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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COMEDY Matches Found: 52 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE, by THOMAS MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you played over all your old lessons as virginals? Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Comedy A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame Last Line: All pure and beautiful. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o! Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day A MERRY HEART: GOIN' SHOOTIN', by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: I took me out a-hunting for to bag a gamesome kill Last Line: Holds still some eight professors on the dead tree limb! Subject(s): Comedy; Guns; Hunting; Irony; Teaching & Teachers; Hunters A MODERN INSTANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Her little hand in his he took Last Line: And she -- he said she had la grippe Subject(s): Comedy A PARADOX, by HERBERT ERNEST DAY Poem Text First Line: Tis a curious fact, but a fact very old Last Line: You can keep a fire hot by keeping it coaled. Subject(s): Comedy; Puns A SENSIBLE SERENADE, by L. M. L. Poem Text First Line: I sing beneath your lattice, love Last Line: So I'll bolt, too, so I'll bolt, too. Subject(s): Comedy A SHY LITTLE MAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A love-lorn lad wooed a coy maid once Last Line: But she shook it up and down Subject(s): Comedy;sex AMBITION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They brought the mighty chief to town Last Line: "me heap big chief, me look like hell." Subject(s): Comedy; Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BALLADE OF LAURA'S FAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was never imported from france Last Line: The fan that cost $0.63 Subject(s): Comedy BROKEN CHAINS, by EUGENE ANDREWS COX Poem Text First Line: He was tired of being shackled Last Line: And the papers filed his chain. Subject(s): Comedy 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 CHAPPIE'S LAMENT, by FERRIS GREENSLET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked one day with phyllith Last Line: But wouldn't be mitheth bwown. Subject(s): Comedy DIMENSIONS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad smiles that flash at sight of cash Last Line: Broad comedy—broadway! Subject(s): Comedy; Laughter; Smiles DIRGE FOR A JOKER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always in the middle of a kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Comedy; Death; Dead, The FOR LAUREL AND HARDY ON MY WORKROOM WALL, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're tipping their battered derbies and striding forward Subject(s): Comedy; Hardy, Norvell (oliver) (1892-1957); Laurel, Stan (1890-1965); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema HARD TO BEAT, by WILLIAM A. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Last night I held a little hand Last Line: Four aces and a king. Subject(s): Comedy I JOKES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: In nome we say I jokes Last Line: In nome we say I jokes %at the end of a joke. I jokes Subject(s): Comedy; Eskimos; Jokes; Laughter; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska IN CHARGE OF LAUGHTER, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: In the old television situation comedies Last Line: Agreed upon as having been devastating Subject(s): Comedy; Jokes; Laughter IN MAIDEN MEDITATION, by W. C. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Were I a man,' quoth mistress jane Last Line: "were I a man!" Subject(s): Comedy JOCULATOR, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though he knows not jot nor tittle Last Line: Which is art and only art. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy LA BONNE COMEDIE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True comedy circum praecordia ludit Last Line: And it treads in the steps of its master, moliere! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Comedy; Moliere (jean Poquelin) (1622-1673) LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On pleasure bent, see how the pressing hordes Last Line: Lincoln alone, in an eternal scene. Subject(s): Assassination; Comedy; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Plays & Playwrights ; Presidents, United States; Tragedy; Dramatists LOVE UP TO DATE, by S. L. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: I know she loves me, though with scorn Last Line: And seeing is believing. Subject(s): Comedy LOVE'S SECRET, by ROBERT PECK BATES Poem Text First Line: Well I know she is not handsome Last Line: Of my madeline. Subject(s): Comedy MARIGOLD, by HARRY SAFFORD CANDEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love confinement in thy bonds Last Line: I marry gold! Subject(s): Comedy; Gold MISS MILLY O'NAIRE, by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER Poem Text First Line: She is not young and fair Last Line: Miss millionaire. Subject(s): Comedy; Love; Old Age; Puberty; Sex; Ugliness; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes MY MISTAKE, by E. P. G. Poem Text First Line: I met her on a pullman car Last Line: "a cinder in your eye." Subject(s): Comedy; Errors; Sex; Mistakes; Fallacies ODE TO THE COMIC SPIRIT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sword of common sense! Last Line: The music of the meaning of accord. Subject(s): Comedy; Mythology OLD COMEDIAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What part does that old man Last Line: To laugh at his funeral Subject(s): Comedy ORTHODOXIES 4, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: Pops out of a box, the beardless major-domo of harems Last Line: A silver hair pin. The play pay. Cheers a metamorphosis Subject(s): Comedy; Homosexuality; Laughter PIOUS JOHN, by HENRY REICH JR. Poem Text First Line: All's good in nature, pious john maintains Last Line: John, struck by lightnin', lived to cuss like thunder. Subject(s): Comedy; Irony; Piety PREFACE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The reason why this book is verse / (and nothing, I admit, is worse) Last Line: Just take the beastly book, and burn it. Subject(s): Comedy; Jokes RINTRAH ROARS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father-in-law writes from umbria (where peasants eat songbirds Subject(s): Comedy; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973); Umbria, Italy ROUND TABLE, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: A dull, ill-acted comedy is life! Last Line: To work and live, to trust in god and die. Subject(s): Comedy; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy SIC SEMPER, by WILL L. GRAVES Poem Text First Line: I sent her a spoon Last Line: She is married to-day. Subject(s): Comedy THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, a funny man Last Line: Outright. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Comedy; Death; Laughter; Dead, The THE IDYL OF THE STRAP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she spoke to me, her voice was low" Last Line: "and, as our glances mixed, she took / my seat" Subject(s): Comedy THE PLEASANT COMEDY OF OLD FORTUNATUS, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: Are you then travelling to the temple of eliza? Last Line: All. Amen, amen, amen! [exeunt. Subject(s): Comedy; Legends, English THE RIVALS; OR THE SHOWMAN'S RUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Straight rent across one trousers-knee, makes his inglorious -- exit.] Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Comedy; Plays & Playwrights; Quarrels; Tragedy; Arguments; Disagreements THE ROSCIAD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Roscius deceased, each high aspiring player Last Line: Nor quit it—till thou place an equal there. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Comedy; Competition; England; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Actresses; English THE SWAN-WOMAN; A LEGEND OF THE TYROL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told this story once to kaiser max Last Line: And in her bosom white a cross-bow bolt. Subject(s): Comedy; Courtship; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Unrequited THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dramatic writing, comic wit Last Line: In hope it may their staple trade advance. Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dramatists THE WORLD PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The entrance-price you willy-nilly pay Last Line: Are shaken by its moods, -- mirth, anguish, mystery. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy; Earth; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; World; Dramatists THIS IS THE END, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Open the divine comedy Last Line: Still stick to his fingers. ... Subject(s): African Americans; Children; Comedy; Laughter; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Childhood; Serfs TIME'S CHANGES, FR. THE ART OF POLITICS, by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like south-sea stock, expressions rise and fall Last Line: Can there be any trusting to our words? Subject(s): Comedy; Courts & Courtiers; London; Politics & Government; Towns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO MR. SOUTHERN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure there's a fate in plays, and 'tis in vain Last Line: And the next age will learn to copy thine. Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Writing & Writers; Dramatists; Southern, Thomas TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MR. CONGREVE, ON HIS COMEDY, 'THE DOUBLE-DEALER', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Well then, the promised hour is come at last Last Line: You merit more; nor cou'd my love do less. Variant Title(s): To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve On His Comedy Called The Double-dealer Subject(s): Comedy; Congreve, William (1670-1729); Friendship; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists TO SIR OWEN SEAMAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you whom last I saw absorbing lunch Last Line: "let's emphasize the ""we" Subject(s): Comedy; Seaman, Owen, Sir (1861-1936) TRAGICOMEDY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a mute spectator in the pit Last Line: And shall I read its meaning as it ends? Subject(s): Comedy; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Dramatists VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some say my satyrs ouer-loosely flow Last Line: T'is better too be bad, then be to bold. Subject(s): Comedy; Muses WHILE THE BANNOCK BAKES, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me Last Line: "the ""doctor chap"" -- was me -- ." Subject(s): Comedy |
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