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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - AGE DIFFERENCES Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient person, for whom I Last Line: Ancient person of my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Love - Age Differences A YOUNG MAN TO AN OLD WOMAN COURTING HIM, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, beldam eve, surcease thy suit Last Line: An aged chronicle's new cover. Subject(s): Almanacs; Courtship; Love - Age Differences ADVICE TO AN OLD MAN OF SIXTY-THREE, ABOUT TO MARRY A GIRL OF SIXTEEN, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fie upon him! What is man Last Line: Think on thy coffin, not thy bridal bed. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Old Age ADVICE TO COLONEL VALENTINE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fall in love, though classically human Last Line: Even if a foolish girl, not yet full grown, %confronts you with a scarcely decent passion Subject(s): Aging; Love - Age Differences AN OLD MAN TO HIS SLEEPING YOUNG BRIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when the old moon lighted by the tender Last Line: Ah, god! Ah, god! 'tis this way men go mad! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences AN OLD MAN'S GIFT TO A FAIR LADY, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pox o' your doting coxcomb! Was there ever Last Line: I wish instead of them th' hadst given her me. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Age Differences BEAUTY AND BRAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I was old, and she was young Last Line: That beauty has too small a brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences BIRTHDAY CAKE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For breakfast I have eaten the last of your birthday cake that you Last Line: Will be full of flowers and birds. Subject(s): Birthdays; Cakes; Love - Age Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CLIMBING EVEREST, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The young keep getting younger, but the old keep getting younger. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Age Differences; Youth; Old Age CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH, by THEOPHILUS Poem Source First Line: Old husband and young wife never agree Last Line: One night: day finds her in another harbour Subject(s): Aging; Love - Age Differences; Youth DECEMBER AND MAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said nestor, to his pretty wife, quite sorrowful one day Last Line: "I thank ye, sir, for telling me -- for now I'll grieve the more!" Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ENFANTILLAGE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady! You were little then Last Line: Since that spring eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Love - Age Differences ESTELLE'S TESTIMONY, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said I was 'promiscuous' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Age Differences; Death; Old Age; Dead, The FEMININE ARITHMETIC, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On me he shall ne'er put a ring Last Line: Will not he be a hundred and twenty? Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Women FROM A YOUNG WOMAN TO AN OLD OFFICER WHO COURTED HER, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear colonel, name the day, / let your love no longer stay Last Line: My loss quickly to repair with a fal la la. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Love - Age Differences GHOST IN THE MARTINI, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the rim of the glass Last Line: I touch her elbow, and, leaning toward her ear, %tell her to find her purse Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Martinis GOING TO THE MOUNTAINS WITH A LITTLE DANCING GIRL, AGED FIFTEEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two top-knots not yet plaited into one Last Line: When there's no one here with a heart for you to break! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Love - Age Differences I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War I REMEMBER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Last Line: Oh my bride, my bride Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii LINES ON MY NEW CHILD SWEETHEART, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it a religious duty Last Line: To think I ne'er may meet her more. Subject(s): Children; Love - Age Differences; Childhood MULBERRIES BY THE PATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sunrise in southeast Last Line: There are thousands that dine at his board, %and all of them say how grand he is! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited MY WOOING, by EDWIN HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: One evening, many months ago Last Line: "she said, ""I won't!""—and isn't." Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited NEW SPRING: 29, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an aged monarch Last Line: For too much affection they had. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences NOW THAT SHE GIVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now that she gives my love consent Last Line: "should burn in hell for such a part!" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences ODE: TO HIS FRIEND IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG GIRL, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thy heifer, friend, is hardly broak Last Line: So loose, so womanish his hair Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Love - Age Differences OFFICER OF THE GUARD, by XIN YAN-NIAN Poem Source First Line: A bondsman of the house of huo Last Line: No thank you, officer of the guard, %private love isn't worth it Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited OLD LOVER, by MABEL NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: How could I know that all the ashes strewn Last Line: Why did you come? When will you come again? Subject(s): Love - Age Differences ON THE MARRIAGE OF A BEAUTEOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN WITH AN ANCIENT MAN, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fondly, too curious nature, to adorn Last Line: Did with the fair and straight-limbed elm entwine. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences PARADOX: THAT IT IS BEST FOR A YOUNG MAID TO MARRY AN OLD MAN, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one, why cannot you an old man love Last Line: Your elevation is for fifty-two. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHAEDRA: PHAEDRA DECLARES HER LOVE FOR HER STEPSON (ACT 2, SCENE 5), by JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look, I see him Last Line: Run from shame. %you cannot fly, if they should find you thus Subject(s): Love - Age Differences PREFERENCE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I likes a woman six or eight and ten years older'n myself Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Age Differences; Negroes; American Blacks PREFERENCE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I likes a woman six or eight and ten years older'n myself Last Line: When she conversations with you %it ain't forever, gimme! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Age Differences SONG OF THE DYING OLD MAN TO HIS YOUNG WIFE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kate, there's a trembling at my heart, a coldness at my brow Last Line: I die within thy arms, my kate, and feel no sting of death. Subject(s): Death; Love - Age Differences; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 DOLL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Dinah is young, and I am old Last Line: A serious woman, by and by. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences THE GHOST IN THE MARTINI, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Over the rim of the glass Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Martinis THE LAST CONTENTION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young captain of a crazy bark! Last Line: Athwart an evening grey. Subject(s): Love; Love - Age Differences; Worship THE NIGHT BEFORE FATHER'S DAY, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fireflies might have been bouncing balls in a sing-along. Last Line: Regardless of me, regardless that I was planning my escape Subject(s): Love - Age Differences THE OLD MAN'S DARLING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I'm 'crazy,'in loving a man of three-score Last Line: It's being the darling of one of three-score! Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Men THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fairest of the ripe unwedded left Last Line: Yet lowly over morning's pure grey eyes. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Age Differences; Tyranny & Tyrants THE TWO ANSWERS, by GEORGE P. WHEELER Poem Text First Line: I asked a maid with a fair young face Last Line: "and kills the white flowers there." Subject(s): Love - Age Differences THE WAKEFUL BRIDE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old earl lay in his restless bed Last Line: The smouldering heart's pent fire. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Old Age; Youth TIME'S REVERSALS; A DAUGHTER'S PARADOX, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To his devoted heart Last Line: Leaning a fading brow on your unfaded hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Love - Age Differences; Time TO ATTHIS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, atthis, once, long, long ago Last Line: You seemed to me a small, ungainly child. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Love - Age Differences; Mythology - Classical TO CHLOE, WHO WISHED HERSELF YOUNG ENOUGH FOR ME, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, why wish you that your years Last Line: Too old for you as you for me. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences TO HIDE LOVE, by ISTVAN VAS Poem Source First Line: Dearest, you too have to change Last Line: All miracles are brief Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Secrets TO ONE MARRIED TO AN OLD MAN, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms Last Line: Upon thy tender limbs! And so good night. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences TO THE SINGING GIRL NAMED LUU, by NGUYEN KHUYEN Poem Source First Line: Long ago when you wanted to marry me Last Line: I'm ten times better at making love Subject(s): Love - Age Differences VIOLET: 5. AT SEVENTEEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a child, and liked me, yesterday Last Line: Fearing to meet the woman of your eyes. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Maturity; Teenagers WEEKEND AT THE BEACH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Also in the room but out of view, the man Last Line: Of blue, at home in buoyant seawash, phosphor, salt Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love Affairs; Romance; Saint Kilda (scotland); Seashore; Vacation WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE DO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie Last Line: And then his auld brass will buy me a new pan. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences WOULD IT HAD PLEASED THE LORD THAT I NEVER WAS BORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Love - Age Differences; Marriage YOUTH, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She paved the way with perfume sweet Last Line: She left me to grow old alone. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of |
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