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Subject: BATHS & BATHING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BATHER, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick dappled by circles of sunshine and fluttering
Last Line: And the scent of the woods is sweet on this hot summer morning.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Nudity; Showers & Showering; Nakedness


A MEAN TRICK, by DOROTHY QUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: April showers / bring may flowers
Last Line: Of my hat -- and it is through!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing


AFTER READING TOO MANY POEMS, I WATCH A ROBIN TAKING A BATH, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She does it so devotely
Subject(s): Robins; Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


BARCOO JIM'S BATH, by C. H. WINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The water was scarce on the dead horse run one year when the land was bare
Last Line: That the brownest man on the dead horse run is that very same barcoo jim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Dirt; Disappointment


BATHING IN THE RIVER, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fish around her crowded, as they do
Last Line: But she, fond maid, shuts and seals up the spring.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rivers; Showers & Showering


DIANA, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Diana, out of italy, my sister's protegee
Last Line: "for the gods possess their copies of 'diana at the bath!' "
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Guests; Italy; Showers & Showering; Visiting; Italians


FIVE WOMEN BATHING IN MOONLIGHT, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When night believes itself alone
Last Line: The soft compulsions of their dance
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Women


GLOIRE DE DIJON, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When she rises in the morning
Last Line: Mellow as the glory roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Love - Erotic; Love; Showers & Showering


HUNGER TO THE TABLE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nearer the open hydrants of summer to arrive flung, sung, sweat stains tossed aside: all effort
Last Line: Legs around: closure rewarding and sustained and thigh-high
Subject(s): Past; Baths & Bathing


MY BATH, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Come here, good people great and small
Last Line: You'll come forth like a flower that blooms 'neath freshening showers in may!
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Health Resorts; Showers & Showering; Spas


MY LADY'S BATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the sky hung dark and shaded
Last Line: At the pearl-white glimpse of her.)
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Night; Women; Showers & Showering; Bedtime


ON A BATH, by PLATO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did cytherea to the skies
Last Line: When bathing here, that made it such?
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing


ON MRS. E. MONTAGUE'S BLUSHING IN THE CROSS-BATH; A TRANSLATION, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst the nymphs (the glory of the flood)
Last Line: From the tribunal of a lovely face.
Subject(s): Bath, England; Baths & Bathing; Blushing; Showers & Showering


ON PALLAS BATHING, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor oils of balmy scent produce
Last Line: Adjusted twice a single hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


ON SIX MAIDS BATHING THEMSELVES IN A RIVER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When bashful daylight once was gone
Last Line: Whether he were a fool or no.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing


PARIS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the apartment someone gave me
Last Line: As they float down the river of this momentous day
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Paris, France; Tourists; Showers & Showering


PITY THE BATHTUB ITS FORCED EMBRACE OF THE HUMAN FORM, by MATTHEA HARVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity the bathtub that belongs to the queen its feet
Last Line: Inside the body oh pity the bathtub but pity us too
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


RAINBOWS, by M. ANNETTE PAPAYANAKOS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tear-drops laved a ripple-sound
Last Line: From the dusk of a shower.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rainbows; Sky


SOAPSUDS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue and amber lay in the soapsuds
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


SPRING DAY: BATH, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Spring; Showers & Showering


STANZAS COMPOSED IN A SHOWER-BATH, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trembling, as father adam stood
Last Line: Just let them try the whole cold pig!
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


TALE OF A TUB, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The photographic chamber of the eye
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Imagination; Showers & Showering; Fancy


THE BATH, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With rosy palms against her bosom pressed
Last Line: Hot in the sand a gladiator dies.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rome, Italy; Showers & Showering


THE BATH, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He will insist on
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


THE BATH, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother might have drowned me
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Skin; Showers & Showering


THE BATH OF CROWDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I feel the swinging human sea
Last Line: And newly purifies!
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing


THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles
Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean


THE BATHERS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves flashed darkly though there was not much wind
Last Line: Free of knowledge; he had been rid of pity, cleansed of love
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


THE DOG'S TURN, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They're at me all the day
Last Line: I guess what's good for baby boys is good for doggies too.
Subject(s): Animals; Baths & Bathing; Boys; Cleanliness; Dogs; Showers & Showering


THE GROOMING, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the branches of the elm
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Bodies; Cleanliness; Soul; Showers & Showering


THE HAMMAM NAME (FROM A POEM BY A TURKISH LADY), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winsome torment rose from slumber, rubbed his eyes, and went his way
Last Line: The water froze.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Gays & Lesbians; Turkey; Showers & Showering; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 27, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I came from
Last Line: Buttock shivered against you
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Love - Erotic; Nudity; Nakedness


THE NYMPH, by PIERRE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pool in the forest drinks her in, mirrors her, laughs with her
Last Line: Pool.
Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Lakes; Nymphs; Water; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds


THE SECRET FLAME: CAPRICE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grainy earth is black and cool
Last Line: On her bright breasts
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering


THE SHADED POOL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A laughing knot of village maids
Last Line: And laura's are the lips I sing.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Country Life; Lakes; Women; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds


THE SHOWER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On every budding leaf and flower
Last Line: Thy life, thy grace, thy light
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rain; Tears; Water; Showers & Showering


TWO BATHS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Use well the bath of slumber, warm and deep
Last Line: The cold and dashing bath of wakefulness!
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing


TWO BATHS: 2, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light roused us from the depths of our separate longings
Last Line: Past the horizon, writing you out of existence.
Subject(s): Activity; Baths & Bathing; Loss; Love - Complaints; Memory; Exercise


UPON JULIA WISHING HER SELFE IN THE RIVER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How fierce was I, when I did see
Last Line: Had not thy waves forbad the rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing


WINTER'S SNOW, by MRS. R. A. MEDLAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snow lies soft upon the lea
Last Line: And that good and bitter we all must take
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Blessings; Clouds; Snow


WRITTEN .. AUTHOR'S BATHING AT TEIGNMOUTH, FOR THE HEAD-ACHE, by JANE CAVE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst on the beach I stood, my courage fainted
Last Line: While I to neptune tune the grateful lyre!
Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Headaches; Showers & Showering