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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DUPLICITY Matches Found: 36 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FALSE GENIUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a spirit by thy side Last Line: He is a demon in disguise! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Duplicity; Evil; Genius; God; Grief; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness A STATESMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He knew the mask of principle to wear Last Line: Chief eunuch, were but ours the sultan's court! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Duplicity; Politics & Government; Selfishness; Deceit ANNIE LEE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Annie lee is fair and sweet Last Line: Tho' so fair to look upon. Subject(s): Beauty; Duplicity; Deceit BLUE-BEARD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fadlallah: good neighbour, be quiet! - my word is a law Last Line: But 'tis always unlucky to marry thirteen! Subject(s): Duplicity; Islam; Marriage; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLUFF AND STRUT!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Bluff, bluff, and strut your stuff-- Last Line: Talk in large numbers, and then strut your stuff! Subject(s): Conceit; Duplicity; Lies; Deceit CALL ME CIRCE, by KAREN GLENN Poem Source First Line: They say I like to turn men Last Line: Everything %like some deceitful god Subject(s): Duplicity; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction DAN, by MABEL HAUGHTON COLLYER Poem Text First Line: This toast is to a liar who Last Line: Had cupid told the truth! Subject(s): Cupid; Duplicity; Eros; Deceit DUALITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never pass a human house Last Line: Awake, as in its sleep? Subject(s): Death; Duplicity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUPLICITY OF WOMEN, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This worlde is full of variaunce Last Line: Sitte on your breste, your self t'assure, %a myghty shelde of doublenesse Variant Title(s): Beware Of Doublenes Subject(s): Duplicity; Women FOUR-FLUSHERS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Great is the four-flush. In the sporting world Last Line: For life is just a four-flush, after all! Subject(s): Duplicity; Poverty; Sports; Deceit HEAVENLY BLISS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Trouble o'erwhelms us in the world Last Line: And taste a ray of heavenly bliss Subject(s): Death;duplicity;happiness;heaven;sin; "dead, The;deceit;joy;delight;paradise; HER QUALIFICATIONS, by ROBERT A. SIMON Poem Text First Line: Miss dolly doll's a devotee Last Line: In whozit's girl-and-music medley. Subject(s): Duplicity; Deceit HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love to faults is always blind Last Line: And forges fetters for the mind Subject(s): Bible; Duplicity; Love - Nature Of; Mythology; Deceit LADIES DON'T GO THIEVING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh don't we live in curious times Last Line: And don't go out a - thieving Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;duplicity;honesty;women; Deceit LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE DECEIVER, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Deep in a drafty orchard just in shoot Last Line: "and life undone;"" -- and here he wept again." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Duplicity; Love; Deceit MUIRKIRK LIGHT WEIGHTS, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In muirkirk there lives a taylor Last Line: And aye when 'tis convenient, their standard they should mind. Subject(s): Duplicity; Money; Deceit NANNY TO BESSY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven long winters departed Last Line: And thrice — but ah, let me refrain. Subject(s): Duplicity; Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Shame; Deceit ODES II, 8. TO BARINE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If, o barine, you paid whatever penalty Last Line: Recently virgins, fearful you will fascinate their husbands to dallying delay Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Beauty; Duplicity OJISTOH, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ojistoh, I am she, the wife Last Line: ^1^ god, in the mohawk language. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Duplicity; Hate; Marriage; Native Americans - Women; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Squaws 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 RICHARD PIGOTT, THE FORGER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard pigott, the forger, was a very bad man Last Line: And an honest, true-hearted gentleman be it told. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dishonor; Duplicity; Forgery; Pigott, Richard (1828-1889); Deceit SHE'S FAIR AND FALSE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's fair and false! That such a heart Last Line: Fade icy-cold in depths and gloom. Subject(s): Beauty; Duplicity; Women; Deceit SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 7, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, this pious talk give o'er Last Line: And with another damn. Subject(s): Duplicity; Fools; Hearts; Deceit; Idiots SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 8, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, dorinda, I adore Last Line: I divorce myself for ever. Subject(s): Duplicity; Fear; Hope; Love; Virtue; Deceit; Optimism STATE OF THE UNION: 25. THE SOVEREIGN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was never a union. It was at best Last Line: This counterfeit coin called a sovereign Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Duplicity; Money TALE: 9. ARABELLA, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a fair town where doctor rack was guide Last Line: To make the sinner sure, and then t' attack the sin.' Subject(s): Duplicity; Marriage; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ASS CLOTHED IN THE LION'S SKIN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fear fled before a wily ass that clad Last Line: The only witness of their valiance. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Duplicity; Fables; Masks; Mules; Deceit; Allegories THE DECEIT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the way to istral where the sea sweeps / in Last Line: For a witch, god wot, had snared me in the semblance of a maid! Subject(s): Duplicity; Lust; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Deceit; Bedtime THE DECEIVER DECIVED: PROLOGUE, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Deceiv'd deceiver, and imposter cheated! Last Line: There's no appeal to any court but you. Subject(s): Devil; Duplicity; Plays & Playwrights; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Deceit THE HUSBAND OF LADY GODIVA, by FRANCES WIERMAN Poem Text First Line: True it is, women are deceivers! Last Line: By that diamond, bedded in white velvet! Subject(s): Duplicity; Women; Deceit THE LAST ILLUSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We only played at love Last Line: Something holds us fast. Subject(s): Defamation; Duplicity; Hallucinations And Illusions; Love; Slander; Libel; Deceit THE LOVE OF DECEIT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I see you pass, dear indolent one Last Line: Hail, mask, dear counterfeit! I bow, adore! Subject(s): Duplicity; Love; Deceit THE TOUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: There are a hundred ways in which he strives to Last Line: And you can trust him—sure you can—just one time out of fifty! Subject(s): Duplicity; Gambling; Horse Racing; Deceit; Wagering; Betting TO CASTARA, OF TRUE DELIGHT, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why doth the ear so tempt the voice Last Line: Chaste virtue's only true and fair. Subject(s): Duplicity; Imagination; Deceit; Fancy TO FINE LADY WOULD-BE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fine madam would-be, wherefore should you fear Last Line: Of the not born, yet buried, here's the tomb. Subject(s): Duplicity; Infertility; Pregnancy; Deceit WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY, THE MICE MAY PLAY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady once (so stories say Last Line: Lest she again repent it. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Duplicity; Fables; Mice; Play; Deceit; Allegories |
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