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Subject: FANS
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First Line: "smiling, sweet girl, this proffered toy approve"
Last Line: "may to her wish this pliant engine frame, / to cool her passions, or to fan their flame"
Subject(s): Fans


A CHINESE FAN PAINTING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late afternoon, the cherries bloom
Subject(s): China; Fans; Paintings And Painters


A JAPANESE FAN, by MARGARET VELEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though to talk too much of heaven
Last Line: Japanese.
Subject(s): Fans


A PAINTED FAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses and butterflies snared on a fan
Last Line: The soft, south wind of memory blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Fans


ANOTHER FAN (OF MADEMOISELLE MALLARME), by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dreamy one, that I may plunge
Last Line: Against the fire of a bracelet.
Subject(s): Fans


BALLADE OF THE FAN, by WILLIAM FREDERICK KIRK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Madly I long for the day
Last Line: Ho for the crack of the bat!
Subject(s): Admiration; Fans; Games; News; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


BLACK LACE FAN MY MOTHER GAVE ME, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the first gift he ever gave her
Last Line: The whole, full, flirtatious span of it
Subject(s): Fans


CHINESE FAN PAINTING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late afternoon, the cherries bloom
Last Line: Cherry trees blooming in both the worlds
Subject(s): China; Fans; Paintings And Painters


DOLLY'S FAN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paint anastasia as a saint
Last Line: Than your quaint silken fan!
Subject(s): Fans


FAN, by RAFAEL OSES    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man, barefoot in his bangkok hotel room
Last Line: A man in his bangkok hotel room became part of a fan
Subject(s): Death; Fans


FAN (RIDDLE), by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From india's burning clime I'm brought
Subject(s): Fans; Riddles


FOR A FAN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each of us answers to a call
Last Line: Pleasuring thus, and thus caressed?
Subject(s): Fans


IN PASSING, by GERALD JONAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Open-backed dumpy junktruck
Last Line: What a way to go
Subject(s): Fans; Junk And Junkyards


INSCRIBED ON A PAINTED FAN PRESENTED TO MY HUSBAND, by ZHANG YINYUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The thousand pieces of jade surround a lonely pavilion
Last Line: Discoursing with the bright moon about poetry
Subject(s): Fans


MY GRANDMOTHER'S [TURKEY-TAIL] FAN, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It owned not a color that vanity dons
Last Line: My grandmother's turkey-tail fan.
Subject(s): Fans; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ODE TO THE FAN, by HO XUAN HUONG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One hole can fit just any number in
Last Line: Lords cherish, kings adore this single thing
Subject(s): Fans


ON A FAN, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I've painted these flowers, say what can I do
Last Line: O c--ll--n--n! Dwells in that bosom of thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Fans


ON FINDING A FAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In one who felt as once he felt
Last Line: Its former warmth around another.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Fans; Houson, Anne


PRESENT FROM THE EMPEROR'S NEW CONCUBINE, by PAN CHIEH-YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took a piece of the rare cloth o fch'I
Last Line: And forget it, long before it is worn out
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Fans


THE BLACK LACE FAN MY MOTHER GAVE ME, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the first gift he ever gave her
Subject(s): Fans


THE FAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Innocent doves / fluttering in the folds
Last Line: Tell me...If you can
Subject(s): Fans;love


THE FAN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is I control the air
Last Line: Or your tears that tremble.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Air; Fans; Wings


THE FRESH AIR FAN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fresh air crank is rather trying; he keeps
Last Line: "zephyrs."
Subject(s): Fans; Oxygen


THE POMPADOUR'S FAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chicken skin, delicate, white
Last Line: This was the pompadour's fan!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Variant Title(s): On A Fan That Belonged To The Marquise De Pompadour;ballade Of The Pompadour's Fan
Subject(s): Fans; Pompadour, Marquise De (1721-1764)


TO A DISCARDED FAN, by NGUYEN KHUYEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After three months of autumn chill
Last Line: The world will then bid you come out
Subject(s): Fans


TO A LADY, WITH A PRESENT OF A FAN, by CHARLES BRANDLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Smiling, sweet girl, this proffer'd toy approve
Subject(s): Fans; Mnemonics


TRIOLET: 1. WHAT HE SAID, by HARRISON ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This kiss upon your fan I press
Last Line: Ah! Saint nitouche, you don't refuse it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H.
Subject(s): Courtship; Fans; Kisses


WHAT THE EAGLE FAN SAYS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I strung dazzling thrones of thunder beings
Last Line: On human breath, and I help them rise
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fans


WRITTEN ON THE LEAVES OF A FAN, by FRANCIS ATTERBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flavia, the least and slightest toy
Last Line: To every other breast -- a flame.
Variant Title(s): Written On A White Fan Borrowed From Miss Osborne, Afterwards His Wife
Subject(s): Fans; Love