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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DETECTIVE STORIES Matches Found: 19 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BODY ENGLISH, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say something about still life Last Line: Unique. Subject(s): Detective Stories CORONER'S REPRIEVE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the third time in a week he dreams Last Line: Or pride, ingenious with his lust, determined %enough to die Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Detective Stories DETECTIVE NOVEL, by JOHN RICHARD REED Poem Source First Line: The point is to hurt Subject(s): Detective Stories DETECTIVE STORY, by DORI APPEL Poem Source First Line: Was it something I ate Subject(s): Detective Stories; Food And Eating DETECTIVE STORY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is ever quite without his landscape Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Detective Stories DETECTIVE STORY, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the house. Under the porte-cochere. In the vestibule. On the parquet. Last Line: In bed with the room. In the hall. On foot. In the hall. In the house. %in the room in the house Subject(s): Detective Stories DETECTIVE STORY, by E. M. SCHORB Poem Source First Line: Came in two hip nuns in unnunlike funny Last Line: To see what else was going down, root %out some more crime, and then take it in a flick Subject(s): Detective Stories DETECTIVE STORY, by JOHN HARTLEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I have an ache in the dark,' he said Last Line: So now that you know where truth is,' she said, %'go out & forget her. And go home' Subject(s): Detective Stories EXAMINATION I, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I saw her Last Line: An unreality with the scent of a camellia Subject(s): Child Molesting; Detective Stories; Murder JANUARY 24, NEW YORK, by KAY BOYLE Poem Source First Line: In one corner of the dormitory, near the roof, was a pigeon-cote in which Last Line: Rosary,' said the kingpin in a high falsetto, 'I warn you I'll scream.' Subject(s): Detective Stories; Prisons And Prisoners KGB SEX SCHOOL FOR SPIES: MEN CALLED RAVENS, WOMEN SWALLOWS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: It was either the house of love Last Line: I was sent from the city with my possessions, %and all was slaughter Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Obedience; Prisons And Prisoners MAN WHO NEVER COMES BACK, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: He's always in his 60s or 70s Last Line: A long time for you. We thought you'd never come Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Mystery; News; Newspapers MORPHO, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his journey to the jade sea Last Line: The mutilated girl with butterflies upon her Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Murder; Rape OWL WRITES A DETECTIVE STORY, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately home where doves, in dovecotes, coo Last Line: But who? But who? Who, who, who, who, who, who? Subject(s): Birds; Detective Stories; Owls PRIVATE EYE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find clues where there are none Subject(s): Detective Stories PRIVATE EYE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find clues where there are none Last Line: I'm not closing up till he breaks Subject(s): Detective Stories SEARCH, by YANNIS RITSOS Poem Source First Line: Come in, gentlemen - he said. No inconvenience. Look through everything Last Line: Who planted these in here? Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Forgery; Human Rights SPY WANDERS THROUGH THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source First Line: A man wears an overcoat and grey boots Last Line: A man with a mustache takes out his glasses Subject(s): Detective Stories; Wanderers And Wandering THE FATIGUE OF OBJECTS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the victim's room Last Line: For the fingerprints of the murderer Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Murder; Dead, The |
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