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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JEALOUSY Matches Found: 127 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BETTER ANSWER (TO CHLOE JEALOUS), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dear chloe, how blubbered is that pretty face Last Line: As he was a poet sublimer than me. Variant Title(s): Answer To Chloe Jealous;to Chloe Jealous, A Better Answer Subject(s): Jealousy; Love A BRITTANY LOVE SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My only love is a sailor lad Last Line: Or let him die in the sea! Subject(s): Jealousy A DESERTER, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their new landlord was a handsome man. On his rounds to collect rent she became friendly Subject(s): Desertion & Nonsupport; Jealousy; Fathers & Daughters; Suicide A DREAM OF JEALOUSY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking with you and another lady Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Jealousy A LEARNED MISTRESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tell him the tale is a lie Last Line: Sudden death may be his fate! Subject(s): Love - Erotic;hate;jealousy;love A SONG (1), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear mistress has a heart Last Line: Should we live one day asunder. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Jealousy AMOROSA AND COMPANY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, there was still a sure hand, anyway, Last Line: And stared at red mirrored eyes. She was getting old Subject(s): Aging; Jealousy ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send peace on all the lands and flickering corn Last Line: Troubles his sleeping; give him dreams of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Jealousy ANSWER TO CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, fairest proof of beauty's power Last Line: Who, dying thus, persists to love thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Nature; Tears; Youth ANSWERING MACHINE, by MICHAEL ESTABROOK Poem Source First Line: Pat hi, it's me, pick up. I thought you were Last Line: Machine when she wasn't looking) Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Jealousy; Unfaithfulness AT THE LAST WASTE OF DARK, by TABOK Poem Source Last Line: Let him have companions he likes Subject(s): Jealousy; Love ATTEMPT AT JEALOUSY, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it with another woman? Last Line: How is it, my love? Worse than for me %with another man? Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Jealousy ATTEMPT AT JEALOUSY, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is your life with the other one Last Line: Your life, my love? Is it as %hard as mine with another man? Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Jealousy ATTEMPT AT JEALOUSY / MARINA TSVETAYEVA, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's it like with another woman Last Line: Gash of immortal conscience Subject(s): Jealousy; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941) CICERONIS AMOR: LOVE AND JEALOUSY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gods had framed the sweet of women's face Last Line: Than love united to a jealous thought. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jealousy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear to ask me, why I weep Last Line: My answer to thy dubious verse. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Mythology - Classical; Riddles; Tears; Venus (goddess) CUPID'S ARROWS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venus' entreaty for cupid her son Last Line: His metal vulcan's cyclops sent from hell. Subject(s): Cupid; Hate; Hope; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Eros; Optimism DELIVERY, by KATHERINE MCCORD Poem Source First Line: We always say you were Last Line: The man who loves me at your door Subject(s): Jealousy; Labor And Laborers; Love DO THEY MAKE LOVE?, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't pick at it, my nurse says Last Line: If he touches her I want him to die Subject(s): Jealousy DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you walked out Last Line: One sock between his teeth that once was yours. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Revenge DOOM FERRY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boatman, have they crossed? Not all Last Line: Dabbling, at my cool dead ease there. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Boats; Jealousy DREAM OF JEALOUSY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking with you and another lady Last Line: Nor my prudence, love, can heal your wounded stare Subject(s): Erotic Love; Jealousy ELEGY: 1. JEALOUSY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die Last Line: Do londons major; or germans, the popes pride. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 3. Jealousy Subject(s): Jealousy FIVE EMOTIONS: THE FOURTH -- JEALOUSY, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: I wish I could become a king Last Line: Your elegy sung for a person like the creature that I am %I want no other to hear Subject(s): Jealousy FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 1. OF JEALOUSY. A DIALOGUE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From whence was first this fury hurl'd Last Line: And raging as the northern wind. Subject(s): Jealousy FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn all thy thoughts to eyes Last Line: In spite of jealousy! Subject(s): Jealousy FUTILITY, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: I caught a moonbeam flitting through your dark hair Last Line: Through your tangled locks. Subject(s): Jealousy GENEVIEVE AND ALEXANDRA (2), by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't look at me so much as if to-day Last Line: Oh, stop that! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Relationships; Sisters GOD IS A COWBOY WHO RIDES A LAME HORSE, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Burroughs fondled me in the store's back room Last Line: Recuperate my straggling hair, my breached life Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Jealousy; Justice; Murder; Trials; Unfaithfulness HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you want ashes Last Line: Other faces will come Subject(s): Jealousy HAVING FAILED, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With every other stratagem Last Line: The lamp burns for me alone Subject(s): Jealousy HORACE TO LYDIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Old sweetheart mine, your charms decline Last Line: To satiate my great heart-hunger! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HOW MARIGOLDS CAME YELLOW, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jealous girls these sometimes were Last Line: Yellow, markt for jealousie. Subject(s): Flowers; Jealousy; Marigolds HOW'S YOUR LIFE WITH THE OTHER ONE, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How's your life, my darling? Harder than, %just like, mine with another man? Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Jealousy I CAN'T THINK WHAT HE SEES IN HER, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jealousy's an awful thing and foreign to my nature Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Jealousy IF I LOVED YOU...WHAT WOULD IT BE?', by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All ritualistic, but not as sweet Subject(s): Jealousy IN A BALCONY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now! / not now! Last Line: Con. Kiss! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN SANTIAGO, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In santiago the green Last Line: Run full of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Jealousy J IS FOR JEALOUSY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I praised the daisies on my lawn Last Line: That she and I are living in. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hyeah come caesar higgins Last Line: Don't you fool wid me! Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUS, by BETH E. HAYES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes my love is calm and good Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUS LOVERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he lies in the night away from her Last Line: Her eyes have not shut all night Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUS MAN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be homeless is a pride Last Line: His war not hers Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSIDITY, by ALEKSEI KRUCHENYKH Poem Source First Line: Dear %dorian - trash! Last Line: A sleepy %shawl's %flapping! Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Still, still I finde my heart too much below Last Line: My restless heart with fondly-sweet deceit. Subject(s): Jealousy; Sin JEALOUSY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see you, who were so wise and cool Last Line: -- oh, when that time comes, you'll be dirty too! Subject(s): Jealousy; Soldiers' Writings JEALOUSY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my love so well, I would Last Line: And ease my jealous pain! Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Him rival to the gods I place Last Line: And wanton: ease that hath destroyed %great kings, and states with all their powers Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Catullus To Lesbi Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The myrtle bush grew shady Last Line: "even so!' said the queen." Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Jealousy; Love JEALOUSY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the tilted buildings or the blind alleys Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the tilted buildings or the blind alleys Last Line: From a window then burying your face %in the plumage of an angel Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Flatbush! Flatbush! Rah! Rah! Rah! Last Line: See the bobbed-head riding on the bob-tailed car. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jealousy JEALOUSY, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vain love, why dost thou boast of wings Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jealous of you Last Line: I'd be content. Subject(s): Hearts; Jealousy; Love JEALOUSY, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four things the wise man knew not to declare Last Line: Which should in death unite him with his bride. Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by JOCELYN HUSSEY Poem Source First Line: The dog spit up on your side Last Line: Car wrecks, snipers, and nudity - %all in biting color Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by ESTHER JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh, shield me from his rage, celestial powers! Last Line: That where one reigns the other shall succeed? Variant Title(s): Stell Subject(s): Jealousy; Love JEALOUSY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Sad jealousy! The scalding tear Last Line: She knows the healer can do nought for her! Subject(s): Jealousy JEALOUSY, by WINIFIELD WELLS Poem Text First Line: What? Did my spotted lily startle you? Last Line: I plucked that lily twenty years ago. Subject(s): Flowers; Jealousy LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What state of life can be so blest Last Line: Thou tyrant of the mind! Variant Title(s): Jealousy, The Tyrant Of The Mind Subject(s): Death; Jealousy; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Songs; Dictators LOVE'S BITTERNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should I love, where others would despise? Last Line: Their light I'd quench to prove thy constancy! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Jealousy; Love - Complaints MARIANSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Marianson, my beauteous dame" Subject(s): Anger;death;jealousy;marriage;unfaithfulness; "dead, The;weddings;husbands;wives;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy; MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have pleasures for a friend Last Line: When neither can hinder the other. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst alexis lay prest Last Line: The nymph dy'd more quick, and the shepherd more slow. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MORTAL JEALOUSY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begone, o thou distracting care Last Line: Tis death thou bring'st, not jealousy. Subject(s): Jealousy MUROMACHI BALLAD (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dropped the door-bolt thong Last Line: Jealous as ever, %she rammed it home Subject(s): Jealousy MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY MOJAVE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sha- / dow, / as of Subject(s): Storms; Jealousy MY NEIGHBOR COMPARES HER HOUSE WITH MINE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is kempt and tidy Last Line: Only a passing hour! Subject(s): Envy; Houses; Jealousy NOT AT HOME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That jealousy may rule a mind Last Line: And can't just then be seen. Subject(s): Jealousy ON ERNEST DOWSON'S AUNT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O grand old lady, how you hate Last Line: And were as curates deified. Subject(s): Aunts; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Genius; Jealousy ON JEALOUSY, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Source First Line: It's insane Last Line: Or value %their %possessions Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Jealousy ORTHODOXIES 2, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He is spreading the lilies of jealousy on the ground, a young man Last Line: On a woman with a beaver's belly, another unexpected madness is capped Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Murder PANDOSTO, THE TRIUMPH OF TIME: BELLARIA'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies entomb'd bellaria fair Last Line: Curse him that caus'd this queen to die. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jealousy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones PARADOX, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I have seen envy hide her pettiness Last Line: With love's own glowing eyes. Subject(s): Envy; Jealousy; Love PASTORAL 2ND - JEALOUSY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud lowed the happy cows with udders full Last Line: Not for a pattern only - but your sake Subject(s): Jealousy PHAEDRA: PHAEDRA JEALOUS (ACT 4. SCENE 6), by JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love will stay, %and it will stay forever Last Line: It is a shame which hounds me to the grave, %and ends a life of misery in torment Subject(s): Jealousy PORTRAIT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: When rita fared along the village walk Last Line: Breaking a heartor brightening a day. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations RADHA'S JEALOUS RAGE WITH KRISHNA (1), by SURDAS Poem Source First Line: She proudly sits in silence Last Line: Go and you'll see how furious she is Subject(s): Jealousy RADHA'S JEALOUS RAGE WITH KRISHNA (2), by SURDAS Poem Source First Line: This is no time for anger Last Line: Come then to your dear krishna, she replies Subject(s): Jealousy SAN FRAN TOPS LIST FOR BITCHINESS, by WESLEY DAY Poem Source First Line: Unfortunately, petty envy %jealousy Last Line: & windowsills %& on our shoes Subject(s): Jealousy; San Francisco SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harden now thy tyred hart, with more then flinty rage Last Line: Too oft, I feare, thou wilt remember me. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Second Book Of Airs: 3 Subject(s): Anger; Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SHE CHARGED ME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She charged me with having said this and that Last Line: Ere long, in our play of slave and queen. Subject(s): Jealousy SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 19, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since we your husband daily see Last Line: With thy insipid fool. Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Jealousy; Night; Passion; Bedtime SONNET (6), by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jealousy be proof of love indeed Last Line: That made me love ere I was cast away. Subject(s): Jealousy SONNET: 29, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Last Line: That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Variant Title(s): "amor Omnia Vincit;a Consolation;fortune And Men's Eyes;""when, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes""; Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Jealousy; Love; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology SONNET: 300, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How envious I am of you, avaricious earth Last Line: Stands in her lovely eyes and does not call me! Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Laura In Death: 3 Subject(s): Jealousy SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 32, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a grudge I am bearing the earth Last Line: Standing in her two eyes, and will not call me with a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): He Is Jealous Of The Heavens And The Earth Subject(s): Jealousy SUPPLANTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seems zif everything nice is done Last Line: I'm awfully glad I did! Subject(s): Children; Jealousy; Childhood THAT MAN IS PEER OF THE GODS, WHO, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Paler than grass and lack little of dying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion THE AUNCIENT ACQUAINTANCE, MADAM, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The auncient acquaintance, madam, between us twain Last Line: Or ells with gret shame your game wilbe sene. Subject(s): Jealousy THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY, by WILLIAM MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Don't you hear the big spurs jingle? Last Line: And danced his dance tonight. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Jealousy; Ranch Life; Violence; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE FACE AT THE CASEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever joy leave Last Line: Cruel as the grave! Subject(s): Jealousy THE JEALOUS LOVER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Who is this man that, brain on fire Last Line: Who calls me jealousy?' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Jealousy THE JEALOUS LOVERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he lies in the night away from her Subject(s): Jealousy THE LETTER L, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat on grassy slopes that meet Last Line: "the letter l." Subject(s): Beauty; God; Jealousy; Letters; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MANIAC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them sitting in the shade Last Line: Oh, hide me! Hide me! Hide me! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity; Jealousy; Murder; Madness; Mental Illness THE MAREMMA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are bright scenes beneath italian skies Last Line: For thee, who thus didst pass in brightness to the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Italy; Jealousy; Dead, The; Italians THE MONTH'S LOVE, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: Ye maidens attend to my tale Last Line: That got not so easily free? Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Archers & Archery; Jealousy THE OLD LOVE: 1, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You love me, only me. Do I not know? Last Line: Those days are with you--hers--before I came. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Jealousy THE RIVAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I determined to find out whose it was Last Line: Would work so foolishly! Subject(s): Jealousy THE SCHOOL FOR SATIRE, by SOPHIA (RAYMOND) BURRELL Poem Text First Line: How oft we see the female sex / themselves with jealous fancies vex! Last Line: Composure, harmony and grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Clay, Mrs. William Subject(s): Envy; Jealousy; Women THE SHRIKE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night comes black Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Revenge; Jealousy THE TRYST OF QUEEN HYNDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen hynde was in the rowan-wood with scarlet fruit aflame Last Line: "the old king's son, they say; mayhap; he has gillander's eyes." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Love; Murder; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THOUGHTFUL NIGHTS, by GEORGE GRANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughtful nights, and restless waking Last Line: Fierce, immortal ecstasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Grenville, George; Lansdowne, Baron Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Complaints TIT-FOR-TAT, by ADELAIDE-GILLETTE DUFRESNOY Poem Text First Line: Phillis, a venal nymph, delayed Last Line: Gave rosalind for nought! Subject(s): Bribery; Jealousy; Kisses TO CLARISSA, by ROBERT NUGENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when the friendly shade of night Last Line: I wish her with her wedded mate. Alternate Author Name(s): Nugent, Earl Subject(s): Desire; Jealousy TO CLOE, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: Cloe, blooming sweet as may, / we must tempt mama away Last Line: Trust me, cloe, this will do. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love Affairs; Mothers; Temperance; Prohibition TO HIS JEALOUS MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Admit, thou darling of mine eyes Last Line: To blind the world, but only thine. Subject(s): Jealousy TO JEALOUSIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jealousie, that art Last Line: (o! Soul-tormenting jealousie,) from thee. Subject(s): Jealousy TO MAKE THE WIFE KIND, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To make the wife kind, and to keep the house still Last Line: As to make, by your jealousy, horns for yourselves. Subject(s): Jealousy; Marriage; Trust; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MARY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Thou art happy, and I feel Last Line: My foolish heart be still, or break. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Jealousy; Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth; Infants TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And feel my mind slip as I %go close to death Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion TO MY LORD BUCKHURST, VERY YOUNG, PLAYING WITH A CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amorous youth, whose tender breast Last Line: She deep will mark her new disgrace. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Jealousy; Tears; Youth; Childhood TO NOBODADDY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou silent and invisible Last Line: Gains females loud applause Subject(s): Bible; Jealousy; Mythology TOGETHER IN GREECE, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting on the steps of the cinema Last Line: I went to him, with that singing in me Subject(s): Greece; Jealousy; Greeks TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, FAIRE QUEENE OF JEWRY, SELS., by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Jealousy; Jews; Mariamne The Hasmonaean (57-29 B.c.) TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 11, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The jealous guru poet who Last Line: Deposited as sediment for %future speculation Subject(s): Jealousy TWO MCNEILS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He skips out lithe and tense into the light, Last Line: I'll meet you thursday night at half-past ten Subject(s): Jealousy; Hatred; Weight Lifting; Bodybuilding UPON A WIFE THAT DIED MAD WITH JEALOUSY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this little vault she lies Last Line: Trouble death to lay agen. Subject(s): Jealousy VAIN WOOING, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Green walls of waves that tower up Last Line: How still the dunes along the coast! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Courtship; Jealousy VALENTINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valentine' is flat on his back being hurt Last Line: Hummingbird looking %for nectar, dead flowers %after frost Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Jealousy; Loss; Love; Relationships VARIATIONS UPON LOVE: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O woman! I am jealous of the eyes Last Line: I tremble at the name you do not speak. Subject(s): Jealousy WHEN I IN PRAISE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I in praise of babies speak Last Line: For, pity me, she hates him still! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Jealousy WINTER AFTERNOON, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What god freezes our lighted fountain Last Line: This much is true, untrue, how you pine Variant Title(s): Ghazal On A Winter Afternoo Subject(s): Jealousy WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women; Half-brothers WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women |
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