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Subject: MISANTHROPY
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GENE POOL, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He loves mankind but has contempt for man,
Last Line: Lie formulae for human-made machines.
Subject(s): Charity; Misanthropy


HERMITS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The more I see of people, the more I like my dog
Last Line: Hermits never know they’re dead till the roof falls in
Subject(s): Absence; Hermits; Misanthropy; Separation; Isolation


MISANTHROPE, by JOHN E. BARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why wander down life's sunny slope
Subject(s): Misanthropy


MISANTHROPE, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now you are buried, timon, is the darkness worse, or the light
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Misanthropy


MISANTROPE, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life at best %is but a jest
Last Line: Not nonsense proof %my own I am not shewing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Misanthropy


THE COMPLETE MISANTHROPIST, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to think of things I hate
Last Line: And what's more, I hate you.
Subject(s): Hate; Misanthropy


THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Avoid the reeking herd
Last Line: And disembodied bones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles; Misanthropy; Moles


THE MISANTHROPIST, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain thou bid'st me strike the lyre
Last Line: Here lies the pariah of his race.
Subject(s): Misanthropy