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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ENNUI Matches Found: 44 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOOTBALL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she clung to him, the game was o'er" Last Line: For I am only half-back Subject(s): Boredom;fools;football;nonsense; Ennui;idiots ALL IN THE DOWNS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had something to do - or to think Last Line: One can't always be stirring the fire. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui BANAL SOJOURN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps Subject(s): Summer; Boredom; Ennui BEST FRIEND, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sailed down Subject(s): Friendship; Sailors & Sailing; Boredom; Ennui BORED TO CHORESIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inert and in the twilight ... Peace is not hers Last Line: Choreographic and polynesian. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Boredom; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Ennui 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 ENNUI, by LULU BRUNT DAWSON Poem Text First Line: I tire of life as a human being Last Line: Too much of life as a human being. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui ENNUI, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Text First Line: I am so weary of expected places Last Line: Of sunken temple bells beneath the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui ENNUI, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He often expressed / a curious wish Last Line: In the sea. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui HANDICAPPED, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis in a measure easy not to plan Last Line: And gather what my body has not seen. Subject(s): Boredom; Pain; Ennui; Suffering; Misery HER LITTLE GLOVE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her little glove, I dare aver, Last Line: Her little glove. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui HER PRESENT, by F. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "he had hinted at diamonds, a fan by watteau" Last Line: And then at the end sent a passed lucile Alternate Author Name(s): F. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui HOUSE WITH YELLOW SMOKE SONNET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two daughters who seemed to be listening Last Line: Of her spine. Subject(s): Boredom; Daughters; Mothers & Daughters; Sleep; Ennui IDLENESS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the stress Last Line: Of time untwisting ravelled threads. Subject(s): Boredom; Rest; Ennui ILICET, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the gentle soul of him Last Line: "are his to-day." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; God; Love; Ennui JACQUEMINOT, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you filled with wonder, jacqueminot Last Line: Jacqueminot! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui LOGIC (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "say, does fact or reason err" Last Line: Is sure to be the greatest bore Subject(s): "boredom;logue, Christopher (b. 1926);" Ennui 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 LOVEY-LOVES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love! Let us love with a love that loves Last Line: Make the public most mightily tired. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Boredom; Love; Ennui MARRIED, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: Dining with him at home, she looked between Last Line: Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. Subject(s): Boredom; Emptiness; Marriage; Nothingness; Ennui; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids PALLAS, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say there's a sameness in my style Last Line: Love is excluded from the song. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui PITY 'TIS, 'TIS TRUE, by HERBERT WELCH Poem Text First Line: I sat me down at leisure Last Line: "and left, -- 'twas ""oysters two!" Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui PRISCILLA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Priscilla in the garret loft Last Line: "ah, sir! Because they will not bear / another dyeing." Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui 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 PYTHONIC, by LESTER LYNN RUDOLPH RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The man who flew back to yesterday Last Line: The monotony was such a bore. Subject(s): Boredom; Men; Youth; Ennui REVERIE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the unfrequented noon Last Line: Our brief and variable state. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Boredom; Government; Ennui ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE EX-LIVING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, brutus, where can thy cassius be Last Line: "may die of ennui any minute." Subject(s): Boredom; Poetry & Poets; Ennui SAME OLD STORY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say Last Line: Same old baby -- nothing new! Subject(s): Boredom; Cynicism; History; Life; Nature; Ennui; Historians SARAH DRAKE, by MARY J. ELMENDORF Poem Text First Line: An open primer all her days and yet a puzzle to her neighbors Last Line: Tintype when a boy. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui SEALED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doves call down the long arcades of Last Line: I shall be striving towards you till the end. Subject(s): Birds; Boredom; Doves; Love; Ennui SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we'll go no more a-roving Last Line: By the light of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Aging; Ennui; Maturity; Conduct Of Life SUFFOCATION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In chekhov's three sisters, everyone Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Boredom; Prisons & Prisoners; Ennui; Convicts THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Illness; Ennui; Convicts THE DAY IS COME, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is come that I knew must be Last Line: Nothing may trouble me any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; Nothingness; Ennui; Nihilism; Voids THE DREAM SONGS: 14, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Boredom; Life; Ennui THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit looking out of a window of the building Last Line: Rights reserved. Subject(s): Boredom; Dreams; Guadalajara; Imagination; Ennui; Nightmares; Fancy THE LORD OF THOULOUSE; A LEGEND OF LANGUEDOC, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Count raymond rules in languedoc Last Line: A sleek, meek, weak gent -- who subsists on cold water! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Nostradamus, Michel De (1503-1566); Boredom; Magic; Ennui THE PROFESSOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven pupils, in the class" Last Line: "three are benches, four are walls." Subject(s): Boredom;greece;schools; Ennui;greeks;students THE VASE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boredom and terror, and the older Last Line: And green, exotic birds in flight. Subject(s): Boredom; Introspection; Life; Terror; Vases; Ennui THOSE DOUBTFUL DON'T, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My parents told me not to smoke; / I don't Last Line: You wouldn't think I have much fun; / I don't Subject(s): Boredom;virtue; Ennui TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, I do not know you, and I think Last Line: I only write to exorcise a ghost. Subject(s): Boredom; Contentment; Ennui TODAY IS VERY BORING, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui TWO OF A KIND, by WALTER TALLMADGE ARNDT Poem Text First Line: Down in the glen Last Line: But he might have treated me some day the same. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui |
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