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Subject: VESTALS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3. AMARYLLIS, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I care not for these ladies, / that must be wooed and prayed
Last Line: She never will say no.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Virginity; Vestals


A DESCRIPTION OF MAIDENHEAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you not in a chimney seen
Last Line: "but the kind experienced dame / cracks, and rejoices in the flame"
Subject(s): Love - Erotic;virginity; Vestals


A VIRGIN LIFE, by JANE BARKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Since gracious heven, you have bestow'd on me
Last Line: To serve her god, her neighbour, and her friends.
Subject(s): Life; Religion; Virginity; Theology; Vestals


A VISION OF VIRGINS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a vision of the night
Last Line: The darkness took them. * * * * *
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Virginity; Vestals


ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A.U.C. 334: about this date
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D.
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sexism; Virginity; Vestals


AFTER THE PLEASURE PARTY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the house the upland falls
Last Line: O pray! Example take too, and have care.
Subject(s): Love; Virginity; Vestals


AMBOYNA: EPITHALAMIUM, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is come, I see it rise
Last Line: And now despairing shuts her eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Marriage; Virginity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals


BRIDAL BLOSSOMS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing by the bridegroom's side
Last Line: All that taints thy purity.
Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Virginity; Vestals


HASTEN, CLASP MAIDEN LIFE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hasten, clasp maiden life round her / white waist
Last Line: The bony and the lipless kiss of death!
Subject(s): Death; Virginity; Women; Dead, The; Vestals


HERODIAS, SELECTION, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, for myself, myself I flower forlorn!
Last Line: Its chill gems part at last.
Subject(s): Dreams; Virginity; Youth; Nightmares; Vestals


IMMENSE VIRGIN GIRLS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Open the door where they knock sighing
Last Line: Immense virgin girls!
Subject(s): Girls; Virginity; Vestals


IRIS, by CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS PHELPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou knowest not the parching
Last Line: Beneath the rainbow rim!
Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Iris (flower); Virginity; Vestals


JULIET TO ROSALINE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet coz, I thank you for your prudish vow
Subject(s): Virginity; Vestals


LILIES FOR ROSALIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Raise your heads, ye virgin lilies
Last Line: You shall live with rosalie.
Subject(s): Flowers; Leaves; Lilies; Virginity; Vestals


LINES IN A LETTER TO HIS LADY COUSIN, HONOR DRIDEN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For since 'twas mine, the white hath lost its hiew
Last Line: Whom you so farre shall bless to make your seale.
Subject(s): Latin Literature; Letters; Virginity; Roman Literature; Vestals


MAIDEN PURITY (THE LILY OF THE NILE), by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be thine the emblem, sweet one - watch and pray
Last Line: And pray for strength to wear her martyr crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe
Subject(s): Virginity; Vestals


NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON IN DIANAM, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a valley gaudy-green
Last Line: "what so strong as love's sweet law?"
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals


ODE TO BALTHUS, by TERRANCE HAYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old dirty, dirty. Old dirty, dirty handful of skin & motion
Subject(s): Sex; Virginity; Vestals


OF MODESTY, SELECTION, by MARY MOLLINEUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus modesty, and spotless innocence
Last Line: The heart, where vertue should prevail and reign.
Subject(s): Beauty; Modesty; Virginity; Vestals


ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light
Variant Title(s): The Marriage Of A Virgin
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Virginity; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals


ON THE VIRGINITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er is done to her she cannot know
Last Line: No one can take the pride no one the shame
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals


PARTHENIA, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With pale green hopes and the gay colors flying
Last Line: Scourging the night and gathering the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Suicide; Virginity; Vestals


SOLOMON, A SERENATA, IN THREE PARTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, jerusalem! Thy king
Last Line: Too poor a bribe to purchase love.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Virginity; Vestals


SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen
Last Line: And sighing and kissing so close.
Subject(s): Kisses; Prayer; Sex; Virginity; Wishes; Vestals


THE THEFT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When celia, coming from the stream
Last Line: And gave it back to love.
Subject(s): Cupid; Desire; Virginity; Eros; Vestals


THE THUNDER GODS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: To-day the thunder gods strike on their anvils in heaven
Last Line: And her soul belong to her love; not to her lovers.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Virginity; Women; Vestals


THE VESTAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She goes unwedded all her days
Last Line: Of the poor girl he never met.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Childlessness; Virginity; Vestals


TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love
Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals


TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love
Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I not touch some vpstart carpet-shield
Last Line: And now he would, and now he cannot wed.
Subject(s): Time; Virginity; Vestals


VIRGIN YOUTH (1), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now and again
Last Line: Tired and unsatisfied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals


VIRGIN YOUTH (2), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now and again
Last Line: On nothingness. Pardon me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals


VIRGINITIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jewell of jewells, richer far
Last Line: All creatures come in virgin puritie.
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virginity; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Vestals


WHY FLOWERS CHANGE COLOUR, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These fresh beauties (we can prove)
Last Line: Colours goe, and colours come.
Subject(s): Flowers; Virginity; Vestals