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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FORTUNE TELLERS Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CREPE-DE-CHINE, by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: When she gives a 'psychic reading' Last Line: To assuage her true distress, her headache, and her exhaustion Subject(s): Fortune Tellers CRYSTAL GAZER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gerd sits spindle-shaped in her dark tent, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry DESNOS READING THE PALMS OF MEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I should go back to the white leather Last Line: Don't you hear it? Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Fortune Tellers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hope; Jews; Palmistry; Shoah; Optimism; Judaism FISH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I greet the fish of the sea Last Line: To their elegant, cold blood, %their perfect symmetry Subject(s): Fortune Tellers FORTUNE TELLER, by FOU'AD RIFQAH Poem Source First Line: She points to a star Last Line: You seek a new map Subject(s): Fortune Tellers FORTUNE-TELLING, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: There are facts we know; namely, in indiana Last Line: We wish were not so simple-minded, certain of things, %afraid of the answer Subject(s): Fortune Tellers HALF-EATEN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fortune-teller told me I was going to Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Cougars; Marriage; Palmistry; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MADRE SOFIA, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poet's Biography First Line: My mother took me because she couldn't Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry MADRE SOFIA, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mother took me because she couldn't Last Line: The future will make you tall Subject(s): Fortune Tellers PALM READER, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: In her storefront living room Last Line: At her room from every stranger's hand Subject(s): Fortune Tellers TELLING FORTUNES, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you were quite the gypsy on that night Subject(s): Fortune Tellers TELLING FORTUNES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you two fortunes, my fine little lad Last Line: And your shoes like the mouth of a fish! Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry TELLING FORTUNES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You'll have a son, the old man said Last Line: "a fool, a coxcomb, and a cur." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry TELLING FORTUNES, by GEORGE HENRY JESSOP Poem Source First Line: Let this gypsy tell our fortune Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Gypsies THE FORTUNE TELLER, by ANN MCCRAY RINALDO Poem Text First Line: I met a mountain woman Last Line: "and what you hold to your heart." Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry THE GYPSY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay! Tell us not of curtained walls! Last Line: Follow our bidding, foul or fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Gypsies; Russia; Palmistry; Gipsies; Soviet Union; Russians THE HOROSCOPE, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: Two sisters there, whose arms were interlaced Last Line: "yes."" ""that is bliss enough for me to know." Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Future; Love - Unrequited; Palmistry THE OPEN HAPPENS IN THE MIDST OF BEINGS; MARTIN HEIDEGGER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The coroner said a white picket fence Last Line: On the riverbed in a cold white spout... Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Life Change Events; Pleasure; Palmistry THE ROAD TO ROSLYN, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Upon the road to roslyn town Last Line: The bobbed hair hid my ears. Subject(s): Deception; Fortune Tellers; Gypsies; Palmistry; Gipsies UNDERWOODS: BOOK 2: 6. THE SPAEWIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I wad like to ken - to the beggar-wife says I Last Line: -- it's gey an' easy speirin', says the beggar-wife to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry YOUR LUCK IS ABOUT TO CHANGE', by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: Ominous inscrutable chinese news Last Line: Then savor the newborn babe Subject(s): Christmas; Fortune Tellers; Luck |
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