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Subject: SELF-LOVE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AD ASTRA: 149, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sceptic warns us that the christian creed
Last Line: Until we lay them at our master's feet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Christianity; Self-love


ALCIDA: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bird of juno glories in his plumes
Last Line: Makes beauty wreck against an ebbing tide.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Peacocks; Self-love


LINES FOR WINTER, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell yourself / as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
Subject(s): Winter; Self-love


LOVE AFTER LOVE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time will come
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Drinks & Drinking; Self-love; Wine


LOVE THYSELF LAST. LOOK NEAR, BEHOLD THE DUTY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all god's joys shall be at thy command
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Self-love


RIDDLE OF GOD, by PAUL SOUTHWORTH BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Riders three and they leaped away
Last Line: Nor the black needed whip or goad.
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Self-love


SELFLOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: To love thy neighbour as thy self, will prove
Last Line: By self-loves rule mayst charity bestow.
Subject(s): God; Self-love; Soul


TO CHARIESSA, BEHOLDING HERSELF IN A GLASS, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cast, chariessa, cast that glass away
Last Line: Learn how to love thyself in loving me.
Subject(s): Self-love


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE WANDERING PSYCHE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, who un-united to yourself roam about the world
Last Line: How shall you indeed know what it is to be yourself?
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Self-love


YOU ARE NEVER READY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In four minutes you will be gone and I must tell you why
Last Line: Get out of this fucking world %as fast as you can
Subject(s): Independence; Life; Maturity; Self-love