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Subject: FORTITUDE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAIDEN'S DREAM, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought, in slumber as I lay and dreamt
Last Line: That I awoke and start out of my dream.
Subject(s): Fortitude; Hospitality; Justice; Prudence; Religion; Temperance; Wealth; Caution; Theology; Prohibition; Riches; Fortunes


AFTER, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The space we feel inside us
Subject(s): Self; Fortitude


ELEGIAC SONNET: 35. TO FORTITUDE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nymph of the rock! Whose dauntless spirit braves
Last Line: Thou and mild hope shall teach me how to die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Fortitude


ENDURANCE, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How much the heart may bear, and yet not break!
Last Line: Lo, all things can be borne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Fortitude


ENDURANCE, by PETER LANGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter - freezing cold and sharp winds that sweep
Last Line: Invigorates. Children rush to play in snow. %the tramp walkspast, his small steps forces and slow
Subject(s): Fortitude


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Afflictions sore long time we bore
Last Line: And ease us from our pain
Subject(s): Epitaphs;fortitude


FABLE: NEPTUNE AND THE MARINERS, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When sore calamities we feel,
Last Line: The gallant george in safety rides.
Subject(s): Fables; Fortitude; Pain; Perseverance; Allegories; Suffering; Misery


FORTITUDE, by PAUL BACHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Giants will come
Subject(s): Fortitude


FORTITUDE, by BEATRICE MCKNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knew the time would come for you to go
Subject(s): Fortitude


FORTITUDE, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The way of fortitude is set
Subject(s): Fortitude


FORTITUDE, by EDNA DAVIS ROMIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: When life's hostile forces move against my
Subject(s): Fortitude


FORTITUDE, by JUAN R. SEQUEIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On occasions %fighting forces
Last Line: Never give up!
Subject(s): Fortitude


FORTITUDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I hold it sinful to despond
Subject(s): Fortitude


FORTITUDE INCARNATE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Suit me at a venture %better than the tombs
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1217; Poem: 125
Subject(s): Fortitude


IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you
Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son!
Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


NEVERTHELESS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've seen a strawberry
Variant Title(s): It Is Late, I Can Wait
Subject(s): Fortitude; Fruit


NEVERTHELESS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've seen a strawberry
Last Line: Went through that little thread %to make the cherry red!
Variant Title(s): It Is Late, I Can Wai
Subject(s): Fortitude; Fruit


PRAYER, by FANNIE H. GOSLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear god, please walk beside me
Last Line: Thy guidance and blessing I seek.
Subject(s): Fortitude; Prayer


RENEWAL, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the young phoenix, duteous to his sire
Last Line: To the enchanting miracles of change.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Fortitude


RESOURCES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late may remakes the park, even
Last Line: Fence railings, one pigeon on promenade
Subject(s): Fortitude; Life; Summer


SONNET, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart be brave, and do not falter so
Last Line: There is a power making for the right
Subject(s): Fortitude; Hope; Morality; Love; Optimism; Ethics


THE WINNERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the moral? Who rides may read
Last Line: He travels the fastest who travels alone!
Subject(s): Fortitude


WHITNEY YOUNG, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whitney, you were a candid structure hulking in event
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Fortitude; Young, Whitney Moore, Jr. (1921-1971)


WHITNEY YOUNG, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whitney, you were a candid structure hulking in event
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Fortitude; Young, Whitney Moore, Jr. (1921-1971)