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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OBESITY Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 350-LB. POEM, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: My sisters appear in monosyllabic bikinis Last Line: And try to appear %in small print Subject(s): Language; Obesity; Poetry And Poets; Women A FAT LADY HEARS SHAKESPEARE AT THE CLUB, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rustles in with sweep of many laces Last Line: Sighing with sentiment, she sits there, creaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Dramatists; Obesity; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) A FAT MAN, by ABEL EVANS Poem Text First Line: When tadlow walks the streets, the paviours cry Last Line: "god bless you, sir!"" and lay their rammers by." Subject(s): Obesity BIG LAUNDRY BILLS, by HELEN K. RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Gaining weight %I really hate Last Line: I had less skin, %and used a smaller towel Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Obesity FAT LADY TRAVELS, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: On any train Last Line: And, oh, it holding! Subject(s): Obesity; Travel FATTY, FATTY, BOOM-A-LATTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: She is so large around the waist, %she cannot she her toes! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Obesity FORTY YEARS AFTER, by H. H. PORTER Poem Text First Line: We climbed to the top of goat point hill Last Line: Nor can she get both hers around me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Obesity HAVE YOU SEEN MY MISSUS?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you've heard of my children, two, seeking for each other?" Last Line: Till I tumble into bed - it's then I miss my missus Subject(s): Kisses;marriage;obesity; Weddings;husbands;wives I'M TOO FAT TO DO IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is a fact I'm very stout Last Line: Cos I'm too fat to do it Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;kisses;obesity MAX AND JIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Max an' jim / they're each other's Last Line: She'll haf to eat 'em! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brothers; Obesity; Slenderness; Half-brothers; Thinness MY MOTHER, by HELEN UNDERWOOD HOYT Poem Text First Line: My mother's cheeks are fat Last Line: Rhymes just for her delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Daniels, Helen Underwood Hoyt Subject(s): Mothers; Obesity OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 13. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE NINETH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buffe loves fat viands, fat ale, fat all things Last Line: Him fat only wish to feast the gallows. Subject(s): Obesity ROUND WOMEN, by E. K. CALDWELL Poem Source First Line: Round women %taught to hate our bodies Last Line: Ans strength to the souls %of round women Subject(s): Obesity; Women SIDESHOW, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Once I saw a woman as big as the world Last Line: When the fat woman's tears fell, %they looked as heavy as pears, and as succulent Subject(s): Circus; Obesity; Pregnancy THE FAT ACTOR AND THE RUSTIC, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cardinal wolsey was a man Last Line: "a load of hay got in this afternoon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Obesity; Peace THE FAT LADY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely house it was. We all thought so Last Line: The one world I know how to love had died Subject(s): Obesity; Women THE FAT MAN IN THE MIRROR, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's filling up the mirror? O, it is not I Subject(s): Mirrors; Food & Eating; Obesity THE FAT MAN YEARNS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Though I've had my share of the pleasure Last Line: Saturday market day! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Longing; Obesity; Time THE URGE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: A girl however hard she tries Last Line: Few can withstand the urge of style. Subject(s): Girls; Obesity TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you walk through the fields in gloves Last Line: Missing so much and so much? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Obesity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WASHING YOU FEET, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washing you feet is hard when you get fat Last Line: It is sad to be fat and to have dirty feet Subject(s): Cleanliness; Feet; Obesity WHY DOHERTY DIED, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: It was out on the bogan near billabong creek Last Line: "faith! 'tis now that I know why poor doherty died." Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Obesity; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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