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Subject: CUCKOLDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When [or, now] daisies pied and violets blue
Last Line: Unpleasing to a married ear!
Variant Title(s): Spring;ver And Hiems;april
Subject(s): Cuckolds; Spring; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


DRAWING BY A CHILD; DIANA BRINTON LEE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of them, mummy and daddy
Last Line: In my nursery, pointing to the %cuckold I know my father to be
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Cuckolds


EPIGRAM (5), by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When pontius wished an edict might be passed
Last Line: "but first, my dear, I'd have you learn to swim."
Subject(s): Cuckolds


EPIGRAM: TO HORNET, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hornet, thou hast thy wife dressed for the stall
Last Line: To draw thee custom: but herself gets all.
Subject(s): Cuckolds


LONGEVITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop
Last Line: Than parrot be, and live to see ten times a hundred years
Subject(s): Cuckolds; Parrots


MY FRIEND THE CUCKOLD, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew a cuckold once. I grieve for him
Last Line: Even the right pronunciation. Oh, %it is not gay, my friend,to be a cuckold
Subject(s): Cuckolds


PANEGYRICK ON CUCKOLDOM, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mysterious cuckoldom! Almighty pow'r
Last Line: On shores remote, and thin a desart land
Subject(s): Cuckolds


THE NIGHT BEFORE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen
Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency


THE SILLY OLD MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come listen awhile, and I'll sing you a song"
Last Line: "so go to your grave, you silly old man"
Subject(s): Cuckolds;hate


TWO OR THREE; OR A RECEIPT TO MAKE A CUCKOLD, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two or three visits, and two or three bows
Last Line: Can never fail cuckolding two or three spouses.
Subject(s): Cuckolds