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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SUPPLICATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, we whose sturdy sires
Last Line: Turn thou our souls from the dread glamour -- gold!
Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Humanity; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology


AVARICE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: And truly yesterday / I did suspect as much: away
Last Line: Midst monsters, thou must monster be.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


AVARICE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Money, thou bane of bliss and source of woe
Last Line: And, while he digs out thee, falls in the ditch.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


AVARICE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At six she chewed off
Last Line: She counts eight engagement rings %at least twelve times each day
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Evil; Greed; Sadism


AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell)
Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief!
Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect


BACK STREETS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You that have gazed long on the city's splendour
Last Line: And the earth is as if it ne'er had been.
Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity


COLOR IT GOLD, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are killing the geese
Last Line: The lust and greed of their captors
Subject(s): Greed; Social Protest


CON BRIO, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miserly, is the best description of that poor fool
Last Line: Mounted, if god was willing, on a good steed.
Subject(s): Lancelot Du Lac; Greed


DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF AMERICA, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then first columbus, with the mighty hand
Last Line: His gold and he were every nation's prey.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


DO NOT COVET, by IRMA RICE MAYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away back in the time of moses
Last Line: "pray for ""peace on earth"" to stay."
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


DRY SPRING, by VICTOR MONTEJO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Natural resources %in the bosom of the earth
Last Line: Dries up %high in the mountain
Subject(s): Greed


EMPIRE BUILDING, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Somehow I never liked you, john, your ways were crude
Last Line: Your smile is pharisaical, your manners rude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Greed; Hate; Selfishness; Avarice; Cupidity


ENTERTAINMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wouldst know what entertainment I expect?
Last Line: As for thy meat, I shall but count it sauce.
Subject(s): Friendship; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


FABLES: 1ST SER. 12. CUPID, HYMEN AND PLUTUS, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As cupid in cythera's grove
Last Line: Must still be coupled with its cares.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


FOR WHAT?, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For what did the unknowns toil and bleed?
Last Line: Speed. Greed. Speedgreed.
Subject(s): Greed; History; Pain; Progress


GOLD HAIR; A STORY OF PORNIC, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the beautiful girl, too white
Last Line: The corruption of man's heart.
Subject(s): Death; Hair; Greed; Christianity; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity


GOLD IN THE MOUNTAIN, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And unsatisfied men
Subject(s): Greed


GREED, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which of the seven deadly sins is worst?
Last Line: And to this end kindly became a father
Subject(s): Greed; Sin


GREED, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Painted on a wall on 20th and grant—just the word
Last Line: Greed, said calmly, without inflection
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


GREEDINESS PUNISHED, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the cloister grabow, in the land of usedom
Last Line: They might have been contented!
Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund
Subject(s): Fables; Greed; Allegories; Avarice; Cupidity


GREEDY MAN AND THE ENVIOUS MAN, by RUFUS FESTUS AVIENUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who can read the riddle of men's peculiar minds
Last Line: Disgusted and angry, apollo returned to report to the gods %who wept to hear his words about mankind
Alternate Author Name(s): Avianus
Subject(s): Greed


GREEDY RICHARD, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think I want some pies this morning
Last Line: "to give to those who want it more. "
Subject(s): Boys; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


GREEDY TOM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jimmy the mowdy / made a great crowdy
Last Line: He supped it all
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice;cupidity


HISTORY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Very few want to read history,' the teacher said
Last Line: Greed is always staring straight ahead.'
Subject(s): Ambition; Greed; History; Teaching And Teachers


IN THE IMPERATIVE MOOD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the man who has and doesn't give
Last Line: Gather rubies from the air!
Subject(s): Generosity; Gifts & Giving; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


INFLATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The unknowns enrich the grass
Last Line: Inflate the bellies of the famous.
Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Poverty


INSATIABLENESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No walls confine! Can nothing hold my mind
Last Line: One infinite.
Subject(s): Greed; Soul; Avarice; Cupidity


LA RONDE DU DIABLE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we go round the ivy-bush
Last Line: Does it matter at all that we don't know why?
Subject(s): Adversity; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


LEARNING AND RICHES, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should the world be apt to censure me?
Last Line: Of golden truth a glory unsurpassed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz
Subject(s): Greed; Love; Vanity; Avarice; Cupidity


LET US TAKE LEAVE OF HASTE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us take leave of haste awhile
Last Line: Come, comrade, let us try!
Subject(s): Calm; Greed; Haste; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Avarice; Cupidity


MAMMON'S PLEA: A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many seeming weak acts by contrivance are done
Last Line: "may'r, aldermen, burgesses, town-clerk, and all."
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Devil; Greed; Law & Lawyers; Story-telling; Wills; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Avarice; Cupidity


MARIE MIGNOT, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss marie mignot was a nice little maid
Last Line: But the mother of half-a-score little lagardies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Marriage; Greed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Avarice; Cupidity


MENU, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The defendant eats a sardine
Last Line: Prisons are for the poor.
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Greed; Law And Lawyers; Poverty; Prisons And Prisoners


MITCHING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The leaf scuttles across the schoolyard
Last Line: A dot com millionaire.
Subject(s): Ambition; Boys; Greed


OCTAVES: 23, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn
Last Line: Forever from the crumbled wharves of time.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


ODE II, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear youth, to hoarded wealth a foe
Last Line: And spurn that wealth which misers prize.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Greed; Virtue; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes


OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All human race, from china to peru
Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence!
Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips


OKLAHOMA, by STELLA B. REDDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oklahoma, youngest state of the west
Last Line: Oklahoma.
Subject(s): Greed; Oklahoma; Petroleum; Avarice; Cupidity; Oil


OL' DOC' HYAR, by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ur ol' hyar lib in ur house on de hill
Last Line: Een de mighty fine house on de mighty high hill!
Subject(s): African Americans; Greed; Gullahs; Negroes; American Blacks; Avarice; Cupidity


ON GOLD, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This glitt'ring metal, dazzler of the eyes
Last Line: The more we drink of thee, the more we thirst.
Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


ONE THING OF IT WE BORROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The anguish of avarice %defrays the dross of it
Variant Title(s): Poem: 146
Subject(s): Greed


PROUD WERE YE, MOUNTAINS, WHEN, IN TIMES OF OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To share the passion of a just disdain
Subject(s): Greed; Nature; Railroads


REBUKE, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When admonition's hand essays
Last Line: Our missing purse.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On beds of daisies idly laid
Last Line: Meet to adore some calf of gold.
Subject(s): Greed; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Pleasure; Retirement; Avarice; Cupidity; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers


RICHES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O had I but ten thousand pounds a year!
Last Line: Is erning, thine doth only make thee spend.
Subject(s): God; Greed; Temptation; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes


SALT MERCHANT'S WIFE (IN HATRED OF PROFITEERS), by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The salt merchant's wife
Last Line: This happened not in the han alone, %it happens also now
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Greed; Hate


SONGS WITHOUT SHADOWS, by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day
Last Line: I don't know what I will shout in you streets
Subject(s): Death; Greed; Human Behavior; Wanderers And Wandering


STOLEN MONEY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stolen money softpedals the darkness
Last Line: And a slim man facing the door of hell %beats with a golden hammer.
Subject(s): Beauty; Crime And Criminals; Greed


THE AMERICAN PARABLE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good boys are we to have retrieved
Last Line: Each time heavier with gold / and less wieldly
Subject(s): United States; Greed; Social Commentaries


THE CHOICE OF KING MIDAS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King midas, prince of phrygia, several thousand years ago
Last Line: And that avarice, though it prosper, still contrives to cheat itself.
Subject(s): Greed; Midas; Avarice; Cupidity


THE GRAY INN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And at the last he came to a gray inn
Last Line: He knew his hand would do an evil thing.
Subject(s): Dreams; Gambling; Greed; Nightmares; Wagering; Betting; Avarice; Cupidity


THE GREEDY BOY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sammy smith would drink and eat
Last Line: Was often greedy sam.
Subject(s): Boys; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE HOARDINGS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When into the town I go
Last Line: Fresh from out the teeming earth!
Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity


THE KING'S GIFT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Teresa, ah, teresita! / now what has the messenger brought her
Last Line: Child, teresita!'
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Greed; Garibaldi, Guiseppe (1807-1882); Avarice; Cupidity


THE LAST MUSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply
Last Line: And I woke to the red burned acres, and knew that I had but dreamed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Cattle; Dreams; Drovers; God; Greed; Nightmares; Avarice; Cupidity


THE LEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They do zay that a travellen chap
Last Line: An' went vurder wi' them than a dreat.
Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Property; Roads; Social Protest; Avarice; Cupidity; Possessions; Paths; Trails


THE MISER; A MASQUE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come in
Last Line: [exeunt maskers singing.
Subject(s): Courtship; Crime & Criminals; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE NEW ARGONAUTS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the good ship sails!
Last Line: O cursed love of gold!
Subject(s): Fortune; Gold Mines & Miners; Greed; Sailing & Sailors; Avarice; Cupidity; Seamen; Sails


THE PILGRIMS OF THIBET, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the road to llassa
Last Line: Till we to nirvana come.
Subject(s): Greed; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Tibet; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 104, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich men met in an elegant hall
Last Line: Strange to begrudge leftover rays
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 153, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pettiness really gets petty
Last Line: Until they collapsed and both were ruined
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Laughter; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 186, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exhaust your mind for profit and fame
Last Line: Buried in a grave does it still exist
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 61, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see hundreds of dogs
Last Line: A pack of dogs can't share
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Dogs; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 77, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one kind of fool
Last Line: Tell him don't stay here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 78, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man descended from pride
Last Line: And never grows tired of meat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Pride; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 86, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many kinds of people exist
Last Line: And behold the thoughtless mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 87, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A greedy man who piles up wealth
Last Line: Flap your wings in the blue
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disasters; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 94, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wise man isn't greedy
Last Line: At all the mounds below the pines
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Mortality; Wisdom; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 21, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I advise the monks I meet
Last Line: Just let go and take what comes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Monks; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 37, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drunk on delusion greed and anger
Last Line: You learn to turn to yourself
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Greed; Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Buddha; Buddhists; Avarice; Cupidity; Suffering; Misery; Convicts


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 48, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For a mud ball dropped in water
Last Line: Then leave it all behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POORE MANS PART, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me rich man, for what intent
Last Line: Belongs all gold superfluous.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say that midas
Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity


THE SIZE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Content thee, greedie heart
Last Line: These seas are tears, and heav'n the haven.
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE WAY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By wisdom that cometh at night and by stealth
Last Line: To live in the unconfined.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom; Greed; Liberty; Avarice; Cupidity


THE WITCH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toil and grow rich
Last Line: With despair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Greed; Wealth


THESE LATTER DAYS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take down thy stars, o god! We look not up
Last Line: We read no sign. O god, take down thy stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): God; Greed; Stars; Avarice; Cupidity


TO A SILVER DOLLAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale coin, what various hands have you passed through
Last Line: "seem those fair, graven words: ""in god we trust."
Subject(s): Greed; Numismatics; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical; Riches; Fortunes


VERSES ON HENRY THE EIGHTH'S SEIZING THE ABBEY-LANDS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There liv'd a race to good charissa dear
Last Line: Forgetful of the blood that stain'd his fearful stream.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Greed; Grief; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness


WE WHO PRAYED AND WEPT, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We have failed thy grace. %lord, I flinch and pray, %send thy necessity
Subject(s): Greed


WHAT GOLD CANNOT BUY, by KATHERYN SWEET EASTERDAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A miser old
Last Line: To heaven's port beyond the sky.
Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes


WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We fancied he'd share in our cause. Instead
Last Line: That money was all he had ever earned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


WHEN PAY DAY COMES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When pay day comes what transports thrill
Last Line: When pay day comes!
Subject(s): Greed; Grief; Happiness; Money; Wages; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Salaries


WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask
Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology


WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask
Last Line: The world's pottage, the rat's star
Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion