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Subject: THIRST
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOT DAY IN AGRIGENTO, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Temples look like discarded alphabets.
Subject(s): Thirst; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


AQUARIUM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water tends to occupy the spaces love cannot reach
Last Line: The sea is afraid of falling into the earth
Subject(s): Disasters; Rain; Shipwrecks; Survival; Thirst; Water


CITY OF DREADFUL THIRSTS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stranger came from narromine and made his little joke
Last Line: That narrow-minded person on his road to narromine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Rain; Thirst; Urban Life


DEPRIVATION, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dull knife cuts our hand
Last Line: For a long time
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Solitude; Thirst; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Loneliness


DRAWING WATER, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had drunk from founts of pleasure
Last Line: With a golden chain of prayer.
Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Thirst; Water


DRINKING FROM A STREAM, by LOA HAHL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When fragrant summer snow
Last Line: Your ardent thirst is cooled!
Subject(s): Thirst


DRY SEPTEMBER, by ELIZABETH CONRAD VANBUSKIRK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It has been not raining
Last Line: We must go to war
Subject(s): Drought; Thirst


EPIGRAM (3), by MELEAGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was thirsty
Last Line: Pours now for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Thirst


EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve
Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery


GOOD OLD ALE, MILD OR PALE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dreams of different beers
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Beer; Thirst


GREEN, GREEN IS EL AGHIR, by NORMAN CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck
Variant Title(s): El Aghir
Subject(s): Oases; Thirst; War


GREEN, GREEN IS EL AGHIR, by NORMAN CAMERON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck
Last Line: Are added unto them that have plenty of water
Variant Title(s): El Aghi
Subject(s): Oases; Thirst; War


HIS THIRST, by ROBERT WELLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the utmost of his thirst
Last Line: And quiet his body with its touch
Subject(s): Thirst


HOUR'S KNOT, by RAMON PINYOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will find you where wells never die
Last Line: A trip on high seas the boat on the waves
Subject(s): Love; Thirst; Water


HUNGER AND THIRST, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the fruits I ever pluck
Subject(s): Hunger; Thirst


I COULD NOT DRINK IT, SWEET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The thoughtfulness of thirst
Variant Title(s): Poem: 818; Poem: 81
Subject(s): Thirst


I WOULD BE CLAD IN CHRIST'S SKIN, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will find there rich, nourishing food
Last Line: That let his whole heart out to let mine in
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Thirst


IMAGES: 1, by VALERY LARBAUD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day, in kharkov, in a crowded slum
Last Line: Level with the lips of the child who had kneeled to drink it.
Subject(s): Kindness; Russia; Thirst; Water; Women; Soviet Union; Russians


LADY WITH THE HERON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk athirst
Last Line: At the feet of a heron
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Drought; Fables; Thirst; Water


LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays
Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Observe when mother earth is dry
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Thirst; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


ONE OF THE HUNDRED VIEWS OF FUJI, BY HOKUSAI, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being thirsty, / I filled a cup with water
Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Fuji, Mount; Thirst


PARAGRAPHS OF THIRST, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beast of the desert, sex. Expelled from joy. What does it still
Last Line: Beast of the desert, butting against the wall
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Sun; Thirst


POEMS OF THE HOME: THE EARTHEN JAR, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earthen jar, dark as my cheek, how easy of access you %are to my thirst!
Last Line: Noon, a cool jar for their sorrowful lips!
Subject(s): Home; Poverty; Thirst


ROMNEY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, romney, nay -- I will not hear you say
Last Line: You know not what love is -- now go away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lips; Love - Loss Of; Thirst; Wine


SAN ANTONIO MI SANGRE: FROM THE HARD SEASON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The 2 a.M. Whistle of the long train
Last Line: In a car streaking the thirsty land.
Subject(s): Drought; Thirst


SONG OF THE MAD MENAGERIE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I on whom the wild sun
Last Line: The body behind bone
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Drought; Poverty; Thirst; Water


SOUL THIRST, by HELEN ODERKIRK O'ROURKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Drink deep, o soul, of hours that swiftly
Last Line: So seam and sere this thirsting soul of mine!
Subject(s): Thirst


THE BLESSED RAIN, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear heart, dost thou complain
Last Line: For every drop that quivers on a clod!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Thirst; Wine


THE EMPTY SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What have we but an empty song
Last Line: But his soul is thirsty now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul; Thirst; Wind


THE FLITCH OF BACON: MY OLD COMPLAINT (ITS CAUSE AND CURE), by WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sadly afraid of my old complaint
Last Line: With the cause and the cure of my old complaint!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Thirst; Wine


THIRST, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a small, physical prayer for water
Last Line: The help of actual water, pulling %the reader forward like rain
Subject(s): Thirst


THIRST, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My spirit wails for water, water now!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Thirst


VIOLIN SONGS: HARD TIMES, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am weary, and very lonely
Last Line: Awake thy life in me.
Subject(s): God; Grief; Solitude; Thirst; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


WARNING, by ELIZABETH SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who drinks of rumor's unguent brew
Last Line: More spiced than the first.
Subject(s): Thirst


WATER FOR THE GANDER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You take a man who has ever posssessed an infant son or daughter
Last Line: But I bet he has to go and get himself a drink of water first
Subject(s): Thirst


WATER SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The feast's begun
Last Line: Like streams of water, streams of water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Thirst; Water; Wine; Judaism


WATER!, by STEWART VAN DER VEER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Standing at dawn on blue mountain, beside the old spring
Last Line: "worship the great god water till your blood, bones and sinews are dust."
Subject(s): Thirst; Water


WINE SONG, by JUDAH AL-HARIZI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear friend, beneath this spreading tree
Last Line: Oceans of wine that e'er grows old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yehuda Alharizi; Judah Ben Solomon Harizi
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Jews; Thirst; Wine; Judaism