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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELECTIVITY Matches Found: 18 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 18. HARD TO BE PLEASED, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how she picks, and cuts, and casts aside Last Line: And thus she does her lovers entertain. Subject(s): Love; Selectivity FOOL AND FALSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With the shrewd and upright man Last Line: Shun him from the start Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity;honesty HELSINKI, 1940, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exploding, shattering, burning / big lights in the sky Last Line: All of whom really felt like living Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Neighbors; Visiting HERO WANTED, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A boy's heart is a light heart Last Line: And hero to a boy! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dinner was duckling with tangerine sauce Last Line: After eveything possible had been said and done Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity OLD-MADE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The greater mystery it is Last Line: Of much mature reflection. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Aging; Selectivity OPINIONS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We could have been such friends, dear almost-friend! Last Line: And can my black be white? Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: OF FRIENDSHIP, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Choose judiciously thy friends; for to discard Last Line: For an enraptured public to muse upon over their matutinal muffin. Subject(s): Friendship – Selectivity; Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889); Imitation; Humor RAHIM MULTANI: 1. KING PRAWNS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When kiran went out of town I took the girls to get haircuts Last Line: Nights we wore our best saris, women everywhere rustling %in the room Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Youth STRANGERS IN THE DUSK, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: There is a time when he and I are strangers, in the dusk Last Line: We love a friend not less because we loved another best. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Love; Relationships; Strangers THE CHOICE OF FRIENDS, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One balmy day in gentle june Last Line: "be careful in your choice of friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Relationships THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This brief effusion I indite Last Line: To charm life's dreary day! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE INVITATION, by LEONARD WELSTED Poem Text First Line: Freeman, I treat tonight, and treat your friends Last Line: You know your friends; you know your bill of fare. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Visiting THE LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dinner was duckling with tangerine sauce Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THREE GOOD FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I can't remember how Last Line: Did she choose to let go %for us Subject(s): Friendship; Friendship - Selectivity; Love - Loss Of TO A YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fellow-artist, why so free / with every sort of company Last Line: With landor and with donne. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship - Selectivity YOUR LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST, by M. C. HAECKER Poem Text First Line: You call it your little gray home in the west Last Line: In your little gray home in the west. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Home; Love; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States |
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