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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADULTERY Matches Found: 143 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 Full 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 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 ADULTERY;, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does it mean Last Line: We would hardly listen Subject(s): Adultery 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 me—and 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 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 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 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 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 COMPLIMENT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were both of two minds about adultery Subject(s): Adultery; Love - Erotic 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 DISCRETIONS OF ALCIBIADES, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First frost is weeks off, but yj prudent man Subject(s): Mythology; Adultery; Politics & Government DIVORCE WORK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FOR MY LOVER, RETURNING TO HIS WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She is all there Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy 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 GREAT MULLEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One leaves his leaves at home Last Line: And you are high, grey and straight. Ha! Subject(s): Adultery; Deception HER HUSBAND GAVE HER A RING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For being so sinfully reckless Subject(s): Rewards; Adultery 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 Full 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 Full 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 IPHIGENIA, SETTING RHE RECORD STRAIGHT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full 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 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 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 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; 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 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 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 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 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 REUBEN'S CHILDREN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 Full 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 NIGHT BEFORE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency 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 OTHER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come in late, wiping your lips Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Adultery 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 TRAGEDY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Catherine of cleves was a lady of rank Last Line: Be call'd on, -- sad poet! -- to tell your sad story! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Adultery 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 Full 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 WIFE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband sucks her tits Last Line: I grow specific without consequence Subject(s): Adultery 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 Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went home and told their wives Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy 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 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 TRISTRAM AND ISEULT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is she not come? The messenger was sure Last Line: For she was passing weary of his love. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Adultery; Arthur, King 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 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 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 Full 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 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 |
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