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Subject: HERO-WORSHIP
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRAVE BEN HALL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all australian sons with me
Last Line: "the widow's friend in poverty - / bold ben hall, good-bye"
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hero-worship;heroism;murder; Sorrow;sadness;heroes;heroines


HERO-WORSHIP, by JULINE W. COMSTOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When mother tucked me into bed
Subject(s): Hero-worship; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974)


HERO-WORSHIP, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How would the centuries long asunder
Last Line: Peering among environing men, we might be free.
Subject(s): Hero-worship


HERO-WORSHIP, by ELVA SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: My star is brighter now than when my eyes
Last Line: But, oh, my star is beautiful tonight!
Subject(s): Hero-worship; Stars


HERO-WORSHIP; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A face seen passing in a crowded street
Last Line: Burns on, and it is much to have believed.
Subject(s): Hero-worship


POEMS FROM NA KEIKI O HAWAII: HERO WORSHIP, by BEATRICE KIRSTEN HOFGAARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mary felt the barber's shears
Last Line: "that's like the moon my uncle's got."
Subject(s): Hero-worship


THE CID AND THE JEW, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The cid, stern victor in each fight
Last Line: Entered a convent's gloom. Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hero-worship; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism


THE STREETS OF FORBES, by JOHN MCGUIRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all you lachlan men
Last Line: To show the prize they had!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Hero-worship; Heroism; Murder; Sorrow; Sadness; Heroes; Heroines


YOUR CRACKED HERO WORSHIP FOR MEN, by JUDSON CREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who are dead. While I
Subject(s): Hero-worship