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Subject: BURLESQUE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER IKKYU: 14, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the strip club in lincoln, nebraska
Last Line: At this age, my first bona fide royalty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Burlesque; Striptease


AN IDYLL OF PHATTE AND LEENE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hale john sprat - oft called for shortness jack
Last Line: And thus the dinner-platter was all cleared
Subject(s): Burlesque; Striptease


BALLAD OF THE TEN CASINO DANCERS, by CECILIA MEIRELES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten dancers glide
Last Line: Of those dancers hand in hand
Subject(s): Burlesque; Dancing And Dancers


BURLESQUE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The footlights glint, the house is set
Last Line: They have played plays in heaven?'
Subject(s): Bands; Burlesque; Criticism & Critics; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights; Singing & Singers; Orchestras; Striptease


COMMONPLACES, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain on the face of the sea
Last Line: And . . . This is the end of my lay.
Subject(s): Burlesque; Striptease


FICTIONS OF THE FEMININE: QUASI-CARNAL CREATURES, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before work, I practice bo-peep put-offs under veils
Last Line: Of glowing bones: the ultimate in / unpeeled flesh
Subject(s): Burlesque; Waiters & Waitresses; Women; Striptease


FICTIONS OF THE FEMININE: QUASI-CARNAL CREATURES, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before work, I practice bo-peep put-offs under veils
Last Line: Of glowing bones: the ultimate %in unpeeled flesh
Subject(s): Burlesque; Waiters And Waitresses; Women


LOVERS, AND A REFLECTION, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter
Last Line: How much fewer volumes of verse there'd be!
Subject(s): Burlesque; Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897); Striptease


MARTIN LUTHER AT POTTSDAM, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What lightning shall light it? What thunder shall tell it
Last Line: And yet, like my title, have nothing to do!
Subject(s): Burlesque; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Striptease


RANDOM OBSERVATIONS: THEATRICAL REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the 'vanities'
Last Line: No one wears panties
Subject(s): Burlesque


STRIP-TEASE, by ALICIA BORINSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The china venus concentrates on her make-up. Rice power
Subject(s): Burlesque


STRIP-TEASE, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft toys that make to seem girls
Last Line: Trees shed their leaves like some of these
Subject(s): Burlesque


STRIPPER, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You're too young for this. I was twenty
Last Line: What magazines you read, if you like to sew, %and exactly who in [a hundred] the hell[s] you think y
Subject(s): Burlesque


THE FAN DANCE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was seven and sally rand wasn't wearing
Subject(s): Children; Burlesque; Dancing & Dancers; Innocence


THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes
Last Line: Like young seals around our rock.
Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life


TO A BURLESQUE SOUBRETTE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upstage the great high-shafted beefy choir
Last Line: "o gawd, I got a hellish cold to-day!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Burlesque; Striptease