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Subject: INDIFFERENCE
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First Line: "indifferent, but indifferent - pshaw! He doth it not"
Last Line: On one who was a master of defence
Subject(s): Indifference


"STRIP ME NAKED, OR ROYAL GIN FOR EVER; A PICTURE", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I must, I will have gin! - that skillet take"
Last Line: "I was born naked, and I'll die naked"
Subject(s): Art & Artists;indifference;nudity;portraits; Nakedness


AFTERWARDS, by DANIEL SIMBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: August deep, %a thin line of grief swarms around the wild cherry
Last Line: Only then are you among the living
Subject(s): Indifference; Life


AGAINST INDIFFERENCE, by CHARLES WEBBE    Poem Text                    
First Line: More love or more disdain I crave
Last Line: More love or more disdain I crave.
Subject(s): Desire; Indifference; Love


AS ONE INVULNERABLE, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew a man who met to-morrow
Last Line: Whistled the sharp, offensive blade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs.
Subject(s): Indifference


CUSTOM AND INDIFFERENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot choose, but marvel at the way
Last Line: There is for grief, in which we have no share.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Indifference


DEATH AND THE PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched the players playing on their stage
Last Line: But once in many days!
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Indifference; Murder; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The


DEPRESSION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So proudly she came into the subway car
Subject(s): Unemployment; Disappointment; Poverty; Indifference; Depressions, Economic; Recessions


EPIGRAM: TO FOOL, OR KNAVE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike
Last Line: One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
Subject(s): Indifference


FINIS, by LE BARON COOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He went out into the world
Last Line: Though the play be ended . . .
Subject(s): Fame; Indifference; Reputation


FLOS LUNAE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not alter thy cold eyes
Last Line: I would not alter thy cold eyes.
Subject(s): Indifference


GREEN AWNINGS, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leander walked over with a blanket of peonies
Subject(s): Desire; Indifference; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HE DID NOT KNOW, by GERTRUDE STAHLE VAN ERDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her words as light as snow flakes
Last Line: They melted into tears.
Subject(s): Indifference; Language; Words; Vocabulary


INDIFFERENCE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cat is in the parlour
Subject(s): Animals;indifference


INDIFFERENCE, by FRED JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forced indifference makes fools of us both
Last Line: And waiting for the rescue of your fickle tides
Subject(s): Indifference


INDIFFERENCE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, for love was laggard, o, love was slow
Last Line: All sorry with the tears some folks might weep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Indifference


INDIFFERENCE?, by DOROTHY HOLLOWAY PFLAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like bright gold coins
Last Line: My very dear?
Subject(s): Indifference


METAL EYE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Secretly I'm dead inside
Last Line: At 3,200 degrees platinum liquefies
Subject(s): Desire; Girls; Indifference; Love - Loss Of; Obsessions


NO BIG DEAL, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, anthony starts to hit on this chick
Last Line: "into such an uproar -- it's no big deal!"
Subject(s): Indifference


NO MATTER, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight it matters not to me
Last Line: And I am here without a world.
Subject(s): Indifference; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ON AN UNSOCIABLE FAMILY, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O what a strange parcel of creatures are we
Last Line: For to please ourselves, truly, is more than we can.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Family Life; Indifference; Relatives


SARAJEVO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that a revolution really is needed, those who once were
Last Line: What will strike them ripens in themselves
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Bosnia; Indifference; Sarajevo, Bosnia


STATE OF THE NATION, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Understand that they were sitting just inside the door
Last Line: Crossed to the bar and said hello steve to the barkeeper
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Indifference


THE CORDIAL. IN THE YEAR 1657. A SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you hear of the news (o the news) how it thunders!
Last Line: Sing and play, while the city was burning.
Subject(s): Indifference; News


THE MISSING ALL PREVENTED ME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For curiosity
Subject(s): Indifference


THE STATE OF THE NATION, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Understand that they were sitting just inside the door
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Indifference; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


TO LUCASTA: HER RESERVED LOOKS, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucasta, frown and let me die
Last Line: An angel here, the devil there.
Subject(s): Indifference


TO THE QUEEN OF THE WAX DOLLS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the old church yard I told you all
Last Line: A skeptic might believe it!
Subject(s): Change; Indifference; Love - Complaints


TOM THE PORTER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As tom the porter went up ludgate hill
Last Line: Took up his load and trudged into the city.
Subject(s): Fights; Indifference; London; Pity; Revolutions


TRANSPARENCE, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love peering at me
Last Line: Frozen in a block of ice.
Subject(s): Indifference


UNNOTICED, by JUDY DIGREGORIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went to a banquet
Last Line: I thought it was a wart
Subject(s): Indifference


WHEN THIS GENERATION SEES HAN-SHAH, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You can come up and face cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Indifference; Zen Buddhism


WHY I DO NOT CARE, by BETH PIRSCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: My outside self is just as homely
Last Line: To show my happiness.
Subject(s): Indifference; Simplicity; Women