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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AVARICE Matches Found: 65 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SUPPLICATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, we whose sturdy sires Last Line: Turn thou our souls from the dread glamour -- gold! Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Humanity; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology AVARICE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: And truly yesterday / I did suspect as much: away Last Line: Midst monsters, thou must monster be. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity AVARICE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money, thou bane of bliss and source of woe Last Line: And, while he digs out thee, falls in the ditch. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect BACK STREETS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You that have gazed long on the city's splendour Last Line: And the earth is as if it ne'er had been. Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity BARBARA BLUE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old lady named barbara blue Last Line: Apples and all! Subject(s): Spinsters; Avarice; Apples DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF AMERICA, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then first columbus, with the mighty hand Last Line: His gold and he were every nation's prey. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity DO NOT COVET, by IRMA RICE MAYER Poem Text First Line: Away back in the time of moses Last Line: "pray for ""peace on earth"" to stay." Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity EMPIRE BUILDING, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow I never liked you, john, your ways were crude Last Line: Your smile is pharisaical, your manners rude. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Greed; Hate; Selfishness; Avarice; Cupidity ENTERTAINMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Wouldst know what entertainment I expect? Last Line: As for thy meat, I shall but count it sauce. Subject(s): Friendship; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity FABLES: 1ST SER. 12. CUPID, HYMEN AND PLUTUS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As cupid in cythera's grove Last Line: Must still be coupled with its cares. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity GOLD HAIR; A STORY OF PORNIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the beautiful girl, too white Last Line: The corruption of man's heart. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Greed; Christianity; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity GREED, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Painted on a wall on 20th and grant—just the word Last Line: Greed, said calmly, without inflection Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity GREEDINESS PUNISHED, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the cloister grabow, in the land of usedom Last Line: They might have been contented! Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Fables; Greed; Allegories; Avarice; Cupidity GREEDY RICHARD, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I want some pies this morning Last Line: "to give to those who want it more. " Subject(s): Boys; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity GREEDY TOM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jimmy the mowdy / made a great crowdy Last Line: He supped it all Subject(s): Greed; Avarice;cupidity IN THE IMPERATIVE MOOD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the man who has and doesn't give Last Line: Gather rubies from the air! Subject(s): Generosity; Gifts & Giving; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity INSATIABLENESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No walls confine! Can nothing hold my mind Last Line: One infinite. Subject(s): Greed; Soul; Avarice; Cupidity LA RONDE DU DIABLE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we go round the ivy-bush Last Line: Does it matter at all that we don't know why? Subject(s): Adversity; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity 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 LET US TAKE LEAVE OF HASTE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us take leave of haste awhile Last Line: Come, comrade, let us try! Subject(s): Calm; Greed; Haste; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Avarice; Cupidity MAMMON'S PLEA: A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many seeming weak acts by contrivance are done Last Line: "may'r, aldermen, burgesses, town-clerk, and all." Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Devil; Greed; Law & Lawyers; Story-telling; Wills; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Avarice; Cupidity MARIE MIGNOT, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss marie mignot was a nice little maid Last Line: But the mother of half-a-score little lagardies. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Greed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Avarice; Cupidity OCTAVES: 23, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn Last Line: Forever from the crumbled wharves of time. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity ODE II, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear youth, to hoarded wealth a foe Last Line: And spurn that wealth which misers prize. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Greed; Virtue; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All human race, from china to peru Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence! Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips OKLAHOMA, by STELLA B. REDDING Poem Text First Line: Oklahoma, youngest state of the west Last Line: Oklahoma. Subject(s): Greed; Oklahoma; Petroleum; Avarice; Cupidity; Oil OL' DOC' HYAR, by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ur ol' hyar lib in ur house on de hill Last Line: Een de mighty fine house on de mighty high hill! Subject(s): African Americans; Greed; Gullahs; Negroes; American Blacks; Avarice; Cupidity ON GOLD, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This glitt'ring metal, dazzler of the eyes Last Line: The more we drink of thee, the more we thirst. Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity REBUKE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When admonition's hand essays Last Line: Our missing purse. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On beds of daisies idly laid Last Line: Meet to adore some calf of gold. Subject(s): Greed; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Pleasure; Retirement; Avarice; Cupidity; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers RICHES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O had I but ten thousand pounds a year! Last Line: Is erning, thine doth only make thee spend. Subject(s): God; Greed; Temptation; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes THE CHOICE OF KING MIDAS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King midas, prince of phrygia, several thousand years ago Last Line: And that avarice, though it prosper, still contrives to cheat itself. Subject(s): Greed; Midas; Avarice; Cupidity THE GRAY INN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And at the last he came to a gray inn Last Line: He knew his hand would do an evil thing. Subject(s): Dreams; Gambling; Greed; Nightmares; Wagering; Betting; Avarice; Cupidity THE GREEDY BOY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sammy smith would drink and eat Last Line: Was often greedy sam. Subject(s): Boys; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE HOARDINGS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When into the town I go Last Line: Fresh from out the teeming earth! Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity THE KING'S GIFT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teresa, ah, teresita! / now what has the messenger brought her Last Line: Child, teresita!' Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Greed; Garibaldi, Guiseppe (1807-1882); Avarice; Cupidity THE LAST MUSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply Last Line: And I woke to the red burned acres, and knew that I had but dreamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Cattle; Dreams; Drovers; God; Greed; Nightmares; Avarice; Cupidity THE LEANE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do zay that a travellen chap Last Line: An' went vurder wi' them than a dreat. Subject(s): Grass; Greed; Property; Roads; Social Protest; Avarice; Cupidity; Possessions; Paths; Trails THE MISER; A MASQUE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come in Last Line: [exeunt maskers singing. Subject(s): Courtship; Crime & Criminals; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE NEW ARGONAUTS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the good ship sails! Last Line: O cursed love of gold! Subject(s): Fortune; Gold Mines & Miners; Greed; Sailing & Sailors; Avarice; Cupidity; Seamen; Sails THE PILGRIMS OF THIBET, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the road to llassa Last Line: Till we to nirvana come. Subject(s): Greed; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Tibet; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 104, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich men met in an elegant hall Last Line: Strange to begrudge leftover rays Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 153, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pettiness really gets petty Last Line: Until they collapsed and both were ruined Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Laughter; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 186, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhaust your mind for profit and fame Last Line: Buried in a grave does it still exist Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 61, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see hundreds of dogs Last Line: A pack of dogs can't share Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Dogs; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 77, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one kind of fool Last Line: Tell him don't stay here Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 78, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man descended from pride Last Line: And never grows tired of meat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Pride; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 86, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many kinds of people exist Last Line: And behold the thoughtless mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 87, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A greedy man who piles up wealth Last Line: Flap your wings in the blue Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disasters; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 94, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wise man isn't greedy Last Line: At all the mounds below the pines Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Mortality; Wisdom; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 21, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I advise the monks I meet Last Line: Just let go and take what comes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Monks; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 37, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk on delusion greed and anger Last Line: You learn to turn to yourself Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Greed; Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Buddha; Buddhists; Avarice; Cupidity; Suffering; Misery; Convicts THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 48, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a mud ball dropped in water Last Line: Then leave it all behind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity THE POORE MANS PART, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me rich man, for what intent Last Line: Belongs all gold superfluous. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that midas Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity THE SIZE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Content thee, greedie heart Last Line: These seas are tears, and heav'n the haven. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE WAY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By wisdom that cometh at night and by stealth Last Line: To live in the unconfined. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Freedom; Greed; Liberty; Avarice; Cupidity THESE LATTER DAYS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take down thy stars, o god! We look not up Last Line: We read no sign. O god, take down thy stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): God; Greed; Stars; Avarice; Cupidity TO A SILVER DOLLAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale coin, what various hands have you passed through Last Line: "seem those fair, graven words: ""in god we trust." Subject(s): Greed; Numismatics; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical; Riches; Fortunes VERSES ON HENRY THE EIGHTH'S SEIZING THE ABBEY-LANDS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There liv'd a race to good charissa dear Last Line: Forgetful of the blood that stain'd his fearful stream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Greed; Grief; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness WHAT GOLD CANNOT BUY, by KATHERYN SWEET EASTERDAY Poem Text First Line: A miser old Last Line: To heaven's port beyond the sky. Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We fancied he'd share in our cause. Instead Last Line: That money was all he had ever earned. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity WHEN PAY DAY COMES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When pay day comes what transports thrill Last Line: When pay day comes! Subject(s): Greed; Grief; Happiness; Money; Wages; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Salaries WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology |
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