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| Searching... Subject: SINGLE PEOPLE Matches Found: 88 A BACHELOR'S INVOCATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When all my plans have come to grief Last Line: "than, like the rest, thou vanishest / in smoke, my cigarette" Subject(s): Single People;smoking; Bachelors;unmarried People;tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were younger, mary jane Last Line: And she will love me dearly! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BENEDICT'S APPEAL TO A BACHELOR, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear charles, be persuaded to wed Last Line: T is singular you should be single! Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BIRD IN THE HAND, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were three young maids of lee Last Line: These three old maids of lee. Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People A CONSISTENT GIRL, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss dorothea birmingham irene amanda / jones Last Line: "and, dorothea, queenly and consistent, answered ""nope." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Courtship; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A GAME-RHYME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "water, water, wall-flower" Last Line: A-dancing for your sake Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors;unmarried People A SONG FOR THE SINGLE TABLE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye single folks all, that adorn this gay table Last Line: Derry down &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People A SPINSTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFETIME, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was born near four miles from nith-head Last Line: Yet never was a married wife. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Self; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People AN 'OLD MAID', by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There's a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode Last Line: And she didn't seem just to — well, you understand! Subject(s): Household Employees; Single People; Solitude; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Loneliness AN OLD BACHELOR, by TUDOR JENKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas raw, and chill, and cold outside Last Line: And the cat (hic) sang! Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People AN OLD BACHELOR, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O love is a jade of a wayward life Last Line: As for me, I will not have the creature about. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People AS WE WONDER, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At something its meaning dissolves Last Line: Burns your name into the edges of cloud Subject(s): Love; Single People AT THE GATES, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know which god sent me Last Line: To push my boat into the river Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): Single People; War AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers Last Line: Each lugged an old bachelor home on her shoulder. Subject(s): Dreams; Single People; Sleep; Taxes; Nightmares; Bachelors; Unmarried People BACHELOR, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mystic in the morning, half asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People BACHELOR, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Lying down he thinks, having tried not to think Last Line: That orpheus had better luck with women Subject(s): Single People BACHELOR HALL, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems like a dream - that sweet wooing Last Line: To the dead and the dying of bachelor hall. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Single People; Sorrow; Sadness; Bachelors; Unmarried People BACHELOR'S HALL, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Single People BACHELOR'S LOVE-SONG, by J. H. RYAN Poem Source First Line: My bachelor's den is a queer old pen Subject(s): Single People BACHELOR'S MONO-RHYME, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you think I'd marry a woman Subject(s): Single People BAD NEWS (MCSURLEY'S BAR), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your flame is married I understand' Last Line: As we shuffled the cards and played the game. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Card Games; Gambling; Single People; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting; Bachelors; Unmarried People BASE METAL, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Troth might be split passed %between two sets %of lips in the first teen kiss Last Line: To himself or to the thousands, acting out %a sexual riff on love Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Single People CAMILLE MODERNE, by HELEN ANDERSON WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: She is not wedded Last Line: Picking flowers! Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People CAPRICE, by ROSE MARIE Poem Text First Line: When I think of all the men I might have married -- and regret Last Line: I breathe a thankful little prayer I haven't married -- yet. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People CHERISHED DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mother, I am eighteen this year Last Line: Will you please just give me away? Subject(s): Single People COMPANY OF WOMEN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: I couldn't forget how much I'd paid for each dress Last Line: On a corner square, stitched taut over cotton batting Subject(s): Single People; Solitude; Women COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou bee younge, then marie not yett Last Line: And olde mens' wyves bee good for naught. Variant Title(s): Councell To A Bachelor Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People CUTTING HAIR, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She pays attention to the hair, not her fingers, and cuts herself Subject(s): Hair; Hands; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People DANCE OF DEATH: WOMAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was as green willow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Single People; Women DETECTIVE ASKS ME WHAT HE SAID, by SHOASHAUNA SHY Poem Source First Line: He'd pinch the breath %from my lungs Last Line: If I stopped to think about it %he said that Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Single People FARMER WHIPPLE - BACHELOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a mystery to see me - a man o' fifty-four Last Line: To git a pair o' license fer to marry mary brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Single People; Agriculture; Farmers; Bachelors; Unmarried People FUGUE, by KATHLEEN ROONEY Poem Source First Line: Riding the metro, you pass single-family housing Last Line: If you lived here, you'd be home by now Subject(s): Single People GIRLS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When he leaves, %he leaves a space Last Line: Trying to breathe %and waiting to be kissed Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Single People HIS ANSWER TO A QUESTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some would know / why I so Last Line: He could live free here? Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People IMMUTABLE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He may be fearfully clever, he may be awfully keen Last Line: His stock of favorite stories will always remain the same! Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People INTO THE WHITE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The young siberian yupik woman from savoonga Last Line: February full moon she walked out of the village %far onto the sea of ice. The wind with her Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Single People; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges JACKSONVILLE, VERMONT, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am not married, I have the skin of an orange Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People LOOKING FORWARD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If no one ever marries me Last Line: And bring her up as mine. Variant Title(s): Little Girls Subject(s): Orphans; Single People; Foundlings; Bachelors; Unmarried People LOVE SONG: ONE FAT WOMAN TO ANOTHER, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: All our tall, thin ex-lovers have gone mad or died Last Line: There are women all over the world who are starving for love Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Single People; Widows And Widowers LUCY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, tho' thy song be sweet Last Line: A single life and liberty. Subject(s): Doubt; Marriage; Single People; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People MARRIAGE OF TWO OLD MEN (1), by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Has he married my father? Have I married his Last Line: What will happen to us, tad, without a woman? Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Single People; Solitude MIDDLE AGE, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many of my friends are alone Subject(s): Single People; Middle Age; Bachelors; Unmarried People MIMOSA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It must have been july Last Line: He'd have heard my heart beating. Subject(s): Birthdays; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People MY BACHELOR CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A corpulent man is my bachelor Last Line: On the tears of my bachelor chum. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Friendship; Single People; Tears; Bachelors; Unmarried People MY KIND OF MAN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like a man to know a lot more than I do Last Line: I'm afraid this very minute I won't find this any man. Subject(s): Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People NEGATION, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lady, I don't mind admitting to you Last Line: You're impossibly hard not to marry! Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People NERVOUS FAMILY: ALTERNATIVE VERSION, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt said I must marry, since there was none but I Last Line: For we're all & c Subject(s): Family Life; Single People NO SPOUSE BUT A SISTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bachelour I will Last Line: And kisse, but yet be chaste. Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People OLD BACHELOR, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH Poem Source First Line: When I was a schoolboy, aged ten Subject(s): Single People ON MARRIAGE, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy a thing were a wedding Last Line: Good faith, mr. Parson, excuse me from that! Variant Title(s): The Bachelor's Song: The Second Part Subject(s): Marriage; Mnemonics; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People OUR LITTLE SISTER IS WORRIED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: She has never seen it %blow them back on the branches Subject(s): Single People SINGLE LIFE MOST SECURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suspicion, discontent, and strife Last Line: Come in for dowrie with a wife. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People SINGLE WOMAN SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People SINGLE'S SURVIVAL KIT, by R. HAMILTON BOLTON Poem Source First Line: This one has a nice tie Last Line: And this also makes us attractive ... %when we apply Subject(s): Single People SINGLES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know anyone more lonely Last Line: With such a beautiful stranger Subject(s): Single People; Solitude SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL Poem Source First Line: Now I'm all alone again Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO CONTINUING EDUCTAION CLASS: SINGLE MESSIAH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fever on the wind Last Line: Only for the lost and lonely Subject(s): Single People SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wild soft summer darkness Last Line: With oil of citronella. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Romance; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BACHELOR, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: To the world, (whose dread laugh he would tremble to hear) Last Line: By the living 't was scorned, 't is refused to the dead. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BACHELOR, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He walked the way of life alone Last Line: He was the one most loved of all. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BACHELOR GIRL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the bachelor girl Last Line: Long life—and happy days! Subject(s): Independence; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BACHELOR'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pipe is lit, my grog is mix'd Last Line: What d'ye think of that, my dog? Subject(s): Cynicism; Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BACHELOR'S LAMENT, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: I might have married one of them, but grace Last Line: Made fun of birthday cakes and christmas trees. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BACHELOR'S SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a dog with a bottle, fast ty'd to his tail Last Line: Yet he lugs it, and he hugs it, as a man does his wife. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE BATCHELOR OF SIXTY-TWO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some say to ninety-five they live Last Line: "sing lackadaisy, etc" Subject(s): Life;marriage;single People; Weddings;husbands;wives;bachelors;unmarried People THE ETONIAN; THE BACHELOR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder that your ancient friend / has come so near his journey's end Last Line: And find some cause to envy mine! Subject(s): Marriage; Single People; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The laird o' cockpen, he's proud an' he's great Last Line: But as yet there's nae chickens appeared at cockpen. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE MAID'S REMONSTRANCE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never wedding, ever wooing Last Line: Not with age, but wo! Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE ODD WOMAN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At parties I want to get even, Last Line: And leave for the long river drive to town. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Parties; Single People; Women - Middle Aged; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE PHILANDERER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there is a girl for me Last Line: And if I fail to cross her trail—the fault will not be mine! Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE POET LOVES A MISTRESS, BUT NOT TO MARRY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love to wed Last Line: Will be content with one? Subject(s): Sex; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE QUEEN OF TOMPKINS SQUARE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: I met her at the mission school Last Line: The queen of tompkins square. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE RIVALS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look heah! Is I evah tole you 'bout de curious / way I won Last Line: "folks, heaben knows!" Subject(s): African Americans; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Negroes; American Blacks; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE STAG LINE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: There are lions and funny birdies, and enormous goofers that Last Line: Though lots of them have buns on when they want to dance with you! Subject(s): Animals; Dancing & Dancers; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE THREE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The first he loved was so Last Line: Greenly remote, alone. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE TWO OLD BACHELORS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two old bachelors were living in one house Last Line: And from that hour those bachelors were never heard of more. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Nonsense; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE TWO SUITORS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Dear, I will give thee lands and gold Last Line: With just enough of both. Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE UNLOVED, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the women whom no man has loved Last Line: The telling of a patient rosary. Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People TO A BACHELOR FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come and see us, any day Last Line: Could expect to find it! Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People TO HIS TOMB-MAKER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go I must; when I am gone Last Line: Is in this word, batchelour. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People TO MY FIANCEE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I love you, dear? Because Last Line: Why do I love you, dear? Because! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People TOO LATE FOR A HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where were you in the marriage season? Last Line: Go home now, we're all sold out Subject(s): Single People; Time UNMARRIED WOMAN AT MASS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source First Line: Beneath the moses of the incense Last Line: To the whispers of the mass Subject(s): Single People; Women VANISH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I did not die Last Line: Wave on a shell, his salty tongue on an ear Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Sea; Single People; Survival WAITING, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sigh and fidget, waiting for the class to end Last Line: Forgetting -- oh hurry, hurry. Please, oh please -- %what horse we're spurring toward what finish li Subject(s): Single People WANTED - A WIFE, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: Hale and hearty, and sixty-three Last Line: We'll have to hurry or we'll never atone. Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People YSOLTE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I am young and the world is wide Last Line: It is well! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Single People; Youth; Bachelors; Unmarried People |
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