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Subject: FLATTERY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TO DEMOSTHENES, ON A FLATTERING MIRROR", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It flatters and deceives thy view
Last Line: Thou wouldst consult it never more
Subject(s): Flattery;mirrors;vanity


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12. A RENUNCIATION, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white
Last Line: Embrace, and kiss, and love me, in despite.
Subject(s): Flattery; Love; Praise


DEMOCRITUS LAUGHING AT THE FOLLY OF FLATTERY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ... Hold me or I shall burst
Subject(s): Democritus (460-370 B.c.); Flattery; Philosophy And Philosophers


FLATTERIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is't that wasts a prince? Example showes
Last Line: Tis flatterie spends a king, more then his foes.
Subject(s): Flattery


FLATTERY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You tease for a rhyme
Last Line: "that will ""tickle and flatter."
Subject(s): Flattery; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


FLATTERY, by SHELLEY LESSIN STOCKWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tummy tuck
Subject(s): Flattery


FLATTERY, by CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fanny, beware of flattery
Subject(s): Flattery


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, if I with guile would gild a true intent
Last Line: But to find as fair as you.
Subject(s): Truth; Flattery


HAIKU, by YAMAZAKI SOKAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou obsequious frog
Last Line: And croaking flatteries of such solemn sound.
Subject(s): Flattery


HAIKU, by YAMAZAKI SOKAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hands to the floor
Last Line: The frog
Subject(s): Flattery


HUMAN WORMS, by ANAXILAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flatterers are the worms who prey upon
Last Line: He's a mere husk, cleaned out, they gnaw another.
Subject(s): Flattery


IF YOU MUST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you must choose, she said, between praise and blame
Last Line: Praisewords keep soul and body young %in amazing ways.
Subject(s): Flattery; Women; Youth


INSCRIPTION FOR A PORTRAIT, by T'ANG YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night the cherry-apple
Last Line: Tonight, my dear' she says %'sleep with the flowers'
Subject(s): Flattery


LINES WRITTEN IN ROUSSEAU'S LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away, away, your flattering arts
Last Line: And they shall weep at your deceiving.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Flattery; Deceit


MY VERY PARTICULAR FRIEND, by MARIA ABDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are you struck with her figure and face?
Last Line: She's my very particular friend!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A.
Subject(s): Flattery; Friendship


ON FLATTERERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No mischief worthier of our fear
Last Line: "who strikes, when most secure we seem, / the inevitable blow"
Subject(s): Flattery


ON MARIA, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise woman still,' his lordship roars
Last Line: The more the truth I tell.
Subject(s): Flattery


OPENING OF THE PASTURE - LOVE AND FLATTERY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a closes nook beneath a shed
Last Line: So loves discourse had end - till eve again %should call them both to milk upon the plain
Subject(s): Flattery; Love


PSALM 58 (VERSION 2), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You that in judgment sitt
Last Line: As each mans good or ill deserves.
Subject(s): Flattery; Justice


SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is none, o! None but you
Last Line: Or man a woman half so fair.
Subject(s): Fidelity; Flattery; Love; Oaths; Faithfulness; Constancy


SONNET (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O be thou keen to guess when flattery's near
Last Line: And many snares to steal ev'n that combine.
Subject(s): Flattery


SONNET: 138, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my love swears that she is made of truth
Last Line: And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
Variant Title(s): "when My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth"";sonnet: 138a;
Subject(s): Flattery; Love


THE BIRTH OF FLATTERY, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Muse of my spenser, who so well could sing
Last Line: In every creature she beholds a friend.
Subject(s): Flattery


THE KNIGHTS: DEMOS AND HIS FLATTERER, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With reverence to your worships, 'tis our fate
Last Line: That flogging is a jest to't, a mere flea-bite.
Subject(s): Flattery


THE ORIGIN OF FLATTERY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When jove, in anger to the sons of earth
Last Line: And scatter roses round the silent tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Flattery


THE PROFESSION OF FLATTERY, by ANTIPHANES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Consider, then, the flatterer's profession
Last Line: Second to none, say I, unless you're rich.
Subject(s): Flattery


THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly
Last Line: The fly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Flattery; Insects; Spiders; Vanity; Bugs


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be thou then my beauty named
Last Line: Ile love thee, serve thee, and adore.
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Flattery; Love


TO OENONE (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet oenone, doe but say
Last Line: Gently kill'd by flatterie.
Subject(s): Flattery


WHEN COMPLIMENTS PAY BEST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your wife is growing old, man
Last Line: That you are looking young!
Subject(s): Flattery