG, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radio blares “dialogue of souls Last Line: Those who despair Subject(s): Rain; Despair; Youth; Family Life; Coming Of Age; Relatives RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War THE BOYS AT TWILIGHT, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alive to the lilac, dead to the blue Subject(s): Youth; Coming Of Age THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oysters we ate, / sweet blue babies Last Line: The woman won Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Oysters; Food & Eating; Coming Of Age THE GATE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat, two children, warm against the wall Subject(s): Children; Coming Of Age; Innocence; Childhood THE GHOST OF A HUNTER, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He reads: what soul suffers in secret, the flesh shows openly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Coming Of Age THE INNOCENTS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE ORDEAL, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE WAYS OF DAUGHTERS, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughters are getting on. 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