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Subject: PROMISES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEEP-SWORN VOW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Others because you did not keep
Last Line: Suddenly I meet your face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Promises


A PROMISE TO PAY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said dick, 'the ten pound which you lent t'other day
Last Line: "as much in the shape of ten pound as you can."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Money; Promises


I HAVE NEVER PROMISED ANYTHING, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Let hearten a beaten chance. Let me have a fever. %vive la france
Subject(s): Democracy; Promises


NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas but a month ago to-day
Last Line: For, ——— me, I'll not swear.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Promises; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


PROMISES: 1. WHAT WAS THE PROMISE THAT SMILED FROM THE MAPLES AT EVENNG?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To a place of ruined stone we brought you, and sea reaches
Subject(s): Promises


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 56, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bridge I must cross over
Last Line: I wonder whether I'll hold it
Subject(s): Promises


THE ASSIGNATION, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every vow I kept
Last Line: Inside of you
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Promises; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE SOUL OF A PROMISE, by E. DORCAS PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked a green-edged path that led
Last Line: The soul had flown!
Subject(s): Promises


UNDER SATURN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not because this day I have grown saturnine
Last Line: November 1919
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Home; Promises; Writing & Writers


WAITING FOR ICARUS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He said he would be back and we'd drink wine together
Subject(s): Icarus; Waitiing; Promises; Inventions & Inventors


WE'VE MADE A LOT OF OXYMORONIC PROMISES, by DARA WIER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We've made a lot of promises. I suspect we've kept many secrets
Subject(s): Promises


WINTER PROMISES, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby's buttocks,
Subject(s): Winter; Tomatoes; Promises