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Subject: POLYGAMY
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IMPROMPTU ON READING THE CHAPTER ON POLYGAMY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If john marries mary, and mary alone
Last Line: It can't be a match--'tis a bundle of matches.
Subject(s): Polygamy


ON POLYGAMY, by KHADI FALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say nothing good of the way we lived
Last Line: Because even a single one of them %can be too much for us sometimes
Subject(s): Polygamy


ON SHARING A HUSBAND, by HO XUAN HUONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Screw the fate that makes you share a man
Last Line: I think I would have lived alone.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Polygamy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


POLYGAMY, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When an official goes upcountry
Last Line: His name green as unreaped fantasy.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Polygamy; Thailand; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


SECRETS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blonde charlotte's face is aquiline
Last Line: "that rare coquette—""which?"" you must guess!"
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Polygamy; Secrets; Male-female Relations