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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CYNICISM Matches Found: 34 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF AN ANTI-PURITAN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke of progress spiring round Last Line: Will someone take me to a pub? Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cynicism; Puritans; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons A CYNICS DAY-DREAM, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some men there be who can descry Last Line: Wait till these clamours sink to rest. Subject(s): Cynicism A HINT TO CYNICS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, beauty, love, delight Last Line: That's blended with decay? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Cynicism; Love; Youth A.B.C. OF THINGS, by MARTA PESSARRODONA Poem Source First Line: Long apprenticeship, %that of cynicism Last Line: Nothing stops it Subject(s): Cynicism; Poetry And Poets BALLAD: THE THINGS OF NO ACCOUNT, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I know when milk does flies contain Last Line: All things except myself I know. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): All Things Except Myself I Know Subject(s): Cynicism BANGKOLIDYE, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gimme my scarlet tie' Last Line: Says I. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cynicism CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good are children anyhow? Last Line: "the way they call him, ""baby." Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Cynicism; Discontent; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Dissatisfaction; Parenthood; Feminism COMPANERA, by JAVIER BARNES PACHECO Poem Source First Line: To fall victim to life's cynicisms Last Line: Aunque uno no lo quiera Subject(s): Cynicism CYNIC'S CREDO, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the cloistered halls of knowledge where Subject(s): Cynicism CYNIC'S EPTIAPH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A race with the sun as he downed Last Line: I stayed on. Subject(s): Cynicism CYNICAL ODE TO AN ULTRA-CYNICAL PUBLIC, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You prefer a buffoon to a scholar Last Line: Pig of a public! Subject(s): Cynicism; Politics & Government DISCOVERY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a long discovery, isn't it Last Line: That those who loved you best despised you most. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Cynicism; Life FIN DE SIECLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Life is a gift that most of us hold dear Subject(s): Cynicism;dreams;life;love;oysters; Nightmares GOOD AND BAD LUCK, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls Last Line: And sits by your bed, and brings her knitting. Subject(s): Cynicism; Luck K.K. - CAN'T CALCULATE, by FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER Poem Text First Line: What poor short-sighted worms we be Last Line: That 't ain't worth while to try. Subject(s): Cynicism; Fate; Nature; Destiny NORTHERN FARMER, NEW STYLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaawy? Last Line: Proputty, proputty, proputty -- canter an' canter awaay. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cynicism; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PENSEES DE NOEL, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the landlord wants the rent Last Line: Christmas comes but once a year. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Christmas; Cynicism; Gratitude; Nativity, The PERSPECTIVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She photographed the library from rotten row Last Line: Like an unravelling honeymoon.' Subject(s): Cynicism; Honeymoons; Marriage; Photography And Photographers PESSIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: In the age that was golden, the halcyon time Last Line: And the voice of the turtle is dead in the soup. Subject(s): Cynicism; Pessimism; Poetry & Poets; Voices SAME OLD STORY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say Last Line: Same old baby -- nothing new! Subject(s): Boredom; Cynicism; History; Life; Nature; Ennui; Historians SATIRE: 7. A CYNIC SATIRE, by JOHN MARSTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man, a man, a kingdom for a man!' Last Line: But out, alas, our cognizance is gone.' Subject(s): Cynicism SO FAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Ah! Me jewel an' darlin' dublin, me capital star Last Line: Only three murders this weekend, so far Subject(s): Cynicism; Death; Dublin, Ireland; Murder THE BACHELOR'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pipe is lit, my grog is mix'd Last Line: What d'ye think of that, my dog? Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BALLAD OF CASSANDRA BROWN, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: Though I met her in the summer, when one's heart lies 'round at ease Last Line: I am still a single cynic; she is still cassandra brown! Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Cynicism; Love THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory." Variant Title(s): After Blenheim Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology THE JOYS OF MARRIAGE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How uneasy is his life Last Line: Who is marri'd to a wife. Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE KING OF SPAIN, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you would know why men dread nonchalance Last Line: And waited for the signal of her wrath. Subject(s): Cynicism THE PESSIMIST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to do but work Last Line: Can ever withstand these woes. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Variant Title(s): The Sum Of Life Subject(s): Cynicism; Pessimism THE THIRD PROPOSITION, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: If I were thine, I'd fail not of endeavour Last Line: If we were ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Cynicism; Love THEN AG'IN, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jim bowker, he said, ef he'd had a fair show Last Line: Then ag'in -- Subject(s): Cynicism TOO LATE, by FITZHUGH LUDLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sat an old man on a rock Last Line: "had they only not come too late, -- too late!" Subject(s): Cynicism; Lateness WHAT'S IN A NAME?, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In letters large upon the frame Last Line: "v. Stuyvesant de vere!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cynicism; Letters; Names; Paintings And Painters WITHOUT AND WITHIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My coachman, in the moonlight there Last Line: And just another bored without. Subject(s): Cynicism; Social Classes; Caste YOUTH AND ART, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It once might have been, once only Last Line: And we missed it, lost it for ever. Subject(s): Cynicism |
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