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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNFAITHFULNESS Matches Found: 205 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 meand 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 |
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