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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF HELL, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A letter from my love today!
Last Line: Hell raised a hoarse half-human cheer.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve
Subject(s): Betrayal; Deception; Heaven; Hell; Love; Marriage; Suicide; Paradise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A BUSH SECRET, by BERNARD MCELHILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun had set, and weary walked
Last Line: A secret of the bush.
Subject(s): Deception; Gold Mines & Miners


A CERTAIN LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Deception


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 DUPLICATE GAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A game of whist? Who could resist
Last Line: A game of whist?
Subject(s): Chance; Deception; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


A PIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good
Last Line: To tidy up the world for me, by picking up this pin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Deception; Pins; Wit & Humor; Women


AN INSINCERE WISH ADDRESSED TO A BEGGAR, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are not near enough to love
Last Line: And truth reveal herself to you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Brothers; Deception; Family Life; Wealth; Half-brothers; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes


ANCIENT BALLAD: COOLING FOUNTAIN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cooling fountain, cooling fountain %cooling fountain, full of love
Last Line: I can never, never love thee %I will never wed thee - no!
Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints


AURORA, OR THE MAD TALE MADLY TOLD, by ELIZABETH TREFUSIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis night. And this the fearful hour
Last Line: This maniac had been dead a year, a month, and day!
Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


BACK ME UP', by MARK ANDREW NOWAK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Your bartender story
Last Line: Sonny was a genius
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Deception; Photography And Photographers


BACKSTAGE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girl standing at the door told me how to do it. She said: you must get
Last Line: You whisper bend me backwards and inform me of your concept of god
Subject(s): Deception; Girls; Love - Loss Of; Murder


BEAUTY SHOPPE, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, girl. He was fine. All night he'd groan I love you
Last Line: He's not worth it. Girl, that nigger broke my heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans; Love – Unrequited; Deception; Grief


CANNOT SWEETEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If that's water you wash your hands in
Last Line: Dropping dropping dropping on it
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Blood; Sin; Deception


CERTAIN LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head
Last Line: And what goes on, my love, while you're away, %you'll never know
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Deception


CHAMA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eros and logos were one to her
Last Line: Crystallized into the horn %of 8,000 hungers
Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints


CHESKIAN ANTHOLOGY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the turkish boundary
Last Line: "and truth was in the maiden's prayer."
Subject(s): Courtship; Deception; Turkey


DECEPTION ISLAND, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You can go farther. The south itself
Last Line: Than at what all that lonely fire was for
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Deception


DIPLOMACY, by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I count my sins
Last Line: The eye-piercing cologne men wear %to transact filthy business
Subject(s): Deception


DISENCHANTMENT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although from adam stained with crime
Last Line: The heart is disenchanted.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Deception; Hallucinations And Illusions; Love; Reality


DISILLUSIONMENT, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My chinese rug means poignant joy to me
Last Line: They give the rug the life they never had.
Subject(s): Deception


EROS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who wast thou, standing by that humble door
Last Line: The god they prattle of, and not perceive.
Subject(s): Deception


EUROPA: 1. THE AWKWARD AGE, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poor coruched in doorways with their dogs
Last Line: Everwhere we looked, and looked again, %we were deceived
Subject(s): Deception


EVERYTHING YOU DO, by SONG-I    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything you do, everything
Last Line: Keep themselves within me
Subject(s): Deception; Love


FABLE: THE LAMB AND THE PIG, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consult the moralist, you'll find
Last Line: That once a lrog, and always so.
Subject(s): Deception; Fables; Lambs; Pigs; Allegories; Boars; Hogs


GIACINTA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Giacinta sat upon the garden wall
Last Line: She was the fairest child of italy.
Subject(s): Deception; Hearts; Love - Complaints


GREAT MULLEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One leaves his leaves at home
Last Line: And you are high, grey and straight. Ha!
Subject(s): Adultery; Deception


HORSE (1), by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A / quarter horse, no rider
Last Line: To knock me off?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Deception; Friendship; Horses


IN ME THERE NEST SNAKES AND ADDERS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In me there nest snakes and adders
Last Line: Nor for poison was the fire lit in our eyes...'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Deception


INSINUATION, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh curves, meanderings / tricks of the liar
Last Line: For the gentlest word.
Subject(s): Deception


LINES TO A FITFUL LOVER, by MIRIAM BARRANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I thought that when you left
Last Line: I really couldn't wait.
Subject(s): Deception; Hearts; Love


MARION LEE, by BERNARD ESPINASSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To 'the wanderer's rest at the foot of the rise
Last Line: And they say 'tis the ghost of poor marion lee.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Deception; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters


MIDDLE-AGED MAN WITH CRAYONS, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All winter one lived the theme of simplicity
Last Line: I tell her, go to sleep; and she does
Subject(s): Colors; Crayons; Deception


NORA, THE MAID OF KILLARNEY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down by the beautiful lakes of killarney
Last Line: Or else they will deceive ye with their flattering blarney.
Subject(s): Deception


ON A BEAUTY WITH ILL QUALITIES, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistaken nature here has join'd
Last Line: As unsuspected, as unseen.
Subject(s): Beauty; Deception; Duplicity; Deceit


ON THE WAY TO CHURCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one I know. I see her sometimes pass
Last Line: Nor kneel, god's robber, near that angel face.
Subject(s): Deception; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Women; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery


OVER THE RANGES, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Says allan machardy, 'beyond the high ranges there's land for the men
Last Line: "is, ""may god help him then!"
Subject(s): Deception; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PADDY MINOGUE'S MOSQUITO-NET, by J. SAYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas red hot weather on croydon field
Last Line: Poor paddy minogue's mosquito-net.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Mosquitoes


PALIMPSEST: THE DECEITFUL PORTRAIT, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, as you say, we live for small horizons
Subject(s): Deception


PALIMPSEST: THE DECEITFUL PORTRAIT, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, as you say, we live for small horizons
Last Line: And I have spread two snares for you, of lies
Subject(s): Deception


PARS DE HAT EROUN', by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ef yer wants ter gain de kingdom,'
Last Line: The end.
Subject(s): African Americans; Clergy; Deception; Money; Public Worship; Salvation; Negroes; American Blacks; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance


PETITION FOR REPLENISHMENT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do not mean to complain. We know how it is
Last Line: We are here. Still breathing and constellated
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Deception; Human Behavior


PHILOMELA: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is love once disgrac'd
Last Line: Than lead a wanton life with shame.
Variant Title(s): Chastity: An Ode
Subject(s): Deception; Goddesses & Gods; Honesty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations


PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S ODE [THAT SHE SANG IN HER ARBOR], by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting by a river's side
Last Line: No sweet love but honesty.
Subject(s): Deception; Honesty; Introspection; Love; Mankind; Human Race


PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S SECOND ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was frosty winter-season
Last Line: Sigh'd, and rose, and went away.
Subject(s): Country Life; Deception; Love - Complaints; Nature


REVENGE X 3, by PAT MORA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slipped a note to three
Subject(s): Love Letters. Deception


ROCKAWAY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fuck him. %get it over with
Last Line: Settle in against the vinyl %for a long night
Subject(s): Deception; Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships


RONDEAU: 4, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What vaileth truth or by it to take pain
Last Line: What vaileth truth?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 2
Subject(s): Deception; Truth


SELF-DECEPTION, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, what blinds us, that we claim the glory
Last Line: Some end is there, we indeed may gain?
Subject(s): Seld-deception


SEVEN HONEST MEN, by MARTIN BENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Their faith in one another it was wonderfully great
Last Line: They panned-off half a pennyweight, those seven honest men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sun, Ben
Subject(s): Deception; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment


SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 2. THE OTHER ONE COMES TO HER, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At last her face was turned to him who knew
Last Line: She sent him from her with remorseful eyes.
Subject(s): Deception; Love - Unrequited


SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 4. SHE REMEMBERS, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From far she watched his wanderings, and sighed
Last Line: He should not know how bitterly she lied.
Subject(s): Deception


SHADOWS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walked out on hallows' e'en
Last Line: And I have a mole where his heart bled.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Deception; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SONGS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus I said to my heart in a pet t'other day
Last Line: And vows I shall never possess him again.
Subject(s): Deception; Desire; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


SONNET: 1, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caesar, when that the traitor of egypt
Last Line: To cloak my care, but under sport and play.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 3
Subject(s): Deception; Laughter


SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mouth down at sides
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women - Writers


SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mouth down at sides
Last Line: What need his guns
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers; Women - Writers


SQUATTERS AND THE REDUCTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some squatters have commenced to shear
Last Line: "but if you want a thorough doing - / why, just try the overflow"
Subject(s): Deception;honesty;labor & Laborers;sheep;wages; Salaries


THE BOSS'S BOOTS, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shearers squint along the pens, they squint along the shoots
Last Line: But pink 'em nice and pretty when you see the boss's boots.
Subject(s): Deception; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Shoes; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE BOSS'S WIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The warm winds crossed from the eastern coast
Last Line: "'twas chin-ti, the chinese cook!"
Subject(s): Deception;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch
Last Line: Dies.
Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q


THE CROPPY BOY (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it was early, early in the spring"
Last Line: "just drop (or, o spare) a tear for the croppy boy"
Subject(s): Deception;freedom; Liberty


THE CROPPY BOY: (A BALLAD OF '98), by WILLIAM B. MCBURNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good men and true! In this house who dwell
Last Line: Breathe a prayer and a tear for the croppy boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, Carroll
Subject(s): Deception; Ireland - Rebellions


THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand
Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r?
Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge


THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue
Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold.
Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs


THE LASS OF THE HILL, by MARY JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: At the brow of a hill a fair shepherdess dwelt
Last Line: But remember the lass at the brow of the hill.
Subject(s): Deception


THE MAIDS OF THE MOUNTAINS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the wild weddin mountains
Last Line: No more maids of the mountains - / the bonny bush belles
Subject(s): Deception;hunting;women; Hunters


THE MAILMAN'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I scanned the dark and lowering sky
Last Line: I think of that wild ride
Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;deception;horses;postal Service; Postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen


THE MESSAGE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Send home my [long] strayed eyes to me
Last Line: Or prove as false as thou art now.
Subject(s): Deception; Eyes; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars
Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink.
Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 117, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I deplore this vulgar place
Last Line: We soon see if it's gold or base
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Taoism


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 128, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A courteous handsome young man
Last Line: This is how books fool us
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 202, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see someone deceiving others
Last Line: Still retaining its natural life
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 276, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You're not really hermits
Last Line: Aping those who shun the dust and wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Hermits


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 76, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They don't walk the noble path
Last Line: How will they deal with disaster
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Punishment; Virtue


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 77, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one kind of fool
Last Line: Tell him don't stay here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 78, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man descended from pride
Last Line: And never grows tired of meat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Pride; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 98, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They scrutinize worldly affairs
Last Line: Why should I trust the lips of slaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Politics & Government; Slavery; Serfs


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 44, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sigh when I see learned men
Last Line: And all their learning is dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 8, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buddhas leave behind sutras
Last Line: The deceits they harbor night and day
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Change; Chinese Literature; Deception; Buddha; Buddhists


THE RED CREEK CONSULTATION, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red creek rush was not a duffer
Last Line: After all!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Desire


THE ROAD TO ROSLYN, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the road to roslyn town
Last Line: The bobbed hair hid my ears.
Subject(s): Deception; Fortune Tellers; Gypsies; Palmistry; Gipsies


THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure
Last Line: . . . . . . .
Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THE SMITHS, by E. G. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We had many problems set us when coolgardie was a camp
Last Line: And the maidens who were promised still await the absent smith.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower
Subject(s): Deception; Names; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE SPIRIT OF THE GAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With the glamour of the gay
Last Line: Overhung with starry tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Life; Self-reliance; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SQUATTER, THREE CORNSTALKS, AND THE WELL, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a squatter in the land
Last Line: "and sor-r-r-r-rer!"
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Punishment


THE WORLD, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nay now I'm sure my judgement's sound
Last Line: It proves but artificial ouglines.
Subject(s): Manknd; Superficiality; Deception; Faith; Belief; Creed


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If love loves truth, then women do not love
Last Line: To have fair women false than none at all.
Subject(s): Women; Love - Complaints; Deception


WHEN THE MASK OF MY FRIEND FELL, by KHADI FALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happend in germany in a city called bremen
Last Line: A mask I could hardly have believed she wore
Subject(s): Deception; Friendship


WHEN TOMORROW IS TOO LONG, by TANURE OJAIDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: And if a juggler ever arrives in town
Last Line: Let tomorrow be too long
Subject(s): Deception


YOUR SOUL, by ALEJANDRO GUANES    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the eye is a mirror that reflects the soul, then the women
Last Line: Let me, in delirium, see your soul in a kiss!
Subject(s): Deception; Ethnic Identity; Paraguay; Women