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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DISCRETION Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAUTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you your lips would keep from slips Last Line: And how I do and did Variant Title(s): Our Lips And Ears Subject(s): Discretion A LOAFER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hang about the streets all day Last Line: A phantom voice that cries by rote. Subject(s): Discretion; Idleness; Pride; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect BLOUDIE JACKE OF SHREWSBERRIE; THE SHROPSHIRE BLUEBEARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why doth thine eye gleam so bright, bloudie jacke? Last Line: And lose -- more than a shewsberrie cake!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Discretion; Escapes; Pirates; Murder; Fugitives; Piracy; Buccaneers DISCRETION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discreet? What means this word discreet? Last Line: When they're bound naked to the stake. Subject(s): Discretion; Love LOOK OR [OR, ERE] YOU LEAP, by JASPER HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If thou in surety safe wilt sit Last Line: See all! Say nought! Hold thee content! Subject(s): Discretion POLITICAL REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discretion is the better part of valor Last Line: Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you Subject(s): Discretion; Politics RETURN TO HELOISE, by MARTYN CRUCEFIX Poem Source First Line: Secrecy and discretion must be preserved Last Line: Cross dim rooms to where the streets' fogs %deaden the stamping of horses Subject(s): Discretion; Secrets ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: OBJECT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The expandable enveloping flat flesh Last Line: Opened to anything by impression Subject(s): Discretion SUNDAY COMICS (5), by SANDY MCINTOSH Poem Source First Line: Judy is chasing punch down the street Last Line: I knew discretion was better %than honesty!' Subject(s): Discretion TRIOLETS OF DISCRETION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She drew her little hand away Last Line: "I thought so, too, but did n't ""call." Subject(s): Discretion; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YEARS OF DISCRETION, by PHILODEMUS OF GADARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved - but then who has not? Frolicked - who has not tasted Alternate Author Name(s): Philodemos; Philodemus Subject(s): Discretion; Human Behavior YEARS OF DISCRETION, by FREDERIC F. VAN DE WATER Poem Source First Line: Before the bleak era by providence set Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Discretion |
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