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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIKES & DISLIKES Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONSISTENT GIRL, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss dorothea birmingham irene amanda / jones Last Line: "and, dorothea, queenly and consistent, answered ""nope." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Courtship; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A TALE TOLD BY ATHENEUS (VENUS CALLIPYGUS), by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters of ancient greece both laid claim Subject(s): Buttocks; Likes & Dislikes A WIFE EXPLAINS WHY SHE LIKES THE COUNTRY, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because those cows in the bottomland are black and white, colors Subject(s): Country Life; Likes & Dislikes ASOLANDO: WHICH?, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, the three court-ladies began Last Line: "seems terribly like what perhaps gains god's preference." Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLAD OF THE LADY QUID PRO QUO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the coasts of consternation Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Likes & Dislikes; Conduct Of Life BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'ONCE I LOVED A MAIDEN FAIR', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one! If thus kind you be Last Line: When y' are not, forsake you. Subject(s): Beauty; Love – Nature Of; Likes & Dislikes BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'I'LL HAVE MY LOVE, OR I'LL HAVE ONE', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some praise the brown, and some the fair Last Line: I'll only tell to some choice friend. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Love - Materialism; Money BUNCHES OF GRAPES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunches of grapes,' says timothy Last Line: For me,' says jane. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Children; Likes & Dislikes; Wishes; Childhood CROAK, by ELIZABETH JAEGER Poem Text First Line: When it darkens and rains Last Line: With relish I croak in my nook. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Pleasure DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 4. THE LOTTERY GIRL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lottery, lottery, / take a chance at the lottery? Last Line: From your eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Likes & Dislikes; Love DUTCH INTERIOR, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He liked the late afternoon light as it dimmed Subject(s): Home; Likes & Dislikes EFFIE'S REASONS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, effie, while you are sitting Last Line: "just because I love him so!" Subject(s): Brothers; Likes & Dislikes; Family Life FOLD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am partial to poems about Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 1. MRS. VERNON CASTLE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fair and utter grace of you Last Line: But—lady, must you sing? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Castle, Irene Foote (1893-1969); Hearts; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Women I LIKE THE BROOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Like ther brook, I like the tree Last Line: I like to like things all the day Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Nature I LOVE THE SEASONED THINGS, by ELIZABETH THORNTON KOLTS Poem Text First Line: I like the weather-beaten things in life Last Line: I love the seasoned things of life. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And leave the doors again Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes INTERVIEW, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies men admire, I've heard, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Likes & Dislikes; Male-female Relations JUDICIUM PARIDIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, when young, 'beauty's the supreme joy' Last Line: Renders me back a saint unto myself! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Beauty; Youth; Aging; Wisdom; Courtship; Time; Likes & Dislikes LIKE, I REALLY LIKE THAT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beverley said, though you could barely hear her Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Likes & Dislikes; Dramatists MATTIE'S WANTS AND WISHES, by GRACE GORDON Poem Text First Line: I wants a piece of talito [or cal'co] Last Line: You'd better bring me free. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Wishes MY BRAIN SWIMS EMPTY AND LIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tumbling and showing their legs and crying out to me loosely Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes PERPETUALLY ATTEMPTING TO SOAR, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy from brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Wind; Breasts; Aging PERSONAL POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes & Dislikes; New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple POSSIBILITIES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I prefer the cinema. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes QUITS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my best wines mislike thy taste Last Line: There's many another inn in town. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes ROCKET, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teacher, teacher / - I don't like this asswignment Last Line: Post-chaise & brigantine Subject(s): Rockets; Schools; Likes & Dislikes SOME PEOPLE LIKE THE GREAT THINGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: A butterfly upon a bush, a daisy in the grass Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes SYMPTOM RECITAL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like my state of mind; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes; Love - Beginnings THE FOURTH WISE MAN, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Likes & Dislikes; Journeys; Trips THE MPEMBA EFFECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a world Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW I LOVED, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 1962 march 28th Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Love THREE A.M. AND THEN FIVE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you like your life? Last Line: Yawningly, “yes”. “yes” Subject(s): Life; Likes & Dislikes TO HIS FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But is it true, the court mislik'd the play Last Line: All that which they want brain to comprehend. Subject(s): Holyday, Barton (17th Century); Likes & Dislikes; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TODAY I LIKE LIFE MUCH LESS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And always, much always, always, always! Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Life UP TO ME, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I stole a glance at polly Last Line: "I'll know that it is ""up to me." Subject(s): Feathers; Geese; Likes & Dislikes WANTS, by BESS EUDORA BEARD Poem Text First Line: I want a door-step, hearth-stone and a roof-tree Last Line: To eat my cookies and to shake my mopstick at. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes WAYWARD DESIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sow one acorn has Last Line: But fancy still forsakes her Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes WHITE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bright spectrum of years Subject(s): White (color); Likes & Dislikes WHY DON'T YOU GET TRANSFERRED, DAD?, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Likes & Dislikes; Moving; Relatives WHY I WOULD RATHER BE A PAINTER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one thing Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Likes & Dislikes |
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