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Subject: SHYNESS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BASHFUL GLEESON, by EDWARD DYSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From her home beyond the river in the parting of the hills
Last Line: Anyhow, they're three years married, and he isn't bashful now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Fire; Heroism; Love; Marriage; Shyness; Heroes; Heroines; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BASHFUL JOHNNY, by GEORGE G. GILLETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Young bashful johnny loved sweet may
Last Line: I would have kissed her -- now wouldn't you?
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Shyness


BASHFULNESS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all our parts, the eyes express
Last Line: The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Shyness


COMPENSATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You never told me, never, yet I know
Last Line: Deprived, no boon avails to fill your need.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Passion; Shyness


CONFESSION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because she spoke no word, but parted wide
Last Line: Nothing shall change it till the change of death!'
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Doubt; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Silence; Shyness; Skepticism; Male-female Relations


HIDDEN, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My garden flowers, I know them all
Last Line: I hide within my heart.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Shyness


LADY-SLIPPER, by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the lowland by the mill
Last Line: Points the nook; I feel it.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Shyness


LAXARE FIBULAM, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To loose the button, is no lesse
Last Line: Then to cast off all bashfulnesse.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Shyness


NO BASHFULNESSE IN BEGGING, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside
Last Line: Who feares to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Shyness


THE MAIDEN BLUSH, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So look the mornings, when the sun
Last Line: Her either cheeke with bashfullness.
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Shyness


THE SHYNESS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, when we were joined, I became
Subject(s): Shyness; Love - Erotic; Solitude