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Subject: FINALITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN: L'ENVOI, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We've finished up the filthy war
Last Line: And so here ends my book.
Subject(s): Finality; Paris, France; Victory; War


BAR-ROOM BALLADS: L'ENVOI, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more my sheaf of songs I tie
Last Line: To meet at last the swinging scythe
Subject(s): Finality


FINALE, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The corn thought it would never die
Last Line: While we finish singing %explain if you will life's red
Subject(s): Finality


FINIS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The end at last! The journey is completed
Last Line: Sweet revelation of the book of life.
Subject(s): Death; Finality; Dead, The


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1777, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again imperial winter's sway
Last Line: And our great cement be—the public good.
Subject(s): Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Finality; Great Britain - Rulers; Holidays; New Year


OLD ENDING, by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: So that's our parting, and our shining pain
Last Line: But I am weary with remembering!
Subject(s): Finality


ON THE DEATH OF MARY COWDEN CLARKE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She who saw blue-eyed shelley plain is gone
Last Line: Now that their last contemporary dies.
Subject(s): Clarke, Mary Cowden (1809-1898); Death; Finality; Funerals; Grief; Loss; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


SIGNS, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes when a customer in a shadowy restaurant
Last Line: The word end printed %in ornate capitals?
Subject(s): Books; Finality


THE END OF THE ROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a thing is true
Last Line: And a man will be going away!
Subject(s): Finality


THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea
Last Line: But god who made me so?
Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The


THE LAST POEM IN THE WORLD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I write it if I could?
Last Line: Bet your glitzy ass I would.
Subject(s): Finality; Poetry & Poets


VII. (PARTISAN OF EROTIC ABSOLUTISM), by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Partisan of erotic absolutism, reticent megalomaniac even among the diving
Last Line: To my temples, I watch myself in profile and await the spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Finality


WORDS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds
Last Line: But god himself can't kill them once they're said
Subject(s): Finality;language; Words;vocabulary