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Subject: DULLNESS
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A BIT OF HUMAN NATURE, by CHARLES WASHINGTON COLEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis only a pair of woman's eyes
Last Line: But I am only a man.
Subject(s): Eyes; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


A BIT OF MULL, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today my little girl, behind a door
Last Line: "that mull? Your mother wore it yesterday!"
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


AN AMERICAN IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps the polluted air
Last Line: Still he's optimistic.
Subject(s): Americans; Culture Conflict; Ignorance; Thailand; Dullness; Stupdity


AN IDIOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm on'y thist a' idiot
Last Line: Ain't thumbs and fingers funny things?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity


AN OLD SAW, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The man who knows and knows he knows
Last Line: To live and die a fool.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


APPLIED MATHEMATICS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'my daughter,' and his voice was stern"
Last Line: For a quarter of eight is two
Subject(s): Ignorance;mathematics; Dullness;stupdity


BARBARIANS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pause beside the stream, and hear
Last Line: Asks am I intelligent!
Subject(s): Ignorance; Men; Dullness; Stupdity


BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning
Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons.
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity


COME HOME, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR.    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The crystal bed of agony
Last Line: That he need never leave them any more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


CONSECRATED GROUND, by KATE L. DICKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: She does not sleep in consecrated ground
Last Line: To sleep alone.
Subject(s): Boredom; Death; Ignorance; Ennui; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity


CONTINUITY AND DIFFERENTIATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whenever in america
Last Line: Bhjushkst zwmstk rstk pbjunsk pjbrs
Subject(s): Ignorance;racism; Dullness;stupdity;racial Prejudice;bigotry


CORPUS CHRISTI: HIBERNAL, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Legend in a country-side
Last Line: To see the world a flowering heart.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Jesus Christ; Dullness; Stupdity


DECEMBER: A SONNET SEQUENCE, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK    Poem Text                    
First Line: She thought, 'now I am vulnerable to two!' . . .
Last Line: As she stood furred within the month december.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


DERELICT, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas
Last Line: Shall time entomb.
Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity


ELECTION DAY, 1984, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun?
Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole.
Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism


EPITAPH ON AN OBSCURE PERSON, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, these ashes were a man
Last Line: He could assimilate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


EXMOOR VERSES: 1. VASHTI'S SONG, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the rim of the moor
Last Line: O my heart, where lies that land?
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Longing; Dullness; Stupdity


FESTOONS OF FISHES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Incognitos of masquerading moons
Last Line: Festoons of fishes weave insanity.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ignorance; Sea; Anglers; Dullness; Stupdity; Ocean


GEORGE WASHINGTON'S WASHDAY, by FLORENCE E. HOMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a famous washing day, its action near the hub
Last Line: The grateful country still recalls how well he washed her clothes.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


GIVE ME A GIRL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me a girl who understands the game
Last Line: "give me a girl—who understands the game!"
Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity


HIS FATHER TOOK HIM HOME, by S. J. R.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was always so poor in greek
Last Line: He played second base.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


HYMN TO IGNORANCE; A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, horrors, hail! Ye ever gloomy bowers
Last Line: ... A team of harness'd monarchs bend
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


I WALK DARKLY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk darkly down the day
Last Line: Who walk darkly?
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


I'M WITH STUPID, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a thumbprint of lamb's blood
Subject(s): Ignorance; Social Protest; Dullness; Stupdity


IGNORANCE, by ANNIE DEE DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's fun being stupid
Last Line: The world's loveliness.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


IN ANSON'S TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They may have been crude men, and sadly dense,
Last Line: In anson's time.
Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Honesty; Ignorance; Sports; Dullness; Stupdity


INTERVIEW, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you believe that actors are dumb? Writers?
Last Line: Are there things you would say to one sex but not to the other?
Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Privacy; Torture; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity


LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 1. ON DULLNESS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus dullness, the safe opiate of the mind
Last Line: With dulness first began, in dulness last must end.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


LOVERS TO LOVERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our love forsworn
Last Line: The sum, yet was it signed as yours, and signed indelibly.
Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Love; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world's an ass, the world can't see
Last Line: How rapturously glowing.
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Ignorance; Kisses; Mules; Dullness; Stupdity


MEDLEY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ignorance came in stones of gold
Subject(s): Ignorance; Books; Crimes & Criminals; Dullness; Stupdity; Reading


NO IMAGES, by WARING CURNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She does not know / her own beauty,
Last Line: And dish water gives back no images.
Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


PLAIN TALK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Truth; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 3. THEIR IGNORANCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then besides. It makes me boil
Last Line: With thwarted spite send him your bill.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Physicians; Dullness; Stupdity; Doctors


PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A GHOST, by ALTER BRODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I am delivered from this inextricable thorny flesh
Last Line: As near to ghostship as one can on earth.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


PROLOGUE, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Midnight, december thirty-first
Last Line: The curtain rises! The play is on!
Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity


PROOF OF IMMORTALITY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For there is one thing braver than all flowers
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


SCIENCE AND NESCIENCE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that notwithstanding all he knows
Last Line: Whose meaning the gods only can unfold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Ignorance; Science; Dullness; Stupdity; Scientists


SIMPLE PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For what are we to think? But that philo
Last Line: From simple philo as from the whole.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Moon; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rockets; Dullness; Stupdity


THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory
Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about!
Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations


THE CASE OF SABRINA SIMPSON USCH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm about to tell the story of sabrina simpson
Last Line: Poor sabrina, who they said had not a bit of business sense!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE DUMB BELLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What cares the dumb belle for the baseball game?
Last Line: And yet, you simp, you'll take her there again!
Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity


THE INNOCENT MISTRESS: A SONG BY MRS. P., by MARY PIX    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I languish'd, and wish'd you wou'd something bestow
Last Line: I shall still have enough for the next.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Shame; Singing & Singers; Dullness; Stupdity


THE LOUT, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For sunday's play he never makes excuses
Last Line: And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE MONKEY-SHOWMAN; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A monkey who, by many a prank
Last Line: Who lacks illuminating brains!
Subject(s): Ignorance; Monkeys; Dullness; Stupdity


THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak said to the forest trees
Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 105, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a brilliant man somewhere
Last Line: He chases all sorts of distinctions
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Scholarship & Scholars; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 110, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people flaunt their practice
Last Line: A pity to be so dumb
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Confucius & Confucianism; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 124, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once knew a foolish man
Last Line: A donkey knows pain is close behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 125, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This year's grain being still unripe
Last Line: And wealth just makes them dumber
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Marriage; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 132, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is full of busy people
Last Line: Revealing a buddha's view
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 139, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one kind of person
Last Line: A vast expanse of woe
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 141, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who on earth is that
Last Line: Otherwise he's helpless
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 179, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many tientai people
Last Line: They call it useless advice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 188, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone sighed cold mountain air
Last Line: With money your concern
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 196, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire and smoke raged within
Last Line: They were fools indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fire; Ignorance; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 200, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The unfortunate human disorder
Last Line: As long as their own are sweet
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 227, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four or five dumb upstarts
Last Line: And eat through others' bindings
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 230, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All I see are fools
Last Line: Read this over once or twice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 232, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The three worlds swarm with people
Last Line: They mock the ox that works the mill
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 235, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a message for the faithful
Last Line: All you get is stupid
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 236, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one type of person
Last Line: He acts like a hired man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Ignorance; Visiting; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 238, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hear about the ministers of state
Last Line: And all because of ignorance
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Ignorance; Punishment; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 246, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recently hiked to a temple in the clouds
Last Line: Persisting in idiocy holding onto doubts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Taoism; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 273, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I see those who leave home
Last Line: They seek maitreya somewhere else
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Monks; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 286, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see people chanting sutras
Last Line: Knows there's no inside or out
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 293, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dressed in sky-flower clothes
Last Line: They hunt the ghosts of delusion
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 30, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise ones you ignore me
Last Line: And sit up straight with all this hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Solitude; Dullness; Stupdity; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 90, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All you senseless buried heads
Last Line: You discover a body's curse
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 15, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sigh when I see worldly people
Last Line: Their trials are in vain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 34, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old buddha road is deserted
Last Line: Need to see my teacher
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Roads; Teaching & Teachers; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity; Paths; Trails; Educators; Professors


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 43, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By and large the monks I meet
Last Line: Are more perceptive than them
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Monks; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE WISE MEN HAVE NOT TOLD ME, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The winter long I have fumbled in the dark
Last Line: The why that winters come, and aprils go.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Winter; Dullness; Stupdity


THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you should search all scotland round
Last Line: May just help you to begin it.
Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds


TO A BLOCKHEAD, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come
Last Line: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
Variant Title(s): Epigram
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


TO A RELATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You snicker that you do not care for him
Last Line: It's you who live, but never can survive!
Subject(s): Ignorance; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Racism; Shame; Dullness; Stupdity; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TO A YOUNG GIRL SINGING, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, what do you know of the song, my dear
Last Line: For then you will know it by heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Ignorance; Muslims; Dullness; Stupdity; Moslems


TO MRS. K.T (WHO ASKED HIM WHY HE WAS DUMB), by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, should I answer, lady, then
Last Line: But means to speak the rest by signs.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity


TRIOLET: 2. WHAT SHE THOUGHT, by HARRISON ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To kiss a fan!
Last Line: What a poky poet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations


WED, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I married him on christmas morn
Last Line: Would I were dead.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Love; Marriage; Sex; Unfaithfulness; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


WHAT THE WILD WAVES SAID, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you hear the ocean moaning
Last Line: Stepped upon its undertow
Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness;stupdity