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Subject: SHAKESPEARE - HAMLET
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First Line: "to wed, or not wed -- that is the question"
Last Line: Of matrimony join
Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare - Hamlet;shakespeare, William (1564-1616);


A COLLEGE BREAKFAST-PARTY, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young hamlet, not the hesitating dane
Last Line: And leave the soul in wider emptiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): College Sports; Food & Eating; Parties; Philosophy & Philosophers; Shakespeare - Hamlet


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)


BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: HAMLET, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hamlet, whom the cracked brains of others importune, has made the
Last Line: "thrice I've made the tour of the world, and was sure I'd meet you there."
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ELSINORE IN THE LATE ANCIENT AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear a dead march. A thin wrist is mincing roses
Last Line: They buried me.
Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Secrets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Dead, The


GRENADE HORSESHOES, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It hamletmatizes
Last Line: Hambo thrown it or run hamlet-last scene %with only you and nguyen the audience
Subject(s): Games; Shakespeare - Hamlet


HAMLET, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He would see all, this thinker! He would see
Last Line: Sink into nothing while he stares at fate.
Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Destiny


HAMLET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horatio took me to the cliff
Last Line: "hamlet, hamlet, will never lose his crown."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Actresses


HAMLET, by STANLEY J. SHARPLESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prince hamlet thought uncle a traitor
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet


HAMLET IN DUBROVNIK, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down there the breakers hollow out the limestone
Last Line: Injustice and fatalism
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet


IMPERIAL HAMLET, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the hamlet in the rye fields
Last Line: From the days of his youth
Subject(s): Freedom; Shakespeare - Hamlet


LINES IN DEFENCE OF THE STAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good people of high and low degree
Last Line: And hasn't the least tendency to lead to prodigality.
Subject(s): Play; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Theater & Theaters


ON KEAN'S HAMLET, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou who standest 'mid the bards of old
Last Line: Or kean or hamlet, -- what I see is real!
Subject(s): Kean, Edmund (1787-1833}; Shakespeare - Hamlet


POST-FUTURISM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hamlet enters, stands alone
Last Line: Fuck that mobile phone!'
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet; Telephones


SERVANTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream, ophelia, how I'd love
Last Line: I'll be your caddy
Subject(s): Golf; Relationships; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Sports


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence
Last Line: That hamlet will kill himself first in word, then in deed.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


STRANGE CASE OF THE LOVERLORN LETTER WRITER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear miss dix, I am a young lady of scandinavian origin
Last Line: I'll get some rosemary if I can't find a camellia. %yours truly, orphelia
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet


THEY ALL WANT TO PLAY HAMLET, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And they know it is acting to be %particular about it and yet: they all want to play hamlet
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet


THEY SAY PRINCE HAMLET'S FOUND A SOUTHERN ISLAND, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And wear, with fair ophelia, denmark's crown
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet