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Subject: COMING OF AGE
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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.
Subject(s): Daughters; Coming Of Age