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Subject: GOOD SAMARITAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAVOR OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank you for making this sacrifice,'
Subject(s): Markets; Accidents; First Aid; Good Samaritan; Supermarkets


A PRAYER, by CLARENCE M. BURKHOLDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord, let not my religion be
Last Line: And neighbor unto every man.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Good Samaritan; Prayer


A SEASONABLE MORAL, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman sang her ballad to the sky
Last Line: The chance is such as you ought not to take.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gifts & Giving; Good Samaritan; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AIR OF PERFORMANCE - AT LIANCOURT, by ARMAND SCHWERNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is common in the evocations of ritual
Last Line: That his ccxviieme reflexion morale is not about -- anything
Subject(s): Good; Good Samaritan


GOOD SAMARITAN ET AL., by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The priest, the levite, the samaritan, and the man who fell
Last Line: Aside, for a parable's sake. And without the parable, I would %never have been saved
Subject(s): Good Samaritan


GOOD SAMARITANS, by JACK BERNIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The headlines in the newspaper
Last Line: Police are good samaritans.'
Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Police


HYMN: THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who yonder on the desert heath
Last Line: "such be thy gratitude!"
Subject(s): Good Samaritan


IN MEMORIAM, REV. HENRY E. WARREN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The kindest man
Last Line: The man whose heart was kind.
Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Kindness


NOTTMAN, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That was nottman waving at me
Last Line: "of red, nottman always shut off the steam."
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Variant Title(s): How Little Tom Was Saved
Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Railroads; Railways; Trains


ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion; Theology


ONE: 28, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man who had fallen among thieves
Last Line: A million billion trillion stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Bible; Good Samaritan; Religion


PARABLE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young man who had great possessions dreamed
Last Line: Ever went empty-handed from his door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Jesus Christ; Poverty


SONG OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of the good samaritan, of pity and the fixed stars
Last Line: Where the mocked, unpremeditated bowl of the hand %makes the world nothing, pouring in oil and wine
Subject(s): Good Samaritan


THE BIG GAME, by ALEX. C. D. NOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I may save a million pounds
Last Line: And know I once was there.
Subject(s): Fullness; Good Samaritan; Humanity; Life; Satiation


THE CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was only the clinging touch
Last Line: It hath made the whole day sweet.
Subject(s): Children; Good Samaritan; Touch (sense); Childhood


THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who bleeds in the desert, faint, naked, and torn
Last Line: Than that which is tendered to anguish and woe.
Subject(s): Cuthites (samaria); Good Samaritan


THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by ORVILLE LAWRENCE KUHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though priests and levites riding by
Last Line: The good samaritan!
Subject(s): Good Samaritan


THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh that thy creed were sound
Last Line: When comes a foe, my wounds with oil and wine to tend.
Subject(s): Catholics; Good Samaritan; Travel; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Journeys; Trips


THE GOOD SAMARITAN ET AL., by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The priest, the levite, the samaritan, and the man who fell
Subject(s): Good Samaritan


WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who is my neighbor? He of whom 'tis said
Last Line: To prove my love to them in everything.
Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Love; Neighbors