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Subject: SIGHS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SIGH, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentlest air, thou breath of lovers
Last Line: Every nymph may read thee here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Sighs


A SIGH, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My wounded heart is sore
Last Line: A gentle touch.
Subject(s): Gentility; Pain; Sighs; Suffering; Misery


AND SIGHS AGAIN (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 15), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sea of small killings, invisibilities, precise
Subject(s): Sighs


AND SIGHS AGAIN (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 15), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sea of small killings, invisibilities, precise
Last Line: Skin of a retinal machine %salt sea of invisibilities
Subject(s): Sighs


BY THE GREY STONE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is quiet here: the wet hill-wind's sigh
Last Line: Is it love's lordly vow or mine own bitter shame?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sighs; Silence; Stones; Waiting; Granite; Rocks


HER SIGH, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sighs, and has blown over now
Last Line: I could chameleon turn, and live by air.
Subject(s): Love; Sighs


OF SIGHS, by DAVID CHORLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the sentence to the executioner
Last Line: Nesting in the mane of a lion's head
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Sighs


SAO PAULO SIGHS (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 14), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sighs in sao paulo
Last Line: From sulfur
Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sighs


SIGH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Memory is the mind's belly
Last Line: His mind heaved a sigh.
Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Sighs


SIGH, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You lie in your bed and sigh
Subject(s): Sighs


SIGHS, by ? ROLLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sigh - that half supprest
Last Line: That last, worst pang, fond love's despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rolls, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sighs


THE EXILE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not when the seamew cries above the grey-green foam
Last Line: Or the hill-wind in a broom-sweet place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Exiles; Home; Longing; Nostalgia; Sighs


THE LOST LADY: SONG, by WILLIAM BERKLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where did you borrow that last sigh
Last Line: But cannot take it in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berkeley, William
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Sighs


THE SIGH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little head against my shoulder
Last Line: That she sighed.
Subject(s): Sighs


THE SIGH, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You lie in your bed and sigh
Subject(s): Sighs


THE SIGHING TIME, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sighing time, the sighing time!
Last Line: The sighing time, the sighing time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Sighs; Death; Dead, The


WE TO SIGH INSTEAD OF SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain and rain! And rain and
Last Line: This for our to-morrow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Rain; Sighs; Singing & Singers