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Subject: CHARM
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First Line: "one day in march, I ranged a verdant plain"
Last Line: "haste, haste away, nor trust your longing eyes: / for, charming as he is, the gazer dies!"
Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady
Subject(s): Charm


A CONTRADICTION, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say she's like an april day
Last Line: A contradiction.
Subject(s): Charm; Contrariness; Deception; Flirtation; Love


A WAIL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He touched me, and a vague unrest
Last Line: "I say, ""he touched me for a ten!"
Subject(s): Charm; Touch (sense)


AN OLD SONG OF A YOUTHFUL TIME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went for a woodland walk
Last Line: I have thought of it oft since then!
Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations


BEYOND, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swift to scatter all that charms
Last Line: Love that meets him out of reach.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Charm; Women


BRIGHT AFTER DARK, by PEARSE HUTCHINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the first country, %what you must do when the cow stops giving milk
Last Line: For only maize can light the way on a dark night
Subject(s): Charm


BUT -, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He gets in touch only when he wants something
Last Line: But
Subject(s): Charm; Connemara, Ireland; Conversation; Crime And Criminals


CHARM, by MARK TURBYFILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She wields charm
Last Line: "nothing at all!""?"
Subject(s): Charm


CICERONIS AMOR: SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mars in a fury 'gainst love's brightest queen
Last Line: As can subdue the greatest god in arms.
Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus;venus Victrix
Subject(s): Charm; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mars (god); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


COQUETRY, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O women, fated to beguile, / your spells we all confess
Last Line: The victim that endures!
Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations


DEMOGORGON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the devil of notre dame
Last Line: His world!
Subject(s): Charm; Dancing & Dancers; Devil; Mythology; Notre Dame University; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


DOLLY IN THE RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When dolly tiptoed in the rain
Last Line: The shameless sun peeped out to see.
Subject(s): Charm; Rain; Watchmen; Women


GOLDILOCKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware of the snare of goldilocks!
Last Line: By goldilocks since the world began.
Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Women; Male-female Relations


HOME FROM THE PARTY, by LEON DIERX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is the master, the mistress, occasion!
Last Line: Whose mute command we silently obey.
Subject(s): Charm; Love


IF THEY MEANT ALL THEY SAID, by ALICE DUER MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Charm is a woman's strongest arm
Last Line: To feel your cook's afraid of mice.
Subject(s): Charm; Tears; Women


LIFE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are who think this scene of life
Last Line: Unaided by abuses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Charm; Life; Nature


LOVE, by HOWARD PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a rose that is blooming in beauty so
Last Line: And the one who will keep it will have a great peace.
Subject(s): Charm; Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy


LOVE'S CHARMING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maid of fifteen, in childlike beauty dight
Last Line: These are the spells that charmed my wits away.
Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Laughter; Life; Love; Voices


MARJORIE'S KISSES, by WALTER LEARNED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Marjorie laughs and climbs on my knee
Last Line: When marjorie's seventeen.
Subject(s): Charm; Kisses; Youth


ONE ONLY AIM AND THOUGHT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When nature formed cassandra, who should move
Last Line: No aim or knowledge but the thought of her.
Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Love; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery


PIETY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh liquid moon that silvers the rims
Last Line: I come! I come!
Subject(s): Charm; Flowers; Graves; Love; Moon; Piety; Roses; Virtue; Tombs; Tombstones


PIQUED, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For beauty's sake she lives
Last Line: She 's not the entire show!
Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Youth


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 12, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morella, charming without art
Last Line: My gratitude maintains.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Passion


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 16, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, amynta, we must part
Last Line: Because thou hadst my love.
Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Charm; Cruelty; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 19, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since we your husband daily see
Last Line: With thy insipid fool.
Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Jealousy; Night; Passion; Bedtime


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 22, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since by ill fate I'm forced away
Last Line: Behold your picture in my heart.
Subject(s): Absence; Charm; Eyes; Fate; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 25, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chloe beauty has and wit
Last Line: And kindly help to quench the fire.
Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Mercy; Women


SOUR GRAPES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never cared the least for lou
Last Line: Are very trying.
Subject(s): Charm; Flirtation; Love - Age Differences; Youth


SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENSE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a charm when spring is young
Last Line: What charm of life is wanting?
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Charm; Death; Hunting; Singing & Singers; Sports; Spring; Dead, The; Hunters


STELLA AND FLAVIA, by MARY BARBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella and flavia every hour
Last Line: Each day give stella more.
Subject(s): Women; Charm; Beauty


THE BLUE-EYED LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen
Last Line: To her twa een sae bonnie blue.
Subject(s): Charm; Longing


THE CHARMS OF LIFE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What hath life to charm us? Flowers
Last Line: Life! How sumless are thy joys!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Charm; Echo (mythology); Flowers; Life


THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can
Last Line: A living death, from year to year.'
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers


THE IMPOSSIBLE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman who essays to pose
Last Line: Into a bud to close.
Subject(s): Charm; Women


THE SALLE MONTESQUIEU; A PARISIAN REMINISCENCE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the doors of the trois freres provenceaux
Last Line: And her shrine is the salle montesquieu!
Subject(s): Charm; Paris, France; Women


THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets
Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.'
Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice
Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.'
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories


TO ---, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O come to my secret bower
Last Line: As in my fond arms I fold thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Charm; Courtship


TO ---, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As soon as each unquiet day
Last Line: Cushioned on that which rocked them to repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Charm; Courtship


TO ---, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O had my folly never dared
Last Line: A soul that feels their force like mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Charm; Courtship


TO NINON, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should dare my passion to reveal
Last Line: Who knows, adored one, what you might reply?
Subject(s): Charm; Love; Love - Unrequited


TO THE COUNTESS OF EXETER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What charms you have, from what high race you sprung
Last Line: Nor could he burn so fast, as thou could'st build.
Subject(s): Charm; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Praise; Rome, Italy; Women


WHAT IS CHARM, by LOUISA CARROLL THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Charm is the measure of attraction's power
Last Line: And rules alike the cottage and the throne.
Subject(s): Charm


WHAT IS MORE SACRED THAN A KISS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A kiss can be as pure, as chaste
Last Line: From heaven's founts above.
Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Kisses; Love