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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - MATERIALISM Matches Found: 26 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SAID A MAID, 'I WILL MARRY FOR LUCRE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I notice she did not rebuchre Subject(s): Love - Materialism;women ARTIE BUCK'S MACHINE, by P. C. KIBBE Poem Text First Line: By intense toil a rig I wrought Last Line: And crush cold logic's steady light. Subject(s): Automobiles; Love - Materialism; Cars 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 EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 28. LOVE'S TRIUMPH OVER RICHES, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath love's feet are royal ensigns spread Last Line: And sceptres do to rural shepherds bow. Subject(s): Love - Materialism EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 40. LOVE BOUGHT AND SOLD, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of old the settlement that lovers made Last Line: And the same bargain serves for wife and beast. Subject(s): Love - Materialism FOR LACK OF GOLD, by ADAM AUSTIN Poem Text First Line: For lack of gold she's left me, o Last Line: Though she's for ever left me, o! Subject(s): Love - Materialism GOLD, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty pain to love it is Last Line: Gold, alas, does love beget. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Love; Love - Materialism GOLD CUT THE KNOT OF OTHERWISE, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But full & faithful hearts. And cash Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Love - Materialism HOW TO MARRY A RICH MAN, by ELIZABETH J. CLARKE ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: The trick is disinterest, %to primp in a mirror Last Line: Watching the stars %surround the back of your dress Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Men; Wealth INVESTMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the old gombeen buys a young wife Last Line: They sniff his investment, like dogs their lice. Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Villages LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady clara vere de vere / of me you shall not win renown Last Line: And let the foolish yeoman go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love - Materialism; Sorrow; Sadness LASS WITH A LUMP OF LAND, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gi'e me a lass with a lump of land Last Line: But well tochered lasses, or jointured widows. Subject(s): Love - Materialism LE MARIAGE DE CONVENANCE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The cost of it! The waste of it!-this wrings Last Line: To build yourself a tomb of yellow clay. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Materialism LOVE AND MONEY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I count my pounds as three times two Last Line: Shall fly to safer cover! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Materialism MIRA TO OCTAVIA, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one, to you this monitor I send Last Line: Write ballads both, and you may thrive -- adieu. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Materialism; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ON FEMALE INCONSTANCY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rich, thou hadst many lovers - poor, hast none" Last Line: That want's a crime no woman can forgive? Subject(s): Love - Materialism;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy POVERTY PARTS GUDE COMPANIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my o'erlay was white as the foam o' the lin Last Line: How poverty parts dear company. Subject(s): Love - Materialism STREPHON TO CELIA. A MODERN LOVE LETTER, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, I hope you'll think it's true Last Line: Or else this very moment dies -- Subject(s): Love - Materialism THE BARGAIN, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take heed, take heed, thou lovely maid Last Line: My soule and body, two grains more, I'lle adde. Subject(s): Love - Materialism THE BITER BIT, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair Last Line: Draw me a pot of beer, mother, and, mother, draw it mild! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Love - Materialism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DUENNA: SONG, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never could any lustre see Last Line: That heaving bosom sigh for me. Subject(s): Love - Materialism THE POOR MAN IS NOT LOVED, by MARCUS ARGENTARIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you were loved, sosicrates, when rich; but now in her Last Line: That 'penniless' and 'loveless' are the same? Alternate Author Name(s): Markus Argentarios Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Poverty TO - (5), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see Last Line: Of the baubles that it may. Variant Title(s): To -- Subject(s): Love - Materialism TOISHAN SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you have a daughter Last Line: He'll be rich just like rockefeller Subject(s): Love - Materialism TRUE AND FALSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After decades in the whirling thick Last Line: Though his teeth are false. Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Teeth WITHOUT YOU, LOVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Without you, love, my life is but a void-- Last Line: Since I broke you in two, my favorite bat! Subject(s): Baseball; Love - Materialism; Sports |
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