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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ACTORS & ACTRESSES Matches Found: 76 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CRY FROM THE STALLS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful darling Last Line: End of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Actors & Actresses A SESSION OF THE POETS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the sons of the muses, grew num'rous, and loud Last Line: For he had writ plays, yet ne're came in print. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Betterton, Tom (1635-1710); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets ADDRESS FOR MISS FONTENELLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still anxious to secure your partial favour Last Line: And as we're merry, may we still be wise. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses AMELIA, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had lived centuries apart. The imperial Last Line: Of sky and scudding clouds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: You want to follow in my steps? Last Line: To play othello: 'tis my benefit. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Professions; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life AN EPISTLE TO MY MUSE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, muse, that thou and I, sweet rogue Last Line: (to be concluded.) Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICA, REVIVED: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sickly actors & an old house too Last Line: You'd less good breeding or had more good nature. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the passions they essayed Last Line: Into the night go one and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Henley, Edward John (1861-1898); Actresses BUCK UP, LADY VERE DE VERE, by E. S. V. ZILE Poem Text First Line: What stirs you, lady vere de vere? Why are / your cheeks so wan? Last Line: You get the stuff! Ain't that enough to satisfy your grace? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Ancestry & Ancestors CHARGE TO THE PLAYERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shades, that our town-fellows have come Last Line: This gift of song, himself a shade. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses CHORUS OF A SONG THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY ALBERT CHEVALIER, by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM Poem Text First Line: I drops in to see young ben Last Line: But—'e'll never be the man 'is father woz. Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Chevalier, Albert (1861-1923); Actresses CURTAIN, by J. K. H. Poem Text First Line: Lower the curtain, let the scene end Last Line: My own opinion is he'll not be back. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots DEATH AND THE PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the players playing on their stage Last Line: But once in many days! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Indifference; Murder; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The DIVINE DRAMA, by BESS FOSTER SMITH Poem Text First Line: I should like to see the heavenly light Last Line: We'll view the climax of all christendom. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses DO YOU WANT TO BE EXCELLENT AN ACTRESS NO NOT THAT EITHER, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewels speak, the different-colored Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Poetry Readings; Actresses EPILOGUE TO THE THEATRICAL SEASON, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The season's closed, the benefits are over Last Line: Nor aim to praise him who's beyond all praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Criticism & Critics; Theater & Theaters EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep with me, all you that read Last Line: Heaven vows to keep him. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Salomon Pavey, Child Actor In Queen's Revels Co.;epitaph On Salathiel Pavy, A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel;epitaph: On Solomon Pavy, Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death - Children; London; Actresses; Death - Babies FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was watching a movie / about myself Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures; Actresses; Movies; Cinema FOR THE CHINESE ACTRESS, GARDENIA CHANG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When tu fu was a small boy Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Love; Tu Fu (712-770); Du Fu GOODNIGHT, GRACIE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home very late from a hollywood party, george and gracie Last Line: Of the author. Subject(s): Acting And Actors; Actors & Actresses; Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Television; Tv HAMLET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horatio took me to the cliff Last Line: "hamlet, hamlet, will never lose his crown." Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Actresses HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (1), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's early morning and across the street Last Line: T is just sharon stone driving past the house of someone who is, at the time, trying to write a book Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon; Actresses HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (2), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's early morning. This is the before Last Line: Trying to unwrite the world that is all around her Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Self; Stone, Sharon; Actresses IMPRESSION (TO M.C.), by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pink and black of silk and lace Last Line: In this miraculous rose of gold? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses J.B. (JUNE 7, 1880), by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The actor's dead, and the memory alone Last Line: And that is fame! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses LINES TO MRS. KEMBLE, IN THE CHARACTER OF YARICO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kemble, thou cur'st my unbelief Last Line: The rock with tears had flow'd. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Kemble, Elizabeth (1761-1836); Actresses LOVE VARSES TO THE BUCHEOUS DAFFODEL, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My shweet daffodel's eyes Last Line: I'll drink off a bottle of wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Diction MONODY ON THE DEATH OF PEG WOFFINGTON, SELECTION, by JOHN HOOLE Poem Text First Line: Ah! Lost, for ever lost! The breath that warm'd Last Line: And wreaths unfading flourish round thy tomb! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Woffington, Peg (1714-1760); Actresses MOVIE ACTRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shal sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her clothes lean forward in the chair Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses MOVIE STAR PETER AT THE SUPPER FOR STREET PEOPLE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The style a form of concealment the way style is. Subject(s): Homeless; Actors & Actresses; Actresses MR. KEMBLES' FAREWELL ADDRESS ON TAKING LEAVE OF THE STAGE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the worn war-horse, at the trumpet's sound Last Line: Is -- friends and patrons, hail, and fare you well. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823) MRS. WORTHINGTON, SELECTION, by NOEL COWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Regarding yours, dear mrs. Worthington Last Line: Don't put your daughter on the stage ... Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses NO THANKS: 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pr / gress verily thou art m Last Line: Aseball Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life ON SEEING MISS FONTENELLE IN A FAVOURITE CHARACTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet naivete of feature Last Line: Then indeed thou'd'st act a part. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses ON SEEING THE WOODLAND PLAYERS, by J. N. GREELY Poem Text First Line: Musing I sit with half closed eyes. The play Last Line: Of grief, and all in wondrous harmony. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Yale University; Actresses OUR MISTER JOYCE, by MARGARET REGAN Poem Text First Line: I once knew a floor-walker named mister joyce Last Line: And that's how mister joyce became a moving-picture star. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO MR. TOMMY POTTER, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accept 'em tommy as they're meant Last Line: Let robin hate him if he will. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses PROLOGUE FOR THE SILVERDALE VILLAGE PLAYERS: EASTER 1922, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbours and friends, we come to-night Last Line: Before you all another year. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses PROLOGUE FOR THE SILVERDALE VILLAGE PLAYERS: EASTER 1924, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbours, to-night we come once more Last Line: As of that iceland where they befell. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses PROLOGUE FOR THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard Last Line: The gaudy house with scenes will serve for cits. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Women; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full 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 SEN ARTYSTY; OR, THE ARTIST'S DREAM (FROM HELENA MODJESKA), by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I too have had my dreams: ay, known indeed Last Line: And the red wounds of thorns upon my brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Modjesta, Helen (1840-1909) SOLILOQUY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a player, on the stage? Not so Last Line: May god himself approve my curtain speech! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Sleep; Actresses; Dead, The; Dramatists SONNET TO WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, macready, since tonight we part Last Line: Dwells pleased, through twice a hundred years, on thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Macready, William Charles (1793-1873) STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the game began between them for a jest Last Line: When the play was played out so for one man's pleasure. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Love; Plays & Playwrights STANZAS TO PUNCHINELLO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lignum-vitae roscius, who Last Line: First of head-breaking and side-splitting actors! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Faces; Youth; Dead, The STARLET, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That terrible day my heart took a blow that nearly killed Last Line: Do I know it's there at all? Subject(s): Disappointment; Actors & Actresses; Actresses THANKSGIVING DAY AT HUNCHLEY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you never heard of hunchley, I would say in his behalf Last Line: In keeping with his bounty than the laws of harmony. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Holidays; Parties; Quarrels; Thanksgiving; Arguments; Disagreements THE ACTOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night a mimic death he died Last Line: No teardrop fell from any mourner's eye. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE ACTOR, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shabby fellow chanced one day to meet Last Line: "when you played hamlet, sir, I played the cock!" Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Actors & Actresses THE ACTRESS AND THE RAT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear her feet overhead. As ever, at night Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Man-woman Relationships; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Male-female Relations; Stage Life THE ADORED ONE: 1 (TO HER OF THE MANY FILMS), by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile is very sweet: yet it baffles me Last Line: Much am I baffled! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Women THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema THE BOROUGH: LETTER 12. PLAYERS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are monarchs none respect Last Line: And there the wretched body found repose. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses THE FAT ACTOR AND THE RUSTIC, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cardinal wolsey was a man Last Line: "a load of hay got in this afternoon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Obesity; Peace THE GHOST-PLAYER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom goodwin was an actor-man Last Line: And given up the ghost! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True wit has seen its best days long ago Last Line: That not one locust may be left behind! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists THE LITTLE THEATRE, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They coaxed him from his barren lonely claim Last Line: He's locked with life and fate at elsinore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life THE MECHANICK PREFERRED, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day lively sue, at a female tea-drinking Last Line: But give me, o give me, a cooper for mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses THE MOVIE QUEEN, by MYRTES-MARIE PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Majestically she sweeps upon the scene Last Line: Reality gives way to glamorous lore. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE OLD PLAYER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curtain rose; in thunders long and loud Last Line: Dream on! There's nothing but illusion true! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Old Age; Actresses THE PLAY, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: I watched you curve your arm over the back of Last Line: But when they asked me about the play, I could not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Art & Artists; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now Last Line: (they go forth.) Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life THE REELING ROSCIUS; AN EPIGRAM, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom rantum, a buck and comical dog Last Line: "play? -- hickup -- play? -- hickup -- why I'll play the devil -- " Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Alcoholism & Alcoholics THE ROMAN ACTOR, by PHILIP MASSINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do we act to-day? Last Line: ^1^ folly Subject(s): Actors & Actresses THE ROMAN STAGE; TO HUGH ORANGE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man of marble holds the throne Last Line: Bids the satyric piece begin. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses THE ROSCIAD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Roscius deceased, each high aspiring player Last Line: Nor quit it—till thou place an equal there. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Comedy; Competition; England; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Actresses; English THE TEMPEST: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, by all good signs it does appear Last Line: And you'll be troubled with 'em all agen. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Ghosts; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Actresses THE THEATRE-CURTAIN, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a happy folk are these Last Line: And to forget! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses TO AN ACTRESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read your name when you were strange to me Last Line: To springs that then were sealed up utterly? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses TO EDWARD ALLEN (ALLEYNE), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If rome so great, and in her wisest age Last Line: So many poets life, by one should live. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Alleyn, Edward (1566-1625); Actresses; Allen, Edward (1566-1625); Alleyne, Edward (1566-1625) VALEDICTORY STANZAS TO JOHN P. KEMBLE, ESQ.; FOR A PUBLIC MEETING, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pride of the british stage Last Line: A long and last adieu! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823); Actresses WHEN BURBADGE PLAYED, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When burbadge played, the stage was bare Last Line: When burbadge played! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Burbage, Richard (1567-1619); Actresses |
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