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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CRY FROM THE STALLS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful darling
Last Line: End of the world!
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


A SESSION OF THE POETS, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since the sons of the muses, grew num'rous, and loud
Last Line: For he had writ plays, yet ne're came in print.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Betterton, Tom (1635-1710); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets


ACTORS, by LESLIE RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit at a table of actors, who show us all
Last Line: And melt, dance, pull up to a desk and proclaim
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


ADDRESS DELIVERED AT ... NEW THEATRE AT RICHMOND, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drawn in the crimson of a battle-plain
Last Line: Rest the dear rights for which we fight %and pray
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Art And Artists; Plays And Playwrights; Theater And Theaters


ADDRESS FOR MISS FONTENELLE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still anxious to secure your partial favour
Last Line: And as we're merry, may we still be wise.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


AGED ACTOR APEAKS, by CHARLES OSBORNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm having a sale of old memories
Last Line: You see, there's nothing else, %they're really all I have
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Old Age


AMELIA, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had lived centuries apart. The imperial
Last Line: Of sky and scudding clouds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: You want to follow in my steps?
Last Line: To play othello: 'tis my benefit.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Professions; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life


AN EPISTLE TO MY MUSE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me, muse, that thou and I, sweet rogue
Last Line: (to be concluded.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters


ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICA, REVIVED: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With sickly actors & an old house too
Last Line: You'd less good breeding or had more good nature.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life


AT A PRIVATE SHOWING IN 1982, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This loving attention to the details
Last Line: And skulk out on this spring night %together, unsafe on capitol hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Pictures


BAD ACTOR, by ALAN+(2) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The forest is a frosted scrim
Last Line: But where he went and whence he came %only the usher knows
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the passions they essayed
Last Line: Into the night go one and all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Henley, Edward John (1861-1898); Actresses


BILLET TO THE COMPANY OF PLAYERS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our set of strollers, wandering up and down
Last Line: The next act we shall be as good as this
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


BROKEN-DOWN ACTOR, by JOHN FERGUSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw him drifting down a street of shows
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


BUCK UP, LADY VERE DE VERE, by E. S. V. ZILE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What stirs you, lady vere de vere? Why are / your cheeks so wan?
Last Line: You get the stuff! Ain't that enough to satisfy your grace?
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Ancestry & Ancestors


CAST, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look up' they said
Last Line: To look forward to averages %that you have left behind?
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


CHARGE TO THE PLAYERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shades, that our town-fellows have come
Last Line: This gift of song, himself a shade.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


CHORUS OF A SONG THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY ALBERT CHEVALIER, by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I drops in to see young ben
Last Line: But—'e'll never be the man 'is father woz.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Chevalier, Albert (1861-1923); Actresses


CLINT, by BROCK BROWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clint's next film should be a bible epic
Last Line: And direct to camera, say, %'make my day.'
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


CURTAIN, by J. K. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lower the curtain, let the scene end
Last Line: My own opinion is he'll not be back.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists


DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act
Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots


DAYS INN, by M. B. MCLATCHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything about it says economy
Last Line: To choruses like this. Love wants a jungle shower
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Animals; Apes; Motion Pictures


DEATH AND THE PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched the players playing on their stage
Last Line: But once in many days!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Indifference; Murder; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The


DIVINE DRAMA, by BESS FOSTER SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I should like to see the heavenly light
Last Line: We'll view the climax of all christendom.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


DO YOU WANT TO BE EXCELLENT AN ACTRESS NO NOT THAT EITHER, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jewels speak, the different-colored
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Poetry Readings; Actresses


EPILOGUE TO THE THEATRICAL SEASON, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The season's closed, the benefits are over
Last Line: Nor aim to praise him who's beyond all praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Criticism & Critics; Theater & Theaters


EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep with me, all you that read
Last Line: Heaven vows to keep him.
Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Salomon Pavey, Child Actor In Queen's Revels Co.;epitaph On Salathiel Pavy, A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel;epitaph: On Solomon Pavy, Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death - Children; London; Actresses; Death - Babies


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: ACTORS; ON A MEMORIAL ..., by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We counterfeited once for your disport
Last Line: Seeing we were your servants to the last
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; World War I


EXTRA, by PHILIP SCHULTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We knew his dark slavic eyes
Last Line: Anonymity is the supreme vanity, finally
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


FAMOUS WOMEN - CLAUDETTE COLBERT, by KATHLEEN DE AZEVEDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was quite a guy how he laughed like oh what's the name of the guy
Last Line: Not that we can tell which was which
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Colbert, Claudette (1903-1996); Motion Pictures; Popular Culture - United States


FANNY: 112, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere long the air of broadway or park place
Last Line: Forgot a while, and every eye on fanny
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Broadway, New York City; Theater And Theaters


FANNY: 116, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She shone at every concert; where are brought
Last Line: She fell in love, as all the ladies do, %with mr. Simpson - talked as loudly, too
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Symphonies; Theater And Theaters


FANNY: 119, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was among the first and warmest patrons
Last Line: Themselves for acting well, in life, their part %as wives and mothers. There she learned by heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Polish Language


FANNY: 123, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sang divinely; and in, 'love's young dream'
Last Line: Her finest, loftiest 'pigeon-wings' of sound, %waking the very watchmen far around
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Singing And Singers


FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was watching a movie / about myself
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was watching a movie %about myself
Last Line: I am not film. I am living, I say [or, he said you, the creature of muscle and hair]
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures


FLICKER, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some silent movie star
Last Line: If his celluloid body jerked to a stop %on the screen of the douglas art theatre
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


FOR THE CHINESE ACTRESS, GARDENIA CHANG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When tu fu was a small boy
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Love; Tu Fu (712-770); Du Fu


FOR THE CHINESE ACTRESS, GARDENIA CHANG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When tu fu was a small boy
Last Line: The deep heart of a jewel
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Love; Tu Fu (712-770)


FROM FRAGILE CRAFT: ON THE STRANGE LIVES AND UNTIMELY DEATHS OF MARY, by MARK RUDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no end to the torment that comes from watching dead actors
Last Line: One morning she would wake refreshed! %to a new beginning
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Death; Marriage; Suicide


GESTURES TO BE PERFORMED FROM A BALCONY, by KATHRYN NOCERINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's the situation
Last Line: To write your speeches
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Plays And Playwrights; Speeches And Addresses


GOODNIGHT, GRACIE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home very late from a hollywood party, george and gracie
Last Line: Of the author.
Subject(s): Acting And Actors; Actors & Actresses; Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Television; Tv


HAMLET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horatio took me to the cliff
Last Line: "hamlet, hamlet, will never lose his crown."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Actresses


HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (1), by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's early morning and across the street
Last Line: T is just sharon stone driving past the house of someone who is, at the time, trying to write a book
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon; Actresses


HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (1), by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's early morning and across the street
Last Line: Has been gravely labeling with her name, this poem
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon


HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (2), by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's early morning. This is the before
Last Line: Trying to unwrite the world that is all around her
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon; Actresses


HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (2), by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's early morning. This is the before
Last Line: Trying to unwrite the world that is all around her
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon


IMPRESSION (TO M.C.), by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pink and black of silk and lace
Last Line: In this miraculous rose of gold?
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


J.B. (JUNE 7, 1880), by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The actor's dead, and the memory alone
Last Line: And that is fame!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


JIMMY RATTCLIFFE PLAYED JESUS CHRIST IN A FARCE AT THE LITTLE, by GARY YOUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Been home two days, and the world was lost already
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Plays And Playwrights


LINES ON TOM DOGGETT THE ACTOR, ON A LAMBETH WINDOW-PANE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tom doggett, the greatest sly droll in his parts
Last Line: Ten thousand years hence if the world last so long %tom doggett will still be the theme of their son
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Doggett, Thomas (1670-1721)


LINES TO MRS. KEMBLE, IN THE CHARACTER OF YARICO, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kemble, thou cur'st my unbelief
Last Line: The rock with tears had flow'd.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Kemble, Elizabeth (1761-1836); Actresses


LOVE VARSES TO THE BUCHEOUS DAFFODEL, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! My shweet daffodel's eyes
Last Line: I'll drink off a bottle of wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Diction


MAIDEN QUEEN: EPILOGUE, WHEN ACTED BY THE WOMEN ONLY, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What think you, sirs, was't not all well enough?
Last Line: Each would be rather a poor actress here %than to be made a mamamouchi there
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women


MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, WHEN ACTED BY THE WOMEN ONLY, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Women like us passing for me, you'll cry
Last Line: And when your eyes and ears are feasted here, %rise up, and make out the short meal elsewhere
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women


MONODY ON THE DEATH OF PEG WOFFINGTON, SELECTION, by JOHN HOOLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! Lost, for ever lost! The breath that warm'd
Last Line: And wreaths unfading flourish round thy tomb!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Woffington, Peg (1714-1760); Actresses


MOVIE ACTRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shal sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses


MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her clothes lean forward in the chair
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses


MOVIE STAR PETER AT THE SUPPER FOR STREET PEOPLE, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The style a form of concealment the way style is.
Subject(s): Homeless; Actors & Actresses; Actresses


MOVIES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A day at the races rf
Last Line: Masculine feminine
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


MR. KEMBLES' FAREWELL ADDRESS ON TAKING LEAVE OF THE STAGE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the worn war-horse, at the trumpet's sound
Last Line: Is -- friends and patrons, hail, and fare you well.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)


MRS. WORTHINGTON, SELECTION, by NOEL COWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Regarding yours, dear mrs. Worthington
Last Line: Don't put your daughter on the stage ...
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


NO THANKS: 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O pr / gress verily thou art m
Last Line: Aseball
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life


ON QUIN THE ACTOR, by DAVID GARRICK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tongue which set the table in a roar
Last Line: In nature's happiest mould however cast, %to this complexion thou must come at last
Variant Title(s): An Epitaph On James Qui
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Quin, James (d. 1766)


ON SEEING MISS FONTENELLE IN A FAVOURITE CHARACTER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet naivete of feature
Last Line: Then indeed thou'd'st act a part.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


ON SEEING THE WOODLAND PLAYERS, by J. N. GREELY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Musing I sit with half closed eyes. The play
Last Line: Of grief, and all in wondrous harmony.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Yale University; Actresses


OUR MISTER JOYCE, by MARGARET REGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I once knew a floor-walker named mister joyce
Last Line: And that's how mister joyce became a moving-picture star.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


PEARL SCREEN BEAUTY, by FENG ZIZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaning into the eastern wind, a distant reflected loft
Last Line: Generations designate her as 'momma pearl'
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women; Zhulian Xiv (b. 1270)


PEARL SCREEN BEAUTY, by HU ZHIYU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jade green bamboos by the edge of a damask-embroidered river
Last Line: Hanging up all of the morning clouds and evening rains
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women; Zhulian Xiv (b. 1270)


POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped
Last Line: Do I know him?
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors


PRAYER FOR MARILYN MONROE, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord %accept this girl called marilyn monroe throughout the
Last Line: Lord, you pick up that phone
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Death; Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Prayer; Suicide


PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO MR. TOMMY POTTER, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accept 'em tommy as they're meant
Last Line: Let robin hate him if he will.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


PRODUCER REASSURES THE STARLET, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Honey baby, what a silly question
Last Line: I'll fill you in tonight at the motel
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


PROLOGUE FOR THE SILVERDALE VILLAGE PLAYERS: EASTER 1922, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neighbours and friends, we come to-night
Last Line: Before you all another year.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


PROLOGUE FOR THE SILVERDALE VILLAGE PLAYERS: EASTER 1924, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neighbours, to-night we come once more
Last Line: As of that iceland where they befell.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


PROLOGUE FOR THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard
Last Line: The gaudy house with scenes will serve for cits.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Women; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life


PROLOGUE OF LAMENT BY PLAYERS, by NEIL MUNRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: April has come to the isles again blythe as a lover
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


PROLOGUE TO 'MISTAKES, OR THE FALSE REPORT', by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Save ye, sirs, save ye! I am in a hopeful way
Last Line: Peace and the butt is all our business here; %so much for that - and the devil take small beer
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (3), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though actors cannot much of learning boast
Last Line: Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, %he chooses athens in his riper age
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Oxford University


RANDOLPH SCOTT IS SEVENTY-NINE TODAY, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never quite understood your appeal
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Scott, Randolph (1898-1987)


SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't
Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SAVING PRIVATE RYAN , SELS, by CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For me, the most difficult scene of many difficult
Last Line: Only two. One to kill, one to die. 'wait a second'
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Murder


SEN ARTYSTY; OR, THE ARTIST'S DREAM (FROM HELENA MODJESKA), by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I too have had my dreams: ay, known indeed
Last Line: And the red wounds of thorns upon my brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Modjesta, Helen (1840-1909)


SOLILOQUY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a player, on the stage? Not so
Last Line: May god himself approve my curtain speech!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Sleep; Actresses; Dead, The; Dramatists


SONNET TO WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, macready, since tonight we part
Last Line: Dwells pleased, through twice a hundred years, on thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Macready, William Charles (1793-1873)


STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the game began between them for a jest
Last Line: When the play was played out so for one man's pleasure.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Love; Plays & Playwrights


STANZAS TO PUNCHINELLO, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou lignum-vitae roscius, who
Last Line: First of head-breaking and side-splitting actors!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Faces; Youth; Dead, The


STARLET, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tilda trimpett and her seventh stage name
Last Line: But made a wrong connection and went to the dogs
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


STARLET, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That terrible day my heart took a blow that nearly killed
Last Line: Do I know it's there at all?
Subject(s): Disappointment; Actors & Actresses; Actresses


STUDIES FOR AN ACTRESS: 1, by JEAN GARRIGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What she has known, how may our hearts surmise?
Last Line: Indifferent death, suggestable on every hand %to light and just as soon converted to the dark
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


STUDIES FOR AN ACTRESS: 2, by JEAN GARRIGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a binding element
Last Line: Condensed now to one desire %as if it were very life performing her
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


THANKSGIVING DAY AT HUNCHLEY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you never heard of hunchley, I would say in his behalf
Last Line: In keeping with his bounty than the laws of harmony.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Holidays; Parties; Quarrels; Thanksgiving; Arguments; Disagreements


THE ACTOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night after night a mimic death he died
Last Line: No teardrop fell from any mourner's eye.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


THE ACTOR, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet
Last Line: "when you played hamlet, sir, I played the cock!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


THE ACTRESS AND THE RAT, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can hear her feet overhead. As ever, at night
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Man-woman Relationships; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Male-female Relations; Stage Life


THE ADORED ONE: 1 (TO HER OF THE MANY FILMS), by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your smile is very sweet: yet it baffles me
Last Line: Much am I baffled!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Women


THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 12. PLAYERS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are monarchs none respect
Last Line: And there the wretched body found repose.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


THE FAT ACTOR AND THE RUSTIC, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cardinal wolsey was a man
Last Line: "a load of hay got in this afternoon!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Obesity; Peace


THE GHOST-PLAYER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tom goodwin was an actor-man
Last Line: And given up the ghost!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True wit has seen its best days long ago
Last Line: That not one locust may be left behind!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists


THE LITTLE THEATRE, by GWENDOLEN HASTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They coaxed him from his barren lonely claim
Last Line: He's locked with life and fate at elsinore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life


THE MECHANICK PREFERRED, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day lively sue, at a female tea-drinking
Last Line: But give me, o give me, a cooper for mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


THE MOVIE QUEEN, by MYRTES-MARIE PLUMMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestically she sweeps upon the scene
Last Line: Reality gives way to glamorous lore.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE OLD PLAYER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curtain rose; in thunders long and loud
Last Line: Dream on! There's nothing but illusion true!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Old Age; Actresses


THE PLAY, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched you curve your arm over the back of
Last Line: But when they asked me about the play, I could not remember.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Art & Artists; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now
Last Line: (they go forth.)
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE REELING ROSCIUS; AN EPIGRAM, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tom rantum, a buck and comical dog
Last Line: "play? -- hickup -- play? -- hickup -- why I'll play the devil -- "
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Alcoholism & Alcoholics


THE ROMAN ACTOR, by PHILIP MASSINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do we act to-day?
Last Line: ^1^ folly
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses


THE ROMAN STAGE; TO HUGH ORANGE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man of marble holds the throne
Last Line: Bids the satyric piece begin.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


THE ROSCIAD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Roscius deceased, each high aspiring player
Last Line: Nor quit it—till thou place an equal there.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Comedy; Competition; England; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Actresses; English


THE TEMPEST: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gallants, by all good signs it does appear
Last Line: And you'll be troubled with 'em all agen.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Ghosts; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Actresses


THE THEATRE-CURTAIN, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a happy folk are these
Last Line: And to forget!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


THESPIANS AT THERMOPYLAE, by NORMAN CAMERON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The honours that the people give always
Last Line: What has the popular report to say %of us, the thespians at thermopylae?
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


TO AN ACTRESS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read your name when you were strange to me
Last Line: To springs that then were sealed up utterly?
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses


TO E. SIMPSON, ESQ., by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been every night, whether empty
Last Line: Worth a voyage across the atlantic' %by jove!
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Art And Artists; Theater And Theaters


TO EDWARD ALLEN (ALLEYNE), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If rome so great, and in her wisest age
Last Line: So many poets life, by one should live.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Alleyn, Edward (1566-1625); Actresses; Allen, Edward (1566-1625); Alleyne, Edward (1566-1625)


TO MR. SIMPSON, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a friend to your theatre
Last Line: And hopper and maywood, a promising pair
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Business; Critics And Criticism; Theater And Theaters


TO MRS. BARNES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear ma'am - we seldom take the pen
Last Line: And smiles that sparkle from the heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Theater And Theaters


VALEDICTORY STANZAS TO JOHN P. KEMBLE, ESQ.; FOR A PUBLIC MEETING, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pride of the british stage
Last Line: A long and last adieu!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823); Actresses


VILLONAUD FOR RONALD REAGAN, by W. DALE NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In los angeles, drake mchugh grows old
Last Line: And where is the rest of all our years?
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911)


WATCHING THE SEAGULL, by ROBERT H. MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the first act konstantin argues with nina
Last Line: Chekhov couldn't predict
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses


WATCHING WELLES, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What he knows: hustling wine to the middle class
Last Line: Decades gone and replaced by the bitterness %of having nothing but last words to say
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters


WHEN BURBADGE PLAYED, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When burbadge played, the stage was bare
Last Line: When burbadge played!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Burbage, Richard (1567-1619); Actresses


WHY WE GAVE UP ON PUNCH LINE DRAMATICS, by WASHINGTON JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: From there we could hear %the shots
Last Line: Because tombstones are the credits %in gods directorial debut'
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Cities; Motion Picture Directors