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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WHORES Matches Found: 63 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG NYMPH GOING TO BED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Corinna, pride of drury-lane, / for whom no shepherd sighs in vain Last Line: Who sees, will spew; who smells, be poisoned. Subject(s): Prostitution; Social Protest; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A CASTAWAY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts Last Line: Most welcome, dear: one gets so moped alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Prostitution; Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A FATE-RIDDEN WOMAN, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Text First Line: Clinging to honor with one hand Last Line: Is a fate-ridden woman. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A GESTURE BY A LADY WITH AN ASSUMED NAME, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Letters she left to clutter up the desk Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the parasol I see the marvelous prostitutes Last Line: Their breasts in which the invisible blue blood sobs forever Subject(s): Prostitution; Surrealism; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whore moves a basin of green antiseptic water Last Line: It falls stiff like a drunk, like a drunk falling onto a whore. Subject(s): Brassai [gyula Halsz] (1899-1984); Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AN OLD WHOREHOUSE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed through a broken window Subject(s): Innocence; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AS YOU LEAVE ME, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shiny record albums scattered over Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BALLAD FOR FAT MARGOT, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If I love and serve my beauty with good heart Last Line: Here in this brothel where we hold our court Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BAR XANADU, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect veronica, invisible, scallops air Last Line: Riffling your skirt in the scent of blood oranges and sweat Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Prostitution; Disappointment; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BUYING THE WHORE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the roast beef I have purchased Subject(s): Whores; Theology CHICAGO CABARET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a strange game of chess Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels DALLOW'S BLUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An autumn pall of heat hung sultrily over Last Line: And time swept on and dallow's landing forgot. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Marriage; Prostitution; Seasons; Fall; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Harlots; Whores; Brothels EPIGRAM ON J.M.S. GENT., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gold watch found on a cinder whore Last Line: Not that they're rich, but that they steal. Subject(s): Prostitution; Smyth, James Moore; Harlots; Whores; Brothels EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won? Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones. Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels GETTING A PURCHASE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoring? I guess I thought it was part Last Line: I can send a small check from time to time. Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Thailand; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HARLEM SHADOWS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the halting footsteps of a lass Last Line: In harlem wandering from street to street. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City); Poverty; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HARRISON STREET COURT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a woman's lips Last Line: "every night's hustlin' I ever did." Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HERE IS MUSIC: DOUBLE BALLADE WITH DOUBLE REFRAIN (2), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: The crippled, phrygian, stoic freedman said Last Line: Self-sold—and re-self-sold at second hand. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IMPRESSION DU MATIN, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thames nocturne of blue and gold Last Line: With lips of flame and heart of stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Prostitution; Thames (river); Winter; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IN RESPONSE TO RUMOR THAT OLDEST WHOREHOUSE IN WHEELING, WV, CONDEMNED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will grieve alone Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hate; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IN TALK WITH A PROSTITUTE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no sorrier for you than I am for myself Last Line: Why should we pity each other here in the night? Subject(s): Prostitution; Sympathy; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Empathy INITIATION, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At saint mande. Amid the merry-makers Last Line: "said, ""you may touch it, sir; it will not bite." Subject(s): Merchants; Prostitution; Tents; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IT IS MUCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women of night life amid the lights Last Line: It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LA BELLA BONA ROBA, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell who loves the skeleton Last Line: Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LOVE IN A BUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was born in perhaps the holland tunnel Last Line: Human, impermanent and permanently good Subject(s): Chicago; Love; New York City; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels MADRIGAL, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be a whore, despite of grace Last Line: Good counsel and an ugly face. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels MARIZIBILL, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Along the high-street in cologne Last Line: Their hearts sway open like their doors Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels NEW ORLEANS HARLOT, by FRANCES LYKSETT Poem Text First Line: Envy and avarice spoke from her greedy face Last Line: Of all her coquetries, and tawdry wiles. Subject(s): New Orleans; Prostitution; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Harlots; Whores; Brothels ON THE NEW HOT-HOUSE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where lately harboured many a famous whore Last Line: And still be a whore house. They are synonima. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels OUTCAST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance for dear life's sake - and life is sweet Last Line: The viler prostitute in mind and deed. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels PHOTOGRAPH OF A BAWD DRINKING RALEIGH RYE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glass in her hand is the only thing moving Subject(s): Storyville, New Orleans; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels PICCADILLY CIRCUS AT NIGHT: STREETWALKERS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When into the night the yellow light is roused like dust Last Line: Sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Piccadilly, London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SHE IS MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED, by WILLIAM B. GRAY Poem Text First Line: At the old concert hall on the bowery Last Line: No -- he asked for god's mercy and said: Subject(s): New York City; Pity; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SONG OF A NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I lay disgusted, sick at heart Last Line: My soul and hers are as the same to god. Subject(s): London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SONNET: 13, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a woman sitting on a beast Last Line: Now for a truth great babylon is fallen. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Prostitution; Religion; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Theology ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot now remember the first word Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels STRUMPET SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With white frost gone Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SUSIE, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Down by the river-front, beside the docks Last Line: That susie posed for when she was in bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Aging; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE CHEERFUL GIRLS AT SMILLER'S BAR, 1971, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prostitutes at smiller's bar beside the dusty road Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the city dead-house by the gate Last Line: Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house -- but dead, dead, dead. Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE DYING PROSTITUTE; AN ELEGY, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep o'er the miseries of a wretched maid Last Line: Or bloom thy laurels o'er my winding-sheet? Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE FLYING-FISH SAILOR, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The western ocean rolls and roars Last Line: That waits for the flying-fish sailor! Subject(s): Prostitution; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Ocean THE HONEST WHORE. PART 1, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: Behold, you comet shows his head twice Last Line: [exeunt omnes. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE HONEST WHORE. PART 2, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: Good day, gallants Last Line: A patient man's a pattern for a king. [exeunt omnes. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE HOUSE OF LIFE: JENNY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lazy laughing languid jenny Last Line: Only one kiss. Good-bye, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE NET, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, woman, in your net Last Line: Over our naked guilt Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE RUINED MAID, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O 'melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Last Line: Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined,' said she. Subject(s): Irony; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE SCARLET WOMAN, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was good like the virgin mary and the minister's wife Last Line: Gin is better than all the water in lethe. Subject(s): African Americans; Prostitution; Negroes; American Blacks; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE SHOWMEN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a dismal brute, dust-smothered, teased Last Line: Nor leer for lovers like a shameless whore. Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE VIOLENT SPACE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust Last Line: But the air cannot stand my singing long Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE WHITE DEVIL, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Banished Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Murder; Prostitution; Revenge; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WHITE SLAVE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She walks the streets offering herself for sale Last Line: And soon her other needs will shrink to dope. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be composed - be at ease with me - I am walt whitman, liberal and lusty Last Line: Not forget me. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO A STRUMPET, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, thou true model of a cursed whore Last Line: That once did know thee in the state of grace. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO RUBY LIPS, by H. A. RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: Two ruby lips are hers; a pair Last Line: Too ruby lips. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TRAFFICKER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the shadows where two streets cross Last Line: And no takers. Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels YOSHIWARA, by LOUISE VANDERPOOL Poem Text First Line: Before a thirteenth year was old Last Line: Behind a screen of ho ho birds. Subject(s): Japan; Prostitution; Japanese; Harlots; Whores; Brothels |
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