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Subject: INFATUATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A UN DESCONOCIDO, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was looking for your hai
Subject(s): Infatuation


ASOLANDO: BEATRICE SIGNORINI, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This strange thing happened to a painter once
Last Line: The pretty incident I put in rhyme.
Subject(s): Infatuation; Paintings & Painters


CRISTINA, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She should never have looked at me
Last Line: This world's use will have been ended.
Subject(s): Infatuation; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


INFATUATION, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis his one hope: all else that round his life
Last Line: Despite of lifting swell and flinging surf.
Subject(s): Infatuation


LANCELOT WITH BICYCLE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her window looks upon the lane
Last Line: Three grief, april, and his name
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Infatuation; Love – Age Differences; Fickleness


LET MINE EYES FEED FOR EVER ON THINE EYES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Infatuation; Loyalty; Sky


RUDEL TO THE LADY OF TRIPOLI, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a mount, the gracious sun perceives
Last Line: Pilgrim dear!
Subject(s): Infatuation; Troubadours; Minnesingers


SCHOOLMARM, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've taken sacred sex
Subject(s): Schools; Teachers; Infatuation; Students


SONNET, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eyes, calm beside thee (lady, couldst thou know!)
Last Line: "save that one only:"" -- lady, couldst thou know!"
Subject(s): Infatuation


SONNET: WARD'S, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale friends you wish us ever to remain
Last Line: A wind blew, and dim worship flamed to love.
Subject(s): Infatuation; Friendship


THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded
Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
Subject(s): Infatuation; Love - Unrequited; Scarves; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women