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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MATERIALISM Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SAID A MAID, 'I WILL MARRY FOR LUCRE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I notice she did not rebuchre Subject(s): Love - Materialism;women AMERICA, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud Last Line: Which turns the volume higher? Subject(s): United States; Materialism; America ARABIAN NIGHTS: INSCRIPTIONS AT THE CITY OF BRASS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Enter and learn the story of the rulers Last Line: And now inhabit a palace Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;death;legends, Arabic;materialism;" "dead, The; ARTIE BUCK'S MACHINE, by P. C. KIBBE Poem Text First Line: By intense toil a rig I wrought Last Line: And crush cold logic's steady light. Subject(s): Automobiles; Love - Materialism; Cars ATTAINMENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss Last Line: Material things must answer and obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Materialism; Religion; Worship; Theology BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'I'LL HAVE MY LOVE, OR I'LL HAVE ONE', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some praise the brown, and some the fair Last Line: I'll only tell to some choice friend. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Love - Materialism; Money BELIEVE, BELIEVE, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe in this. Young apple seeds Last Line: Rising above the mushroom time Subject(s): Social Commentary; Music & Musicians; Materialism; War CONSUMING GOLD, by MILDRED P. HENRY Poem Text First Line: My trifling finger-tips reach out for gold Last Line: I pale to think of those whom I denied! Subject(s): Gold; Materialism DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy white shafts and the golden Last Line: Our lady of gain. Subject(s): Materialism; Oxford University; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); United States; America DREAMS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I will not change my path with you Last Line: For all your dreams of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Dreams; Materialism; Worship; Nightmares EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 28. LOVE'S TRIUMPH OVER RICHES, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath love's feet are royal ensigns spread Last Line: And sceptres do to rural shepherds bow. Subject(s): Love - Materialism EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 40. LOVE BOUGHT AND SOLD, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of old the settlement that lovers made Last Line: And the same bargain serves for wife and beast. Subject(s): Love - Materialism FOR A MATERIALIST, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE Poem Text First Line: I know your barren belief - that a rose will grow Last Line: Envisage a sweet-scented waft as its trivial goal? Subject(s): Materialism; Religion; Theology FOR LACK OF GOLD, by ADAM AUSTIN Poem Text First Line: For lack of gold she's left me, o Last Line: Though she's for ever left me, o! Subject(s): Love - Materialism FORESIGHT AND PATIENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain Last Line: Counts conquest but a step, and through disaster sings. Subject(s): Faith; Materialism; Patience; Belief; Creed GOLD, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty pain to love it is Last Line: Gold, alas, does love beget. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Love; Love - Materialism GOLD CUT THE KNOT OF OTHERWISE, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But full & faithful hearts. And cash Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Love - Materialism HARD RAIN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After I heard it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Last Line: As I was walking through the springdale mall Subject(s): Materialism HOME, by DOROTHY A. CLARK Poem Text First Line: Home is what we make it Last Line: That live, and love, and smile. Subject(s): Home; Materialism HOW TO MARRY A RICH MAN, by ELIZABETH J. CLARKE ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: The trick is disinterest, %to primp in a mirror Last Line: Watching the stars %surround the back of your dress Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Men; Wealth INVESTMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the old gombeen buys a young wife Last Line: They sniff his investment, like dogs their lice. Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Villages LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady clara vere de vere / of me you shall not win renown Last Line: And let the foolish yeoman go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love - Materialism; Sorrow; Sadness LASS WITH A LUMP OF LAND, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gi'e me a lass with a lump of land Last Line: But well tochered lasses, or jointured widows. Subject(s): Love - Materialism LE MARIAGE DE CONVENANCE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The cost of it! The waste of it!-this wrings Last Line: To build yourself a tomb of yellow clay. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Materialism LITTLE LITANY FOR MOVING DAY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The woman who packs up the kitchen Last Line: Will have to go %bye-bye Subject(s): Change; Home; Materialism; Property LOVE AND MONEY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I count my pounds as three times two Last Line: Shall fly to safer cover! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Materialism MATERIALISM, by ROBERT PRESTON DICKEY Poem Source First Line: Did you think all that stuff you gave me Subject(s): Materialism MATERIALISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If things aren't things Last Line: Hold me still Subject(s): Materialism; Nature; Property; Possessions MATERIALISM, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: In order not to die I have to be the will to power Last Line: It is seeming, seeming, seeming, and sheer play Subject(s): Materialism MATERIALISM; SUGGESTED BY BUCHNER'S KRAFT AND STOFF, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A faith that grasps the outer shell Last Line: Would weigh and measure pipe and lute. Subject(s): Materialism; Soul MATERIALIST, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: If to the discard man's concealed machine Last Line: Law-governed flesh and bone shall not endure? Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Materialism; Work; Workers MIRA TO OCTAVIA, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one, to you this monitor I send Last Line: Write ballads both, and you may thrive -- adieu. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Materialism; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes MY DAUGHTER, by CAMELIN WHITE Poem Text First Line: I tried too hard to give her wings Last Line: When all she wanted was just things. Subject(s): Daughters; Materialism NO NEED OF THINGS, by ALICE TROXWELL MCCOUN Poem Text First Line: Why cling to things? When everywhere a vast Last Line: That we may soar aloft, exalting him. Subject(s): Love; Materialism; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON FEMALE INCONSTANCY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rich, thou hadst many lovers - poor, hast none" Last Line: That want's a crime no woman can forgive? Subject(s): Love - Materialism;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy POVERTY PARTS GUDE COMPANIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my o'erlay was white as the foam o' the lin Last Line: How poverty parts dear company. Subject(s): Love - Materialism PROCRASTINATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady wears a big bouquet Last Line: She grows more wasteful. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Materialism; Procrastination; Spendthrifts; Vanity; Male-female Relations SERVICE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When we count out our gold at the end of the day Last Line: Save the love we have shown to the children of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Variant Title(s): Measure;treasure (2) Subject(s): Love; Materialism STREPHON TO CELIA. A MODERN LOVE LETTER, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, I hope you'll think it's true Last Line: Or else this very moment dies -- Subject(s): Love - Materialism THE BARGAIN, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take heed, take heed, thou lovely maid Last Line: My soule and body, two grains more, I'lle adde. Subject(s): Love - Materialism THE BITER BIT, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are springing fair Last Line: Draw me a pot of beer, mother, and, mother, draw it mild! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Love - Materialism; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DUENNA: SONG, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never could any lustre see Last Line: That heaving bosom sigh for me. Subject(s): Love - Materialism THE GOLDEN AGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money abundant, at an easy rate! Last Line: That gold alone can make no golden age. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Freedom; Materialism; Muses; Wealth; Youth; English; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes THE MATERIALIST SPEAKS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired life Last Line: For these I desire life. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Materialism; Wellesley College THE POOR MAN IS NOT LOVED, by MARCUS ARGENTARIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you were loved, sosicrates, when rich; but now in her Last Line: That 'penniless' and 'loveless' are the same? Alternate Author Name(s): Markus Argentarios Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Poverty THE TRUE-BLUE AMERICAN, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jeremiah dickson was a true-blue american, Subject(s): Americans; Materialism THINGS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man stood in the laurel tree Subject(s): Religion; Materialism; Theology THINGS I THOUGHT I NEEDED, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Like more of those gray socks that were kind to my feet Last Line: Sky-blue, and forest-green and find me %still painting, still needing to paint Subject(s): Materialism THINGS TO LOVE, by ETHEL SCOTT WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: There are so many things to love Last Line: And then, my love, there's you. Subject(s): Materialism TIS LITTLE I COULD CARE FOR PEARLS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Continual upon me Subject(s): Materialism TO - (5), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see Last Line: Of the baubles that it may. Variant Title(s): To -- Subject(s): Love - Materialism TOISHAN SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you have a daughter Last Line: He'll be rich just like rockefeller Subject(s): Love - Materialism TRUE AND FALSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After decades in the whirling thick Last Line: Though his teeth are false. Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Teeth VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am flown to your good side now Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv WEDNESDAY IN Y' HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Who doubts how avarice can be Last Line: Shall still from him a full redemption reap. Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Legends; Materialism WISHES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Now I have mind & leisure Last Line: Thy will being grown almightie. Subject(s): Materialism; Temptation; Wishes; Worship WITHOUT YOU, LOVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Without you, love, my life is but a void-- Last Line: Since I broke you in two, my favorite bat! Subject(s): Baseball; Love - Materialism; Sports |
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