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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WILDE, OSCAR (1854-1900) Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARREST OF OSCAR WILDE AT THE CADOGAN HOTEL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sipped at a weak hock and seltzer Last Line: He brushed past the palms on the staircase %and was helped to a hansom outside Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) HOMEMADE VOODOO, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: I worshipped you. I licked the black from shadows Last Line: Then quoted me wilde, nothing succeeds like excess Subject(s): Success; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) LITERARY DUBLIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn near where'er you look, a writer's ghost Last Line: And daedalus's execration hung %above the city like a blind man's blessing Subject(s): Behan, Brendan (1923-1964); Dramatists; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Plays And Playwrights; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) METAMORPHOSES: 2. ORPHEUS (OSCAR WILDE), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mean man came to me in a dream Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) METAMORPHOSES: 2. ORPHEUS (OSCAR WILDE), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mean man came to me in a dream Last Line: Pork smell steamed from his truncated, polish thumb Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) MORE IMPRESSIONS, by UNKNOWN+113 Poem Source First Line: To outer senses they are geese Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) OH WHO IS THAT YOUNG SINNER WITH HANDCUFFS ON HIS WRIST, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He can curse the god that made him for the colour of his hair Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Hair; Homosexuality; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) ON LOVE: OSCAR WILDE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To set the scene: we're in a country house Last Line: Think of love when you think of oscar wilde Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) OSCAR WILDE, by ELSA BARKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Laureate of corruption, on whose brow Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) QUESTION FOR WILDE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Oscar, you say we're all in Last Line: At the raw economics of hate Subject(s): Life; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) SONNET OF ADDRESSING OSCAR WILDE, by ANNE CARSON Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) THE ARREST OF OSCAR WILDE AT THE CADOGAN HOTEL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sipped at a weak hock and seltzer Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) THE DEAD POET, by ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face Last Line: And so I woke and knew that he was dead. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GOURMAND, SELECTION, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He did not wear his swallow tail, / but a simple dinner coat Last Line: The poor man with a knife. Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) |
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