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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VIRGINITY Matches Found: 49 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3. AMARYLLIS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I care not for these ladies, / that must be wooed and prayed Last Line: She never will say no. Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Virginity; Vestals A DESCRIPTION OF MAIDENHEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Have you not in a chimney seen Last Line: "but the kind experienced dame / cracks, and rejoices in the flame" Subject(s): Love - Erotic;virginity; Vestals A VIRGIN LIFE, by JANE BARKER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Since gracious heven, you have bestow'd on me Last Line: To serve her god, her neighbour, and her friends. Subject(s): Life; Religion; Virginity; Theology; Vestals A VISION OF VIRGINS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a vision of the night Last Line: The darkness took them. * * * * * Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Virginity; Vestals ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A.U.C. 334: about this date Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sexism; Virginity; Vestals ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A.U.C. 334: about this date Last Line: Than those who, in their folly not less blind, %trusted the servile womb to breed free men? Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sexism; Virginity AFTER THE PLEASURE PARTY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the house the upland falls Last Line: O pray! Example take too, and have care. Subject(s): Love; Virginity; Vestals AMBOYNA: EPITHALAMIUM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is come, I see it rise Last Line: And now despairing shuts her eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Marriage; Virginity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals BRIDAL BLOSSOMS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing by the bridegroom's side Last Line: All that taints thy purity. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Virginity; Vestals DANCER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have ruled %for forty years Last Line: I wonder, %the dancer or the dance? Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Men; Old Age; Sex; Virginity HASTEN, CLASP MAIDEN LIFE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten, clasp maiden life round her / white waist Last Line: The bony and the lipless kiss of death! Subject(s): Death; Virginity; Women; Dead, The; Vestals HERODIAS, SELECTION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, for myself, myself I flower forlorn! Last Line: Its chill gems part at last. Subject(s): Dreams; Virginity; Youth; Nightmares; Vestals HIP BONES, by KATE YOUTHER Poem Source First Line: I dry dishes whenever my father washes. Today he stops to look at Last Line: One leg at a time - just like the next man Subject(s): Children; Hips; Physical Disabilities; Virginity IMMENSE VIRGIN GIRLS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door where they knock sighing Last Line: Immense virgin girls! Subject(s): Girls; Virginity; Vestals IRIS, by CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Thou knowest not the parching Last Line: Beneath the rainbow rim! Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Iris (flower); Virginity; Vestals IS BLISS, THEN, SUCH ABYSS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Verdict for boot! Subject(s): Virginity JULIET TO ROSALINE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet coz, I thank you for your prudish vow Subject(s): Virginity; Vestals LILIES FOR ROSALIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise your heads, ye virgin lilies Last Line: You shall live with rosalie. Subject(s): Flowers; Leaves; Lilies; Virginity; Vestals LINES IN A LETTER TO HIS LADY COUSIN, HONOR DRIDEN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For since 'twas mine, the white hath lost its hiew Last Line: Whom you so farre shall bless to make your seale. Subject(s): Latin Literature; Letters; Virginity; Roman Literature; Vestals MAIDEN PURITY (THE LILY OF THE NILE), by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Be thine the emblem, sweet one - watch and pray Last Line: And pray for strength to wear her martyr crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Virginity; Vestals NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON IN DIANAM, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a valley gaudy-green Last Line: "what so strong as love's sweet law?" Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals ODE TO BALTHUS, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old dirty, dirty. Old dirty, dirty handful of skin & motion Subject(s): Sex; Virginity; Vestals OF MODESTY, SELECTION, by MARY MOLLINEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus modesty, and spotless innocence Last Line: The heart, where vertue should prevail and reign. Subject(s): Beauty; Modesty; Virginity; Vestals ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Walking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light Variant Title(s): The Marriage Of A Virgin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Virginity; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light Last Line: That other sun, the jealous coursing of the unrivalled blood Variant Title(s): The Marriage Of A Virgi Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Virginity ON THE VIRGINITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er is done to her she cannot know Last Line: No one can take the pride no one the shame Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals ORTHODOXIES 3, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: What it is saying, I wonder, the purl and stitch scarf of Last Line: Face painting of a virgin bride melts away to the depths of a metamorphosis Subject(s): Brides; Innocence; Paintings And Painters; Virginity PARTHENIA, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With pale green hopes and the gay colors flying Last Line: Scourging the night and gathering the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Suicide; Virginity; Vestals SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ON THE HISTORY OF VIRGINITY, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nuns in the middle ages Last Line: She forever used to be Subject(s): Virginity SOLOMON, A SERENATA, IN THREE PARTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, jerusalem! Thy king Last Line: Too poor a bribe to purchase love. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Virginity; Vestals SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen Last Line: And sighing and kissing so close. Subject(s): Kisses; Prayer; Sex; Virginity; Wishes; Vestals STATISTICS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virginity is on the decline, the prof said Last Line: Or were mowed without thought Subject(s): Schools; Statistics And Statisticians; Virginity TEST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Slow waltzing will put beethoven Last Line: As only a waltzing virgin can. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Dancing And Dancers; Music And Musicians; Virginity THE THEFT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When celia, coming from the stream Last Line: And gave it back to love. Subject(s): Cupid; Desire; Virginity; Eros; Vestals THE THUNDER GODS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: To-day the thunder gods strike on their anvils in heaven Last Line: And her soul belong to her love; not to her lovers. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Virginity; Women; Vestals THE VESTAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She goes unwedded all her days Last Line: Of the poor girl he never met. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Childlessness; Virginity; Vestals THEM, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That summer they had cars, soft roofs crumpling Last Line: Have it, we could reach right down into their %bodies and steal it back Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Lifeguards; Sex; Teenagers; Virginity; Women THEOTOKOS, by LEONORE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Light coming out of the darkness out of the earth Last Line: Better not to appear in tortillas glass building %what assurance can you give us that our sores will Subject(s): Marriage; Virginity; Women's Rights TO HOLD YOU, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: You tape three fingers Last Line: And I step into the mist %to hold you Subject(s): Compassion; Sex; Virginity TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE THE MOST OF TIME, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, listen. %I want you new girls, every morning Last Line: These are the best years of your life. %go to your rooms now. Good night Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry And Poets; Virginity TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can I not touch some vpstart carpet-shield Last Line: And now he would, and now he cannot wed. Subject(s): Time; Virginity; Vestals VIRGIN CRIES TEARS OF OLIVE OIL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The papier-mache virgin Last Line: Than what they're given here, %even the tears Subject(s): Tears; Virginity VIRGIN YOUTH (1), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now and again Last Line: Tired and unsatisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals VIRGIN YOUTH (2), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now and again Last Line: On nothingness. Pardon me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals VIRGINITIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Jewell of jewells, richer far Last Line: All creatures come in virgin puritie. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virginity; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Vestals VIRGINITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she had children five and four are dead and gone Last Line: Please come to breakfast, mother dear; your coffee will be cold, I fear Subject(s): Mothers; Sons; Virginity WHY FLOWERS CHANGE COLOUR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These fresh beauties (we can prove) Last Line: Colours goe, and colours come. Subject(s): Flowers; Virginity; Vestals |
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