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Subject: INTOLERANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl
Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bias; Intolerance


BOY'S RIGHTS, by CARRIE L. MAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder now if any one
Last Line: Wrongs will be righted then.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Equality; Prejudice; Childhood; Bias; Intolerance


ELEGY WRITTEN AFTER READING THE 'SORROWS OF WERTER', by ROBERT MERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas, poor werter! To himself a prey
Last Line: He lost that charlotte, and he sought for rest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Prejudice; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness; Bias; Intolerance


FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is not right to judge a man
Last Line: May also come to like him too!
Subject(s): Prejudice; Bias; Intolerance


INTOLERANCE, by RAY TRUM NATHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou canst have no other god but mine
Last Line: My god, and mine's alone divine.
Subject(s): Jews; Prejudice; Judaism; Bias; Intolerance


PREJUDICE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A leaf may hide the largest star
Last Line: A world of charity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Prejudice; Bias; Intolerance


THE COLOR SERGEANT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a burning tropic sun
Last Line: Yet true, in death, to his duty.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Fights; Prejudice; San Juan Hill, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); Bias; Intolerance


TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town
Last Line: Fer theyr gran'pap to waller 'em round!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Forests; Prejudice; Urban Life; Woods; Bias; Intolerance


WOLVERINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes sir, it's quite a story though you won'r bwlieve it's true
Last Line: "I peered into the face—my god! 'twas poor old wolverine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Prejudice; Salvation; Trapping & Trappers; Wolves; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bias; Intolerance; Traps; Snares; Trappers