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Subject: NAKEDNESS
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First Line: "I must, I will have gin! - that skillet take"
Last Line: "I was born naked, and I'll die naked"
Subject(s): Art & Artists;indifference;nudity;portraits; Nakedness


A BATHER, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick dappled by circles of sunshine and fluttering
Last Line: And the scent of the woods is sweet on this hot summer morning.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Nudity; Showers & Showering; Nakedness


A MATISSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the french grass, in that room on fifth ave., lay that woman
Last Line: So she came to america
Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Nakedness


BARELY POSSIBLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Consider now the nudist's lot -
Last Line: He longeth for some clothes!
Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness


CHIAROSCURO, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty was disrobing
Last Line: From the garden of june.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Lilies; Nudity; Nakedness


EVE'S BLOOD, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love hides many treasures in its deeps
Last Line: The blood of that eve of the early woods.
Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brides; Nature; Nudity; Nakedness


FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 1. LANDSCAPE AS A NUDE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lies on her left side her flank golden
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Landscape As A Nude
Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness


FROM THE PERSIAN (1), by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked out of the dark we came
Subject(s): Love; Nudity; Nakedness


FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are like the moon except
Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women; Nakedness


IN THE LOCKER ROOM, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I surprise the women
Last Line: And bring on the body in person.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Nudity; Privacy; Nakedness


LOCKER ROOM CONVERSATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some men my husband never sees
Last Line: A couple of friends.-what did you think of that guy? / -what guy, they said
Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Nudity; Nakedness


MARGOT, MY PAGE: MOONLIGHT, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: As an apen quivers, 'gainst this heart of mine be a ray that shivers
Last Line: Dian's archery?
Subject(s): Animals; Moon; Nudity; Rabbits; Nakedness; Hares


NAKED I CAME, by PALLADAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked I reached the world at birth
Last Line: Seeing the end is nakedness?
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness


NUDE BEACH, by BOYER RICKEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We swam and sunned in our birthday suits
Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness


NUDE DESCENDING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a bowerbird trailing a beakful of weeds
Last Line: Into beige rectangles
Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness


NUDITIES, by ANDRE SPIRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You said: / I wish to be your comrade
Last Line: Tear out your voice!
Subject(s): Nudity; Women; Nakedness


OLD-CLOTHES WOMAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Your lively look that pierces them
Last Line: And nude as a god I go.
Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness


PLAYBOY, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High on his stockroom ladder like a dunce
Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness


POEM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who of us all has seen
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Nudity; Desire; Nakedness


RHYME FOR A CHILD VIEWING A NAKED VENUS IN A PAINTING, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed
Last Line: Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.
Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings & Painters; Nakedness


STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solitude closes down around us
Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nakedness; Swimmers


STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot now remember the first word
Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles
Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 27, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I came from
Last Line: Buttock shivered against you
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Love - Erotic; Nudity; Nakedness


THE POOL, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My embarrassment at his nakedness
Subject(s): Self; Nudity; Nakedness


THE SILVER SWAN: MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An hour before sunrise
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity; Male-female Relations; Nakedness


THE TEACHING OF THE NUDE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A satyr spied a goddess in her bath
Last Line: His hoof kicked up the clothing for such charms.
Subject(s): Lust; Mythology; Nudity; Nakedness


TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time, in sunshine weather
Last Line: Beloved by all who truth revere.
Subject(s): Fables; Nudity; Nymphs; Truth; Allegories; Nakedness


WANTON, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strip her of her silken clothes
Last Line: Love has made her very wise.
Subject(s): Love; Nudity; Pity; Wisdom; Nakedness


WHY TRUTH GOES NAKED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: List to a tale well worth the ear
Last Line: As naked as a marble goddess
Subject(s): Nudity;truth; Nakedness