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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE AFFAIRS Matches Found: 85 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BORDER AFFAIR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spanish is the lovin' tongue Last Line: "adios, mi corazon." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Love - Cultural Differences; Love Affairs; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COLLEGE WIDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pretty? Rather! Her teeth were like pearls, sir" Last Line: "you're engaged to her, tom? Oh the dickens! / beg par- I- well, hang it- good-by!" Subject(s): Love Affairs A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism ABSOLUTE LOVE AFFAIR, by MICHAEL BURKHARD Poem Source First Line: She says she can't write when Subject(s): Love Affairs ADVICE, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Let us guard the memory Last Line: To follow . . . Subject(s): Advice; Love Affairs; Memory AMOUR DE VOYAGE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was a man who could write you rhyme Last Line: And who in their senses would wish for more? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets ANOTHER LULLABY FOR INSOMNIACS, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Sleep, she will not linger Last Line: And no ring on her finger Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love Affairs APOLLO AT LAX, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lax, wandering among lost luggage Last Line: In wreaths of another god. Subject(s): Los Angeles; Love Affairs ARTHURIAN SONGS: 4. GUENEVERE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God rest the lady guenevere Last Line: And for her soul pray we. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love Affairs; Prayer; Dead, The BEDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All night I turn between Last Line: Trying to distinguish one breath %from another Subject(s): Beds; Children; Love; Love Affairs BIRTHDAY POEM, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Our fathers' slow climb Last Line: And the love, just beginning Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Beginnings; Love Affairs; Marriage; Parents BOND, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gets Last Line: And forth as if wounds are what we most %dearly love Subject(s): Love Affairs; Revenge BREAKING AND ENTERING, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: She kept a stash of forbidden matches Last Line: That strikes on love, that can get past all human walls Subject(s): Adolescence; Love Affairs; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women CHRONICLE OF A LOVE AFFAIR, by BARDHYL LONDO Poem Source First Line: On monday we met. We said each other's names Last Line: On sunday we rediscovered our love, like columbus. %and then it was monday again Subject(s): Love Affairs CLIMBER'S LOVE AFFAIR, by C. B. FOLLETT Poem Source First Line: Rock is his life Last Line: Adrenaline pumping its sweet juice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Mountain Climbing CONFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Twenty papers have been read Last Line: The mathematics of her neck? Subject(s): Conventions; Explorers; Love Affairs COUPLE, by MARY YORK SAMPSON Poem Source First Line: I'll chase the poem to the thicket, %catch it once and for all Last Line: It may sound one-sided, a hopeless love affair, %but neither the poem nor I can ever the other forsw Subject(s): Love Affairs DELILAH, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: Oh, but certainly you will adore her Last Line: And the ashes of cold fires. Subject(s): Love Affairs DID NOT, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a new feeling - something more Last Line: And yet, who did not. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love Affairs; Passion; Soul DOUBLE SPHERE, CLOVEN SPHERE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black clouds swell up around the setting sun Last Line: Taking us over the horizon into atmosphere. Subject(s): Farewell; Love Affairs; Winter; Parting DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the sung dynasty Last Line: The waterfall stopped. Subject(s): China; Dreams; Love Affairs; Tatars; Nightmares; Tartars END OF A LOVE AFFAIR, by JIM METCALF Poem Source First Line: Could it really be that the love affair is ending? Last Line: And like a lover, 'tis more prudent to %have but one Subject(s): Love Affairs FAREWELL TO A LOVER, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your body was my temple Last Line: Where ripen the bitter-sweet fruits in gethsemane's garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Farewell; Love Affairs; Parting FRUIT, by GRACE STONE COATES Poem Text First Line: She pared her fruit with a silver knife Last Line: That both of us were dead. Subject(s): Absence; Love Affairs; Separation; Isolation GAME OF BOWLS IN GLASGOW, by ANNE CAYLOR MACALPIN Poem Source First Line: Her husband gone to canada Last Line: While the man who bowls in borrowed gardens %perfects his game Subject(s): Love Affairs; Unfaithfulness GHAZALS: 33, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That her left foot is smaller if only slightly Last Line: Bruised my thigh. I planted apple trees all day. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Love Affairs GIFTS, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had lovers and would-be lovers Last Line: Only rest. . . . Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love Affairs GIPSY CONFESSION, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a lad as cold ice Last Line: Or take a drink, or change their mind. . . .) Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Gypsies; Love Affairs; Lust; Gipsies GONE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When I am gone your pillows will smell like me Last Line: You will swear your apartment is haunted Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Moving And Movers IN THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O she will have the deep dark heart, for all her face is fair Last Line: A heaven of peace it is beside this mockery of a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Advice; Despair; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Shadows; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones IT'S ME, I'M NOT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's late in the city, and I'm fast asleep Last Line: Please leave a message after the beep Subject(s): Calls And Calling, Social; Love Affairs; Romance; Telephones JENNY WAS A JEWEL, by BRAVIG IMBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny was a jewel, there were none to deny it Last Line: (and the grasses blow in the wind.) Subject(s): Love Affairs LET ME UNLOOSE, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me unloose the satin shoe Last Line: Take me and hold me so. Subject(s): Love Affairs; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LOS ANGELES NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: It looks like the streets are flowing sweetly in the night Last Line: And when they sleep they will not dream of angels but of mortals Subject(s): Angels; Desire; Los Angeles; Love Affairs; Romance LOVE LATER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you can't make it tonight Last Line: Christmas will do Subject(s): Love Affairs; Waiting LOVER, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Odd this hotel privacy. Married Last Line: If I never sip this again, I already tasted the morning Variant Title(s): The Lover New Delhi, 196 Subject(s): Love Affairs LOVER BOYS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the movie where indiana jones Last Line: We couldn't even share the la-z-boy without fighting Subject(s): Courtship; Fathers And Sons; Love Affairs; Women MARGUERITE DE ROBERVAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the long days and nights! The days that bring Last Line: With early flowers clustering here and there! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; France; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages NIGHT IN BOSTON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the roof the night's the color Last Line: Like any rubber ball. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boston; Love Affairs; Night; Bedtime OAXACA 1925, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a beautiful child Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations OAXACA 1925, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a beautiful child Last Line: And black shadows in the moonlight %a lifetime ago Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past OLD RIVER ROAD, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One party of that season. Evening journals Subject(s): Love Affairs; Parties OUR LOVE AFFAIR, by PETER MCWILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: Endings %make the circumstances %of the beginnings %regrettable Subject(s): Love Affairs PHYSICAL THERAPIST, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: In one room, the physical therapist Last Line: Under the skin %under his fingers Subject(s): Love Affairs; Physicians PITY DON JUAN, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: He gathers love affairs as boys do stamps Last Line: He cannot drown himself in any eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Don Juan; Love Affairs; Sex ROCKAWAY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Fuck him. %get it over with Last Line: Settle in against the vinyl %for a long night Subject(s): Deception; Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships ROSE HILL CEMETERY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: This happened in a town almost entirely without doughnuts. One of the first Last Line: But it was too late. We knew the taste before we licked the hole we were about to fill Subject(s): Cemeteries; Doughnuts; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships ROSE OF FIRE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers, you are a weaving of the spring Last Line: And on, the rose of fire in your hand Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Passion SCARABAEUS, by ELIZABETH SHAW MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: The lady was white as ivory Last Line: Split wide for passion's sake. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Murder SEA-SECRETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing? Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SECRET LOVE AFFAIR, by JAMES KAVANAUGH Poem Source First Line: It started as a secret love affair Last Line: He took a second job, she took a course, %and twice a week they had a love affair Subject(s): Love Affairs SHEILING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go where the sheep go Last Line: There shall we meet! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love Affairs; Sheep; Travel; Journeys; Trips SMARTY PANTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the most localized efforts Subject(s): Love Affairs; Disappointment SNAKE BLOOD, by FRANCINE TOLF Poem Source First Line: When I was his secretary, I imagined Last Line: He snapped his fingers at me, twice Subject(s): Anger; Love Affairs SNOW WHITE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: She was beautiful, lying there in the meadow Last Line: Even with this gritty, brown, slammer soap Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Unfaithfulness SONG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a claim to fame? Last Line: "he was her lover!" Subject(s): Hope; Love Affairs; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs SOTTOPORTICO SAN ZACCARIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rains on the roofs Last Line: In the female smell of venice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Venice, Italy SOTTOPORTICO SAN ZACCARIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rains on the roofs Last Line: In the female smell of venice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Venice, Italy SUNSET OVER HANDMADE CHURCH, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like, / people get emotionally tied to Last Line: Ghosts. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love Affairs; Travel; Journeys; Trips TEH LOVER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is enough left, he says Last Line: Come in cold and content from his quest. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love Affairs; Men THE AFFAIR, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the long fencerow, that years ago had Subject(s): Love Affairs; Parting; Loss THE AFFAIR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could do no wrong Subject(s): Love Affairs THE COUNT OF MIRANDEL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the count of mirandel Last Line: "I have filched somewhat of heaven!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elopements; Love Affairs THE CUP OF YOUTH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, gaspar, how I hold the hours of love Last Line: [exit gelosa. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The THE DARK VISITOR, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: She waits for me at night Last Line: Shamefaced, she slinks away. Subject(s): Guests; Love Affairs; Night; Visiting; Bedtime THE DEATH DANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O arone a-ree, eily arone, arone! Last Line: O, o, arone, a-ree, eily arone! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE ECLIPSE, by JULIAN S. CUTLER Poem Text First Line: We watched the eclipse Last Line: "two lunatics met in conjunction." Subject(s): Love Affairs THE FANCY-DRESS BALL, by J. P. DENISON Poem Text First Line: Dorothy's daintily dressed for the dance Last Line: For dorothy loves me, -- she's mine. Subject(s): Love Affairs THE HEAVEN OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset far over the lea Last Line: "and love a moon-white steed." Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love Affairs; Romance; Sleep; Nightmares; Paradise THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Low as the moon on her course through the heavens, so is Last Line: Here came my lover to woo me, manito sent him to woo me. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Mourning; Bereavement THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 2. THE KNIGHTS TO CHRYSOLA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crazed for you, aspired and fell for you Last Line: Chrysola! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Love Affairs; Dead, The THE LADY OF LIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though I must sleep, and give my body rest Last Line: The last at night to see her lover home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs THE LOST WORD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I often wonder if blase Last Line: There is no word blasé. Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE LOVER, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the train from patiala Last Line: I’ll raise my girls, then I’ll be back to taste the morning Variant Title(s): The Lover New Delhi, 1965 Subject(s): Love Affairs THE VICTORIOUS SUITOR, by FRANK PIERCE GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: O rarest rose, by your consent Last Line: To be the heart's physician. Subject(s): Love Affairs THE WINE OF LOVE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The wine of love, - a winged wine Last Line: I quaff, and all the world is mine. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love Affairs; Wine TO A YOUNG GIRL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Do not forget, / when you are old Last Line: "once and for aye enshrined you as her lover." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Honor; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The TO CLOE, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: Cloe, blooming sweet as may, / we must tempt mama away Last Line: Trust me, cloe, this will do. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love Affairs; Mothers; Temperance; Prohibition VASE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: I dream of a vase of humble and simple clay Last Line: And I'll cover you only with my endless gaze! Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs; Women VIRTUOUS SIN, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Slender and fine, a lyric and tenuous Last Line: The chargers of dawn begin to neigh Subject(s): Love Affairs; Negritude (literary Movement) WAY A SPRINGER SPANIEL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I was once a lover like that Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Love Affairs; Nature; Past 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 TO LOOK FOR IN A MAN, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When infatuations buried me Last Line: She is shallow, the brain of a bird Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love Affairs |
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