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Subject: UGLINESS
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First Line: Forster! You who never wore
Last Line: This, and wear it for my sake.
Subject(s): Masks; Ugliness


A SOUL'S REFLECTION, by MRS. GALE SPINK    Poem Text                    
First Line: They judged her common in her early youth
Last Line: Dame nature's gift revealed a face divine.
Subject(s): Faces; Simplicity; Ugliness


ACCEPTANCE, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This house is ugly - but it is the house I live in
Last Line: I'll sit long in the purple dark -- nor light the candles.
Subject(s): Houses; Ugliness


ALL THINGS DULL AND UGLY, by MONTY PYTHON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Putrid, foul and gangrenous, %the lord made them all. Amen
Subject(s): Alexander, Cecil Frances (1818-1895); Ugliness


BLANCHE, by A. BERNARD MIALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God did not make her very wise
Last Line: All good — yet she is scarcely fair.
Subject(s): Faces; Mouths; Scars; Tragedy; Ugliness


BODHISATTVA'S LAMENT, by ALAGIYAVANNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The royal bodhisattva lay
Last Line: As buddha grants us all release!
Subject(s): Buddhism; Ugliness


DEAD WATER, by WEN YI-TUO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is a ditch of hopelessly dead water.
Last Line: And see what kind of world comes out
Subject(s): Ugliness; Water


EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons
Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


EPIGRAM: TO AN UGLY WOMAN WITH A SWEET VOICE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I met thee - in the dark alone
Last Line: But when I saw thee, I was well again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Ugliness; Voices


HOCCLEVE'S HUMOROUS PRAISE OF HIS LADY, by THOMAS HOCCLEVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Of my lady, well me rejoise I may
Last Line: And she singeth full like a papejay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Occleve, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Description Of His Ugly Lady
Subject(s): Ugliness


IN AS MUCH ..., by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When for love it was fain of
Last Line: "was done unto me."
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Beauty; Ugliness


JOHN, TOM, AND JAMES, by CHARLES HENRY ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: John was a bad boy, and beat a poor cat
Subject(s): Ugliness


MISS MILLY O'NAIRE, by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: She is not young and fair
Last Line: Miss millionaire.
Subject(s): Comedy; Love; Old Age; Puberty; Sex; Ugliness; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


MYRTILLA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the difference, neither, more or less
Last Line: The latter with its grace.
Subject(s): Faces; Beauty; Ugliness


ON AN UGLY FELLOW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "beware, my friend! Of crystal brook"
Last Line: As self-enamoured he
Subject(s): Ugliness


ON AN UGLY PERSON SITTING FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here nature in her glass - the wanton elf
Last Line: Repeats the blunders that she made before!
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Ugliness


SONG OF THE UGLY CHILD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I could have loved you more
Last Line: Who stood ungainly by the door
Subject(s): Ugliness


SONG OF THE UGLY MAIDEN, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! The world gives little of love or light
Last Line: Had served to set the stamp on cain.
Subject(s): Ugliness


SWINE GOBBLE DEAD MEN'S FLESH, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lotus flowers will live in boiling water!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ugliness


THE DEFORMED MISTRESS, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know there are some fools that care
Last Line: Judge whether I am happy, yea or no.
Subject(s): Ugliness


THE TWINGE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was fifty when mother died
Last Line: Now I shall never know!
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ugliness; Dead, The


THE UGLY AUNT; A NORWEGIAN TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a little maiden
Last Line: "why, she shall spin no more!"
Subject(s): Ugliness


THE UGLY OLD LADY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her hair in metal rows
Last Line: On her brittle shell
Subject(s): Ugliness


THE UGLY PRINCESS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My parents bow, and lead them forth
Last Line: And so am given to god.
Subject(s): Ugliness


WINTERLINES, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You're somebody who deals
Subject(s): Hands; Ugliness; Winter