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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHAVING Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` , by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drop caught / in the curl behind your left ear lobe Last Line: Tip of my tongue. Subject(s): Bodies; Details; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Shaving; Water; Zen Buddhism; Things; Male-female Relations AN IDYL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He stands before his glass in doubt Last Line: "to cut and shave, or shave and cut" Subject(s): Shaving AND THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX IN LEAP YEAR, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people shave before bathing Last Line: And then I will die either of laughing or of a clean cut throat Subject(s): Shaving BARBER, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have been waiting so long...Little pocks Last Line: And reaches up to stroke my silken chin Subject(s): Barbers; Shaving BARBER WILLIE'S BONNIE DAUCHTER, by ROBERT FORD Poem Text First Line: There leeves a lass in oor toun-en' Last Line: Frae barber willie's bonnie dauchter! Subject(s): Daughters; Shaving IN THE MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reggalerly every day, / when my papa's gotten up Last Line: Puttin' prickers in my chin. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Shaving LEARNING TO SHAVE, by NICK BARRETT Poem Source First Line: She knew I would have preferred Last Line: But unscarred dome of her knee Subject(s): Learning; Shaving MRS. DUGAN'S MIRRORS, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Text First Line: The shopgirls smiled when mrs. Dugan came Last Line: Where fifty townsmen try to shave themselves. Subject(s): Mirrors; Shaving; Superstition OUT OF THE CITY, by LESLEY CARLIN Poem Source First Line: A razor drawn over dry skin Last Line: Of black feathers, the taut spread %of splayed wings Subject(s): Shaving SALVATION, by PHILIP HAMMIAL Poem Source First Line: A man sets out to shave the world. It's logical to start with himself Last Line: Wrists & ankles he gets a punch in the nose. Tough luck for the %world; it won't be shaved today Subject(s): Earth; Shaving TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gingerly is good king tarquin shaving Last Line: Rodgers' name engraved upon the blade. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Shaving; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE MADMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: His eye was stern and wild - his cheek was pale and cold as clay Last Line: "and ere I could arrest his hands, he had -- begun to shave!" Subject(s): Insanity;shaving; Madness;mental Illness UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scissors cut the long-grown hair Last Line: At the forgotten boy I was Subject(s): Beards; Shaving UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scissors cut the long-grown hair Last Line: At the forgotten boy I was Subject(s): Beards; Shaving |
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