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Subject: PERFUME
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First Line: All day with bright, appealing face
Last Line: His soul and breaks his fetter?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Roses; Soul


CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues
Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit.
Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness


DEAREST, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dearest, hark to the song of the bird
Last Line: You are lost in me.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Perfume


EPIGRAM, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A perfume of colors invaded margot
Last Line: On her fresh clothes
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Perfume; Smells


ESSENCE, by LAILE EUBANK    Poem Text                    
First Line: These sweet and heart-filled days
Last Line: To keep some fragrance still unspent...
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Perfume


EXQUISITE LIFE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert montesquiou, the exquisite model
Last Line: With a different suggestive perfume
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Perfume


FLOWERS, by ETHEL MAE ARTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: What can possess a greater love
Last Line: Some lonely soul may leave today.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Perfume


JOHN WAYNE'S PERFUMES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 'cast a giant shadow', john wayne wore claiborne sport;
Subject(s): Wayne, John (1907-1979)' Perfume; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


ON A PERFUM'D LADY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You say y'are sweet; how sho'd we know
Last Line: Then we shall smell how sweet you be.
Subject(s): Perfume


PERFUME, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What gift for passionate lovers shall we find?
Last Line: His thoughts and fancies mingled with perfume.
Subject(s): Love; Perfume


PERFUME, by KYLE JARRARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not wives %or mothers
Last Line: Stop and be sprayed
Subject(s): Perfume


PERFUME, by MAXINE SCATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know the perfume
Last Line: I sank closer to her through, %yields now %like the door to her familiar house
Subject(s): Perfume


PERFUME, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shake out your hair about me, so
Last Line: The odour of your hair.
Subject(s): Perfume


QUATORZAINS: 1. TO PERFUME, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exquisite masquer, who dost changeful flit
Last Line: Stay till I fetch thee from those mellow lips.
Subject(s): Perfume; Seduction


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 58, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: #name?
Last Line: -as I come from the hills %'tis little wonder
Subject(s): Love; Perfume


STEPHANOTIS, by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO    Poem Text                    
First Line: You lovely flower / exquisitely fair
Last Line: Little princess of tropical flowers.
Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume; Spring


TABLEAU, by R. GERALDINE LOWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Orchids in your boudoir
Last Line: Waiting till I come.
Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume


THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time, when all was still
Last Line: To listen—to the watchman bawling!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Passion; Perfume; Poetry & Poets; Spring


THE HAREBELL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye
Last Line: And flocks in quiet feeding round!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Flowers; Harebells; Memory; Perfume


THE PERFUME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-morrow, julia, I betimes must rise
Last Line: The fat; breathe thou, and there's the rich perfume.
Subject(s): Perfume


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 84, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White whisk and sandalwood handle
Last Line: It's used to direct lost men
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Perfume; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


THE ROSE'S PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When red and white the rose of june
Last Line: Who loves the rose must love the thorn'
Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;labor & Laborers;perfume;philosophy & Philosophers;roses


THE SWEET-BRIAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet-briar flowering
Last Line: Held the trusting heart of a little child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Daisies; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE TIME OF ROSES, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, it is the time of roses!
Last Line: Crown me with the rose of love!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Nature Of; Perfume; Roses


THE VIAL, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are potent perfumes to which nothing / is impervious
Last Line: Gnawing me away, o life and death of my heart!
Subject(s): Death; Perfume; Dead, The


THE WREATH, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now will I weave white violets
Last Line: Upon her scented hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume


TO A WATER LILY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dream, dream / perfume-laden one!"
Last Line: Drowsy in dream!
Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;lilies;perfume;sleep; Nightmares


TO HIS MISTRESSES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put on your silks; and piece by piece
Last Line: By your owne jewels set on fire.
Subject(s): Perfume


TO JULIA IN THE TEMPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Besides us two, I' th' temple here's not one
Last Line: Saints will come in to fill each pew and place.
Subject(s): Perfume


WHITE HELITROPE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The feverish room and that white bed
Last Line: Is scented with white heliotrope.
Subject(s): Heliotropes; Perfume