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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLEASURE Matches Found: 153 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACCHIC LYRIC, by HERBERT LIONEL DOGGETT Poem Text First Line: Take from dead rome Last Line: Love and wine and roses. Subject(s): Pleasure; Toasts A LOVE SECRET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love has its secrets, joy has its revealings" Last Line: Deeds shall be done for her none ever did Subject(s): Hearts;love;pleasure A MORALITY, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the meals that ever were Last Line: With pleasure—and a pipe to follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Pleasure A PARTY OF PLEASURE UP THE RIVER TAMER, by FRANCES TALBOT Poem Text First Line: The clock strikes nine -- nor has the sun Last Line: Tis better starve than steal. Alternate Author Name(s): Morley, Countess Of Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Pleasure; Punishment; Rivers AD ASTRA: 139, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is pleasure more commendable a guide? Last Line: Who look'd to pleasure as a deathless queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Pleasure AN APRIL DAY, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE Poem Text First Line: An april day and summer in the air Last Line: For april leads the summer back again. Subject(s): April; Happiness; Pleasure; Spring; Joy; Delight AROUND US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought; Thinking AROUND US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought ASTROPHIL TO HIS SON, AGED SEVEN MONTHS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! With whom I fondly share Last Line: As idle—but less innocent. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Innocence; Pleasure; Infants; Childhood AT THE CLOTHESLINE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millies was in the backyard hanging Subject(s): Love; Pleasure; Laundry & Laundering AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: If you'll believe me when I tell you I have tried Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Pleasure CANZONE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the three functions of the tongue Subject(s): Pleasure; Taste (sense) CANZONE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the three functions of the tongue Last Line: Whoever wants to give %only one meaning to that, has untutored taste Subject(s): Pleasure; Taste (sense) CATULLUS XI, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Furius and aurelius, bound to catullus Last Line: Roots out in passing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Pleasure; Travel CHANGE ASSURED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This world it is a pleasant place Last Line: When it will be too warm Subject(s): Earth;nature;pleasure;seasons; World CROAK, by ELIZABETH JAEGER Poem Text First Line: When it darkens and rains Last Line: With relish I croak in my nook. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Pleasure DEAR GIFTS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's best gifts are bought dearly. Wealth is won Last Line: How dark the penalty that it exacts! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Genius; Pleasure; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes DEAR THINGS AND QUEER THINGS, by LOUISA COOKE DON-CARLOS Poem Text First Line: The world's so full of dear things Last Line: How can I leave them all? Subject(s): Death; Pleasure; Dead, The DEDICATION IN THESE DAY , by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What words can make Last Line: For now for you / again Subject(s): Pleasure DELIA AND I, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Delia and I are driving alone Last Line: Learning the roads that lead lovers to rome! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Lent; Love; Pleasure; Wagons DINNER OF HERBS, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dined at a strange old inn with sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Pleasure; Food & Eating; Sorrow; Sadness DIPPER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw %in a quick-falling, white-veined stream Last Line: Like a dark bird dipping in and out, tasting and singing Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pleasure DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the land of the dark-eyed gente Last Line: Smoke — smoke — smoke. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Health; Pleasure; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 3. TEESTAY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of tropic sensations, the worst Last Line: Teestay, teestay. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Drinks & Drinking; Pleasure; Wine DUSK, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: Consider dusk %that drapes the forest in a monk's Last Line: Why we married so long ago Subject(s): Love - Marital; Pleasure ECLOGUE, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: I took off my clothes Last Line: Its eyes are filled with tears Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Passion; Pleasure ECSTASY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years it was in sex and I thought Last Line: Of the most shining and singular sensual gratification. Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Pleasure; Sex; Suffering; Misery ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lay before me on the close-grazed grass Last Line: Thou didst thy duty, man can do no more. Subject(s): Duty; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Substance Abuse; Temptation; Addictive Behavior ENGLISH FLAVORS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning. Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary EROS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the roar and strife of sun-smit day Last Line: And god, fixed ever in the thought of death. Subject(s): London; Pleasure ESTHER: 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little honey! Ay, a little sweet Subject(s): Pleasure FIE, PLEASURE, FIE, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fie, pleasure, fie! Thou cloyest me with delight Last Line: Fie, pleasure, fie! I dare not trust to this. Subject(s): Pleasure FISHING NAKED, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: Bent knee within the cathedral %of indian summer, I canoed crooked creek's Last Line: Yearning for change, vertiginous %along the shifting line water and shore unmake, %all of us fishing Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Fishing And Fishermen; Old Age; Pleasure GIVE BACK, GIVE BACK, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I married him for length Last Line: At the long entrance of the children. Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Marriage; Pleasure; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word you created / which we translate Last Line: Your word for love. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Pleasure; Words; Vocabulary; Suffering; Misery HAD I KNOWN THAT THE FIRST WAS THE LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bliss was most to blame Variant Title(s): Poem: 1720; Poem: 175 Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Pleasure HARDEST IT IS, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Your touch is a torch Last Line: Hardest it is to touch yet have and hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Longing; Pleasure; Touch (sense) HEDONISM, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: Versus grim reality? Anytime Last Line: Even empty hands will cramp Subject(s): Pleasure HER PLEASURE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Across the pattern of her face Last Line: Wait upon the seasons of her mind. Subject(s): Faces; Pleasure HIDDEN JOYS, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem Last Line: Peeps sparkling, and in tones familiar sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Pleasure IDEAL CITY, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set in the silence of pure perspective Last Line: With the scarlet graffiti of laughter Subject(s): Cities; Italy; Pleasure IF I DESIRE WITH PLEASANT SONGS, by THOMAS BURBIDGE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Pleasure IN PRAISE OF LAUDANUM, by WILLIAM HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel, o laudanum, thy power divine Last Line: And everything but mira is forgot. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Pleasure; Praise; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin IT FELT SO GOOD BUT MANY TIMES I CRIED, by JAMES BAKER HALL Poem Source First Line: Depending on how brave I was Last Line: As well entering me it felt so good %but many times I cried Subject(s): Pleasure IT WAS HERE--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was here. Right here Last Line: Silently, toward %what isn't Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Pleasure; Spring LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Treasure plies a feather Last Line: And are heavenly things. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pleasure; Treasures; Heaven LIVE AND LET LIVE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is room in the world for more pleasure Last Line: "than when she says, ""live and let live." Subject(s): Life; Pleasure LOVE, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: Love's an headstrong wild desire / to possess what we admire Last Line: Or else worship and adore it. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion; Pleasure; Worship LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 24, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I scream as you bite Last Line: Had been cut in two Subject(s): Erotic Love; Pleasure; Sex LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE AND FEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And many there were hurt by that strong boy Last Line: Ever will be near. Subject(s): Desire; Fear; Hope; Love; Pleasure; Optimism LOVE, JOY, AND PLEASURE; AN ALLEGORY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The night was calm, the sky serene Last Line: On the scroll which charity gave them. Subject(s): Fables; Happiness; Love; Pleasure; Allegories; Joy; Delight MADRIGAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April eyes, april eyes / alight with laughter Last Line: Love is a rover. Subject(s): April; Eyes; Laughter; Love; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MEDITATION ON TODAY'S LIMIT OF PLEASURE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the cicadas come riding in wild Last Line: The hint of mercy saying we can't stand anymore %this song this sun this blue these cicadas Subject(s): Leadership; Pennsylvania; Pleasure; Travel MEMORY LANE, by E. NOLD Poem Text First Line: When your day's work is done / and you have Last Line: As you wander down memory lane. Subject(s): Memory; Pleasure; Smiles; Thought; Thinking MOST ANY BIT OF LANDSCAPE, by JEAN CAMERON AGNEW Poem Text First Line: Most any bit of landscape Last Line: Appeals to me. Subject(s): Landscape; Nature; Pleasure MOTH, by JOANNE MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: In this room shadows fall blue-violet as Last Line: Heat that draws you to it then sets fire to %all you have Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Death; Pleasure; Youth MY NEIGHBOR'S REPLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your neighbor, sir, whose roses you admire" Last Line: And he who shares the joy in what he's grown / spreads joy and doubles all his own Subject(s): Flowers;neighbors;pleasure;roses MYCERINUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the justice that my father spurned Last Line: Mix'd with the murmur of the moving nile. Subject(s): Pleasure; Time; Menkaure, Pharaoh Of Egypt NATURE GIFTS, by EFFIE CLOUSE Poem Text First Line: Mother says, 'get up, jack' Last Line: "all my burdens grow more light." Subject(s): Courage; Pleasure; Valor; Bravery NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What pleasures shall he ever find Last Line: To show the man so blest once breath'd the vital air. Subject(s): Celibacy; Pleasure NOBLE AMBITION SPANS THE FOUR SEAS, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And vain is the way of fame and glory Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Pleasure OASIS (TO WILLIAM AND CONSTANCE LLOYD), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A tiny town, high-huddled o'er the sea Last Line: Where life, in fine, was good—and talk and laughter glad! Subject(s): Home; Hospitality; Pleasure ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, be the glorious revel mine Last Line: Because I love to drink too. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Pleasure; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tinkling brooks, to twilight shades Last Line: "virtue alone is bliss compleat." Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Solitude; Virtue; Loneliness ODE AGAINST PLEASURE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no such thing as pleasure here, / 'tis all a perfect cheat Last Line: "who said of pleasure, - ""it is mad." Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Against Pleasure Subject(s): Pleasure ODE TO MISS HOYLAND: MISS HOYLAND IS COY, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Hoyland, empress of my heart Last Line: And make thy baker blest? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Pleasure OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All human race, from china to peru Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence! Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere! Last Line: For a robin's song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks ON HIMSELFE (12), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wearied pilgrim, I have wandered here Last Line: Their ends for pleasure, do not live, but last. Subject(s): Pleasure ON LUXURY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, ye profuse, has nature work'd in vain Last Line: Too deeply bosom'd in the branching wood. Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Pleasure; Vanity ON THE WAY TO HELL, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am so happy these days Last Line: I shall laugh all the way to your gates. Subject(s): Pleasure OUR THRONES DECAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I said my pleasure shall not move Last Line: It turns to dust beneath the years. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pleasure; Time PANEM ET CIRCENSES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crumbs of bitter comfort fall Last Line: "we were revenged before we died!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Life; Pleasure; Sun; Dead, The PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 1. PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasure space crammed Last Line: That makes me long for more. Subject(s): Heaven; Pleasure; Paradise PLATO PLATER'S DIALGUE ON PLEASURE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By jove, dear percy, this world cannot boast Subject(s): Pleasure PLATO PLATER'S DIALGUE ON PLEASURE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By jove, dear percy, this world cannot boast Last Line: The only pleasure that is sweet is mirth Subject(s): Pleasure PLEASURE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Away! Unstable, fleeting pleasure Last Line: That's with a guiltless conscience blest. Subject(s): Pleasure PLEASURE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Listen to the rock breathing Last Line: You breathe in me. Subject(s): Past; Pleasure; Seashore PLEASURE, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: A naken jaina monk Last Line: Once naked, once even intangible Subject(s): Celibacy; Lust; Pleasure PLEASURE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of those times I knew even then Subject(s): Restaurants; Pleasure; Cafes; Diners PLEASURE AND PAIN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasure and pain walk hand in hand Last Line: For all men's betterment. Subject(s): Pleasure; Pain PLEASURE AND PAIN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can determine the frontier of pleasure? Last Line: For pain has its heaven and pleasure its hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, by RAYMOND OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Who are you? Why do you not let me live Last Line: But you would give me radical delight, %gouging my itches till I have no more Subject(s): Pleasure; Religion PLEASURES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The view from the dungeon's barred slit Subject(s): Pleasure PLEASURES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to find / what's not found Subject(s): Pleasure PLEASURES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to find %what's not found Last Line: Opens blue and cool on a hot morning Subject(s): Pleasure PLEASURES DISPROVEN, by CLAUDIA GARY ANNIS Poem Source First Line: O ecstasy Last Line: No sheepish sex - %just writing checks Subject(s): Pleasure PLEASURES PERNICIOUS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where pleasures rule a kingdome, never there Last Line: Is sober virtue, seen to move her sphere. Subject(s): Pleasure PORTBURY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you are weary, and it is most right Last Line: Ah, hush! Hush! Hush! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Pleasure; Sleep QUERY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How / then / distinguish Last Line: From / the blush / of shame Subject(s): Pleasure RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On beds of daisies idly laid Last Line: Meet to adore some calf of gold. Subject(s): Greed; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Pleasure; Retirement; Avarice; Cupidity; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers SEA IS AWASH WITH ROSES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon the land Subject(s): Flowers; Pleasure; Roses; Transience SNUFF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate pinch! Oh how it tingles up Last Line: And jokes that must be laugh'd at shall proceed. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Noses; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 2. PLEASURE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Try then, o man, the moments to deceive Last Line: Their wishes, smiles, and looks deceitful all, and vain. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pleasure; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Vanity; Wealth; Joy; Delight; Riches; Fortunes SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 6, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, since we have both been kind Last Line: And pretty chloris stays for me. Subject(s): Fire; Love; Nature; Pain; Pleasure; Soul; Suffering; Misery SORROW HATH A DOUBLE VOICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Farewell to sorrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pleasure; Grief STILL LIFE: THE PLEASURES OF HOME, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: The locusts are back this year, and toward sunset the racket is beyond Last Line: The south. Perhaps tonight there will be a breeze Subject(s): Pleasure STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 11, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here with a bag of crisps beneath the bough Last Line: Beside me half asleep in brockwell park %and brockwell park is paradise enow Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Parties; Pleasure SUITE ON AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by MA CHIH-YUAN Poem Source First Line: The time passed in life's century Last Line: Tell him he'll find %me utterly drunk by the eastern hedge Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Pleasure; Simplicity THANKSGIVING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank god when I kneel to pray Last Line: The safe, untroubled path I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Comfort; God; Holidays; Pleasure; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Middle Class THE BALLADE OF ALL OUT-DOORS, by RALPH P. PERRY Poem Text First Line: When the sky is getting mellow, and the Last Line: For its all out-doors a-callin' to its own. Subject(s): Pleasure; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the creation of the earth Last Line: With a beauty clear and warm. Subject(s): Pleasure THE BREEZE FROM SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is upon the lonely seas Last Line: That make us truth's and heaven's again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Wind THE BROOK: SUMMER, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Clustering ferns lie cool Last Line: Beside the current's murmuring. Subject(s): Brooks; Collective Behavior; Pleasure; Streams; Creeks; Mobs; Crowds THE CALL OF HAPPINESS, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: O happiness! Thy vision comes to me Last Line: Will welcome us unto thy final sphere. Subject(s): Happiness; Pleasure; Joy; Delight THE CHASE OF PLEASURE, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all are children in our strife to seize Last Line: If the path followed lead us on to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Pleasure THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory. Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DIPPER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw / in a quick-falling, white-veined stream Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pleasure THE EPICURE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the bowl with rosy wine! Last Line: All are stoics in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Epicureanism; Food & Eating; Life; Pleasure; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE GAIETY OF FORM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to weight the line with all these vowels Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Play; Pleasure; Vowels; Inspiration; Creativity THE GLUTTON, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fat, pamper'd porus, eating for renown Last Line: No fashion's dupe, no powerful passion's slave. Subject(s): Disease; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Pleasure; Simplicity THE HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: A book, a friend, a song, a glass Last Line: And a chaste, laughter-loving lass. Subject(s): Life; Pleasure THE LITTLE PLEASURES THAT BENEATH THE SUN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Pleasure THE LORD'S MASQUE: THE STARS DANCE; SONG, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Advance your choral motions now Last Line: The kind delights you breed. Variant Title(s): To The Masquers Representing Stars Subject(s): Pleasure THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (2), by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in thy revels frolic-fair delight Last Line: To heap joy on this ever-honoured night. Subject(s): Honor; Pleasure; Rites & Ceremonies THE LORDS' MASQUE: SONG, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, cease you revels, rest a space Last Line: Full of beauty and of grace. Subject(s): Pleasure THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 24, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I scream as you bite Last Line: Had been cut in two Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Pleasure; Sex THE LOVERS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is about to come. This time Last Line: If she could see it, she would never let him see. Subject(s): Pleasure; Sex THE NIGHT OF PLEASURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With pleasure-seeking folk Last Line: Or at least give them sleep! Subject(s): London; Night; Pleasure; Bedtime THE OPEN HAPPENS IN THE MIDST OF BEINGS; MARTIN HEIDEGGER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The coroner said a white picket fence Last Line: On the riverbed in a cold white spout... Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Life Change Events; Pleasure; Palmistry THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 149, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If pleasures come be happy Last Line: Lays out the end in detail Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mortality; Pleasure THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 85, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some seek pleasure in love Last Line: Show you the mind not used in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Pleasure; Truth; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 38, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People crowd by in the dust Last Line: I think of their pain in the dust Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dust; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery THE RIVALS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Pleasure is not the one I love Last Line: By pleasure, from her finger-tips. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Pleasure THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt both pleasure and a shiver Last Line: We'd found by plunging into the wild river. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Pleasure; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Male-female Relations; Swimmers THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SPRING, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Why, gentle spring, why hide away Last Line: "even as now they still are thine." Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Pleasure; Spring THE THREE PLEASURES, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well to think, to write with ease Last Line: Plunge in flames of each combined. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Pleasure; God; Love; Patriotism THE TRIP FROM CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shoe-fixery and on the train Subject(s): Travel; Pleasure; Journeys; Trips THE VOLUPTUARY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I am sick of love reciprocated Last Line: Keeps not the pleasure even of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Love; Pleasure THIS SWEET AND MERRY MONTH OF MAY, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Take well in worth a simple toy. Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Pleasure THREE FLOORS: SEX, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A back room in the basement, the floor Last Line: Each square repeating the word %again Subject(s): Love; Pleasure; Sex TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When peleus wedded on thessalia's plain Last Line: Grow impotent and rotten in a stew. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Pleasure; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A YOUNG MAN ON THE PLATFORM OF A SUBWAY EXPRESS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe, whistling lad who yesterevening / stood Last Line: ... It tickles. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Pleasure TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 4. PLEASANT THOUGHTS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It will be pleasant when old age shall come Last Line: You, my friend, in obedience helped me. Subject(s): Pleasure; Thought; Thinking TO THE CROWD, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I hold a budding pleasure Last Line: Buds and lees -- ambrosial power. Subject(s): Happiness; Pleasure; Joy; Delight TO-MORROW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What can I find in my wild orchard Last Line: To please your pretty eyes to-morrow? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Pleasure TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TRAGEDIES: 12, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the warm wax-light one lounged at the spinet Last Line: And all the sweet while they were fading away. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Pleasure; Roses TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed Last Line: The trees would still be company. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness UNHOLY SONNET: 25, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but pleasure in the bottle's voice Last Line: As butter and olive oil, only pleasure watches Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Pleasure; Food & Eating; Wine UNKINGD BY AFFECTION, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Pleasure VERSES ON TEXTS: PSALMS 147, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of grace Last Line: In thy sweet mercy's boundless measure! Subject(s): Pleasure VERSES WRITTEN IN A GARDEN, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how that pair of billing doves Last Line: The pedant priest, and giddy rake. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Government; Nature; Pleasure; Religion; Virtue; Theology VISIONS IN VERSE: 2. PLEASURE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, ye fair mothers of our isle! Last Line: The moral merits your esteem. Subject(s): Pleasure WE ALL LAUGH, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: Some with the strange, sheer joy of it all Last Line: I laugh to hide despair. Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Laughter; Pleasure; Smiles; Joy; Delight WEST GATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our west gate Last Line: The miser who cannot bear to spend %wins only mocking in later days Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Pleasure YEA, I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My vineyard that is mine I have to keep Last Line: It yet can rear thy palm Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Harvest; Pleasure YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips |
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