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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ENVY Matches Found: 66 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF QUEENSLAND, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Don't you remember black alice, sam holt Last Line: To the end of the chapter of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark Subject(s): Envy; Luck; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes A DAY IN THE CASTLE OF ENVY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The castle walls are full of eyes Last Line: "we may live to laugh its knell." Subject(s): Envy; Hearts; Love A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A WOMAN I KNEW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of a woman that I knew Last Line: "I envy her!"" the pale drab woman said." Subject(s): Aging; Envy; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness AFFRONTENBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time fleeteth, yet that castle old Last Line: With bonds accurst, and pining sadly. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Ships & Shipping; Tears; Time AN EPISTLE TO WILLIAM HOGARTH, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Amongst the sons of men how few are known Last Line: Reynolds, in time, may be like hogarth now. Subject(s): Envy; Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Paintings & Painters; Vanity; Virtue ARCHERS, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: Motionless ballet! Last Line: Into death... Subject(s): Envy AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a woman Last Line: And wished I could be like that Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Desire; Envy EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 25. ENVY ACCOMPANIES LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two you may see like brothers sport and play Last Line: How fiercely will they grin and snarl and bite! Subject(s): Envy; Love ENVIE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ane plante there is of the deidliest pouir Last Line: Fashion is a hert like the foul fiend's awin! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Envy ENVY, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: I know a reptile that pursues the shadow Last Line: By all things crawling against all that fly! Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Envy; Heaven ENVY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lizards in the pool Last Line: Cause they're not a little boy. Subject(s): Boys; Envy ENVY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was the first always. Fortune Last Line: Death loved him the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Envy; Dead, The ENVY, by A. B. SHIFFRIN Poem Text First Line: I looked upon a dog's dull eye Last Line: What he would be. Subject(s): Envy ENVY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willow and the river / ripple with silver speech Last Line: They murmur each to each. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Envy ENVY, by W. L. WERNER Poem Text First Line: When my old buddy gets to heaven Last Line: Walk the streets for bread. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacob Subject(s): Envy ENVY AND FORTUNE; A TALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says envy to fortune 'soft, soft, madame flirt!' Last Line: And garrick next season will certainly burst her. Subject(s): Envy; Fortune; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ENVY: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy you your chance of death Last Line: That you have not? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Sixty-eight Subject(s): Bible; Envy ENVY; A FRAGMENT, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye pleasing dreams of heavenly poesy Last Line: But transient still and vain are envy's wretched joys. Subject(s): Envy; False Accusations; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EPISTLE TO MR. POPE: AUTHORS AND CRITICS, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With fame in just proportion envy grows Last Line: The fairest fruit, so these the fairest fame. Variant Title(s): Fame And Envy Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Envy; Fame; Reputation FLOWER-ENVYING COLD: 1, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I await %people in the spring Last Line: I await %people in the spring Subject(s): Envy; Flowers FOR HELEN KELLER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have said many words I much regret Last Line: May I not envy you? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Envy; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision FOR THE BOOK OF LOVE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can die tomorrow and I have not loved Last Line: Men, be correct! O women, keep your smiles refined! Subject(s): Envy HARRY CAREY'S REPLY TO THE LIBELLING GENTRY, ANGRY AT HIS WELFARE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With an honest old friend and a merry old song Last Line: For the more we are envied, the higher we rise. Subject(s): Envy; Friendship HOBBS AND DOBBS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in a village, where the parties revel Last Line: "men's and women's conscia recti!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Envy; Love HYMN: 2. TO APOLLO, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hah! How the laurel, great apollo's tree Last Line: Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Envy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Youth I SOMETIMES ENVY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: There is a stark, grim beauty in your world Last Line: I sometimes envy your futility. Subject(s): Envy IN TENEBRIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the lights have been extinguished Last Line: And moves gently toward the deep. Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness JEALOUS MISERY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had all my charms been conquered by a grace Last Line: The saucer-seeming eyes of happiness! Subject(s): Envy KINGS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, covet not the throne and crown Last Line: Outweigh the pomp of kings. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sullen, grimy, labouring person, Last Line: So do I. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Envy; Upper Classes; Working Class; Envy; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sullen, grimy, labouring person Last Line: So do I. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Envy; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers LINES TO LOVE, by BERNIECE GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: My dear, you did not need to let me go Last Line: Yet never did you call me back to you! Subject(s): Envy; Love MADRIGAL, by ROBERT LUCAS DE PEARSALL Poem Text First Line: Why do the roses whisper to the wind, and toss their heads so high? Last Line: Surpassing any rose. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Envy; Flowers; Roses MY NEIGHBOR COMPARES HER HOUSE WITH MINE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is kempt and tidy Last Line: Only a passing hour! Subject(s): Envy; Houses; Jealousy MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the years that now are dead and gone Last Line: The wealth that now is mine. Subject(s): Envy; Neighbors MY NEIGHBOR'S TREASURE, by ANNA O. SMITH Poem Text First Line: My neighbor has a precious thing Last Line: Deep envy to his house I bring. Subject(s): Envy; Houses; Neighbors O HADA CIBERNETICA: 6, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: (in the manner of pedro de quiros) Last Line: How great and scorned? Subject(s): Envy OH LUCKY JIM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jim and I as children played together Last Line: "oh lucky jim, how I envy him!" Subject(s): Envy ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the thing that's most uncommon / (envy be silent and attend!) Last Line: The woman 's deaf, and does not hear! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Modesty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON ENVY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pity, says the theban bard" Last Line: "and the lowest, to the end, / obloquy and scorn attend" Subject(s): Envy ON HAPPY WOMEN, by MARY D. CAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow life had passed me by Last Line: That loving women prize. Subject(s): Envy; Happiness; Women; Joy; Delight PARADOX, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I have seen envy hide her pettiness Last Line: With love's own glowing eyes. Subject(s): Envy; Jealousy; Love PENELOPE'S WEB: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aspiring thoughts led phaethon amiss Last Line: Eschew self-love, choose for the common-wealth. Subject(s): Envy; Hate; Revenge PENIS ENVY, by ERICA MANN JONG Poem Source First Line: I envy men who can yearn Last Line: With infinite emptiness Subject(s): Envy; Men PLAIN SERMONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a man - and envied him beside Last Line: For never having seen myself before! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blindness; Envy; Sermons; Visually Handicapped SCULPTURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is an end Last Line: Whittled my sleep with a rasp. Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness SOMETIMES IN WINTER, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look into Subject(s): Envy; Conduct Of Life SUBWAY, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: Brother! Last Line: Are nothing—less than nothing—to each other! Subject(s): Envy; Relationships; Solitude; Loneliness THE COMET, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye of the demon on albion was turned Last Line: The fire-brand of yamen shall dazzle in vain. Subject(s): Anger; Devil; England; Envy; Floods; Weather; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; English THE COVETOUS STILL CAPTIVES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's live with that smal pittance that we have Last Line: Who covets more, is evermore a slave. Subject(s): Envy THE ENVIOUS WREN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the ground lived a hen Last Line: "and I guess I shall kill her to-night." Subject(s): Birds; Envy; Wrens THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (1), by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live with thy bridegroom happy, sacred bride Last Line: How blest is he that is for love envied! Subject(s): Envy; Freedom; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SCHOOL FOR SATIRE, by SOPHIA (RAYMOND) BURRELL Poem Text First Line: How oft we see the female sex / themselves with jealous fancies vex! Last Line: Composure, harmony and grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Clay, Mrs. William Subject(s): Envy; Jealousy; Women THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that midas Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity THE TRUTH ABOUT ENVY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to see the flowers grow Last Line: If I would work like those who do. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Envy; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THIS DEFILETH A MAN, by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, you do not see Last Line: And makes and shall make -- envy. Subject(s): Envy THREE SISTERS, by LILLIAN DURHAM DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Three sisters walk our village street Last Line: If you let them in they will take your bed! Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Gossip; Sisters TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: How blithe you are, and tall Last Line: So tall, and unafraid! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Envy; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids TO A PERSON WHO WROTE ILL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie, philo, untouched on my peaceable shelf Last Line: So may he cease to write, and learn to think. Subject(s): Envy; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO MRS. MARY AWBREY, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soule of my soule, my joy, my crown, my friend Last Line: Which they and all the sullen world have lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When pride and envy, and the scorn Last Line: Hurl in ten thousand shapes the snow Subject(s): Envy VIRGIDEMIAE: HIS DEFIANCE TO ENUIE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay: let the prouder pines of ida fear Last Line: Monstra noui monstri haec, & satyri & satyrae. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Muses WHEN I PERUSE THE CONQUER'D FAME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals Last Line: Bitterest envy. Subject(s): Envy; Love YIELDING TO THE PROPOSITIONS ALL LOVE IS CANNIBALISTIC, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm placed atop an oak table cross- Last Line: Of my envy know I wonder %how many tasted better than this Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Envy; Family Life |
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