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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UGLINESS Matches Found: 25 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MASK ON A RING, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 |
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