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Subject: BREASTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1994, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was leaving my fifty-eighth year
Last Line: From your own shivering life
Subject(s): Affliction; Breasts; Cancer, Breast; Women


A LOVER'S ANGER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: As cloe came into the room the other day
Last Line: And forgot every word I designed to have said.
Subject(s): Breasts; Desire; Lateness; Love


AMORETTI: 76, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair bosom! Fraught with virtues' richest treasure
Last Line: Which oft I wisht, yet never was so blest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Breasts


BREAST FOR ALL SEASONS, by KEELYN T. HEALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were 'jugs' in fifth grade
Last Line: A pair of pants I've grown into, %a bike I'm ready to ride
Subject(s): Breasts; Growth


BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were french, I'd write / about breasts
Subject(s): Breasts; Love - Erotic; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes


BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were french, I'd write %about breasts
Last Line: Bogart is staring at lauren bacall's breasts %as if they might start speaking
Subject(s): Breasts; Erotic Love; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes


BREASTS, by MARY CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eggplants is what I would say
Subject(s): Breasts


BREASTS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our fingers played each other like a blue guitar, teaching the body how hands m
Last Line: Get angry at my hands or blame them for flying up to clutch a piece of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Breasts


BREASTS, by SUZANNE LUMMIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breasts, I've given you all and you're still nothing
Last Line: Breasts, I will decide on my best foot, and put that forward
Subject(s): Breasts


BREASTS, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love breasts, hard
Subject(s): Breasts; Men


BREASTS, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love breasts, hard
Last Line: I will tip each breast %like a dark heavy grape %into the hive %of my drowsy mouth
Subject(s): Breasts; Men


BREASTS, by RYNN WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: By summer camp they already hung heavy
Subject(s): Breasts; Youth


CLEAVAGE, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First time I saw cleavage
Last Line: Going to be all right
Subject(s): Breasts


CREAMY BREASTS, by CHAO LUAN-LUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fragrant with powder, moist with perspiration
Last Line: And they are cool as peonies and purple grapes
Subject(s): Breasts; Love


FIXATION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His english governess could undress
Last Line: Adulthood and even into old age
Subject(s): Breasts


FORECAST, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Patience, little heart
Last Line: In after years, in memory, to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue
Subject(s): Breasts; Desire


FRESH CHEESE AND CREAM, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wo'd yee have fresh cheese and cream?
Last Line: To your cream, her's strawberries.
Subject(s): Breasts


GIRL AT THE MIRROR, by LINDA RAMEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaning over my scraped, blue-black knees
Last Line: At the mirror pulling long points %from her empty sweater
Subject(s): Breasts; Daughters; Mothers; Women


HARD LOVE, by ANDREA O'BRIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the not quiet moon glow
Last Line: And for all the hard love we hold inside %for the other woman
Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Death; Love; Sisters; Women


INNOCENT BREASTS, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The innocence of her %breasts
Last Line: Breasts hung innocent %in the morning light
Subject(s): Breasts


JENNY MARIE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning I am thinking of jenny marie, of being nine
Last Line: Larkish body skyward %and off
Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Women


JESSIE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When jessie comes with her soft breast
Last Line: A stone remote in some bleak gully of the hills!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Breasts


LUMPECTOMY EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I dream of lips
Last Line: If you do not?
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Breast Cancer; Nursing (infants)


LUMPECTOMY EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I dream of lips
Last Line: All night it is the one breast %comforting the other
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Cancer, Breast


MASTECTOMY POEMS: 10. YEARS OF GIRLHOOD (FOR MY STUDENTS), by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the years of girlhood we wait for them
Last Line: When the babies nuzzle like bees
Subject(s): Breasts


MASTECTOMY POEMS: 12. EPILOGUE: NEVERTHELESS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bookbag on my back, I'm out the door
Last Line: The bookbag on my back, I have to run
Subject(s): Breasts; Health


MASTECTOMY POEMS: 5. WHAT WAS LOST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What fed my daughters, my son
Last Line: Ready to be harvested and eaten
Subject(s): Breasts


MASTECTOMY POEMS: 7. WINTERING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It snows and stops, now it is january
Last Line: But a missing breast, well, you get used to it
Subject(s): Breasts


MASTECTOMY POEMS: 9. HEALING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brilliant -
Last Line: I make vow after vow
Subject(s): Breasts; Healing


NEW ILK OF MILK, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I take off my bra
Last Line: Go ahead. Cry, baby
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Milk


ORIGIN, by NAOMI DUCKMAN FURTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot believe that he is dead
Last Line: And my lips still taste of his.
Subject(s): Breasts; Death; Lips; Dead, The


PERPETUALLY ATTEMPTING TO SOAR, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy from brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.
Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Wind; Breasts; Aging


POEMS FOR THE BREASTS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like other identical twins, they can be
Subject(s): Breasts; Divorce


PROGNOSIS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should a breast that never fed
Last Line: Against the rule, are taking their toll
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Disease; Medicine


REGARDING JEAN'S DECISION NOT TO RECONSTRUCT HER BREASTS, by BARBARA LAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: She can ignore the unshoveled snow on the sidewalk
Last Line: If that, alone, makes them breasts
Subject(s): Breasts


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 18, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nanny blushes when I woo her
Last Line: The other, take me in her arms.
Subject(s): Breasts; Kisses; Lips; Love


STILL LIFE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Astride the boney jointed ridge
Last Line: The whole dry world's gaping misery
Subject(s): Bodies; Breasts; Women


THE GIRL WITH EIGHTEEN NIGHTGOWNS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And each one to the advantage of her breasts
Last Line: That only come out at night.
Subject(s): Breasts; Clothing & Dress; Girls; Night; Bedtime


THE INNOCENT BREASTS, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The innocence of her / breasts
Subject(s): Breasts


THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 10. YEARS OF GIRLHOOD (FOR MY STUDENTS), by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the years of girlhood we wait for them
Last Line: When the babies nuzzle like bees
Subject(s): Breasts


THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 12. EPILOGUE: NEVERTHELESS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bookbag on my back, I'm out the door
Last Line: The bookbag on my back, I have to run
Subject(s): Breasts; Health


THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 5. WHAT WAS LOST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What fed my daughters, my son
Last Line: Ready to be harvested and eaten
Subject(s): Breasts


THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 7. WINTERING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It snows and stops, now it is january
Last Line: But a missing breast, well, you get used to it
Subject(s): Breasts


THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 9. HEALING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brilliant -
Last Line: I make vow after vow.
Subject(s): Breasts; Healing; Cures


THE SAGA OF THE SMALL-BREASTED WOMAN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A prepuberty owl with popcorn
Last Line: Delights in dumplings at the feast.
Subject(s): Beauty; Breasts; Women


TO A FRIEND FOR HER NAKED BREASTS, by ELIZA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "madam I praise you, cause you'r free"
Last Line: And punish you for what's within
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1
Subject(s): Breasts;hearts;sin


TO ROSES IN JULIA'S BOSOME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses, you can never die
Last Line: As to make ye ever grow.
Subject(s): Breasts


TRIOLET: THOSE VIOLETS BLUE, by H. W. BANKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Those violets blue on my lady's breast
Last Line: Nestling there in sweet content.
Subject(s): Breasts; Flowers


TWINS OF A GAZELLE WHICH FEED AMONG THE LILIES, by CATHERINE BOWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Antlers butting against the full moon
Subject(s): Breasts


UPON JULIA'S BREASTS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Display thy breasts, my julia, there let me
Last Line: Ravisht, in that faire via lactea.
Subject(s): Breasts


UPON THE NIPPLES OF JULIA'S BREAST, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have ye beheld (with much delight)
Last Line: Is each neate niplet of her breast.
Subject(s): Breasts


UPON THE ROSES IN JULIAS BOSOME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice happie roses, so much grac't, to have
Last Line: Your grave her bosome is, the lawne the stone
Subject(s): Breasts