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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SEDUCTION Matches Found: 56 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FRAGMENT, by JOHN BANCKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cloe's chamber, she and I / together sat, no creature nigh Last Line: I burned my hand—to save this bit. Subject(s): Seduction A SOLITARY CANTO TO CHLORIS THE DISDAINFUL, by JOHN SMITH (1662-1717) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a pox do you mean with your pride and ill-nature Last Line: No, sweet mrs. Chloris—pray excuse me for that. Alternate Author Name(s): Smyth, John Subject(s): Seduction ACCIDENTAL SEDUCTION, by NIN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: After you leave, I take up watching a stranger in the next apartment build Last Line: I cans till hear the tiny hiss as the flames sing out Subject(s): Comets; Love; Seduction BEKITA, by ELIS JULIANA Poem Source First Line: Lady bekita lifted up her skirt Last Line: Bekita, bekita %bekita, bekita %bekita, bekita Subject(s): Seduction; Women BOOK OF ODES: 23, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the meadow there's a dead deer Last Line: Don't muss my waist cloth, %don't make the dog bark! Subject(s): Seduction CALL ME CIRCE, by KAREN GLENN Poem Source First Line: They say I like to turn men Last Line: Everything %like some deceitful god Subject(s): Duplicity; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The spastic woman in her wheelchair tries Last Line: The maiden's lips part and the musician's hands %so precise and turbulent go still Subject(s): Death; Seduction; Symphonies DIANA, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This new diana makes weak men her prey Last Line: Ah, dear diana! Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Seduction DON GIOVANNI, SELS., by LORENZO DA PONTE Poem Source First Line: Little lady, you are not going to like this Last Line: You'll be certain what he wants Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature EQUALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful dancing-women wove their maze Last Line: "shall be as all the saints are, in the dust." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust; Seduction; Theater & Theaters; Women's Rights; Stage Life; Feminism FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE FEMALE SEDUCERS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said of widow, maid, and wife Last Line: Sister, come, and turn no more.' Subject(s): Fables; Seduction; Women; Allegories FOGGY DEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I was a batchelor early and young Subject(s): Seduction FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think'st thou to seduce me with words that have no meaning? Last Line: But alas! Who less could do that found so good occasion! Variant Title(s): "think'st Thou To Seduce Me Then""; Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Seduction; Words; Vocabulary GOLDILOCKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of the snare of goldilocks! Last Line: By goldilocks since the world began. Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Women; Male-female Relations INDIAN SUMMER, by JAY HOPLER Poem Source First Line: It's autumn given august's stir of oranged Last Line: Her hint of picnic: she's enough to wish god %on fire Subject(s): Seduction INVITES HIS NYMPH TO HIS COTTAGE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On yon hill's top which this sweet plain commands Last Line: Thy powers of love, or this my amorous flame. Subject(s): Love; Seduction JOLLY JANKYN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "kyrie, so kyrie" Last Line: "deo gracias therto: alas, I go with chylde! / krieleyson" Variant Title(s): "jankin, The Clerical Seducer;jolly Jankin; Subject(s): Seduction LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LINES WRITTEN BEFORE SEEING AN EX-LOVER WHO HAS BECOME A SEX THERAPIST, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She's curious what advice %he gives his clients Last Line: And mouth the words good-night Subject(s): Farewell; Restaurants; Seduction; Travel LOVEMUSIC, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, freighted heart, within this port Last Line: Will fructify a bleaker time. Subject(s): Love; Seduction; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism MILLER'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shoes upon her legs were laced up high Last Line: That when she saw a chance, she would be his Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature MY HEART WAS ANCE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart was ance as blythe and free Last Line: To the weaver's, &c. Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers; Seduction NOT LONG AGO I MET A CLERK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now my maidenhead is taken! Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature NOTES AND QUERIES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady sat by me at verey's Last Line: With her went both notes and queer eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Seduction; Women OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 28, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-cheeked laura, come Last Line: Selves eternal. Variant Title(s): Silent Music;laura Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Seduction; Singing & Singers; Songs PINK SHUTTERS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pink shutters - pink shutters! Last Line: This giddy jacob's ladder of wild pinks, %wild pinks ascending! Subject(s): Desire; Seduction POOR BUT HONEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she was poor, but she was honest" Last Line: It's the rich as gets the pleasure - / ain't it all a bleeding shame! Subject(s): Dishonor;seduction;villains In Literature;wealth; Riches;fortunes 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 RATTLIN,' ROARIN' WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rattlin,' roarin' willie Last Line: You're welcome hame to me! Subject(s): Seduction; Friendship; Drinks & Drinking SAB: LOST; DRAMATIC FRAGMENT, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She yields, she yields! Pale envy said amen Last Line: Artless and witless, no way meriting... Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Seduction SEDUCTION, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day Last Line: Nikki, %isn't this counterrevolutionary...?' Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Seduction SEDUCTION, by JO ANN HALL-EVANS Poem Source First Line: Sensuous %sloe eyed Last Line: Se - duc - ed!! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Seduction SEDUCTIVE PRODUCE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Imagine peaches, %the fine hair of their navels Last Line: Into the under-tofu of your flesh Subject(s): Grocers; Seduction; Sex; Vegetables SELF-CONTAINED VIEW: 'I AM A WOMAN,', by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said. I was drunk. I sat in t-shirt and shorts and basked Last Line: Destructive. We make ourselves live. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Relationships; Seduction; Women SONG: 102, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, all my welfare Last Line: Of my great grief the great excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Love; Pain; Seduction; Truth; Belief; Creed; Parting; Suffering; Misery SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 2, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pressed my baby to my throbbing breast Last Line: Some wish, the bitter grief he caused me, to console! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Grief; Mothers - Unwed; Seduction THE COBRA CAPELLO, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful - yes! For her basilisk eyes Last Line: She'd crumple it, too, like the innocent fan! Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Snakes; Male-female Relations; Serpents; Vipers THE DANCING OF SULEIMA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suleima, the bayadere Last Line: "revenge!"" -- thrilled down the night." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Revenge; Seduction THE DARK-EYED GENTLEMAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pitched my day's leazings in crimmercrock lane Last Line: That his daddy once tied up my garter for me! Subject(s): Seduction THE DEUK'S DANG O'ER MY DADDIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bairns gat out wi' an unco shout Last Line: And oh, I find it sairly, o! Subject(s): Seduction; Marriage THE FAIR SINGER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make a final conquest of all me Last Line: She having gained both the wind and sun. Subject(s): Love; Seduction THE JOLLY BEGGARS; A CANTATA RECITATIVO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lyart leaves bestrow the yird Last Line: One and all cry out, amen! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poverty; Brotherhood; Seduction; Wit & Humor; Labor & Laborers THE LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When januar' wind was blawing cauld Last Line: The lass that made the bed to me. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Regret; Seduction THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some brave admiral, in former war Last Line: And being good for nothing else, be wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): The Disabled Debauchee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seduction; Villains In Literature; Seamen; Sails THE RED TURTLENECK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand for approval Last Line: As I wear it into my scent. Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion; Sand, George (1804-1876); Seduction; Women; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant THE REPULSE TO ALCANDER, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is't you mean, that I am thus approached? Last Line: And shun at once the censure and the crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Seduction THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUMMER GIRL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer girl doth now unfurl Last Line: "the cow with the crumpled horn" Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Seduction; Summer; Work; Workers THE SYMBOL SEDUCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There in her old-world garden smiles Last Line: For love, I leave love's haunted bower. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Seduction; Truth THE THIEF, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it when your man sits on the floor Last Line: Into this other world he cannot build without you. Subject(s): Ambition; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Sex; Male-female Relations THE WILLING MISTRESS, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amyntas led me to a grove Last Line: Ah who can guess the rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Variant Title(s): Song: The Willing Mistress Subject(s): Desire; Seduction THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18. THE CHARM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air Last Line: She hath an art to break them with her eyes. Variant Title(s): Spells;charms;the Third Book Of Ayres: 28;love-charms Subject(s): Love; Seduction; Supernatural THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, oh, come, my life's delight Last Line: As swift to me as heavenly light! Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love; Seduction WERE IT UNDO, THAT IS Y-DO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now y sykke and morne still, %for he is far Subject(s): Seduction WRIST, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: Your wrist speaks to me Last Line: To sleep at the nape of my neck Subject(s): Bodies; High School Students; Love; Seduction; Teenagers |
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