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Subject: IMPOTENCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRUELTY, by STEPHEN ORLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because we were all sweaty
Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Cruelty; Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Impotence; Dead, The


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If any hath the heart to kill
Last Line: Now though she sees, she'll not believe.
Subject(s): Impotence


IMPOTENCE SUBLIME, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like waves of ocean breaking
Last Line: With impotence sublime.
Subject(s): Impotence


PREMULA'S PROBLEM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quintius, her mentor, tries to make
Last Line: Himself in bed. It's quite a problem
Subject(s): Impotence


SEX, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the first few nights of the new year, a week
Last Line: In the night. The cat rubs against the man's legs
Subject(s): Sex; Aging; Impotence


THE DISAPPOINTMENT, by APHRA BEHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day the amorous lysander
Last Line: Had damned him to the hell of impotence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara
Subject(s): Desire; Impotence


THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms
Last Line: To do the wrong'd corinna right for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Impotence