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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 20, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep is 20
Subject(s): Nature; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


A ROW IN AN OMNIBUS BOX; A LEGEND OF THE HAYMARKET, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dol-drum the manager sits in his chair
Last Line: About nothing on earth but 'fiddle-de-dee'!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


A SURVEY OF THE AMPHITHEATRE, by MOSES BROWNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On, pegasus! Why, whither turn ye?
Last Line: To die—but get their living by't.
Subject(s): Fights; Italian Renaissance; Sports - Arenas & Stadia; Theater & Theaters; Travel; Stage Life; Journeys; Trips


ADDRESS SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE DRURY-LANE THEATRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In one dread night our city saw, and sighed
Last Line: Still may we please -- long, long may you preside!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


AFTER THE THEATRE, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the spell of that dear play has lain
Last Line: Waved, over all, thy yellow english hair.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


AFTER THEATER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the exit-ways the winter air
Last Line: And here the place where dreams and dramas live.
Subject(s): Modern Life; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They who have best succeeded on the stage
Last Line: To please an age more gallant than the last.
Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 6
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone
Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts.
Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life


AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: You want to follow in my steps?
Last Line: To play othello: 'tis my benefit.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Professions; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life


AN ADDRESS TO SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal! William shakespeare, there's none can you excel
Last Line: While seated around the fireside on a cold winter's night.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters


AN ANSWER TO BEN JONSON'S ODE, TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO LEAVE THE STAGE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ben, do not leave the stage
Last Line: Thou, that canst sing so high, canst reach as low.
Subject(s): Brome, Richard (d. 1652); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters


AN EPILOGUE AT WALLACK'S, by JOHN ELTON WAYLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The play was done
Last Line: The while john gilbert spoke -- the epilogue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Idas
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


AN EPISTLE TO MY MUSE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me, muse, that thou and I, sweet rogue
Last Line: (to be concluded.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters


AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since the refinement of this polished age
Last Line: And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICA, REVIVED: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With sickly actors & an old house too
Last Line: You'd less good breeding or had more good nature.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life


AT THE PLAY, by EDITH WILLIS LINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I weep at the play
Last Line: Yet I weep at the play.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our author by experience finds it true
Last Line: And see us play the tragedy of wit.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shame; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


BEHIND THE SCENES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind the scenes! What secrets dwell
Last Line: Behind the scenes!
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters


BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES THE SISTERS DRAMA, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Next to their death the sisters drama come
Last Line: Who chops their heads off with his ruthless blade.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


BOY AND MOM AT THE NUTCRACKER BALLET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's no talking in this movie
Last Line: Do you have any more pistachios in your purse?
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Play; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


BURLESQUE ADDRESS; ON OPENING OF NEW PARK THEATRE, 1821, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, / enlighten'd as you are, you all must know
Last Line: The lord bless beekman and john jacob astor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City - 19th Century; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


CASEAR BORGIA, SON OF POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen
Last Line: The pope says grace, but 'tis the devil gives thanks.
Subject(s): Death; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; War; Dead, The; Stage Life


CURTAIN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Villain shows his indiscretion
Last Line: Villain skips, and all are happy.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents
Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life


ELEGY IN A THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE, by KENNETH FEARING            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have laid the penthouse scenes away, after a truly phenomenal run
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


EPILOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps the parson stretched a point too far
Last Line: While you have still your oats, and we our hains.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue To The 'pilgrim,' Revived
Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; English; Stage Life


EPILOGUE TO 'LOVE IN THE DARK' AS IT WAS SPOKE BY MR. HAINES, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As charms are nonsense, nonsense seems a charm
Last Line: While men of wit find one another here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


EPILOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New ministers, when first they get in place
Last Line: But first vote money, then redress at leasure.
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Attorneys; Dramatists; Stage Life


EPILOGUE TO THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA BY THE SPANIARDS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Success, which can no more than beauty last
Last Line: He had pleas'd better, had he lov'd you less.
Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 2
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Success; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


EPILOGUE TO THE THEATRICAL SEASON, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The season's closed, the benefits are over
Last Line: Nor aim to praise him who's beyond all praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Criticism & Critics; Theater & Theaters


EQUALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The beautiful dancing-women wove their maze
Last Line: "shall be as all the saints are, in the dust."
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust; Seduction; Theater & Theaters; Women's Rights; Stage Life; Feminism


EYES LIKE LEEKS, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It had almost nothing to do with sex.
Subject(s): Autism; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


IN THE ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE, VERONA, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two architects of italy - austere
Last Line: Here on the empty sand, a banish'd man.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Roman Empire; Theater & Theaters


IN THE THEATER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night in the theater
Last Line: Sex: the dancers: the light-footed trippers on the earth.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


LIKE MIGHTY FOOTLIGHTS BURNED THE RED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Myself distinguished god
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Forests; Light


LINES IN DEFENCE OF THE STAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good people of high and low degree
Last Line: And hasn't the least tendency to lead to prodigality.
Subject(s): Play; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Theater & Theaters


LOGIC AND 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (IMPRESSIONS OF A PREMIERE), by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up winding stair, / here, where, in what theatre lost?
Subject(s): Flutes; Reason; Theater & Theaters; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Stage Life


MADISON SQUARE: CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is our worth. We cannot rear the towers
Last Line: And every one a star of bethlehem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Madison Square, New York City; Skyscrapers; Theater & Theaters; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Stage Life


MARLOWE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, faustus
Last Line: I heard the cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters


MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation
Last Line: I humbly cast myself upon the city.
Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists; Stage Life


MISERABLE NIGHT, by AVENELLE WILMETH BLAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is raining tonight
Last Line: God, how the patients cough!
Subject(s): Hospitals; Rain; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


MUSIC HALL, by NICOLAS BEAUDIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crowd with alcoholic eyes
Last Line: High evening, bored by the apotheosis.
Subject(s): Bands; Collective Behavior; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Violins; Orchestras; Mobs; Crowds; Stage Life


NO THANKS: 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O pr / gress verily thou art m
Last Line: Aseball
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life


OCCASIONAL ADDRESS FOR THE OPENING OF A NEW THEATRE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This day a new house, for your edification
Last Line: May be had of the manager, pat c -- stl -- r -- gh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


ODE TO HIMSELF, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, leave the loathed stage
Last Line: And see his chariot triumph 'bove his wain.
Variant Title(s): On The New Inn. Ode. To Himself
Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Pericles (490-429 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In those cold regions which no summers cheer
Last Line: And makes us happy by our own free-will.
Variant Title(s): Prologues To The Duke And Duchess Of York: Prologue To His Royal
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); God; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


PRIZE ADDRESS; RECITED AT THE OPENING OF THE PHILADELPHIA THEATRE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It came from heaven! The realms of time to tread
Last Line: To charm the children as they charmed the sires!
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


PRIZE ADDRESS; RECITED AT THE OPENING OF THE PORTSMOUTH THEATRE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas fancy's hour -- uplifted on the blast
Last Line: And all the graces bless the drama's reign.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


PRIZE ADDRESS; SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE SALEM THEATRE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To call past ages from the sleep of time
Last Line: Above all hatred, and above all fear.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Time


PRIZE PROLOGUE; RECITED AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW PHILADELPHIA THEATRE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When learning slumbered in the convent's shade
Last Line: And lift thy pillars through the storms of time.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


PRIZE PROLOGUE; RECITED AT THE OPENING OF THE PARK THEATRE, NEW YORK, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mitred zeal, in wild, unholy days
Last Line: And the stage triumph in the people's love.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


PROLOGUE FOR MRS. SUTHERLAND'S BENEFIT NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What needs this din about the town o' london
Last Line: God help us! We're but poor -- ye'se get but thanks.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


PROLOGUE FOR THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard
Last Line: The gaudy house with scenes will serve for cits.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Women; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life


PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A plain-built house, after so long a stay
Last Line: Machines and tempests will destroy the new.
Subject(s): Fame; Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Theatre Royal, London; Reputation; Dramatists; Stage Life


PROLOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since faction ebbs, and rogues grow out of fashion
Last Line: Whigg poets and whigg sheriffs may hang together.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poets, your subjects, have their parts assigned
Last Line: As what should be beyond what is, extends.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


REJECTED ADDRESSES: AN ADDRESS WITHOUT A PHOENIX, BY S. T. P., by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What stately vision mocks my waking sense?
Last Line: And virtue's smiling brows with votive wreaths adorn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


REJECTED ADDRESSES: LOYAL EFFUSION, BY W. T. F., by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work!
Last Line: England's prime minister, then bless the devil!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Fitzgerald, William Thomas (1759-1829); Theater & Theaters


REJECTED ADDRESSES: PLAY-HOUSE MUSINGS, BY S. T. C., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My pensive public, wherefore look you sad?
Last Line: [exit hastily.
Subject(s): Beauty; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Life; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Thought; Thinking


REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE LIVING LUSTRES, BY T. M., by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O why should our dull retrospective addresses
Last Line: Till set to the music of erin-go-bragh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Nature; Theater & Theaters


REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE STRANGER, BY MOMUS MEDLAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has e'er been at drury must needs know
Last Line: And high diddle ho diddle, pop tweedle dee.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE THEATRE, BY THE REV. G. C., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis sweet to view, from half-past five to six
Last Line: Made a low bow, and touch'd the ransom'd hat.
Subject(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Theater & Theaters


RIALTO, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets; Names; Stage Life


RITUAL ONE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I enter the theatre the play is going on
Last Line: At each other's groins
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


SCENE FROM A DRAMA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daimyo and the courtesan
Last Line: Nervously fingering his sword.
Subject(s): Japan; Theater & Theaters; Japanese; Stage Life


SHADOWBOXING, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm telling my story to this couple who're over for dinner, they're friends, though not best friends
Last Line: It takes some getting used to
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Theater & Theaters; Motor Vehicle Bureaus; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Stage Life


SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 1. AT THE THEATRE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thine eyes are set upon the dancing-girls before thee
Last Line: Thou dost intoxicate both head and heart.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence
Last Line: That hamlet will kill himself first in word, then in deed.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't say why he thinks himself shakespeare at the window
Last Line: Across the stage when she thought he was not coming.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE ACTRESS AND THE RAT, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can hear her feet overhead. As ever, at night
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Man-woman Relationships; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Male-female Relations; Stage Life


THE COURT HOUSE, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is that theater the muse loves best
Last Line: What peacock playhouse will contend with you?
Subject(s): Muses; Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters


THE ETERNAL PLAY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Third act of the eternal play!
Last Line: Hath still for us a stranger show.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Theater & Theaters; Fall; Stage Life


THE LITTLE THEATRE, by GWENDOLEN HASTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They coaxed him from his barren lonely claim
Last Line: He's locked with life and fate at elsinore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life


THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes
Last Line: Like young seals around our rock.
Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life


THE MUSIC-HALL, by THEODORE WRATISLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: The curtain on the grouping dancers falls
Last Line: Flower of mine eyes, my love, my heart's delight!
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


THE PLAY, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched you curve your arm over the back of
Last Line: But when they asked me about the play, I could not remember.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Art & Artists; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE PLAYER, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His wardrobe is the world, and day and night
Last Line: Between the two he stands, timeless — the poet-player.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Dramatists; Play; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters


THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now
Last Line: (they go forth.)
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE RUSTIC AT THE PLAY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our youth is like a rustic at the play
Last Line: That prompts the passions of this strutting world.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets


THE SEITZ THEATER, by MARTHA RONK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back of the silver screen in sandusky
Last Line: In my first bikinis, into redemption and sin
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Motion Pictures; Clergy


THE STAGE IS THE WORLD'S MIRROR: HERE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: To meet his image in the glass
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


THE THEATRE AT ARGOS, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Nettles and poppy mar each rock-hewn seat
Last Line: And god himself is half-dethroned for gold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters


THE TRUE WIDOW: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n save ye gallants, and this hopeful age
Last Line: Who needs will father what the parish got.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692); Theater & Theaters; Widows & Widowers; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE WOLF IN THE THEATRE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a thrilling western play
Last Line: Their havoc in the human soul?
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Wolves


TO THE THEATRE, by ELIZABETH DAVIS RICHARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O house of life, upon whose certain stage
Last Line: All mystery as does the last, dark lover.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters


VAUDEVILLE, by MARGERY DOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Acrobats -- cruelly torturing muscles
Last Line: The audience roars!
Subject(s): Acrobats & Acrobatism; Theater & Theaters; Vaudeville; Stage Life


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With some pot-fury rauisht from their wit
Last Line: For euery peasants brasse, on each scaffold.
Subject(s): Fortune; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vvho dares vpbraid these open rimes of mine
Last Line: Rather than say I doted in my age.
Subject(s): Death; Thames (river); Theater & Theaters; Dead, The; Stage Life