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Subject: CHASTITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACTRESS SCORNS WEALTH AND HONOR TO PRESERVE HER CHASTITY, by LI YU+(2)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beauty's power to stir the heart
Last Line: They think - she's shy
Subject(s): Beauty; Chastity; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


CHASTITY, by WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning pearls
Subject(s): Chastity


CHASTITY, by IBN FARAJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although she was ready to give
Last Line: Who take gardens for pastures
Subject(s): Chastity


CHASTITY, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a love of not being misunderstood
Subject(s): Chastity


CHASTITY, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a love of not being misunderstood
Last Line: The starvros crowned with seven roses, %the crucifixion in the rose
Subject(s): Chastity


CHASTITY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chastity, beloved chastity
Last Line: In this mind-mischievous age
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Chastity


CHASTITY, by SUSAN SHOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once %the treasured
Subject(s): Chastity


CHASTITY MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You cannot retrieve
Last Line: Through her millennia of little deaths.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Chastity; Nature


HE HAS BEEN THERE HIMSELF, by WELBY WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: They will send you off to college
Last Line: Pretty prue.
Subject(s): Chastity; Defamation; Slander; Libel


INDICTMENT, by MURIEL STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: In women is it chastity you prize?
Subject(s): Chastity


LIADAN AND CUIRITHIR: 3. CHASTITY TEST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If it is one night you say
Last Line: Though we should spend a year at it, %I should still have matter for converse
Subject(s): Chastity


LIME STREET, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You might have been as lovely as the dawn
Last Line: O god! The pain! The horror of it all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Chastity


MAX ERNST, by CHARLES HENRI FORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the practice of chastity confers magical powers
Last Line: Was it all due to a weakness on the dark squares %or to antibodies delicate and frightening as a thr
Alternate Author Name(s): Ford, Charles Henry
Subject(s): Chastity; Ernst, Max (1891-1976)


MY CHASTE MISTRESS, by GOTTFRIED AUGUST BURGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I too sweet an ardour press
Last Line: Its paragon of sinners.
Subject(s): Chastity


ODE IN PRAISE OF CHASTITY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let slaves and brutes by raging lust possess'd
Subject(s): Chastity


ON HER CHASTITY, by PHILIP HORTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will you go down diaphonous to death
Subject(s): Chastity


ON THE CHASTITY OF HENRY JAMES, by RANE ARROYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Piazzas open like
Last Line: Fever. He drinks %chilled wine before %light escapes it
Subject(s): Chastity; James, Henry (1843-1916)


SATI, by JOHN MENFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life goes too far sometimes. Take chastity
Subject(s): Chastity


SIX ARGUMENTS ADVANCED TOWARD THE PRACTICE OF CHASTITY, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Removal of loathsome disease factors
Subject(s): Chastity


THE COMPLAINT OF CHASTITIE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You modest dames, inrichte with chastitie
Last Line: For fame is toomblesse, vertue lives for aye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Chastity


THE NUN: A CANTATA, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of constance holy legends tell
Last Line: The righteous find comfort in death.'
Subject(s): Chastity; Clergy; Lust; Nuns; Religion; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology


THE PRAISE OF CHASTITY, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The noble romans whilom wonted were
Last Line: Whose chasteness triumphs, grows, and lives for aye.
Subject(s): Chastity


THE SECRET, by MAY BRINKLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a homely person
Last Line: Her lips like cochineal.
Subject(s): Chastity; Death; Dead, The


THE VEIL OF ISIS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To lift her veil, whose broideries
Last Line: To lift her veil?
Subject(s): Chastity; Death; Flirtation; Innocence; Dead, The


TO MARILYN MONROE WHOSE FAVORITE COLOR WAS WHITE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you wriggled onto the silver screen, marilyn-
Last Line: White sleep history promised.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Chastity; Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); White (color)


TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not chastity that made me cold nor fear
Last Line: Fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bible; Chastity; Despair; Weapons; Ammunition


TRIUMPH OF CHASTITY, by BARBARA HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the plain two dark
Subject(s): Chastity


VIRGIN TERRITORY/CHASTITY, by SHELLEY LESSIN STOCKWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Virgin territory: no man's land
Last Line: Chastity is its own punishment
Subject(s): Chastity


WHITENESS, OR CHASTITY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me, where doth whiteness grow
Last Line: Doth thee alone, fair chastitie, inrich.
Subject(s): Chastity; Worship


YOU WANT ME WHITE, by ALFONSINA STORNI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: All tangled in bedrooms-- %then good man, %pretend I'm white, %pretend I'm snow white %pretend I'm c
Subject(s): Chastity


YOU WANT ME WHITE, by ALFONSINA STORNI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You want me dawn
Last Line: Want me snowlike, %want me chaste
Subject(s): Chastity


YOU WANT ME WHITE, by ALFONSINA STORNI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You want me pure
Last Line: Ask that I be chaste
Subject(s): Chastity