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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CUPS Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF THE MELBOURNE CUP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a quart of colonial beer Last Line: And I woke with 'the indigestion'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Hearts; Melbourne, Australia; Nightmares BRAHMA'S CUP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lift the cup of brahma high! Last Line: And he receives me into him. Subject(s): Brahma; Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Liquorice; Wine DIRE: 6. LOCUSTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come close and see her and hearken. This is she Last Line: Praying. There are who say she is bride of christ. Subject(s): Cups; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.) LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Start not - nor deem my spirit fled Last Line: This chance is theirs, to be of use. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cups; Skulls MARGARET'S SONG, FR. FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thule lived a monarch old Last Line: One drop again till death! Subject(s): Cups; Death; Gifts & Giving; Dead, The POVERTY, by RUTH INSCHO Poem Text First Line: My cup is full; yet oft I think Last Line: But because my cup is small! Subject(s): Cups QUATRAIN: THE CUP, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'lift high the cup!' Last Line: That none might see or guess it held no wine. Subject(s): Cups SARA TEASDALE, by ERMA MELLISH Poem Text First Line: You did not climb the stairs alone last night Last Line: Edged dagger deep into his contrite heart. Subject(s): Cups; Despair; Stairs SILVER CUP, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In venice %under the rialto bridge, one summer morning Last Line: Who had his story, which you never told me Subject(s): Cups; Venice, Italy SONG FOR EMPTY CUP, by PARK HEE-JIN Poem Source First Line: A single woman Last Line: That she had sent him Subject(s): Cups THAT OTHER MAUD MULLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maud muller worked at making hay Last Line: And raked the judge instead of the hay. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cups; Judges; May (month) THE CHINA TEA SET, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A china tea set -- just to own Last Line: No friends were left to drink the tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Cups; Food & Eating; Tea THE CRYSTAL CUP, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I had a crystal cup both old and rare Last Line: An earthen cup will serve, though once it mattered. Subject(s): Cups; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE CUP, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to quell a sudden urge for neatness, Subject(s): Cups; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE CUP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cup of bitter-sweet I know Last Line: The grey tumultuous waters flow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cups; Love; Regret; Wisdom THE CUP OF MENALCHUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Tityrus, on my cup warmly the season glows! Beneficent tityrus Last Line: Discourse. . . . Hum! Hum! . . . The season's warm on my cup, good tityrus! Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Love; Wine THE LOVING CUP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tranced in the glamour of a Last Line: Our mutual loves, o loving cup! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Wine THE PROFFERED CUP, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night across the meadows of a dream Last Line: And so . . . Still singing . . . Passed into the night. Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Fountain Of Youth; Immortality; Sacrifices; Nightmares THE TWO GLASSES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There sat two glasses filled to the brim Last Line: On the rich man's table, rim to rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Fables; Water; Wealth; Wine; Allegories; Riches; Fortunes TIME, by ALICE MARY DOWD Poem Text First Line: An empty cup is placed within our hands Last Line: Beyond the sunset lies the fount of youth. Subject(s): Cups; Soul; Time ZARA (2) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale sad face of her I wronged Last Line: Shall not we twain repose together? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cups; Love; Memory; Soul |
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