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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COSMETICS Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COSMOPOLITAN WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She went round and asked subscriptions Subject(s): Cosmetics;salespersons;travel;women; Selling;journeys;trips A FANCY, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how this polish'd eastern sheet Last Line: To fold up silks may wrap up wit. Subject(s): Cosmetics ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold a forest spread Last Line: Dotes less on nature, then on art. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You give your cheeks a rosy stain Last Line: Old hecuba young helen. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Cosmetics; Vanity BRINGING IN THE NEW DAY, by LEAH MAINES Poem Source First Line: She tries to take the sleep off her face Last Line: The cream -- the lines -- and the color Subject(s): Cosmetics; Women CHANEL LIPSTICK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy always said this many Last Line: Photo lipsticked like this Subject(s): Cosmetics; Passports; Retail Trade; Shopping; Travel; Vacation ENEMIES OF ENORMITY, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thanks to a polymer the chemists jimmied-up in bern Subject(s): Prostheses; Legs; Cosmetics; Conduct Of Life EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still to be neat, still to be drest Last Line: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Variant Title(s): Clerimont's Song;sweet Neglect;simplex Munditiis Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics; Simplicity LIPSTICK, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who can hurry past the five-and-dime Last Line: From behind his eyelids, feverish and weak? Subject(s): Cosmetics; Lips; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Vanity; Women LORNA LOCKS THE BATHROOM DOOR, by MELISSA HUSEMAN Poem Source First Line: Lorna, thirteen, lays the soft brown eyeliner man Last Line: Like the sea rocks salt, %in wet arms Subject(s): Beauty; Cosmetics MAKE-UP, by WALTER PALM Poem Source First Line: The makuako dances Last Line: With her face in the mirror Subject(s): Cosmetics; Dancing And Dancers MAQUILLAGE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The charm of rouge on fragile cheeks Last Line: When weeping noon leads on the altered day. Subject(s): Cosmetics NAMES OF THINGS: 2., by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The names of things will never lose their hold on her Last Line: Staining her red clay and sunset and sclarlet - %lubricants, but still a lip-locked girl Subject(s): Cosmetics; Names NEGRO GIRL, by IRENE COOPER ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Negro girl, - tall, dusky - skinned diana Last Line: Ignorant, are you happy? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Cosmetics; Slavery; Serfs OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 8. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in satin oteny will be suited Last Line: Oteny sure will have the bastinado. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics ON A BATTERED BEAUTY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hair, wax, rouge, honey, teeth, you buy" Last Line: No would it cost you more Subject(s): Cosmetics ON ALBINA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roses lingered in her cheeks Last Line: That fair albina painted? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cosmetics PALACE SONG: 6, by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: She has learned to comb her own hair Last Line: And meticulously redoes her face Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Cosmetics; Courts And Courtiers SEQUITOR, by MARC KIPNISS Poem Source First Line: Only my wife lets me share her makeup Last Line: You've had it long enough Subject(s): Cosmetics; Marriage SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO SECUNDO. LOVE'S PILGRIMS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What fair pomp have I spied of glittering ladies Last Line: Come, we'll associate this jolly pilgrimage! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics THE TOILETTE; A TOWN ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now twenty springs had cloath'd the park with green Last Line: And at the play-house harry keeps her box. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics TO A PAINTED MISTRESS, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are who know what once to-day it was Last Line: Which druggists sell to you, and you to me. Subject(s): Cosmetics TO AN OLD GENTLEWOMAN, THAT PAINTED HER FACE, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave off, good beroe, now %to sleek thy shrivelled skin Last Line: To other trulls of tender years %resign the flag of fame Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Aging; Cosmetics; Women TO CURE BLUSHES', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was an advertisement Last Line: But what can cure the cure? Subject(s): Blushing; Cosmetics TO HIS MISTRESS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tyrian dye why do you wear Last Line: She's fair whose beauty only makes her gay. Subject(s): Cosmetics UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men say y'are faire; and faire ye are, 'tis true Last Line: But (hark!) we praise the painter now, not you. Subject(s): Cosmetics VOGUE SHOOT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Models; Cosmetics |
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