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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MODESTY Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVICE TO A LOVER, by THOMAS YALDEN Poem Text First Line: For many unsuccessful years Last Line: What she for years denied. Subject(s): Modesty AGAINST MODESTY IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many unsuccessful years Last Line: Had foolishly denied. Subject(s): Cupid; Fear; Kisses; Love; Modesty; Tears; Eros CHLOE, by CHARLES MORDAUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said to my heart, between sleeping and waking Last Line: Would one think, that my chloe never thought is was she. Alternate Author Name(s): Peterborough, 3d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Song By A Person Of Quality Subject(s): Love; Modesty CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not conceal thy radiant eyes Last Line: Make men beleeve no paradice. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Modesty CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HER COYNESS, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sweetness is in fruits, in nectarine Last Line: But will (more nice than she) thy touch abide. Subject(s): Love; Modesty EVICTED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New gray hairs are adorning my venerable Last Line: Alarm; and we shall join the paupers, out at the county farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Modesty; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou joyest, fond boy, to be by many loved Last Line: Than every hour to triumph lord of new. Variant Title(s): In Love Subject(s): Modesty HIS MODEST WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know, alas, fair dame, that you Last Line: Oh, let me be your scepter-bearer! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Wishes; Male-female Relations I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To an admiring bog! Subject(s): Modesty; Privacy MODESTY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is a sweet, tho' humble flower Last Line: The brightest beauty of her brow. Subject(s): Flowers; Modesty MORE MODEST, MORE MANLY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis still observ'd, those men most valiant are Last Line: That are most modest ere they come to warre. Subject(s): Modesty OF HIMSELF, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William was once a bashful youth Last Line: E'er claim him for her own. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Modesty; Poetry & Poets OF MODESTY, SELECTION, by MARY MOLLINEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus modesty, and spotless innocence Last Line: The heart, where vertue should prevail and reign. Subject(s): Beauty; Modesty; Virginity; Vestals ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the thing that's most uncommon / (envy be silent and attend!) Last Line: The woman 's deaf, and does not hear! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Modesty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SO BASHFUL WHEN I SPIED HER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But I shall never tell! Subject(s): Modesty SONG, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, lovely rose Last Line: That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Variant Title(s): The Rose Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Flowers; Love; Modesty; Roses; Transience; Impermanence THE HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE ROOM, by WILLIAM MACQUORN RANKINE Poem Text First Line: I've always been told that I'm pretty Last Line: Of the handsomest man in the room. Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Male-female Relations THE OTHER FELLOW, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other fellow ought to do things I Last Line: "say about the rainy day, ""the rainy day be derned." Subject(s): Modesty THE PRECISION, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is modesty in nature. In the small Last Line: With skill from one to the next, singing Subject(s): Bodies; Modesty; Love THE SIGNAL: OR, A SATIRE AGAINST MODESTY, SELECTION, by FRANCIS HAWLING Poem Text First Line: How shall I tell the torments of that hour Last Line: And ate out twelve months' labour at a meal. Subject(s): Modesty; Satire (as Poetic Genre) TO A.D. UNREASONABLE DISTRUSTFUL OF HER OWN BEAUTY, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair doris, break thy glass, it hath perplex'd Last Line: I die a martyr, you an heretic. Subject(s): Beauty; Modesty UPON HER BLUSH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When julia blushes, she do's show Last Line: Cheeks like to roses, when they blow. Subject(s): Modesty WHICH SHALL I CHOOSE?, by DELLE BLOSS DAVENPORT Poem Text First Line: I am looking for a nosegay Last Line: "we love, not 'glitter,' but modesty." Subject(s): Flowers; Modesty; Violets |
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