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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 heart—or 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