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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: DUFFY, CAROL ANN Matches Found: 72 Duffy, Carol Ann Poet's Biography 72 poems available by this author AND HOW ARE WE TODAY? First Line: The little people in the radio are picking on me Last Line: I make noises to annoy them and then I go bastards ANNE HATHAWAY Poem Text First Line: The bed we loved in was a spinning world Last Line: As he held me upon that next best bed Subject(s): Love ANNE HATHAWAY First Line: The bed we loved in was a spinning world Last Line: As he held me upon that next best bed Subject(s): Love CIRCE Poem Text Subject(s): Circe DECEMBER Poem Text First Line: The year dwindles and glows Subject(s): December; Transiecnce DELILAH Poem Text First Line: Teach me, he said Subject(s): Samson; Delilah (bible) DEMETER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Where I lived - winter and hard earth Last Line: With the small shy mouth of a new moon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEMETER First Line: Where I lived - winter and hard earth Last Line: With the small shy mouth of a new moon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ELVIS'S TWIN SISTER Poem Text Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ETON MANOR Poem Text First Line: The past is all around us, in the air Subject(s): Eton Manor (2012 Olympic Site) EURYDICE Poem Text First Line: Girls, I was dead and down Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph) FRAU FREUD Poem Text First Line: Ladies, for arguments sake, let us say Subject(s): Sex Organs GIRLFRIENDS Poem Text First Line: That hot september night, we slept in a single bed Last Line: To see my fingers counting themselves, dancing Subject(s): Love - Erotic GIRLFRIENDS First Line: That hot september night, we slept in a single bed Last Line: To see my fingers counting themselves, dancing Subject(s): Erotic Love GOOD TEACHERS First Line: You run round the back to be in it again Last Line: And gloucester, today. The day you'll be sorry one day Subject(s): Women HARD TO SAY First Line: I asked him to give me an image for love, something I could see Last Line: As we slept, we breathed their scent all night HISTORY Poem Text First Line: She woke up old at last, alone, IN MRS. TILSCHER'S CLASS Poem Text First Line: You could travel up the blue nile Last Line: As the sky split open into a thunderstorm Subject(s): Geography; Schools; Students IN MRS. TILSCHER'S CLASS First Line: You could travel up the blue nile Last Line: You ran through the gates, impatient to be grown, %as the sky splits open into a thunderstorm Subject(s): Geography; Schools IN YOUR MIND First Line: The other country, is it anticipated or half-remembered? Last Line: And then a desk. A newspaper. A window. English rain LE PERE-LACHAISE Poem Text First Line: Along the ruined avenues the long-gone lie Last Line: Two young men embrace near piaf's tomb Subject(s): France LE PERE-LACHAISE First Line: Along the ruined avenues the long-gone lie Last Line: Two men embrace near piaf's tomb Subject(s): France LIAR First Line: She made things up; for example, that she was really LITANY First Line: The soundtrack then was litany--candlewick Last Line: My mother's mute shame. The taste of soap LITTLE RED CAP Poem Text LOVE Poem Text First Line: Love is a talent, the world love's metaphor Subject(s): Love MEDUDA Poem Text First Line: A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy MRS AESOP Poem Text First Line: By christ, he could bore me for purgatory. He was small Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c) MRS BEAST Poem Text First Line: These myths going round, these legends, fairytales, MRS DARWIN Poem Text First Line: Went to the zoo. Subject(s): Evolution; Wit & Humor MRS ICARUS Poem Text Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Icarus MRS LAZARUS Poem Text First Line: I had grieved. I had wept for a night and a day Subject(s): Lazarus MRS MIDAS Poem Text Subject(s): Midas MRS QUASIMODO Poem Text MRS RIP VAN WINKLE Poem Text First Line: I sank like a stone MRS SCHOFIELD'S GCSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You must prepare your bosom for his knife, MRS SISYPHUS Poem Text NAME Poem Text First Line: When did your name Subject(s): Names NAMING PARTS Poem Text First Line: A body has been discussed between them Last Line: Someone is cared for who is past caring. Somewhere Subject(s): Bodies; Love – Complaints NURSERY RHYME First Line: What do we use to wash our hair? Last Line: It doesn't hurt the rabbit Subject(s): Environment OPPENHEIMER'S CUP AND SAUCER Poem Text First Line: She asked me to luncheon in fur. Far from Last Line: Your legs around my neck, that's right. Yes Subject(s): Love - Erotic OPPENHEIMER'S CUP AND SAUCER First Line: She asked me to luncheon in fur. Far from Last Line: Your legs around my neck, that's right. Yes Subject(s): Erotic Love PLAINSONG First Line: Stop. Along this path, in phrases of light Last Line: Home, and the stone in your palm telling the time POET FOR OUR TIMES First Line: I write the headlines for a daily paper Last Line: The instant tits and bottom line of art POPE JOAN Poem Text First Line: After I learned to transubstantiate PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer Last Line: Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer- / rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre Subject(s): Prayer PRAYER First Line: Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer Last Line: Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer - %rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre Subject(s): Prayer PSYCHOPATH First Line: I run my metal comb through the d.A. And pose Last Line: The world's your fucking oyster. Awopbopaloobop alopbimbam PYGMALION'S BRIDE Poem Text First Line: Cold, I was, like snow, like ivory QUEEN HEROD Poem Text First Line: Ice in the trees. QUEEN KONG Poem Text First Line: I remember peeping in at his skyscraper room RIVER Poem Text First Line: At the turn of the river the language changes Last Line: Or on the sand, near where the river runs into the sea? Subject(s): Rivers RIVER First Line: At the turn of the river the language changes Last Line: Or on the sand, near where the river runs into the sea? Subject(s): Rivers SALOME Poem Text First Line: I'd done it before SOMEWHERE SOMEONE'S EYES First Line: What if there had been a painter, he was drunk, equal STANDING FEMALE NUDE First Line: Six hours like this for a few francs Last Line: Twelve francs and get my shawl. It does not look like me STEAM Poem Text First Line: Not long ago so far, a lover and I Last Line: Not a ghost at all Subject(s): Love STEAM First Line: Not long ago so far, a lover and I Last Line: Not a ghost at all Subject(s): Love STEPHEN LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: Cold pavement indeed Subject(s): Murder SYNTAX Poem Text First Line: I want to call you thou, the sound THE DEVIL'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: The devil was one of the men at work THE GOOD TEACHERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: You run round the back to be in it again Last Line: "if poetry could truly tell it backwards, Subject(s): Women THETIS Poem Text First Line: I shrank myself TRANSLATING THE ENGLISH, 1989 First Line: Welcome to my country! We have here edwina currie Last Line: My country my country welcome welcome welcome VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Not a red rose or a satin heart Last Line: Cling to your life Subject(s): Life Change Events VALENTINE First Line: Not a red rose or a satin heart Last Line: Its scent will cling to your fingers, %cling to your knife Subject(s): Life Change Events VIRGIN PUNISHING THE INFANT First Line: He spoke early. Not the goo goo goo of infancy Last Line: Why the infant did not cry. And why the mother did WARMING HER PEARLS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Pearls WARMING HER PEARLS First Line: Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress Last Line: I feel their absence and I burn Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Pearls WHATEVER Poem Text First Line: I'll take your hand, the left WHO CARVED A BIRD AND A FISH Last Line: Knows it's a geadh, a goose Subject(s): Rivers YOU Poem Text First Line: Univited, the thought of you stayed too long in my head |
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