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Subject: DISILLUSION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DELUSION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You gave me your hand
Last Line: That I had been blind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Disillusion


DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day
Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken?
Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations


DISILLUSION, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched a moon-drenched wave roll in
Last Line: And crushed the wings apart.
Subject(s): Disillusion


JAMES LEE'S WIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, love, but a day
Last Line: When I should be dead of joy, james lee?
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Disillusion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 109, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Loaded with hopes
Last Line: Dead with disillusion
Subject(s): Disillusion; Grief; Love - Complaints


ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No protesting, dearest!
Last Line: Ghost-bereft!
Subject(s): Disillusion; Fate; Decay; Destiny; Rot; Decadence


THE WHOLE HEAD IS SICK AND THE WHOLE HEART FAINT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe for the young who say that life is long
Last Line: And this earth changeth and is perishing
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Youth; Disillusion; Weariness