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Subject: SCORN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SONG, FR. AURENGE-ZEBE (OPERA)", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see she flies me everywhere
Last Line: "I might live longer, but not love her more"
Subject(s): Disdain;love - Loss Of; Scorn


ANTINOMY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no truth!
Last Line: This evil thing ye publish her woman-eyes disprove.
Subject(s): Disdain; Lies; Love; Truth; Women; Scorn


BALLY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very solid rascals. Several have exploited your worlds
Last Line: I alone hold the key to this savage ballyhoo.*
Subject(s): Disdain; Scorn


DISDAIN, by AGNES MACCARTHY HICKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Since you are made of such superior clay
Last Line: And nonchalantly creep the other way.
Subject(s): Death; Disdain; Dead, The; Scorn


FOR MILAREPA, IN RUSE, ON PAPER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These farmers dressed in gold and blue
Last Line: In their pear tree will be forgiven.
Variant Title(s): For Confucius, In Ruse, On Rice Paper
Subject(s): Disdain; Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Scorn; Agriculture; Farmers


FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, lovely retching moss-capped cherub: this penny's for you
Last Line: Throw them back, throw them out.
Subject(s): Angels; Avignon, France; Disdain; Faith; Fountains; Gratitude; Prayer; Wishes; Scorn; Belief; Creed


HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 13, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And that thou may'st remember thy disdain
Last Line: How much, azile, thou hast scorn'd my tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth
Subject(s): Disdain; Love - Complaints; Scorn


HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 14, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How much, azile, thou hast scorn'd my tears
Last Line: But call to mind, and in that mind repent.
Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth
Subject(s): Disdain; Repentance; Scorn; Penitence


JOHN TOD, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: He's a terrible man, john tod, john tod
Last Line: If e'er he sud leave us, john tod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness
Subject(s): Disdain; Evil; Scorn


SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day
Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea.
Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2
Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn


THE TEMPLES, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: That solomon the wise king might behold
Last Line: Swept the dead leaves in scorn against his face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Disdain; Shrines; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Scorn


TO A PHOTOGRAPHER, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known joy and woe and toil and fight
Last Line: They are my scars of battle — put them back!
Subject(s): Aging; Disdain; Photography & Photographers; Time; Scorn


TO HIS SCORNFUL MISTRESS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love in's first infant days had's wardrobe full
Last Line: And she his murd'ress is, who now is coy.
Subject(s): Disdain; Love - Complaints; Scorn


TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france
Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!"
Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War


TO THE TUNE 'IN FAITH I CANNOT KEEP MY FATHER'S SHEEP', by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloris, it is not thy disdain
Last Line: This scorn one day, one day by endless love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Disdain; Scorn


TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tuesday's bus I heard the man from state
Last Line: It made me sick, if you must know.
Subject(s): Buses; Conversation; Disdain; Human Abnormalities; Violence; Scorn; Deformities


VOICES OF SCORN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When I had thought my end was near
Last Line: Reproves me with its wholesome laughter!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Disdain; Scorn