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Subject: MODELS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DISCOURAGING MODEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just the airiest, fairiest slip of a thing
Last Line: To expect a result half so fair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Flowers; Models; Roses


A MODEL, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Year after year I sit for them
Last Line: There is no one so tired as I!
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Models


A NUDE BY EDWARD HOPPER, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light / drains me of what I might be
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Body, Human; Models


A SHIP IN A BOTTLE, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a sailormen's restaurant. Rotherhithe way
Last Line: To the harbours of youth on the wind of a dream!
Subject(s): Models


ARTIST AND MODEL, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Carefully, he set an easel out
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models; Rape


AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a mould for some fair form
Last Line: Beholdest—what thou art not.
Subject(s): Models; Plaster Casts


ASOLANDO: THE LADY AND THE PAINTER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet womanhood you reverence
Last Line: She. That you jest!
Subject(s): Women; Paintings & Painters; Models


DEATH MASK OF EGON SCHIELE, by BROOK HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is plaster
Last Line: Thoughthey are pregnant with form
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Death; Models


DIORAMA, by SUSAN GRIMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I smooth the clay, shape the abrupt slope
Last Line: The lid on. Peace mixed with the smell of fish. Almost home
Subject(s): Models


DRAWING LESSON, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The student is sketching a nude girl
Last Line: She wants to bite (or kiss?) her toe
Subject(s): Models


EGON SCHIELE'S WIFE, by CAROL FROST    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: More since her illness he tried to think of her not purely as a wife
Subject(s): Schiele, Egon (1891-1918); Marriage; Models; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One face looks out from all his canvasses
Last Line: Not as she is, but as fills his dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)


IN AN ATELIER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray you, do not turn your head
Last Line: Somehow -- as if you'd just been kissed!
Variant Title(s): In An Artist's Studio
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Models; Paintings & Painters


JOYFULLY, BUT FRIEFLY, by MATT ROHRER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I couldn't draw because I hated the model
Last Line: They sucked it in their lungs. They're called leaves, %but they're lungs
Subject(s): Drawing; Models


LONDON CROSSFIGURED, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): London, England; Models


MODEL LOOKS AT HER PORTRAIT: A RETROSPECTIVE, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the painting, staring at herself
Last Line: A room, or as if in a poem turned inside out
Subject(s): Models; Paintings And Painters


MORNING PAPER, SOCIETY PAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can never see fashion models
Last Line: A coming style.
Subject(s): Fashion; Models; Skulls


MY MADONNA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hailed me a woman from the street
Last Line: Where you and all may see.
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Models; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


POSTER, by FERREIRA GULLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: It does help to know
Last Line: The girl hidden in the panther
Subject(s): Advertising; Models; Photography And Photographers; Posters


ROWING HOME, by EDWARD BOCCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most of all, I want my model
Last Line: Do not worry about rowing home - %you have arrived
Subject(s): Models; Paintings And Painters


SONATA: 1. ALLEGRO, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You've seen her things? I saw them yesterday
Last Line: All on the line -- and landscapes, every one!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Models


SONATA: 2. SCHERZO, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, there the pictures are, the ones the model painted
Last Line: She's just a woman standing without her clothes.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Models


SONATA: 3. ANDANTE SERIOSO, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Women and men, dumb before my pictures
Last Line: Earth cannot, nor the ocean, nor the sky.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Models


THE ARTIST'S MODEL, CA. 1912, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1886 I came apart
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Models; Aging; Transience; Impermanence


THE MODELS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Music begins, and here they come toward us
Subject(s): Models


THE NUDE, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Studios are stations of reminiscence
Subject(s): Nudism; Paintings & Painters; Models


THE PAINTER'S MISTRESS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And still you paint, and still I stand
Last Line: And in dark hollow tresses, gold.
Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters


THE PICTURE, by MARIA JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ere dissolves the house of clay
Last Line: But in blessing was she bless'd.
Subject(s): Models; Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women


TO MR. LUCAS, WRITTEN WHILST SITTING TO HIM FOR MY PORTRAIT, 1828, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh young and richly gifted! Born to claim
Last Line: By the reflexion of their own pure light.
Subject(s): Lucas, John (1807-1874); Models; Portraits


TWO POEMS FOR THOMAS HART BENTON: 1. PERSEPHONE, by WALTER BARGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It started so simply
Last Line: His two mules %patient as winter shadows
Variant Title(s): Afternude
Subject(s): Benton, Thomas Hart (1889-1975); Models; Paintings And Painters


TWO POEMS FOR THOMAS HART BENTON: 2. SUSANNAH AND THE ELDERS, by WALTER BARGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know you're too naked
Last Line: Others abandon their houses
Subject(s): Benton, Thomas Hart (1889-1975); Models; Paintings And Painters


VOGUE SHOOT, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Models; Cosmetics


WHEN FATHER DECIDED HE DID NOT LOVE HER ANYMORE, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I will remember the model
Last Line: Where the doors opened to the river
Subject(s): Models


WHEN FATHER DECIDED HE DID NOT LOVE HER ANYMORE, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I will remember the model
Last Line: Her study in paris %where the doors opened to the river
Subject(s): Models


WOMAN AT LIT WINDOW, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps if she stood for an hour like that
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models