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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LADY COMES TO AN INN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Three strange men came to the inn
Last Line: Has forgotten those men and that beautiful bride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


A LETTER TO HER INCONSTANT LOVER, by ISABELLA WHITNEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: As close as you your weding kept
Last Line: You do peruse the rest?
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


A LUTE SONG, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou seen the down in the air
Last Line: Oh so fickle, oh so vain, oh so false, so false is she!
Variant Title(s): A Song To A Lute
Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Love; Lutes; Poetry & Poets; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies who in chains of wedlock
Last Line: Man in metal was the blade.
Subject(s): Murder; Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a man flying his wife
Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


A SONG OF FAITH FORSWORN, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Take back your suit
Last Line: Take back your wreath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


A SWEET NOSEGAY: 34, by ISABELLA WHITNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She that is an adultresse
Last Line: And husband doth decay.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ADULTERY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hot beautiful furless animals
Last Line: She should see it too it would %change her entire outlook
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


ADULTERY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow kimono I gave her on the dark stairway
Last Line: Where I earn my pay.
Subject(s): Kimonos; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


AGAINST WOMEN UNCONSTANT, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madame, for your newfangleness
Last Line: In stede of blew, thus may ye were al grene.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


AN OLD TALE OF THREE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, bonnie darling, lift your dark eyes dreaming!
Last Line: Ah, hell of my heart! Ye are dust to me—and dust with dust may woo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Love; Reunions; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ANELIDA AND ARCITE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou ferse god of armes, mars the rede
Last Line: That shapen was as ye shal after here.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ANOTHER. IN DEFENCE OF THEIR INCONSTANCY. A SONG, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hang up those dull, and envious fools
Last Line: To love one man, he'd leave her first.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ANSWER TO A CHARGE OF INCONSTANCY, by JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh not that I am faithless say
Last Line: Has dared avow his soul's election.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ANSWERING MACHINE, by MICHAEL ESTABROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pat hi, it's me, pick up. I thought you were
Last Line: Machine when she wasn't looking)
Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Jealousy; Unfaithfulness


APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When [or, now] daisies pied and violets blue
Last Line: Unpleasing to a married ear!
Variant Title(s): Spring;ver And Hiems;april
Subject(s): Cuckolds; Spring; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ARIADNE TO THESEUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunlight to the river
Last Line: Be mine the sad alloy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Theseus; Unfaithfulness; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


BAD NIGHT ON THIRD AVENUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my frequent little
Last Line: Up paddy's bar & then went %home to hate his bed alone
Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.); Unfaithfulness


BAHIA NOTES: THE WOMEN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her face a searing sea of questions
Last Line: Afraid of her vengeance
Subject(s): Anger; Unfaithfulness; Vengeance; Women


BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ned! She that likes thee now
Last Line: Ned! Faith look to it!
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


BENEATH A PLACID BROW, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fit for eternity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Grief; Unfaithfulness


BIBLE STUDIES: 3, by JACK STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: While god nurses there is relief
Last Line: My wife and I think, dear lord, forgive us our unbelief
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


BRIDE, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: He asks to use your phone
Last Line: And lead him through %the already open door
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Strangers; Unfaithfulness


CALLED INCONSTANT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! Ha! You think you've killed my fame
Last Line: As men in motion think the trees move too.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


CARMINA, 70: FEMALE INCONSTANCY, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mistress says she'll marry none but me
Last Line: Lovers we write in rapid streams and wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


CARMINA: OUR LESBIA THAT LESBIA, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nuns coated in silver were not so naked
Last Line: As our night interviews. %now what plum is your tongue %in?
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


CHANGE, by ROBERT DEVEREUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Change thy mind since she doth change
Last Line: Baser in so vilde a place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Essex, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not
Last Line: For once, I was what I would always be
Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness


CODA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Docs have released the poet
Last Line: Kiddo, see ya around the literary neighborhood. %and stay wet!'
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness


CONSTANCY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "one eve of beauty, when the sun"
Last Line: "but one week more, and I believed / as much the woman as the sand"
Subject(s): Love - Complaints;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


CONSTANCY, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You gave me the key of your heart, my love
Last Line: "and last night -- I changed the lock!"
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


CRUST ON FRESH SNOW, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My soul is hard as stone. I slept with the wind
Last Line: Where is he now? Tonight my heart froze
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


CYNTHIA IN CALIFORNIA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intricate intrigues were her
Last Line: As a lovely and %wonderful girl
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


DECEPTION, by KIM SUJANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at that girl in blouse and patterned skirt
Last Line: Her hips swinging lightly as the sun goes down
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


DIVORCE WORK, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an energy crisis
Last Line: Distilling thru my eyes, tears for this whole world
Subject(s): Divorce; Hispanic Americans; Law & Lawyers; Unfaithfulness; Latinos; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ELEGY: 3. CHANGE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too
Last Line: Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity.
Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 5. Change
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ELIAS CAIREL, I WANT TO KNOW, by ISABELLA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: So tell me, and don't be afraid, %that I may judge her worth and her intelligence
Subject(s): Troubadours; Unfaithfulness


EPISTLE FROM MRS. YONGE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Think not this paper comes with vain pretense
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


EPISTLE FROM MRS. YONGE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think not this paper comes with vain pretense
Last Line: And you the father of a glorious race %endowed with ch - l's strength and low - r's face
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Unfaithfulness


EROS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could eros be kept
Last Line: That he left us.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-two: 2
Subject(s): Bible; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


EROS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah love is bitter and sweet
Last Line: Bitter as ash?
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-three: 3
Subject(s): Bible; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


EROS: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had thought myself frail
Last Line: Then the day broke.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-four: 4
Subject(s): Bible; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FAITHFUL LOVERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd been away from her three years, - about that
Last Line: I don't call that unfaithfulness - do you?' %'no,' I replied, 'for I am married too'
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness


FAITHLESS WIFE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: So I took her to the river
Last Line: When I took her to the river
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


FALSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: False! Good god, I am dreaming!
Last Line: I walk in the dark alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FALSE DEARVORGIL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe to the house of breffni, and to red o'ruark woe
Last Line: And made war loud in erinn with the smiling of your mouth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FALSEHOOD, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still do the stars impart their light
Last Line: And as the stream with murmur pass.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Truth


FAREWELL, UNKIST, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What should I say / since faith is dead
Last Line: Farewell, unkist!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): A Revocation;song: 94
Subject(s): Love; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FIDELITY IN DOUBT, by GUIRAUD LE ROUX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, lady, to my song incline
Last Line: And brave men still do their occasion meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Roux, Guiraud (1110-1147)
Subject(s): Disappointment; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FISHERMAN'S LYRICS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind the embroidered curtains
Last Line: It's obvious you have betrayed me
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Unfaithfulness


FOR MY LOVER, RETURNING TO HIS WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is all there
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FOR MY LOVER, RETURNING TO HIS WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is all there
Last Line: As for me, I am a watercolor. %I wash off
Subject(s): God; Religion; Unfaithfulness


FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Didst thou not praise me, gaultier, at the ball
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness


FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I prithee, rene, charm our ears again
Last Line: [falls on paolo's body.]
Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jester, hey, jester
Last Line: Sword.]
Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


GAME OF BOWLS IN GLASGOW, by ANNE CAYLOR MACALPIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her husband gone to canada
Last Line: While the man who bowls in borrowed gardens %perfects his game
Subject(s): Love Affairs; Unfaithfulness


GOD IS A COWBOY WHO RIDES A LAME HORSE, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Burroughs fondled me in the store's back room
Last Line: Recuperate my straggling hair, my breached life
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Jealousy; Justice; Murder; Trials; Unfaithfulness


HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let my faithless lover
Last Line: Through the spiked quince hedge
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


HER ONLY FLAW, by RUFINUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All else I love, but this abhor
Last Line: A look so undiscerning.
Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 31, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What though I have transgrest against thy will?
Last Line: Of constant love, we other blessings miss.
Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


I HAD A TAPEWORM, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a tapeworm, and imagined it
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Illness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


I HAVE SEEN, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've seen the delicate golden-haired child
Last Line: Might have the joy of one more sweet flow'r snatching.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


I; AN ANALYSIS OF A CERTAIN DOCUMENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a prophet, and therefore, of course
Last Line: In the realms of an ethical task.
Subject(s): Morality; Unfaithfulness; Ethics; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


IF THERE'S A GOD..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there's a god of amphetamine, he's also the god of wrecked
Last Line: "laughing at all who stumble. Put out your tongue and receive it."
Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Medicine; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


IL INFIDO, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I breathe, 'tis true, wretch that I am, 'tis true
Last Line: And never more my overweening love misplace.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


IN A GLASS WINDOW, FOR INCONSTANCY, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, of this clearest, frailest glass
Last Line: Clearness for me, frailty for her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Mirrors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


IN THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O she will have the deep dark heart, for all her face is fair
Last Line: A heaven of peace it is beside this mockery of a grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Advice; Despair; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Shadows; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


INCONSTANCY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All in a dreary april day
Last Line: "in the summer heart of my passion flower!"
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


INCONSTANCY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five years ago (says story) I loved you
Last Line: Beauty and colour stay not when we dye.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


INCONSTANCY, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inconstancy's the greatest of sins
Last Line: Like the same body in another place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


INCONSTANCY, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O queen of my beloved ones
Last Line: For whom I'll die tomorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


INCONSTANCY EXCUSED, by JOHN SHEFFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must confess I am untrue
Last Line: I sigh my soul away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


INFIDELITIES, by JAMES MCCORKLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wet air, rain oncoming
Last Line: Pulled from their dark hold, and cast down
Subject(s): Nature; Unfaithfulness


INFIDELITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband put some poison in my beer
Last Line: I've kept my frailty in the family
Subject(s): Poisons And Poisoning; Unfaithfulness


IPHIGENIA, SETTING RHE RECORD STRAIGHT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The towers waited, shimmering just
Last Line: And sacrificed for wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Mythology; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


JUST BEFORE I FLY OUT OF MYSELF, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Meant to be faithful to us
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Nature; Unfaithfulness


KAISEKI, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aunt has developed carpal tunnel syndrome
Last Line: Water flows to what is wet.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Metamorphosis; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


KING HARALD'S TRANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sword in length a reaping-hook amain
Last Line: Doubled at their feet.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Treason And Traitors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


LABOR DAY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Requiring something lovely on his arm
Last Line: Pastures spewing infinite tiny bells. You pimp
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Unfaithfulness


LESBIA'S COMPLAINT AGAINST THYRISIS HIS INCONSTANCY; A SONNET, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I lov'd thee, faithless man, and love thee still
Last Line: A monument of thy inconstancy.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


LOVE'S NIGHT & A LAMP, by MELEAGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Witness her lying %-- in other arms
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


LOVER ACCUSING HIS OF HER UNFAITHFULNESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smoky sighes, the bitter teares
Last Line: Therewith to trayn the grekish host %from troyes return where they were lost
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


MACBETH IN VENICE: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A spiral sun %crossed the spiral stairs
Last Line: Beneath a winter shower %in assassin street
Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Guilt; Murder; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Unfaithfulness


MADAME DELUXE'S MAIL-ORDER BRIDES: 8. WHAT TO DO IF YOU SUSPECT YOUR, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you suspect your bride is lying or cheating
Last Line: Will stain hands and feet
Subject(s): Cheating; Jokes; Marriage - Forced; Unfaithfulness


MALEDICTION, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: May the man who gave me this ring
Last Line: Or until I choose, %amen
Subject(s): Hate; Unfaithfulness


MARGARET TRUDEAU'S 'PIED BEAUTY': THE PM'S CHATELAINE, by RICHARD LAMB    Poem Source                    
First Line: I yeared for yielding to purely private power
Last Line: Of state. Who was cuckolded?
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


MARIANSON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ah! Marianson, my beauteous dame"
Subject(s): Anger;death;jealousy;marriage;unfaithfulness; "dead, The;weddings;husbands;wives;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy;


MUROMACHI BALLAD (5), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men's hearts, like the nets
Last Line: Are everywhere watching
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


MY LADY AND I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For a year and a day I must tarry away
Last Line: A year and a day!
Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Time; Unfaithfulness; Parting; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


MY TYRANT AND MY TORTURER, by KHUSHHAL KHAN KHATAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: How hard you are, how cruel too
Last Line: By keeping others company
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
Last Line: I have been faithful to thee, cynara! In my fashion.
Variant Title(s): Cynara
Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Unfaithfulness; Faithfulness; Constancy; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


NOTHING TO FEAR, by KINGSLEY AMIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: All fixed: early arrival at the flat
Last Line: As cold as ice, but just as set on me
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Villains In Literature


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 17. AN ELEGY, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Constant to none, but ever false to me
Last Line: If graced firm he stands, if not, eas'ly falls.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ODE TO CHLOE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: False one, farewell, thou hast releast
Last Line: Falsehood's a charm to love, or lust.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ON FEMALE INCONSTANCY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "rich, thou hadst many lovers - poor, hast none"
Last Line: That want's a crime no woman can forgive?
Subject(s): Love - Materialism;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


ONE I LOVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Soon the east will grow bright %and all will be known
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness


ONE RALPH BLOSSOM SOLILOQUIZES, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am in hell or some such place
Last Line: With you away. Dear, come, o come to me!'
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


PARISINA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the hour when from the boughs
Last Line: And never more a leaf reveals.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Ferrara, Italy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


PART OF JUVENAL'S SIXTH SATIRE, MODERNIZED IN BURLESQUE VERSE, SELS., by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: But say you, if each private family
Last Line: She staid the last - then went, thay say, %unsatisified, tho' tired, away
Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


PERADVENTURE', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "more truth than poetry, omar, you wrote"
Last Line: "a hair, wife-found upon a husband's coat!"
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


PHILANDERER, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter if she missed him
Last Line: Such steamy compulsions, %such furtive random releases?
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


PRUDENCE, by WILLIAM AARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're more attentive to your husband
Last Line: Against your lover's graying chest, 'please, %no heart attack on top of me.'
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


RAHIM MULTANI: 2. A DROPPED SHAWL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There he wsa rahim, owner of the delhi palace grand, in
Last Line: His cousin, but a brother from the camp; not a brother, his %best friend
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


RAHIM MULTANI: 3. IF ONLY A TASTE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A car came from the delhi grand
Last Line: His look asked would you and I said I would
Subject(s): Love; Unfaithfulness


RAHIM MULTANI: 4. A HUSBAND'S RETURN, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was expecting rain for a week no rain came
Last Line: Held rahim's scent and nothing else
Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness


READING RESPONSIVELY, by SHARON CHMIELARZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sat in church. I heard
Last Line: I wear a hat against a light %hot and strong as irons
Subject(s): Public Worship; Religion; Revolutions; Unfaithfulness


REUBEN'S CHILDREN, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accursed from their birth they be
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a man flying his wife
Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness


ROY'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH GRANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Roy's wife of aldivalloch!
Last Line: Though she's for ever left her johnnie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grant Of Carron, Mrs.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


RURAL INTERLUDE, by FORREST HOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The scandal spread like flames befoer the wind
Last Line: If I was young and full of thwarted dreams.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't
Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SANQU LYRIC, TO THE TUNE ZHE GUI LING, by HUANG E    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember when we were together: shared pillow, same coverlet
Last Line: So don't bring up again that old line about 'one quarter-hour being worth a thousand pieces of gold'
Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Unfaithfulness


SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A secret love or two I must confess
Last Line: Judge then what debtor can keep touch truly.
Subject(s): Confessions; Secrets; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harden now thy tyred hart, with more then flinty rage
Last Line: Too oft, I feare, thou wilt remember me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Variant Title(s): Second Book Of Airs: 3
Subject(s): Anger; Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SEMEN, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who remembers now in our millennial loneliness
Last Line: Nijinsky who remains mad, and dead
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Unfaithfulness


SHADOWS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walked out on hallows' e'en
Last Line: And I have a mole where his heart bled.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Deception; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SHE WHO MET THE SERPENT IN THE POND THE ADULTERESS, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: She had fucked with the king of the pool
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


SINK OR SWIM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ship was wreck'd, and struggling with the ocean's angry tide
Last Line: "but that secret, sink or swim, love, to the grave with me must go."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA, MARRIAGE COUNSELOR, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Constancy is for the birds: 92
Last Line: Our world of joy and woe
Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness


SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE CLOSED, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when I arrived, john would breathe
Last Line: Like a child I practiced saying it
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


SNOW WHITE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was beautiful, lying there in the meadow
Last Line: Even with this gritty, brown, slammer soap
Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Unfaithfulness


SOILED DOVE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us be honest; the lady was not a harlot until she
Last Line: To year, and wonders sometimes how one man is coming along with six women.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SONG, by WILLIAM CONGREVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: False though she be to me and love
Last Line: I'm grateful for the past.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


SONG (15), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I send back thy letters
Last Line: How faithless thou art
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


SONG WHITE HAIR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As bright as the snow on mountaintop
Last Line: Long life to you, ten thousand years
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness


SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By nought but sorrow attended
Last Line: On your friendship I cannot rely.
Subject(s): Birds; Friendship; Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SONNET TO MANON: ON HER WAYWARDNESS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is rank slavery. It better were
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SONNET: 13. OUT OF CATALLUS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto nobody my woman saith she had rather a wife be
Last Line: In wind or water stream do require to be writ.
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Variant Title(s): Carmina: 70
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SPANISH BOYS AT THE HOTEL MANX, by DEBORAH BYRNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They prepare french dip sandwiches
Last Line: So innocent they believe only the stars %know where they've been
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Labor And Laborers; Loyalty; Unfaithfulness


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. MERRITT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent before the jury
Last Line: Carried me out in a coffin.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. PURKAPILE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He ran away and was gone for a year
Last Line: Of his marital vow and duty.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first I suspected something
Last Line: As he aimed and fired at my heart.
Subject(s): Murder; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SPRING, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rain swells
Last Line: The sun %a white spider in the morning sky
Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Unfaithfulness


TALKING TO GRANDPA EASTMAN, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do you think, restless one?
Last Line: I won't dig up this dirt again
Subject(s): Anger; Daughters; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Mothers; Sex; Unfaithfulness


THAT SHE FORGOT ME WAS THE LEAST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A something like a shame
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Shame


THAT YOU ALLOW YOURSELF THIS VAST NEGLECT OF ME, by SULPICIA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My place, my bed, ceded to some namesless slut
Alternate Author Name(s): Sulpicius Lupercus Servasius, Jr.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


THE BOSS'S WIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The warm winds crossed from the eastern coast
Last Line: "'twas chin-ti, the chinese cook!"
Subject(s): Deception;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


THE BROKEN RING, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in a cool, green valley
Last Line: Then it would stand quite still.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Unfaithfulness; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE BROKEN RING, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in yon cool valley
Last Line: Then all were calm and still.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Unfaithfulness; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 11. MONOGAMY STRAYS, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just once, I thought just once. I know you're not
Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be
Subject(s): Marriage; Self; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE COMPLAINT OF A LOVER FORSAKEN OF HIS LOVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A poor soule sate sighing by a sicamore tree
Last Line: "thou dost loth me, -- I love thee, though cause of my death"
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


THE CURTAIN OF THE WEDDING BED, by MRS. LIU HSUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flap, flap, you curtain in front of our bed!
Last Line: Curtain -- shall I ever take you out again?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood
Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 6, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rider lingered at the fence a moment
Last Line: While the brown brook ran on by buried daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Regret; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DEAD MISTRESS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, o my dark beloved, thou shalt drowse
Last Line: The worm shall suck thy burning body pale.
Subject(s): Death; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DEATH OF A PHOTOGRAPHER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light was his paradigm
Last Line: Down to its dark frame.
Subject(s): Death; Photography & Photographers; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DECLAIMER, by HENRY BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Woman! Thoughtless, giddy creature
Last Line: Kneeled and whined at celia's feet.
Subject(s): Love; Unfaithfulness; Vanity; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DEMON LOVER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o where have you been, my long, long love"
Last Line: And sank her in the sea
Subject(s): Devil;love - Loss Of;suicide;unfaithfulness; Satan;mephistopheles;lucifer;beelzebub;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


THE FADING ROSE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a rose, in bloom, but sad
Last Line: "tis there I have laid her and trod her in.'"
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE FAIR INCONSTANT, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou still hope thou shalt be fair
Last Line: I looked thee into loveliness!
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE FAITHLESS, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, you jade smooth liar
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There once was a time when I loved
Last Line: And arrest all these fast-flowing tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Faith; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Unfaithfulness; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE FALSE ONE; IN IMITATION TO THAT OF HORACE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, false maid, yon horned light
Last Line: Despise, and laugh at him and thee.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE GIAOUR; A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH TALE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No breath of air to break the wave
Last Line: Of her he loved, or him he slew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Cruelty; Slavery; Turkey; Unfaithfulness; Serfs; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE GIRL AT THE NATIVE DOG, by G. M. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a gay young cattle-man
Last Line: On that girl at native dog.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Steele
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 37. THE LOVE-MOON, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When that dead face, bowered in the furthest years
Last Line: "the love-moon that must light my soul to love?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou pale orb, that silent shines
Last Line: A faithless woman's broken vow!
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE LEAN LOVER, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I paced, an easy rambler
Last Line: "go, faithless woman, go!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE MANIAC, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet summer flowers were braided in her hair
Last Line: Remembrance beamed, and tears would slowly rise.
Subject(s): Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE MERCHANT AND THE FIDLER'S WIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a rich merchant man
Last Line: They are ever free and common
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


THE MERIT OF INCONSTANCY, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou say I am forsworn
Last Line: Did I still doat upon that face.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE MESSAGE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Send home my [long] strayed eyes to me
Last Line: Or prove as false as thou art now.
Subject(s): Deception; Eyes; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN VANBRUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time, a nightingale
Last Line: Would run away from her -- as I from you.
Variant Title(s): Learned Women
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the golden city and the sea
Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE PARSON O' PORLOCK TOWN; A MORAL BALLAD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There once was a parson o' porlock town
Last Line: Grow pale at the fear of shame?
Subject(s): Clergy; Unfaithfulness; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE RETURN, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When did your ship dock, jim dale
Last Line: The gas-lamps paled to day.
Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE RING AND THE CASTLE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Benjamin bailey, benjamin bailey, why do you wake
Last Line: "trees let me lie."
Subject(s): Love; Repentance; Sin; Unfaithfulness; Penitence; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE SPRAY OF PLUM BLOSSOMS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has separated my lord and me
Last Line: Or as plum blossoms in early spring.
Subject(s): Fruit; Plums; Unfaithfulness; Plum Trees; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE TEARS OF FEAR, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is my lais' smile, and sweet the tide / of tears that flood her eyes
Last Line: "you will desert me: men are never true."
Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary
Subject(s): Fear; Tears; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE TRYST OF QUEEN HYNDE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen hynde was in the rowan-wood with scarlet fruit aflame
Last Line: "the old king's son, they say; mayhap; he has gillander's eyes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Love; Murder; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: While that the sun with his beams hot
Last Line: Two days before it was begun
Variant Title(s): "philon The Shepherd - His Song;adieu Love, Untrue Love;the Faithless Lover;philon The Shepherd;
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


THE UNFORTUNATE MILLER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All you that desire to here [sic] of a jest
Last Line: And said he was very well serv'd in his kind
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD: SONG, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When lovely woman stoops to folly
Last Line: And wring his bosom is -- to die.
Variant Title(s): On Woman;woman;stanzas On Woman
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE WATCHERS, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandmother's nose is white from the icy window
Last Line: Why we watch him
Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


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 WILLS OF THE WISP; A SAPPHIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lunatic witch-fires! Ghosts of light and motion
Last Line: Black-ey'd rebecca!
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE WOUNDED KNIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a story of anguish
Last Line: Accusing bosom must turn.
Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Suicide; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went home and told their wives
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went home and told their wives
Last Line: They'd spend one night, or two or three %but
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women


THIS WILL BE MY ONLY (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unfaithfulness. %I will take the man
Last Line: Every time we touch
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


THIS WILL BE MY ONLY (2), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unfaithfulness
Last Line: Of our dreams and wake up %strangers, hair thin, hearts %faithless
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


TO A FALSE LADY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When softly gathered twilight o'er the silent air
Last Line: With which thou didst unchanging love requite.'
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy


TO HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Choose me your valentine
Last Line: None then will wooe you.
Subject(s): Holidays; Unfaithfulness; Valentine's Day; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


TO HIS UNCONSTANT FRIEND, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But say, thou very woman, why to me
Last Line: I shall find ten as fair, and yet more true.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


TO JULIAN (WHO IS NOT JULIAN, BUT THAT IS ENOUGH), by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He does not notice her
Last Line: She cuts out their eyes %one by one
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Murder; Suicide; Unfaithfulness


TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou, poor excommunicate
Last Line: Damned for thy false apostasy.
Variant Title(s): Song. To My Inconstant Mistress;song
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


TO PHILASTER, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, perjured youth, and court what nymph you please
Last Line: For the first ardour of thy soul was all possessed by me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


TO WOMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman! Experience might have told me
Last Line: Woman, thy vows are traced in sand.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


TRAGEDY OF IDA BALL WARREN AND SAMUEL CHRISTIE, by I. J. BRITTAIN                       
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


TRUE STORY, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She came home early from work one morning
Last Line: She didn't really say that to her, did she?'
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


TRUTH TOLD AT LAST, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says pontius in rage, contradicting his wife
Last Line: You're a cuckold, says she; do I tell you truth now?'
Subject(s): Anger; Life; Marriage; Truth; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER, by LINDA NOEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are too wild
Last Line: Are laced in perfume %and dishwater suds
Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Unfaithfulness


UNFAITHFUL WIFE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: And I took her to the river
Last Line: Of satin the colour of straw
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness


UPON HIS LEAVING HIS MISTRESS, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not that I am weary grown
Last Line: And be the mistress of mankind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


UPON SCOBBLE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scobble for whoredom whips his wife, and cries
Last Line: One slit's enough to let adultery in.'
Subject(s): Hate; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


VIETNAM, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: You become pen pals with a comvict
Last Line: Should have fought world war ii %and we should have gone to vietnam
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


WASHING CREEK SANDS, by OU-YANG JIONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Speak no more when we meet
Last Line: That her lover was untrue?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Unfaithfulness


WATCHERS, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandmother's nose is white from the icy window
Last Line: Why we watch him
Subject(s): Marriage; Unfaithfulness


WED, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I married him on christmas morn
Last Line: Would I were dead.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Love; Marriage; Sex; Unfaithfulness; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


WHEN THE YOUNG HUSBAND, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the young husband picked up his friend's pretty wife
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


WING TEE WEE, by J. P. DENISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, wing tee wee / was a sweet chinee
Last Line: And the maids are false, -- as everywhere.
Subject(s): China; Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door
Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream.
Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence
Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab


WOMAN'S CONSTANCY, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There never yet was woman made
Last Line: Till all their sweets are gone, and all again refuse them.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY, by ROBERT AYTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved thee once, I'll love no more
Last Line: A begging to a beggar's door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aytoun, Robert
Variant Title(s): I'll Love No More;to An Inconstant Mistress [or, One]
Subject(s): Disappointment; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


ZI-YE SONGS: 16, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love was taken by another
Last Line: Which is to say: 'close no more'
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness