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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COURTESANS Matches Found: 10 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARCHEANASSA, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Archeanassa lieth here Last Line: Through what a fire you passed! Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Courtesans; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones AULD REIKIE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld reikie, wale o' ilka toun Last Line: But gallop'd to edina's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courtesans; Day; Night; Summer; Bedtime BU SUANZI, by YAN RUI Poem Source First Line: It is not that I love the courtesan's life Last Line: Don't ask where I would go to dwell Subject(s): Courtesans CHORUS-GIRL, by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Poised like a fire-fly, burnished steel and blue Last Line: And ash instead of firelight in her face! Subject(s): Courtesans E. OF DORSET: 2. PHRYNE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phryne had talents for mankind Last Line: Then painted butterflies. Subject(s): Courtesans; Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl Of Dorset; Buckhurst, Baron LITTLE SU'S TOMB, by LI HE Poem Source First Line: Dew on the hidden orchid Last Line: Beneath western mound %wind blows the rain Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Courtesans; Graves; Su Xiao-xiao (little Su) STORY OF RHODOPE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has always attracted me she Last Line: You needed some literary love Subject(s): Courtesans TO A COURTESAN, by LU QINGZI Poem Source First Line: In skirt of kingfisher blue Last Line: Than collator xue of long ago Subject(s): Courtesans TO RODIN'S STATUE OF AN OLD COURTESAN, by GERTRUDE CALLAGHAN Poem Text First Line: Lean, shrunken limbs that were so finely formed Last Line: Your splendid soul! Subject(s): Courtesans; Old Age VETERAN SIRENS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ghost of ninon would be sorry now Last Line: So far from ninon and so near the grave. Subject(s): Aging; Courtesans; Lenclos, Anne De (1620-1705); Ninon De Lenclos |
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