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| Searching... Subject: CARD GAMES Matches Found: 32 209 CANAL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not hell but a street, not Last Line: Like a mouth to open wider after hours Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards A BALLADE OF PLAYING CARDS, by GLEESON WHITE Poem Text First Line: To soothe a mad king's fevered brain Last Line: Puppets of knave, and queen, and king. Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards A DREAM OF GAMES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His fingers hesitate over Last Line: The loser connected with his law Subject(s): Scrabble (game); Card Games; Dreams; Playing Cards; Nightmares A SHUFFLE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a rumpus in the pack Last Line: Of diamonds and hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards ALAS! POOR BRAG, THOU BOASTFUL GAME!', by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Poor brag, thou boastful game! - what now avails thine empty name? Last Line: Such is the mild ejaculation, of tender-hearted speculation Subject(s): Card Games; Games BAD NEWS (MCSURLEY'S BAR), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your flame is married I understand' Last Line: As we shuffled the cards and played the game. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Card Games; Gambling; Single People; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting; Bachelors; Unmarried People BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PLAYINGCARD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First comes the sprightly damsel playingcard Last Line: For that she dies -- bring on another wife! Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards DON'T WAKE THE CARDS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since my chronic bad luck Subject(s): Card Games; Love - Erotic; Playing Cards FORMS OF SOLITAIRE, by PADDY MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The most popular version %is played exclusively Last Line: Noticing. In conversation. With food. %with god, and the godless Subject(s): Card Games GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships GAME OF PIQUET, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Source First Line: See, as you turn a page Last Line: And death played our the hand %of spades Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Card Games; Death I HEAR YOU CALLING ME!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I hear you calling me--and I Last Line: I'll say I heard you calling me! Variant Title(s): I Hear You Calling Me Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards IN DIVES' DIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing Last Line: Let's have another look at another five Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling IN THE RATHOLE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A street of madhouses Last Line: The house always wins, %the madhouse made of cards.' Subject(s): Card Games LUCK, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackjack table he felt it Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Card Games; Luck OEDIPAL GHAZAL, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The family in the cabin, playing cards. The cards Last Line: As if the family lived in a house of cards Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Card Games; Family Life PLAYERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the spacious bay the sun of afternoon Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards PLAYING PINOCHLE AT LAFAYETTE CLINIC, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: In the distinct, harsh days Last Line: Here are the exulting, monstrous translations %of the night Subject(s): Card Games; Hospitals; Insanity PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Last Line: Slow horses and fast women Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 4. TYROMANCY-DIVINATION BY HOLES AND MOLD..., by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The fungi and holes in cheese Last Line: Who jumps to conclusions Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Card Games; Prophets And Prophecy SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 107, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house of cards Last Line: That's the fun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SOLITAIRE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black queen on the red king Last Line: Behind like materiel in a trench Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SOLITAIRE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black queen on the red king Subject(s): Card Games SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the oblivion of cards Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the oblivion of cards Last Line: Under the oak trees, completely released Subject(s): Card Games TEN MILLS: IN DIVES' DIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing Last Line: Let's have a look at another five Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting THE CARD-DEALER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you not drink her gaze like wine? Last Line: And know she calls it death. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Card Games; Women; Playing Cards THE FACE, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text First Line: The man with the acid face Last Line: Who wills to act. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Card Games; Faces; Playing Cards UPON PLAYING AT OMBRE WITH TWO LADIES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that fortune long has wanted sight Last Line: And gives success in every suit -- but hearts. Subject(s): Card Games; Fortune; Playing Cards VISITING AUNT AGGIE AND UNCLE LEW'S, by CRAIG PAULENICH Poem Source First Line: I cannot recall the whole house Last Line: Ascension into my own bed Subject(s): Aunts; Card Games; Children; Uncles |
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