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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FLATTERY Matches Found: 30 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 |
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