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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FANS Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TO A LADY, WITH A PRESENT OF A FAN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 |
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