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Subject: GENTILITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SIGH, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My wounded heart is sore
Last Line: A gentle touch.
Subject(s): Gentility; Pain; Sighs; Suffering; Misery


GENTILNESSE; MORAL BALADE OF CHAUCER, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The firste stok, fader of gentilesse
Last Line: Al were he mytre, croune, or diademe.
Subject(s): Gentility


HIS STORY, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had gone to visit a once-famous pianist, now blind and living in
Last Line: Days without food that he was weak and nearly fainting from hunger
Subject(s): Gentility; Marriage; Touch (sense)


IF EVER THERE WAS ONE, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She could tell he loved her. He wanted her there
Subject(s): Clergy; Marriage; Gentility; Sex; Desire; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LITTLE FINGERS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little hands and dimpled fingers
Last Line: That shall echo through your dreams.
Subject(s): Children; Gentility; Kindness; Love; Prayer; Childhood


MY GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I own a dog who is a gentleman
Last Line: God grant I may be worthy of my dog!'
Subject(s): Animals;dogs;friendship;gentility;honesty;loyalty


PSALM: 2, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do the gentils tumults make
Last Line: That do on him their trust repose.
Subject(s): Fear; Gentility; God; Nations; Religion; Theology


THE GENTLE LIFE; IN MEMORIAM, REV. J.V. CLANCY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This privilege was mine,--I knew the man
Last Line: Have felt the warmth of his. God loved this man.
Subject(s): Gentility; Mourning; Praise; Bereavement


THE VULGAR LITTLE LADY, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But mamma, now,' said charlotte. 'pray don't you believe'
Last Line: "that the truest gentility lies. "
Subject(s): Gentility


TO MISS --, THEN TWO YEARS OLD, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet blossom, opening to the beams of day!
Last Line: To endless peace, and purest bliss above.
Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Gentility; Innocence; Youth; Infants


TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no sound upon the night
Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses