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Subject: TOLERANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know
Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france!
Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War


AMONG THE WORST OF MEN THAT EVER LIVED, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And we went on to to heaven the long way round
Subject(s): Tolerance


DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE; THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unchanged within to see all changed without
Last Line: Because to thee they are not what they were.
Subject(s): Change; Tolerance


HOW TO GET ALONG WITH YOURSELF, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young I always knew
Last Line: So now I tolerantly think %I could tolerate a little drink
Subject(s): Tolerance


ONE OF US, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He comes again! His rough-shod feet
Last Line: "my hands an' heart an' soul ees yank!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Tolerance; Veterans


PLEA FOR TOLERANCE, by MARGARET E. BRUNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: If we but knew what forces helped to mold
Last Line: And lifted upward to a saner view.
Subject(s): Tolerance


RIDE TO THE WEDDING, by PHEBUS ETIENNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said goodbye to another piece of childhood
Last Line: I hid myself, as if defending what I am
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Growth; Tolerance


SONNET: OF MODERATION AND TOLERANCE, by GUIDO GUINIZELLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that has grown to wisdom hurries not
Last Line: Then judge not thou thy fellows what they are.
Subject(s): Moderation; Tolerance


THE CHILDREN'S WAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children bear our froward mood
Last Line: See, lord,—they bear with us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Parents; Patience; Tolerance; Childhood; Parenthood


THE COMPANIONABLE ILLS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nose-end that twitches, the old imperfections---
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Tolerance


THERE WAS A TIME WHEN MY CHEEK BURNED, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Youth; Tolerance; Bad Behavior


TO POETS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My children! Speak not ill of one another
Last Line: The little poet must the great.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tolerance