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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ACTRESSES Matches Found: 126 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 ittill 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 |
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