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First Line: When all my plans have come to grief
Last Line: "than, like the rest, thou vanishest / in smoke, my cigarette"
Subject(s): Single People;smoking; Bachelors;unmarried People;tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes


A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I were younger, mary jane
Last Line: And she will love me dearly!
Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A BENEDICT'S APPEAL TO A BACHELOR, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear charles, be persuaded to wed
Last Line: T is singular you should be single!
Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A BIRD IN THE HAND, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were three young maids of lee
Last Line: These three old maids of lee.
Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A CONSISTENT GIRL, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss dorothea birmingham irene amanda / jones
Last Line: "and, dorothea, queenly and consistent, answered ""nope."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Courtship; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A GAME-RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "water, water, wall-flower"
Last Line: A-dancing for your sake
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors;unmarried People


A SONG FOR THE SINGLE TABLE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye single folks all, that adorn this gay table
Last Line: Derry down &c.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A SPINSTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near
Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay?
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids


ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFETIME, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born near four miles from nith-head
Last Line: Yet never was a married wife.
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Self; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


AN 'OLD MAID', by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode
Last Line: And she didn't seem just to — well, you understand!
Subject(s): Household Employees; Single People; Solitude; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Loneliness


AN OLD BACHELOR, by TUDOR JENKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas raw, and chill, and cold outside
Last Line: And the cat (hic) sang!
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


AN OLD BACHELOR, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O love is a jade of a wayward life
Last Line: As for me, I will not have the creature about.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


AS WE WONDER, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At something its meaning dissolves
Last Line: Burns your name into the edges of cloud
Subject(s): Love; Single People


AT THE GATES, by KOFI AWOONOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not know which god sent me
Last Line: To push my boat into the river
Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George
Subject(s): Single People; War


AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers
Last Line: Each lugged an old bachelor home on her shoulder.
Subject(s): Dreams; Single People; Sleep; Taxes; Nightmares; Bachelors; Unmarried People


BACHELOR, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mystic in the morning, half asleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


BACHELOR, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lying down he thinks, having tried not to think
Last Line: That orpheus had better luck with women
Subject(s): Single People


BACHELOR HALL, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems like a dream - that sweet wooing
Last Line: To the dead and the dying of bachelor hall.
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Single People; Sorrow; Sadness; Bachelors; Unmarried People


BACHELOR'S HALL, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Single People


BACHELOR'S LOVE-SONG, by J. H. RYAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My bachelor's den is a queer old pen
Subject(s): Single People


BACHELOR'S MONO-RHYME, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you think I'd marry a woman
Subject(s): Single People


BAD NEWS (MCSURLEY'S BAR), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your flame is married I understand'
Last Line: As we shuffled the cards and played the game.
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Card Games; Gambling; Single People; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting; Bachelors; Unmarried People


BASE METAL, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Troth might be split passed %between two sets %of lips in the first teen kiss
Last Line: To himself or to the thousands, acting out %a sexual riff on love
Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Single People


CAMILLE MODERNE, by HELEN ANDERSON WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: She is not wedded
Last Line: Picking flowers!
Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


CAPRICE, by ROSE MARIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I think of all the men I might have married -- and regret
Last Line: I breathe a thankful little prayer I haven't married -- yet.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


CHERISHED DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother, I am eighteen this year
Last Line: Will you please just give me away?
Subject(s): Single People


COMPANY OF WOMEN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I couldn't forget how much I'd paid for each dress
Last Line: On a corner square, stitched taut over cotton batting
Subject(s): Single People; Solitude; Women


COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou bee younge, then marie not yett
Last Line: And olde mens' wyves bee good for naught.
Variant Title(s): Councell To A Bachelor
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


CUTTING HAIR, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She pays attention to the hair, not her fingers, and cuts herself
Subject(s): Hair; Hands; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


DANCE OF DEATH: WOMAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was as green willow
Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Single People; Women


DETECTIVE ASKS ME WHAT HE SAID, by SHOASHAUNA SHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He'd pinch the breath %from my lungs
Last Line: If I stopped to think about it %he said that
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Single People


FARMER WHIPPLE - BACHELOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a mystery to see me - a man o' fifty-four
Last Line: To git a pair o' license fer to marry mary brown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Single People; Agriculture; Farmers; Bachelors; Unmarried People


FUGUE, by KATHLEEN ROONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Riding the metro, you pass single-family housing
Last Line: If you lived here, you'd be home by now
Subject(s): Single People


GIRLS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he leaves, %he leaves a space
Last Line: Trying to breathe %and waiting to be kissed
Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Single People


HIS ANSWER TO A QUESTION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some would know / why I so
Last Line: He could live free here?
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


IMMUTABLE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He may be fearfully clever, he may be awfully keen
Last Line: His stock of favorite stories will always remain the same!
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


INTO THE WHITE, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young siberian yupik woman from savoonga
Last Line: February full moon she walked out of the village %far onto the sea of ice. The wind with her
Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Single People; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges


JACKSONVILLE, VERMONT, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I am not married, I have the skin of an orange
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


LOOKING FORWARD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If no one ever marries me
Last Line: And bring her up as mine.
Variant Title(s): Little Girls
Subject(s): Orphans; Single People; Foundlings; Bachelors; Unmarried People


LOVE SONG: ONE FAT WOMAN TO ANOTHER, by KEL MUNGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All our tall, thin ex-lovers have gone mad or died
Last Line: There are women all over the world who are starving for love
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Single People; Widows And Widowers


LUCY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shepherd, tho' thy song be sweet
Last Line: A single life and liberty.
Subject(s): Doubt; Marriage; Single People; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People


MARRIAGE OF TWO OLD MEN (1), by SHARON CHMIELARZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Has he married my father? Have I married his
Last Line: What will happen to us, tad, without a woman?
Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Single People; Solitude


MIDDLE AGE, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many of my friends are alone
Subject(s): Single People; Middle Age; Bachelors; Unmarried People


MIMOSA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It must have been july
Last Line: He'd have heard my heart beating.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


MY BACHELOR CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A corpulent man is my bachelor
Last Line: On the tears of my bachelor chum.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Faces; Friendship; Single People; Tears; Bachelors; Unmarried People


MY KIND OF MAN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like a man to know a lot more than I do
Last Line: I'm afraid this very minute I won't find this any man.
Subject(s): Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


NEGATION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear lady, I don't mind admitting to you
Last Line: You're impossibly hard not to marry!
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


NERVOUS FAMILY: ALTERNATIVE VERSION, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My aunt said I must marry, since there was none but I
Last Line: For we're all & c
Subject(s): Family Life; Single People


NO SPOUSE BUT A SISTER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bachelour I will
Last Line: And kisse, but yet be chaste.
Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


OLD BACHELOR, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was a schoolboy, aged ten
Subject(s): Single People


ON MARRIAGE, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How happy a thing were a wedding
Last Line: Good faith, mr. Parson, excuse me from that!
Variant Title(s): The Bachelor's Song: The Second Part
Subject(s): Marriage; Mnemonics; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People


OUR LITTLE SISTER IS WORRIED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: She has never seen it %blow them back on the branches
Subject(s): Single People


SINGLE LIFE MOST SECURE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suspicion, discontent, and strife
Last Line: Come in for dowrie with a wife.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


SINGLE WOMAN SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind
Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


SINGLE'S SURVIVAL KIT, by R. HAMILTON BOLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This one has a nice tie
Last Line: And this also makes us attractive ... %when we apply
Subject(s): Single People


SINGLES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know anyone more lonely
Last Line: With such a beautiful stranger
Subject(s): Single People; Solitude


SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I'm all alone again
Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions
Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO CONTINUING EDUCTAION CLASS: SINGLE MESSIAH, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a fever on the wind
Last Line: Only for the lost and lonely
Subject(s): Single People


SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wild soft summer darkness
Last Line: With oil of citronella.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Romance; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE BACHELOR, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the world, (whose dread laugh he would tremble to hear)
Last Line: By the living 't was scorned, 't is refused to the dead.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE BACHELOR, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He walked the way of life alone
Last Line: He was the one most loved of all.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE BACHELOR GIRL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's to the bachelor girl
Last Line: Long life—and happy days!
Subject(s): Independence; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE BACHELOR'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My pipe is lit, my grog is mix'd
Last Line: What d'ye think of that, my dog?
Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE BACHELOR'S LAMENT, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I might have married one of them, but grace
Last Line: Made fun of birthday cakes and christmas trees.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE BACHELOR'S SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a dog with a bottle, fast ty'd to his tail
Last Line: Yet he lugs it, and he hugs it, as a man does his wife.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE BATCHELOR OF SIXTY-TWO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some say to ninety-five they live
Last Line: "sing lackadaisy, etc"
Subject(s): Life;marriage;single People; Weddings;husbands;wives;bachelors;unmarried People


THE ETONIAN; THE BACHELOR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You wonder that your ancient friend / has come so near his journey's end
Last Line: And find some cause to envy mine!
Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The laird o' cockpen, he's proud an' he's great
Last Line: But as yet there's nae chickens appeared at cockpen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness
Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE MAID'S REMONSTRANCE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never wedding, ever wooing
Last Line: Not with age, but wo!
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE ODD WOMAN, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem 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 PHILANDERER, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere there is a girl for me
Last Line: And if I fail to cross her trail—the fault will not be mine!
Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE POET LOVES A MISTRESS, BUT NOT TO MARRY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not love to wed
Last Line: Will be content with one?
Subject(s): Sex; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE QUEEN OF TOMPKINS SQUARE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met her at the mission school
Last Line: The queen of tompkins square.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE RIVALS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look heah! Is I evah tole you 'bout de curious / way I won
Last Line: "folks, heaben knows!"
Subject(s): African Americans; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Negroes; American Blacks; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE STAG LINE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are lions and funny birdies, and enormous goofers that
Last Line: Though lots of them have buns on when they want to dance with you!
Subject(s): Animals; Dancing & Dancers; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE THREE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The first he loved was so
Last Line: Greenly remote, alone.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE TWO OLD BACHELORS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two old bachelors were living in one house
Last Line: And from that hour those bachelors were never heard of more.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Nonsense; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE TWO SUITORS, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear, I will give thee lands and gold
Last Line: With just enough of both.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE UNLOVED, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the women whom no man has loved
Last Line: The telling of a patient rosary.
Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


TO A BACHELOR FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come and see us, any day
Last Line: Could expect to find it!
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


TO HIS TOMB-MAKER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go I must; when I am gone
Last Line: Is in this word, batchelour.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


TO MY FIANCEE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do I love you, dear? Because
Last Line: Why do I love you, dear? Because!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


TOO LATE FOR A HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where were you in the marriage season?
Last Line: Go home now, we're all sold out
Subject(s): Single People; Time


UNMARRIED WOMAN AT MASS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Beneath the moses of the incense
Last Line: To the whispers of the mass
Subject(s): Single People; Women


VANISH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I did not die
Last Line: Wave on a shell, his salty tongue on an ear
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Sea; Single People; Survival


WAITING, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sigh and fidget, waiting for the class to end
Last Line: Forgetting -- oh hurry, hurry. Please, oh please -- %what horse we're spurring toward what finish li
Subject(s): Single People


WANTED - A WIFE, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hale and hearty, and sixty-three
Last Line: We'll have to hurry or we'll never atone.
Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


YSOLTE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, I am young and the world is wide
Last Line: It is well!
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Single People; Youth; Bachelors; Unmarried People