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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FLIRTATION Matches Found: 91 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONTRADICTION, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say she's like an april day Last Line: A contradiction. Subject(s): Charm; Contrariness; Deception; Flirtation; Love A SKEIN OF ZEPHYR; RONDEAU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In a quaint queen anne chair Last Line: "so I warn you, youths, beware / a skein of zephyr!" Subject(s): Flirtation A SURREY SONG, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: I was a man of mitchen Last Line: And mitchen for a thief. Subject(s): Flirtation ABLUTION, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door Last Line: "shall wreathe thy hair while thirsting for thy song." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flirtation; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women ADVICE TO THE LADIES, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who now regards chloris, her tears, and her whining Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Flirtation; Mnemonics AFTER HORACE, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare me the roman wars, and those Last Line: She won't accept your kiss; she'll steal it! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Flirtation AH, LASSIE FAIR!, by S. G. TENNEY Poem Text First Line: Ah, lassie fair! Thine eyes of blue Last Line: "ah, laissez faire!" Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation ALTHOUGH SHE'S A GIRL, DORKION, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cape show a glimpse of her bare butt Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Flirtation AN ACROSTIC, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: M ight I but speak what yearns my soul to say Last Line: No siren tempts me from my mollie bright! Subject(s): Flirtation; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AN APPROPRIATE KEEPSAKE, by HENRY MORGAN STONE Poem Text First Line: We flirted together a week at the shore Last Line: And at parting he gave me a souvenir spoon. Subject(s): Flirtation; Gifts & Giving AN ODE (1), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The merchant, to secure his treasure, / conveys it in a borrowed name Last Line: Remarked how ill we all dissembled. Variant Title(s): Love's Disguises;to Chloe Subject(s): Flirtation; Love ANTONINA, by H. A. BOYNE Poem Text First Line: See antonina playing her guitar Last Line: And seek for more to make her music whole. Subject(s): Flirtation; Guitars ART OF COQUETRY, SELS., by CHARLOTTE (RAMSAY) LENNOX Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: First form your artful looks with studious care Last Line: With anguish now repents the weak deceit, %and powerful passion bears him to your feet Subject(s): Flirtation AT CHURCH, by S. T. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: Two idle eyes, 'neath lashes fine Last Line: To idolize. Subject(s): Flirtation; Worship AT THE BALL, by H. G. DUNHAM Poem Text First Line: Down the room now swiftly gliding Last Line: Was its end. Subject(s): Flirtation BALLAD, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird sings in the hazel-brake Last Line: You are nothing more to me. Subject(s): Flirtation; Love - Complaints BETWEEN THE GALOP AND THE LANCIERS, by F. K. CURTIS Poem Text First Line: Twas just a waltz the musicians played Last Line: Between the galop and the lanciers? Subject(s): Flirtation BREEZE IN TRANSLATION, by BELLE WARING Poem Full Text First Line: Me, I like to putz in the kitchen and regard Subject(s): Flirtation BREEZE IN TRANSLATION, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Me, I like to putz in the kitchen and regard Last Line: Scratch. Femmes aux barricades! The critic can't weave %a cat's cradle. Breeze spits: by hand. Frenc Subject(s): Flirtation CONSISTENCY, by R. F. H. Poem Text First Line: I do not ask for all your smiles Last Line: I flirt a little, too. Subject(s): Flirtation COQUETTE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or light or dark, or short or tall Last Line: She'd make sweet eyes at caliban. Subject(s): Flirtation DAMOETAS AND DAPHNIS, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Polyphemus, galatea with apples pelts your flocks Last Line: Neither hazs won the match - unconquered the two Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Flirtation DETERMINATION, by WILLIAM CLYDE FITCH Poem Text First Line: Did you ever love a maid Last Line: Seems to tempt me, I shall steal from her a kiss! Alternate Author Name(s): Fitch, Clyde Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation DORIS, by WILLIAM CONGREVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doris, a nymph of riper age Last Line: To shine elsewhere of course.— Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRT, by MICHAEL KREBS Poem Source First Line: It ain't been spoke her drawing Last Line: She will teach you dreaming Subject(s): Flirtation; Teaching And Teachers; Women FLIRTATION, by FREDERICK STANLEY CAMP Poem Text First Line: Flitting fancy, blithe and free Last Line: Love you? No, nor dost thou me. Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all, there's no need Last Line: Walking through Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all, there's no need Last Line: So the pleasure's in %walking through Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you should meet september Last Line: And will kiss with ice your summer lids %and winter hold you still Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking down the street Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, by ABU 'L-WALID AHMAD IBN ABD ALLAH IBN ZAIDUN Poem Text First Line: It is as though we never flirted Last Line: Wellnigh our secret was disclosing. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Zaydun Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like my tights electric blue Last Line: You like my tights, electric blue Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Flirtation FLIRTATION, by LI CH'ING-CHAO Poem Source First Line: After kicking on the swing Last Line: And lean flirtatiously against the door, %tasting a green plum Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I strolled on the beach with ... Isabella Subject(s): Flirtation FLIRTATION, JULY, 1953, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Driving north a day and a half from pensacola, florida Last Line: That was the first. You never forget your first Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Flirtation; Love FLIRTATION; A DIALOGUE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From her own room, in summer's softest eve Last Line: Married at guernsey!!!' -- oh! The villain, dear! Subject(s): Flirtation; Love - Complaints FLIRTING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Should her flirting prove a danger Last Line: That's the stuff to stop her treason. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flirtation HER PROGRAMME OF DANCE, by ALFRED L. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: This little blue card I found on the floor Last Line: That first fatal day when I met her. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Flirtation HER SATIN FAN, by JAMES GOODWIN Poem Text First Line: Her satin fan is wondrous white Last Line: Her satin fan. Subject(s): Flirtation I DOUBT IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When a pair of red lips are upturned to your own Last Line: "will you guard it and keep it, and act the good part? / well, maybe you will- but I doubt it" Subject(s): Doubt;flirtation; Skepticism IN HOOD OF BLUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in hood of blue's soft, warm embrace" Last Line: "and feel I'm drawn, -towards charming grace, / in hood of blue" Subject(s): Flirtation;longing IN THE PARK, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He whistled soft whistlings I knew were for me Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs. Variant Title(s): Flirtatio Subject(s): Flirtation INVITING, by DANIEL CHAUNCEY BREWER Poem Text First Line: Pretty and sweet, ever so neat Last Line: Who for the moment would dare to resist? Subject(s): Flirtation LA COQUETTE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You look at me with tender eyes Last Line: Receive the whirlwind for your gain! Subject(s): Flirtation; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LAUDO PUELLAM, by H. A. RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: O christmas girl, whose dainty feet Last Line: O christmas girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flirtation LE DEPART, by GEORGE R. WALLACE Poem Text First Line: From the alcove, screened with its tropic palms Last Line: Under her opera cloak. Subject(s): Flirtation LINES WRITTEN FOR A BLANK PAGE OF 'THE KEEPSAKE', by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, there's fragrance in your sighs, / and sunlight in your glances Last Line: And dance with me next season. Subject(s): Flirtation; Women MY PHYLLIS, by WILLIAM CLYDE FITCH Poem Text First Line: My phyllis, o my phyllis Last Line: My phyllis, darling phyllis. Alternate Author Name(s): Fitch, Clyde Subject(s): Flirtation NEVER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She watched him give his heart first, then his mind Last Line: He'll never make a poet,' she said. 'too kind.' Subject(s): Flirtation; Kindness; Love; Poetry And Poets; Relationships NONSENSE RHYMES: 8, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I do not go to the fields today Last Line: Likes to flirt and tease Subject(s): Flirtation;nonsense OLD MAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl who has been whistled at Last Line: With pleading eyes. Subject(s): Women; Flirtation ON THE STAIRS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We were seated after dancing Last Line: All my depth of love revealing / unawares Subject(s): Flirtation PHYLLIS AND CORYDON, by ARTHUR W. COTTON Poem Text First Line: Phyllis took a red rose from the tangles of her haid Last Line: Well, which do you suppose? Subject(s): Flirtation REPARTEE, by SAMUEL ALBERT YORK Poem Text First Line: They had whirled around in the steps of the waltz Last Line: "this attachment is mutual, you know." Subject(s): Flirtation; Love - Beginnings ROSALIE, by JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS Poem Text First Line: Over the fields where the soft wind blows Last Line: Bearing her daisy sheaf. Subject(s): Flirtation; Flowers; Love ROSE AT IT AGAIN, by MITCHELL DAVIS FOLLANSBEE Poem Text First Line: Rose kissed me today Last Line: Who will kiss her to-morrow? Subject(s): Flirtation SAILING, by OLIVIA RUIZ Poem Source First Line: Saul's new sure-footed eyes Last Line: The two sailors launch %with rhythms as even as hymns Subject(s): Flirtation SCUTTLERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She thinks of simon's flattering croon Last Line: Pay scuttling homage to the moon. Subject(s): Flirtation SEMPER IDEM, by H. D. HALE Poem Text First Line: In days gone by brave knights would vie Last Line: Are maidens' hearts as true? Subject(s): Flirtation; Knights & Knighthood SHORTLY BEFORE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: One blue day, in the badbread years, a girl Last Line: At my six years, eyes full of silence. %and smiled at me. Subject(s): Flirtation; Memory; Seashore SHRODON FEAR: THE REST O'T, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' after that we met wi' zome Last Line: Behind, a-kickèn o' the stwones. Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Flirtation; Food & Eating; Seasons; Fall; Fairs; Pageants SNAP CHAT: MARRAKECH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says, would you like to have a loo Last Line: Who said anything about going home Subject(s): Salespersons; Flirtation; Shopping SO SWEET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know not who the maid may be Last Line: And life will be so sad and yet / so sweet Subject(s): Flirtation;longing SOME TANGLED HAIR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some tangled hair Last Line: "a broken heart,- / by jove, I own it's puzzlin'" Subject(s): Flirtation SOMEBODY', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "somebody told me, one bright summer day" Last Line: "and somehow I yielded without any strife, / for I couldn't say, 'no, sir.' could you?" Subject(s): Flirtation SOUR GRAPES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I never cared the least for lou Last Line: Are very trying. Subject(s): Charm; Flirtation; Love - Age Differences; Youth THE COQUETTE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melinda, who had never been Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Beauty; Flirtation; Youth THE COQUETTE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She laughs, the dimples come and go Last Line: She weds old moneybags at last! Subject(s): Flirtation; Happiness; Laughter; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE FLIRT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Beautiful boy, lend me your youth to play with Last Line: Than what I am! Subject(s): Aging; Boys; Desire; Flirtation; Youth THE FLIRT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty game, my girl Last Line: The shame sits on thy knee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flirtation; Love THE FLIRT, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the play approaches its climax Last Line: On the other side of him. Subject(s): Flirtation; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE INTERCEPTED SALUTE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden met me in the lane Last Line: It is an added glory on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Flirtation; Fathers & Daughters THE LADY'S 'YES', by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes!' I answered you last night Last Line: Shall be yes for evermore. Subject(s): Flirtation; Love THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring Last Line: Haunts me night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 64, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring women flaunt their looks Last Line: Their husbands know why Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Flirtation; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ROCKS OF MT. DESERT, by E. M. T. Poem Text First Line: The soft light of the setting sun Last Line: E. M. T. Subject(s): Flirtation; Love THE SUMMER GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sweet summer girl with curling tresses Last Line: "far away from city's whirl / we will meet you, summer girl" Subject(s): Flirtation THE VEIL OF ISIS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To lift her veil, whose broideries Last Line: To lift her veil? Subject(s): Chastity; Death; Flirtation; Innocence; Dead, The THE WOUNDED BIRD, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose coming home / had a bird in her breast Last Line: In her breast. Subject(s): Birds; Flirtation THERE WAS A YOUNG HUSBAND NAMED DWIGHTLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If I knew how to do it politely Subject(s): Flirtation;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THISTLE AND NETTLE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a night, with sleet and snow Last Line: "to shelter till the day they die." Subject(s): Flirtation; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TO A COQUETTE, by MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lady, in thy radiant eyes Last Line: Only masks thy cruelties Subject(s): Cruelty; Flirtation TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WILLIAM FRENCH COLLINS Poem Text First Line: You'd admire my city sweetheart Last Line: All the while! Subject(s): Flirtation; Love UP FROM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Up from the steets thrills her voice Last Line: Why won't he open the window? Subject(s): Cities; Flirtation VENTRILOQUISM, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You girls by moonlight lovered Subject(s): Language; Flirtation; Words; Vocabulary WHAT IS FLIRTATION?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is flirtation? Really Last Line: But one goes home to weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flirtation WHY?, by C. H. PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: O lady fair! O lady fair! Last Line: Means but this: I love thee best. Subject(s): Flirtation; Longing WITHOUT AVAIL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Without a veil I saw her stand Last Line: Without avail. Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation; Summer WOMAN'S WILES, by HENRY SMITH CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Two snowy arms around his neck Last Line: He knew it was a check she yearned. Subject(s): Flirtation; Money YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The congregation stared Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Churches; Flirtation ZI-YE SONGS: 24, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I held my dress, not tying the sash Last Line: If it opens a bit, just blame the spring wind Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Flirtation |
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