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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS Matches Found: 966 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` , by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drop caught / in the curl behind your left ear lobe Last Line: Tip of my tongue. Subject(s): Bodies; Details; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Shaving; Water; Zen Buddhism; Things; Male-female Relations "THE GENTLEMAN'S STUDY, IN ANSWER TO THE LADY'S DRESSING-ROOM", by MISS" "W---- [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "some write of angels, some of goddess" Last Line: "they are still fulsome, wretched man" Alternate Author Name(s): "w----, Miss; Subject(s): "man-woman Relationships;men;swift, Jonathan (1667-1745);women's Rights;" Male-female Relations;feminism (MOJ STARY), by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: My old man, says a mountain woman Last Line: And is silent Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Animals; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Newspapers 129F. A RESPONSE TO SHAXPER'S SONNET 129, by DOROTHY HICKSON Poem Source First Line: Th' expense of spirit as a def'nite act Last Line: That rapture (all too often faked) be felt Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights 17 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN, by BARBARA LOUISE UNGAR Poem Source First Line: You can't trust him Last Line: You think you can change him Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were younger, mary jane Last Line: And she will love me dearly! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BOOK OF DAYS. 1, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the story, she gives him everything Last Line: And where shall I go to find her? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships A BOOK OF DAYS; 2. VETERANS DAY, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The game is to kill the king, he said Last Line: Understand: I was trying to win myself Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships A BRIEF ATTACHMENT, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I regard your affection, find your teeth have Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations 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 COWBOY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I could not be so well content Subject(s): Cowboys;man-woman Relationships;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Male-female Relations;southwest;pacific States A GAME OF FIVES, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five little girls, of five, four, three, two, one Last Line: "the answer to that ancient problem ""how the money goes!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Girls; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A KISS, by M. ELLEN HOWELL Poem Text First Line: What is a kiss? A mystery true Last Line: It is god and heaven and home—in you. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paradise; Male-female Relations A KISS - BY MISTAKE, by JOEL BENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the railway train we met Last Line: And gently kiss me—by mistake! Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A LA MYSTERIEUSE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only in books I knew you Last Line: To the small of your back. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A LONELY HOUSE, by A. HARDY HETH Poem Text First Line: I dreamed last night there were no / broken hearts Last Line: I'd dream forever that there were no broken hearts. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness A LONG WAY FROM HELL, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two-tone motels and unlit lovers' lanes Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex; Male-female Relations A MAN AND A WOMAN AND A BLACKBIRD , by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the two rivers Last Line: And the blackbird are one Subject(s): Birds; Man-woman Relationships A MAN TO A WOMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you complain of me Last Line: In your identity. Subject(s): Fame; Man-woman Relationships; Reputation; Male-female Relations A MARRIED COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics! Last Line: And put out the lights. We are through with our play. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations A MITHER, BUT NO A WIFE, by JAMES M. NEILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whist, my bonnie bairnie, dinna greet sae sair Last Line: Thy smiles the only sun-blinks ever on me fa'. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Male-female Relations A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Dead, The; Nightmares; Male-female Relations A OUTRANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Say, why should I sing of an angel of light Last Line: Like an ardent red rose in a tropical breeze! Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Male-female Relations A POEM OF EVERY-DAY LIFE, by ALBERT GALLATIN RIDDLE Poem Text First Line: He tore him from the merry throng Last Line: "what I've escaped this night!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A POLICEMAN'S LOT, by WENDY COPE Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, once I was a policeman young and merry Subject(s): Gilbert, Sir William S. (1836-1911); Hughes, Ted (1930-1998); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Hughes, Edward James; Male-female Relations; Feminism A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A POSTHUMORIST POETICS, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From embarrassment, I made statements. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A PRESENTATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Here's a clove carnation, dear Last Line: Of my heart's consuming flame! Subject(s): Carnations; Desire; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A REMINISCENCE, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas april; 'twas sunday; the day was fair Last Line: Have you forgot? Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F. Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations A REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistress Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy A SECRET GRATITUDE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She cleaned house, and then lay down long Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Boissevain, Eugen (1881-1949); Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950); Man-woman Relationships; Death; Mourning; Male-female Relations; Dead, The; Bereavement A SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not say my true love's eyes Last Line: For me and my delight. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a weeping maiden Last Line: And yet she passed him by. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SONG, by JOHN JONES SHARON Poem Text First Line: My heart's wrapped up in a little, old pine Last Line: Happen you know why she 's done wi' me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SYNOPSIS OF LORD LYTTLETON'S 'ADVICE TO A LADY', by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be plain in dress and sober in your diet Last Line: In short my dearee, kiss me, and be quiet. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Lyttleton, George. 1st Baron Lyttleton; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A VALENTINE BALLADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Fair, bashful maid without a beau Last Line: I 'll gladly be your valentine. Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; Valentine's Day; Male-female Relations A VIOL'S PLAINT, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart that dreads what time may bring Last Line: And on thy soft glove left a stain. Subject(s): Language; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery A WINDMILL MAKES A STATEMENT, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think I like to stand all day, all night Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Male-female Relations A WINTER TWILIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations A WOMAN, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other, in joy or grief Last Line: A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Laughter; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Male-female Relations A-FEARED OF A GAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, darn it all! A-feared of her" Last Line: And me just six-feet two! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ABIGAIL, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: I care for him, although he is a fool Last Line: And reason with the sot when I get back. %but my guess is he'll have a heart attack! Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ABOUT GOD & THINGS, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to have your child Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): African Americans; Man-woman Relationships; Negroes; American Blacks; Male-female Relations ABSENCE PROVES NOTHING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Fear; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 23, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Nature! Thy grandeur awes the ignoblest mind Last Line: The bright perceptions which first dwelt in her! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O nature, tho' thy beauty never wanes Last Line: And all the stings of doubt at last remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 64, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O soul, which ever whisperest of thy wants Last Line: Against the love which can alone set free? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ADAM'S CURSE REVISITED, by DEBRA PENNINGTON Poem Source First Line: So master william has decreed the stitching Last Line: That you can both shape and stitch the world? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I have found the secret way Last Line: Is a living music in us yet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER A NOISY NIGHT, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The man I love enters the kitchen Last Line: And kiss him, kiss him. Subject(s): Coffee; Gratitude; Habits; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Morning; Prayer; Sleep; Male-female Relations AFTER HORACE: THE PASTOR'S WIFE DELIVERS SOUP, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: Don't ask, patricia stone, when you will join Last Line: Arrange myself -- the pastor's coming home Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights AFTER MANY YEARS, GRISELDA LOSES PATIENCE, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: Tonight, I saw him watching her again Last Line: What I've made of him Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights AFTER REPEATED ATTEMPTS, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source Last Line: What it was about you %and I won't remember Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AFTERTHOUGHT, by MAXIANNE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Epimetheus, as an afterthought, blamed Last Line: Soberly blame his victim for the rape? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights AH, WHAT HAVE I DONE, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Ah, what have I done -- as though I didn't Last Line: I felt as I was letting him go Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships AIR AND ANGELS: 1. THE NIGHT ONLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight now on malibu Subject(s): Loves; Kissies; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ALL RIGHT THEN, by MUNHYANG Poem Source First Line: All right then, but don't say those words. If you Last Line: We are all, all from heaven; %there is a love sent for me Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships ALLA BREVE LOVING, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three people drinking out of the bottle Last Line: Ancient terrapin %at the approach of the wheel Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships ALLA PETRARCA, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown / madison, wisconsin at night Last Line: (receding footsteps) Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Scholarship & Scholars; Women; Male-female Relations ALLEN BROOKE, OF WINDERMERE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, have you in the valley seen Last Line: My allen brooke, of windermere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations ALONE IN YOUR HOUSE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I walk naked and Last Line: Slowly rises behind them Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Solitude ALTERED STATES, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: While you miss Last Line: When you embrace him %you lifted you legs %and you went up %like her Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Togetherness AM LIT, by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: So emily sat with her brother walt Last Line: In that grass %a narrow fellow Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights AMATEURS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Aloft among the gallery gods Last Line: A moment more to their embrace. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AMY'S CRUELTY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair amy of the terraced house! Last Line: Till doted on for ever!' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Nature Of; Kindness; Unkindness; Male-female Relations AN ACROSTIC, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: M ight I but speak what yearns my soul to say Last Line: No siren tempts me from my mollie bright! Subject(s): Flirtation; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AN IMITATION (TO M.M.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists AN INVITATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, pretty one, where will you sail? Last Line: I'm afraid! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails AN OCTAVE, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I blush, but must obey. You'll have it so Last Line: Not for their worth, but merely through your grace. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships AN OLD SONG OF A YOUTHFUL TIME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a woodland walk Last Line: I have thought of it oft since then! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations ANACHRONISM, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Married %drank red wine Last Line: Learning sailing to byzantium %by cussed heart Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights AND AFTERWARDS (A SAVAGE SORT OF SONG ON THE ROAD), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was a gallant and bold I Last Line: "but I'll never again,"" etc." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AND DAY BROUGHT BACK MY NIGHT, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was so simple: you came back to me Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Divorce; Memory; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ANDANTE PASSIONALE, by ALEXANDER JAVIS Poem Text First Line: Listen, o my city! O my beloved! Last Line: O my city! O my beloved! I have made for you— this—my song! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations ANN WISHES SHE'D TAKEN A LITTLE MORE HEED, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Though sweet to lie, my lovely lay Last Line: Yes, once again we've been undone Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ANNABEL LEE DOES A POST-MORTEM ON THE HAZARDS OF ROMANCE WITH A METRIC, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: When I told him my name was annabel lee Last Line: But simply a case of acute euphonia Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights ANOTHER CYNICAL VARIATION, by UNKNOWN+48 Poem Source First Line: Gerald kissed me when he left Last Line: Gerald kissed me! Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ANSWERING TO RILKE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Cramped by this indoor season -- it's beginning Last Line: Figuring out that much is a beginning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights ANYTHING BUT THE CASE, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do me my elegy now, or I'll scrawl the thing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations APHRODITE METROPOLIS (2), by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations APPARITIONS ARE NOT SINGULAR OCCURRENCES, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I rode the zebra past your door Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations APPROXIMATELY FOREVER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But she wasn't holding that snake Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations ARACHNE GIVES THANKS TO ATHENA, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: It is no punishment. They are mistaken Last Line: Hang them with rainbows, ice, dewdrops, darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights AREOPAGITICA, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: When censors threaten freedom of the press Last Line: Then feed your copy of the first amendment? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights ARGUMENT WITH WORDSWORTH, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People are always quoting that and all of them seem to agree Last Line: Sometimes poetry is emotion recollected in a highly emotional state Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, fraulein Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs ARRAIGNMENT OF THE MEN, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Males perverse, schooled to condemn Last Line: Or the creatures of your use! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Guilt; Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused ART OF NATURE, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Consider birches on their knees Last Line: Will be walking, almost human Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Shapiro, Karl (1913-2000); Women's Rights AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain AS PHILLIS THE GAY, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As phillis the gay, at the break of the day Last Line: And what they did more there's no guessing. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a lovely maiden's foot Last Line: And their wild perfume. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Last Line: Peace be with you, brother. You have chosen your part Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights AT A TEA PARTY, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Over the teacup's rim Last Line: And make me whole. Subject(s): God; Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology AT AUDEN'S MUSEUM, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: About everything, in fact, they were wrong Last Line: Dangle, broken-winged, treed, becalmed Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights AT DRUMCLIFFE CHURCHYARD, COUNTY SLIGO, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: That great feather the mind's wind drives Last Line: For this feather breath breathes too %upon you Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) AT MIDSUMMER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had been in the tall grass for hours Last Line: You smile and cross over me like a welcome storm. Subject(s): Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Appearances; Male-female Relations AT NUMBER ELEVEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it now as our corner of heaven Last Line: When I got the breakfasts and you cooked the dinners! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AT ONE AGAIN: 6. LOVERS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crash of boughs! -- one through them breaking! Last Line: And the lips of the youth and the maiden meet Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships AT THE FAIR, by KWAME DAWES Poem Source First Line: From a distance at the fair, esther does not seem Last Line: When she said, 'man, I am late,' in that tiny voice Subject(s): Festivals; Man-woman Relationships; Romance AUBADE, by ALISON PELEGRIN Poem Source First Line: This naked man, her first in months, a clown Last Line: She can't believe her nipples are so pink Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships AUBADE ON TROOST AVENUE, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: The eyes open to a hopper painting Last Line: Loads and reloads her machine Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Wilbur, Richard (b. 1921); Women's Rights AUGURY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That girl in the stilettos and tight dress Last Line: They topple over and crush any man %who's still alive Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships AUGUST SUNDAY, by PATRICE VECCHIONE Poem Source First Line: Pressing your hand to my ass Last Line: Dissolves slowly like bitter fruit %under my weeping tongue Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AURORA, OR THE MAD TALE MADLY TOLD, by ELIZABETH TREFUSIS Poem Text First Line: Tis night. And this the fearful hour Last Line: This maniac had been dead a year, a month, and day! Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations AUTOGRAPHS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is blood: close with your lover and bite down Last Line: P.S. Have a wonderful summer and a wonderful life Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Sex BAD LANDS, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bad because you do not yield Last Line: Ours! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Male-female Relations BAD LITTLE GIRL, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: There was a little girl Last Line: But when she was bad she wrote poetry Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Of the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Bathsheba(bible); Male-female Relations BATHSHEBA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it was -- it was Last Line: Or the wife of uriah Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Passion BATHSHEBA: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: It was my habit when my husband Last Line: And then I wake up. Trembling in light Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BATTERY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trio of instruments you love the notes Last Line: Into eyes of love with eyes of love Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Male-female Relations BEATRICE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send out the singers - let the room be still Last Line: O lift me up and I shall reach the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism BECAUSE, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet nea! For your lovely sake Last Line: And a chaise and four to dover. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chivalry is not dead at new york hospital Subject(s): Hospitals; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Last Line: Dreams instead of myself Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women BEYOND POSSESSION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had it been you Last Line: Your eyes and my eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Male-female Relations 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 BIRTHMARK, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: It has seventy-two hours since he last slept I have been Last Line: The wideness of my hips Subject(s): Birth; Comfort; Man-woman Relationships BLOW-NOTES, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: He said, 'take this gun,' by the loghouse hearth, babydoll Last Line: Two wanted to %embrace and so %arose Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships BLUE RIDGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks Subject(s): Fireworks; Man-woman Relationships; Middle Age; Grief; Male-female Relations; Sorrow; Sadness BOB, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bob had a nigger woman Last Line: For seven more she cried! ... Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Murder; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BODIES YOU BROKE, by LENORE BAELI WANG Poem Source First Line: Oats we've rolled and bread you broke Last Line: Or bite us now, your teeth will crack Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights BODY, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: How slightly earned, the body Last Line: Its plainer importunities Subject(s): Bodies; Likes And Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mankind BONNIE ANNIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing BOWLING GREEN, SEWING MACHINE!, by PEGGY LANDSMAN Poem Source First Line: Along the street and under the stars Last Line: This pint of coffee ice cream melts Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BOY SCOUTING, by D. TRINIDAD HANKS Poem Source First Line: I'm a girl Last Line: Their eagle medals back %to you Subject(s): Boy Scouts; Man-woman Relationships BOYFRIEND, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: He was ugly as a troll and sturdy as a troll. His stubby arms and legs Last Line: Think of how beautiful we all were once and how we learned to love the beast Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Women - Abused BOYS I MEAN, by JULIA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: The boys I mean are too refined Last Line: They shake your world with just a glance Subject(s): Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BREAK, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: It will come on a cold street corner Last Line: The slush on the sidewalk will prevent you %from making a clean yesterday Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain BREATH CONTROL, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Who wouldn't want a good girl, a soft hand? Last Line: It's just breath control Subject(s): Breath; Girls; Love; Man-woman Relationships BRIDE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: He asks to use your phone Last Line: And lead him through %the already open door Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Strangers; Unfaithfulness BRIDE OF QUIETNESS, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My [sculptor] husband, when he was my husband, possessed Last Line: Forever, when I cradle his cold ashes in this urn Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights BRIGHTEST LIGHT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tranced, almost disappeared into the glare Last Line: I would like to catch him when he falls Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Transcendentalism BRODSKY, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: First the words in english Last Line: And you turn back to your chair Subject(s): Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BROWNING TOCCATA, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Robert browning, weighty poet, this is very strange to find Last Line: But expect your adulation to go on, and on, and on? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights BUT YOU WERE NOT A BABII YAR, MR. YEVTUSHENKO, by BARBARA BRENT BROWER Poem Source First Line: You are very aware Last Line: Simply a very complicated, irremeable loss Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (b. 1933) CAITLIN TO DYLAN: IN MEMORIAM, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Last Line: How at my sheet went the same crooked worm Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountains did look in Last Line: Like a drone instrument / the highway Subject(s): Mountains; Man-woman Relationships; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Male-female Relations CALL ME CIRCE, by KAREN GLENN Poem Source First Line: They say I like to turn men Last Line: Everything %like some deceitful god Subject(s): Duplicity; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction CALYPSO: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you clouds Last Line: She gave me a wooden flute, %and a mantle, %she wove of thiswool- %-for man is a brute and a fool Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights CANDLE AND CUP, by HELEN TEMPLETON DOUGLAS ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I keep a candle burning for each friend Last Line: And tears are of no avail. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CANDY APPLE RED, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: A boy in a shark-finned car Last Line: Laid out, burning, just for you Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Romance; Youth CANTO 36, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary CANZONETTA: A BITTER SONG TO HIS LADY, by PIER MORONELLI DI FIORENZA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lady amorous, / merciless lady Last Line: Fever and ague. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CATALOGUED, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What is love like?' you ask. I guess Last Line: That love is you! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CERTAINLY THE DEER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only a few places like this left Last Line: Now clearly visible, now disappearing slowly into the swamp Subject(s): Cold; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Travel CHRISTIAN'S CALLING, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Christian is just learning to speak Last Line: He moans. %I have come to los angeles to die Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide CHROME, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: So let's be done with this Last Line: I swear I'll survive you all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships CICERONIS AMOR: LOVE AND JEALOUSY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gods had framed the sweet of women's face Last Line: Than love united to a jealous thought. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jealousy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations CINEMATOGRAPHER'S FARO ISLAND LOG, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like so many stories this begins Last Line: What is your favorite body of water. And why Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Water CINQUAIN, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twin stars / gleam in the pool Last Line: Who weeps. Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Stars; Male-female Relations CLAIR ON MY SHOULDERS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: At four, she is fearless Last Line: Sturdy and tall and beautiful Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships CLEAR HONOR OF THE LIQUID ELEMENT, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of him who holds and sways the trident %of the seas Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships CLEFT, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cut in half, the breast bone broken, opened Last Line: Bones of the child's small back, wings, %she could fly, she could walk out the kitchen door Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women CLOUDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds as I see them, rising Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Clouds; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations COME KISS ME, DEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Come kiss me, dear - a little play Last Line: "come kiss me, dear." Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations COME WITH ME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations COMPENSATION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Your heart broke when you answered me Last Line: I steal away to worship you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CONDITIONS XXI, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You judge a woman Last Line: The way america / loves us Subject(s): African Americans; Man-woman Relationships; Negroes; American Blacks; Male-female Relations CONFESSION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because she spoke no word, but parted wide Last Line: Nothing shall change it till the change of death!' Subject(s): Bashfulness; Doubt; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Silence; Shyness; Skepticism; Male-female Relations CONFUSION OF THE SENSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations CONFUSION OF THE SENSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Last Line: Do you hear? We are breathing. We are alive Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance COOKING, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Peel the shrimp, cut the bak choi Last Line: Over dinner, they meet your hands Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Love; Man-woman Relationships COQUETRY, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O women, fated to beguile, / your spells we all confess Last Line: The victim that endures! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations CORINNA'S NOT GOING A-MAYING, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: I like to sleep late on these fine spring mornings Last Line: Pack it in, bob. I'm going back to bed Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights COUNSEL TO UNREASON, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations COUPLE THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: She says I found his letters to another woman Last Line: She reaches out and lays her hand on his Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COURTESY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning of time Last Line: On meeting a lady, instinctively raise one's hat. Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations CUB LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I am thinking tonight of the sweethearts I had Last Line: The best in the world for my wife. Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CYNARA RESPONDET, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: So that's your fashion? What a coincidence Last Line: I've been true in exactly the same sense Subject(s): Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DA CAPO, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Short and sweet, and we've come to the end of it Last Line: Begin it again. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DAFFODIL POEM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the cloud on its blue bicycle Last Line: Just as it began to snow. Subject(s): Daffodils; Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations DANA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the tender voice calling 'away' Last Line: Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Male-female Relations DANCING IN THE DARK, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: She did everything fred did Last Line: Her glass slippers glinting %against the stars Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Happiness; Love; Man-woman Relationships DAPHNE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Poet, singer, necromancer Last Line: With delight, if I so choose Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights DAR A LUZ, by PAULA C. BRANCATO Poem Source First Line: For hours, for months, for years. He's on top Last Line: Gave suckle by the light of her womb Subject(s): Birth; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships DARK LADY LEARNS THAT EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Full many an amorous sonnet hast thou penned Last Line: Or fact or false, all sonnets leave me cold Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights DAUGHTERS OF OEDIPUS, by GRACE SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Antigone, choosing her death Last Line: The gods have no design for me at all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Women's Rights DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thwart his brow and round his eyes Last Line: And so all inviolate? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DEAD FLEA, by KAREN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Tis true I am not weakened by this death Last Line: Go scratch your itching in some other place Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights DEAFNESS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wall-mountain rimmed around the sky Last Line: "he heard! He spoke!"" she said." Subject(s): Deafness; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DEATH SPELL FOR A DEPARTING LOVER, by KATE BRAVERMAN Poem Source First Line: We are good at opening dialogue Last Line: Digging in under your skin %in a way you will never forget Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women DEMONOLOGUE (1), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: It was fascinating to induce fear Last Line: When I raised hs face and held it there Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Supernatural DEMONOLOGUE (2), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I know his scent and infest there Last Line: Invitation to pure action is ignored Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Man-woman Relationships; Supernatural DEMONOLOGUE (3), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I had a ward I adored and tortured in four ways Last Line: The more the horse moaned the less I was inclined to lord the less Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Man-woman Relationships; Torture DESIRE, by CHARLOTTE NEKOLA Poem Source First Line: The man steps off a lighted bus Last Line: Cicadas mourn, and he does not know why %he listens, now Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DETECTIVE ASKS ME WHAT HE SAID, by SHOASHAUNA SHY Poem Source First Line: He'd pinch the breath %from my lungs Last Line: If I stopped to think about it %he said that Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Single People DEVOTION, by MINNETTE SLAYBACK CARPER Poem Text First Line: She stole a moment from each day of toil Last Line: The grass is clipped, and flowers are planted there. Subject(s): Family Life; Women; Man-woman Relationships DIALOGUE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: My friend george herbert has been chiding me Last Line: Who at sleep's edge %enjoy such privilege Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii DILEMMA, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were mild, and I were sweet, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DINA'S HAPPY ENDING, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: And so I married Last Line: I think I laughed half the night %god, it felt good Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DOING THE EVOLUTION SHUFFLE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel I've shacked up Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DOMESTIC LIFE: 1. TODAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open yourself up: today Last Line: Except cold inside. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Emptiness; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DOMESTIC SCENES FROM LADY TENNYSON'S JOURNAL, by MARGARET KAY Poem Source First Line: When the days are warm and our island Last Line: And you read to me %about the london poor Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Women's Rights DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was winter, lunar, wet. At dusk Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DONNA JULIA'S FIRST LETTER AFTER JUAN'S DEPARTURE FOR CADIZ, by KATHARINE COLES Poem Source First Line: Isabella, more and more I remember childhood Last Line: To whatever wind he pleases. Bella, no tears Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights DOUBLE SONNET, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recall everything, but more than all Last Line: Speechless, inept, and totally unmanned Variant Title(s): Double Sonnet: I Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DOUBTING THOMAS, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: Mopping up his ordinary puke Last Line: When deft those dragon words %pluck our secret lyre Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights DREAM AND IDEAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diana with her limbs of dream Last Line: Across the distance for his sake. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations DROPPING THE NAMES, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alps, island, jet, crest, logo - barnum's own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Automobile Accidents; Male-female Relations DROWN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am sick with this Last Line: This will only take an hour %or two Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships DRUM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war ends. The lines of women push Subject(s): War; Man-woman Relationships; Freedom; Male-female Relations; Liberty DYLAN, WE WERE LIKE THOSE FLIMSY MOONS, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Two moons there are, one laked, one skied Last Line: Which imperfections yours, which neither's Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman named earlene Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a woman named earlene Last Line: The way things are Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women EASY SONG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's rained every day since you Last Line: In the perfume of your flesh. %moi aussi, je suis content Subject(s): Contentment; French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships EDWARD LEAR, by LEE UPTON Poem Source First Line: Never can one choose to be %a laureate of restlessness Last Line: No weeping without purchases Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights EGOMANIA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She-she-who is this she but my creation Last Line: With hands stretched out—and feet that stray and falter. Subject(s): Desire; Egoism & Egotism; Hope; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Optimism; Male-female Relations ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Male-female Relations; Feminism ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Last Line: You are the fog of language on manhattan %where it's descending Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980) EMMA'S EVENSONG, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: Cleaving, I call, -- no longer bright-souled Last Line: Bury our dark decembers Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights END OF A MARRIAGE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Three years after the death Last Line: How to divorce a man %who has been dead three years? Subject(s): Absence; Child Molesting; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality; Male-female Relations; Theology ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty Last Line: Mysteries inviting both penetration and erasure Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality ENOUGH, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: William carlos williams, I'm sick of your poem Last Line: So much depends on a wheelbarrow, dumping her into an early grave Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism ERATO ERRATUM, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: You say I am your prism and your muse Last Line: When I'm alone, I put you in quatrains Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ERLINTON (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: [lord] erlinton had a fair daughter Subject(s): Love;man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ESTHER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Let's face it %(I told my mirror) Last Line: But I didn't have to do it %always remember that Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights EURYDICE REVEALS HER STRENGTH, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Dying is the easy part Last Line: Singing to myself, not looking back Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights EVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: One book has it that eve Last Line: Before she goes to sleep [or, sleeps] Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Man-woman Relationships EVE AND ADAM, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Tis said a clever woman can Last Line: And make a man out of a fool. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations EVERYTHING GOOD BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Has been written in mud and butter Last Line: Call it a night. O soul. Flow on. Instead Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships EXCEPT FOR A FEW FOOTPRINTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So. Yes. But still there is this peace between us Last Line: You say my name, you remind me %and I return Subject(s): Absence; Footprints; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships FABLE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FACT VERSUS FANCY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When last I strolled these ways with grace Last Line: His circumstances! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wealth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAIR FRIGIDITY, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: There was a lady fair and fairly bright Last Line: Gazing up to her from his watered deep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships FAREWELL, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: I have placed you Last Line: Insanity of man's flesh! Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Passion; Male-female Relations FEMININE IF, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: If you can wait on those who'll keep you waiting Last Line: Don't wonder what it's like to be a nun Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FENIX, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face cross-hatched by violet shadows that fall round her like a net, Last Line: And on the other lens my ass Subject(s): Dreams; Social Classes; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Caste; Male-female Relations FEVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In your sleep you talked Last Line: I love you too. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Talk; Male-female Relations FIRE IS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Cockleshell of, / cockleheart Subject(s): Fire; Man-woman Relationships FIRENZE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The women have all gone %to italy. The men Last Line: Why they were left behind Subject(s): Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships FIRST POEM FOR YOU, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I like to touch your tatoos in complete Last Line: So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Permanence; Tattoos FLESH, CELESTIAL FLESH OF WOMAN!, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh, celestial flesh of woman! Clay Last Line: Before the eternity of what probably is...! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships FLOATING TREES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A bed is left open to a mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Sex; Male-female Relations FLOATING TREES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bed is left open to a mirror Last Line: Otherwise not a leaf stirs Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Sex FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wise—so wise! Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations FOR AN ANNIVERSARY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where you dream of water Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR HER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be anywhere Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR HOMER'S MOSQUITO, by ANN LOUISE HAYES Poem Source First Line: I read the song of llion Last Line: The llion we know Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights FOR NO CLEAR REASON, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by LINDA CARTER BROWN Poem Source First Line: Some of us still wear the mask Last Line: Only while we wear the mask Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FOR PRINCE MYSHKIN, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: When I ride the adventures of my legs through your %heart Last Line: Crusted creatures of the deep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships FOR ROBERT BRIDGES, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: All women born are so diverse Last Line: No man should miss their charms assessing Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FOR ROBERT FROST, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Easy as breath, without a trace of toil Last Line: To make our songs no longer quite the same Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights FORMS PF POLITENESS, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking advantage of the relationships and interaction, which actually exist between what happens Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY POEM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was. I explained to judith Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every dame affects good fame, whate'er her doings be Last Line: Happy dame, content that lives and breaks no sleep for toys! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Contentment FRIDA KAHLO & DIEGO RIVERA, by KATHERINE HARER Poem Source First Line: The oil of frying onions hung in the air. When she woke up the next Last Line: He told her he was fragile. She laughed, and you such a big man Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships FRIDA KAHLO & NICK MURAY, by KATHERINE HARER Poem Source First Line: Her long hands his body bright and loose as a shawl rebozo he liked the Last Line: The tiny cushion she gave him when she left Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships FRIENDS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's one comes often as the sun Last Line: I sometimes see across the world—a room. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FROM SEASON TO SEASON, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday / I walked with fay Last Line: For fay has gone and married! Subject(s): Change; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Seasons; Male-female Relations FULL MOON, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We ran barefoot to see it Last Line: And elephants, dead boneyards gleaming in the moonlight Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 4, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: She could never keep her hair combed. She was a redhead Last Line: Cigarettes in her unquenchable flame Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said %once Last Line: - paint them - %ruby red Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex GERTRUDE TO HAMLET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inside, the turned liver Last Line: You wander my throne like measles Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights GLASGERION (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Glasgerion was a king's own son Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;love;man-woman Relationships;murder; Male-female Relations GO ON SISTER SING YOUR SONG, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations GOD OF SLEEP, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel how skin goes sick in want of warmth Last Line: You were awake the whole time Subject(s): Girls; Guilt; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships GOING DOWN ON AMERICA: THE REGIONAL POET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turned on to the transcendent, he holds her Last Line: Into a land lost %to reality Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights GOING THROUGH THE HOUSE, by CLAIRE BRAZ-VALENTINE Poem Source First Line: I don't care Last Line: I don't care %really I don't Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women GOLDILOCKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of the snare of goldilocks! Last Line: By goldilocks since the world began. Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Women; Male-female Relations GONE, BUT HERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was here, and she is gone Last Line: Of life be done? Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Music & Musicians; Parting; Male-female Relations GOOD MAN, BAD WOMAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say that spite avails her nothing, that Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations GRADUALISM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept naked / on top of the covers and woke Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Male-female Relations GRADUALISM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept naked %on top of the covers and woke Last Line: Even in mexico even for us' Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex GREY MATTER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They leave us nothing Last Line: Begins the ancient mystery anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women; Male-female Relations HANDFISHING RETABLO: 2, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Followed us to the shaft end of the song que milagro Last Line: Young epitaph kiss me then count your teeth Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HARDWIRED, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zapped dandelions, blown streetlight heads -- o hardwired Last Line: Of heat lighting just before a storm Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships HE AND SHE, by BROOKE WIESE Poem Source First Line: She lives beside a bright white mosque Last Line: They hold hands - watch shooting stars fall Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HE GETS DEPRESSED WHENEVER WE ARGUE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, I am talking to you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HE SAID, SHE SAID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it something I said Subject(s): Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations HE SAID, SHE SAID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it something I said Last Line: And what if it was a trick Subject(s): Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships HE WILL MAKE SOME WOMEN, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: A trail of wringing hands leading back to mother Last Line: A solid reason %to wear back Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships HE'S ASLEEP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone was ringing Last Line: In the room, except his wife Subject(s): Sleep; Marriage; Man-woman Relationships HELIODORA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He and I sought together Last Line: "is a lily kissed." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HELLO, DOLLY; GOODBYE, MAN, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: Without you, I am perfectly complete Last Line: On your way out, would you take the garbage down Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HER EYES TWIN POOLS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light Last Line: A man might plunge, and lose his soul. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming overf the mediterranian Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance; Provence, France; Male-female Relations HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming over the mediterranean Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance HIS COY MISTRESS REPLIES, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Andrew marvell, you haven't read Last Line: Our mutual purpose is: our pleasure Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights HIS MIND, OF MAN A SECRET MAKES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: However neighborly Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships HIS MODEST WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know, alas, fair dame, that you Last Line: Oh, let me be your scepter-bearer! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Wishes; Male-female Relations HIS VICTORY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: He deemed it but a passing thought Last Line: She prayed that god might give him strength. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HISTORIES: A WOMAN WAS CONSTRUCTED N 20 OZ. ANTIQUITY, CERTAINLY SHE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true that ( ) discovered the Last Line: Chassis in the glove of a chandelier Subject(s): History; Man-woman Relationships; Historians; Male-female Relations HOME AND WIFE, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where in this world, where strife and guile abound Last Line: And god, approving, smile on all thy ways. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOMING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The waves come racing to my boat Last Line: To kiss my love. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; War; Male-female Relations; American Navy HORACE TO LYDIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Old sweetheart mine, your charms decline Last Line: To satiate my great heart-hunger! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HOT TEA, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midafternoon./her canyon. Her house Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary HOTELS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the semi-dark we take everything off Last Line: The bundled outlines of another woman another man %hurrying toward the theater's blue tubes of light Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Beds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep HOUSE, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: We have built the walls, we have spread the roof Last Line: Be left behind when you pass the door! Subject(s): Home; Love; Man-woman Relationships HOUSE WITH THE AQUA-COLORED BARS, by CAROL POTTER Poem Source First Line: Walking up the steep-cobbled hill today Last Line: Fat-pink blossoms against my windows Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women HOW FUTILE A THING DIRECTION IS, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: Silos tick in below zero weather wind chill makes a fossil of touch out Last Line: Breasts made me believe silos could hold memory and sift it into maps I %could use to touch a woman Subject(s): Death; Fossils; Man-woman Relationships HOW SHALL I SAVE YOU FROM DROWNING?, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: The answer is always the same. %- no-one Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Escapes; Man-woman Relationships HOW THEY GOT HER TO QUIET DOWN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations 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 HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: The parquet shines; outside the snow falls deep Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: Hypocrite swift sent stella a green apron %and dead desire Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights I AM HIGH ON THE MAN CALLED CRAZY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He has bitten sons Subject(s): African Americans; Man-woman Relationships I ASK MYSELF IF THIS IS THE START OF A PROSE POEM, by NAOMI RACHEL Poem Source First Line: I ask myself if I will write a letter to michael ryan Last Line: Ask myself what the hell could I say to him after all if I don't even %know if this is a prose poem Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ryan, Michael (b. 1945); Women's Rights I COULD IN SLEEP, by JOHN RIBOVICH Poem Source First Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now Last Line: I could in sleep reach out and touch her now %and feel her warmth her back beneath her gown Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Touch (sense) I DANCE WITH MY CAT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dance with my cat in the kitchen Last Line: Snuggled into my breast Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude I GAVE MY LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my love to a wastrel Last Line: I'd give it him again. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations I GROW OLDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I like mexican food Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Nature I HAVE PIPED AND YE DID NOT DANCE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man once lay at a woman's feet Last Line: "in the place that was flame in the once ago." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations I HAVE SEEN, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen the delicate golden-haired child Last Line: Might have the joy of one more sweet flow'r snatching. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy I SCREAM IN AMERICA, by DIANE ENGLE Poem Source First Line: It's as if ink has taken on Last Line: In ribbons of language Subject(s): Ashbery, John (b. 1927); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights I WOULD HAVE TO, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: I would have to take each and every Last Line: I have a longing that will not spare him Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought I'VE BEEN MARRIED SINCE BIRTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Depth of my insincerity Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature IF I PROPOSE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I propose a walk, a ride Last Line: If I propose. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IF IT BE TRUE, by ESTHER JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If it be true, celestial powers Last Line: Bestow upon my mind Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights IF YOU, by PUDONG Poem Source First Line: If you were yi-doryong Last Line: Light from clear skies Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships IF, MY DARLING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If my darling were once to decide Last Line: Might knock my darling off her unpriceable pivot Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Man-woman Relationships; Reality; Male-female Relations IN A WORD, by ELIZABETH KUHLMAN Poem Source First Line: The male domestic fowl Last Line: Raises his crowned head Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Violence IN AN ACT OF PITY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Pity; Male-female Relations IN LATE FALL, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I get goose bumps Last Line: For the winter Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships IN QUOTES, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: She asked me Last Line: One more detail, final %and inoffensive: %I understand Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships IN TEHACHAPI, by DAVID STARR JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold is the wind upon the mountain side Last Line: Thy face, teháchapi! Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Tehachapi, California; Male-female Relations IN THE LONG RUN LIKE GOVERNMENTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flattened, in thin snow spread out before us Last Line: No one can pick up or put back Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature IN THE MADNESS OF AGE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the drapery of shadow I forgive Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations IN THE MEN'S ROOM(S), by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I believed in intellectual conversation: Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism IN THE MOVIE NOW, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There is no glory in trying to make love to men Last Line: You'll have to scrub out later Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape IN THE NIGHT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, thou lost face Last Line: For her, and thee, and me? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations 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 IN THE PLAGUE YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old cartoon the terrified Last Line: In death's and mummy's %and big daddy's one shrinking eye Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Quarrels 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 IN THIS CORNER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For as we are hurtling, sucked Last Line: In this corner stopped still Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Togetherness IN TINTAGEL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lady, lady, leave the creeping mist Last Line: And in the gardens glad birds sing again! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations IN WITNESS OF WOMEN POETS, by SUSANNA ELIZABETH ZEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Rhapsodius does not imagine women write Last Line: We will be more like equals Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights INDISCRIMINATE KISSES, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Foreplay of obscene graffiti carved Last Line: Some distance from where I set in Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Youth INTERPRETATION OF LOVE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Two deadly beautiful fighter jets across the sky, and cartographers Last Line: In a flower. May it open just for me when the woman I love gazes at it Subject(s): History; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Self 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 IRIS ADMITS THE LIGHT THE IRIS WILL ALLOW, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A letter flew into his hand Last Line: Stitched up her eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Eyes; Man-woman Relationships JACOB, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dwelt among 'apartments let' Last Line: The difference to me! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Male-female Relations; Feminism JAEL'S POEM, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Yes %I did it beat Last Line: And sleeps %with one eye open Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JEN, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Fifteen long years I think it was that jen Last Line: And sue and jim were married the next week. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations JENNY TO L. H., by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Leigh hunt kiss'd me when we met Last Line: Could have kiss'd me Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was spread, the sparkling bowl went round Last Line: "we march to rescue orleans from the foe." Subject(s): Duty; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Love; Man-woman Relationships; Missions & Missionaries; Obedience; War; Heroes; Heroines; Male-female Relations JOHN CLARE, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John clare, I cried last night Last Line: Sometimes for sheer delight %john clare, I cried last night Subject(s): Clare, John (1793-1864); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JOHNNY RIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny right, his hand was brown Last Line: Her own self had evoked her fate. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Human Behavior; Optimism; Pessimism; Fate; Alcoholism & Alcoholics JOSEPHINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Hark, the very birds are singing, 'josephine!' Last Line: Josephine? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poverty; Wealth; Male-female Relations; Riches; Fortunes JUST WHEN, by KYESOM Poem Source First Line: Just when did my green age go Last Line: Knowing the way would have led me to mourn Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Old Age KARINTHA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon Last Line: ...When the sun goes down %goes down Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Youth KATE DALRYMPLE, by WILLIAM WATT Poem Text First Line: In a wee cot-house far across the muir Last Line: He's wedded to and bedded noo wi' kate dalrymple. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations KATHARINE JOHNSTONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a may, and a weel-far'd may" Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships;marriage; Male-female Relations;weddings;husbands;wives KEY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And still the planets go by Last Line: In the slow, blossoming traffic %and wallow of seamless oceans Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne. Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations KOHL, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: There was a time before I called myself Last Line: Their prophet calls up himself. Is it peace? Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights KYRIELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Whom do I love? And must I tell Last Line: Shall reign, for I love you! Subject(s): Confessions; Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI OFFERS HER VERSION, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: So what! Bewailing last night's charms Last Line: This will bring your colour back %an aspirin Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LA FELINE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have come back to me through the / ages Last Line: And forswear hope of god for your sake! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations LACRIMAE RERUM, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs yap, sirens wail through the city Last Line: Sexual damps and dews slide away Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships LADS OF THE VILLAGE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lads of the village, we read in the lay Last Line: Or upon any field of experience where pain makes patterns %the poet slanders Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LADY ALICE WAS SITTING IN HER BOWER-WINDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Death;love - Loss Of;man-woman Relationships; "dead, The;male-female Relations; LADY MACBETH ON THE PSYCH WARD, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, I'm lost in these mazy halls that lead nowhere Last Line: And I am lost in it. Doctor, I breathe blood, not air Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights LADY THAT'S KNOWN AS LOU GIVES R. W. SERVICE A PIECE OF HER MIND, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Our boys were whooping it up just fine till you swung through Last Line: Me quicker than those poor stiffs. But before any amour, I gotta mop this bloodyfloor Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Women's Rights LAIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let her who walks in paphos Last Line: Wishing to see that face and finding this. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LAMIA TO LYCIUS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you here me, lycius? Do you hear these dreams Last Line: Till every human word you say is clear Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Last Line: And I am putting my proud american boast %right here with the others Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights LATE, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late and the others have turned Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LATE ROUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When the fighters slow down, moving towards eaach other Last Line: And are separated, but they don't let go Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Fights; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sports LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LE MAIN DE DIEU, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Leaving rodin's garden, we stole Last Line: Rocked there, believing, in the hand of god Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses LE MONDE EST MECHANT, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is malevolent dear Last Line: What feeling and wit you display! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Earth; Man-woman Relationships; World; Male-female Relations LEDA, by CHANDA J. GLASS Poem Source First Line: Exactly %fourteen years and Last Line: Fistfuls of %bloody white feathers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LET RAKES FOR PLEASURE RANGE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let rakes for pleasure range the town Last Line: And wedlock's bands make johnny jenny's. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LET THE DAY PERISH, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was meaner than a flimsy dollar the change machine refuses Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LETTER AND ANSWER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After so many years she wrote, but why Last Line: "restore the life that once joined me to you?" Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Youth; Male-female Relations LETTER FROM LESBIA,, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds…. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LETTER FROM LESBIA, SELS., by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LETTER TO DENISE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember when you put on that wig Last Line: Love the stone, and, yes, I know its soul. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations LIFE IN THE TWISTS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bare freckled skin under black cloak Last Line: "or vice versa..." Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Skin; Male-female Relations LIFE-BINDING, by LENORE BAELI WANG Poem Source First Line: The bombing pressed a building pancake-stacked Last Line: But finding nothing sweet, transferred no spores Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear? Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism LIGHT-YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under my hand mere Last Line: The sudden flare of feeling we almost touch Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sympathy LIKE ANY OTHER MAN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born with a knife Last Line: Unlocked my body. Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Salvation; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Like brother with dear sister, hand in hand Last Line: I say, 'of which we ne'er shall know who sheds them!' Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships LIKE ROCKS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They surfaced gradually until the center cooled Last Line: Hunger poetry breath shhhhhh Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships LIKELY STORY, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Atalanta, all her life Last Line: To find a fellow who will cheat Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights LILITH, by CATHERINE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Some say adam reared me from the beasts Last Line: Will fear as their wet dreams Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LINES, by MARCO GUAZZO Poem Text First Line: He that appaled with lust would sail in haste to Last Line: All were bliss, if such fond lust led not to repentance. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations LITANY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You are the bread and the knife, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: We could've gone the other way, freeway Last Line: Is lovely, yes lovely, like me Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Travel LOOK HERE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Next time you walk by my place Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LORD MYTH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow through the room, a rising Last Line: A black feather plunges through the spiraling smoke. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Ravens; Male-female Relations LOS DOS RANCHEROS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I can see the moon like a bullet sunk in the clouds' body Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOST AT THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at the fair did I lose thee, my honey Last Line: I kiss'd, sung, and linked with her home from the fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Worry; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the just man followed god's ambassador here Last Line: For a single look, she gave up her life Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LOUANNE AND THE BIKER, by AEDAN ALEXANDER HANLEY Poem Source First Line: She met him at a flea market Last Line: School books that you read the stuff Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Motorcycles And Motorcycling LOVE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who veileth love should first have vanquished fate Last Line: Though watched of the divine hesperides. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Male-female Relations LOVE HEROIC, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Companioned on the path you chose Last Line: Immortal in your life to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE LETTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see through you. I am your wallflower Last Line: Through them, I see through you Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Racism LOVE POEM, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Me on my back, you your front Last Line: Now I lay me down on you Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex LOVE POEM TO STEVEN, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Rust on the razor Last Line: It's a time of scraps, %cold bonds Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Substance Abuse LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with no connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets LOVE SONNETS OF A BOXER: 2, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What's that? Yuh wanta see me scrap? Yuh say Last Line: Might make me look three times as good as now? Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE'S GRAMMARIANS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Periwinkle - bluet - quaker lady Last Line: These shall be time and place Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love – Nature Of LOVE'S LIKENINGS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He. To what, love, shall I liken thee? Last Line: Ever till we meet the sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVER THAT SHOWS, by MYONGOK Poem Source First Line: A lover that shows himself only Last Line: A dream, just show yourself to me Subject(s): Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships 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; LUCASTA REMAINS UNCONVINCED, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Honour,' you say, and think I'm unaware Last Line: Of what you plan on chasing over there? Subject(s): Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LUCASTA REPLIES TO RICHARD LOVELACE, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Tell me not, dick, I should be glad Last Line: I to having fun! Subject(s): Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights 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 LUSTRE, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does the warmth Last Line: That pulled glenn miller's orchestra %out of the sky Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships LYCIDAS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: If lycidas could somehow rise again Last Line: Over an ordinary accident Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights LYRICAL LETTER TO THE OTHER WOMAN, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: I do not know your name, I have never seen Last Line: When nothing is possible! Subject(s): Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY (NEGRO LOVE SONG), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breeze a-sighin' and a-blowin' Last Line: Nuff to make me understan'. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MADAME DELUXE'S GUIDE TO THE PLEASURES OF LEATHER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: On a first date, wear oiled nubuck ankle boots Last Line: Kick off your shoes and walk all over him Subject(s): Courtship; Leather; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Manipulation; Shoes MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 1. ORDERING YOUR BRIDE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: To order, simply send check or credit card information Last Line: And best of all, no more cold shoulders Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 3. ASKING FOR HER HAND, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Once you have developed a rapport with your new deluxe bride Last Line: Brides are bribe-resistant and not susceptible to reprimands Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 4. HOW TO ENDURE YOUR BRIDE TO YOU, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Tell her she looks lean as a sparerib Last Line: Use ribbed condoms for her pleasure Subject(s): Jokes; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Marriage - Forced MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a year of spirited intercourse Last Line: How lbullish she was on french kissing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Romance; Sex MADRIGAL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The troubadours sing merrily Last Line: Will dolly, in her gingham gown! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Troubadours; Male-female Relations; Minnesingers MAKING MEN, by CAROL ANN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Susan makes men from oranges; Last Line: See here is the penis %mine sticks straight out Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sculpture And Sculptors MALENE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked on thee in former days Last Line: No, not as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MALIBATUS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: When he came down from the hills, a crowd surrounded him Last Line: Legs were hurtling her toward the well Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships MALISON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I promised no reproach, elise Last Line: As deadly. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MAN (NEVER SAYING, LOVE, LOVE ME ):, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: This time, before I got up the stairs I smelled Last Line: And every morning she whips me with her joy Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships MAN IN SPACE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All you have to do is listen to the way a man Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MAN PAYS COURT WITH HIS POEMS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A woman dismissed him with hers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Poetry And Poets MARGARET'S SPEECH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frogman. Naked by the water Last Line: Who knows that I bleach my hair. Variant Title(s): Margaret Subject(s): Drowning; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour before sunrise Last Line: Risen sun - star and crescent gone into light Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity MARILINE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the wheel plied mariline Last Line: To the brow of mariline. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nature; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARILYN AND JONALYN, by DEBORAH BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Twice a month our mothers went Last Line: That made sticky sounds %when they lifted their thighs Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships MARK STRAND, by NAOMI RACHEL Poem Source First Line: The first time %it is safer Last Line: Over %the rails Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Strand, Mark (b. 1934); Women's Rights MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States 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 MARY'S PRESENT, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm not believing for a minute shelley's heart Last Line: Next to the plums? Stunning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations MATINS, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Disappointment; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Last Line: Ever lived, had stepped across my grave Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest MEDEA'S SOLILOQUY, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Why didn't I just carry off Last Line: The better thought came one day later Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEDEA, HOMESICK, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: How many gifted witches, young and fair Last Line: He discovered it himself, and is past harm Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEG GOLDLOCKS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye've heard of meg goldlocks of willington dene? Last Line: And their lovers allowed to tread willington dene! Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MEIN LIEBCHEN, WIR SASSEN ZUSAMMEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My darling, we sat together Last Line: Upon the great sea-flow. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MEJNUN AND LAILI (AFTER THE PERSIC), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged at the breast of anguish, nursed Last Line: And toward the desert ran. Subject(s): Arabia; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MEMORIES, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou, louise, forgotten yet Last Line: And I alone remember yet! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations MEN, WOMEN, AND EARTH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in the morning the hermit wakes Last Line: Earth nourishes what no one can see. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Montague, John (b. 1929); Male-female Relations; Human Race MENAPHON'S ECLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too weak the wit, too slender is the brain Last Line: My faith is firm, though homely be my lay. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness MENAPHON: DORON'S ECLOGUE, JOINED WITH CARMELA'S, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, carmela; here are cobs for kings Last Line: Come, kiss and part, for fear my mother comes. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' DESCRIPTION OF HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tune on, my pipe, the praises of my love Last Line: A sky-born form so beautiful as she. Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are my sheep without their wonted food? Last Line: Whereto this solace tends! Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women MERMAID'S SONG, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: I'm one of the mermaids in prufrock's song Last Line: To be courted by prufrocks %who cannot, will not, swim Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEZZA RAGNA, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Stuck somewhere in the middle Last Line: Between two possibilities %mezza donna, mezza dea Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MILTON'S WOMEN WITH MEMORIES MORE THAN 300 YEARS OLD, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Milton had 3 wives, 3 daughters, blindness and poetry Last Line: Fumblings? Irrational, yes; but cunning, too %and infinitely vengeful Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights MINT, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, we’d be driving past Last Line: The chance of a reprieve Subject(s): Forests; Man-woman Relationships MIRACLE BABY, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: She was born with a cunt and a brain Last Line: To make it up %as I go along Subject(s): Anger; Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships MIRIAM, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: She who could see the light of days to come Last Line: Unlamenated in the widerness of zin Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MISERY AND SPLENDOR, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Summoned by conscious recollection, she Last Line: To which they can’t admit they can never be admitted Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MISOGYNY, by DANIEL GORDON Poem Text First Line: A woman is a wondrous being Last Line: God curse them all! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations MISS DIPLOMACY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I'm writing to you, dear, to-day Last Line: "would one of those ""back numbers"" do?" Subject(s): Courtship; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Letters; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MODERN MIDDLESEX, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Thank god, nearing ruislip gardens Last Line: Now my mobile phone is ringing -- please excuse me. Hello? Spain? Subject(s): Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MOVIE ABOUT THE DEAD CELLIST, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is perfectly straightforward: it's england so there's a fog but also tea Last Line: Against the ceiling like bats: invisible, making no audible sound Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships MOVING INTO MEMORY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as those last words are never spoken Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MOZARTIAN AIR, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your name to know I cared not Last Line: Bids youth and childhood back again. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Voices; Male-female Relations MUCKRAKER, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That greasy letter into which my legs entered, Subject(s): Disappointment; Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MUNECA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Doll and wrist %first limp, then preciosa Last Line: Manipulate a pretty %spanish bit Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Man-woman Relationships; Toys; Women MUSE INTERRUPTS MY RANT AT CHARLES BUKOWSKI OVER HIS POPULARITY .., by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Last Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Subject(s): Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MUSE SAYS SHE'S FINISHED, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Says she's turning off Last Line: Her flesh devoured %without a blessing? Subject(s): Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY FRIEND MELISSA, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: My friend melissa, eighteen %smokes like a chimney Last Line: Who was the victor and who was the victim? %think Subject(s): Causley, Charles (1917-2003); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Last Line: It'll stay right there till the day I die, %for all men to behold Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships MY LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady has returned to town Last Line: The love that warms my formal phrases. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Fashion; Man-woman Relationships; Urban Life; Male-female Relations MY LAST DUCHESS RESPONDS TO ROBERT BROWNING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Night after night he didn't satisfy Last Line: To paint my soul, to introduce foreplay Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights MY LIFE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge doll of my body Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY LOVE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like a lily bud Last Line: To love and ne'er to part! Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY NIGHT WITH PHILIP LARKIN, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rendezvous with dweeby philip in the shower Subject(s): Larkin, Philip (1922-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism MY NIGHT WITH PHILIP LARKIN, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rendezvous with dweeby philip in the shower Last Line: The things that others do instead of this Subject(s): Larkin, Philip (1922-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY PRETTY NEIGHBOR, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: If you've nothing, dear, to tell me Last Line: Pretty little neighbor, say! Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY SONG FOR SOLOMON, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: I have drunk the poisoned milk Last Line: The blood of a ghost among the living Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY THOUGHTS OF HIM, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: My thoughts of him are muscle and bone Last Line: Through these days after days Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought MY WEE WIFE, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, wha is like my wee wife Last Line: Oh, wha is like, etc. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NAKED LADY PLAYING CARDS, by DAVID THORNBRUGH Poem Source First Line: We'd find them in creek beds Last Line: Naked lady playing cards Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships NAMES OF CURTAINS, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: All day by sheer fullness you strained Last Line: O festoon, jabot, swag, puff, tieback, crescent, priscilla Subject(s): Hall, Donald (b. 1928); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NANA & VICTORIO, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Along this spine of dragoon mountains Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Southwest; Pacific States NAPLES, 1590, by HELEN YETTA WALKER Poem Text First Line: The same old scene of the same old play Last Line: Over her silken knees. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Naples, Italy; Romance; Youth; Male-female Relations NAUGHTY BOY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he brings home a whale Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NELL BARNES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They lived apart for three long years Last Line: It was for love she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Last Line: Old women, waited, patiently Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look about the place Last Line: "nothing grief-full grows from love." Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Convicts NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting and sighing in my secret muse Last Line: "wo worth the faults and follies of mine eye!" Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations NEVER TOO LATE: THE PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old menalcas, on a day Last Line: "the way to good is never late." Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations NEVER TOO LATE: THE PENITENT PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom in the winter's rage Last Line: "man is sin, and flesh is grass!'" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Sin; Youth; Male-female Relations NEW MOON HAS REACHED, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Month ago we were strangers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships NEW PRAYER FOR DAUGHTERS, by JEAN LEBLANC Poem Source First Line: When I was a child there were no towers Last Line: With fire within, your vision is your own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) NIGHT WE SAY GOODBYE, by LIN FLORINDA COLAVIN Poem Source First Line: We crouch %behind a bulwark Last Line: How to celebrate %what we no longer hold Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women NIGHT: SOBERANES POINT, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: At the ocean my nose Last Line: O blossoming night! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Night; Romance NO MAN CAN ESCAPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: No man can escape from a woman's love Last Line: No man can escape if he tries. Subject(s): Fathers; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NO PASTEL PRINCESS, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: You expected maybe a %patel princess from oz? Last Line: And put your playthings down Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOAH'A DAUGHTER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Good questions %I can answer them Last Line: I wanted the forty days to go on forever Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOCTURNE, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Moonlight, and the sparkle of nude boys Last Line: Unafraid, they all creep into the shelter of the the throbbing dark. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations NON CARPE DIEM, by PATRICIA FALK Poem Source First Line: Enter gently this good day Last Line: Day will not be seized Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Last Line: With children on the verge of youth Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past NORTHWIND ESCARPMENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mirrors in the hall were a strange backwater Last Line: We always knew it was possible. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tides; Male-female Relations NOSSIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to hear him speak Last Line: Nossis, he cried, a flame Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights NOT A VOICE, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Clad in festive robes Last Line: Not a ram to redeem %a mere girl Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He lifts the white skiff up onto the beach. It is easter Last Line: I will marry, he thought of the fish... Subject(s): Drowning; Easter; Fish & Fishing; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; The Resurrection; Anglers; Male-female Relations NOT TO BE WON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said there flashes in her wit Last Line: She breaks my heart by staying here. Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NOT-SO-STILL-LIFE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: White cherry blossoms %float the quad Last Line: Her biting smell in his beak Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships NOTE FROM THE IMAGINARY DAUGHTER, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Mother always swore your plunge was faked Last Line: Some nights I dream you dead. Some days, unborn Subject(s): Kees, Weldon (1914-1955); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOWHERE NEAR ALBUQUERQUE, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Should have saved money Last Line: Her silver hair in pocahontas braids Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships O FLAME OF LIVING LOVE, by JOHN CROSS Poem Source Last Line: How delicately thou teachest love to me! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships 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 OBSERVATION BY A FORMERLY ROSE-LIPT MAIDEN, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: At the lads who were lightfoot Last Line: Just isn't the brook Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ODE TO HER AROMA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soft woman, what do you smell of Last Line: That awaits me %in your mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships OLD HANDS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Months since we've made love Last Line: Melting, your fingers blazing at the latch Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age ON BEING COY, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Many fish in the murky ocean caves Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ON BERIA'S LAP, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Svetlana, are you grieving Last Line: It is a century you mourn for Subject(s): Beria, Lavrenty (1899-1953); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Russia - Stalin Era; Women's Rights ON GARI MELCHER'S WRITING IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, by HELEN A. PINKERTON Poem Source First Line: How often did she make such quiet, one wonders Last Line: The quiet art of keeping calm the house Variant Title(s): On Gari Melchers' Writing (1905) In The Los Angeles County Museu Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights ON REREADING TELEMAQUE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I place thee back upon the shelf Last Line: Until another man was sent her! Subject(s): Books; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Reading; Male-female Relations ON SUNDAY MORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: On sunday morn, down sacred aisle Last Line: On sunday morn! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Public Worship; Religion; Sabbath; Male-female Relations; Church Attendance; Theology; Sunday ON THE COMING OF SPRING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: During the season when the optic nerve Last Line: The non-existence of unwilling women Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE', by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: On the tip of the tongue Last Line: Territories of our skin Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Montana; Rivers; Travel ON THE WAY TO CHURCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one I know. I see her sometimes pass Last Line: Nor kneel, god's robber, near that angel face. Subject(s): Deception; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Women; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery ON WOMEN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three talents to the fair belong Last Line: While thus th' inchanted rashly help it on. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Virtue; Women; Male-female Relations ONCE ONLY: AUSTIN SNOW, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I saw you that way, late afternoons, always Last Line: Mating of a swan and some god of the night Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Snow ONE DAY IT HAPPENS, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: One day it happens: your lover Last Line: Remembering the short barrel of his heart, %its single bullet Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lon- (sounds like 'lawng') on-on-ong Last Line: Reach up now %reach reach Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing And Writers ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT A WOMAN, by PHYLLIS WITTE Poem Source First Line: Among the late night stillness of city Last Line: The woman stayed with me %stayed very still, with me Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by BRUCE MEYER Poem Source First Line: The incline jagged beneath his feet Last Line: Her to the stars, he prayed they'd hear his pleas %and having hearts, have hearts to break or ease Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships OUR LADY EXAMINES HER ANGER, by NITA PENFOLD Poem Source First Line: Like a foreign object Last Line: The closest she had ever come %to loving herself Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women OUTCAST; A TALE OF A LADIES' CRICKET MATCH, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: Out in the silent rockies Last Line: There's a thin, sad, pale, grey hermit: %folks know him as 'jaundiced jim' Subject(s): Courtship; Cricket (game); Man-woman Relationships; Men; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Sports OZARK ODES: CAFE AT THE JUNCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The way she sees him Last Line: Where oaks vault the road Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants PAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY, by VICENTE ESPINEL Poem Source First Line: He who is both brave and bold Last Line: Ne'er have conquered - never could Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships PALE ROSE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You laughed uncertainly Last Line: Knowing you wanted red roses again. Subject(s): Affliction; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations PALM FLOWERS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a land of the sun's blessing Last Line: But forget you quite till then. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PANDOSTO, THE TRIUMPH OF TIME: IN PRAISE OF HIS BEST-BELOVED FAWNIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Were she pitiful as she is fair Last Line: Shine in my arms, and set thou in my breast! Variant Title(s): Fawnia Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PANTOUM TO A BEARDED MUSE ON LINES BY ROBERT GRAVES, by KATHLEENE K. WEST Poem Source First Line: A muse does not wear whiskers Last Line: A muse does not wear whiskers Subject(s): Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PARADISE LOST, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Not only do you blame the fall of man Last Line: Your memory by blabbering to aubrey Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights PEARLS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It was the hurt he didn't see Last Line: Shimmering in her eyes Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love; Man-woman Relationships PENELOPE AND ULYSSES SETTLE A DOMESTIC DISPUTE, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: She'd managed on her own for 20 years Last Line: And so he sailed, pretending he had planned to Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Women's Rights PERFECT POET, by ERICA MANN JONG Poem Source First Line: He says he is a perfect poet Last Line: That every lines smacks of his pefect taste Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PERHAPS, by GUSTAVE NADAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To horse! To horse! I mount with speed Last Line: Perhaps. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: PHILLIS AND CORIDON, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis kept sheep along the western plains Last Line: Phillis was lov'd, and she lik'd coridon. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (3), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is my love, for april is her face Last Line: The rock will wear washed with a winter's rain. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PERSONAL REASONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hair - short, long, stars, a bed Last Line: Or not so very much that very way — us. Subject(s): Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PHAEDRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay not thine hand upon me; let me go Last Line: Or off the knees of murder reaching it. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Women; Male-female Relations PHILIP - A FRAGMENT, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peggy, his sole domestic, slowly grew Last Line: Old peggy sent the manuscript to me. Subject(s): Household Employees; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA, SELS., by BETH FEIN Poem Source First Line: In the night a winged man comes to me Last Line: Paint our faces ember red %and howl Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights PHILOMELA: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is love once disgrac'd Last Line: Than lead a wanton life with shame. Variant Title(s): Chastity: An Ode Subject(s): Deception; Goddesses & Gods; Honesty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA: SONNET (ANSWER), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature foreeseing how men would devise Last Line: No more but one, and heart will never lose him. Variant Title(s): Philomela: Woman's Eyes; Answer Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations PHOSPHORESCENCE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: At the end of love, disaster Last Line: In shapes of peaceful spirits Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships PICTURES ON ENAMEL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When astraled was lying, like to die Last Line: Was gone beyond the hills upon his battle-steed. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PIED UNTIDY, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: This dappling's the devil's work we must undo %curse him! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!' Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations PISIDICE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of the lesbian king Last Line: To dreamless rest, pisidicê! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations PLACES I WOULD LIVE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Not paris. Not london Last Line: Like rebecca. Yes. Like that Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Travel POEM, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: I have a beard, smeared Last Line: From these glazed lips the taste %of some golden thing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights POEM 4, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: Irresponsible citizen Last Line: Your word's beautiful, citizen, honest among all the shit Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing POEM WITH CAPITAL LETTERS, by JANE MARVEL COOPER Poem Source First Line: John berryman asked me to write a poem about roosters Last Line: And even princeton struts like one god's betters? Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights POET PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL FROM HIS LOVE FOR DELIA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have denied a soul! They never loved Last Line: But sure with delia I exist a soul! Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Male-female Relations POETS AND PEACOCOKS, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Love hurts and sometimes there's cure for it Last Line: Feathers for peacocks, poetry for men? Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights POLICEMAN'S LOT, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, once I was a policeman young and merry Last Line: It's enough to make a copper turn to booze %(turn to booze) %patrolling the unconscious of ted hughe Subject(s): Gilbert, Sir William S. (1836-1911); Hughes, Ted (1930-1998); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights POMEGRANATE LIPS, by D. TRINIDAD HANKS Poem Source First Line: Lips like pomegranates Last Line: I had to 9-1-1 the law Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Pomegranates; Sex POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 7. SONG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille Last Line: No longer a bitter poem; no longer a poem that could continue! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marseilles, France; Nazis; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations; National Socialism PORPHYRIA'S REPLY, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Bobby, my love, you guessed not how Last Line: You too lie strangled in my hair Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PORTRAIT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: When rita fared along the village walk Last Line: Breaking a heart—or brightening a day. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations POST AND BEAM CONSTRUCTION, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: These familiar hills, bare in winter Last Line: In the silent winter nights, %I hardly heard them leave Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery PREMIERE LECON, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You moved on the platform with aesthetic grace, professeur Last Line: Do you know you are beautiful, michel? Subject(s): French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Male-female Relations; Students PRIESTESSES, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: The delicate unearthly music Last Line: Of conquest on a thousand fields. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Male-female Relations PRISMATIC LIGHTS, by AGUSTIN F. CUENCA Poem Source First Line: Below the west, that glows all ruddily Last Line: A crystal glass through which to read the skies Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning PRO FEMINA: ONE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From sappho to myself, consider the fate of women Last Line: Flux, efflorescence -- whatever you care to call it! Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; History; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: THREE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women. Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: TWO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take as my theme 'the independent women' Last Line: Springing, full-grown, from your own head, athena? Subject(s): Independence; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And know what I did well and what I did not fo. Amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion; Male-female Relations; Theology PROBLEM IN A MATH BOOK, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a problem in a math book Last Line: And what I did well and what I didn't amen Subject(s): Growth; Man-woman Relationships; Maturity; Religion PROCRASTINATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady wears a big bouquet Last Line: She grows more wasteful. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Materialism; Procrastination; Spendthrifts; Vanity; Male-female Relations PROFESSION, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Exhausted of rhetoric %and anger Last Line: Astringent as loving %that only music immutable Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights PROMISES: ON A FAMILIAR POEM BY ROBERT FROST, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What vows you made, I don't pretend to know Last Line: A few, or most, or some, before you slept Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PROMISING (A MAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, a new world, the sun-swart marinere Last Line: But -- ah, for present joy, give me one kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PROPAGATION, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If botanic roots are divided Last Line: Hold me – to hell with everything else Subject(s): Plants; Love; Man-woman Relationships PROPHETIC SPRING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today 'tis spring; the hawthorn tree Last Line: Each other, she and I. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Spring; Male-female Relations PROPOSAL TO ROBERT BURNS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Let's make a wedding time won't hook Last Line: You won't be asked to share your name Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PUBLIC JOURNAL, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem Last Line: And the american royalties, and an inherited income, %to keep the wolf at bay Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PUNCHLINE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Who can figure how we end up where Last Line: Have come alive, at last, stay with me tonight Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships QUALITY OF WINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wine is really awful Last Line: Let the dying be long. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Dead, The; Wine; Male-female Relations; Illness QUEEN MARY'S LETTER TO BOTHWELL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion Last Line: And his the victory who most shall venture. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations RAINY-DAY NOTES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rasping rain runs down the pane Last Line: Anon, some hint of rapture? Subject(s): Fate; Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Rain; Destiny; Male-female Relations READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (1911-2004)); Religion; Women's Rights; Reading; Male-female Relations; Theology; Feminism READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Last Line: The color blue was full of darkness, dreaming %in the wind and trees. I was reading you Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (b. 1911); Religion; Women's Rights REASON, MY DEAR MARIA, BRINGS US TO PROXIMITY, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: You've said, I'm afraid, if my devils leave me Last Line: See my secretary on the way out; your 50 minutes are up Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights RECOGNITION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: In some forgotten grove of france Last Line: When we two loved in france in guiltless guile. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations RECOURSE OF DRIFTING, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Year after year, somehow you never interrupted me Last Line: Washing up against me Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Sea; Tragedy RED WINE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour the red wine about! Last Line: Unto death. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Wine; Male-female Relations RED-HAIRED WAITRESS, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: I used to smile with more than teeth Last Line: Here's a threat you don't even know about Subject(s): Dugan, Alan (1923-2003); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights RENEWAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lake notice, cupid! Far too long Last Line: Swam in a mist of melted sighs. Subject(s): Aging; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RENUNCIATION, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I have lost you, my friend Last Line: Me! Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistres Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights REPLY TO A DREAM SONG, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Maybe them macho poets should not marry, man Last Line: Weren't all that keen on women, anyway Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights RESPONSE TO THOMAS GRAY BY HIS FAVOURITE CAT, SELIMA, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: It's not my fault the vase's side Last Line: Like off'ring me your favourite chair %I rest my case Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights RETURN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And after the threats, %time drowned Last Line: In the rosy texture %of the water's cheeks Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Togetherness REVERSING THE FIGURES, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maria, just at twenty, swore Last Line: As better far than none! Subject(s): Aging; Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RIPOSTE, by MARILYN HACKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, / when my next volume (granted: slender) Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism RIPOSTE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, %when my next volume (granted: slender) Last Line: And you might find an artists' colony %a perfectly respectable resort Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights RISING ABOVE THE EARTH, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: She walks sometines among the treetops Last Line: On a cloud that is floating in the word...' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Romance RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness 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 ROMANCE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were made of dew and light Last Line: O life! O woman! It is I! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Male-female Relations ROMANCE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know we made it up, like god Last Line: Throbs, aches. Nothing there %and still, the pain makes a shape Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women ROMANTICS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modern biographers worry Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897); Schumann. Clara (1819-1896); Male-female Relations ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships ROSE AYLMER'S COUSIN, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Ah, what avails the sceptered race Last Line: Till forced to stand in line Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights 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 ROSSETTI'S WIFE, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: He wants his poems, now: the ones he buried Last Line: He digs you up and grabs his verses back Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Women's Rights ROUNDELS, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish men, who accuse woman without reason Last Line: The world, the flesh and the devil! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused RUNAWAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are sparkles of rain on the bright Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RUNAWAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are sparkles of rain on the bright Last Line: Was a magnet to draw you always home Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SAME OLD SONNET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I would a moment of my time engage Last Line: That one can't fathom it with fourteen lines. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: What better option does delilah have Last Line: Of intertribal, unprotected sex? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights SAVED, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No tears for him! His light was not your light Last Line: Shine at the sunset with eternal light. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships SCENES FROM THE BATTLE OF US, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like a war novel, entirely lacking Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; War; Male-female Relations SEA, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Few think of its going on %when we are inland Last Line: Nearer and nearer the doors banging shut far beyond our farms Subject(s): Boats; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing; Sea SECRETS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Blonde charlotte's face is aquiline Last Line: "that rare coquette—""which?"" you must guess!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Polygamy; Secrets; Male-female Relations SEEN THROUGH A WINDOW, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and a woman are sitting at a table. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SENSE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Streetlights blur, elongated Last Line: An answer to your question mark: yes, yes Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships SERENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: From mountain heights fair echo calls Last Line: With song that aye should live. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SHE CAME TO ME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She came to me Last Line: And the past was lost in the radiant flame! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise; Male-female Relations SHE IS AWAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I lay awake beside you Last Line: Through all my flesh the blood of truth Variant Title(s): Marthe Away (she Is Away Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tried to hide me in darkness Last Line: Itself over and over. And over Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Absence; Longing SHELLEY'S DEATH, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Shelley set out that day Last Line: Spiraling, his understanding %consumed Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SHROPSHIRE LAD'S FIANCEE, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Since, as you most justly say Last Line: You talked to me the other day Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SHULE, SHULE, SHULE, AGRAH!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His face was glad as dawn to me Last Line: Shule, shule, shule, agrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Songs Of Ethlenn Stuart Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Male-female Relations SILHOUETTE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gallants, well a day! Last Line: In midmost love—in midmost may! Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; May (month); Male-female Relations SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL Poem Source First Line: Now I'm all alone again Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL'S WELL; ISLE OF SHOALS, 1790-1892, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maid margaret and I, Last Line: Sir william pepperrell's well. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Man-woman Relationships; Wells; Male-female Relations SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Last Line: But it works every time Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights SKIN HUNGER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: You hold me like you'd clutch Last Line: We lie in the simmering confusion %of wasps Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Skin SKIN OF IT, by PHYLLIS WITTE Poem Source First Line: She was black %I was white Last Line: How do we dare? Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SLEEP (A WOMAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep Last Line: Never to want, never to wish for thee! Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Bedtime SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night, wasted, I went back and climbed the fence Last Line: Of a newborn daughter. Subject(s): Divorce; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness SMALL QUARREL WITH T. S. ELIOT, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: If love is not the best of poems ever penned Last Line: Still, every kiss is our beginning and our end Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SNOW, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moon like an exhausted nickel Last Line: As television circles the globe %aerials strum the wind Subject(s): Cold; Man-woman Relationships; Snow; Winter 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 SO FAR OFF AND YET HERE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I know this is going to be painful Last Line: The nail of love just holds Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sex SO WHAT IF WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I smile to see them! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Smiles SOLITARY REAPER GETS HER WORDS' WORTH, by JEAN LEBLANC Poem Source First Line: Behold him, idle dandy there Last Line: Forever, as I am right now Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) SONG, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, my caelia, why so coy Last Line: Nor know a second spring. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Spinsters; Youth; Male-female Relations; Old Maids SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I took in my hand Last Line: Grows in weight Subject(s): Fate; Man-woman Relationships SONG, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark! 'tis a voice from the tomb Last Line: She hung on his tombstone and died. Variant Title(s): Song The Eighth Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONG THAT ONLY COULD BE SUNG ONCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Variable, changeable, yes, there are days when Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONG: FOR THEE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woes are there Last Line: For thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Songs SONG: THE COUTHIE AULD MAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' a blush an' a glint o' true luve frae her e'e Last Line: But they're aye just as sweet to the couthie auld man. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONGS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I said to my heart in a pet t'other day Last Line: And vows I shall never possess him again. Subject(s): Deception; Desire; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations SONGS OF CREATION, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is spring! Last Line: It has always seemed. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Spring; Male-female Relations SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that word regret! Last Line: My happier days are not the days when I forget. Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Regret; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Bedtime; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever. Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SONNET TO ARISTE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariste! Soon to sojourn with the crowd Last Line: Who only names to praise, who only speaks to please. Subject(s): Comfort; Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Parting; Male-female Relations SONNET TO PERCY IN ITALY, FROM ENGLAND, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I cannot come to your quaint italy Last Line: So do as your italians do, and cope Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SONNET: 31, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word Last Line: I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNET: 34, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find Last Line: Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Reason; Male-female Relations; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart! Last Line: And death must dig the level where these agree. Variant Title(s): Death And Love Subject(s): Death; Angels; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 31, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou comest! All is said without a word Last Line: Like callow birds left desert to the skies. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 33, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, call me by my pet name! Let me hear Last Line: With the same heart, will answer and not wait. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 34, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee Last Line: That no child's foot could run fast as this blood. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SOUR WINE, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: I met the wife who'd left me bed Last Line: And let it go at that. Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Last Line: Did not want to stop imagining Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing And Writers SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start Last Line: In blasts of time. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations STATIC, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Well, old flame, the fire's out Last Line: The blankets crackle with bright blue sparks Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Night STOMPING WITH CATALLUS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My love - my love says Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations STORIES, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: January thaw in the berkshires, 4 a.M., and what I want Last Line: As if this cleaving, this consciousness, this barn, %had somewhere to go Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sea Voyages; Travel STRANGE MEN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said, I am heaven, thou art earth Last Line: Now climbing through her bedroom window Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Men; Sex SUMMER FLOWERS, by WHITTIER W. WELLMAN Poem Text First Line: I have loved others better Last Line: I am content. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SUMMER IN THE CITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When he finished with her and the afternoon Last Line: His hands clean, smelling of soap and cigarettes Subject(s): Cities; Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Man-woman Relationships; Sex SUMMER'S JOE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He unlocked an apple first, then lifted the latch Last Line: With no again, a feast of no. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They've loosed the opposites who throng Last Line: Wrong number. He marked it in his book Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SWEET SHORT, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: If your sweetheart sleeps deeply Last Line: Full of catch, like a bucket drawn up a well Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships TAKING OFF MY CLOTHES, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take off my shirt, I show you. Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Human Body; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TANGLEWOOD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were trying to talk about love Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TARANTULA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drinking coffee with an olive-skinned woman Last Line: But the memory of the tarantula, its proximity, defeats me Subject(s): Insects; Man-woman Relationships; Spiders TEN YEARS, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TENANT FARMER'S WIFE, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It never fails, what breaks is what Last Line: In a place that's not my own Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Loss; Man-woman Relationships THAMAR AND AMNON, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The moon turns in the sky Last Line: And cut the strings of his harp Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape THAT GHASTLY NIGHT IN DOVER, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: The sea was calm, and sweet was the night air Last Line: Stuff about naked shingles and sophocles Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THAT GREEN NIGHT, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Even now, she could give him Last Line: If he had let go any sooner she would have flown beyond earth with those stars Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships THE ACTRESS AND THE RAT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear her feet overhead. As ever, at night Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Man-woman Relationships; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Male-female Relations; Stage Life THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations THE ANACREONTICS: 1., by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Hush! Those lips unclos'd, I hear Last Line: Which told how theban walls arose. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are walking in the woods along the coast Last Line: And then he wanders among strangers all he wants Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Apple Trees; Male-female Relations THE ASSIGNATION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said he would meet her but she saw him / not Last Line: And tongue-tied shame that mad excuses muttered. Subject(s): Affliction; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE AVENUE, by GEORGES BOUTELLEAU Poem Text First Line: Calm summer eves that once did hide Last Line: The kisses of their old desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Cognac Merchant; Novelist Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Maple Trees; Male-female Relations THE BEST NAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When writing verses, dear, to you Last Line: You bear, I still must call you mine. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Names; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations THE BEST OF THE BALL, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: At last! O, sensation delicious! Last Line: For ours is the best of the ball. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Man-woman Relationships; Talk; Male-female Relations THE BROKEN BOWL, by JESSIE D. M. MORTON Poem Text First Line: Whaur neidpath's wa's wi' pride look doon Last Line: "that's hoo the lassie brak the bowl!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CARELESS LAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The careless lad went through the wood Last Line: Who never looked behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Boys; Caregivers; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Youth; Male-female Relations; Illness THE CASTE WIFE SPEAKS TO THE ENIGMATIC PARABOLAS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two stone breakers in loincloths Last Line: For the rising cream that forms a golden brick of butter. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Social Classes; Water; Male-female Relations; Caste THE CATCH, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dress-box's plashing tis- Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All will be fused again, and all Last Line: If you come girl and I come boy! Subject(s): Luck; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHANGING VINE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be calm? And was I frantic? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHILD OF GOD, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: He's late again tonight Last Line: Can't you -- Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CIRCUS RINGMASTER'S APOLOGY TO GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is what we both knew in the sunlight of a restaurant's garden Last Line: Remember? You were glad that I did it once before! Subject(s): Circus; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE COBRA CAPELLO, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful - yes! For her basilisk eyes Last Line: She'd crumple it, too, like the innocent fan! Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Snakes; Male-female Relations; Serpents; Vipers THE DEATH OF GEOFFREY RUDEL, THE TROUBADOUR, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her wandering pilgrims, from the syrian shore Last Line: Bore his chaste spirit to the realms above. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Troubadours; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Minnesingers THE DEATH OF ROLLA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Marie then, smiling, looked into the glass Last Line: And for a moment two had tasted bliss. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Happiness; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Parting; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations 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 DESIRE AND THE LAMENTATION OF COEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, 'tis a good house, and a palace fair, the dun of macha Last Line: And the eyes of fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Lament; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DREAM HUNT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady rides a-hunting Last Line: My heart and makes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Hunting; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Hunters; 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 ESCAPE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another yard! Another foot! And then another inch! Last Line: Then melted in another way than girls are wont to melt. Subject(s): Escapes; Man-woman Relationships; Fugitives; Male-female Relations THE FORCE OF BEING SHE RELEASED IN HIM BEING, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And a cup of mint tea with honey Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships THE FROST, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The dawn - cold, pallid, half afraid, it seems Last Line: Shall we go in? For the new day is here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung? Last Line: Slain lies for wild beasts and vultures. Ha! For the sacrifice! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Islam; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sacrifices; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips THE HAND AS A BEING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first canto of the final canticle Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE ROOM, by WILLIAM MACQUORN RANKINE Poem Text First Line: I've always been told that I'm pretty Last Line: Of the handsomest man in the room. Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Male-female Relations THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God sometimes sends Last Line: Beneath the sod. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Humanity; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Male-female Relations THE HUMBLE WISH, by ARABELLA MORETON Poem Text First Line: I ask not wit, nor beauty do I crave Last Line: Give me a mind to suit my slavish state. Alternate Author Name(s): Morton, Bell Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE HUNTING OF DIAN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore Last Line: As far away I heard the cry her dim sea-lover gave. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Diana (goddess); Eden; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE IMMORALIST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Samaden, the julier, tiefenkasten -- the raw egg Last Line: Like the trench of a young couple crossing a lake. Subject(s): Honeymoons; Man-woman Relationships; Murder; Tuberculosis; Male-female Relations; Consumption (pathology) THE JILT, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let other feet go drudging Last Line: Patches of green on the gray old town. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE KISS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have captured a girl in the middle of tears Last Line: Doctor, midwife, and undertaker. Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations 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 LAD OF BEBSIDE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is away with the lad of bebside Last Line: I'll lie in the arms of the lad of bebside. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism THE LAST NIGHT OF ARTAN THE CULDEE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is but a little thing to sit here in silence and the dark Last Line: And I shall hear oona's voice as a sleeping seal hears the moving wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE LEAF-PICKING, by FREDERIC MISTRAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, magnarello, merrily Last Line: The two are now together. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LINK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour past hercules! With golden broom Last Line: Who by a stroke of genius thought of death! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Morning; Male-female Relations THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May I go to the field,' said the little white rabbit Last Line: So run, my little one, run.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Rabbits; Hunters; Male-female Relations; Hares THE LIVING VOICE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Her voice! Like a tone from a thread of gold Last Line: To the love of her love when the world was young! Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Voices; Male-female Relations THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring Last Line: Haunts me night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations THE LOST SEX, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What, still another woman false Last Line: One woman true, just one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fidelity; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with not connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE LOVE-CHANT OF CORMAC CONLINGAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the swan that is whiter, with breast Last Line: Eilidh, eilidh, o-rì, eilidh, eilidh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations THE LOVELY SHALL BE CHOOSERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice said, hunt her down Last Line: “trust us,” the voices said Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LOVER MUSES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She must not think of me as less Last Line: Where love, who's fond of honey, dwells. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LOVER SPEAKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear her bringing, while I pass Last Line: A paler sort of earth! Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LOVER'S POSY, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send a garland to my love Last Line: So must you too, haughty maid. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE MAGIC BOW, by CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: Her hair was blond as autumn wheat Last Line: Until its tresses touched her feet. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban! Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations THE MARRIAGE OF SOBEIDE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealthy merchant Last Line: [they lift up the body to carry it in.] Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That heat! / that terrible heat Last Line: Unfused / and unfusing Subject(s): Marriage; Man-woman Relationships; Love – Complaints; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MASTER-WOOER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw thy heart to-day Last Line: The rock shall yield herself to him for aye. Subject(s): Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Perseverance; Stones; Male-female Relations; Granite; Rocks THE MEETING OF SIGURD AND GERDA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, early love! O, early love! Last Line: And freely to forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations THE MOURNFUL TOURNAMENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shield and spear apace they ride Last Line: To slumber side by side. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Tournaments; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE MUTCHES, by WILLIAM ALLAN Poem Text First Line: I'm just like ither decent men, nae better nor nae waur, o Last Line: "o." Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE NEW WOMAN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Vulgarity, nor more nor less Last Line: She now affects his vices! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE NOVICE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE ORPHARION: THE SONG OF ARION, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seated upon the crooked dolphin's back Last Line: Fair women are rich jewels unto men. Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE PARTING OF SIGURD AND GERDA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: She stood beneath the moonlight pale Last Line: Won by thine earnest love. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations 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 POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth! Last Line: "you stupid puppy—you have spoil'd my wig!" Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4 Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces THE PRAYER OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit, that broods upon the hills Last Line: Cry, cry to thee, o compassionate! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Children; Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Salvation; Women; Childhood; Male-female Relations THE PRICE OF ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: He writes: 'in spite of summer's green Last Line: To court another! Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations THE PROJECT OF LINEAR INQUIRY, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: [let a be taken as . . .] Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE PROMENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady promenades the drive Last Line: And all the golden days thereafter? Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE RESERVOIR, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reservoir is trying to freeze over Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE RETURN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Helen softly stole to me just now Last Line: Helen died a year ago to-day. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Presence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt both pleasure and a shiver Last Line: We'd found by plunging into the wild river. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Pleasure; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Male-female Relations; Swimmers THE ROMANCE OF A GLOVE, by HENRY SAVILE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Here on my desk it lies Last Line: This my romance is. Subject(s): Gloves; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Romance; Mittens; Muffs; Male-female Relations THE ROSE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE ROSE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, mignonne, hath not the rose Variant Title(s): Ode Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE SAILOR'S RETURN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her as she went Last Line: Because so well I love her. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations THE SEATON TERRACE LASS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love at seaton terrace dwells Last Line: The seaton terrace lass. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SHADOWS AT BOXFORD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the white powder cauliflower of still distant moons Last Line: Filling with rain. Subject(s): Aliens; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Extraterrestrials; Male-female Relations THE SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loved me, as he said, in every part Last Line: —nay, vain, vain words: how shall he understand? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Belief; Creed; Male-female Relations THE SHEPHERD, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the palace of the king Last Line: "sweet shepherd, fare thee well." Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations THE SILVER SWAN: MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour before sunrise Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity; Male-female Relations; Nakedness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 1, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O for the golden morn of old romance Last Line: Breathe your sweet plainings on this ancient lay! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The knight hath ta'en her stilly hand in his Last Line: On silken couch she stays her trembling knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE SONG OF THOMAS THE RHYMER, by MARJORIE CHARLES DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: You have taken the sun and the stars from heaven Last Line: That you have taken my god from me! Subject(s): God; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.] Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations 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 SUBVERTED FLOWER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She drew back; he was calm: Last Line: And drew her backward home Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Flowers; Male-female Relations THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE THIEF, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it when your man sits on the floor Last Line: Into this other world he cannot build without you. Subject(s): Ambition; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation; Male-female Relations THE TREMOLO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I have seen her to-night in a vision Last Line: I doubt, in distress. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE TRICKY TUNE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house was built back from the road Last Line: "jest, 'mooncalf, dolt an' fool!'" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pretty ladies, mid this christmas cheer Last Line: As you shall hear who listen to my tale. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Harps; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Musical Instruments; Story-telling; Lyres; Male-female Relations THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 1. TRAGEDY MARGAIDA AND TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet margarida, dreaming in her bower Last Line: The hound's sleek head that on his knee did rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Tragedy; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THE TWO FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Helen wore it in her hair Last Line: No little flower so holy anywhere! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE UNSLEEPNG GENIUS OF MISFORTUNE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever there was a story Subject(s): Insomnia; Man-woman Relationships; Sleeplessness; Male-female Relations THE WANDERER'S RETURN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing Last Line: "and mine is weary at the break of day." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Male-female Relations; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 1, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write in rage against my sex Last Line: You go home Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE WHITE FEET OF ATTHIS, by HENRY ANDERSON LAFLER Poem Text First Line: Then atthis to her lover-poet said Last Line: Her cold, sweet finger-tips. Subject(s): Feet; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations THE WIFE'S TREASURE, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sidon lived a husband with his wife Last Line: "now thou art mine, and I will treasure thee!" Subject(s): Jews; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations THE WISE WOMAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes grow hot, his words grow wild Last Line: Who understands him. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOMAN AT HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please note this little fact, I beg: it is the Last Line: Softly smiles, for she's content with a reflected glory. Subject(s): Housewives; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOMAN IN THE ROOM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stands at the foot my bed and starts to speak Subject(s): Dreams; Silence; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE WOMAN'S WAY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are things, I know, that are sad and Last Line: A woman remembers, a man -- forgets! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THEN, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glow of mahogany, glow of those pulsing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Transience; Male-female Relations; Impermanence THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Last Line: Spring's flesh in my hands Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Last Line: A cynical, levantine prayer Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation THINGS I MAY NOT SAY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years now this %what intelligences will you Last Line: Nothing to what's buried in you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships THINGS WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PICNIC, by LILA L. ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: 1. Who conceived the idea of the picnic, and by whom? Last Line: 19. Who forgot the sun? %20 Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Picnics THINK ON EMPIRES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Many's the man who's fitted to lead Last Line: The future shall make! Subject(s): Future; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are two old birds Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age THIRST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Your mouth as necessary on mine as rain on the desert Last Line: When you hurt me %I won't let it show Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide THIS COUPLE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is when we love to sit before mirrors Last Line: On a mexican station, wondering for the life of us, %where are we going and when would we meet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships THIS IS JUST TO SAY, by ERICA-LYNN GAMBINO Poem Source First Line: I have just %asked you to Last Line: Driving %me insane Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now. Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THISTLE AND NETTLE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a night, with sleet and snow Last Line: "to shelter till the day they die." Subject(s): Flirtation; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THOMAS HARDY, UNDER GLASS, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What count of pebbles fits into an urn? Last Line: Through which man dreams and ultimately hopes Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THOUGHTS OF THE WOMAN MUCH MISSED, by MARGARET KAY Poem Source First Line: No, husband, that was not me calling you, calling you Last Line: Beneath the daisies now, quite silently Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THREE-PART INVENTION FOR CELAN, by PATRICIA WILCOX Poem Source First Line: Put out two teacups Last Line: Has the scent of violets %been this potent Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Subject(s): Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (1926-2009); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Last Line: See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down %while his sensible daddy goes straight into town Subject(s): God; Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Religion; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (b. 1926); Women's Rights TO A GENTILWOMAN, by O. R. Poem Text First Line: Some women fayne that paris was Last Line: Then men forsooth must bear the blame. Subject(s): Fidelity; Helen Of Troy; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Paris (mythology); Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations TO A WREN ON CALVARY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the unremarkable that will last, Subject(s): Wrens; Death - Animals; Man-woman Relationships; Jesus Christ; Male-female Relations TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Were you desiring good and fair Last Line: But you had pled your plea outright Subject(s): Alcaeus (6th-7th Century B.c.); Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights TO AN UNNAMED LADY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: When there are others by, in vain I dream Last Line: For here th' eternal mysteries abide! Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations TO CATULLUS -- HIGHET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lover says he'd want to lie with none Last Line: Write it on thin air, read on the run Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Highet, Gilbert (1906-1978); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TO CELIA (WHO REFUSES TO BE DRAWN INTO AN ARGUMENT), by E. H. LACON WATSON Poem Text First Line: Dear, if you carelessly agree Last Line: Dear, if you care! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements TO DONNE RHYMING, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Busy young fool, unruly donne Last Line: (the afternoon might be a better time) Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights TO EDGAR, FROM HELEN, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Edgar, your verses are to me Last Line: Let both be banned! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights TO FUZZY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was standing outside this cocktail bar, see. On the nile Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TO HIS IMPORTUNATE MISTRESS, by PAUL GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: Were there no limits to my lust Last Line: Though now for women's rights you weep, %grant me one male right - to sleep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets TO LAURE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Laure, when I look on thee Last Line: And still its sovran art. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Redemption; Salvation; Male-female Relations TO MALLARME, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: The lamp %the blank paper Last Line: Have no answer %your mistress indifference Subject(s): Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TO MARTHA, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Mr. Best, you're very bad Last Line: Oh! Wicked mr. Best Subject(s): Disappointment; Man-woman Relationships TO MICHEL, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: Before I found you, michel Last Line: My life is filled—with pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TO MISS -; CHARADE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings Last Line: May its approval beam in that soft eye! Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships TO MR. POE, FROM HIS BEAUTIFUL ANNABEL LEE, by GRAY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: My dear mr. Poe, you silly twit, to sleep so by the sea! Last Line: Nut I guess I was always a roll in the sepulchre %signed, beautiful annabel lee Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights TO PHYLOCLES, INVITING HIM TO FRIENDSHIP, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Best of thy sex! If sacred friendship can Last Line: T' its native purity we will refine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TO R.D., MARCH 4TH 1988, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were my mentor. Without knowing it, Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Death; Nightmares; Male-female Relations; Dead, The TO RABBIE, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: O rabbie, at her window see Last Line: The stood-up mary morison! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a maid - I am afraid Last Line: My rhymes are filled with u. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Violets; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations TO YEVTUSHENKO, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: My dove-gray brother %behaving as poets are supposed to behave Last Line: A resilience almost feminine Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (b. 1933) TOO PROUD TO PRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: She was too proud to pray Last Line: What a prayer. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Pride; Male-female Relations; Self-esteem; Self-respect TOTEM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: How he tried to steal my words Last Line: A foaming stripped tiger becomes my totem Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fights; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have broken my wings Last Line: If I escape your evil heart. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What had you done Last Line: That I am wise. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had been a boy Last Line: Intolerably cold and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Admiration; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SQUINANCY-WORT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I done? Last Line: Perhaps in his infinite mercy god will remove this man! Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Sin; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not by running out of yourself after it comes the love Last Line: Two voices added to the eternal choir. Subject(s): Freedom; Man-woman Relationships; Liberty; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. FROM CAVERNS DARK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, a hundred and a thousand lives Last Line: Lord of the world from caverns dark within thee. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN AN OLD QUARRY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in an old quarry Last Line: One sentence of thy great world-wisdom out Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Male-female Relations; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. O CHILD OF URANUS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of uranus, wanderer down all times Last Line: Thy form in glory clad shall reappear. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Eve; Male-female Relations TRIOLET: 2. WHAT SHE THOUGHT, by HARRISON ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: To kiss a fan! Last Line: What a poky poet! Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H. Subject(s): Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations TRIOLETS OF DISCRETION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She drew her little hand away Last Line: "I thought so, too, but did n't ""call." Subject(s): Discretion; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TRITAMERON: THE DESCRIPTION OF SILVESTRO'S LADY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her stature like the tall straight cedar-trees Last Line: To show what nature's lineage could afford. Variant Title(s): Silvestro's Lady-love Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Appearances; Male-female Relations TRUE NORTH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Years go. I drive the miles to where you wait for me Last Line: Is for the moment far enough away and sleeping Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Saint Kilda (scotland) TRUTH, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Permit me, madame, to declare Last Line: To flatter them, I'd have you know. Subject(s): Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Truth; Male-female Relations TUMPS, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ask him the time of day. He won't know it Last Line: We're not like the tumps. Not at all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TWENTY DAYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty days are barely gone Last Line: Other twenty days like these. Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations TWENTY QUESTIONS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did the moth fly into the flame? Was it for the same reason Subject(s): Middle Age; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations TWO BODIES, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two bodies, balanced in mass and power, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conception; Male-female Relations TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO WOMEN: OR A CCONVERSATION WITH SAHARA NILE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TYGER'S REPLY TO BLAKE, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Meagre, meagre, little man Last Line: Dares speculate how I began! Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights UNA JEFFERS TO HER HUSBAND, ROBINSON, by BARBARA BRENT BROWER Poem Source First Line: All those rocks piled up Last Line: And then your inhumanness %becomes superbly human Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights UNSPOKEN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a straight-laid, bordered path Last Line: Thus the silence tells the agony and pain. Subject(s): Home; Man-woman Relationships; Peace; Silence; Sleep; Male-female Relations VACANCY, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Faceless, I chase you Last Line: I am about to become Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage VARIATION ON BELLOC'S 'FATIGUE', by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly ever tire of love or rhyme Last Line: That's why I'm poor and have a rotten time Subject(s): Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights VASES OF WOMBS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: For a long time, %I've thought about this body of mine Last Line: I'm melted into earth and planted as a garden Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Women VELVET DUETS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: A couple seeks a corner table in a restaurant where they may dine unobserved Last Line: Faces aglow as they enter the night air from the sill Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Man-woman Relationships; Sex VERSES ADDRESSED TO IMITATOR OF FIRST SATIRE OF HORACE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In two large columns, on thy motley page Last Line: Wander like him, accursed through the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Variant Title(s): A Reply To Alexander Pope Subject(s): Hate; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism VERY LATE, BUT NOT TOO LATE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the last one to leave the party. I Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Beginnings; Male-female Relations VIETNAM, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: You become pen pals with a comvict Last Line: Should have fought world war ii %and we should have gone to vietnam Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIEWS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being in rome I wonder will you go Last Line: When I may be your I, your rome my rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Rome, Italy; Male-female Relations VILLANCICO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "three dark maids, I loved them when" Last Line: "axa, fatima, marien" Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations VISIT, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: We lay in your mother's bed Last Line: I kept you from danger a few minutes longer Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sex VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations VOLKSWISE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor girl sat by a tower of the sea Last Line: "just a token, just a glimmer of his ship's lant ... Horn?" Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Waiting; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails WAGES OF LOVE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The house is watched, the watchers only planets Last Line: They enter in, tell their side, and pass through Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships WAIT FOR ME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Give a man his Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WALKING A LOBSTER WITH BLAKE ALONG SPEEDWAY, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Goldbarth says, two hundred years earlier, blake wrote Last Line: I heard it was a langouste, but what matter %the man was unbalanced Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WALKING THROUGH A CORNFIELD IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER, I STUMBLE ..., by BARBARA HARR Poem Source First Line: Blue toads are dying all over minnesota Last Line: Blazing into magazines under my feet Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WALT WHITMAN ENCOUNTERS THE COSMOS WITH THE CATS OF NEW YORK, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: The cats of morning awaken, sultry and feral Last Line: Because my people are watching Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 1, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write in rage against my sex Last Line: And never wanted %anything but a little female comfort Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 2, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contents of one day's mail. Amnesty international Last Line: Do you know, my innocent friend %as I pour you a cup of tea %sometimes I want to kill you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 3, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please, you say Last Line: In on me, sneering, we can't afford a bigger %apartment, she used to want me Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 4, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The state of the union Last Line: Lost one third of its crown %survives but is %not beautiful to look at Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 5, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me Last Line: You are crying %I like to see men cry Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 6, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I run my mind over a handful of names Last Line: I get tired of this pulpy body. %I get damned tired of telling people %what they already know Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 7, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you feel on the border: an ounce more effort Last Line: Eat your cookie, drink your tea. %you falsely think I mean to comfort you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 8, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaps of broken stones weathering slowly, a mountain Last Line: A yellow bar of sunlight, in which gray motes %are flying, touches his cage Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WAR OF MEN AND WOMEN: 9, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worst of it is that we hear the dead Last Line: There is my crippled self, who wipes the crumbs %into a garbabe bag, %hands you your jacket back, le Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WARM KEYS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: A lost love leaps from the fire of my brow Last Line: And it sings an ancient lullaby %audible only to the trees Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships WARNING, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as you never marry me, and I never marry you Last Line: To know that I never can marry you, and you never can marry me! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WARRIOR, by SUSANNE DUBROFF Poem Source First Line: They are not merely philologists; they Last Line: And of course, in a moment %he was gone Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 5, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No water. Dry rocks and dry throats Last Line: I hope you'll make sense of the notes Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WATCHING THE COMPLEX TRAIN-TRACK CHANGES, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You put on an ornate ballgown Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WE MET BY CHANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: We met by chance! Yes, I recall Last Line: We met by chance! Subject(s): Chance; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WE MUST MAKE A KINGDOM OF IT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that a colony will breed here Last Line: The gravedigger's shoulder. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WEATHER, by CECILIA WOLOCH Poem Source First Line: There is this thread which is really nothing Last Line: You can't move forward, %some death has your heart Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women WEIGHING LIGHT, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Often the slightest gesture is most telling Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conversation; Male-female Relations WHAT BLIGHT, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: What blight is this eating into my desire Last Line: To know what lies in my far sight Subject(s): Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought WHAT I HEARD, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You have bid me speak Last Line: Oh, you'd be surprised what I heard Subject(s): Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WHAT IS A SYMBOL?, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird is flying north across the white sky Last Line: Sit down Subject(s): Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pregnancy; Women WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE FOR CERTAIN WIVES TO READ THEIR WELL-KNOWN HUSBAN, by YVETTE CARBEAUX Poem Source First Line: A man lusts after his wife's young cousin Last Line: Any raw material that good Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WHAT LOVE DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fused together, after years %and years of it, mostly the two legs Last Line: Rough arms and straining legs of the other Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Quarrels; Tears WHEN I TOUCHED HER LONG FEET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I quit eating Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Women WHEN I WATCHED HER HANDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I gave up everything I owned Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Nature WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHERE WE THINK WE LIVE, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent house %he left her, the cat and I Last Line: Trembling tissues, in this cold rain Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude WHILE TRYING TO RIVAL YOUR HAIR, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Into dirt, into smoke, into dust, into darkness, into nothingness Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships WHO'S ON FIRST, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can be so inconsiderate.' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WHOSO LIST TO HUNT, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: I will not live for you and so I die Last Line: Draw closer in, a noose of yellow eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) WIFE OF THE MAN OF MANY WILES, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove Last Line: That never arrived. Kill all the damn suitors %if you think it will make you feel better Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights WILD HEART; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where would I be if not for your wild heart? Last Line: How could I live? How could I make my art? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations WILD OATS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About twenty years ago Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Disappointment; Time; Male-female Relations WINDOW BLIND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You keep the blind of our north window drawn Last Line: From clarity there, unseen, unfaltering, and true. Subject(s): Light; Man-woman Relationships; Windows; Male-female Relations WINNING THE PRIZE, by PENNY CAGAN Poem Full Text First Line: There he is one morning when I open my door Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism WINNING THE PRIZE, by PENNY CAGAN Poem Source First Line: There he is one morning when I open my door Last Line: A soft voice in the ear asking what it would be like Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WOMAN AMID DREAMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Woman maddened by dreams Last Line: The fingertips of my heart Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN RESTING ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON, by MARTHA MODENA VERTREACE Poem Source First Line: At first, the simple astonishment of engines Last Line: I realize that I have known you forever Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE'S IN LOVE WITH MY HUSBAND, by AMBER COVERDALE SUMRALL Poem Source First Line: She whispers %into the black Last Line: What I'm missing Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women WOMAN WITH TONGUE SCULPTED IN CREEK, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: There are no rules for sadness Last Line: And rest his crucified body %in my soft and tired lap Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships; Sex WOMAN'S JEWELRY, by A. F. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The woman in line at the coffee shop Last Line: At once a way in or a way out Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN'S SHADOW, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: What you implanted in my marrow I translate into a language Last Line: I know my home will be there, where you mark off the wild garden Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women WOMEN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: If you take them to the ball game Last Line: The contradictory fish! Subject(s): Baseball; Contrariness; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Women; Male-female Relations WOMEN AND WOMEN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: All women cry to men; for some cry 'give!' Last Line: And from their dust the flower of manhood springs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WOMEN AT FORTY, by KATHLEEN BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Women at forty %have learned to open Last Line: Raising no hope %of a miraculous return Subject(s): Justice, Donald (b. 1925); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WOMEN WHO SEW LIVERY, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: When night falls %the women who sew livery Last Line: And he goes off sad and alone %to phantom dinners Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships WORD FROM MRS. WALLACE STEVENS, by SIMA RABINOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Nothing grotesque or accidental as the day begins Last Line: And an eager needle plucked the plump white flesh of my thumb Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights WORDS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wallace stevens says Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WOULD BE MORE THAN KIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady is most fair and kind Last Line: I cannot bear to be your brother! Subject(s): Beauty; Brothers And Sisters; Incest; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements YEARS AFTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The years upon you lightly lie Last Line: And that, of course, is why I save them! Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations YOU, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes in our sleep we touch Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You are something exquisite, michel Last Line: Pagan gaze. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU ARE A MEDITERRANEAN, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Nerves can't reach %passion that spills on floorboards Last Line: And rock it to sleep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Night; Passion YOU INTERFERING LADIES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You interfering ladies, you Last Line: Enjoy a pinch of snuff, and sneeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU NOW HOLDING THIS BOOK IN HAND, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man kissed her hand. Little earrings. They're about Last Line: Confederate flag. She kisses the man on his cheek. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOUNG MUSE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: My ears, no, more precisely, my capillaries and body are tuned Last Line: The name, a new source, which opens the doors to the houses of strangers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Muses ZALINKA, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night in a land of triangles Last Line: Slept with her hands in my hair. Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Male-female Relations ZARA'S EAR-RINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My ear-rings! My ear-rings! They've dropped into the well Last Line: "and that deep his love lies in my heart, as they lie in the well!" Subject(s): Earrings;hearts;love;man-woman Relationships;truth; Male-female Relations |
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