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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


AT THE BANK OF A LAKE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black sedans the mayor ordered %from the city
Last Line: Of a naked moonlit woman %asleep beside a lake
Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Nudity; Old Age


BACCHUS SEES ARIADNE, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He felt as he watched her nude
Last Line: And later place among the stars
Subject(s): Nature; Nudity; Women


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


BODY IS A SUSPECT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its rights. It is a suspect
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Bodies; Human Rights; Nudity; Sex


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


CLOTHES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stranger looks at his clothes on the floor
Last Line: Go to your head
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Ireland; Masks; Nudity; Strangers


DISCARDED NUDE, by NEIL AZEVEDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know now where I am
Last Line: I know now where I am
Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings And Painters


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


FEMALE NUDE OF A WOMAN I'VE NEVER SEEN NAKED, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've missed the point perhaps in making something beautiful
Last Line: Now, imagine someone loving you for all that
Subject(s): Love; Nudity; Women


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


FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 1. LANDSCAPE AS A NUDE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lies on her left side her flank golden
Last Line: She has brown breasts and the mouth of no other country
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Landscape As A Nud
Subject(s): Nudity


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 (1), by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked out of the dark we came
Last Line: Come to my arms, naked in the dark
Subject(s): Love; Nudity


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


FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are like the moon except
Last Line: Most splendid naked, at night
Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women


HUSBAND AND WIFE IN THE WOODS AT A NUDIST CAMP, N.J. 1963, by JENNIFER WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to look at her imperfections
Last Line: Like sweet meat, between awe and revulsion?
Subject(s): Arbus, Diane (1923-1971); Marriage; Nudity; Photography And Photographers


IF I STAND IN MY WINDOW, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Praying in tongues
Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Identity; Nudity


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


LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 1. AFTER THE OPENING, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a last, too-brief interlude in
Last Line: Painting, nora? How has it been?
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Sin; Women


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


LOCKER ROOM CONVERSATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         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


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 27, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I came from
Last Line: Buttocks shivered against you
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Erotic Love; Nudity


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


MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An hour before sunrise
Last Line: Risen sun - star and crescent gone into light
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity


MATISSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the french grass, in that room on fifth ave., lay that womaon who
Last Line: French girl lies and smiles at the sun without seeing us
Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits


MIRROR, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The afternoon ends with red
Last Line: With white feet, and swaying hips, %and fragrant sex
Subject(s): Canyons; Nature; Nudity


NAKED, by JOHANNA SCHOUTEN-ELSENHOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What am I?
Last Line: Naked I was born %naked I'll die
Subject(s): Death; Life; Nudity


NAKED AND THE NUDE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For me, the naked and the nude
Last Line: By gorgons with long whips pursued, %how naked go the sometime nude!
Subject(s): Language; Nudity


NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air
Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused


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


NAKED IN BORNEO, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They wear air
Last Line: That old spirit leaked out, %new spirit sneaked in
Subject(s): Borneo; Nudity


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


NUDE DESCENDING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a bowerbird trailing a beakful of weeds
Last Line: They have torn her apart %into beige rectangles
Subject(s): Nudity


NUDES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, by ROSA ALCALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is my shop where the black wheel turns with greasy knob and heavy glove
Last Line: Lying face to face, irrepressible and shameless along these great fall of %patterson
Subject(s): Change; Love; Nudity; Revolutions


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


ON EIGHT MILE, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She appears as if at the edge
Last Line: Can make me look away
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Hearts; Love; Nudity; Striptease Dancers


ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 27, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked, you are simple as one of your hands
Last Line: And becomes a naked again
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Nudity


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


PLAYBOY, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High on his stockroom ladder like a dunce
Last Line: Grown sweetly faint, and swept beyond control, %consents to his inexorable will
Subject(s): Nudity


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


PRIVACY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh you who are shy of the popular eye
Last Line: To ensure private life for the goldfish
Subject(s): Goldfish; Nudity


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


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES STUDIO ART CLASS: DOCTRINE NAKEDNESS, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In greece each cynic trotted about caked in mud
Last Line: And molten sheath, hell of knowing our mortality too well
Subject(s): Nudity


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO 8TH GRADE .. RELIGIOUS HISTORY NAKEDNESS, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A slither, a hiss
Last Line: With nothing much to hide
Subject(s): Nudity


SOMEWHAT DISTURBED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He knows damn well he's not afraid
Last Line: To be out of his mind
Subject(s): Fear; Insanity; Nudity; Silence


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


STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solitude closes down around us
Last Line: Of your nude jubilation
Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming; Water


STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I start from wood to praise you and grow green
Subject(s): Desire; Nudity


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


SUSANNAH TO THE ELDER, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eyes that pierced my nakedness
Last Line: Crush the juice from one
Subject(s): Bodies; Nudity; Old Age; Relationships; Youth


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


THREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All three are bare
Last Line: At watch, who had to learn their nakedness
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Nudity


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


WAKING UP, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm naked %I've already taken my bath
Last Line: I don't have a minute to lose %I write
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Morning; Nudity; Sea Voyages


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