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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG NYMPH GOING TO BED, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Corinna, pride of drury-lane, / for whom no shepherd sighs in vain
Last Line: Who sees, will spew; who smells, be poisoned.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Social Protest; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


A CASTAWAY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts
Last Line: Most welcome, dear: one gets so moped alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Prostitution; Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


A FATE-RIDDEN WOMAN, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clinging to honor with one hand
Last Line: Is a fate-ridden woman.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


A GESTURE BY A LADY WITH AN ASSUMED NAME, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Letters she left to clutter up the desk
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


A MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the depths of the parasol I see the marvelous prostitutes
Last Line: Their breasts in which the invisible blue blood sobs forever
Subject(s): Prostitution; Surrealism; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A whore moves a basin of green antiseptic water
Last Line: It falls stiff like a drunk, like a drunk falling onto a whore.
Subject(s): Brassai [gyula Halsz] (1899-1984); Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


ALL-NITE DONUTS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A customer's blowing %smoke rings almost
Subject(s): Prostitution


AN OLD WHOREHOUSE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed through a broken window
Subject(s): Innocence; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


AS YOU LEAVE ME, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shiny record albums scattered over
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


AS YOU LEAVE ME, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shiny record albums scattered over
Subject(s): Prostitution


BALLAD FOR FAT MARGOT, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If I love and serve my beauty with good heart
Last Line: Here in this brothel where we hold our court
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


BAR XANADU, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A perfect veronica, invisible, scallops air
Last Line: Riffling your skirt in the scent of blood oranges and sweat
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Prostitution; Disappointment; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


BLACK MAGDALENS, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These have no christ to spit and stoop
Subject(s): Prostitution


CHEERFUL GIRLS AT SMILLER'S BAR, 1971, by JACK A. MAPANJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prostitutes at smiller's bar beside the dusty road
Last Line: The megaphones: the preservation of our traditional %et cetera...
Subject(s): Prostitution


CHICAGO CABARET, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a strange game of chess
Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


CHICAGO CABARET, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a strange game of chess
Last Line: Pure indian that kid %and some jazz'
Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution


DALLOW'S BLUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An autumn pall of heat hung sultrily over
Last Line: And time swept on and dallow's landing forgot.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Marriage; Prostitution; Seasons; Fall; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


EATING, by CHRISTINE CHOI AHMED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Closet was full of belts
Last Line: Bit at a time. Drip. Drip. Drip
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Prostitution; Social Problems


ELEANOR RIGBY AS PROSTITUTE, by NUBIA KAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The song says 'no one comes near'
Last Line: Who cares, %they were all ugly
Subject(s): Prostitution


EPIGRAM ON J.M.S. GENT., by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gold watch found on a cinder whore
Last Line: Not that they're rich, but that they steal.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Smyth, James Moore; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won?
Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones.
Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


FAMILY MATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That christmas day, he wanted to kill his father
Last Line: And confessed everything to the first whore he could find.'
Subject(s): Christmas; Confessions; Fathers And Sons; Murder; Prostitution


FIFTEEN, SHE LEARNS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That summer I grew two inches and stood
Last Line: When I turned 15, I learned to fly, %and finally learned how not to die
Subject(s): Girls; Prostitution; Teenagers


FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 2. LIP-STICK LIZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lip-stick liz was in the biz
Last Line: Oh lip-stick liz!
Subject(s): Murder; Prostitution; Women - Abused


FLOWERING WHORE, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the first violets blossomed on her skin it caused a
Last Line: Her young, promiscuous body
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Prostitution; Women


FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore
Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore
Last Line: Every hour there is less of that touch in the world
Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women


FRENCH LISETTE; A BALLAD OF MAIDA VALE, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who strolls so late, for mugs a bait
Last Line: Tis folly abounding in a strange surrounding %to be divorced from one's pants
Subject(s): Prostitution; Villains In Literature


GAS STATION, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is before I'd reach nietzsche. Before kant or kierkegaard
Last Line: How pure we were then, before rimbaud, before blake. Grace. %love. Take care of us. Please
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Prostitution


GETTING A PURCHASE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoring? I guess I thought it was part
Last Line: I can send a small check from time to time.
Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Thailand; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


GREASY SPOON BLUES, by LEONARD GASPARINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gus the greek is a short-order cook
Subject(s): Prostitution


HAIKU, by MATSUMOTO TAKASHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the brothel
Last Line: Autumn evening
Subject(s): Prostitution


HAPLESS HOOKERS ON TIMES SQUARE, by PHILLIP CORWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Live in condemned hotels behind locked doors
Last Line: With nothing on the floors %except for dirt. How foolish it must be, %they think, to vow and cherish
Subject(s): Prostitution; Times Square, New York


HARLEM SHADOWS, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the halting footsteps of a lass
Last Line: In harlem wandering from street to street.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City); Poverty; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


HARRISON STREET COURT, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a woman's lips
Last Line: "every night's hustlin' I ever did."
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


HERE IS MUSIC: DOUBLE BALLADE WITH DOUBLE REFRAIN (2), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The crippled, phrygian, stoic freedman said
Last Line: Self-sold—and re-self-sold at second hand.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


HEY, WOMEN, SPOTTED WITH TYPHUS AND RIDDLED WITH RAKES OF., by PERETS MARKISH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Markish, Peretz
Subject(s): Prostitution


HUSTLERS, by DENNIS COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two beers screw my head up
Subject(s): Prostitution


ILLICIT HOMAGE TO LLUIS MILA, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's spring
Last Line: He was a carpenter by trade
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Prostitution; Sailors And Sailing


IMPRESSION DU MATIN, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thames nocturne of blue and gold
Last Line: With lips of flame and heart of stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Prostitution; Thames (river); Winter; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


IN RESPONSE TO RUMOR THAT OLDEST WHOREHOUSE IN WHEELING, WV, CONDEMNED, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will grieve alone
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Hate; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


IN RESPONSE TO RUMOR THAT OLDEST WHOREHOUSE IN WHEELING, WV, CONDEMNED, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will grieve alone
Last Line: To find beyond death %bridgeport, ohio
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Hate; Prostitution


IN TALK WITH A PROSTITUTE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am no sorrier for you than I am for myself
Last Line: Why should we pity each other here in the night?
Subject(s): Prostitution; Sympathy; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Empathy


IN THESE HOUSES OF SWIFT EASY WOMEN, by BRENDA MARIE OSBEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In these houses
Subject(s): Prostitution


INITIATION, by LAURENT TAILHEDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At saint mande. Amid the merry-makers
Last Line: "said, ""you may touch it, sir; it will not bite."
Subject(s): Merchants; Prostitution; Tents; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


INJUSTICE, by LUCIE DELARUE-MADRUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the while we give our body and our soul
Subject(s): Prostitution; Women's Rights


IT IS MUCH, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Women of night life amid the lights
Last Line: It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


JAIME, by CHARLES EDWARD MANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not my mother, not my father
Last Line: With no regard for consequence
Subject(s): Prostitution


JANET; ONE OF MANY, SELS., by SARAH (STICKNEY) ELLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They met; for there was none to interfere
Last Line: From its last throb of anguish and despair
Subject(s): Despair; Prostitution


JIE SANG CHENG, by ZHENZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was first a bright pearl held in someone's palm
Last Line: To ransom this cloud girl?
Subject(s): Prostitution


LA BELLA BONA ROBA, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot tell who loves the skeleton
Last Line: Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


LAST GALWAY HOOKER, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the corrib river chops through the claddagh
Last Line: May I handle her well down tomorrow's sea-road
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Prostitution


LOVE IN A BUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was born in perhaps the holland tunnel
Last Line: Human, impermanent and permanently good
Subject(s): Chicago; Love; New York City; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem 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;


MADRIGAL, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be a whore, despite of grace
Last Line: Good counsel and an ugly face.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the depths of the parasol I see the marvelous prostitutes
Last Line: Their breasts in which the invisible blue milk cries as ever
Subject(s): Prostitution; Surrealism


MAN WHO MARRIED MAGDALENE, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Prostitution


MARIZIBILL, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the high-street in cologne
Last Line: Their hearts sway open like their doors
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air
Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused


NET, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quick, woman, in your net
Last Line: And draw the equal quilt %over our naked guilt
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Prostitution


NEW ORLEANS HARLOT, by FRANCES LYKSETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Envy and avarice spoke from her greedy face
Last Line: Of all her coquetries, and tawdry wiles.
Subject(s): New Orleans; Prostitution; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Harlots; Whores; Brothels


NOCTURNE, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lights from the cambuci district on nights of crime
Last Line: Get-a you roast-a yams!
Subject(s): Brazil; Prostitution; Women


NOCTURNE, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the corner of paris street and rome avenue
Last Line: Loaded with tenderness
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Prostitution; Women


OLD WHOREHOUSE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed through a broken window
Last Line: It would be years before %we'd learn how effortlessly %sin blooms, then softens, %like any bed of fl
Subject(s): Innocence; Prostitution


ON MRS. WILLIS, by JOHN WILLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Against the charms our ballocks have
Subject(s): Prostitution


ON REPORTING THE MURDER OF A YOUNG PROSTITUTE, by JUDITH VOLLMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood over her, %thought: draw me something
Last Line: I offer her a sip of my pepsi %& half of my sandwich. %to her I'm blind
Subject(s): Newspapers; Prostitution


ON THE NEW HOT-HOUSE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where lately harboured many a famous whore
Last Line: And still be a whore house. They are synonima.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


OUTCAST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perchance for dear life's sake - and life is sweet
Last Line: The viler prostitute in mind and deed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


PHOTOGRAPH OF A BAWD DRINKING RALEIGH RYE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glass in her hand is the only thing moving
Subject(s): Storyville, New Orleans; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


PICCADILLY CIRCUS AT NIGHT: STREETWALKERS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When into the night the yellow light is roused like dust
Last Line: Sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Piccadilly, London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


PRIVATE ROOM, by DAVID CHORLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old pastoral painted
Last Line: Better to hear the snap %of a prostitute's brassiere
Subject(s): Privacy; Prostitution; Rooms


PRIZE, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the roost of thought she lived,
Last Line: For soldiers wearing purple bruises %as their only prize.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Sex


PROSTITUTE, by CHANG MAN-YUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because she was unaware
Last Line: Her neighbors sent her a chill sneer %for her funeral. Not a single candle
Subject(s): Prostitution


PROSTITUTE, by DAVID RUBADIRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I desired her
Last Line: To stir the glue-pot?
Subject(s): Lust; Prostitution


RED LIGHT DISTRICT NURSE, by JOHN FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You'll see me park my car upon
Last Line: I'm the red light district nurse
Subject(s): Prostitution


RUBY BROWN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was young and beautiful
Last Line: Pay more money to her now %than they ever did before, %when she worked in their kitchens
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Prostitution


RYOJIN HISHO (18), SELS., by UNKNOWN                       
Subject(s): Prostitution


SAIGON BAR GIRLS, 1975, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's ho xuan huong
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Prostitution


SENRYU (38), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The prostitute, too
Last Line: Changes her name
Subject(s): Prostitution


SHE IS MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED, by WILLIAM B. GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: At the old concert hall on the bowery
Last Line: No -- he asked for god's mercy and said:
Subject(s): New York City; Pity; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue
Last Line: It will not escape. Do not look up. God is %on high. He can see you. You will die
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding


SOEUR MONIQUE'; A RONDEAU BY COUPERIN, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quiet form of silent nun
Last Line: In the fields of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Prostitution


SONG (13), by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quoth the duchess of cleveland to counselor knight
Last Line: Of a dozen of pricks for a dozen of ale
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Churchill, John. 1st Duke Of Marlborough; Jermyn, Henry. Baron Dover Of Dover; Knight, Mary; Palmer, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Prostitution


SONG OF A NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I lay disgusted, sick at heart
Last Line: My soul and hers are as the same to god.
Subject(s): London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SONG OF THE RUE SAINT-PAUL: 7, by MAX ELSKAMP    Poem Source                    
First Line: This street sets out
Last Line: The brooklun bridge %suspended in air
Subject(s): Prostitution


SONG OF THE TART, by KANEKO MITSUHARU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The very day the war ended
Last Line: Of that tart's yawn %make only a ripple
Subject(s): Prostitution


SONNET: 13, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a woman sitting on a beast
Last Line: Now for a truth great babylon is fallen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Prostitution; Religion; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Theology


ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At night her soul is alive
Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall.
Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating


STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot now remember the first word
Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


STREETS OC CH'ANG-AN, by CH'U KUANG-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cracking whips, off to the wine shop
Last Line: Expressionless, they never speak a word
Subject(s): Prostitution


STRUMPET SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With white frost gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SULTAN'S JUSTICE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mistress of the brothel can neither read nor
Last Line: Us and we are helpless against its poison
Subject(s): Justice; Prostitution


SUSIE, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down by the river-front, beside the docks
Last Line: That susie posed for when she was in bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Aging; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SWEET ETHEL WAS A ROAMING GIRL, by LINDA PIPER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And she'll never %walk the streets no more
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Prostitution


TEMPLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the catwalk stickthin
Last Line: Plate of chips
Subject(s): Fantasy; Hunger; Prostitution


THE CHEERFUL GIRLS AT SMILLER'S BAR, 1971, by JACK A. MAPANJE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prostitutes at smiller's bar beside the dusty road
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the city dead-house by the gate
Last Line: Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house -- but dead, dead, dead.
Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE DYING PROSTITUTE; AN ELEGY, by THOMAS HOLCROFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep o'er the miseries of a wretched maid
Last Line: Or bloom thy laurels o'er my winding-sheet?
Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE FLYING-FISH SAILOR, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The western ocean rolls and roars
Last Line: That waits for the flying-fish sailor!
Subject(s): Prostitution; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Ocean


THE HONEST WHORE. PART 1, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold, you comet shows his head twice
Last Line: [exeunt omnes.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE HONEST WHORE. PART 2, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good day, gallants
Last Line: A patient man's a pattern for a king. [exeunt omnes.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: JENNY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lazy laughing languid jenny
Last Line: Only one kiss. Good-bye, my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE NET, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quick, woman, in your net
Last Line: Over our naked guilt
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE RUINED MAID, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O 'melia, my dear, this does everything crown!
Last Line: Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined,' said she.
Subject(s): Irony; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE SCARLET WOMAN, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I was good like the virgin mary and the minister's wife
Last Line: Gin is better than all the water in lethe.
Subject(s): African Americans; Prostitution; Negroes; American Blacks; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE SHOWMEN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to a dismal brute, dust-smothered, teased
Last Line: Nor leer for lovers like a shameless whore.
Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE VIOLENT SPACE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust
Last Line: But the air cannot stand my singing long
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE WHITE DEVIL, by JOHN WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Banished
Last Line: [exeunt.
Subject(s): Death; Hate; Murder; Prostitution; Revenge; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE WHITE SLAVE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She walks the streets offering herself for sale
Last Line: And soon her other needs will shrink to dope.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be composed - be at ease with me - I am walt whitman, liberal and lusty
Last Line: Not forget me.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TO A STRUMPET, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, thou true model of a cursed whore
Last Line: That once did know thee in the state of grace.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TO A WHORE WITH IRON-GRAY EYES, by DINO CAMPANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With your small brutal eyes
Subject(s): Prostitution


TO RUBY LIPS, by H. A. RICHMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two ruby lips are hers; a pair
Last Line: Too ruby lips.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep
Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face.
Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line
Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TRAFFICKER, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the shadows where two streets cross
Last Line: And no takers.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TWO HOOKERS, by A. K. REDWING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reeking of unsolved crime, the cop
Last Line: Prairie newspaper hang as accomplices
Subject(s): Prostitution


VIOLENT SPACE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust
Subject(s): Prostitution


WHORE STREET, by KAY BOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Street bruised blue from the nudge of the wind, artery clogged with the
Last Line: A white arm lifted, odor from the pit staining the sagging matress of the %sea
Subject(s): Prostitution


WHOREHOUSE ON THE BAYOU, by DAN GUILLORY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Falling on her moss-filled mattress
Last Line: With dollars to find yourself-even for a moment %like now, when the catfish leaps, shattering silenc
Subject(s): Prostitution


WHORES, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I grew up I went away to work
Last Line: No longer have the gift to harbor pride %or bring me peace, or leave them satisfied
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): Prostitution


WITH THIS SKIN, by MARIA MCLEOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once I was as clean
Last Line: It is the last place I want to remember %having crawled into
Subject(s): Prostitution


WOMEN'S PROSTITUTION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a question to ask you
Last Line: They carry their pleasure in search of another pleasure
Subject(s): Igede (african People); Prostitution


YOSHIWARA, by LOUISE VANDERPOOL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before a thirteenth year was old
Last Line: Behind a screen of ho ho birds.
Subject(s): Japan; Prostitution; Japanese; Harlots; Whores; Brothels