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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FASHION Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGAINST WOMEN'S FASHIONS, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greatest of virtues is humility Last Line: By example of her your horns cast away. Subject(s): Fashion; Humility ALAMODE OR YE MAIDENS MODE; INSCRIBED ON A DISH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am ye owl that stood in feare Last Line: To weare this mode against controul, %when used by an ape, nay cat and owl Subject(s): Fashion AN OMINOUS MISSION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fashion, beauteous maid, was born Last Line: They somehow had left out the soul. Subject(s): Fashion BEAUTY AGAIN, by GEOFF TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: Beauty's gone out of fashion, like pyjamas Last Line: Or praise these ugly streets Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion BIRTH OF MADAME DELUXE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: It didn't start with pains Last Line: All eyes. Ass first and eager %with rip-roaring hair Subject(s): Birth; Eyeglasses; Fashion; Vision; Women EPIGRAMMATICK SKETCH, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prithee do you know tom tweezer Last Line: "and my duck will want a new one!" Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Consumerism; Fashion EUROPA: 2. THE MAGINOT LINE, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Back to the mirror, you gave a colonel's frown Last Line: Another year the dresses were out of reach Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fashion FASHION PLATES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fashion plates are dainty dishes Last Line: Yes -- and bills! Subject(s): Fashion FASHION STATEMENT, by JEFFERY DONALDSON Poem Source First Line: Now for the first prize! Laura's attired Last Line: And the creator's original design Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Fashion FASHION; A DIALOGUE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consider, my good friend, the value Last Line: And that all honour him, who praise. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fashion FASHIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fashion on fashion on fashion Last Line: They'll keep till you need 'em. Who'll buy? Variant Title(s): Fashions Are Changing In The Sphere Subject(s): Death; Fashion; God; Dead, The GAPOSIS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Something is bursting the seams of the fabric Last Line: Unreasonably, out of style %despite the fabulous fall collection Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fashion I AM FASHION'S TOY, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Give to me of the bright green leaves Last Line: Now, the dream is past. I am fashion's toy. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Fashion; Grass IN THE FASHION, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: A lion has a mane and a very fine mane Last Line: And that's the style for me. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fashion MORNING PAPER, SOCIETY PAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can never see fashion models Last Line: A coming style. Subject(s): Fashion; Models; Skulls MY LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady has returned to town Last Line: The love that warms my formal phrases. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Fashion; Man-woman Relationships; Urban Life; Male-female Relations PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War SHOPPING TRIP, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I try on clothes with you and fifty other women in a mirrored room Last Line: And though I can't make love to you, I could make a turkey with her %watching Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fashion; Retail Trade; Shopping; Vision STYLES & FASHIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "good people all both old and young, I hope you will be easy" Last Line: And tells me to mind my own affairs - the child is in the fashion Subject(s): Fashion;hair;singing & Singers;women TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colored hats are necessary to show that curls are worn by an addition Subject(s): Fashion; Hats; Heads TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colored hats are necessary to show that curls are worn by an addition Last Line: Pearls and little ways. A large hat is tall and me and all custard whole Subject(s): Fashion; Hats; Heads THE CLOAK, by ANNA LOUISE BARNEY Poem Text First Line: The cloak life made for her was gray in hue Last Line: Envied the glorious garment that she wore. Subject(s): Fashion THE FASHION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: I likewise might inamour'd be Last Line: That, & no other fashion wee'l receive. Subject(s): Facades; Fashion; Pride; Appearances; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FASHIONS, 1806, by LEWIS BEACH Poem Text First Line: A lad came down from our town Last Line: And turn'd them out of door, sir. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fashion; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE GRAYBEARDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We relics of a bygone time insist that old Last Line: "this year, the cops would make a raid!" Subject(s): Fashion THE PATCHWORK QUIZ, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 183, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They laugh at me hey farm boy Last Line: And stick a stupa on my head Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fashion; Poverty; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE RED TURTLENECK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand for approval Last Line: As I wear it into my scent. Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion; Sand, George (1804-1876); Seduction; Women; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant THE STRAPLESS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scrawny yank of a kid Last Line: Paint in the women never filled. Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion; Women THEN THE ERMINE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rather dead than spotted; and believe it Subject(s): Fashion TO SIMPLICITY, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair village nymph, ah! May I meet Last Line: And all the spells of fashion fail. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fashion; Simplicity |
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