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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VANITY Matches Found: 95 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "DO NOT, O DO NOT PRIZE THY BEAUTY AT TOO HIGH A RATE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Through their own delay Subject(s): Beauty;pride;vanity; Self-esteem;self-respect "TO DEMOSTHENES, ON A FLATTERING MIRROR", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It flatters and deceives thy view Last Line: Thou wouldst consult it never more Subject(s): Flattery;mirrors;vanity A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall essenc'd coxcombs who from toilettes Last Line: Own the supreme omnipotence of gold. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sin; Vanity; Virtue A PALINODE, by EDMUND BOLTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As withereth the primrose by the river Last Line: As shine by fountains, bubbles, flowers, or snow? Subject(s): Transience; Vanity; Impermanence A TESTIMONY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said of laughter: it is vain Last Line: Witnessed that all are vanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Vanity A VAIN SHADOW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world, - what a world, ah me Last Line: As what is and passes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Vanity AGAINST DRESS, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will neaera fondly deck Last Line: Untaught and artless charm the vale. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Nature; Vanity AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls Subject(s): Time; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls Last Line: And I don't feel so well myself Subject(s): Time; Transience; Vanity ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine Last Line: The soul that must endure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Vanity; Theology AN EPISTLE TO WILLIAM HOGARTH, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Amongst the sons of men how few are known Last Line: Reynolds, in time, may be like hogarth now. Subject(s): Envy; Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Paintings & Painters; Vanity; Virtue ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You give your cheeks a rosy stain Last Line: Old hecuba young helen. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Cosmetics; Vanity BEAUTY IS VAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While roses are so red Last Line: And hide her away in a shroud. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Vanity BUCOLIC COMEDY: ON THE VANITY OF HUMAN ASPIRATIONS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold wind, towers grind round Last Line: "it was a sad catastrophe!" Subject(s): Vanity CONFESSION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I meet a handsome man Last Line: Is contrast. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Mirrors; Vanity DAYS OF VANITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dream that waketh Last Line: Such is life that dieth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Vanity DISTINCTION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am but clay,' the sinner plead Last Line: "but worse, for thou art mire." Subject(s): Vanity DRESS YOUR SOUL, by JULIUS C BRUTTO Poem Text First Line: Each man is but a shell Last Line: Or perish like the foredoomed shell. Subject(s): Soul; Vanity ECCLESIASTES: ALL IS VANITY, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun Last Line: So that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: %for all is vanity Subject(s): Religion; Vanity EMPERORS AND KINGS, HOW OFT HAVE TEMPLES RUNG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than ever forced unpitied hearts to bleed Subject(s): Vanity; Peace; Courts & Couriers EPITAPH: FOR A PREACHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity of vanities Subject(s): Vanity EVENING OUT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have your hat and coat on and she says she will be right out Last Line: And then go off and spend the evening at the club Subject(s): Vanity EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white Variant Title(s): The New La Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity FABLES FOR THE LADIES: LOVE AND VANITY, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezy morning breath'd perfume Last Line: And centres every fond desire. Subject(s): Fables; Love; Vanity; Women; Allegories FOLLY OF FINERY, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some poor little ignorant children delight Last Line: But quite a disgrace to be fine Subject(s): Simplicity; Vanity FRAGMENT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man, man, thou art too vain. Look round, and see Last Line: Too much for thy weak power to analyze. Subject(s): Vanity HER BONNET, by MARY ELEANOR WILKINS FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When meeting-bells began to toll Last Line: Only that her pretty bonnet kept away the aureole. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkins, Mary E. Subject(s): Hats; Public Worship; Vanity; Church Attendance HYMN, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great god! How vain our lives can be Last Line: And to the weary opens heaven. Subject(s): God; Vanity I THINK DELILAH HAD A HEART, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: I think delilah had a heart Last Line: Heard the breathless shears snap. Subject(s): Hearts; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect LEARNING AND RICHES, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why should the world be apt to censure me? Last Line: Of golden truth a glory unsurpassed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Greed; Love; Vanity; Avarice; Cupidity LIPSTICK, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who can hurry past the five-and-dime Last Line: From behind his eyelids, feverish and weak? Subject(s): Cosmetics; Lips; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Vanity; Women LUCASTA'S FAN, WITH A LOOKING-GLASS IN IT, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Estrich, thou feather'd fool and easy prey Last Line: If hence she dress herself but in his eyes. Subject(s): Vanity MAN FRAIL AND GOD ETERNAL, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our god, our help in ages past Last Line: And our eternal home. Variant Title(s): Hymn;our Dwelling Place;psalm 90: 1-5 Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Vanity; Belief; Creed; Theology MELEAGER: VANITY OF VANITIES, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Treat well the living. Dead men are but dust Last Line: And shadow: our nothingness to nothing goes. Subject(s): Vanity MISS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A narcissistic glance Last Line: The stalking shadow Subject(s): Vanity ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light lay the earth on billy's breast Last Line: His scull will prop it under. Variant Title(s): Epigram On A Noted Coxcomb Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fools; Vanity; Idiots ON A TUFT-HUNTER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, lament, sir isaac heard Last Line: Than sav'd in vulgar company. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Turf-hunter Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vanity ON LUXURY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, ye profuse, has nature work'd in vain Last Line: Too deeply bosom'd in the branching wood. Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Pleasure; Vanity ONE CERTAINTY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity of vanities, the preacher saith Last Line: And morning shall be cold and twilight grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Vanity OUT BACK, by P. QUINN Poem Text First Line: We dumped our swags by the river-side when the sun was getting low Last Line: Twas the first gay time he had crossed that creek, but I had been there before. Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Vanity; Journeys; Trips OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence OZYMANDIAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In egypt's sandy silence, all alone Last Line: Once dwelt in that annihilated place. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): On A Stupendous Leg Of Granite Subject(s): Egypt; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence POSTHUMOUS COQUETRY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be laid, when I am dead Last Line: Pater and ave for my peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Funerals; Love; Vanity; Burials PRIDE IN TRIFLES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, life must mock itself, to mark how small Last Line: Has fancied into grandeur. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Vanity PROCRASTINATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady wears a big bouquet Last Line: She grows more wasteful. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Materialism; Procrastination; Spendthrifts; Vanity; Male-female Relations PROUD MAISIE, FR. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud maisie is in the wood Last Line: Welcome, proud lady!' Variant Title(s): Madge Wildfire's [death] Song;the Pride Of Youth Subject(s): Courage; Love; Vanity; Valor; Bravery ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect SATIRE: 10. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Source First Line: In every clime, from granges' distant stream Last Line: And fixed in heaven thy visionary throne! Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Vanity SHADOWED VANITY, by ORCHID PEDEN Poem Text First Line: Since age has come to us Last Line: Since they're not seen by him. Subject(s): Old Age; Vanity SHRODON FEAR: THE VU'ST PEART, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' zoo's the day wer warm an' bright Last Line: He didden even zweal the crown. Subject(s): Autumn; Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Magic; Seasons; Vanity; Fall; Fairs; Pageants SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SOFT AS A CLOUD IS YON BLUE RIDGE - THE MERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The elastic vanities of yesterday? Subject(s): Vanity SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 2. PLEASURE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Try then, o man, the moments to deceive Last Line: Their wishes, smiles, and looks deceitful all, and vain. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pleasure; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Vanity; Wealth; Joy; Delight; Riches; Fortunes SONNET TO MANON: ON HER VANITY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are these things thou lovest? Vanity Subject(s): Vanity STERN TRUTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is made up of vanities - so small Last Line: And makes us feel that fate is terrible. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Vanity THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity, saith [or said] the pracher, vanity! Last Line: As still he envied me, so fair she was! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Graves; Vanity; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE BOAR AND THE SINGING BIRD, by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Poem Text First Line: A millionaire of much pretence Last Line: "deems his own merit the attraction." Subject(s): Pigs; Vanity; Wealth; Boars; Hogs; Riches; Fortunes THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man splays his arms and legs, he is a kind of medusa Last Line: Mortal among immortals, the dead man can change you to stone. Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Vanity; Dead, The THE BUTTERFLY AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I heard a butterfly Last Line: "the vanity of dress." Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Vanity THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before my hall I stood; with sated eye Last Line: Glory to god!—not all, not all is vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Vanity; Cathedrals THE CURLING TONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who can describe the dainty curls Last Line: Dodo' will do - and a curling tongs Subject(s): Hair;vanity THE DANCE OF VANITY (MODERN STYLE), by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Selfishness has swept the house Last Line: For the burial of souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Selfishness; Vanity 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 EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In secret place where once I stood Last Line: Take thou the world, and all that will. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE GREEN KNIGHT'S FAREWELL TO FANCY, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy (quoth he) farewell, whose badge I long did bear Last Line: I say god send me better speed, and fancy now farewell. Subject(s): Vanity THE LITTLENESS OF LIFE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is so little in its vanities Last Line: To their own wretched level nobler things. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life; Vanity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 121, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Building sky-high pavilions is useless Last Line: At least don't be crooked as a hook Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Vanity; Virtue THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 295, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go ahead stockpile rhino horn Last Line: Trying to live forever is vain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Mortality; Vanity; Dead, The THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly Last Line: The fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flattery; Insects; Spiders; Vanity; Bugs THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore. Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship THE TWO PEACOCKS OF BEDFONT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! That breathing vanity should go Last Line: How they once lived, and wherefore they are there. Subject(s): Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE VANITY OF EXTERNAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, by MARY WHATELEY Poem Text First Line: Ye smarts and belles, whose airs and arts confess Last Line: And my life vanish in a tuneful sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Darwall, Mrs. John Subject(s): Aging; Facades; Vanity; Women; Appearances THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your soldiers' bracelets; all Last Line: To bruise and crush them with its weight. Subject(s): Vanity THE VANITY OF VOWS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soul of many longings entered late Last Line: And, ere the morning quickened, she was dead. Subject(s): Vanity THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the laboratory waiting room Last Line: In the empty eye. Subject(s): Children; Eyes; Vanity; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism TO A LADY VERY HANDSOME BUT TOO FOND OF DRESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Prythee who so fantastic and vain? Last Line: Because that thy teeth are so white? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress;vanity TO A PROUD BEAUTY, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperious fool! Think not because your're fair Last Line: Provoke my pen to write in such a strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Beauty; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO A VAIN LADY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, heedless girl! Why thus disclose Last Line: I pity, but I cannot love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Houson, Anne; Vanity TO MISS -- ON HER SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AT HER LOOKING GLASS, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: While at the mirror, lovely maid Last Line: Nor yet, with life expire. Subject(s): Happiness; Mirrors; Vanity; Joy; Delight VAIN, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN Poem Text First Line: I sought a maiden who would be Last Line: "reflected in a silver sea." Subject(s): Sea; Vanity; Ocean VANIITY, by CATHARINE MACADAM Poem Text First Line: The high screech of a swooping gull Last Line: "there is no soul to the symphony!" Subject(s): Vanity VANITAS VANITATUM, OMNIA VANITAS, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all we do, and hear, and see Last Line: But hoping through the darkest day. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Faith; God; Vanity; Transience; Belief; Creed; Impermanence VANITIES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could ye be very blest in hearkening Last Line: It is in vain, it is in vain!' Subject(s): Vanity; Passion VANITY, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know why ladies dress themselves Last Line: Their hearts are hungry to be great. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Vanity VANITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Thank you for listening, for looking. I admire Last Line: Something true Subject(s): Admiration; Gratitude; Truth; Vanity VANITY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity! Guiding power, 'tis thine to rule Last Line: Each deems his task the glory of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Vanity VANITY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I have suffered deeply Last Line: From out the fruit of pain. Subject(s): Grief; Vanity; Sorrow; Sadness VANITY, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: Suddenly Last Line: Rocked and %softly %shattered Subject(s): Vanity VANITY FAIR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vanity fair, as we bow and smile Last Line: In vanity fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Vanity; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes VANITY OF VANITIES (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah woe is me for pleasure that is vain Last Line: Saying one to another 'how vain it is!' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Vanity VANITY OF VANITIES, AL IS VANITY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On reggio's classic shore I stood Last Line: Nought left them but a broken heart. Subject(s): Vanity VERSES LEFT ON A LADY'S TOILETTE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will young flavia, all-accomplisht fair Last Line: Who tire with gems and silks the dazled eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Simplicity; Vanity; Women WHO SHALL DELIVER?, by HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He spake; - from vanity, it seem'd to be Last Line: And save me from the body of this death. Subject(s): Vanity |
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