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Subject: IRONY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were dead, but how sleek and darkly calm you were!
Last Line: Lying, saying I cared nothing about form....
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Irony; Play; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares


A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boss came around at christmas
Subject(s): Charity; Communism; Economics; Irony; Labor Unions; Socialism; Philanthropy


A MERRY HEART: GOIN' SHOOTIN', by THELMA LUCILE LULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I took me out a-hunting for to bag a gamesome kill
Last Line: Holds still some eight professors on the dead tree limb!
Subject(s): Comedy; Guns; Hunting; Irony; Teaching & Teachers; Hunters


A MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl
Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bias; Intolerance


A PERIOD PORTRAIT OF SYMPATHY, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain emmet crawford
Last Line: And the scouts love his weirdness
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Scouting & Scouts; Irony; Southwest; Pacific States


A ROOF IS GOOD, by MARY CRUMP BOULDIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When you speak of the open space
Last Line: Of reality.
Subject(s): Irony


DISAGREEABLE ADVICE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always, sweetheart
Last Line: Of mirth; then the dripping of tears on your glove.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Irony
Subject(s): Irony


EAGLE AND THE DRY LEAF, by SANTIAGO H. ARGUELLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day the eagle said, with pride: 'none can soar up %like me!
Last Line: Then higher than the eagles the dry leaves rise and soar!
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Irony; Self-gratification


EIGHT LYRICS: FOR TIRESIAS, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR.    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak to us who %are also split
Last Line: To life or death. %blinder than you
Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George
Variant Title(s): Eight Lyrics: 2. For Tiresia
Subject(s): Irony


ELEGY ON DEPLORABLE DEATH OF MR. THOMAS SHERIDAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "assist with mournful strains, assist, my muse"
Last Line: His fellow surely is not to be found
Subject(s): "irony;sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738);


EPITAPH FOR A REAL ESTATE DEALER, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And now he has no single plot of ground
Last Line: Excepting that in which he sleeps so sound!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Irony


FISH OF THE GODS, by RALPH LINTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fish of the gods! The gods who called for blood
Last Line: Perhaps the sportsmen throw us in again.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; God; Hunting; Irony; Anglers; Hunters


FROST AND HIS ENEMIES, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When robert frost set down a poetic whim,
Last Line: Or a patch of snow or the steeple of a church.
Subject(s): Fate; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Innocence; Irony; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Destiny


IRONY, by GLADYS BROWN DENISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A brave young pine tree
Last Line: The pine tree reaches for.
Subject(s): Irony


IRONY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yang lian, poet in exile, said he didn't think there was a word for
Last Line: Nist can begin when even two lesser things fracture and pull
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Irony


IRONY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You gave me my work to do, you brought and set it before me
Last Line: Why did you seal my lips and crush the song in my throat?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Heaven; Irony; Laughter; Paradise


IRONY, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Irony; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IRONY, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus spake a man in days of old
Last Line: ...A bag of lead!
Subject(s): God; Irony


IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH: ESSAY ON MY LIFE AS CATHERINE DENEUVE (2D DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beginnings are hard. Sappho put it sumply. Speaking of a young girl
Last Line: Lengths inch forward, not touching
Subject(s): Deneuve, Catherine; Irony


IRONY OF FATE, by GRACE JERVIS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I would soar on wings of song
Last Line: "is that new patch sewed in?"
Subject(s): Irony; Mothers


LITERARY IRONY, by LOUIS PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jack, bobby, teddy - the kennedys
Last Line: Life can't be as tragic as all this
Subject(s): Irony


LOOKING UP FROM TWO RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS TO MASSACRE TIANANMEN SQUARE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fruit flies lift off the bowl of brown pears
Last Line: Will drag over the ground.
Subject(s): Irony; Paintings & Painters; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989


MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl
Last Line: Big as a horse
Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine


OF A CERTAIN POET, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sanely they told the sensitive youth
Last Line: They spoke the truth.
Subject(s): Irony; Poetry & Poets


ON A HYMN-BOOK, by WILLIAM J. HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old hymn-book, sure I thought I'd lost you
Last Line: Mrs. Samuel jones.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hymns (as Literary Form); Irony; Public Worship; Church Attendance


ON THE DAY IRONY IS IMPOSSIBLE, by GAYLORD BREWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You may find yourself
Last Line: Not a chair. %try something larger
Subject(s): Irony


ON THE SAND, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do ghost lobsters mock this scrap
Last Line: Knowing lobsters, traps, and me.
Subject(s): Hunting; Irony; Lobsters; Seashore; Hunters; Beach; Coast; Shore


OUR WRONGS, by C. F. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When girls are only babies
Last Line: We can't -- can't -- can't.
Subject(s): Irony; Kisses


PEOPLE ARE SO BUSY: OR: THAT'S LIFE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dying man
Last Line: To borrow his bed
Subject(s): Irony


PIOUS JOHN, by HENRY REICH JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: All's good in nature, pious john maintains
Last Line: John, struck by lightnin', lived to cuss like thunder.
Subject(s): Comedy; Irony; Piety


SANCTITY, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To be a poet and not know the trade
Last Line: The agonising pincer-jaws of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Irony


SCHLUCK AND JAU, by GERHART HAUPTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bow me to the master of the hunt
Last Line: Well, well, well, well, you are a devil of a fellow!
Subject(s): Irony; Masques


SECOND SPRING, by MARIE SKIPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chinaberry blossoms
Last Line: For a tiny grave.
Subject(s): Irony; Mourning; Bereavement


SONNET ENDING WITH A FILM SUBTITLE, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Irony


SONNET ENDING WITH A FILM SUBTITLE, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Irony


THE CLOUD CONFINES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is dark and the night
Last Line: "that shall we know one day."
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Irony


THE HERETIC: 2. IRONY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why are the things that have no death
Last Line: And so he dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Irony; Mankind; Human Race


THE NEED FOR STOICISM IN THE STOA OF ATTALUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pitcher that went to the well too often
Last Line: And the urinals (by crane) have all gone to pot
Subject(s): Irony; Stoicism


THE RUINED MAID, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O 'melia, my dear, this does everything crown!
Last Line: Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined,' said she.
Subject(s): Irony; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE WIDOW'S MITE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a widow stern and spry
Last Line: And he died from the widow's might
Subject(s): Irony


THREE FUNCTIONS OF IRONY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: 1, the shield
Last Line: 3. The ambush
Subject(s): Irony; Shields


TO THE KINGS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you've fulfilled the measure of your pride
Last Line: And shake your kingdoms with its irony!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Irony; Skulls; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The


USA-1000, by SUSAN BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every night between flo's kiss my grits
Last Line: Knots smooth, forgetting how wood wears each season %wheels traveling in the same crooked grooves
Subject(s): Irony


VICTORIAN LADIES, by MILDRED HATTON BRYAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This picture that you see, sir, on the wall
Last Line: "you've seen her often here. My daughter, sir!"
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Irony; Youth


WHO'LL TEND BABY?, by E. E.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who'll take care of the baby?'
Last Line: "she went to pay her taxes!"
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Irony; Nonsense; Infants; Childhood


YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for
Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!!
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America