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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: davies, william henry Matches Found: 757 Davies, William Henry Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. 757 poems available by this author A BIRD'S ANGER Poem Text First Line: A summer's morning that has but one voice Last Line: "before it makes a coffin of your nest." Subject(s): Birds A BLIND CHILD Poem Text First Line: Her baby brother laughed last night Last Line: But I am dumb, for she is blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped A BRIGHT DAY Poem Text First Line: My windows now are giant drops of dew Last Line: And sit beside me here, to wash his face. Subject(s): Nature A CAT'S EXAMPLE Poem Text First Line: For three whole days I and my cat Last Line: Would burn up any human lover. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets A CHANGE OF VOICE Poem Text First Line: I heard a lady near my door Last Line: Knowing the wretch has no more money? Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A CHANT Poem Text First Line: With all our mirth, I doubt if we shall be Last Line: Due to the corpses you have gone and seen to. Subject(s): Corpses; Morticians; Old Age; Cadavers A CHILD'S FANCY Poem Text First Line: His chin went up and down, and chewed at nothing Last Line: The wonderful strange sight he might have been. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A CHILD'S MINT Poem Text First Line: When young, I kissed a miser man Last Line: Cry out for silver, and for gold. Subject(s): Debt; Poverty; Social Problems A CHILD'S PET Poem Text First Line: When I sailed out of baltimore Last Line: Would stroke that sheep's black nose. Subject(s): Pets; Sheep A DOG'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: My dog lies dead and buried here Last Line: That links such lives with my dog's death! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness A DREAM Poem Text First Line: I met her in the leafy woods Last Line: I woke, and lay alone. Subject(s): Dreams; Passion; Nightmares A DREAM OF WINTER Poem Text First Line: These flowers survive their lover bees Last Line: The fire that's on his own warm breast. Subject(s): Autumn; Robins; Seasons; Winter; Fall A DRINKING SONG Poem Text First Line: A bee goes mumbling homeward pleased Last Line: My soul be thine. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A DULL SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: I see the houses, but I swear Last Line: And houses, look the same. Subject(s): Houses A FLEETING PASSION Poem Text First Line: Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp Last Line: Till men with horses pass, and carts. A FLEETING WONDER Poem Text First Line: See where he rides, all hot and fast Last Line: By riding wild and fast. Subject(s): Horseback Riding A FOOLISH TONGUE Poem Text First Line: Her face is full of silent pain Last Line: Rise up, and cry — 'for shame!' Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Vengeance; Suffering; Misery A GREAT TIME Poem Text First Line: Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad Last Line: This side the tomb. A GREETING Poem Text First Line: Good morning, life -- and all Last Line: Things glad and beautiful. A HAPPY LIFE Poem Text First Line: O what a life is this I lead Last Line: With such a life as this to lead? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A IS FOR ARTIST Poem Text First Line: See what a light is in those painted clouds! Last Line: Made so much less immortal in my sight! A LIFE'S LOVE Poem Text First Line: How I do love to sit and dream Last Line: That lady I for life must love! Subject(s): Love A LONELY COAST Poem Text First Line: A lonely coast, where sea-gulls scream for wrecks Last Line: Till, waking, found 'twas only what I dreamed. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore A LOVELY DAY Poem Text First Line: A cloudless path from east to west Last Line: And die, as he has died. Subject(s): Day A LOVELY WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Now I can see what helen was Last Line: I ever saw, in any place. Subject(s): Beauty A LULLABY OF REST Poem Text First Line: Workhouse and bedlam, refuge, den Last Line: A lullaby of rest. Subject(s): Love A MAIDEN AND HER HAIR Poem Text First Line: Her cruel hands go in and out Last Line: And her simplicity of face. Subject(s): Hair A MAY MORNING Poem Text First Line: The sky is clear Last Line: All thoughts for gladness. Subject(s): May (month) A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT'S STORM Poem Text First Line: Night, lightning, thunder, rain Last Line: Of birds and blossoms. Subject(s): Storms A MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: Let women long for dainty things Last Line: But how the earth has danced, in mine! Subject(s): Desire A MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD Poem Text First Line: Thou canst not understand my words Last Line: Nor any rocking then. Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness A NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: A new world calls, in voices loud and strange Last Line: And music that was once an irish row. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Music & Musicians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Lord, hear my morning's prayer! Last Line: One christ to share my earth!' Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology A RICHER FREIGHT Poem Text First Line: You nightingales, that came so far Last Line: To learn -- next spring. Subject(s): Birds; Migration; Nightingales A SILVER WONDER Poem Text First Line: Shall I this night, amazed and full of wonder Last Line: Peep out of their dark holes like timid mice! Subject(s): Stars A STRANGE CITY Poem Text First Line: A wondrous city, that had temples there Last Line: As I do now, in these dear months I love. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STRANGE MEETING Poem Text First Line: The moon is full, and so am I Last Line: As he went passing by. Subject(s): Blacks A SWEETER LIFE Poem Text First Line: No bitter tongue, no grief for what is gone Last Line: To hold her skein and wind a ball of wool? Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight A THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: When I look into a glass Last Line: When I look into a pool. Subject(s): Self A WINTER'S NIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is a winter's night and cold Last Line: Still shines with undiminished light. Subject(s): Winter A WOMAN'S CHARMS Poem Text First Line: My purse is yours, sweet heart, for I Last Line: Than thou hast charms from which to choose. Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S HISTORY Poem Text First Line: When mary price was five years old Last Line: And beaten it to death. Subject(s): Innocence; Women A YOUNG THRUSH Poem Text First Line: What power of will - to follow now Last Line: Am happy to be gone. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Thrushes; Dead, The ADVICE Poem Text First Line: Now, you two eyes, that have all night been sleeping Last Line: Come into the meadows, where the lambs are leaping. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas AGAIN I SING Poem Text First Line: Again I sing of thee, sweet youth Last Line: Time is thy subject, thou his king! AGE AND YOUTH Poem Text First Line: The music's dull - I trust my ears Last Line: Has come from youth.' Subject(s): Aging ALE Poem Text First Line: Now do I hear thee weep and groan Last Line: His grave, ha! Ha! Holds up my head. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine ALL IN JUNE Poem Text First Line: A week ago I had a fire Last Line: To wriggle out of hollow flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer ALL NATURE DANCETH First Line: First you see fixt in this huge mirror blue ALL'S WELL Poem Text First Line: The cat has her milk Last Line: All's well with his life. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ALONE Poem Text First Line: When we're together, how the moments fly! Last Line: When years of life are heard to crash and fall! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AMBITION Poem Text First Line: I had ambition, by which sin Last Line: Be into paradise. Subject(s): Ambition AN EARLY LOVE Poem Text First Line: Ah, sweet young blood, that makes the heart Last Line: He has the fleece of gold! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings AN EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Beneath this stone lies one good man; and when Last Line: That many a wretch through him has gone to hell. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN OLD HOUSE IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: In fancy I can see thee stand Last Line: Birds sing, and saw the sweet wild flowers. Subject(s): Houses ANGEL AND MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: Lo, I, that once was fear, that hears Last Line: "must rest with god -- he only knows." ANGRY Poem Text First Line: My love sits angry; see! Last Line: She'd quarrel every day. Subject(s): Anger APRIL First Line: What happy shouts the children make APRIL'S CHARMS Poem Text First Line: When april scatters coins of primrose gold Last Line: Of wood that's green and fill a grate with gold. Subject(s): April APRIL'S LAMBS Poem Text First Line: Though I was born in april's prime Last Line: "as tenderly as any lamb's." Subject(s): April ARMED FOR WAR Poem Text First Line: Is life on earth a viler thing Last Line: To rub a sleepy eye? Subject(s): Life Change Events AROUND THAT WAIST Poem Text First Line: Around that waist, scarce bigger than my neck Last Line: Kissed without mercy by a powerful bee. Subject(s): Bodies AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: One night I heard a small, weak voice Last Line: Her sparrow with his common flower. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery AUSTRALIAN BILL Poem Text First Line: Australian bill is dying fast Last Line: Or stands outside a school. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Autumn grows old: he, like some simple one Last Line: Whose secret day-dream phoebus burns to hear. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AYE Poem Text First Line: How many years since I, a wandering man Last Line: Aye ... Aye ... Aye.' Subject(s): Poverty B IS FOR BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: My girl has reached that lovely state Last Line: It thin away so soon. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY AND BRAIN Poem Text First Line: When I was old, and she was young Last Line: That beauty has too small a brain. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences BEAUTY AND SONG Poem Text First Line: The peacock, that fine-feathered bird Last Line: To keep it sweet and kind. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Robins; Singing & Singers; Songs BEAUTY'S BAIT First Line: When beauty scents with love her bait BEAUTY'S DANGER First Line: How can she safely walk this earth BEAUTY'S LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Think not her face is patched with pink Last Line: Lost its soul's light in consequence. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY'S REVENGE First Line: Proud margery rang her peal of bells BEGGAR'S LIFE First Line: When farmers sweat and toil at ploughs BEGGAR'S LUCK Poem Text First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad? Last Line: And drove me away with stones.' Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BEGGAR'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Good people keep their holy day Last Line: And tender feelings in your heart. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars BELLS Poem Text First Line: The worlds march on and circle in their place Last Line: Could name the guilty world that's out of tune. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians BEWITCHED Poem Text First Line: Give me a night in june that's clear and quiet Last Line: With half my spirit in a wonder-trance. Subject(s): Self; Trances BIRD AND BROOK Poem Text First Line: My song, that's bird-like in its kind Last Line: Of joy the whole year round. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs BIRD AND CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Lord, if that cloud still grows and swells Last Line: And his mind has no complaint? Subject(s): Contentment; Seasons; Summer; Sun BIRDS Poem Text First Line: When our two souls have left this mortal clay Last Line: Snow on my doorstep, printed by their feet. Subject(s): Birds; Spring BIRTHDAYS Poem Text First Line: My friend has a birthday Last Line: Steady, old heart! Lie quiet! Subject(s): Birthdays BODY AND SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: Who stands before me on the stairs Last Line: Her powdering, with her eyes on me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural BORN OF TEARS Poem Text First Line: A thing that's rich in tears is sweet Last Line: Could say – 'my mother's name is tears.' Subject(s): Tears BREAST TO BREAST Poem Text First Line: What strange commotion, love Last Line: Are fluttering breast to breast! Subject(s): Love BREATH Poem Text First Line: How those wet tombstones in the sun Last Line: By their vain breath, what ours was worth. BROKEN HEARTS Poem Text First Line: My dog creeps into my shadowed form Last Line: It never knew its master was a king. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The BROTHER GODS Poem Text First Line: If woman's a delightful creature Last Line: The devil take the other. Subject(s): Bacchus; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Eros BROTHERS First Line: They lived together day and night C IS FOR CHILD Poem Text First Line: See how her arms now rise and fall Last Line: Before her feet are claimed by earth. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CALM First Line: A bird sings on yon apple bough CANT Poem Text First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy Last Line: Get everlasting bliss! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CAPTIVES First Line: In this deep hollow, lying down CATCHING THE DEVIL Poem Text First Line: Not while her charms are still in flower Last Line: O lord, how false she was! Subject(s): Betrayal CATHARINE Poem Text First Line: We children every morn would wait Last Line: "and tell the master catharine's dead." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies CHANGE First Line: Now winter's here; he and his ghostly winds CHARITY Poem Text First Line: Things that are dear to me at home Last Line: His love or innocence betrayed. Subject(s): Generosity CHARMS Poem Text First Line: She walks as lightly as the fly Last Line: Nothing can come but comes amiss. Subject(s): Love CHEAT First Line: Yes, let the truth be heard CHILD AND THE MAN First Line: Dreaming I was a child CHILD CHATTERS First Line: Good morning to my dolly first CHILD LOVERS Poem Text First Line: Six summers old was she, and when she came Last Line: And have a pearl ten stallions could not move.' Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHILDHOOD'S HOURS First Line: My heart's a coffin cold CHILDREN AT PLAY Poem Text First Line: I hear a merry noise indeed Last Line: Snowflakes shall be your butterflies. Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood CHRIST, THE MAN Poem Text First Line: Lord, I say nothing; I profess Last Line: Gives its best time and thought. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: Christmas has come, let's eat and drink Last Line: And welcome to all kinds of men. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CIRCUMSTANCE First Line: Down in the deep salt sea CITY AND COUNTRY First Line: The city has dull eyes CITY'S WAYS First Line: Ye say the city stunts the child CLOCKS Poem Text First Line: Still comes no answer to my greatest question Last Line: One clock or two, there'll be no further winding. Subject(s): Immortality CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: My fancy loves to play with clouds Last Line: To make no motion there. Subject(s): Clouds COLLIER'S WIFE First Line: The collier's wife had four tall sons COMBING Poem Text First Line: All for the sake of lovely dreams Last Line: Am sometimes left without a thought. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares COME AWAY, DEATH Poem Text First Line: Come away, death, make no mistake Last Line: A dead-born child destroy its mother.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies COME, HONEST BOYS Poem Text First Line: Ye who have nothing to conceal Last Line: In summer, under some green tree? Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine COME, LET ME CLOSE THINE EYES WITH KISSES. COME, LET US FIND Poem Text First Line: Come, let us find a cottage, love Last Line: To clear away the morning dew. Subject(s): Love COME, MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: Come, melancholy, come, delight Last Line: That casts a halo on our birth! Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection COME, THOU SWEET WONDER Poem Text First Line: Come, thou sweet wonder, by whose power Last Line: That's like a thousand burning ships. COMFORT Poem Text First Line: From my own kind I only learn Last Line: Beneath his own soft wing. Subject(s): Comfort COMMON JOYS Poem Text First Line: See how those diamonds splutter and choke Last Line: Pays all his debts, like children's kisses. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight COMPENSATION Poem Text First Line: When these sweet spirits, my most faithful friends Last Line: Close up like water, when the times go wrong. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul COMPETITORS Poem Text First Line: I had a friend to smoke and drink Last Line: A love that's reared at the breast? Subject(s): Friendship; Love CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: One hour in every hundred hours Last Line: In songs of childhood, flowers and birds. COWSLIPS AND LARKS Poem Text First Line: I hear it said yon land is poor Last Line: Are many a sunny mile from here. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CRUMBS AND GUINEAS Poem Text First Line: How many plates of crumbs, my little friend Last Line: And make a song of it, to charge a guinea!' Subject(s): Hunger D IS FOR DOG Poem Text First Line: My dog went mad and bit my hand Last Line: I was bitten to the heart. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAY OR NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Again I wake and cry for light! Last Line: So bright these golden days! Subject(s): Blindness; Sleep; Visually Handicapped DAY'S BLACK STAR Poem Text First Line: Is it that small black star Last Line: To me thy joy to live. Subject(s): Birds; Stars DAYS AND YEARS Poem Text First Line: How softly now my days go by Last Line: Is carrying off my years! Subject(s): Aging DAYS THAT HAVE BEEN Poem Text First Line: Can I forget the sweet days that have been Last Line: In memory of the sweet days that have been. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen DAYS TOO SHORT Poem Text First Line: When primroses are out in spring Last Line: For me, doth wear the veil of night. Subject(s): Spring DEAD BORN First Line: A perfect child, with hands and feet DEATH Poem Text First Line: Beauty'll be no fairer than Last Line: Fits their skulls for bells, not crowns. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH'S GAME First Line: Death can but play one game with me DISTINCTION First Line: This talent is a slip, or shoot DOGS Poem Text First Line: When I was once a wandering man Last Line: Was threatened with a stone. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love DOWN UNDERGROUND Poem Text First Line: What work is going on down underground Last Line: Without a sound -- without the faintest sound. DREAM TRAGEDIES Poem Text First Line: Thou art not always kind, o sleep Last Line: With a mad cry that dream, and wake. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMERS Poem Text First Line: There was a poet once who died Last Line: Of a little bird for the other! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DREAMING OF DEATH First Line: When, I, awake, have thoughts of death DREAMS OF THE SEA Poem Text First Line: I know not why I yearn for thee again Last Line: Thy salt is lodged for ever in my blood. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DRINK Poem Text First Line: Say that the house that makes our laws Last Line: No disrespect to drink! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG Poem Text First Line: Ah, life, we are no sooner dressed Last Line: Us like good wine and love. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DUST Poem Text First Line: If life is dust, is not dust life? Last Line: Defend their rights as living dust! Subject(s): Dust DYING First Line: He fumbles in the clothes for want of thought E IS FOR EYES Poem Text First Line: I need no glass to help my eyes Last Line: That time is taking away from me. Subject(s): Eyes EARDROPS Poem Text First Line: This bag of cherries for my love Last Line: Back to its sea again! Subject(s): Love EARLY MORN Poem Text First Line: When I did wake this morn from sleep Last Line: As they would vanish for a dream. Subject(s): Morning EARLY SPRING Poem Text First Line: How sweet this morning air in spring Last Line: Sing sweeter songs than I may borrow. Subject(s): Spring EARTH LOVE Poem Text First Line: I love the earth through my two eyes Last Line: To sleep with his dead love. EASTER Poem Text First Line: What exultations in my mind Last Line: This welcome to the new-born spring. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EMIGRANT First Line: Youth has no ties END OF SUMMER First Line: The dandelion sails away ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: We have no grass locked up in ice so fast Last Line: Give me this england now for all my world. Subject(s): England; English EPITAPH ON A CHILD Poem Text First Line: They killed her lamb, and no one wept Last Line: This was the little one. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON JOHN KEATS Poem Text First Line: Some poets die consumed by love Last Line: To stop his craving after sweets. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets EVIL Poem Text First Line: How often in my dreams have I beheld Last Line: Have tried their best to make a cunning devil! Subject(s): Evil; Nature EXALTED FLOWER Poem Text First Line: No more of that, you butterfly Last Line: And vanish out of sight. Subject(s): Flowers EYES Poem Text First Line: The owl has come Last Line: Have I not proved his wisdom is no fable? Subject(s): Animals EYES AND EARS Poem Text First Line: Would that the powers that made my eyes so keen Last Line: Before I knew their names by leaf or bark. Subject(s): Twins F IS FOR FIDDLES Poem Text First Line: What an enchanted world is this Last Line: We leap the winter into spring. Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments FACTS Poem Text First Line: One night poor jim had not a sou Last Line: In faith that christ is still alive. Subject(s): Faith; Poverty; Belief; Creed FAIRIES, TAKE CARE Poem Text First Line: A thousand blessings, puck, on you Last Line: While in those woods so dark and warm. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAMILIAR FACE First Line: O for an old familiar face FAMILIAR VOICE First Line: Ah, what fond memories that voice doth bring FANCY Poem Text First Line: How sad my life had been were't not for her Last Line: Come then, sweet fancy -- surnamed joy by me. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FANCY'S HOME Poem Text First Line: Tell me, fancy, sweetest child Last Line: I have nourished ever since. Subject(s): Home FAREWELL TO POESY Poem Text First Line: Sweet poesy, why art thou dumb? Last Line: The poet dies, his heart doth bleed. Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting FATHER AND SON Poem Text First Line: While we enjoy this meat, my son Last Line: A tongue that told no lie?' Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Trust FAULTS Poem Text First Line: The healthiest trees bear fruits that fail Last Line: And pears that reach the age of gold. Subject(s): Errors; Mistakes; Fallacies FLIRTING Poem Text First Line: Should her flirting prove a danger Last Line: That's the stuff to stop her treason. Subject(s): Flirtation FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: What favourite flowers are mine, I cannot say- Last Line: My favourite flower must be a mossy stone! Subject(s): Flowers FLYING BLOSSOMS Poem Text First Line: These butterflies, in twos and threes Last Line: Another crop of golden corn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Wings; Bugs FOLLOWING A BEE Poem Text First Line: Of primrose boys Last Line: I followed a bee. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency FOR SALE Poem Text First Line: Four hundred years this little house has stood Last Line: Four hundred years in sixty feet of earth! Subject(s): Houses, Deserted FORGIVENESS Poem Text First Line: Stung by a spiteful wasp Last Line: More difference. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency FORTUNES Poem Text First Line: This house is worth a thousand pounds Last Line: With a fortune for each finger. Subject(s): Kindness; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Thou hadst no home, and thou couldst see Last Line: In nights of homeless misery. Subject(s): Thompson, Francis (1859-1907) FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: They're creeping on the stairs outside Last Line: And less when I am dying. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The FRIENDS UNBORN Poem Text First Line: With this one friend - I ask no more Last Line: By his great love of beauty.' Subject(s): Friendship FROM FRANCE Poem Text First Line: What little bird is this that sings? Last Line: Sing till our leaves in england dance. Subject(s): Birds; France FROST Poem Text First Line: What swords and spears, what daggers bright Last Line: Where is your plump young sister, snow?' Subject(s): Frost G IS FOR GARDEN Poem Text First Line: I'll have the primrose grow in grass Last Line: Than seen in my half-strangled tree. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GIANTS Poem Text First Line: I take no pride in body's growth Last Line: Deserves a giant's name. Subject(s): Giants; Size & Shape; Height GIRL IS MAD First Line: She changes oft-she laughs and weeps GO, ANGRY ONE First Line: Go, angry one, and let tears cold GOOD AND EVIL Poem Text First Line: A wealth of stars in winter time Last Line: Could I have left love's scorn unpondered? Subject(s): Love - Complaints GOOD FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: I brought two friends to share my fire Last Line: The other was 'old wine'. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation GREAT LOVERS Poem Text First Line: Why did we think no power in heaven Last Line: There'll be a poor, unhappy lady, crying. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GREY-HAIRED CHILD First Line: Thy father was a drunken man H IS FOR HEDGE Poem Text First Line: I climb a tree to bring them down Last Line: Was wriggling like the thinnest worm. Subject(s): Hedges HAND OR MOUTH Poem Text First Line: This, then, is pleasure's bower Last Line: Sweet joy, I stay! Subject(s): Love HAPPIEST LIFE First Line: Take from the present hour its sweets HAPPY WIND Poem Text First Line: Oh, happy wind, how sweet Last Line: To be alive this day. Subject(s): Wind HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: That paradise the arab dreams Last Line: No matter who feels sick and swears. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise HEAVEN AND EARTH Poem Text First Line: It may be true the stars are worlds Last Line: Down in one little wayside pool. Subject(s): Heaven; Sky; Stars; Paradise HEIGH HO, THE RAIN First Line: The lark that in heaven dim HELPLESS First Line: Those poor, heartbroken wretches, doomed HER ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: How rich hath time become through her Last Line: And saved themselves with interest. HER BODY'S A FINE HOUSE HER MERRIMENT Poem Text First Line: When I had met my love the twentieth time Last Line: Sent ripples down her body to her knees. Subject(s): Laughter; Love HER MOUTH AND MINE Poem Text First Line: As I lay dreaming, open-eyed Last Line: "greedy-in-love, leave go! Leave go!" Subject(s): Kisses HERE AM I Poem Text First Line: The world has shared my joy and pain Last Line: Soft be my answer – 'here am I.' Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HIDDEN LOVE Poem Text First Line: The bird of fortune sings when free Last Line: Our hearts can still be singing strong. HILL AND VALE Poem Text First Line: Day by day the man in the vale Last Line: And one to see his vale below. Subject(s): Country Life HIS THRONE Poem Text First Line: When love has lost his bite and sting Last Line: Embalmed in memories. Subject(s): Love HOMELESS MAN First Line: Wak up yon wretch in rags HOPE ABANDONED Poem Text First Line: The drinking man maybe hath gold, and then Last Line: But failed, since none would give his brain employ. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Despair; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse HOUSE BUILDER First Line: The rain has lost more music keys HOW KIND IS SLEEP Poem Text First Line: How kind is sleep, how merciful Last Line: To pierce me till I die. Subject(s): Sleep HOW LATE Poem Text First Line: Now thou hast made me blind Last Line: How late thou art forsaking me! HOW SORDID IS THIS CROWDED LIFE Poem Text First Line: How sordid is this crowded life, its spite Last Line: My voice back with the knowledge that I live. HUNTING JOY Poem Text First Line: How sad a face this knowledge wears! Last Line: Shall never know what sport is there! Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight I AM THE POET DAVIES, WILLIAM Poem Text I AM THE POET DAVIES, WILLIAM I COULD NOT LOVE HIM MORE I IS FOR IMPLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: What lovely dark blue flames, o spade Last Line: Shall cover thee with glory. Subject(s): Tools IF LOVE SURVIVES Poem Text First Line: If nothing takes away our power Last Line: How old is love to-day?' Subject(s): Love IMPUDENCE Poem Text First Line: One morning, when the world was grey and cold Last Line: "such impudence before in this old world!" IN A GARDEN First Line: Far from the sound of commerce IN A LODGING HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Get to thy room, a voice told me Last Line: And less thy hope than older men. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN DAYS GONE First Line: I had a sweet companion once IN JUNE First Line: I'll enter in june's cool house IN MAY Poem Text First Line: Yes, I will spend the livelong day Last Line: A flowery, green, bird-singing land. Subject(s): May (month) IN NEATH VALLEY Poem Text First Line: Between two rows of trees Last Line: See none more great than I. IN SILENT GROVES First Line: My walk is now in silent groves IN SPRING-TIME Poem Text First Line: There's many a pool that holds a cloud Last Line: Is four and twenty hours of song! Subject(s): Spring IN THE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: This life is sweetest; in this wood Last Line: Behind me creeps a groan or sigh. Subject(s): Country Life IN THE END Poem Text First Line: With all thy gold, thou canst not make Last Line: Should call thy name. Subject(s): Mortality; Time IN THE SNOW Poem Text First Line: Hear how my friend the robin sings! Last Line: I laugh and blow my life's warm breath. Subject(s): Snow IN THE WOOD First Line: I lie on joy's enchanted ground IN TIME OF WAR Poem Text First Line: As I go walking down the street Last Line: "the lads those lasses court are dead." Subject(s): War IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: The cold, ice-sucking wind has gone Last Line: At this fine winter's day. Subject(s): Winter INFANCY Poem Text First Line: Born to the world with my hands clenched Last Line: I laughed, with open eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Infants INGRATITUDE Poem Text First Line: Am I a fool? Last Line: No mercy be. Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness J IS FOR JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: I praised the daisies on my lawn Last Line: That she and I are living in. Subject(s): Jealousy JENNY Poem Text First Line: Now I grow old, and flowers are weeds Last Line: The world seems one big grave to me. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Memory JENNY WREN Poem Text First Line: Her sight is short, she comes quite near Last Line: Had starlings singing without stop.' Subject(s): Birds; Wrens JEWELS Poem Text First Line: Twice in one hour I've seen this lovely night Last Line: Still call on night to see my wasted time. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares JOVE WARNS US Poem Text First Line: Jove warns us with his lightning first Last Line: To fasten me beside her. JOY Poem Text First Line: Poor souls, who think that joy is bought Last Line: Wake me. Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight JOY AND PLEASURE Poem Text First Line: Now, joy is born of parents poor Last Line: And sings and laughs with strangers near. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight JOY SUPREME Poem Text First Line: The birds are pirates of her notes Last Line: Her soft warm bosom swell on mine. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight K IS FOR KINGS Poem Text First Line: Love's touch is soft, and death Last Line: David and solomon. Variant Title(s): Crowns Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KILLED IN ACTION Poem Text First Line: Happy the man whose home is still Last Line: And never left it once before. Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) KISS AND BLOW Poem Text First Line: He takes that woman with his kiss Last Line: How kind and cruel, how clever is death! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KITTY AND I Poem Text First Line: The gentle wind that waves Last Line: Whenever chance allows. KNITTING Poem Text First Line: E'en though her tongue may by its force Last Line: And leaves his gold spread all about. Subject(s): Knitting L IS FOR LIGHT Poem Text First Line: What lovely meadows have I seen in the sun Last Line: And love may bleed to death, till it has gone. Subject(s): Light LAMENT OF AGE First Line: Why must I dig this old mine still LAMORNA COVE Poem Text First Line: I see at last our great lamorna cove Last Line: Screams in its fresh young wonder and delight. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Coves LAST THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: If my last thoughts contain no wish Last Line: Until I think of you! Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking LATE SINGERS Poem Text First Line: The spring was late in coming, so Last Line: We'll sing our number through. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time; Songs LAUGHING ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were gusty april now Last Line: To play with laughing rose. LEAVES (1) Poem Text First Line: Peace to these little broken leaves Last Line: Tremble -- no bigger than a star! Subject(s): Leaves LEISURE Poem Text First Line: What is this life if, full of care Last Line: We have no time to stand and stare. Subject(s): Beauty; Leisure; Time LET LOVE LIVE ON Poem Text First Line: Love is the precious jewel in our life Last Line: What kind of man her husband and our king. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LET ME CONFESS Poem Text First Line: Let me confess, before I die Last Line: Who saw his fellows starve for bread. LET US LIE CLOSE Poem Text First Line: Let us lie close, as lovers should Last Line: And with one kiss prepare for sleep. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Rest; Sleep LETTERS Poem Text First Line: If these six letters came from birds Last Line: To lead a chorus full of thunder!' Subject(s): Gossip; Letters LIFE Poem Text First Line: The quality of life on earth Last Line: That looks for better after death? Subject(s): Life LIFE IS JOLLY Poem Text First Line: This life is jolly, o! Last Line: This life is jolly, o! Subject(s): Life LIGHT AND DARKNESS (1) Poem Text First Line: The world is sleeping, and the earth is dark Last Line: Stroke with her tender hand a blinded face. LIGHT AND DARKNESS (2) Poem Text First Line: Though I sit brooding here, with my eyes closed Last Line: To see her body in the light at all. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation LINES TO A SPARROW Poem Text First Line: What shall we call thee - mouse o' the air Last Line: To find all times, come year, go year. Subject(s): Sparrows LITTLE FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Little flower, I hold you here Last Line: But a child could do no more. Subject(s): Country Life LITTLE MAN First Line: Last night I sat in thought LOGIC Poem Text First Line: My years to come are numbered on two hands Last Line: Ten aprils hence, to hear his grandchild sing. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LONG SLEEP First Line: They press the pillow on their mother's face and head LOOKS Poem Text First Line: What knowledge do my ears provide Last Line: Stirs to her treachery. Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Knowledge; Learning; Sight; Reading LOVE ABSENT Poem Text First Line: Where wert thou, love, when from twm barlum turned Last Line: Allowest time to part us with his hours. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LOVE AND IMMORTALITY First Line: My wonder is the great bright sun LOVE AND MONEY Poem Text First Line: I count my pounds as three times two Last Line: Shall fly to safer cover! Subject(s): Love - Materialism LOVE AND THE MUSE Poem Text First Line: My back is turned on spring and all her flowers Last Line: The sea-weed on a vessel's mast-top high. Subject(s): Love LOVE IMPEACHED Poem Text First Line: Listen for pity -- I impeach Last Line: That, after all, he's but a child. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE IN TROUBLE Poem Text First Line: The world is poor, and love is lonely Last Line: And sucks his thumb for all his sweets. Subject(s): Love LOVE LIGHTS HIS FIRE Poem Text First Line: Love lights his fire to burn my past Last Line: From love, alone, I learn to live. Subject(s): Love; Passion LOVE ME NO MORE Poem Text First Line: Since love cries out for money, still Last Line: I lie unblamed, and loved. Subject(s): Love LOVE SPEECHLESS Poem Text First Line: I look on nature, and my thoughts Last Line: The others take my breath away. LOVE TEN YEARS OLD Poem Text First Line: Our love this day is ten years old Last Line: And knows the man is old and blind! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age LOVE'S BIRTH First Line: I heard a voice methought was sweet LOVE'S CAUTION Poem Text First Line: Tell them, when you are home again Last Line: But do not breathe at home one word of this! Subject(s): Love LOVE'S COMING Poem Text First Line: An hour or more she's gone Last Line: Out his mad glory. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S HAPPINESS First Line: Blow, blow, thou eastern wind LOVE'S INSPIRATION First Line: Give me the chance LOVE'S PAYMENT Poem Text First Line: All fish and fowl, all fruit, and all you drink Last Line: In payment for their leaves, some soft white wool. LOVE'S PLANS First Line: I'll go into the country now LOVE'S POWER First Line: I ask not of high tide or low LOVE'S RIVALS Poem Text First Line: What glorious sunsets have their birth Last Line: Or greed a brighter eye. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S SILENT HOUR Poem Text First Line: This is love's silent hour, before the tongue Last Line: By sun or moon, by gas or candle-light. LOVE'S YOUTH Poem Text First Line: Not only is my love a flower Last Line: That laugh and call thee mother? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE, LIKE A DROP OF DEW Poem Text First Line: When I pass down the street and see Last Line: For ever and for ever. LOVELY DAMES Poem Text First Line: Few are my books, but my small few have told Last Line: Substance to those fine ghosts, and make them live. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Women LOYALTY Poem Text First Line: Kings, who would have good subjects, must Last Line: Can sing without his robe or glass. Subject(s): Loyalty LUCKLESS PAIR First Line: Poor, luckless bee, this sunny morn M IS FOR MOTHER Poem Text First Line: It was a long, long time ago Last Line: Killed by a thing that was her glory.' Subject(s): Mothers MAD Poem Text First Line: When she was but a little child Last Line: Even for her afflicted face. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAD POLL Poem Text First Line: There goes mad poll, dressed in wild flowers Last Line: Ha, ha!' poll laughs, and skips away. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MAGPIES Poem Text First Line: I have an orchard near my house Last Line: And tremble when I come alone! Subject(s): Magpies MAN Poem Text First Line: Come, let us measure Last Line: Like some lost little one. MAN First Line: I saw time running by MANGERS Poem Text First Line: Who knows the name and country now Last Line: And jesus to a little child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ MARCH First Line: There's not one leaf can say to me MARGERY Poem Text First Line: The butterfly loves mignonette Last Line: Shut in a garden green and still. Subject(s): Love MARRIED COUPLES Poem Text First Line: When love is strong in married couples Last Line: How she and I have loved each other! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MARVELLOUS EARS Poem Text First Line: That speckled thrush, that stands so still Last Line: No matter what her eyes affirm. Subject(s): Love MEN THAT HAVE STRENGTH Poem Text First Line: Men that have strength to rule their sex Last Line: What are they but our strong men's slaves? MEN THAT THINK Poem Text First Line: Be damned, you cheeks, be damned and sink Last Line: Still keep their first, and have no second state. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MERRY HOUR First Line: As long as I see nature near MILKMAID'S CALL First Line: As I walked down a lane this morn MILKMAID'S SONG First Line: A milkmaid's, on a summer's day MOLLY Poem Text First Line: Molly, with hips and ankles plump Last Line: "I swear I love you true,"" said she." Subject(s): Love MONEY Poem Text First Line: When I had money, money, o! Last Line: My friends are real, though very few. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Money; Fair Weather Friends MONTH AGO First Line: A month ago, a happy me MOSS AND FEATHER Poem Text First Line: Pools but reflect his shape and form Last Line: And twenty when the moon is up! Subject(s): Moss MOTHER'S SCIENCE First Line: I heard a man once say this world was but a speck in space MUSE First Line: I have no ale MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Let fortune gift on gift bestow Last Line: And never thought death lived -- that day. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC'S TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: Had birds no season for their precious songs Last Line: Is there no quiet place to sleep or rest? Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs MY GARDEN Poem Text First Line: The lilac in my garden comes to bloom Last Line: He swallows his own face in half a second! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY LADY COMES First Line: Peace, mournful bee, with that MY LIFE'S EXAMPLE Poem Text First Line: Stand with eyes fixed, the cuckoo calls Last Line: And hearts grown old and wise. Subject(s): Wisdom MY LOVE COULD WALK Poem Text First Line: My love could walk in richer hues Last Line: A queen that's more than half a nun. Subject(s): Desire; Love MY OLD ACQUAINTANCE Poem Text First Line: Working her toothless gums till her sharp chin Last Line: "think of the price of fish -- and look at bacon!" MY ROCKERY Poem Text First Line: Here in my garden I have lovely stones Last Line: Might well forget, and stay to worship stones! Subject(s): Monuments; Stones; Granite; Rocks MY SWEET SWEETING First Line: She is so proper and so pure Last Line: Sorrow hath made us kin MY YOUTH Poem Text First Line: My youth was my old age Last Line: Till this late hour. Subject(s): Aging; Youth N IS FOR NATURE Poem Text First Line: Day after day I find some new delight Last Line: And end my day with that last new delight. Variant Title(s): New Delights Subject(s): Nature NAILSWORTH HILL Poem Text First Line: The moon, that peeped as she came up Last Line: Where no such trees have ever been? Subject(s): Light; Moon; White (color) NAMED Poem Text First Line: As I marched out one day in spring Last Line: And I have answered — 'here!' Subject(s): God; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology NATURE'S FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Say what you like Last Line: Bird, moth and bee. Subject(s): Animals; Nature NATURE'S MOODS First Line: I like the showers that make the grass so fresh NEAR A QUIET STREAM Poem Text First Line: When musing near a quiet stream Last Line: Have no wise substance anywhere.' Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks NELL BARNES Poem Text First Line: They lived apart for three long years Last Line: It was for love she died. Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEW-COMERS Poem Text First Line: So many birds have come along Last Line: Their wings, like babies with their toes. Subject(s): Birds NIGHT IS THE ONLY TIME I LIVE NIGHT WANDERERS Poem Text First Line: They hear the bell of midnight toll Last Line: And cough like giants, deep and hoarse. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes NO CARELESS MIND Poem Text First Line: A granted joy can make a careless mind Last Line: A seed of light throw up a magic flower! Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight NO IDLE GOLD Poem Text First Line: No idle gold - since this fine sun, my friend Last Line: Can teach me to be happy with the least. Subject(s): Simplicity NO MASTER Poem Text First Line: Indeed this is sweet life! My hand Last Line: A working slave with no days free. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty NO PLACE OR TIME Poem Text First Line: This curly childhood of the year Last Line: That knows no place or time. Subject(s): Time NO-MAN'S WOOD Poem Text First Line: Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse Last Line: Clean through the heart of no-man's wood. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods NOW First Line: When I was in yon town, and had stones all round me NOW THAT SHE GIVES Poem Text First Line: Now that she gives my love consent Last Line: "should burn in hell for such a part!" Subject(s): Love - Age Differences NOW THAT THE TEARS Poem Text First Line: Now that the tears of love have reached Last Line: What then shall we become! Subject(s): Love - Complaints O HAPPY BLACKBIRD First Line: O happy blackbird, happy soul O IS FOR OPEN Poem Text First Line: Are those small silver tumps a town Last Line: Before a monstrous, empty sky! OFT HAVE I SEEN ON FIELDS THE LITTLE BIRDS Subject(s): Birds OH FOR A GLASS OF WINE! OH, SWEET CONTENT Poem Text First Line: Oh, sweet content, that turns the labourer's sweat Last Line: Twitch with the stars that shine in thousands there. Subject(s): Contentment OLD ACQUAINTANCE Poem Text First Line: Thy water, alteryn Last Line: And fair as childhood -- still? Subject(s): Youth OLD AND CRAZY Poem Text First Line: Though rising early with the lark Last Line: Who blames the poor old owl? Not I. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness OLD AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Is this old autumn standing here Last Line: And the dog that has no friend. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OLD FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: Forgive me, world, if I outlive my welcome Last Line: Has left it empty, and I feel the cold. Subject(s): Friendship OLD OR YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I questioned poetry, say, I said Last Line: Reprove me for my folly. Subject(s): Aging OLD RAGAN First Line: Who lives in this black wooden hut OLD SAILORS Poem Text First Line: I loved a ship from early boyhood days Last Line: And a new crew is born for aeons more. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails ON A COLD DAY Poem Text First Line: My sacrament of wine and broken bread Last Line: Shall I not drink and bless them one and all? Subject(s): Bread; Food & Eating; Hunger ON EXPECTING SOME BOOKS Poem Text First Line: To-morrow they will come. I know Last Line: Together in one room with me. Subject(s): Books; Reading ON FINDING A DEAD BIRD UNDER MY WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Here you lie, with feathers cold and wet Last Line: And be the first to wish a friend 'good morning'. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Wings ON HEARING MRS. WOODHOUSE PLAY THE HARPSICHORD Poem Text First Line: We poets pride ourselves on what Last Line: "has made this poet my dumb slave." Subject(s): Music & Musicians ON THE DEATH OF A LITTLE CHILD First Line: Her pretty dances were her own ON THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: When from this mighty mountain's top Last Line: Its sudden fall or rise. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON WHAT SWEET BANKS Poem Text First Line: On what sweet banks were thy pure fancies fed Last Line: Death to my hopes or give my love more light. ONE BY ONE Poem Text First Line: Few are my friends Last Line: My friends leave home. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Friendship; Dead, The; Parting ONE NIGHT, WHEN I WAS SLEEPING Poem Text First Line: One night, when I was sleeping all alone Last Line: That war must cease and friendship come to men? Subject(s): War ONE POET VISITS ANOTHER Poem Text First Line: His car was worth a thousand pounds and more Last Line: On my own little horse of wind and fire. Subject(s): Hate ONE REAL GEM First Line: Wealth, power, and fame - aye, even love ONE THING WANTING Poem Text First Line: Your life was hard with mangling clothes Last Line: "there's nothing else I want on earth." Subject(s): Mothers ONE TOKEN Poem Text First Line: The power was given at birth to me Last Line: Another life on the other side. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ONE WE LOVE First Line: Thou miser, time, who gave to me OUR LONGER LIFE Poem Text First Line: Some little creatures have so short a life Last Line: Gives place to that new love whose name is death. Subject(s): Mortality OUR SUSSEX DOWNS Poem Text First Line: My youth is gone -- my youth that laughed and yawned Last Line: "and youth that laughs and yawns in one short breath." Subject(s): Sussex, England OURSELVES Poem Text First Line: We live to read each other's soul Last Line: To cast their lightning on my own! Subject(s): Self; Soul OWLS Poem Text First Line: What music, lord, these birds must feel Last Line: For the beauty at my door. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Singing & Singers; Songs P IS FOR POOL Poem Text First Line: I know a deep and lonely pool - that's where Last Line: Clasped to the rugged breast of that black nurse. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds PARTED Poem Text First Line: Alack for life! Last Line: Alack for life, who'd say? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PASSION'S GREED Poem Text First Line: His constant wonder keeps him back Last Line: And ask our fingers if we bleed. PASSION'S HOUNDS Poem Text First Line: With mighty leaps and bounds Last Line: Hunt me to death. Subject(s): Passion PAST AND PRESENT Poem Text First Line: I who have seen a tiny cloud Last Line: Scratched by a little pin or thorn. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea Voyages PASTURES Poem Text First Line: That grass is tender, soft and sweet Last Line: Lie down to sleep. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PEACE AND GOODWILL Poem Text First Line: On christmas day I sit and think Last Line: And give his sister joy this day. Subject(s): Christmas; Peace; Nativity, The PEACE AND REST Poem Text First Line: Under this tree, where light and shade Last Line: And the sun's at the end of his gold. Subject(s): Peace PECKING Poem Text First Line: One kiss to open up the day Last Line: And still went on to peck. Subject(s): Kisses; Love PITY Poem Text First Line: Though you are gone and I am left alone Last Line: May I drop dead in pity at your feet! PLANTS AND MEN Poem Text First Line: You berries once Last Line: Of plants and men. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters PLAYMATES Poem Text First Line: That is your little playmate, jane Last Line: Would any child not die!' Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness POISON Poem Text First Line: When this strange world speaks ill of me Last Line: Till every tongue grows sweet and kind. Subject(s): Evil; Ill-tempered POOR KINGS Poem Text First Line: God's pity on poor kings Last Line: On some poor king. Subject(s): Pity POPPY First Line: Sweet poppy, when thy beauty's gone POT AND KETTLE Poem Text First Line: Away! I cried, to a spiteful wasp Last Line: Should please your masters – pot and kettle.' Subject(s): Fights PRIDE AND HUMILITY Poem Text First Line: He passed me by in april, lord Last Line: And walked beside her — blind. Subject(s): Humility PRIMROSE First Line: No more, from now, called pale and wan PROPERTY Poem Text First Line: A dog has bones to spare and hide Last Line: A worm can get one bite! Q IS FOR QUESTION Poem Text First Line: The man who tells me he has seen a ghost Last Line: "what lies beyond this life I lead to-day!""'" Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life R IS FOR REMEMBRANCE Poem Text First Line: I have no memory of his face Last Line: There's some big giant lives in there!' Variant Title(s): A Memory Subject(s): Memory RAGS AND BONES Poem Text First Line: This morning, as I wandered forth Last Line: That's snow-bound by anemones. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed RAPTURES Poem Text First Line: Sing for the sun your lyric, lark Last Line: A sigh, that's more divine. REGRET Poem Text First Line: How strange that love should be like this Last Line: Whose love was never told? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Remorse RETURN TO NATURE Poem Text First Line: My song is of that city which Last Line: As fresh as when my life was young. Subject(s): Nature REV. EBENEZER PAUL First Line: He begs from rich men for the poor RICH COMPANIONS Poem Text First Line: While I have these two rich companions left Last Line: Can age find any richer friends than these? Subject(s): Aging; Youth RICH DAYS Poem Text First Line: Welcome to you rich autumn days Last Line: Into the loneliest lanes we know. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall RICH OR POOR Poem Text First Line: With thy true love I have more wealth Last Line: Those kings and misers made so poor. Subject(s): Love ROBIN REDBREAST Poem Text First Line: Robin on a leafless bough Last Line: Pretty robin redbreast, come. Subject(s): Robins ROGUES Poem Text First Line: The nearer unto nature's heart I moved Last Line: Where in my face a foolish angel shines. ROSE Poem Text First Line: Sweet margaret's laugh can make Last Line: While still the sun is high. S IS FOR SWIMMER Poem Text First Line: When I had crossed the hill at last Last Line: Above me, clutching at the sun!' Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers SADNESS AND JOY Poem Text First Line: I pray you, sadness, leave me soon Last Line: While thou art making four. SAFE ESTATE First Line: If I hear robin sing in mirth SAINTS AND LODGERS Poem Text First Line: Ye saints, that sing in rooms above Last Line: Some pensions take -- such are our lodgers. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE SLUMS First Line: Why do I stare at faces, why SCANDAL Poem Text First Line: This is god's poorest lambing-time Last Line: Has said 'good-bye', and gone. Subject(s): Sin SCHOOL'S OUT Poem Text First Line: Girls scream Last Line: Welcome. Subject(s): Schools; Students SCOTTY' BILL First Line: There's 'scotty' bill, four score of years SCOTTY'S LUCK Poem Text First Line: Fatty, one day, called red-nosed scot Last Line: To call me by that name.' Subject(s): Names SECRETS Poem Text First Line: Had I a secret plan by which Last Line: In one weak foolish hour? Subject(s): Secrets SEE HOW THE GLOW-WORM'S LIGHT Poem Text First Line: See how the glow-worm's light is found Last Line: The knowledge that is in a kiss. Subject(s): Fidelity; Fireflies; Faithfulness; Constancy; Glowworms SEE WHERE YOUNG LOVE Poem Text First Line: See where young love sits all alone Last Line: And tears have made you wise. Subject(s): Love SEED AND FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The seed-time of this lovely life Last Line: A thousand years and more! Subject(s): Flowers; Love SEEKING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Cold winds can never freeze, nor thunder sour Last Line: My life's a cheat, let death end my distress. Subject(s): Beauty SEEKING JOY Poem Text First Line: Joy, how I sought thee! Last Line: Joy, I have found thee! Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight SELF-IGNORANCE First Line: When reason's lamp, which like the sun in sky SELF-LOVE First Line: She had two eyes as blue as heaven SELFISH HEARTS First Line: Without a thought SHAMELESS ONE First Line: She comes to see her brother john SHEEP Poem Text First Line: When I was once in baltimore Last Line: I would not sail again with sheep. Subject(s): Sheep SHIPS AND STARS Poem Text First Line: As soon as I began to name a star Last Line: Across the heavens, whose names I will not know. Subject(s): Heaven; Stars; Paradise SHOOTING-STARS Poem Text First Line: A little porch with roof and sides Last Line: And thinking of her own. Subject(s): Stars SHOPPING Poem Text First Line: When thou hast emptied thy soft purse Last Line: And the poor suffer in the end. Subject(s): Shopping SICK MINDS Poem Text First Line: When I am sick and dark depression Last Line: Is magic that restores my own. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress SILENT EYES Poem Text First Line: There is a bird that, in her throat Last Line: That spreads in silent eyes. Subject(s): Love; Silence SILVER HOURS Poem Text First Line: Come, lovely morning, rich in frost Last Line: The heavens all dance in light! Subject(s): Morning SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Life's angel half, sweet sleep Last Line: Can take their fears away. Subject(s): Sleep SLIPPERS Poem Text First Line: When youth is gone, and beauty too Last Line: Will not the other heed? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth SLUM CHILDREN First Line: Your songs at night a drunkard sings SMILES Poem Text First Line: I saw a black girl once Last Line: And night comes back. Subject(s): Blacks; Smiles; Women SOLITUDE First Line: Yes, solitude indeed: for I can see SONG First Line: My love has gone long since Last Line: And all its angels sleeping Subject(s): Absence; Love SONG OF THE MINERS Poem Text First Line: When starving cattle see Last Line: Shall we lie down like these dumb brutes and die? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS OF JOY Poem Text First Line: Sing out, my soul, thy songs of joy Last Line: Heaven's purer flood. SOUND AND GRACE First Line: My love laughs sweeter than a brook SOUND AND LIGHT Poem Text First Line: When I stand here alone at night Last Line: A chapel for our god? Subject(s): Silence SPACE First Line: Scorn not because my body lives SPEED Poem Text First Line: Think, man of flesh, and be not proud Last Line: Catch up with you at last. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race SPIRITS AND BODIES Poem Text First Line: Two spirits in two bodies, love Last Line: As neither one could go alone. Subject(s): Love; Togetherness SPORT Poem Text First Line: Hunters, hunters Last Line: Take their delight. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters STARERS Poem Text First Line: The small birds peck at apples ripe Last Line: That try to stare like the big moon. STARLINGS Poem Text First Line: This time of year, when but the robin sings Last Line: With wicked music waste my sweetest pears? Subject(s): Starlings STARS First Line: One night I saw ten stars take wing STARS AT WORK First Line: I see the busy stars at work STINGS Poem Text First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness STORMS Poem Text First Line: She fears not me Last Line: Back to my breast. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Storms; Worship STRANGE PEOPLE First Line: There was a man I knew STREET CRIERS Poem Text First Line: When poll stays here, her jack goes there Last Line: Who'll buy young watercress?' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs STRENGTH Poem Text First Line: What lies I read, that men of strength Last Line: And full, like books, of pretty lies. STRONG MOMENTS Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I hear fine ladies sing Last Line: My weakness is they are so few. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SUCCESS Poem Text First Line: Sharpen your claws, pussy-cat Last Line: Tell me — why must she quarrel? Subject(s): Success SUMMER'S NOON First Line: White lily clouds SUN, TREE AND CROW Poem Text First Line: There, on a branch, he stands alone Last Line: And gives it to that old, black crow! Subject(s): Birds; Crows SWALLOW THAT FLEW INTO THE ROOM First Line: I give thee back thy freedom, bird SWEET BIRDS, I COME First Line: The bird that now on bush and tree SWEET CHILD Poem Text First Line: Sweet child, thou wast my bird by day Last Line: Is gone, for ever gone. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SWEET MUSIC First Line: Ah, music, it doth sound more sweet SWEET NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Sweet night, that like an angel comes Last Line: She fears she will outlive. Subject(s): Love SWEET STAY-AT-HOME Poem Text First Line: Sweet stay-at-home, sweet, well content Last Line: Not for the knowledge in thy mind. Subject(s): Contentment; Travel; Journeys; Trips SWEET YOUTH First Line: And art thou gone, sweet youth? Say nay SWEETEST DREAM First Line: Nay, no more bitterness from me T IS FOR TIME Poem Text First Line: You false church clock, whose long-drawn chimes Last Line: And stretch beyond his frantic face. Subject(s): Time TAKING STOCK Poem Text First Line: A pipe to smoke, and ale that's mulled Last Line: And, tell me, do I waste my breath? Subject(s): Love TELL ME, WORLD, AND TELL ME, NATURE Poem Text First Line: No spoilt, no pampered child am I Last Line: Am I a spoilt and pampered creature? Subject(s): Nature TELLING FORTUNES Poem Text First Line: You'll have a son, the old man said Last Line: "a fool, a coxcomb, and a cur." Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry TEMPER OF A MAID First Line: The swallow dives in yonder air THAT DAY SHE SEIZED Poem Text First Line: That day she seized me like a bee Last Line: "and who's the poor weak fly?" Subject(s): Togetherness THAT GOLDEN TIME Poem Text First Line: When will it come, that golden time Last Line: Makes every man a king. Subject(s): Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Liberty; Work; Workers THE AGE OF GOLD Poem Text First Line: A silver shilling for his white-haired granny Last Line: When you, all eyes, were richer far, though poor. Subject(s): Youth THE BATTLE Poem Text First Line: There was a battle in her face Last Line: To battle for my sake. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses THE BEAUTIFUL Poem Text First Line: Three things there are more beautiful Last Line: Showing her child before it is born. Subject(s): Beauty THE BED-SITTING-ROOM Poem Text First Line: Must I live here, with scripture on my walls Last Line: I leave with haste your death-preparing room. THE BEE LOVER Poem Text First Line: He comes with a song Last Line: On the face he has kissed. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BELL Poem Text First Line: It is the bell of death I hear Last Line: Nor love nor hate the mystery. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Dead, The THE BEST FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Now shall I walk Last Line: But joy kissed me. THE BIRD OF PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Here comes kate summers who, for gold Last Line: "perched on the bedpost there!'" Subject(s): Despair THE BIRD-MAN Poem Text First Line: Man is a bird Last Line: Him down from heaven to earth! Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE BIRDS OF STEEL Poem Text First Line: This apple-tree, that once was green Last Line: Up, nearer to god, they fly and sing. Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War I; First World War THE BIRTH OF SONG Poem Text First Line: I am as certain of my song Last Line: Come perfect to the light. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE BLACK CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Little flocks of peaceful clouds Last Line: Tear an oak tree's bowels out. Subject(s): Clouds THE BLEST Poem Text First Line: The vision came, all grey and cold Last Line: And the dew on its skin was a tear. Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness THE BLIND BOXER Poem Text First Line: He goes with basket and slow feet Last Line: Thy working face and pity thee. Subject(s): Blindness; Boxing & Boxers; Cowardice; Pity; Visually Handicapped THE BOY Poem Text First Line: Go, little boy Last Line: True joy doth lie. Subject(s): Boys THE BUST Poem Text First Line: When I went wandering far from home Last Line: By living lips that kissed unseen. THE CALL OF THE SEA Poem Text First Line: Gone are the days of canvas sails! Last Line: Haunting their houses till they die. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CAPTIVE LION Poem Text First Line: Thou that in fury with thy knotted tail Last Line: Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE CAT Poem Text First Line: Within that porch, across the way Last Line: I'm not so sure a body's there! Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAVE Poem Text First Line: Once, in that cave, I heard my breath Last Line: Back to the open light and home. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns THE CHASE Poem Text First Line: The moon his mare, all silver-bright Last Line: What ghostly horse shall course the sky? Subject(s): Courtship; Desire THE CHILD AND THE MARINER Poem Text First Line: A dear old couple my grandparents were Last Line: No good in port or out' -- my grandad said. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE CHURCH ORGAN Poem Text First Line: The homeless man has heard thy voice Last Line: Ere we made second homes or none. Subject(s): Homeless THE CLOCK Poem Text First Line: Every tick and every tock Last Line: "has molly dropped down dead?" Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE COLLAR Poem Text First Line: Who taught fair cleopatra how to bring Last Line: I'll watch you round the corner of my fears. Subject(s): Collars; Love THE COMING OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: It was the night when we expected news from france Last Line: I almost heard a cuckoo in trafalgar square! Subject(s): France; War THE COMING OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: How I have watched thy coming, spring Last Line: Must laugh outright for love. Subject(s): Spring THE CONQUERORS Poem Text First Line: Who are these men with quiet smiles Last Line: Must fear his every move. Subject(s): Love THE CUCKOO Poem Text First Line: When I was sitting near a stream Last Line: And shouted in my face! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE DAISY Poem Text First Line: I know not why thy beauty should Last Line: Share my lost place with the wild green. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE DANCER Poem Text First Line: The great white moon is not so fair Last Line: Thou'lt fall into my arms in a trance. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DARK HOUR Poem Text First Line: And now, when merry winds do blow Last Line: I am aware. Subject(s): Mortality THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Not till my spirit's naked and ashamed Last Line: And free of flesh, would I approach the dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD TREE Poem Text First Line: I had a cherry tree, one day Last Line: On my dead cherry tree! Subject(s): Cherry Trees THE DEED Poem Text First Line: When I, made merry with the wine Last Line: And die for man again?' Subject(s): Poverty THE DEN Poem Text First Line: They sleep together in one den Last Line: Came here to die, not sleep -- the swine!' Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DOG Poem Text First Line: The dog was there, outside her door Last Line: To open them for her! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOLL Poem Text First Line: Dinah is young, and I am old Last Line: A serious woman, by and by. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences THE DOUBTFUL ONE Poem Text First Line: When tigers flee from fire, the deer Last Line: Who for his life clings hand and foot. THE DRAGONFLY Poem Text First Line: Now, when my roses are half buds, half flowers Last Line: His breast, my dear, how lovely was his breast!' Subject(s): Dragonflies THE DREAMING BOY Poem Text First Line: Sweet are thy dreams, thou happy, careless boy Last Line: From hands that come to cage them till they die. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DUMB WORLD (1) Poem Text First Line: I cannot see the short, white curls Last Line: A dumb thing near a drunken man. THE DUMB WORLD (2) Poem Text First Line: Shall I collect for this world's eyes Last Line: And save the world this worthless lay. THE EAST IN GOLD Poem Text First Line: Somehow this world is wonderful at times Last Line: To scream for joy -- they saw the east in gold. Subject(s): Birds THE ELEMENTS Poem Text First Line: No house of stone Last Line: I am a bird. THE ENEMY Poem Text First Line: Though I am all for warmth and light Last Line: His hard, dry rattle in my throat. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: See how her body pants and glows Last Line: But who can read the unborn years? Subject(s): Evening Star THE EXAMPLE Poem Text First Line: Here's an example from a butterfly Last Line: To make a stone a flower. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE EXCUSE Poem Text First Line: Why did you kill that harmless frog? Last Line: "and then it died." THE FAITHFUL ONE Poem Text First Line: The bird that fills my ears with song Last Line: Remember me and come back home. Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity; Separation; Isolation; Faithfulness; Constancy THE FATES Poem Text First Line: When I was lying sick in bed Last Line: For now you make my spirit strong.' THE FEAR Poem Text First Line: Oft have I thought the muse was dead Last Line: Each time you sleep and do not move. Subject(s): Fear; Mortality THE FLIRT Poem Text First Line: A pretty game, my girl Last Line: The shame sits on thy knee. Subject(s): Flirtation; Love THE FLOOD Poem Text First Line: I thought my true love slept Last Line: She heard a mercy-cry. Subject(s): Hair THE FOG Poem Text First Line: I saw the fog grow thick Last Line: A blind man led me home. Subject(s): Fog; Haze THE FORCE OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Have I now found an angel in unrest Last Line: Each upward step towards your top divine. Subject(s): Love THE FORSAKEN DEAD Poem Text First Line: What tyrant starved the living out, and kept Last Line: And haunt that tyrant's night without repose. THE GHOST Poem Text First Line: Seek not to know love's full extent Last Line: Confesses to the other's ghost. Subject(s): Love THE GREEN TENT Poem Text First Line: Summer has spread a cool, green tent Last Line: Can sleep without the power of wealth. Subject(s): Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE GRIEF OF OTHERS Poem Text First Line: Once more I see the happy young Last Line: To charm me with new power. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE HAPPY CHILD Poem Text First Line: I saw this day sweet flowers grow thick Last Line: But not like what the child has seen. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE HARVEST HOME Poem Text First Line: The harvest home's a home indeed Last Line: Is -- by my soul and body -- ale! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Ale; Wine THE HAWK Poem Text First Line: Thou dost not fly, thou art not perched Last Line: It knows not flowers from stones. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE HEAP OF RAGS Poem Text First Line: One night when I went down Last Line: To make a pearl from tears. THE HERMIT Poem Text First Line: What moves that lonely man is not the boom Last Line: Comes like a tiger crunching through the stones. Subject(s): Hermits THE HILL-SIDE PARK Poem Text First Line: Some banks cropped close, and lawns smooth mown Last Line: And still sails flecked its face of silver-grey. Subject(s): Parks THE HOLLY ON THE WALL Poem Text First Line: Play, little children, one and all Last Line: For holly, holly on the wall. Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Play; Nativity, The THE HOSPITAL WAITING-ROOM Poem Text First Line: We wait our turn, as still as mice Last Line: Until a welcome voice cried -- 'next!' Subject(s): Hospitals THE HOUR OF MAGIC Poem Text First Line: This is the hour of magic, when the moon Last Line: To prove they still have life with earthly ties? THE HUNT Poem Text First Line: We have no mind to reach that pole Last Line: With all our faculties in play. Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sports; English; Hunters THE IDIOT Poem Text First Line: The hand that rocked his cradle once Last Line: A coffin to contain his dust. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The THE IDIOT AND THE CHILD Poem Text First Line: There was a house where an old dame Last Line: It is no worse!' she said. Subject(s): Fools; Idiots THE INEXPRESSIBLE Poem Text First Line: Thinking of my caged birds indoors Last Line: Lighten and thunder through the world! Subject(s): Passion THE INQUEST Poem Text First Line: I took my oath I would inquire Last Line: Perhaps my mother murdered me.' Subject(s): Abortion; Child Molesting; Murder; Child Abuse THE JEALOUS LOVER Poem Text First Line: Who is this man that, brain on fire Last Line: Who calls me jealousy?' Subject(s): Jealousy THE JOLLY TRAMP Poem Text First Line: I am a jolly tramp: I whine to you Last Line: Was I, but whined in truth most pitiful. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE JOY OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: How sweet is life, how beautiful Last Line: As one whose breath is full of tears. Subject(s): Life THE KINGFISHER Poem Text First Line: It was the rainbow gave thee birth Last Line: Sigh with her bosom over me. Subject(s): Birds; Kingfishers THE LADY OF LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Though I must sleep, and give my body rest Last Line: The last at night to see her lover home. Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs THE LAST YEARS Poem Text First Line: A dog, that has ten years of breath Last Line: And death takes all of us as one. Subject(s): Animals THE LAUGHERS Poem Text First Line: Mary and maud have met at the door Last Line: Find a cause to make far merrier cries. Subject(s): Laughter THE LAWS OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: The laws of beauty and its patterns Last Line: Where shall I find a sweeter face? THE LEGACY Poem Text First Line: She died when I was wild and young Last Line: In the kiss on her ghostly hands. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE LIFE DIVINE Poem Text First Line: Give me the poet's life divine Last Line: His life is still divine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LIFE OF MAN Poem Text First Line: All from his cradle to his grave Last Line: Poor devil, man's a frightened thing. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE LIKENESS Poem Text First Line: When I came forth this morn I saw Last Line: To such white wool, such sparkling grass. Subject(s): Clouds; Sheep THE LILY OF OUR VALLEY Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, in pontypool Last Line: Sally, the lily of our valley!' Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE LITTLE DEVIL Poem Text First Line: The sun has his spots, the moon has her shadows Last Line: Of ice and fire — 'come here, you little devil!' Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE LITTLE ONES Poem Text First Line: The little ones are put in bed Last Line: We must have sinned,' sobbed emily. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology THE LOAD OF PEARLS Poem Text First Line: Will no one stop that blackbird now Last Line: Brings diamonds into every eye! Subject(s): Life; Pearls THE LODGING HOUSE FIRE Poem Text First Line: My birthday - yesterday Last Line: Poison the score. Subject(s): Fire; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LONELIEST MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: The loneliest mountain, with no house or tree Last Line: Can find no equal till I meet a child. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LONELY DREAMER Poem Text First Line: He lives his lonely life, and when he dies Last Line: And let his death bring tears in no one's eyes. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE LOST SEX Poem Text First Line: What, still another woman false Last Line: One woman true, just one. Subject(s): Fidelity; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations THE MAN OF MOODS Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I blow and praise a bubble Last Line: Your prophet, sage and friend – the poet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE MASK Poem Text First Line: When I complained of april's day Last Line: And showed the world her laughing eyes. Subject(s): Masks THE MEADOW Poem Text First Line: Leafy with little clouds, the sky Last Line: While babbling nonsense on the way. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MIND SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Poor body, sitting there so calm Last Line: To act beyond its power. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Mind, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MIND'S LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: The mind, with its own eyes and ears Last Line: With its dark nipple in a cloud. Subject(s): Reason; Mind, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MINT Poem Text First Line: Nature has made my mind a mint Last Line: May judge my metal's worth no better. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE MONGREL Poem Text First Line: Your laurel hedge, with its broad leaves Last Line: To shrivelled leaves, all limp and sere. Subject(s): Apples; Cherries; Fruit THE MOON Poem Text First Line: Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul Last Line: Is greater than thy nightingales. Subject(s): Moon THE MOON AND A CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I watch the moon at night Last Line: She turned it black instead of white. Subject(s): Clouds; Moon THE MOTH Poem Text First Line: Say, silent moth Last Line: Be't moth or man. Subject(s): Moths THE MOURNER Poem Text First Line: When all your bitter grief is gone Last Line: You follow her, and stand reproved. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE NATURE LOVER Poem Text First Line: The years passed by, and my pure love Last Line: Nature for me has saved mankind. Subject(s): Nature THE OLD OAK TREE Poem Text First Line: I sit beneath your leaves, old oak Last Line: The stars turn over leaves of light. Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE ONE SINGER Poem Text First Line: Dead leaves from off the tree Last Line: When she is left alone. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Songs THE OWL Poem Text First Line: The boding owl, that in despair Last Line: A thing to fill my heart with mirth. Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OX Poem Text First Line: Why should I pause, poor beast, to praise Last Line: When robin redbreast comes no more. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen THE PEACEMAKER Poem Text First Line: When she threatened to leave me Last Line: And begged to be nursed. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Love THE PERFECT LIFE Poem Text First Line: Who knows the perfect life on earth? Last Line: And not inflict it on another? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PHILOSOPHICAL BEGGAR Poem Text First Line: When I went in the woods this morn to sleep Last Line: And they will envy none their cloth or land. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars THE PLAYERS Poem Text First Line: To-day I acted christ Last Line: Ring every bell on earth! Subject(s): Lazarus THE POET Poem Text First Line: When I went down past charing cross Last Line: All crazy for my burning crown. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S HORSE Poem Text First Line: Come, show the world your mettle now Last Line: Bareback through heaven, and twice a day! Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE POND Poem Text First Line: So innocent, so quiet - yet Last Line: Is that dead woman's upturned face. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOR Poem Text First Line: Give them your silver, let the poor Last Line: Worth twice their weight in gold? Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Poverty; Recessions THE PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: She sends her portrait, as a swallow Last Line: To show that her sweet spring will follow. Subject(s): Portraits THE POSTS Poem Text First Line: A year's a post, on which Last Line: Alas! Subject(s): Time THE POWER OF MUSIC Poem Text First Line: O those sweet notes, so soft and faint; that seemed Last Line: And I can neither laugh with thee nor weep. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE POWER OF SILENCE Poem Text First Line: And will she never hold her tongue Last Line: No more of bangle, scarf or feather. Subject(s): Silence THE PRAYER OF DAFT HARRY Poem Text First Line: Lord, since this world is filled with fire Last Line: While mary sings our praise! Subject(s): God; Prayer THE PROVER Poem Text First Line: If life gives friends Last Line: Had death been coming soon. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE QUARREL Poem Text First Line: Hear me, thou proud, deceitful maid Last Line: Ah, but all night I sighed and wept. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE RABBIT Poem Text First Line: Not even when the early birds Last Line: To kill him in the morning light. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE RAIN Poem Text First Line: I hear leaves drinking rain Last Line: Twill be a lovely sight. Subject(s): Rain THE RAINBOW Poem Text First Line: Rainbows are lovely things Last Line: Would come again, and again! Subject(s): Rainbows THE RAT Poem Text First Line: That woman there is almost dead Last Line: "they'll soon see who was left at home." Subject(s): Rats THE RICHEST STONES Poem Text First Line: My wandering days have run their course Last Line: And all its walls had diamond-eyes! Subject(s): Aging THE RIVALS Poem Text First Line: Pleasure is not the one I love Last Line: By pleasure, from her finger-tips. Subject(s): Pleasure THE RIVER SEVERN Poem Text First Line: This is the morning bright and clear Last Line: To search his face and find a shadow. Subject(s): Severn (river), England THE ROCK Poem Text First Line: Love kissed me in a strange, untruthful hour Last Line: Shook faster than a lamb's tail, in its singing. THE SAILOR TO HIS PARROT Poem Text First Line: Thou foul-mouthed wretch! Why dost thou choose Last Line: And you tell me to go to hell! Subject(s): Parrots; Sea; Ocean THE SCHEMES OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Sleeping in some green bower, and wrapped Last Line: That snatch their kisses in their flight. Subject(s): Love THE SEA Poem Text First Line: Her cheeks were white, her eyes were wild Last Line: To smash his rocks with a dead child. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: She flies from my shadow Last Line: She still follows after! Subject(s): Courtship; Love THE SIGNS Poem Text First Line: Flowers white and red my garden has Last Line: She binds his wounds who bleeds for truth. THE SLEEPERS Poem Text First Line: As I walked down the waterside Last Line: And long before their time they die. Subject(s): Homeless; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE SLUGGARD Poem Text First Line: A jar of cider and my pipe Last Line: Will think myself the king of men. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE SNOWFLAKE Poem Text First Line: When we are young and wake from sleep Last Line: Their happy tunes of careless ease. Subject(s): Mortality THE SONG OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: A sneeze from time gives life its little breath Last Line: Without a single thought, o lord, of thee. Subject(s): Life; Time THE SONG OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: The oak bears little acorns, yet Last Line: Reached out to take god's dove? Subject(s): Love THE SOUL'S COMPANIONS Poem Text First Line: Though floods shall fail, and empty holes Last Line: Would walk with me from day to day! Subject(s): Hope; Soul; Optimism THE SOUL'S DESTROYER Poem Text First Line: London! What utterance the mind finds here! Last Line: As dumb and silent as a moulting bird. Subject(s): Troy THE SPOILER Poem Text First Line: When I put out my thought to grass Last Line: The moment they begin to fall! THE START Poem Text First Line: When dogs play in the sun outdoors Last Line: The whole wide world can be my home. Subject(s): Spring THE STARVED Poem Text First Line: My little lamb, what is amiss? Last Line: For death would own a sleep like this. Subject(s): Hunger THE SUPPER Poem Text First Line: Since music is love's milk and keeps him strong Last Line: Has fixed on me his large, unwavering eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Love; Paternity; Infants THE TIME OF DREAMS Poem Text First Line: What sweet, what happy days had I Last Line: When dreams made time eternity! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE TOOTHACHE Poem Text First Line: Last night, though I had fifty souls Last Line: I could not help cry out -- 'the devil!' Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches THE TRANCE Poem Text First Line: The moon is beautiful this night Last Line: Expect their mother when they wake. THE TREASURED THREE Poem Text First Line: Here with my treasured three I sit Last Line: To leave this little house of joy? Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Pets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TRICK Poem Text First Line: No answer, yet I called her name Last Line: And only death himself can prove. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TRUTH Poem Text First Line: Since I have seen a bird one day Last Line: The last strong rival for his food. Subject(s): Truth THE TUGGED HAND Poem Text First Line: I have no ears or eyes Last Line: And could not make it play. Subject(s): Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy THE TWO CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Ah, little boy! I see Last Line: The girl that knits her shroud. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE TWO FLOCKS Poem Text First Line: Where are you going to now, white sheep Last Line: Clouds in the air! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TWO HEAVENS Poem Text First Line: When, with my window opened wide at night Last Line: Has made my lighted home his paradise. Subject(s): Home THE TWO LIVES Poem Text First Line: Now how could I, with gold to spare Last Line: And save me from a drunkard's life. THE TWO LOVES Poem Text First Line: I have two loves, and one is dark Last Line: Whose windows look cross-eyed at shadows. Subject(s): Country Life; London THE TWO STARS Poem Text First Line: Day has her star, as well as night Last Line: That earth receives its dead. Subject(s): Day; Night; Stars; Bedtime THE TYRANTS Poem Text First Line: Love came about the cuckoo's time Last Line: And miss them every day. Subject(s): Love; Poverty THE VAGABOND Poem Text First Line: Tormented day and night by fleas Last Line: And eat up all the bloody food!' Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VILLAIN Poem Text First Line: While joy gave clouds the light of stars Last Line: Into a dark and lonely wood. Subject(s): Wind THE VISITOR (1) Poem Text First Line: She brings that breath, and music too Last Line: Or lying fast asleep! THE VISITOR (2) Poem Text First Line: Her beauty is a wasted thing Last Line: Come back and sing again? Subject(s): Selfishness THE VOICE Poem Text First Line: The nightingale I had not heard Last Line: But you, my love, I thank with tears. Subject(s): Birds; Voices THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: No morning breaks but he would pack Last Line: He took in joy at every breath.' THE WAYS OF TIME Poem Text First Line: As butterflies are but winged flowers Last Line: On the old things I love. Subject(s): Time THE WEEPING CHILD Poem Text First Line: What makes thee weep so, little child Last Line: And any woman be thy mother? Subject(s): Children; Tears; Childhood THE WHITE CASCADE Poem Text First Line: What happy mortal sees that mountain now Last Line: That on the mountain sings, and shines so far. Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks THE WHITE HORSE Poem Text First Line: What do I stare at - not the colt Last Line: When you come up behind, to mount!' Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE WHITE MONSTER Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw the monster near Last Line: Killed women, children, and defenceless men. THE WIND Poem Text First Line: Sometimes he roars among the leafy trees Last Line: And all who saw and heard him were amazed. Subject(s): Wind THE WITNESS Poem Text First Line: The witness to my document Last Line: As a little child from prayer. Subject(s): Prayer THE WONDER-MAKER Poem Text First Line: Come, if thou'rt cold to summer's charms Last Line: With all that's rich and beautiful. Subject(s): Summer THE WOODS AND BANKS Poem Text First Line: The woods and banks of england now Last Line: Where are you now, cuckoo? Cuckoo! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Nature THE WORLD APPROVES Poem Text First Line: The shade and colour of her eyes can wait Last Line: And the world approves of dinah and my choice. Subject(s): Beauty THE WORLD DICTATES Poem Text First Line: The world dictates my life from day to day Last Line: As they go wobbling sideways past my door. Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts THE WORLD MAY CHARGE Poem Text First Line: The world may charge a man with sin Last Line: They think one thought of his disgrace? THE WORMS' CONTEMPT Poem Text First Line: What do we earn for all our gentle grace? Last Line: The worms' contempt, that have no time for preaching. Subject(s): Death; Worms; Dead, The THEY'RE TAXING ALE AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Ale's no false liar; though his mind Last Line: The only honest man. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Taxes; Ale; Wine THIEVES First Line: Thieves, death and absence, come THIS BANTAM STAR Poem Text First Line: Is this the blackbird's richest song Last Line: Can match this little bantam star!' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs THIS GREEN ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: The healthiest place for love is here Last Line: Be poorer in our bliss? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THIS IS A JOY Poem Text First Line: This is a joy no laughter shakes Last Line: Life's sweetest breath comes, latest. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight THIS NIGHT Poem Text First Line: This night, as I sit here alone Last Line: Oh-o-o! Oh-o-o! The owl doth cry. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Owls; Dead, The THIS WORLD Poem Text First Line: Who dreams a sweeter life than this Last Line: Them by the body's gluttony. THOU COMEST, MAY Poem Text First Line: Thou comest, may, with leaves and flowers Last Line: Beat time, and still no music comes. Subject(s): Spring THREE LOVES Poem Text First Line: My silver love is shared by all Last Line: On mat or grass, or stone. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THREE SCORE AND TEN Poem Text First Line: Ten junes to hear the nightingale Last Line: In ten years' reckoning up, my dear! Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Wedding Song; Epithalamium THUNDERSTORMS Poem Text First Line: My mind has thunderstorms Last Line: And joyful singing birds. Subject(s): Storms TILL I WENT OUT Poem Text First Line: Till I went out of doors to prove Last Line: That I at last could see the wind. TIME'S JUSTICE First Line: Alas! We live in days of shame Subject(s): Science TIME'S RULE First Line: Time called me out of a dark room TO A BORE First Line: I walk to look TO A BUTTERFLY First Line: We have met TO A CONTEMPORARY Poem Text First Line: By my fast horse that knows no rest Last Line: No greater liar walks the earth. TO A FLIRT First Line: You'll get no help from me TO A FOOL Poem Text First Line: If, when thy body's end has come Last Line: "and missed them with my snapping hand." Subject(s): Fools; Idiots TO A LADY FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Since you have turned unkind Last Line: Sticks, bones or rags, or you! TO A RICH LADY First Line: Though thou hast silk to wear TO A WORKING MAN First Line: You working man, of what avail TO BACCHUS Poem Text First Line: I'm none of those -- oh bacchus, blush! Last Line: And I'm well fed. Subject(s): Bacchus; Mythology - Classical TO MY THOUGHTS First Line: Stay home and hear the birds and bees TO PLAY ALONE Poem Text First Line: A tom tit clinging upside down Last Line: Will teach me how to play alone? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TO SPARROWS FIGHTING Poem Text First Line: Stop, feathered bullies! Last Line: Of anger, like the great. Subject(s): Sparrows TO THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: Welcome, new year, but be more kind Last Line: I'll thank the lord the devil knows. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE WIND AT MORN Poem Text First Line: Is it for you Last Line: Where is that child? TO W. S. - ON HIS WONDERFUL TOYS Poem Text First Line: Lend me your precious toys Last Line: To keep his childhood till he dies. Subject(s): Children; Toys; Childhood TO-DAY Poem Text First Line: I have no hopes, I have no fears Last Line: Into a thousand small blue eyes. TO-MORROW Poem Text First Line: What can I find in my wild orchard Last Line: To please your pretty eyes to-morrow? Subject(s): Pleasure TO-NIGHT Poem Text First Line: What can I find in the city shops Last Line: To piddle in his mother's lap? Subject(s): Cupid; Mothers; Eros TRAFFIC Poem Text First Line: This life in london - what a waste Last Line: Am deafened to my very thoughts. Subject(s): City Traffic; London TRAILS Poem Text First Line: He leaves his silver trail behind Last Line: And never see their golden trails. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails TREASURES First Line: He hailed me a cheerful voice TREES Poem Text First Line: They ask me where the temple stands Last Line: I'd live as long as this green tree. Subject(s): Trees TRICKSTER First Line: When first I left a town TRUE OR FICKLE Poem Text First Line: Who would not be a poet, when Last Line: Who wants that moulting bird? Subject(s): Love - Complaints TRULY GREAT Poem Text First Line: My walls outside must have some flowers Last Line: Show me a man more great. Subject(s): Contentment TRUST Poem Text First Line: Once I was wise when, in my youth Last Line: The more I lose in man? Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed TRUSTING YOUNG First Line: Ah, little bird, thou art not old TWO SPIRITS First Line: My friend, mad drunk, struck at his foe TWO WOMEN: THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: The midwife nearly drowned my son Last Line: To prove her precious babe will live. TWO WOMEN: THE WIFE Poem Text First Line: I wish that she had drowned him quite Last Line: That he was made for living in. TYRANTS First Line: Peace makes more slaves than savage war U IS FOR UNION Poem Text First Line: If time and nature serve us both alike Last Line: As plump as snow on window-sill and frame? Variant Title(s): Re-union UNCERTAINTY Poem Text First Line: Shall I confess my love? Last Line: And make a somersault. Subject(s): Love V IS FOR VENUS Poem Text First Line: Is that star dumb, or am I deaf? Last Line: Or that long-fingered star that's dumb? Subject(s): Venus (planet) VAIN BEAUTY First Line: Ah, what is beauty but vain show VIOLET AND OAK Poem Text First Line: Down through the trees is my green walk Last Line: A little violet in the grass.' Subject(s): Environment; Flowers; Trees; Violets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation VIOLET TO THE BEE First Line: O you false knight in shining mail VOICES OF SCORN Poem Text First Line: When I had thought my end was near Last Line: Reproves me with its wholesome laughter! Subject(s): Disdain; Scorn W IS FOR WILL Poem Text First Line: If I should die, this house is yours Last Line: To be remembered by. Subject(s): Wills WAITING Poem Text First Line: Who can abide indoors this morn Last Line: A light must fall across the earth. Subject(s): Waiting WAR First Line: Ye liberals and conservatives WASTED HOURS Poem Text First Line: How many buds in this warm light Last Line: The nightingale and moon. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Time WE ARM TO FIGHT First Line: We arm to fight the kaiser's troops WHAT COUNTY? Poem Text First Line: What county sends me this surprise Last Line: With other women at her side. WHAT LIGHT? Poem Text First Line: I know my body well Last Line: What light shall smile my spirit forth? Subject(s): Bodies; Mankind; Human Race WHAT THOUGHTS ARE MINE Poem Text First Line: What thoughts are mine when she is gone Last Line: I hang my head and stroke the cat. WHEN AND WHERE Poem Text First Line: What man was in the moon last night? Last Line: That worked in gold, inside the sun! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WHEN AUTUMN'S FRUIT Poem Text First Line: When autumn's fruit is packed and stored Last Line: The birds that have no berry. Subject(s): Fruit WHEN DIAMONDS, NIBBLING IN MY EARS WHEN I AM OLD Poem Text First Line: When I am old, and it is spring Last Line: Buried alive inside a stone. Subject(s): Old Age WHEN I IN PRAISE Poem Text First Line: When I in praise of babies speak Last Line: For, pity me, she hates him still! Subject(s): Jealousy WHEN I RETURNED First Line: When I returned to that great london town WHEN LEAVES BEGIN Poem Text First Line: When leaves begin to show their heads Last Line: Her fair white body in the light. Subject(s): Leaves; Spring WHEN LOVE IS YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I, who had eyes to wander here and there Last Line: With breath that's short, that still no time can keep. Subject(s): Love WHEN ON A SUMMER'S MORN Poem Text First Line: When on a summer's morn I wake Last Line: And one that's all my own. Subject(s): Summer WHEN THE CUCKOO SINGS First Line: In summer, when the cuckoo sings WHEN WE FORGET Poem Text First Line: When we forget that nature gives Last Line: To turn her joy to pain. Subject(s): Immortality WHEN YON FULL MOON Poem Text First Line: When yon full moon's with her white fleet of stars Last Line: Raves in his windy heights above a cloud. WHERE SHE IS NOW Poem Text First Line: Where she is now, I cannot say Last Line: But shadows of her lovely hair. WHERE WE AGREE Poem Text First Line: Give her her ribbon, belt or scarf Last Line: To any thing in heaven or earth. WHERE WE DIFFER Poem Text First Line: To think my thoughts all hers Last Line: Some ribbon, scarf, or stone. WHISKEY First Line: Whiskey, thou blessed heaven in the brain WHITE SHEEP WHO BEARS IN MIND Poem Text First Line: Who bears in mind misfortunes gone Last Line: With temper calm and sweet. WHOM I KNOW First Line: I do not know his grace the duke WILD BLOSSOMS Poem Text First Line: No lilies all for milk Last Line: With a sign of the cross. Subject(s): Flowers WILD CREATURES Poem Text First Line: They say wild creatures hide themselves Last Line: And one small row of clean, white bones? Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets WILD OATS Poem Text First Line: How slowly moves the snail, that builds Last Line: Are there no more wild oats to sow? WINGED FLOWER First Line: Bright butterfly WINTER FIRE Poem Text First Line: How bleak and cold the air is now Last Line: Into the chimney overhead. Subject(s): Fire WINTER'S BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Is it not fine to walk in spring Last Line: In soft white gloves of purest snow. Subject(s): Winter WITH THY STRONG TIDE OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: With thy strong tide of beauty I must go Last Line: Surprise a bee before his blossom's found. Subject(s): Innocence WITHOUT CONTENTMENT, WHAT IS LIFE? WOMAN Poem Text First Line: We're but the shadows of these women suns Last Line: We'll find our certain master in a tear. Subject(s): Women WOMAN'S GLORY First Line: A woman's glory is not her hair WONDERFUL PLACES Poem Text First Line: I am haunted by wonderful places Last Line: And not by human faces. Subject(s): Colorado (river); Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips WONDERING BROWN Poem Text First Line: There came a man to sell his shirt Last Line: As true as heaven's above!' cried brown. WORDS AND KISSES Poem Text First Line: She pecks the earth for every second Last Line: To make birds jealous when we kiss!' Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love WORM-PROOF Poem Text First Line: Have I not bored your teeth, said time Last Line: "defy you with his worm-proof dreams." Subject(s): Hope; Transience; Optimism; Impermanence WORMS Poem Text First Line: Silkworms have dressed the fairest women Last Line: To fill a bowl with fish for some man's table.' Subject(s): Hunger X IS FOR EXPECTING Poem Text First Line: Come, come, my love, the morning waits Last Line: Of twelve may mornings came in one. Subject(s): Love; Waiting Y IS FOR YOUTH Poem Text First Line: Would I had met you in my days of strength Last Line: And perish in the brain that gives them birth. Subject(s): Youth YOU INTERFERING LADIES Poem Text First Line: You interfering ladies, you Last Line: Enjoy a pinch of snuff, and sneeze. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOUNG BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: When at each door the ruffian winds Last Line: Can feel the joy of summer's heat. Subject(s): Beauty; Youth Z IS FOR ZANY Poem Text First Line: Why does a woman change her moods? Last Line: This woman's love is now my rod! Subject(s): Women |
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