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Subject: MODERATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 42, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though far from joy, my sorrows are as far
Last Line: Through the flowery banks, and still in the midst his course guideth.
Subject(s): Moderation


A LITTLE BREAD - A CRUST - A CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Must seek the neighboring life!
Subject(s): Food; Moderation


AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea that comes to the beach now softly
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Sun; Errors; Moderation; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Mistakes; Fallacies


BEWARE A GIRL WHO IS TOO READY, by RUFINUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Much. Never run to excesses
Subject(s): Moderation


EXCESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Excesse is sluttish: keepe the meane; for why?
Last Line: Vertue's clean conclave is sobriety.
Subject(s): Moderation


GRAND, by CAO PI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning let there be joy upon joy
Last Line: Calm and indifferent, they find nature's state, %what are glory and splendor to them?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Moderation


MODERATION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some fellows plead for just one of your glances
Last Line: All that I ask for is all that there is.
Subject(s): Moderation


MODERATION, by GRACE CAVALIERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: One cigarette a day
Last Line: Looking back at me on the porch %in the silence before the whistle
Subject(s): Moderation; Smoking


MODERATION, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in every generation do virtues long-descended
Subject(s): Moderation


MODERATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In things a moderation keepe
Last Line: Kings ought to sheare, not skin their sheepe.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Moderation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


MODERATION (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let moderation on thy passions waite
Last Line: Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.
Subject(s): Moderation


MODERATION IN DIET, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The drunkard's sin, excess in wine
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Moderation


NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 36TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let not thy impotent lust so powerful be
Last Line: Starves in his grave, being wretched when he's dead.
Subject(s): Lust; Moderation


ODE TO MODERATION, SELECTION, by ANNABELLA PLUMPTRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To thee, whose cautious step and specious air
Last Line: Then if thy victims pause, prepare th' eternal chain.
Subject(s): Moderation


PARADISE IS THAT OLD MANSION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bankrupt once through his excesses
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1119; Poem: 114
Subject(s): Moderation


RIGHT GIRL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rufinus advised thelon to beware a girl who seems
Last Line: As too much. Best, he said, never to run to excesses
Subject(s): Moderation; Pentastichs


SECOND BEST, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moderate tasks and moderate leisure
Last Line: Strongly stirs and truly burns!
Subject(s): Moderation


SONNET: OF MODERATION AND TOLERANCE, by GUIDO GUINIZELLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that has grown to wisdom hurries not
Last Line: Then judge not thou thy fellows what they are.
Subject(s): Moderation; Tolerance


TOO MUCH OF JOY IS SORROWFUL, by ALICE CARY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Happiness; Grief; Moderation