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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, sweet christmas, blest be the morn
Last Line: And many without a blanket to their bed
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Kindness


A CONSIDERABLE SPECK, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A speck that would have been beneath my sight
Last Line: On any sheet the least display of mind
Subject(s): Kindness; Conduct Of Life


A FRIENDLY WORD, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
First Line: A friendly word is a sunshine broom
Last Line: A happy fdeel is in the air
Subject(s): Kindness


A GENTLE WORD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A kindly word and a tender tone
Last Line: By only a gentle word
Subject(s): Kindness


A GOOD CREED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If any little word of ours
Last Line: Shall reap from our glad sowing
Subject(s): Kindness


A KINDLY DEED, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thought flashed 'cross a kindly mind
Last Line: Proved but a friendly loan.
Subject(s): Kindness


A MONARCH'S DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A monarch on his deathbed lay
Last Line: Imperial albert died!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Albert I, King Of Germany (1255-1308); Assassination; Kindness; Women


A PURCHASE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was bent and feeble
Last Line: I bought a smile for dry discouraged lips.
Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age; Retail Trade; Women; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


A TALE OF CHRISTMAS EVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas christmastide in germany
Last Line: And bade the crowd good-night, then went home content.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Kindness; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


ACID EJACULATION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is always those
Last Line: With banana peel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Kindness


AD ASTRA: 76, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why thro' vast aeons was the light delay'd?
Last Line: And never a wind of grace blew from his throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Kindness; Religion; Theology


ALTRUISM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you have a friend worth loving
Last Line: "so until the happy end, / your life shall never lack a friend"
Variant Title(s): Speak Out;a Sermon In Rhyme;seeds Of Kindness;say It Now
Subject(s): Friendship;kindness


AMY'S CRUELTY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair amy of the terraced house!
Last Line: Till doted on for ever!'
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Nature Of; Kindness; Unkindness; Male-female Relations


APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the clumsy child
Last Line: To a continent dark with apples
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Desire; Fruit; Kindness; Trees


BALLAD OF UNCLE JOE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young - it seems as though
Last Line: Of poor old uncle joe.
Subject(s): Graves; Kindness


BE KIND, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not merely because henry james said
Subject(s): Kindness


BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who standeth at the gate? - a woman old
Last Line: And now at length thy sorrow is too late
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Kindness; Cruelty; Charity; Faith; Sin


BILLY THE KID OFFERS A KINDNESS TO AN OLD MAN AT GLORIETA, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a broken-down old man, a twist of rawhide. When you looked
Last Line: Whatever they were, should not be disturbed
Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott
Subject(s): Kindness


BLINDNESS HAS KINDNESS, by ALPHA SNYDER WODDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In life's blindness there is kindness
Last Line: To decide e'en our own fate.
Subject(s): Kindness


BUT I DO NOT NEED KINDNESS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known the strange nurses of kindness
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Kindness


BUT I DO NOT NEED KINDNESS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known the strange nurses of kindness
Last Line: Can I say people, sitting in parks, are kinder?
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Kindness


CHARITY, by LUELLA J. CASE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak kindly, oh speak soothingly
Last Line: A sadder on the mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bartlett, Luella
Subject(s): Kindness


CID AND THE LEPER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He has ta'en some twenty gentlemen, along with him to go
Last Line: He made his prayer right humbly, till dawned the morning clear
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Compassion; Friendship; Kindness


CONQUERED AT LAST, by MARIA LOUISA EVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You came to us once, o brothers, in wrath
Last Line: "and ""conquered by kindness"" we'll write on our heart."
Subject(s): Hearts; Kindness


CROSSROADS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I thought then of cophetua, the king
Last Line: But lacked the wisdom to be brave.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kindness; Love


EVERLASTING LOVE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more
Last Line: "sings on: -- ""god's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?"
Subject(s): God; Kindness; Love; Religion; Theology


FOR THE SAKE OF STRANGERS, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter what the grief, its weight
Last Line: And fall weightless, away from the world.
Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Sorrow; Sadness


FORTUNES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: This house is worth a thousand pounds
Last Line: With a fortune for each finger.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Kindness; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


GENEVA, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was famous for kindness, geneva
Last Line: And her dress all feathers and blood
Subject(s): Geneva, Switzerland; Kindness; Teaching And Teachers; Women


GOING TO THE POOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little maid tripped down the / street
Last Line: And wondered if the poor were I!
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Christmas; December; Kindness; Poverty; Philanthropy; Childhood; Nativity, The


GOOD MORNING, by AARON ANSTETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fifty-three years after the war a kamikaze lands in my yard
Last Line: I take him inside where he drinks a glass of water %it is clear it tastes nothing like the ocean
Subject(s): Kindness


GRECIAN KINDNESS: A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The utmost grace the greeks could shew
Last Line: Lulled her asleep, and then grew drunk.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Greece; Kindness; Greeks


HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax
Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women


HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax
Last Line: Cop-on-the-beat heart with its black billy club, %banging on the lid
Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women


HER DILEMMA; IN CHURCH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The two were silent in a sunless church
Last Line: Where nature such dilemmas could devise.
Subject(s): Death; Kindness; Dead, The


HOOK, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was only a young man
Last Line: But I took it
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Kindness; Phyusical Disabilities


I'LL STRETCH IT A LITTLE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry blast was fierce and cold
Last Line: Will find them amply wide for two
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Kindness


IMAGES: 1, by VALERY LARBAUD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day, in kharkov, in a crowded slum
Last Line: Level with the lips of the child who had kneeled to drink it.
Subject(s): Kindness; Russia; Thirst; Water; Women; Soviet Union; Russians


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


IN THE HOUR OF NEED, by LETO    Poem Text                    
First Line: D'ye see that shop at the corner, with the three balls
Last Line: There! That's the short of it, my lad,—and every word is true!
Subject(s): Jews; Kindness; Judaism


IN THE MASTER'S FOOTSTEPS, by DANIEL DE LA VEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Open your heart as if it were a hand
Last Line: Heaven's glory let them see!
Subject(s): Charity; Kindness


IN THE OASIS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a paradise of trees
Last Line: Within my mind these memories are.
Subject(s): Islands; Kindness; Oases; Sea Voyages


JANIE THOMAS, by JILL SPARGUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Janie thomas always shared
Last Line: And show us her harp and her wings.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Kindness; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise


JOHN ROBINSON, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come listen, friends, and hear a song,
Last Line: Let peace be e'er his rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Kindness


KIND, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think of my kindness which is tentative and quiet
Subject(s): Kindness; Relationships


KINDLY ADVICE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be kind to the panther! For when thou wert young
Subject(s): Advice;animals;kindness


KINDLY DEED, by FRED W. LEU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old gifts of frankincense and myrrh
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS, by CATHERINE DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your kindness is no kindness now
Last Line: To be again of a like mind
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In manhattan I learned a public kindness
Last Line: It might be better to turn us away
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Kindness; New York City


KINDNESS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One never knows
Last Line: Beyond the memory of him who gives.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One single word of heartfelt kindness
Last Line: Will be more than filled above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose eye with melting pity flows
Last Line: And what thou givest shall be thine.
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the beauty of kindness I speak
Last Line: Luxuriant and warm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before you know what kindness really is
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kindness glides about my house.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Kindness; Family Life; Relatives


KINDNESS, by IRA ROSENSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One inversion of the ugliness is kindness - brightening
Subject(s): Kindness


KINDNESS: THE I CHING, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: #name?
Last Line: Heaven under the lake
Subject(s): Kindness


KURAL: KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY, by TIRUVALLUVAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Greatest of all forms of wealth
Last Line: And never become great
Subject(s): Charity; Kindness


LET ME BE A GIVER, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God, let me be a giver, and not one
Last Line: Some lonely soul to bless.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Kindness


LITTLE FINGERS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little hands and dimpled fingers
Last Line: That shall echo through your dreams.
Subject(s): Children; Gentility; Kindness; Love; Prayer; Childhood


LODGING WITH THE OLD MAN OF THE STREAM, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men's hearts love gold and jade
Last Line: (arthur waley)
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 29, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me thou wert faithful and steady
Last Line: The kindness shown me at present!
Subject(s): Heaven; Kindness; Paradise


MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE, AND MY HEART, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Read kindness in our eyes and closed the match
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Eyes; Love – Beginnings; Kindness


NEVER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She watched him give his heart first, then his mind
Last Line: He'll never make a poet,' she said. 'too kind.'
Subject(s): Flirtation; Kindness; Love; Poetry And Poets; Relationships


NOBODY'S CHILD, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a newsboy, under the light
Last Line: "if one of these ""little ones"" be lost!"
Subject(s): Orphans; Kindness


OCTOBER, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crown of the year - thou golden fair october
Last Line: Let us—ah—let us profit by the grace!
Subject(s): Children; Gifts & Giving; Kindness; Childhood


ON PRESENTATION OF A LOVING CUP TO THE FORMER REGENT, MRS. ASHBURNER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sister, by many acts endeared
Last Line: Our hearts as theirs, forever bind.
Subject(s): Kindness; Love


ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I should like to be rich,' said young tom, with a sigh
Last Line: You will find that young tom is a true millionaire.
Subject(s): Kindness; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


OPEN THE DOOR, by FRANCISCO DE OCANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: O porter, ope the door for me!
Last Line: Beat on, - relieve the stranger's pain!
Subject(s): Kindness; Strangers


OUTGOING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I who have loved the wind
Last Line: Follow a day that's done.
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness


OVER THE WINTRY THRESHOLD, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the wintry threshold / who comes with joy today
Last Line: On that eternal breast.
Subject(s): Kindness


PROFUSE KINDNESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a spring-tide of love to dear friends in a shoal!
Last Line: Half of it to one were worth double the whole!
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness


PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY, 2D SERIES: THE ART OF GIVING, by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet heed thou wisely this; give seldom to thy better
Last Line: Work and wages make a light heart, but the mendicant asketh with a heavy spirit.
Subject(s): Kindness


RECIPROCAL KINDNESS THE PRIMARY LAW OF NATURE, by VINCENT BOURNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Androcles from his injured lord, in dread
Last Line: An enemy; she bids him spare a friend.
Subject(s): Nature; Kindness


RECOVERY ROOM, by BEN PASSIKOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Entering dimension, %I copied the mirror
Last Line: Inventing %its own air
Subject(s): Kindness; Sympathy


SMILE AND SPEAK KINDLY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smile and speak kindly, dear brother
Last Line: May win back their friendship again!
Subject(s): Kindness; Smiles


SONG FOR THE WEEPING GENTLEMEN, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a gentlemen o be gone, for the wind bows high
Last Line: O be gone, for the wind blows rough and this is bleak ohio.
Subject(s): Compassion; Kindness


SONG OF HANDS, by JESUS E. VALENZUELA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hands-like soft blossoming buds
Last Line: You shall that day hold the lyre!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Kindness; Prayer


SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 3, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On, on -- through many a dark and mounrful day
Last Line: And, shrinking back, it turned to that kind one, and smiled
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Mothers - Unwed


SPRING TO THE POORHOUSE, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once when spring came these eyes were lifted up
Last Line: Know only that she brings hot days, and flies.
Subject(s): Kindness; Poorhouses; Spring; Youth; Workhouses


STORIES OF THE CID, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barbey narrates, in verse well worth his prose
Last Line: And honey-sweetness in his soul that day
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Kindness; Knights And Knighthood; Poetry And Poets


TEKEL, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bare black branches of the almond-tree
Last Line: And tekel blaze across the wasted years.
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Kindness; Love; The Resurrection


THANK YOU, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O kindness, kindness, these virtues are
Subject(s): Kindness


THANKSGIVING HYMN, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O come let us sing to the lord a new song
Last Line: Yea, let ev'ry thing praise thee—amen, and amen.
Subject(s): Holidays; Kindness; Lord's Supper; Thanksgiving; Worship


THE CRIPPLED BEGGAR SPEAKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, peter was shaggy, his garments were coarse
Last Line: That he hadn't a penny that day!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Kindness; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE ETA, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I told you I was an eta I saw you start
Last Line: Or so you thought.
Subject(s): Japan; Kindness; Social Classes; Japanese; Caste


THE GOD OF NOON, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black goats I herded with my sister; they
Last Line: From him the cammomile's kind use I learned.
Subject(s): Kindness; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE GOOD, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the real good?
Last Line: "kindness is the word."
Variant Title(s): What Is Good?
Subject(s): Kindness


THE GOOD MAN OF ALLOA, by JAMES HOGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you never hear of a queer auld man
Last Line: "he proved a hypocrite!"
Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick
Subject(s): Charity; Hypocrisy; Kindness; Philanthropy


THE KIND WORD, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak kindly, wife, the little ones will grow
Last Line: Nerved me to courage, and I won at length.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Kindness


THE KIND WORD, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A friendly word that's kindly spoken is
Last Line: Men may be from gloom emerging, to take their places in the sun.
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Mankind; Human Race


THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 3, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mornings queene, to euery studious minde
Last Line: In hazle castles now to fence our ewes.
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Love


THE ORPHAN'S FRIEND, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all kind, good people
Last Line: For he says so in his word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Kindness


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 25, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keeping your mind wide-open
Last Line: They expect wealth and fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Generosity; Kindness; Virtue


THE RED BOX AT VESEY STREET, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past the red box at vesey street
Last Line: Through the red box at vesey street.
Subject(s): Homeless; Kindness; New York City - Streets; Poverty


THE ROSE'S MITE, by ABBY MARY HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lovely rose was nodding
Last Line: To help him on his way.
Subject(s): Happiness; Kindness; Joy; Delight


THE WEAK, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever the same - this love of the weak
Last Line: Who cannot say this, loving the weak?
Subject(s): Kindness; Pity


THE WORLD'S NEED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many gods, so many creeds; / so many ways that wind and wind
Last Line: Is all the sad world needs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Kindness


THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF BANTRY, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That judicious young person of bantry
Subject(s): Caregivers; Kindness


THESE FOLK OF NATURE, by LOUIS D. WEBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: One morning I was slumbering in my bed
Last Line: If the birds weren't here to lighten the spot.
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Usefullness


THIS IS NOT CALCUTTA, by BEATRIZ BADIKIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A scottish man knocks on a
Last Line: What can I do for you my brother %my sister?
Subject(s): Humanity; Kindness; Poetry And Poets


TO A FRIEND, by LENA MOORE FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within my heart a space was void
Last Line: For having you, my friend.
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness; Relationships; Sincerity


TO A FROG, by ROSS LAWRENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Welcome, unfailing herald of glad spring
Last Line: But only pride and ardor for the task at hand.
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness


TO E.N. (1), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out of the snare that the fool men set
Last Line: The fool of you all ... But at least your fool!
Subject(s): Advice; Friendship; Kindness


TO M.L.S., by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all who hail thy presence as the morning
Last Line: His spirit is communing with an angel's.
Subject(s): Kindness; Shew, Marie Louise


TO MR JAMES SCRYMGEOUR, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Success to james scrymgeour
Last Line: Because he is the poor man's friend.
Subject(s): Christianity; Kindness


TO MY FRIENDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know your kindness for me, o, my friends
Last Line: By all the wind and stars of night and day!
Subject(s): Curses; Friendship; Kindness; Love; Sea; Ocean


TRUE KINDNESS IS A PURE DIVINE AFFINITY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Superior to family and station
Subject(s): Kindness


UNSPOKEN WORDS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The kindly words that rise within the heart
Last Line: Will strike another when in turn you seek
Subject(s): Kindness;language; Words;vocabulary


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO LADY PENELOPE DYNHAM, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This muses story, that a princes cares
Last Line: William basse.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Kindness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


VILLANELLE OF TE 'GALLERY BOYS'; TO L.W. AND F.C.M.B., by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Light of heart, and joyous-lipped
Last Line: Nectar 'mongst 'the gods' I sipped!
Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness


WHEN I WAS A REFUGEE, by BEATRICE JEAN K. BOROFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: She clasped my hand, this good samaritan
Last Line: My strength is god. He is my staff, my power.
Subject(s): Kindness; Refugees; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


WHY I WORK, by JEFF WALT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every day I tie on an apron, wrap the long
Last Line: From the heat of my t-shirt and remind me
Subject(s): Hearts; Kindness; Love - Marital


YOUR KINDNESS IS CRUEL, by PETER MCWILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Easy to take, %but your %no now. %ow
Subject(s): Kindness


ZEN OF TIPPING, by JAN BEATTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friend lou %used to walk up to strangers
Last Line: Or just fun - the tenderness %we forget in each other
Subject(s): Gratuities; Kindness