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Subject: MATURITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GENTLE ART, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been learning how to light a fire
Subject(s): Growth; Maturity


A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have they gone to - the little girls
Last Line: "who knows not the meaning of ""flirt"" or ""style"
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Girls; Innocence; Maturity


A MAN OF FORTY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood in childhood's narrow vale
Last Line: On one of forty.
Subject(s): Aging; Children; Maturity; Childhood


A MORAL EMBLEM OF MATURITY, by ROBERT NATHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man grows up
Last Line: About myself.
Subject(s): Maturity; Solitude; Loneliness


A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn
Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour!
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AD ASTRA: 111, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For mark the savage with his simple wants
Last Line: And so a thousand years he will remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Maturity


ADOLESCENCE, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: White morning, like a frosted window-pane
Last Line: Was dark with secrets as the depths below.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Growth; Maturity; Time; Youth; Teen Agers


APPLICANT, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The past's
Last Line: We stood, shook hands. %I promised to be quick with an answer
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Maturity


BROTHER AND SISTER, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot choose but think upon the time
Last Line: I would be born a little sister there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Variant Title(s): "i Cannot Choose But Think Upon The Time"";
Subject(s): Adolescence; Brothers & Sisters; Evans, Isaac; Family Life; Maturity; Memory; Teen Agers; Relatives


CULTIVATED GROUND, by KJELL HJERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When young, one is fearful of being influenced
Last Line: With a jerk of the arm uniquely one's own
Subject(s): Maturity


FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 4. MANHOOD, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep and wake and work
Last Line: For I dream of the roving still!
Subject(s): Maturity


FOR A CERTAIN BELOVED GENTLEMAN, by MARGARET E. BRUNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Although the world may think of you as old
Last Line: Will surely dwell in peace through all his days.
Subject(s): Aging; Maturity


FUTURES, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He wouldn't take off his coat or hat, his aunt charity says, but he
Last Line: Nothing %to change or predict
Subject(s): Caregivers; Future; Love; Maturity


GEMINI AND VIRGO, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some vast amount of years ago
Last Line: Forgiveness to the heartless anna.
Variant Title(s): Tommy's First Love
Subject(s): Children; Maturity


GENTLE ART, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been learning how to light a fire
Last Line: Like a child grown up, growing strange
Subject(s): Growth; Maturity


GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake
Last Line: Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Education; Faith; Growth; Maturity; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Belief; Creed; Students; Educators; Professors


GROWING UP, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am reading li po. The t.V. Is on
Last Line: Then turn it off and go on reading
Subject(s): Television; Maturity; Books


GROWING UP, by IVA KOTRLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the years %when the secret police
Last Line: And spoke to us %gently, like a mother
Subject(s): Aging; Human Rights; Maturity


HUGE WINGS FOR A FRAIL BODY, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: When day approached evening the dusk gathered round a pink doll's
Last Line: What did it resemble? Huge wings for a frail body
Subject(s): Growth; Maturity; Wings


I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I beg what I love and %I leave to forgive me
Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Holidays; Maturity; New Year


IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you
Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son!
Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LINES ON REACHING MATURITY, by LEITH SHACKEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not weep for days that now are past
Last Line: I do not weep for days that now are past.
Subject(s): Maturity


LONELY MATURITY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When from the key-stone of the arch of life
Last Line: "and once for all my ancient love regain!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Maturity


MATURITY, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is companioned secretly
Last Line: Figures of his yesterdays.
Subject(s): Maturity


MATURITY, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seeing the fury of the rushing rain
Last Line: Pools whose quiet flow sustains an ocean.
Subject(s): Maturity; Nature; Youth


MOTHER, by BEA LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish that I could talk with her again
Last Line: You're a big girl now. You can work things out
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Maturity


OLD-FASHIONED LADIES (TO THE MEMORY OF MY GREAT-AUNT, MADAME K-), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ample hall, a stair with wide
Last Line: That quaintness, calm and fine, god knows!
Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Maturity; Relationships; Relatives


ON CHANGE OF OPINIONS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As you advance in years you long
Last Line: To rake into his bag of nought.
Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Growth; Longing; Maturity; Childhood; Dead, The


ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek
Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong?
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth


ON YOUR TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by ADRIAN F. NADER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think I knew, beloved
Last Line: Content together....
Subject(s): Maturity


PASSAGE, by MATTHEW JAMES BABCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I hear that over the last three months
Last Line: Head a purple menagerie of fourteen new finches
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Ecuador; Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Maturity; Teenagers


PRIZE WATERMELON, by JAMES O'HERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I carry a huge striped watermelon
Last Line: In which I drop the watermelon
Subject(s): Maturity


PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember a problem in a math book
Last Line: And know what I did well and what I did not fo. Amen
Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology


PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember a problem in a math book
Last Line: And what I did well and what I didn't amen
Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion


RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: How good our every festival appears
Last Line: And to receive — in knowing how to give.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants


SIDE BY SIDE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does it mean to be mature?
Last Line: I'm all out of them
Subject(s): Maturity


SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So we'll go no more a-roving
Last Line: By the light of the moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Aging; Ennui; Maturity; Conduct Of Life


STILL AT TIME I'M A DUMB LITTLE BOY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wanting to give the family a fish dinner
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Boys; Ignorance; Innocence; Maturity; Nature


TEMPERATE ZONE, by WILLIAM AIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this waterfront resort where love
Last Line: A mist on a quiet wharf %that will rise and clear by noon
Subject(s): Maturity


THE ENDURING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in an hour the meadows bright with gold
Last Line: Yet cannot break their timeless influence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Maturity; Old Age


THE LIGHT THAT NEVER DIES, by SIEG HALBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: From boyhood to manhood we grow
Last Line: It is the light which never dies.
Subject(s): Aging; Life; Maturity


THE LITTLE SEED SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder if the people know
Last Line: The fifth or sixth or seventh day!
Subject(s): April; Growth; Maturity


THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years
Last Line: Onward in faith—and leave the rest to heaven.
Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips


THE WATCHMAN AND THE NIGHT: THE WATCHMAN, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through jewelled windows in the wall
Last Line: A prisoner of the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Maturity


TO A LADY ON COMING OF AGE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear not my frequent verse may raise
Last Line: A crown as bright as love does now.
Subject(s): Maturity


TO A WOMAN, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I think that you were born mature
Last Line: But only be the happiest of fools.
Subject(s): Maturity; Women


TO EDITH SOUTHEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Edith! I brought thee late a humble gift
Last Line: Robert southey.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Maturity; Poetry & Poets; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO HYMEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame
Last Line: Nor knows the dread of death.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Faith; Friendship; God; Humanity; Life; Love; Maturity; Inspiration; Creativity; Belief; Creed


TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies
Last Line: To slumber in the tomb.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The


TRILOGY, by ANN STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child - I chased the butterfly through sunlight
Last Line: To meet -- nothing?
Subject(s): Maturity


TWENTY-ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dossing it here in the model, dreary, bedraggled, / dry
Last Line: ^1^ let him drink and forget his proverty.— prov. Xxxi., 7.
Subject(s): Maturity; Youth


VIOLET: 5. AT SEVENTEEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were a child, and liked me, yesterday
Last Line: Fearing to meet the woman of your eyes.
Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Maturity; Teenagers


WORLD OUTSIDE, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue '86 chevy-side truck is his job corps graduation
Last Line: Patient and quiet and loving and... %well, you get the picture
Subject(s): Caregivers; Independence; Labor And Laborers; Maturity


YOU ARE NEVER READY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In four minutes you will be gone and I must tell you why
Last Line: Get out of this fucking world %as fast as you can
Subject(s): Independence; Life; Maturity; Self-love