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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BREASTS Matches Found: 52 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 |
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