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| Searching... Subject: PROSTITUTION Matches Found: 125 A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG NYMPH GOING TO BED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Corinna, pride of drury-lane, / for whom no shepherd sighs in vain Last Line: Who sees, will spew; who smells, be poisoned. Subject(s): Prostitution; Social Protest; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A CASTAWAY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts Last Line: Most welcome, dear: one gets so moped alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Prostitution; Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A FATE-RIDDEN WOMAN, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Text First Line: Clinging to honor with one hand Last Line: Is a fate-ridden woman. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A GESTURE BY A LADY WITH AN ASSUMED NAME, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Letters she left to clutter up the desk Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the parasol I see the marvelous prostitutes Last Line: Their breasts in which the invisible blue blood sobs forever Subject(s): Prostitution; Surrealism; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whore moves a basin of green antiseptic water Last Line: It falls stiff like a drunk, like a drunk falling onto a whore. Subject(s): Brassai [gyula Halsz] (1899-1984); Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels ALL-NITE DONUTS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A customer's blowing %smoke rings almost Subject(s): Prostitution AN OLD WHOREHOUSE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed through a broken window Subject(s): Innocence; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AS YOU LEAVE ME, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shiny record albums scattered over Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AS YOU LEAVE ME, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shiny record albums scattered over Subject(s): Prostitution BALLAD FOR FAT MARGOT, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I love and serve my beauty with good heart Last Line: Here in this brothel where we hold our court Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BAR XANADU, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect veronica, invisible, scallops air Last Line: Riffling your skirt in the scent of blood oranges and sweat Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Prostitution; Disappointment; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BLACK MAGDALENS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These have no christ to spit and stoop Subject(s): Prostitution CHEERFUL GIRLS AT SMILLER'S BAR, 1971, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The prostitutes at smiller's bar beside the dusty road Last Line: The megaphones: the preservation of our traditional %et cetera... Subject(s): Prostitution CHICAGO CABARET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was a strange game of chess Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels CHICAGO CABARET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That was a strange game of chess Last Line: Pure indian that kid %and some jazz' Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution DALLOW'S BLUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An autumn pall of heat hung sultrily over Last Line: And time swept on and dallow's landing forgot. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Marriage; Prostitution; Seasons; Fall; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Harlots; Whores; Brothels EATING, by CHRISTINE CHOI AHMED Poem Source First Line: Closet was full of belts Last Line: Bit at a time. Drip. Drip. Drip Subject(s): Child Molesting; Prostitution; Social Problems ELEANOR RIGBY AS PROSTITUTE, by NUBIA KAI Poem Source First Line: The song says 'no one comes near' Last Line: Who cares, %they were all ugly Subject(s): Prostitution EPIGRAM ON J.M.S. GENT., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gold watch found on a cinder whore Last Line: Not that they're rich, but that they steal. Subject(s): Prostitution; Smyth, James Moore; Harlots; Whores; Brothels EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won? Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones. Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels FAMILY MATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That christmas day, he wanted to kill his father Last Line: And confessed everything to the first whore he could find.' Subject(s): Christmas; Confessions; Fathers And Sons; Murder; Prostitution FIFTEEN, SHE LEARNS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: That summer I grew two inches and stood Last Line: When I turned 15, I learned to fly, %and finally learned how not to die Subject(s): Girls; Prostitution; Teenagers FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 2. LIP-STICK LIZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lip-stick liz was in the biz Last Line: Oh lip-stick liz! Subject(s): Murder; Prostitution; Women - Abused FLOWERING WHORE, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: When the first violets blossomed on her skin it caused a Last Line: Her young, promiscuous body Subject(s): Erotic Love; Prostitution; Women FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Last Line: Every hour there is less of that touch in the world Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women FRENCH LISETTE; A BALLAD OF MAIDA VALE, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who strolls so late, for mugs a bait Last Line: Tis folly abounding in a strange surrounding %to be divorced from one's pants Subject(s): Prostitution; Villains In Literature GAS STATION, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is before I'd reach nietzsche. Before kant or kierkegaard Last Line: How pure we were then, before rimbaud, before blake. Grace. %love. Take care of us. Please Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Prostitution GETTING A PURCHASE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoring? I guess I thought it was part Last Line: I can send a small check from time to time. Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Thailand; Harlots; Whores; Brothels GREASY SPOON BLUES, by LEONARD GASPARINI Poem Source First Line: Gus the greek is a short-order cook Subject(s): Prostitution HAIKU, by MATSUMOTO TAKASHI Poem Source First Line: In the brothel Last Line: Autumn evening Subject(s): Prostitution HAPLESS HOOKERS ON TIMES SQUARE, by PHILLIP CORWIN Poem Source First Line: Live in condemned hotels behind locked doors Last Line: With nothing on the floors %except for dirt. How foolish it must be, %they think, to vow and cherish Subject(s): Prostitution; Times Square, New York HARLEM SHADOWS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the halting footsteps of a lass Last Line: In harlem wandering from street to street. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City); Poverty; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HARRISON STREET COURT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a woman's lips Last Line: "every night's hustlin' I ever did." Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HERE IS MUSIC: DOUBLE BALLADE WITH DOUBLE REFRAIN (2), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: The crippled, phrygian, stoic freedman said Last Line: Self-sold—and re-self-sold at second hand. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HEY, WOMEN, SPOTTED WITH TYPHUS AND RIDDLED WITH RAKES OF., by PERETS MARKISH Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Markish, Peretz Subject(s): Prostitution HUSTLERS, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two beers screw my head up Subject(s): Prostitution ILLICIT HOMAGE TO LLUIS MILA, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source First Line: It's spring Last Line: He was a carpenter by trade Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Prostitution; Sailors And Sailing IMPRESSION DU MATIN, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thames nocturne of blue and gold Last Line: With lips of flame and heart of stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Prostitution; Thames (river); Winter; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IN RESPONSE TO RUMOR THAT OLDEST WHOREHOUSE IN WHEELING, WV, CONDEMNED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will grieve alone Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hate; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IN RESPONSE TO RUMOR THAT OLDEST WHOREHOUSE IN WHEELING, WV, CONDEMNED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will grieve alone Last Line: To find beyond death %bridgeport, ohio Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hate; Prostitution IN TALK WITH A PROSTITUTE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no sorrier for you than I am for myself Last Line: Why should we pity each other here in the night? Subject(s): Prostitution; Sympathy; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Empathy IN THESE HOUSES OF SWIFT EASY WOMEN, by BRENDA MARIE OSBEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In these houses Subject(s): Prostitution INITIATION, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At saint mande. Amid the merry-makers Last Line: "said, ""you may touch it, sir; it will not bite." Subject(s): Merchants; Prostitution; Tents; Harlots; Whores; Brothels INJUSTICE, by LUCIE DELARUE-MADRUS Poem Source First Line: All the while we give our body and our soul Subject(s): Prostitution; Women's Rights IT IS MUCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women of night life amid the lights Last Line: It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels JAIME, by CHARLES EDWARD MANN Poem Source First Line: Not my mother, not my father Last Line: With no regard for consequence Subject(s): Prostitution JANET; ONE OF MANY, SELS., by SARAH (STICKNEY) ELLIS Poem Source First Line: They met; for there was none to interfere Last Line: From its last throb of anguish and despair Subject(s): Despair; Prostitution JIE SANG CHENG, by ZHENZHEN Poem Source First Line: I was first a bright pearl held in someone's palm Last Line: To ransom this cloud girl? Subject(s): Prostitution LA BELLA BONA ROBA, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell who loves the skeleton Last Line: Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LAST GALWAY HOOKER, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the corrib river chops through the claddagh Last Line: May I handle her well down tomorrow's sea-road Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Prostitution LOVE IN A BUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was born in perhaps the holland tunnel Last Line: Human, impermanent and permanently good Subject(s): Chicago; Love; New York City; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; MADRIGAL, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To be a whore, despite of grace Last Line: Good counsel and an ugly face. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the parasol I see the marvelous prostitutes Last Line: Their breasts in which the invisible blue milk cries as ever Subject(s): Prostitution; Surrealism MAN WHO MARRIED MAGDALENE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Prostitution MARIZIBILL, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the high-street in cologne Last Line: Their hearts sway open like their doors Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels 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 NET, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, woman, in your net Last Line: And draw the equal quilt %over our naked guilt Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Prostitution NEW ORLEANS HARLOT, by FRANCES LYKSETT Poem Text First Line: Envy and avarice spoke from her greedy face Last Line: Of all her coquetries, and tawdry wiles. Subject(s): New Orleans; Prostitution; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Harlots; Whores; Brothels NOCTURNE, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Lights from the cambuci district on nights of crime Last Line: Get-a you roast-a yams! Subject(s): Brazil; Prostitution; Women NOCTURNE, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: On the corner of paris street and rome avenue Last Line: Loaded with tenderness Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Prostitution; Women OLD WHOREHOUSE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed through a broken window Last Line: It would be years before %we'd learn how effortlessly %sin blooms, then softens, %like any bed of fl Subject(s): Innocence; Prostitution ON MRS. WILLIS, by JOHN WILLSON Poem Source First Line: Against the charms our ballocks have Subject(s): Prostitution ON REPORTING THE MURDER OF A YOUNG PROSTITUTE, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: I stood over her, %thought: draw me something Last Line: I offer her a sip of my pepsi %& half of my sandwich. %to her I'm blind Subject(s): Newspapers; Prostitution ON THE NEW HOT-HOUSE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where lately harboured many a famous whore Last Line: And still be a whore house. They are synonima. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels OUTCAST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance for dear life's sake - and life is sweet Last Line: The viler prostitute in mind and deed. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels PHOTOGRAPH OF A BAWD DRINKING RALEIGH RYE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glass in her hand is the only thing moving Subject(s): Storyville, New Orleans; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels PICCADILLY CIRCUS AT NIGHT: STREETWALKERS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When into the night the yellow light is roused like dust Last Line: Sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Piccadilly, London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels PRIVATE ROOM, by DAVID CHORLTON Poem Source First Line: An old pastoral painted Last Line: Better to hear the snap %of a prostitute's brassiere Subject(s): Privacy; Prostitution; Rooms PRIZE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Beyond the roost of thought she lived, Last Line: For soldiers wearing purple bruises %as their only prize. Subject(s): Prostitution; Sex PROSTITUTE, by CHANG MAN-YUNG Poem Source First Line: Because she was unaware Last Line: Her neighbors sent her a chill sneer %for her funeral. Not a single candle Subject(s): Prostitution PROSTITUTE, by DAVID RUBADIRI Poem Source First Line: I desired her Last Line: To stir the glue-pot? Subject(s): Lust; Prostitution RED LIGHT DISTRICT NURSE, by JOHN FULLER Poem Source First Line: You'll see me park my car upon Last Line: I'm the red light district nurse Subject(s): Prostitution RUBY BROWN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was young and beautiful Last Line: Pay more money to her now %than they ever did before, %when she worked in their kitchens Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Prostitution RYOJIN HISHO (18), SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Prostitution SAIGON BAR GIRLS, 1975, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where's ho xuan huong Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Prostitution SENRYU (38), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The prostitute, too Last Line: Changes her name Subject(s): Prostitution SHE IS MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED, by WILLIAM B. GRAY Poem Text First Line: At the old concert hall on the bowery Last Line: No -- he asked for god's mercy and said: Subject(s): New York City; Pity; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue Last Line: It will not escape. Do not look up. God is %on high. He can see you. You will die Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding SOEUR MONIQUE'; A RONDEAU BY COUPERIN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet form of silent nun Last Line: In the fields of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Prostitution SONG (13), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the duchess of cleveland to counselor knight Last Line: Of a dozen of pricks for a dozen of ale Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Churchill, John. 1st Duke Of Marlborough; Jermyn, Henry. Baron Dover Of Dover; Knight, Mary; Palmer, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Prostitution SONG OF A NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I lay disgusted, sick at heart Last Line: My soul and hers are as the same to god. Subject(s): London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SONG OF THE RUE SAINT-PAUL: 7, by MAX ELSKAMP Poem Source First Line: This street sets out Last Line: The brooklun bridge %suspended in air Subject(s): Prostitution SONG OF THE TART, by KANEKO MITSUHARU Poem Source First Line: The very day the war ended Last Line: Of that tart's yawn %make only a ripple Subject(s): Prostitution SONNET: 13, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a woman sitting on a beast Last Line: Now for a truth great babylon is fallen. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Prostitution; Religion; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Theology ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text 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 STREETS OC CH'ANG-AN, by CH'U KUANG-HSI Poem Source First Line: Cracking whips, off to the wine shop Last Line: Expressionless, they never speak a word Subject(s): Prostitution STRUMPET SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With white frost gone Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SULTAN'S JUSTICE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mistress of the brothel can neither read nor Last Line: Us and we are helpless against its poison Subject(s): Justice; Prostitution SUSIE, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Down by the river-front, beside the docks Last Line: That susie posed for when she was in bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Aging; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SWEET ETHEL WAS A ROAMING GIRL, by LINDA PIPER Poem Source Last Line: And she'll never %walk the streets no more Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Prostitution TEMPLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: On the catwalk stickthin Last Line: Plate of chips Subject(s): Fantasy; Hunger; Prostitution THE CHEERFUL GIRLS AT SMILLER'S BAR, 1971, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prostitutes at smiller's bar beside the dusty road Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the city dead-house by the gate Last Line: Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house -- but dead, dead, dead. Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE DYING PROSTITUTE; AN ELEGY, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep o'er the miseries of a wretched maid Last Line: Or bloom thy laurels o'er my winding-sheet? Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE FLYING-FISH SAILOR, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The western ocean rolls and roars Last Line: That waits for the flying-fish sailor! Subject(s): Prostitution; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Ocean THE HONEST WHORE. PART 1, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: Behold, you comet shows his head twice Last Line: [exeunt omnes. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE HONEST WHORE. PART 2, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: Good day, gallants Last Line: A patient man's a pattern for a king. [exeunt omnes. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE HOUSE OF LIFE: JENNY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lazy laughing languid jenny Last Line: Only one kiss. Good-bye, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE NET, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, woman, in your net Last Line: Over our naked guilt Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE RUINED MAID, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O 'melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Last Line: Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined,' said she. Subject(s): Irony; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE SCARLET WOMAN, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was good like the virgin mary and the minister's wife Last Line: Gin is better than all the water in lethe. Subject(s): African Americans; Prostitution; Negroes; American Blacks; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE SHOWMEN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a dismal brute, dust-smothered, teased Last Line: Nor leer for lovers like a shameless whore. Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE VIOLENT SPACE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust Last Line: But the air cannot stand my singing long Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE WHITE DEVIL, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Banished Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Murder; Prostitution; Revenge; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WHITE SLAVE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She walks the streets offering herself for sale Last Line: And soon her other needs will shrink to dope. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be composed - be at ease with me - I am walt whitman, liberal and lusty Last Line: Not forget me. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO A STRUMPET, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, thou true model of a cursed whore Last Line: That once did know thee in the state of grace. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO A WHORE WITH IRON-GRAY EYES, by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: With your small brutal eyes Subject(s): Prostitution TO RUBY LIPS, by H. A. RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: Two ruby lips are hers; a pair Last Line: Too ruby lips. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TRAFFICKER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the shadows where two streets cross Last Line: And no takers. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TWO HOOKERS, by A. K. REDWING Poem Source First Line: Reeking of unsolved crime, the cop Last Line: Prairie newspaper hang as accomplices Subject(s): Prostitution VIOLENT SPACE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust Subject(s): Prostitution WHORE STREET, by KAY BOYLE Poem Source First Line: Street bruised blue from the nudge of the wind, artery clogged with the Last Line: A white arm lifted, odor from the pit staining the sagging matress of the %sea Subject(s): Prostitution WHOREHOUSE ON THE BAYOU, by DAN GUILLORY Poem Source First Line: Falling on her moss-filled mattress Last Line: With dollars to find yourself-even for a moment %like now, when the catfish leaps, shattering silenc Subject(s): Prostitution WHORES, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I grew up I went away to work Last Line: No longer have the gift to harbor pride %or bring me peace, or leave them satisfied Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Prostitution WITH THIS SKIN, by MARIA MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: Once I was as clean Last Line: It is the last place I want to remember %having crawled into Subject(s): Prostitution WOMEN'S PROSTITUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have a question to ask you Last Line: They carry their pleasure in search of another pleasure Subject(s): Igede (african People); Prostitution YOSHIWARA, by LOUISE VANDERPOOL Poem Text First Line: Before a thirteenth year was old Last Line: Behind a screen of ho ho birds. Subject(s): Japan; Prostitution; Japanese; Harlots; Whores; Brothels |
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