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Subject: SELF-DOUBT
Matches Found: 14

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits on the bed
Last Line: Unlike any other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Self-doubt; Sex


BELLS OF DUMBLETON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So frankly had the cowslips come
Last Line: Friend!
Subject(s): Bells; Religion; Self-doubt; Theology


DOUBTS, by PAT MORA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What if guys think I can't kiss because I can think?
Subject(s): Self-doubt; Kisses


GARDEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the wedding she glimpsed herself
Last Line: She didn't like the way %her bones were arranged.
Subject(s): Marriage; Self-doubt


I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Do it anymore
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Mirrors; Nature; Self-doubt


MIRRORS, by PAT MORA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandma makes me mad
Subject(s): Grandparents; Beauty; Self-doubt; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not easy to love oneself
Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt; Parenthood; Students


OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not easy to love oneself
Last Line: His bloody march across mexico
Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt


SKETCH FOR A JOB APPLICATION BLANK, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My left eye is blind and jogs like
Last Line: Warmth, more warmth, I cry.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Self-doubt; Heritage; Heredity; Work; Workers


SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a poem for tom
Last Line: For all of the good providers
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow


THE STRANGER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A crisis came. Before I could dart
Last Line: A person ran whom I did not know.
Subject(s): Self-doubt


TOES, by FREYA MANFRED    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman lost both her big toes
Last Line: Beneath the brussel sprouts %seventy-two toes under
Subject(s): Accidents; Self-doubt; Toes


WORK, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The work, which no one asked me to do
Last Line: And start all over again
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self-doubt; Writing And Writers


WRITTEN IN HER FRENCH PSALTER, by ELIZABETH I    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No crooked leg, no bleared eye
Last Line: As in the inward suspicious mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Self-doubt