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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARTIES Matches Found: 139 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1/1/1973, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Good morning, sun! %good morning, new year! Last Line: All you, party members, %good morning from the bottom of my heart! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties; Poetry And Poets A BABY AT THE PARTY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found one night, when I awoke Last Line: I cried the louder for my bed. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Parties; Infants; Childhood A BALLADE OF THE PROM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "full of graciousness, full of grace" Last Line: Modest maid of the violet! Subject(s): Parties;proms;yale University A BANQUET SONG, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, fill the banquet cup Last Line: Ere it passes! Subject(s): Parties A BIRTHDAY SONG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out and away, my song Last Line: Out and away! Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Parties; Joy; Delight A COLLEGE BREAKFAST-PARTY, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young hamlet, not the hesitating dane Last Line: And leave the soul in wider emptiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): College Sports; Food & Eating; Parties; Philosophy & Philosophers; Shakespeare - Hamlet A LETTER TO MARY, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Unto the white narcissus that you sent Last Line: Refuse the door to death lest you slip through. Subject(s): Christmas; Parties; Nativity, The A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will get a new string for my fiddle Last Line: And gurgoyles that mouthed to the tune. Subject(s): Parties A PARTIE CARREE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boys, 'tis little I care to dine Last Line: Give me a hearty partie carrée. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Parties A PARTY, by NANCY ELLEN FINCH Poem Text First Line: The lady night will entertain Last Line: To shine their dullish noses. Subject(s): Night; Parties; Stars; Bedtime ADVENTURE, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: I had tea with a dragon Last Line: In the pages of books Subject(s): Parties AFTER READING AUSTIN DOBSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In a crowded room I seemed to stand Last Line: "to find it closed, and ended the song / whose gay, glad cadence lived on in my heart" Subject(s): "books;dobson, Austin (1840-1921);parties;solitude;" Reading;loneliness AFTER THE SOIREE, by F. R. D. B. Poem Text First Line: I beside the blue-gate lying Last Line: After the soiree. Subject(s): Parties; Universities & Colleges ALL SOULS DAY, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: The colonial cemetery wears Last Line: Is pacified by tearful sex Subject(s): Festivals; Parties; Peru AMERICAN CRECHE, by SHARON L. MCCAMY Poem Source First Line: If I were an artist, I would draw this poem Last Line: Who don't care but want to leave and have a party %any party, even mine Subject(s): Parties; United States AN EXTEMPORE INVITATION, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, / our weekly friends to-morrow meet Last Line: Though dorset used to bless the roof. Subject(s): England; Parties; English ANOTHER ALL-NIGHT PARTY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another all-night party is over Last Line: And hit the balcony for a drink Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Parties AT A PARTY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot and crowded room Last Line: I was aware of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Parties AT THE BARRIERS (DORE ALLEY FAIR); IN MEMORY - ROBERT DUNCAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fog burns off and the crowd mingles promiscuously Last Line: We play, at the barriers, the masque of difference and likeness Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Duncan, Robert (1919-1988); Homosexuality; Love; Parties AT THE PARTY, by ROBERT ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Ralph has just bought himself a new pair of red sneakers Last Line: Air is still warm and, falling asleep, he can smell the catalpa flowers Subject(s): Parties; Trumpets AT THE PARTY, by KATE LYN HIBBARD Poem Source First Line: You can't figure out what to do with your hands Last Line: The covers until the bindings crack, the spines break Subject(s): Parties BALLROOM DARK, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With heavy eyelids I am still in love Last Line: And my lust for the girl at the next table Subject(s): Beauty; Parties BARON RENFREW'S BALL, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a grand display was the prince's ball Last Line: By his highness, the prince of wales. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Parties BEGINNING AND END, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Every june her family retreated from brooklyn to southampton, where Last Line: Miss murray's picture and name done in lights Subject(s): Fireworks; Memory; Parties BETWEEN TWO WARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BETWEEN TWO WARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Last Line: Over their own fragmented flesh Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BIRTHDAY PARTY, by KAREN DALE Poem Source First Line: Complications, months of setbacks. I never feel well enough or happy Last Line: Her head. They have been here all morning. She is dying of cancer Subject(s): Birthdays; Parties; Poetry And Poets BREAKING CAMP, by AMY LEMMON Poem Source First Line: For two whole years, we shared a home Last Line: To cauterize, that I could somehow force you %to tidy up the mess we'd made of us Subject(s): Parties BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their old, pale green pontiac cleaned up Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Parties CASUALTIES: 26. PARTY SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here we mill drinking by midnight Last Line: Like lights over lagos Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Parties; Singing And Singers CHINESE LANTERNS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Peppers and onions piled in the sink Last Line: Cutting to the quick, easy way home Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Food And Eating; Guests; Parties; Picnics CLOSING CEREMONIES, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The band leaps into louie louie, and participants Last Line: Hurts my eyes. A yawn sneaks up. Christ, what a week! % let it be dark, I say, turn out the light, Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Parties; Singing And Singers; Sleep CLOSING TIME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight, flaking down like chromium Last Line: Who cartwheel out of sight, end over end Subject(s): Night; Parties; Bedtime COGNAC, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each summer I would coddle a bottle of cognac Last Line: Future still flush with desire Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Friendship; Liquorice; Parties; Reunions COZY, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: There's a lot to be said Last Line: Tea and blankets are bliss Subject(s): Parties CRAWLING OUT AT PARTIES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old reptile loves the scotch Last Line: The stagnant, sobering water. Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Parties; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DARKEST HALF-HOUR, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are ready for their party Last Line: Indeed, some say the best since the one at which a horse was named consul by the late emperor heliog Subject(s): Parties DELICIOUS, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: The air's a whiff of minty tea Last Line: This day is good enough to eat Subject(s): Parties DISCOVERY, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: The kettle is boiling Last Line: Is not a safe house Subject(s): Parties DONNA REED PARTY, by JENNY MUELLER Poem Source First Line: We came upon a head hanging Last Line: Arranges. Sweets %for the sugar-mad Subject(s): Parties ELEGY FOR A YOUNG HOSTESS, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM Poem Text First Line: The cocktail party is over: the broken tumblers Last Line: Avoiding each other's eyes in the quiet hallway. Subject(s): Parties EVENTIDE, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The posters shout, their gorgeous motley blares Last Line: Oh, cover thy pale feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Parties FERDINANDO AND ELVIRA, OR THE GENTLE PIEMAN, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper Last Line: And elvira to her ferdinand's irrevocably mated! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Love; Parties FRIDAY MIXER, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel hill rotary invited me twice Last Line: The duchess who sailed days across a flat world Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Parties FRIDAY MIXER, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chapel hill rotary invited me twice Last Line: The duchess who sailed days across a flat world Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Parties FROM THE LONG SAD PARTY, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Someone was saying Subject(s): Parties GETTING READY, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: I gather tulips, daffodils Last Line: Then hang the sign on my front gate %tea party today! Subject(s): Parties GRADUATION PARTY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: It embarrassed simon to walk Last Line: Molest him with an ashtray Subject(s): Commencement; Parties GRANDMOTHER POEM #5: GOING TO THE PROM, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: In the spring of '43 you went Last Line: The day before your birthday on dec. 16 %daddy died Subject(s): Death; Parties; Proms; Spring GREEN BEER, by JAMES J. MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: On saint paddy's day, the jukebox plays Last Line: The raven tearing at his eye Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Beer; Drinks And Drinking; Holidays; Parties; St. Patrick's Day HEAVEN, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Under the yellow tent, the dead drink Last Line: Going out one by one Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Parties HOW CAME THE HOLLY BERRIES RED?, by CHARLES W. E. CHAPIN JR. Poem Text First Line: Twas long ago, the legends say Last Line: The holly grew. Subject(s): Holly; Parties IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: In my father's house, for as long as I remember, beer Last Line: It's hot. I helped myself to what I knew would not be offered, %in my father's house Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Holidays; New Year; Parties IN SIMON; CATERER FOR FASHIONABLE SUPPER-PARTIES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear simon! Prince of pastry-cooks Last Line: And bid them twine your bust with roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; New York City - 19th Century; Parties; Statues INVITATION, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Behind the king's roses Last Line: Come join in the fun Subject(s): Parties INVITATION SAYS FROM FIVE TO SEVEN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing like an endless party Last Line: And the best way to give a party %is leave town the night before Subject(s): Parties KEY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were guests in the house of a multimillionaire and we were Last Line: What you will dig out, but that masochistic operation will bring %you relief Subject(s): Dreams; Guests; Parties KITCHEN MUSIC, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Pots clank. %glasses clink Last Line: Best of all- %kettle sings Subject(s): Parties LAKESIDE, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: The water's blue Last Line: With sunlight dancing %on my face Subject(s): Parties LARRY NOOLAN'S NEW YEAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be-gorrie, al wor sorry Last Line: When the ould year died. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties LAST VISIT TO THE SWIMMING POOL SOVIETS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lives in the woods Last Line: Keep off my bandwagon you sow! Subject(s): Parties; Superficiality; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes LAST VISIT TO THE SWIMMING POOL SOVIETS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lives in the woods Last Line: Keep off my bandwagon you sow! Subject(s): Parties; Superficiality; Wealth LEAVING, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we left the garden-party Subject(s): Parties LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY PARODIED IN THE 18TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither frolics and delights Last Line: Let angels have the rest. Subject(s): England; Parties; Poetry & Poets; English LITTLE CLOTILDA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Little clotilda / well and hearty Last Line: But her own canary Subject(s): Parties LOUISE SIGHS, SUCH A LONG WINTER, THIS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone basin, stone breath, stone bric-a-brac Subject(s): Parties; Winter LOUISE SIGHS, SUCH A LONG WINTER, THIS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone basin, stone breath, stone bric-a-brac Last Line: The five fluid ounce flask has gone missing Subject(s): Parties; Winter MARKET DAY, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: The beekeeper's daughter %is charming and fair Last Line: For cakes and tea Subject(s): Parties MAY MOON, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The may moon Last Line: --one thrush, a little lark, that's better-- %and violins. Bring up some more small rivers! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Friendship; Guests; Music And Musicians; Parties MISS NOBODY'S CHRISTMAS DINNER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One might travel this wide world over & over Last Line: An emblem too true of this make-believe world. Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Guests; Hospitality; Parties; Nativity, The; Visiting MRS. CHOATE'S HOUSE-WARMING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of rights and of wrongs Last Line: Of brave independence! Subject(s): Household Employees; Parties; Servants; Domestics; Maids NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not that they bring us labour, pain, and care Last Line: Friendships, achievements, deeds, a beckoning host. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year; Parties NEW YEAR'S EVE 1959, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the way we used to party Last Line: How they could jive Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) NEW YEAR'S EVES, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in marrakech, no - boys Last Line: "anyone."" and he said, ""that wouldn't be nice." Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Parties; Joy; Delight NIGHT-SCENTED STOCK, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: White, white in the milky night Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Night; Parties; Gardens & Gardening; Bedtime OLD RIVER ROAD, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One party of that season. Evening journals Subject(s): Love Affairs; Parties ON THE WAY TO THE GALA, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: It is warm for mid-october Last Line: Languorously to itself beside a young man vanishing in mid-october Subject(s): October; Parties PARSON'S SOCIABLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They carried the pie to the parson's house Subject(s): Clergy; Food And Eating; Parties; Pies PARTY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: At a gesture from the host, the musicians stopped playing Last Line: And the party was never the same Subject(s): Abandonment; Ghosts; Guests; Parties; Supernatural PARTY KNEE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To drink in moderation, and to smoke Last Line: A buffered aspirin for a splitting leg Subject(s): Parties; Human Behavior PARTY KNEE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To drink in moderation, and to smoke Last Line: A buffered aspirin for a splitting leg Subject(s): Parties PARTY TRAIN, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: To bring joy and friendliness to the new york subway system Last Line: The party train might finally stop for him Subject(s): Happiness; Music And Musicians; New York City; Parties PINATA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The fat pink paper-mache burro Last Line: With the blushes of someone %hanged for the wrong crime Subject(s): Birthdays; Games; Parties PLEASE, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: You may put sugar Last Line: Your fingers %please Subject(s): Parties RECEPTION, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: What had that wedding dress to do with white? Last Line: You pressed lips on teeth, dancing flesh to bone Subject(s): Marriage; Parties SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DINOSAUR STOMP, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Word went out 'cross the prehistoric slime Last Line: But they'll be back -- next dinosaur stomp! Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Parties SEASIDE, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: The sun provides us golden light Last Line: And whisk our crumbs away Subject(s): Parties SEX AND ARCHITECTURE, by RUPERT MALLIN Poem Source First Line: I am invited to house warmings on snow hill heights Last Line: Even the dust is frisky Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Parties; Sex SHOPPING FOR TEA, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Which tea shall I buy today? Last Line: Oh, just give me one of each Subject(s): Parties SHORING UP THE HEART, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: New year's eve resolves to new year's day Last Line: Until the air and I can make you warm Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties SMALL BLACK TIE AFFAIR FOR ELMO, by SHARON HONN MEARS Poem Source First Line: His mask upside out Last Line: The loco-motor that %cha cha chas Subject(s): Parties SOIREE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the blonde room the lustrous-limbed piano Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Part Subject(s): Parties SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A night clear and serene Last Line: A night well covered by darkness Subject(s): Parties; Singing And Singers STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 11, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here with a bag of crisps beneath the bough Last Line: Beside me half asleep in brockwell park %and brockwell park is paradise enow Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Parties; Pleasure SUMMER TWILIGHT, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Supper's over Last Line: Grandpa says: %it's story time Subject(s): Parties TEA AROUND THE WORLD, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: In ireland tea is cozy Last Line: For tea is home with you Subject(s): Parties TEA FOR ONE, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: A cup of tea Last Line: Now that's a %perfect afternoon Subject(s): Parties TEATIME, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Teatime, teatime Last Line: While it's hot Subject(s): Parties TEATIME GROUCH, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: The cake is too sweet Last Line: I knew I should have %stayed in bed Subject(s): Parties TEDDY BEAR TEA, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: When I am feeling lonely Last Line: For teddy bear and me Subject(s): Parties THANKSGIVING DAY AT HUNCHLEY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you never heard of hunchley, I would say in his behalf Last Line: In keeping with his bounty than the laws of harmony. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Holidays; Parties; Quarrels; Thanksgiving; Arguments; Disagreements THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste Last Line: His merry companions returned in a throng. Subject(s): Insects; Parties; Bugs THE CHAPERON, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: The chaperon was powerful, a stern and doughty lady Last Line: "chaperons? Groans! Good-bye!" Subject(s): Parties; Youth THE COLLIER'S WEDDING, SELECTION, by EDWARD CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: At last the beef appears in sight Last Line: So, curtseying, mumbled up his kiss. Subject(s): Brides; Dancing & Dancers; Food & Eating; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DANCE AT THE LITTLE GILA RANCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Git yo' little fillies ready Last Line: Keno! Promenade to seats Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;parties;swings THE DELICACIES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hostess, in pink satin and blond hair -- dressed high -- shone beautifully Last Line: Cream cheese and whole walnuts! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Parties THE DINNER-PARTY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So ...' they said, / with their wine-glasses delicately poised Last Line: For only living flesh can suffer. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Parties THE FAMILY DINNER-PARTY, by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing to come upon relations sitting at their food! Last Line: Nods assent to every speaker, too polite to disagree. Subject(s): Parties THE FANCY BALL, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You used to talk,' said miss mac call Last Line: As these our fancy-dresses. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Parties THE HOUSEWIFE'S PRAYER, ON THE MORNING PRECEDING A FETE; TO ECONOMY, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess adored! Who gained my early love Last Line: And guard, o goddess, guard each candle's end! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Housekeeping; Parties THE KING'S BIRTH-DAY IN EDINBURGH, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the day sae aften sung Last Line: And tunes her lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Birthdays; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Parties THE MAY PARTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O million-singing comes the may Last Line: Had given birth to man! Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Music & Musicians; Parks; Parties; Summer THE MENU, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beg you come tonight and dine Last Line: Excepting alfred tennyson. Variant Title(s): Maecenas Bids His Friend To Dine;another Invitation Subject(s): Food & Eating; New York City; Parties; Smoking; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE MOUNTAIN TOMB, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride Last Line: Our father rosicross sleeps in his tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Parties; Funerals; Death THE ODD WOMAN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At parties I want to get even, Last Line: And leave for the long river drive to town. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Parties; Single People; Women - Middle Aged; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE PARTY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dey had a great big pahty down to tom's de othah night Last Line: An' dey ain't no use in talkin', we jes had one scrumptious time! Subject(s): Parties THE PARTY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Parties; Friendships; Relationships; Farewell; Parting THE PARTY'S OVER, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it's daylight on the street Last Line: As she goes & comes & goes Subject(s): Parties; Grief THE RETORT DISCOURTEOUS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When harding gave a party, with disarmament the aim Last Line: "and of course we couldn't be as rude as that!" Subject(s): Parties THE TEA-PARTY, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not with you, sisters, in your talk Last Line: Turned as they fled, and left me charity. Subject(s): Family Life; Food & Eating; Life; Parties; Sisters; Tea; Relatives THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AU CAFE ***, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A party of friends, all light-hearted and gay Last Line: In thy heart lurks a weird necromancer -- 't is thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Paris, France; Parties; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WEDDING PARTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the large frame of the window collapses in the fire Last Line: For the hat that he wore to a wedding. Subject(s): Fire; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WRONG HOUSE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I went into a house, I don't know whose house Last Line: Nobody wanted it at all. Subject(s): Home; Parties THERIOT COVE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lights of the boathouse that lead you Subject(s): Boats; Parties THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter nights enlarge / the number of their hours Last Line: They shorten tedious nights. Variant Title(s): Winter Nights Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Night; Parties; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime THOUGHTS AT FRANK O'HARA'S CITY POET PARTY, 6/9/93, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: Hal fondren was there, and bobby fizdale, %john gruen and jane-wilson, that is Last Line: I'm going to get a drink!' Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Parties THOUGHTS WHILE DRIVING HOME, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was I clever enough? Was I charming? Last Line: He's deep. He's deep. He's deep? Subject(s): Parties THOUGHTS WHILE DRIVING HOME, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was I clever enough? Was I charming? Last Line: So they murmured, when I'd left the party, %'he's deep. He'sdeep. He's deep'? Subject(s): Parties TO ALL FRIENDS, by FRANCIS CHARLES MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: When this corruptible must be Last Line: Ring with it. I shall be there! Subject(s): Friendship; Funerals; Parties; Burials TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: MOUNTAIN HERALD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This time, the celebrant vowed, no one would intinct Last Line: God yes, the forsythia, the forsythia Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Marriage; Parties VACUUM, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That evening - wow! That evening Last Line: "nearer my god to thee --" Subject(s): Parties; Storms WELCOME ON A STORMY NIGHT, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Come in from the rain Last Line: You're spending the night Subject(s): Parties WHAT A TIME!, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To dance, at a dark party, to old tunes Subject(s): Parties WHAT DICK AN' I DID, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week the browns ax'd nearly all Last Line: As bad as na'r a tun, min. Subject(s): Parties; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Winter; Pranks WHAT'S THAT RACKET?, by EILEEN SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Geese honk %cows moo Last Line: Time for tea %on noah's ark Subject(s): Parties WON'T LET GO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon I'm obliged to attend a birthday party Last Line: And somewhere there was a tree with one black leaf for everybody Subject(s): Change; Parties YADDO: THE GRAND MANOR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woodsmoke and a distant loudspeaker Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Parties YE OLD-TIME HOUSE PARTY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Camp paownyc's doors on their hinges swing Last Line: As the trail blazed by loving hearts. Subject(s): Parties YOUR NAME ENGRAVED ON A GRAIN OF RICE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blazing pink shirts spill into streets, garden green, full-throated Last Line: Bubbling and softening, changing its life? Subject(s): Parades; Parties |
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