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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CLOWNS Matches Found: 26 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE TWO CLOWNS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: - synthetic clown-clown, hip hip, whirl! Last Line: That he could not whirl a hurricane. Subject(s): Clowns; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE FOX; FOR ANN PEARN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said old sir jason, the red-gold fox Last Line: Neath the wall of the tall nodding town of the shade. Subject(s): Clowns; Comedy; Laughter CIRCUS CLOWN, by JOHN FERGUSON Poem Source First Line: With whitened scalp and nose bedaubed with red Subject(s): Clowns CLASS OF 1963: MATHENY, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rmemember me? The class jack-off Last Line: The gold in your memory's coffer Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Classmates; Clowns; Reunions CLOWN, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Practically all you newspaper people Last Line: The clown %cartwheeled across the dressing room, and bowed Subject(s): Clowns CLOWN, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE Poem Source First Line: It was summer, and the clown had come Last Line: And stupid to look at in a restaurant Subject(s): Clowns CLOWN AND KING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoop-la, hey! Cried the clown in the ring Last Line: Life's woven good-and-ill. Subject(s): Clowns; Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness CLOWN WITH BLACK WINGS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: His mop of red hair. Starched wings Last Line: Lippizaners - way over near checkpoint nine Subject(s): Clowns; Dreams CLOWN'S LAMENT, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What has become of your fun and frivolity? Subject(s): Clowns CLOWN'S SONG, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who can speak the crimes of rhyming' Last Line: Then they scatter, left and right! Subject(s): Clowns CLOWNS' DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother fools from everywhere Last Line: Let us use it soberly. Subject(s): Clowns; Death; Humorists; Jesters; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The DUSK; TO MADEMOISELLE MARIE LAURENCIN, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brushed by the shadows of the dead Last Line: Of harlequin the trismegist Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Clowns; Evening; Sunset; Twilight FOOL'S ERRAND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, like a feather in the air Subject(s): Beauty; Cactus; Clowns; Girls MANDRAKE'S SONG; FRAGMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folly hath now turned out of door Last Line: Heigho! Foolscap! Subject(s): Clowns; Fools; Laughter; Writing & Writers; Idiots MISTAKES, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: The taxis veering around the clown were empty Last Line: In some soon-to-be-famous hot spot Subject(s): Chaos; Clowns MONTY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diving & divers; clowns; memory; Last Line: And then our heads turning, is monty there? Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Clowns; Memory MY CLOWN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The demon of my dreams Last Line: While you dance aimlessly Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Clowns; Laughter NICARAGUAN TRIPTYCH, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember two dwarfs, back there in our country home Last Line: Under the impassivity of the firmament Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Central America; Clowns; Laughter; Memory; Nicaragua; Youth TENT CIRCUS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The cop clown is out back sitting on a hitch, nursing his sciatica while Last Line: The final orphans Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Clowns; Elephants; Entertainers THE CLOWN, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: A crowd was gathering beneath the tent Last Line: There is no mask to hide a lonely soul. Subject(s): Clowns THE CLOWN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Practically all you newspaper people Subject(s): Clowns THE CLOWN'S BABY, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: It was on the western frontier Last Line: "boys, that was a show that paid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Babies; Clowns; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Infants; Southwest; Pacific States THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "quoth john to joan, will thou have me" Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A comical lass I went to woo Last Line: Who came in and politely kicked me out Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;faces;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels USUAL CIRCUSLING, GARBAGE, AND THE NEW GHOST DANCE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: In nancy's back yard grasshoppers jumping like birds Last Line: Fall down Subject(s): Children; Circus; Clowns |
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