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Subject: PREDESTINATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANOTHER ON PREDESTINATION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou not destin'd? Then, with hast, go on
Last Line: To change, or call back, his past sentences.
Subject(s): Predestination


DISAPPOINTMENT, by EDITH LILLIAN YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Disappointment - his appointment'
Last Line: Let me answer, unrepining - %father, 'not my will, but thine'
Subject(s): Predestination; Religion


GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSE OUT, by ARTHUR CAMPBELL AINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: God is working his purpose out as year succeeds to year
Subject(s): Predestination


GOD'S PLANS, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley
Subject(s): Predestination


LIFE AND THE WEAVER, by EDWARD HARTLEY DEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life us a woven fabric
Subject(s): Predestination; Weavers And Weaving


PREDESTINATION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Predestination is the cause alone
Last Line: Of many standing, but of fall to none.
Subject(s): Predestination


PREDESTINATION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no peace for the blowing leaf
Last Line: That he shapes his ways to his own desire.
Subject(s): Fate; Predestination; Destiny


PREDESTINATION, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the hoof of the wild goat up-tossed
Subject(s): Predestination


PREDESTINATION, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know how much the wood thrush knows
Subject(s): Predestination


PREDESTINATION, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O love, thou art - so runs a tradition
Subject(s): Predestination


SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 1. SYCHOMANCY-DIVINATION WITH LEAVES OF....., by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am particularly fond of figs
Last Line: Epithelium, is saying: yes
Subject(s): Fig Trees; Magic; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Predestination; Prophets And Prophecy; Superstition


SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 7. HEPATOMANCY-LIVER GAZING, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a long history of it: foretelling
Last Line: Waiting to unfold, %some hidden wisdom
Subject(s): Future; Predestination; Prophets And Prophecy


SIN (6), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone
Last Line: Our destination to eternall woe.
Subject(s): Hell; Predestination; Sin


THE BODING DREAMS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In lover's ear a wild voice cried
Last Line: The murder's done.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Murder; Predestination; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE SUBALTERNS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor wanderer,' said the leaden sky
Last Line: They owned their passiveness.
Subject(s): Predestination


THE VISION OF JESUS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetest son, what dost thou see?
Last Line: The shadows of three gaunt crosses fall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Predestination; Vision; Women - Bible; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary


THOUGHTS ON PREDESTINATION AND REPROBATION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flatter me not with your predestination
Last Line: Cætera desunt.
Subject(s): Fate; Predestination; Destiny


WESTERN APPROACHES, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As long as we look forward, all seems free
Last Line: In a far country, once upon a time, %there lived a certain man and he had three sons...
Subject(s): Predestination