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Subject: EMOTIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILDISH GAME, by REINMAR VON HAGENAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long as I can call to mind
Last Line: Sir walther von der vogelweide
Alternate Author Name(s): Reinmar Of Hagenau
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love


A CONTRAST, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset puts a necklace of cloud-pearls
Last Line: Thy smile-adorned face?
Subject(s): Emotions; Rest


AD ASTRA: 14, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But have we never found her kinship vain
Last Line: And just as lightly will she weep to-morrow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AD ASTRA: 147, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To lust is not to love-love scorneth lust!
Last Line: Whose smoke in heaven-ascending thoughts doth rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Emotions; Love


AD ASTRA: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only to hearts devoid of human feeling
Last Line: Yet is more pitiless than wintry rain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Emotions; Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed


AMBITIONS ARE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You don't trade money here
Last Line: How old were you when you began to disappear?
Subject(s): Ambition; Emotions; Selfishness; Violence


ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Celestial influences affect the earth, define the surface
Last Line: Resting on a firm cloud of cotton
Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Emotions; Life; Melancholy


ANOTHER LULLABY FOR INSOMNIACS, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep, she will not linger
Last Line: And no ring on her finger
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love Affairs


CERTAINLY THE DEER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a few places like this left
Last Line: Now clearly visible, now disappearing slowly into the swamp
Subject(s): Cold; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Travel


CHANGE OF HEART, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My teacher, when I went to school, would
Last Line: "by heck!"" and I remarked, ""gee whiz!"
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts


DAWN OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can see the face of everything, and it is white
Last Line: In the soul, as they say, not in time at all
Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soul


DEATHLESS LOVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of life, out of death, there can never
Last Line: It will bloom in the meadows of death.
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love


DON'T TELL ME THE FACE, by MYONGOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't tell me the face I have now
Last Line: Seeking will not find the end
Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Thought


ENEMY, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed that I was already dust-that I was a meter
Last Line: From it like a honeycomb dripping with honey
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Emotions; Enemies


ENVY, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know a reptile that pursues the shadow
Last Line: By all things crawling against all that fly!
Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Envy; Heaven


FACES, by REBECCA FUSFELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no more pathetic sort
Last Line: Its pathos grieves an unknown lord.
Subject(s): Emotions; Faces


FROM THIS SHORE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: You speak of hatred
Last Line: Pregnant with arrogance %nailed to an I myself %that brings you so close %to this other shore
Subject(s): Emotions; Hate; Hunger; Poverty


HEART TO HEART, by RITA DOVE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's neither red / nor sweet
Last Line: To take me, , too
Subject(s): Desire; Emotions; Hearts


HEART TO HEART, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's neither red %nor sweet
Last Line: To take me, %too
Subject(s): Desire; Emotions; Hearts


IF BUT A WORD, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: If but a word of mine could give you joy
Last Line: And eyes half-veiled have told me you are mine.
Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise


INSCRIBED ON A POEM ON 'THE DREAM' FOR WANG RANMING, by WANG WEI+(3)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emotion is the root of dreams
Last Line: Both depend on the pear blossoms
Subject(s): Emotions


ORIGINALLY CALLED 7/20/96, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Days without sentiment %as the occasion for a poem
Last Line: As the gas pump dings, dings, dings
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Emotions; Grief; Memory; New York City; Poetry And Poets


REVENGE, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somebody at my roof throws stones, and then
Last Line: To hide my hand, too, after throwing roses!
Subject(s): Emotions; Revenge


ROBOT FOLLOWS ME WHEREVER I GO, by JOHN RANDOLPH CARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He carries flowers
Last Line: Robot and go looking for life
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love


SEEING, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not the eye alone can do the seeing part
Last Line: But he who would see crystal clear must view things with his heart.
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love; October


SELIMUS: VENGEANCE IMPLORED, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thou supreme architect of all
Last Line: That ever was despatched to any king.
Subject(s): Emotions; Hate; Vengeance


SIGNS OF WINTER, by LEONARD JENNEWEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Everywhere are signs of coming winter
Last Line: Rustles leaves within my heart.
Subject(s): Emotions; Sympathy; Winter; Empathy


SINCERE POET, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sincere poet is obsessed with the authenticity of his feelings
Last Line: He doesn't even need to be sincere
Subject(s): Emotions; Honesty; Poetry And Poets; Sincerity; Suicide


SISTER WATER: THE WATER OF MANY FORMS, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water always takes the shape of the vessels that contain
Last Line: The apostle, 'lord, what wilt thou have me to do?'
Subject(s): Emotions; God; Religion


SOME BODIES ARE LIKE FLOWERS, by LUIS CERNUDA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Are not worth a willing love
Subject(s): Bodies; Emotions; Hearts; Life


SPANISH FOLK SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the rich man fill his belly
Last Line: Before having loved at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Dead, The


STORMS, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the basin of the fountain, after the storm
Last Line: There is no such peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Anger; Emotions; Storms


TEMPER, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you've a 'quick' temper, lad, you say?
Last Line: Tempered mettle holds its edge!
Subject(s): Emotions; Temperance; Prohibition


THE BOUNDARIES OF APPRECIATION, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When someone pulls a droll idea
Last Line: Shows.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Emotions


THE DAWN OF EVENING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The royal sun has gone his gaudy way
Last Line: For youth knows not how long is love's despair.
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love; Memory


THE DAY, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You boasted the day, and you toasted the day
Last Line: What can you say to god?
Subject(s): Emotions; Vengeance


THE MISTAKE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas wrong-but can you blame me?
Last Line: "I thought your cheeks were roses!"
Subject(s): Emotions; Errors; Love - Complaints; Mistakes; Fallacies


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas,' quoth she, 'what hapless woe is mine
Last Line: And my life's crown will be a crown of sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Complaints


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 62, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, fortunate that leagues of foam divide
Last Line: Aloof, afar, his sentinel watch he kept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A GOLDEN HEART, WORN ROUND HIS NECK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembrancer of joys long passed away
Last Line: They're stifled by the pressure of his chain.
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TO BECOME A CREATOR, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a voice saying
Last Line: To the centre of all creation—to the heart indeed of all lovers.
Subject(s): Creation; Emotions; God; Humanity


TROUBLE WITH ANGER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Because I couldn't %hate %them
Subject(s): Anger; Arabs; Emotions; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


WHAT LOVE DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fused together, after years %and years of it, mostly the two legs
Last Line: Rough arms and straining legs of the other
Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Quarrels; Tears


WHAT STRUCK ME, by UNKNOWN+299    Poem Source                    
First Line: What struck me from the sound
Last Line: As though tears rose from green
Subject(s): Absence; Emotions; Grief; Love; Tears


WOOD/WOODCUT/WOULD, by SUSAN GRIMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The thing inside me is not an egg
Last Line: My spine start out like a dorsal fin
Subject(s): Emotions


WORDS, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always departing, or waiting to arrive, as inclining, rapture
Last Line: Dusk-lit, the trees seem ancient with their epic wings
Subject(s): Emotions; Language; Mouths


YOUR EYES, by PEARL A. WILCOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: If skies are grey or skies are blue
Last Line: In your eyes.
Subject(s): Emotions; Eyes; Vision