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| Searching... Subject: EROS Matches Found: 134 A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noblest charis, you that are Last Line: And minerva, when she talkes. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros A CHOICE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An angel stooped down from the hill-side Last Line: For the heart of a friend lay there. Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros A CIGARETTE VAGARY, by MARY CAMILLA FOSTER HALL-WOOD Poem Text First Line: In the smoke of my dear cigarito Last Line: A bitterness tinges it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Von K., Camilla K. Subject(s): Cupid; Smoking; Eros; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A DISCOVERY IN BIOLOGY, by MARY E. LEVERETT Poem Text First Line: I think I know what cupid is Last Line: Twill heal you to perfection. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros A VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Time was, sweet dame (when broidered coats were smart Last Line: That you will be, indeed, my valentine? Subject(s): Cupid; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Valentine's Day; Eros A WEEPING CUPID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, love! I thought you were gay and fair Last Line: Come, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness AGAINST MODESTY IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many unsuccessful years Last Line: Had foolishly denied. Subject(s): Cupid; Fear; Kisses; Love; Modesty; Tears; Eros ALCIDA: MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest thee, desire, gaze not at such a star Last Line: That now I grieve I welcom'd such a guest. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute Last Line: While in unequal verse I sing my woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; War; Eros AN ENGLISH PADLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss danae, when fair and young Last Line: And clap your padlock -- on her mind. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Youth; Eros ANACREONTIQUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it happen'd on a night Last Line: Your heart was half as safe as they Subject(s): Cupid; Eros ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST CUPID, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever maidens may be found Last Line: I saw -- I felt the flashing dart. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros AS CUPID ROGUISHLY ONE DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "no, no, no, no, no he'll ne'er be free again" Subject(s): Cupid; Eros BOW OF BEAUTY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bow of beauty, arching o'er us, tinted with unearthly dyes Last Line: Love's and mercy's light assuming, like the rainbow it doth shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Cupid; Heaven; Jews; Love; Eros; Paradise; Judaism BROTHER GODS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: If woman's a delightful creature Last Line: The devil take the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bacchus; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Eros CAELICA: 12, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid, thou naughtie boy, when thou wert loathed Last Line: Where living to the world, to me he dieth. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): To Cupid Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CALLOUS CUPID, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid does not care for sighs Last Line: Does not care for lover's weeping! Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros CANTATA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade Last Line: Cupid does with phoebus reign. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros CICERONIS AMOR: ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond, feigning poets make of love a god Last Line: And prove him but a boy not past the rod. Variant Title(s): Love (cupid As A Child) Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, poor suff'ring heart, no change endeavour Last Line: Love has found out a way to live by dying. Subject(s): Cupid; Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Eros; Songs CLOE HUNTING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind her neck her comely tresses tied Last Line: At human hearts we fling, nor ever miss the game. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Hunting; Laughter; Eros; Hunters CUPID, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why was cupid a boy Last Line: And away fled every joy. Variant Title(s): Why Was Cupid A Boy Subject(s): Bible; Cupid; Mythology; Eros CUPID, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauties, have ye seen this toy Last Line: And that he's venus' runaway. Variant Title(s): Venus' Runaway Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID A PLOWMAN, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His lamp his bow and quiver laid aside Last Line: What once europa was, nannette is now. Variant Title(s): Cupid Turned Ploughman Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros CUPID ACQUITTED, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever jove renews mankind Last Line: And pray—what answer shall they make? Subject(s): Cupid; Jupiter (god); Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUPID AND GANYMEDE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, one holiday, you read Last Line: And rise a swan, or fall a shower. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Love; Mythology; Troy; Eros; Paradise CUPID AND VENUS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From bar to bar, from curb to curb I run Last Line: As the kid, her blind pimp, eggs me on. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women; Women's Rights; Eros; Feminism CUPID AS A LANDSCAPE PAINTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I sate upon a mountain Last Line: No, I trow -- not I! Subject(s): Cupid; Paintings & Painters; Eros CUPID DROWNED, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: T' other day as I was twining Last Line: (paraphrase from the greek by leigh hunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Variant Title(s): Cupid Swallowed Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros CUPID FAR GONE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What so beyond all madness is the elf Last Line: Must leash'd t' himself with him a-hunting go. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID IN AMBUSH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: When I went down the autumn lane Last Line: I knew I should not laugh again. Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Love; Love - Complaints; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness CUPID IN AMBUSH, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It oft to many has successful been Last Line: And in the wounds he sees he bears his part. Subject(s): Blood; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros CUPID IN THE TEMPLE, by ROBERT FORD Poem Text First Line: I canna, winna cloak the fact Last Line: But cease your sabbath descration! Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros CUPID MISTAKEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As after noon, one summer's day Last Line: I took you for your likeness, chloe. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID TEARING A ROSE-BUD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, cupid! Cupid! Let alone Last Line: Beneath a lover's sigh. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID TURN'D PLOUGHMAN; AN IDYLLIUM, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once for his pleasure love would go Last Line: Your haughty neck, and draw my plough.' Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID TURNED STROLLER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dead of night, when stars appear Last Line: Safe is my bow, but sick thy heart.' Subject(s): Cupid; Dreams; Night; Voices; Eros; Nightmares; Bedtime CUPID UNGODDED, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why how now, cupid, grown so wild? Last Line: To see thy shame, and break thy heart. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID'S ARROWS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venus' entreaty for cupid her son Last Line: His metal vulcan's cyclops sent from hell. Subject(s): Cupid; Hate; Hope; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Eros; Optimism CUPID'S BLUNDER, by GERTRUDE JONES Poem Text First Line: Poor cupid froze his wings one day Last Line: O cupid, and o maiden! Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID'S DARTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry Subject(s): Beauty;cupid;passion; Eros CUPID'S HOLIDAY, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Let her that is of love afraid Last Line: But be glad of it forever! Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID'S POWER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Am I in fairy land? Oe tell me, pray Last Line: For guidance through this labyrinthine maze. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPID'S PROMISE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft cupid, wanton, amorous boy Last Line: And, by thy grant, his power show? Subject(s): Cupid; Kisses; Oaths; Singing & Singers; Voices; Eros CUPIDO, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The solid, solid universe Last Line: The evil and the good. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roseate darling Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DAN, by MABEL HAUGHTON COLLYER Poem Text First Line: This toast is to a liar who Last Line: Had cupid told the truth! Subject(s): Cupid; Duplicity; Eros; Deceit DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who but oft hath marveled why Last Line: The old to fall in love! Subject(s): Cupid; Eros DOCTOR GALL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of the organs and fibres Last Line: Of craniological gall. Subject(s): Cupid; London; Physicians; Singing & Singers; Truth; Eros; Doctors EARTH TO SPRING, by R. W. COWARD Poem Text First Line: O maid with eyes of sweetest tender blue Last Line: By dainty touch of fairy finger tips. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Eros EPIGRAM. ON EROS PLOUGHING, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His torch and quiver down sly eros flung Last Line: "the harvest, or I'll yoke europa's bull." Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros EROS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why hast thou nothing in thy face? Last Line: Hath cared to look upon thy face. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros EROS, by AMY S. JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: I see in your eyes what you have seen Last Line: And the ripples kissing her throat. Subject(s): Cupid; Ducks; Eros; Mallards; Drakes EROS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright thro' the valley gallops the brooklet Last Line: This the first first-love, the first love of all! Subject(s): Cupid; Love - Beginnings; Eros EROS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, I know not what thou art Last Line: Leads upward to celestial things! Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros EROS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm of love has burst at last Last Line: And billow and wallow and undulate. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Storms; Eros EROS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eros, from rest in isles far-famed Last Line: Eros. Subject(s): Cupid; Roundels; Eros FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, since you so much desire Last Line: There, there, o there lies cupid's fire. Subject(s): Ambition; Cupid; Love; Eros GRANDMOTHER'S VALENTINE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The branches creaked on the garret roof Last Line: Grandmother's valentine told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Grandparents; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Eros; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers HER VALENTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody's sent a funny little Last Line: Can not breathe the lightest whisper of his burning love for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Roses; Valentine's Day; Eros IDEA: 36. CUPID CONJURED, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack Last Line: To make her love, or, cupid, be thou damn'd. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros IDYLL 2. EROS AND THE FOWLER, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hunting the birds within a bosky grove Last Line: "come suddenly and sit upon your head." Subject(s): Cupid; Eros IF LOVE HIS ARROWS SHOOT SO FAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "be a good boy, be more mild" Subject(s): Cupid; Eros JAMES THE FOURTH: CUPID, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a shepherd sing Last Line: If I would like the lad that so infects. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros KING ARTHUR: SONG OF VENUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest isle, all isles excelling Last Line: Those shall be renown'd for love. Variant Title(s): Song Of Venus [in Honour Of Britannia] Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros; Songs LOVE DISARMED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade Last Line: Gives grief, or pleasure; spares, or kills. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Nymphs; Eros LOVE FOUND TWO DOORS AJAR, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Love surely was not sleeping Last Line: And singing, love, of thee. Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros LOVE POEM OF THE ROMAN DAYS: 7. ISABELLA'S TREE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the courtyard, isabella's apricot Last Line: Dauphin into king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; Hearts; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros LOVE THE ARCHER, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid, when you shoot your darts Last Line: Else they divinity. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros LOVE'S FAIRYLAND; TO FLORENCE ON HER WEDDING DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is beauty on the mountains Last Line: There dawns another day. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Passion; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE'S LOVERS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Upon the altars of queen venus we Last Line: "for love and thee!" Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion; Venus (goddess); Eros LOVE'S SLEEP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll cover love with roses Last Line: "but sing, ""love, tra-la-lee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Sleep; Eros LOVE'S WILDWOOD TRAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a trail that leads Last Line: With his shafts and bow for thee. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vague as the shadows, 'neath april-leafed trees Last Line: Is love's young dream! Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros MANMADIN, THE INDIAN CUPID, FLOATING DOWN THE GANGES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is darkness on the sky Last Line: Well may bend to thee, o love! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cupid; India; Eros MANY ARE CALLED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many are called, dear heart, to happiness Last Line: Many are called by love, but few are chosen. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros MARRIAGE UNEQUAL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that even in a heavenly marriage Last Line: Whilst cupid evermore remains the child. Subject(s): Cupid; Marriage; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MERCURY AND CUPID, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sullen humour one day jove Last Line: For heaven's sake, keep your darts! Good night. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Mercury (mythology); Mythology; Eros; Paradise MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't only my sisters Subject(s): Cupid; Psyche (mythology); Eros O MORES!, by ALBERT ELLSWORTH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Cupid's bow is lying broken Last Line: Arrows must be diamond-tipped. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros OF A CHILD THAT HAD FEVER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bid you, mock not eros Last Line: The burnt child craves the flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cupid; Eros ON A TORSO OF CUPID, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peach trees and judas trees Last Line: Thou has a heart to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Cupid; Italy; Statues; Eros; Italians ON TYING DAPHNE'S SHOE, by J. STUART BRYAN Poem Text First Line: Tying her shoe, I knelt at daphne's feet Last Line: Cupid had bound me captive in her bows. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros OUT OF THE GREEKE CUPID'S CRYER, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is lost, nor can his mother Last Line: That though it shines, 'tis fire and will consume. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros OUT OF THE ITALIAN, by VALERIO MARCELLINI Poem Text First Line: Would any one the true cause find Last Line: And so he lost his clothes, eyes, heart and all. Variant Title(s): Cupid Blind And Naked Subject(s): Cupid; Eros PSYCHE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This young woman is psyche, of whom you've Last Line: Is a restless, dissatisfied, fugitive guest. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Eros QUATRAIN: 4, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young cupid flies in foul and fair Last Line: Sweet boy, he has no clothes to soil. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros ROMANCE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born & lost in a throw of time Last Line: Not behaving like any government. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Romance; Eros ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AUTO-DA-FE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See these violets, dusty tresses Last Line: So farewell! Good night! Good night! Subject(s): Cupid; Farewell; Love; Eros; Parting SONG: 2, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If ever thou didst joy to bind Last Line: But never, never grant a cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Cupid; Venus (goddess); Eros SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 15, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was unconfined and free Last Line: When both must quit the field. Subject(s): Cupid; Freedom; Hearts; Soul; Eros; Liberty SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst others proclaim Last Line: And there is no living without her. Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros SONGS: 10. WHEN CUPID FELL FROM GOLDEN HELL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Of roses, roses red. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Eros SONNET: O HUSBAND!, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O husband! This word of care born Last Line: I'm a woman, am empty, yet full of light for thee. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SUBJECT LOVE, FOR THE VASE AT BATHEASTON VILLA, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bow unstrung, and arrows broke Last Line: And sense and reason shall adore.' Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros SUCH A DUCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat" Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes THE ART OF LOVE: 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cupid's school whoe'er wou'd take degree Last Line: But here 'tis time to rest my self and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Eros THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros THE CAPTIVE, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sought for cupid by day and night Last Line: In the depths of your hazel eyes, dear. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR THE UNGENTLE GUEST, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One silent night of late Last Line: Ile leave thy heart a dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Cupid; Eros THE CONVERT, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote lots of trash about cupid Last Line: And learn what it feels like yourself! Subject(s): Cupid; Eros THE DART, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Shoot from above Last Line: Shot with a dart of heavens bright eye Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Cupid;death;love; "eros;dead, The; THE DOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In virgil's sacred verse we find Last Line: Says he; for sure I touch his feather. Subject(s): Cupid; Doves; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Eros; Vergil THE LASS WITH THE DELICATE AIR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "young molly, who lives at the foot of the hill" Last Line: How to win the dear lass with the delicate air Subject(s): Cupid;love; Eros THE LAST MAN: A DREAM, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn Last Line: Was of the northern hurricane _____ Subject(s): Cupid; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Eros; Dead, The; Nightmares THE LITTLE ARCHER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Deftly the little archer plies Last Line: In sigh or tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Cupid; Love; Eros THE ORPHARION: CUPID'S INGRATITUDE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid abroad was 'lated in the night Last Line: That sore I griev'd I welcom'd such a guest. Variant Title(s): A Night Visitor;love's Treachery Subject(s): Cupid; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Eros THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE SCHOLAR OF HIS OWN PUPIL; THIRD IDYLLIUM, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt, by me I saw fair venus stand Last Line: And learn'd of him, by songs, the art of love. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Love; Cupid; Educators; Professors; Eros THE THEFT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When celia, coming from the stream Last Line: And gave it back to love. Subject(s): Cupid; Desire; Virginity; Eros; Vestals THE TRIPLE LEAGUE TO MRS. SUSAN DOVE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Pensive eliza lately sat Last Line: That charming iris still is mine. Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Friendship; Soul; Eros; Destiny THE WAKEFUL NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "for love that makes him wakeful, makes him sing" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;love - Complaints;nightingales; Eros THE WINGS OF EROS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, like a bird, hath perch'd upon a spray Last Line: But hush! . . . Remind not eros of his wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Cupid; Eros THREE'S A CROWD', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Crisp and hard lay the snow beneath Last Line: When the person who crowds you is cupid Subject(s): Cupid; Eros TIME AND LOVE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An artist painted time and love Last Line: "and, after marriage, cupid." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cupid; Love; Time; Eros TO A LADY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for thy little god of love Last Line: And a memorial of thy donor. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Love; Eros; Destiny TO A STATUE OF CUPID BEARING A BOW AND QUIVER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Armed boy! Thine arrow try Last Line: Art thou deaf as well as blind? Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros TO CUPID, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maidens, why spare ye? Last Line: More good they had taught him. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros TO EROS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou accustomed to olympian air Last Line: We leave all else and follow where thou movest. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros TO-NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: What can I find in the city shops Last Line: To piddle in his mother's lap? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cupid; Mothers; Eros TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. APRIL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O april, month of nymphs and fauns and cupids Last Line: Towards the loved one. Subject(s): April; Cupid; Love; Eros TRIOLET, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Cupid is a careless lad Last Line: With his bow and quiver. Subject(s): Cupid; Love - Complaints; Eros UNDER A WINGED CUPID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis vain to haste when love pursues Last Line: "for he has wings, - thou, only feet" Subject(s): Angels;arrows;cupid;love;passion; Eros UPON CUPID (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old wives have often told, how they Last Line: Asswag'd, and he was well again. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros UPON CUPID (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, like a beggar, came to me Last Line: His finger was the dart. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros UPON CUPID (4), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As lately I a garland bound Last Line: Co'd never since find any rest. Subject(s): Cupid; Eros VENUS MISTAKEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cloe's picture was to venus shown Last Line: Friend howard's genius fancied all the rest. Subject(s): Cupid; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess); Eros VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enuie ye muses, at your thriuing mate Last Line: Be gossips to those ribald rymes of thine. Subject(s): Cupid; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Eros VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For shame write better labeo, or write none Last Line: For shame write cleanly labeo, or write none. Subject(s): Cupid; Troy; Writing & Writers; Eros WHERE CUPID DWELLS, by ROBERT LOUIS MUNGER Poem Text First Line: Way over the seas, in a far, far land Last Line: When he rests over there from his play. Don't you? Subject(s): Cupid; Play; Eros WHICH?, by W. C. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Blonde or brunette? Shall ethel fair Last Line: "which!'" Subject(s): Cupid; Eros WHO'LL BUY A CUPID?, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the wares so pretty Last Line: Such beauties! Come and buy! Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros WHY?, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What makes you ask dan cupid 'why?' Last Line: For love never knows the reason why. Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Eros |
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