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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LUST Matches Found: 118 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONFESSION IN BRIEF, by MATHURIN REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since sev'n sins from these our eyes Last Line: Haste and lust that so do win me. Subject(s): Haste; Lust; Sin A LENTEN CALL, by HILDA JOHNSON WISE Poem Text First Line: Twas the second of march, in the present year Last Line: To the world, the flesh and the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Human Behavior; Lent; Lust; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A LOVER'S ENVY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I envy every flower that blows Last Line: All that her heart desires. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Lust; Sex ADORATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing beside mary at the sales convention Last Line: And poured a cup of purple punch for mary %then I took another one for me Subject(s): Admiration; Lust AGAINST THEM WHO LAY UNCHASTITY TO THE SEX OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They meet but with unwholesome springs Last Line: Tis majesty to rule alone. Subject(s): Fidelity; Lust; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy ALONG HISTORY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along history, forever Subject(s): Lust ALONG HISTORY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along history, forever Last Line: His penis erect with %fantasy Subject(s): Lust AN AMERICAN SCENE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach beyond the laboratory brain. The brass Last Line: The brain glowed in the dark above us. Subject(s): Escapes; Lust; Science; Fugitives; Scientists AN EVOCATION, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first upon my brow I felt your kiss Last Line: A throng of ancient kisses vile and vain! Subject(s): Kisses; Lust AN INTRUSION, by DANIEL CHAUNCEY BREWER Poem Text First Line: Eyes that are saucy but tender Last Line: That will interfere with my greek. Subject(s): Lust ANSWER TO THE PLATONICKS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So angels love; so let them love for me Last Line: More lustful was, then the hot youth of troy. Subject(s): Lust APPLE ORCHARD, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the apple orchard she sat on a small wood bench Subject(s): Apple Trees; Lust ARROWHEAD CHRISTIAN CENTER AND NO-SMOKING LUNCHEONETTE, by JANET SYLVESTER Poem Source First Line: Each saturday, our father downtown to work Last Line: I would never go near the lunchonette again Subject(s): Lust; Popular Culture - United States BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BECAUSE CONDITIONS ARE IDEAL FOR CROWING THE SINGERS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Return to our life of wonder and regret Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Erotic Love; Lust; Sex BELLY DANCER AT THE HOTEL JEROME, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Disguised as an arab, the bouzouki player Last Line: Are ours, rising now, as bravos Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Hotels; Lust BUT FOR LUST, by RUTH PITTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: But for lust we could be friends Subject(s): Lust BUT FOR LUST, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But for lust we could be friends Last Line: By this craving tear I shed, %somewhere, somewhere it is so Subject(s): Lust CANTHARA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old black-man showed me Last Line: His old emotion. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust CONVERSION, by GEOF HEWITT Poem Source First Line: My hands have developed eyes! Subject(s): Lust DUSTY APPLES IN A DUSTY KITCHEN. FERNS BRUSHING THEIR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Through the haulm. Swinging its plums freely. Awhistling Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Lust; Sex EPIGRAM: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since so ye please to hear me plain Last Line: And now I leave it to them that lust. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Lust EPITAPH: FOR A VIRGIN LADY, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For forty years I shunned the lust Last Line: I let him have his way. Subject(s): Lust; Death; Dead, The EQUALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful dancing-women wove their maze Last Line: "shall be as all the saints are, in the dust." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust; Seduction; Theater & Theaters; Women's Rights; Stage Life; Feminism EROS AT TEMPLE STREAM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river in its abundance Subject(s): Lust EROS AT TEMPLE STREAM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river in its abundance Last Line: Sleek and %on fire Subject(s): Lust EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry And Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Lust %is %just Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) FOR X, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When clerks and navvies fondle Last Line: Further, advancing further Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Love; Lust FRENZY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the little earthworm-eater Subject(s): Kiwi; Lust GALATEA AND PYGMALION, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Galatea, whom his furious chisel Last Line: Admitted rankly to a comprehension %of themes that crowned her own, not his repute Subject(s): Lust GIGOLO, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pocket watch, I tick well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Lust 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 GROWING UP WITH A SEARS CATALOG IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Omar pointed to a pink man Subject(s): Lust; Conduct Of Life; New Orleans HE MOVES STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM, LEGS MOVING LIGHTLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He explodes Subject(s): Lust HYMEN AND DEATH, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sixteen, d'ye say? Nay then 'tis time Last Line: Secure that death will set them loose.' Subject(s): Bodies; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Reproductive System; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations; Sex Organs; Genitalia IMMACULATE VIEW, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love: the power of lust turned generous, the power of sleep Last Line: Prescient body: Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Lust IN PRAISE OF BEVERLY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: When you walked downstairs Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Lust IN THE OLD DAYS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We didn't have this and we didn't have that Last Line: In such bodies in those days Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Erotic Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Past JOY ON THE EDGE OF VERTIGO, by JAY HOPLER Poem Source First Line: Today will I risk what I love Last Line: For so may I be forever, infested, with angels Subject(s): Lust; Sex LASCIVIOUSNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lasciviousnesse is known to be Last Line: The sister to saturitie. Subject(s): Lust LATE-FLOWERING LUST, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is bald, my breath is bad Subject(s): Hate; Lust LATE-FLOWERING LUST, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is bald, my breath is bad Last Line: At all the thoughts that in us spring %from this late-flowering lust Subject(s): Hate; Lust LEAPING FROM AMBUSH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man goes by with a woman Last Line: From killing the man and leaping %upon the woman? Subject(s): Lust LOST JEWEL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who on your breast pillows his head now Last Line: For lust he will burn: %'turn to me, sweetheart! Who do you not turn?' Subject(s): Love; Lust LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; LUST, by BRIAN BURT Poem Source First Line: Leaving soon for home. Not only my eyes Subject(s): Lust LUST, by CHARLES DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Lust is the weariest of all delights Subject(s): Lust LUST, by CHRISTOPHER DAVID Poem Source First Line: Pressed in, pressed down by books Subject(s): Lust LUST, by ELAINE DEMAKAS Poem Source First Line: He stared at me Subject(s): Lust LUST, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Say something from the bible,' doreen said, as we made Subject(s): Lust LUST, by JAY GRISWOLD Poem Source First Line: You taught me bean-sprouts, squash Last Line: But we fell to earth, a single shadow %that had not yet learned of love Subject(s): Lust LUST, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You would have had to measure Last Line: Her want making me able to want, %want, even as I turned away Subject(s): Lust LUST, by LOWELL JAEGER Poem Source First Line: On the streets they buzzed Subject(s): Lust LUST, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If only he could touch her Last Line: An orange to feel fingernails %run a seam through him Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Sex LUST, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lust is at home here and I make it welcome. Subject(s): Lust LUST, by JR. GEORGE EDWARD MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I swear, this is the house I've always wanted Subject(s): Lust LUST, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lust, fruit of death on the tree of life, forbidden fruit making our Last Line: You, o most hidden, o most deep lust, immortal empress of the world Subject(s): Lust LUST, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh, sole fruit tasted of earthly orchards, bitter and sweet fruit that Last Line: Overcome the dreamer, a holy hour or not, what does it matter to your %ecstasy, love and flesh? Subject(s): Lust LYRIC 14, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You take this earth we live on Last Line: What have you learned to say to each other? Subject(s): Lust; Slavery; Women; Serfs MARTIAL - XII, LII, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your own lover, kenneth, marie Subject(s): Death; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations MARTIAL - XII, LII, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your own lover, kenneth, marie Last Line: Dead bones at my still glowing ashes Subject(s): Death; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships MUTES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These groans men use %passing a woman on the street Last Line: Without seemliness, %without love Subject(s): Lust; Sexual Harassment; Women NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 36TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let not thy impotent lust so powerful be Last Line: Starves in his grave, being wretched when he's dead. Subject(s): Lust; Moderation NO DIFFERENCE I' TH' DARK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night makes no difference 'twixt the priest and clark Last Line: Jone as my lady is as good I'th' dark. Subject(s): Lust NOW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's in class teaching Last Line: As if to say, I'm here, %as you have asked of me. %now are you at peace? Subject(s): Lust; Schools ON A NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my flesh that hungers Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Lust; Women ON A NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my flesh that hungers Last Line: Judging your roundness %delightful Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Lust; Women ON LUST FOR GOLD, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Steam shovel, crane your neck and stuff your craw! Last Line: Then back they run for more, scorning rebirth. Subject(s): Gold; Lust; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ONCE THERE WAS A WOMAN SMILED AT ME, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Meeting in her house, thinking %of just this Subject(s): Lust ONCE-OVER, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tanned blonde %in the green print sack Last Line: Yet the sign is on her Subject(s): Lust ONE RADIANT MORNING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a smile breaking over teeth Last Line: A drop could change everything. Subject(s): Girls; Lust; Railroads; Youth; Railways; Trains PAULO TO FRANCESCA, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When weary summer had laid down her leaves Last Line: Sealing her prophet lips, alas, with serpent tongue. Subject(s): Kisses; Treason; Lust PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Just as my fingers on these keys Last Line: And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Music & Musicians; Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible PLEASURE, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: A naken jaina monk Last Line: Once naked, once even intangible Subject(s): Celibacy; Lust; Pleasure POLITICS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Politics & Government; Marriage; Lust; Family Life; Mcgovern, George (1922-2012); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives PROSTITUTE, by DAVID RUBADIRI Poem Source First Line: I desired her Last Line: To stir the glue-pot? Subject(s): Lust; Prostitution SECRETS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The secrets of your body Last Line: About the secrets of your body Subject(s): Lust SEX WITHOUT LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How do they do it, the ones who make love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Lust; Sex; Sports SEX WITHOUT LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do they do it, the ones who make love Last Line: Single body alone in the universe %against it own best time Subject(s): Erotic Love; Lust; Sex; Sports SIC ET NON: 1. THE COMPLAINT OF HELOISE, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abelard was: god is Last Line: God help me to hide them now Subject(s): Abelard, Peter (1079-1144); Heloise (1098-1164); Lust; Philosophy And Philosophers SIN, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me the most foul demon still doth plot Last Line: Of gory ruin with her wounds a-gape. Subject(s): Lust; Sin; Temptation SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA PRAISES THOSE WHO LOVE TO WATCH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These late scores just in Last Line: Of love's numberless wonders Subject(s): Lust SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE LECTURES 8TH GRADE: TO PUNISH THE CITIES, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sends his dirtiest wind Last Line: In the eye becomes concrete Subject(s): Lust SLOGAN, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the right %triangle formed Last Line: Dig we must %they dig Subject(s): Lust SONG: 77. THE ANSWER, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even when you lust, ye may refrain Last Line: I am not ruled by fantasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fantasy; Grief; Love; Lust; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 128, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I too beneath your moon, almighty sex Last Line: And lust is there, and nights not spent alone Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Lust SONNET: 129, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame / is lust in action Last Line: To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. Variant Title(s): "past Reason Hunted;""th' Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame"";sonnet #129; Subject(s): Love; Lust THE BIRTH OF VENUS': SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come with us and play Last Line: It is forbidden! Subject(s): Sin; Lust THE CRUMBS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often I watch, when violets are in season Last Line: From quick, or from the honeysuckle's horn. Subject(s): Aging; Lust; Winter THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN SINS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call in the dancers Last Line: Heaven too shall vanish in pale smoke. Subject(s): Anger; Dancing & Dancers; Gluttony; Idleness; Lies; Lust; Pride; Sin; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DECEIT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the way to istral where the sea sweeps / in Last Line: For a witch, god wot, had snared me in the semblance of a maid! Subject(s): Duplicity; Lust; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Deceit; Bedtime THE DESERT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark I called to you; out of the enfolding / dark you came Last Line: And only the wind that walks by dusk is over us, and god's grave will. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE EQUILBRISTS, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Full of her long white arms and milky skin Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Lust; Love - Erotic; Male-female Relations THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE KNIGHT ERRANT, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: He rode at dusk down woodlands strange Last Line: "but white her soul, say I!"";" Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Temptation; Male-female Relations THE LUST OF THE WORLD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since man first lifted up his eyes to hers Last Line: And twixt the two maintain an equal course. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Lust; Mankind; Time; Human Race THE MUTES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These groans men use / passing a woman on the street Subject(s): Lust; Sexual Harassment; Women THE NUN: A CANTATA, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of constance holy legends tell Last Line: The righteous find comfort in death.' Subject(s): Chastity; Clergy; Lust; Nuns; Religion; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE ONCE-OVER, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tanned blonde / in the green print sack Subject(s): Lust THE PAINTED LADY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sick of lust,' the painted lady said Last Line: "and I would to god that I were dead!" Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Paintings & Painters; Women THE POET RELATES HOW HE OBTAINED DELIA'S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mine! What accents can my joy declare? Last Line: And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again. Variant Title(s): Delia's Pocket-handkerchief;love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Food & Eating; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE PROF.'S LITTLE GIRL, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: She comes to the quad when her ladyship pleases Last Line: The signs of her sex in the prof's little girl. Subject(s): Children; Lust; Childhood THE SECOND RAPTURE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, worldling, no, 'tis not thy gold Last Line: There is no other happiness. Subject(s): Aging; Lust THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that midas Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity THE SLOGAN, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Over the right / triangle formed Last Line: They dig Subject(s): Lust THE SONG OF RED RILEY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a girl in the east Last Line: She bit blood from my mouth. Subject(s): Lust; Women THE SPUR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it is horrible that lust and rage Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age; Lust; Anger THE STREET OF THE MANY LITTLE LOVERS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt gray street goes up the hill, over the hill / and down Last Line: But love walks there with weary eyes and mudbedraggled gown. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Streets; Male-female Relations; Avenues THE TEACHING OF THE NUDE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A satyr spied a goddess in her bath Last Line: His hoof kicked up the clothing for such charms. Subject(s): Lust; Mythology; Nudity; Nakedness THE VINE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed this mortal part of mine Last Line: More like a stock than like a vine. Subject(s): Love; Lust; Vines & Vineyards TO A SISTER OF CHARITY, by EDWIN GEORGE ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: Bewitching devotee / thy shapeless garments cannot hide the / grace Last Line: Its solemn vow. Subject(s): Lust TO MARINA, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plague to thy husband, scandal to thy sex Last Line: Vesuvius' noise and flame has less of hell than thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lust TWO SONNETS ...: NO MORE ACCESS TO HER UNDERPANTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her red dress stretched across the remembered small Last Line: And locked in antarctic ice by this bitch Subject(s): Lust VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great is the folly of a feeble braine Last Line: Sure will he saint her in his calendere. Variant Title(s): The Love-sick Poet Subject(s): Love; Lust; Poetry & Poets WHISTLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She had no reputation for lust Last Line: And whistle for more. Subject(s): Lust; Sex WINTER CASTLE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing your body and lines of it Last Line: Lends us this secret solitary grace? Variant Title(s): Winter Castle: Iii. Knowing Your Body Subject(s): Lust; Love |
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