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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS Matches Found: 7 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAST LOOK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick of self-love, malvolio, like an owl Last Line: Where high-strung hate and strenuous envy cease. Subject(s): Self-righteousness HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that [or, wha] in the heavens does dwell! Last Line: Amen, amen! Variant Title(s): Prayer Of Holy Willie, A Canting, Hypocritical Kirk Elder Subject(s): Calvinists; Hate; Hypocrisy; Prayer; Self-righteousness POEM FOR MY FRIEND, CLARE. OR, WITH WHITE STUPAS WE REMEMBER BUDDHA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So when the gods wearing their colored cloaks of nearness Last Line: "here's a beautiful postcard of five white stupas in nepal." Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Memory; Self-criticism; Self-righteousness; Buddha; Buddhists SELF-RIGHTOUSNESS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion; Self-righteousness THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sneer and we laugh with the lip Last Line: Very well! There is somewhere a nemesis waiting for you. Subject(s): Desire; Human Behavior; Self-righteousness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self-love, which, never rightly understood Last Line: Find but those faults, which they want wit to make. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Self-righteousness; Dramatists WHY DO I BEHAVE SO BADLY?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A good answer Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self-righteousness; Social Problems |
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