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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MASKS Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MASK FOR LYDIA, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet lydia, take this mask, and shroud Last Line: Still such an ethiop be. Subject(s): Masks A MASK ON A RING, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forster! You who never wore Last Line: This, and wear it for my sake. Subject(s): Masks; Ugliness AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 3. DISGUISES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know you under this disguise Last Line: I am degraded by my memories. Subject(s): Masks AZTEC MASK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted a man's face looking into the jaws and throat Last Line: Proud-eyed gambler. Subject(s): Aztecs; Masks CLOTHES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stranger looks at his clothes on the floor Last Line: Go to your head Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Ireland; Masks; Nudity; Strangers EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say the year is the year of the phoenix Last Line: Creates the image in which the world is Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Fantasy; Masks; Shadows EN MASQUE, by IO SLOAN THERME Poem Text First Line: Behind each mask there is a story Last Line: But tattered pride replaces. Subject(s): Masks EPILOGUE FOR A MASQUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little time they lived again, and lo! Last Line: Shall shape our pilgrimage into a rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Masks; Time; Dead, The GOETHE'S DEATH MASK, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face is quite smooth Last Line: And eaten into. What a mess his eyes are Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Death; Masks MASK, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: How intently it looks down at me Last Line: Laughter %an evil, negative joy Subject(s): Masks MASK, by SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO Poem Source First Line: He enjoyed making masks Last Line: The mask has no right to become human Subject(s): Masks MASKS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black tragedy lets slip her grim disguise Last Line: [or, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!] Subject(s): Masks MASKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain friend of mine, whose daily praise Last Line: Whose common title with the world was saint. Subject(s): Hate; Life; Masks; Sin; Soul MASKS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: It's our pure abandon you covet: to don the false Last Line: We are your disembodied selves Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Masks; Secrets; Supernatural MASKS, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: Like surly magicians, %girls waiting for the late bus Last Line: With the blue-gold dust %of glitter-laced powder Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Masks; Women MASQUERADE, by F. LOUISE COOK Poem Text First Line: I hardly know myself all day Last Line: I wear a silver mask by day. Subject(s): Masks; Self MOOD SONNET: 10, by JUDITH TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Let's take our cues from shiny black japanese dishes Subject(s): Masks ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KNAVE OF BERGEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusseldorf castle on the rhine Last Line: Though now they all underground are! Subject(s): Faces; Masks; Night; Rhine (river), Europe; Bedtime SHE DRIED HER TEARS, AND THEY DID SMILE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Smiles; Tears; Masks THE ASS CLOTHED IN THE LION'S SKIN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fear fled before a wily ass that clad Last Line: The only witness of their valiance. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Duplicity; Fables; Masks; Mules; Deceit; Allegories THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#23), by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man thinks himself exposed, he puts on a mask Last Line: The dead man's first mask was a hand over his mouth Subject(s): Death; Masks THE FOGGY, FOGGY BLUE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young man, I loved to write poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Aging; Truth; Masks THE MASK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I complained of april's day Last Line: And showed the world her laughing eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Masks THE MASK, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am as some frail harlot whose pale face Last Line: The leprous growth of my immense despair. Subject(s): Despair; Faces; Masks; Secrets THE MASK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put off that mask of burning gold Last Line: In you, in me?' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): A Lyric From An Unpublished Play Subject(s): Masks THE ROLE OF ELEGY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Masks; Tragedy THE SONG OF THE MASK, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: In primal years through infancy of man Last Line: Than the mask removed from his naked soul. Subject(s): Masks; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THREE NIGHT SONGS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mask riddles itself Last Line: A music comes to the point of horror. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Masks; Night; Bedtime UNMASKED, by FRANCES MARVEL GNASS Poem Text First Line: Yesterday you removed your mask Last Line: You wear your mask once more. Subject(s): Kisses; Masks |
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