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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CUSTOMS, SOCIAL Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is old school custom to pretent to be sad Last Line: The saddest music keeps the sweetest time Subject(s): Customs, Social; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ANCIENT CUSTOM, by ANATOLY STEIGER Poem Source First Line: It is an ancient custom %that certain people lie Last Line: And all this together is called love Subject(s): Customs, Social BAGMAN'S O'REILLY'S CURSE, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I daresay that's the custom in your church Last Line: More hungry and less merciful than I Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Customs, Social; Hate CUSTOM, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Custom is a stranger bold Last Line: But in action are but things. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Customs, Social FOLK CUSTOM, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our foolish neighbour farther up the hill Last Line: Its that we know of smarter men that wrought %at stilling all their days were never caught Subject(s): Customs, Social FUNERAL CUSTOM IN EGYPT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rest ye - set down the bier Subject(s): Customs, Social; Egypt; Funerals GOLD COAST CUSTOMS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fantee wave Last Line: For the fires of god go marching on. Subject(s): Customs, Social; Gold Coast, Africa HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The stronger swimmers coming after Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Customs, Social; Conduct Of Life I THANK THEE, by ELSIE MORLAN Poem Text First Line: The face of a child beamed with joy Last Line: I thank thee. Subject(s): Customs, Social; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Thanksgiving IN MEMORIAM, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Source First Line: Conforming to a custom Last Line: For one so heaven-gifted, %for one so young in years Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Customs, Social KEEPING AN ANCIENT CUSTOM, by CALLIE L. BONNEY Poem Source First Line: It was dark to mary of magdala Subject(s): Customs, Social MAY-DAY, by ARTHUR SPAYD BROOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sad am I that ancient customs Subject(s): Customs, Social ODE TO A SCHOOLMASTER, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Custom, that tyranness of fools Subject(s): Customs, Social; Teaching And Teachers OLD CUSTOM, by MICHAEL MOOS Poem Source First Line: At sixteen his hands were old Last Line: How he rested his broom against the wall, %how he held his face in his old hands Subject(s): Customs, Social THE FLITCH OF DUNMOW, by JAMES CARNEGIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come micky and molly and dainty dolly Last Line: "fetters a heart and sets it free." Alternate Author Name(s): Southesk, 6th Earl Of Subject(s): Marriage; Customs, Social THE LAW OF THE PERVERSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the custom come Last Line: Fore-eating everything, from soup to pie! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Customs, Social; Food & Eating; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Childhood THE LAW OF THE SALT, by MARIE BATTERHAM LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: This is the law of the salt, gainsay it ye who will Last Line: Stick to him ever and always, so you be not a thing abhorred. Subject(s): Customs, Social; Hospitality THE POWER OF CUSTOM, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Custom is lord of everything Last Line: Cyclopean, -- loot unasked, unbought. Subject(s): Customs, Social TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE MEANING OF IT ALL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ages and ages back Last Line: Uprears himself again. Subject(s): Customs, Social TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is old school custom to pretent to be sad Last Line: Pale, dying poet, fading as soft as rhyme, %the saddest music keeps the sweetest time Subject(s): Customs, Social; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets |
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