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Subject: SEX ROLE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A QUESTION OF GENDER, by PALLADAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dominie's daughter eloped with a suitor
Last Line: And the baby was masculine, feminine, neuter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
Subject(s): Sex Role


BOOK TITLED THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY FOUND IN THE HYDRANGEA IN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A photograph ripped out
Last Line: That zorabedian was an armenian is also true
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Books; Sex; Sex Role


ON ONE WHO AFFECTED AN EFFEMINATE MANNER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While man and woman still are incomplete
Last Line: But, friend, man - woman is not woman-man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Sex Role


OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hermaphroditus, a delight, a
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sex Role; Mythology


SELDOM-NOTED SEX DIFFERENCE, by RICHARD MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He could fight and was good at a riddle
Last Line: When she peed, could get rid of her piss quick
Subject(s): Sex Role


STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove,
Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants)


THE HEALTH OF CAPTAINS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The health of captains is the sex of war
Last Line: Sleep through the mornings where the captains rise
Subject(s): War; Sex Role


THE MUFFLED DRUMS, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For brothers laid in blood
Last Line: And we chant, chant the world redeemed by woman.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Pacifism; Sex Role; Women; Peace Movements


THE SEXES, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the man beholds the woman
Last Line: Like the subtle serpent, steals.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Sex Role


THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glad as the weary traveller, tempest-tost
Last Line: And freed the nation best beloved of god.
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Sex Role; Victory; Women


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FIRST CANTO, OR NEW MOON, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How apt the slanderous and unciuill tongues
Last Line: Favour, a while, thy tender sarcells too.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex Role


URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE SECOND CANTO, OR FIRST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of the world how simply wonder wee
Last Line: When her quills settle, thine againe shall rise.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sex Role