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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GLUTTONY Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUNT MARY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt mary died of eating twelve red peppers Last Line: I pray the tear she taught me of us all Subject(s): Death; Aunts; Gluttony; Dead, The BETTY BOOPER, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is little betty booper Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Popcorn BETTY BOOPER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is little betty booper Last Line: Chop the door down! %... Well, too late Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony; Popcorn EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gut eats all day and lechers all the night Last Line: Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in. Subject(s): Gluttony FOOD OF LOVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to murder you with love Last Line: And you'll begin to die again. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Love; Men; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism GLUTTON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the atlas roams a glutton Last Line: Loathing each other's carrion company Subject(s): Gluttony; Hate; Sex GLUTTON, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Himself let no one spare nor flatter Last Line: For laws of right and justice cry, %the guiltiest alone should die Subject(s): Fables; Gluttony GLUTTON, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, hunger-struck, hard to slake Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Gluttony GLUTTON, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jowls of his belly crawl and swell like the sea Last Line: And leave of his volume only the mould of his girth Subject(s): Gluttony GLUTTONY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a country of splendor & high Last Line: Another sheet in unblessed fingers always %ready to draw the thing that is all mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Food And Eating; Gluttony GREEDY JANE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pudding and pie Subject(s): Gluttony GREEDY NED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A greedy young fellow named ned Last Line: And when he woke up he was dead Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony I ATE TOO MUCH, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate too much turkey Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony I ATE TOO MUCH, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate too much turkey Last Line: So I guess it won't hurt %if I eat just a little bit more Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony I KNOW AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know an old lady who swallowed a cow Last Line: I know an old lady who swallowed a horse, %she died, of course! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SATIRE 2.2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, and how great, the virtue and the art Last Line: Let us be fix'd, and our own masters still. Subject(s): Gluttony MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, / A LOBSTER, AND SOME PRUNES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And when they carried mary out, %her face was white as snow Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony MOUSE AND THE CAKE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mouse found a beautiful piece of plum-cake Last Line: Or the best of our pleasures may turn into pain Subject(s): Gluttony; Mice ON M.W., THE GREAT EATER, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, much good do't ye; were your table but Last Line: Breakfast with islands, and drink healths with seas! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Gluttony ONE SUMMER AT TEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a young parson named perkins Last Line: Which pickled his internal workings Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony ONE SUMMER AT TEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a young parson named perkins Last Line: One summer at tea %he ate forty-three, %which pickled his internal working's Subject(s): Gluttony PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE: HYMN TO COMUS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Room, room, make room for the bouncing belly Last Line: Thou break'st all thy girdles, and break'st forth a god. Variant Title(s): Hymn To The Belly;comus's Song Subject(s): Bellies; Gluttony SAID A LONG CROCODILE, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Said a very l - o - n - g crocodile Last Line: I'm hungry for more than a mile! Subject(s): Crocodiles; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN SINS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call in the dancers Last Line: Heaven too shall vanish in pale smoke. Subject(s): Anger; Dancing & Dancers; Gluttony; Idleness; Lies; Lust; Pride; Sin; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DIET, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Last night my supper, as I fed Last Line: By thy sweet grace an endlesse feast shall reap. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Gluttony; Mortality; Temptation THE DOG IN THE RIVER, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The churl that wants another's fare Last Line: Both shade and substance, beef and bone. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Gluttony THE GLUTTON, by AL-SUMAISIR Poem Text First Line: You gobble all and each Last Line: Dire illness to repay! Subject(s): Gluttony THE GLUTTON, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, hunger-struck, hard to slake Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Gluttony THE GLUTTON, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fat, pamper'd porus, eating for renown Last Line: No fashion's dupe, no powerful passion's slave. Subject(s): Disease; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Pleasure; Simplicity THE NOTORIOUS GLUTTON, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A duck who had got such a habit of stuffing Last Line: There to learn the disgrace in which gluttony ends. Subject(s): Ducks; Gluttony; Mallards; Drakes THE PLUM-CAKE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I've got a plum-cake, and a fine feast I'll make Last Line: "do not be such a glutton again." Subject(s): Boys; Gluttony THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that midas Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity THE VULTURE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Vultures UNCLE SIDNEY'S RHYMES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little rapacity greed was a glutton Last Line: "and hopeless, -- ""he eats like -- he eats like an acid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Rhyme VULTURE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Last Line: Oh! What a lesson for us all %to only eat at dinner! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony; Vultures |
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