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Subject: PERMANENCE
Matches Found: 7

FIRST POEM FOR YOU, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to touch your tatoos in complete
Last Line: So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Permanence; Tattoos


PERMANENT, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind blew me from the porch
Last Line: That's going to be permanent
Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Grandparents; Hair; Permanence


SONG'S ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is song's eternity?
Last Line: Eternity.
Subject(s): Birds; Permanence


THE SENSITIVE PLANT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sensitive plant in a garden grew
Last Line: No light, being themselves obscure.
Variant Title(s): To The Sensitive Plant;a Garden
Subject(s): Permanence; Plants; Women; Planting; Planters


THE THINGS THAT ENDURE, SELECTION, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What wish you, immortality?
Last Line: But footsteps in the sand—endure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Immortality; Permanence


THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again
Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle --
Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence


WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by ETHELYN M. HARTWICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great roads the romans built that men might meet
Last Line: The walls are fallen, but the roads endure.
Subject(s): Permanence; Roads; Roman Empire; Walls; Paths; Trails