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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: thoreau, Matches Found: 221 Thoreau, Henry David Poet's Biography 221 poems available by this author AH, 'TIS IN VAIN THE PEACEFUL DIN Poem Text Last Line: By no laconian rill Subject(s): New England; American Revolution ALL THINGS ARE CURRENT FOUND First Line: All things are current found ALL THINGS DECAY Poem Text Last Line: & so must our sleigh Subject(s): Decay AMONG THE WORST OF MEN THAT EVER LIVED Poem Text Last Line: And we went on to to heaven the long way round Subject(s): Tolerance AT MIDNIGHT'S HOUR I RAISED MY HEAD Poem Text Last Line: The word was whispered through the ranks, Subject(s): Night; Wind AWAY! AWAY! AWAY! AWAY! Poem Text Last Line: Her fame I will repair Subject(s): Survival BEHOLD THESE FLOWERS Poem Text Last Line: And sculptured facade the visible sky Subject(s): Time BETTER WAIT Poem Text Last Line: Than be too late Subject(s): Punctuality BETWEEN THE TRAVELLER AND THE SETTING SUN Poem Text Last Line: Sparkled to the zun a-zetten Subject(s): Travel BROTHER WHERE DOST THOU DWELL? Poem Text Last Line: Or else forgot Subject(s): Absence CAPE COD NATIVE First Line: After an easterly storm in the spring CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, SELS. Subject(s): Social Protest CLIFFS Poem Text First Line: The loudest sound that burdens here the breeze Last Line: As little as may be to share the extacy. Subject(s): Sound COCK-CROWING Poem Text First Line: Upon my bed at early dawn Last Line: And through the fields had sprinkled perfumed dew. Subject(s): Dawn; Time; Sunrise CONSCIENCE Poem Text First Line: Conscience is instinct bred in the house Last Line: To cheer god along. Subject(s): Conscience DEATH CANNOT COME TOO SOON Poem Text Last Line: Unless the fates it call Subject(s): Death DELAY Poem Text First Line: No generous action can delay Last Line: It will arouse our sight and nerve our frames. DELAY IN FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: The blossoms on the tree Last Line: The hunter and his game. Subject(s): Friendship DESPERATION First Line: The mass of men lead lives Last Line: Of quiet desperation DIE AND BE BURIED WHO WILL Poem Text Last Line: The primitive pines among Subject(s): Life EACH MORE MELODIOUS NOTE I HEAR Poem Text Last Line: Who would the music be Subject(s): Music & Musicians EACH SUMMER SOUND Poem Text Last Line: Is a summer round Subject(s): Summer EP ON A GOOD MAN Poem Text First Line: Here lies -- the world Last Line: There rises one. Subject(s): Epitaphs EP ON THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Here lies the body of this world Last Line: We only know that here it lies. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Here lies an honest man Last Line: Here too lies the engraver. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON PURSY Poem Text First Line: Traveller, this is no prison Last Line: Here lies the engraver. Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; Epitaphs EPITATH ON AN ENGRAVER Poem Text First Line: By death's favor Last Line: He ne'er will get translated to the skies. Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; Epitaphs EXCEPT, RETURNING, BY THE MARLBORO Poem Text Last Line: I climb the last & drink the former still Subject(s): Walking; Nature FAIR HAVEN (1) Poem Text First Line: When little hills like lambs did skip Last Line: Than thy warm turf fair haven. Subject(s): Sanctuaries FAIR HAVEN (2) Poem Text First Line: When winter fringes every bough Last Line: Along the forest path. Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Winter FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Whether we've far withdrawn Last Line: May not separate a span. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FOG (1) Poem Text First Line: Dull water spirit - and protean god Last Line: Thou wind-blown meadow of the air. Subject(s): Fog; Haze FOG (2) Poem Text First Line: Thou drifting meadow of the air Last Line: Of healing herbs to just men's fields. Subject(s): Fog; Haze FOR THOUGH THE EAVES WERE RABBITED FOREST First Line: Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREVER IN MY DREAM AND IN MY MORNING THOUGHT Poem Text Last Line: He knows not when nor how Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains FREE LOVE Poem Text First Line: My love must be as free / as is the eagle's wing Last Line: Beneath the sun. Subject(s): Love FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: Friends -- / they cannot help Last Line: And look above. Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP (1) Poem Text First Line: I think awhile of love, and while I think Last Line: Insep'rably. Subject(s): Friendship; Love FRIENDSHIP (2) Poem Text First Line: Now we are partners in such legal trade Last Line: For current stock and not for dividends. Subject(s): Friendship; Merchants; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes GODFREY OF BOULOGNE Poem Text First Line: The moon hung low o'er provence vales Last Line: Twas godfrey of boulogne. Subject(s): Godfrey Of Bouillon (1060-1100); Provence, France GREAT ADVENTURE First Line: Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead GREAT FRIEND Poem Text First Line: I walk in nature still alone Last Line: Go with a bending stature. Subject(s): Nature GREATER IS THE DEPTH OF SADNESS Poem Text Last Line: Than is any height of gladness Subject(s): Grief GREECE Poem Text First Line: When life contracts into a vulgar span Last Line: Which on such golden memories can lean? Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GUIDO'S AURORA Poem Text First Line: The god of day rolls his car up the slopes Last Line: Far circling out over the frothy waves -- HAVE YE NO WORK FOR A MAN TO DO Poem Text Last Line: By making it sublime? Subject(s): Hell; Labor & Laborers HAZE Poem Text First Line: Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze Last Line: Establish thy serenity o'er the fields. Subject(s): Fog; Haze HE KNOWS NO CHANGE WHO KNOWS THE TRUE Poem Text Last Line: Forever lives the knowledge of the wise Subject(s): Wisdom; Change HOW LITTLE CURIOUS IS MAN Poem Text Last Line: Six feet from where his grovelling feet do stand Subject(s): Life; Human Behavior I AM BOUND, I AM BOUND, FOR A DISTANT SHORE Poem Text Last Line: On the barren sands of a desolate creek Subject(s): Seeking I AM THE AUTUMNAL SUN Poem Text Last Line: Is the constant music of my grief Subject(s): Autumn; Sun; Grief I AM THE LITTLE IRISH BOY Poem Text Last Line: And I’m four years old Subject(s): Immigrants; Poverty I AROSE BEFORE LIGHT Poem Text Last Line: And my wages will be got Subject(s): Labor & Laborers I DO NOT FEAR MY THOUGHTS WILL DIE Poem Text Last Line: Yet be at home at night Subject(s): Confidence; Safety; Home I HAVE ROLLED NEAR SOME OTHER SPIRITS PATH Poem Text Last Line: I had scarce changed its sidireal time Subject(s): Ghosts I HAVE SOME FROZENFACED CONNECTICUT Poem Text Last Line: While the triumphant yankee's farm swept by Subject(s): Fish & Fishing I KNEW A MAN BY SIGHT Poem Text Last Line: Stranger and foe, one day each other know Subject(s): Relationships; Neighbors; Brotherhood I LOVE A CARELESS STREAMLET Poem Text Last Line: Without the aid of steam Subject(s): Streams I MARK THE SUMMER'S SWIFT DECLINE Poem Text Last Line: And sing the requiem of the dying year Subject(s): Sumnmer; Transcience I SAILED UP A RIVER WITH A PLEASANT WIND Poem Text Last Line: The cape never rounded, nor wandered o'er Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors I SAW A DELICATE FLOWER HAD GROWN UP 2 FEET HIGH Poem Text Last Line: From farther than the market wagon Subject(s): Flowers I SEEK THE PRESENT TIME Poem Text Last Line: When the engine bell rings Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Travel I WILL OBEY THE STRICTEST LAW OF LOVE Poem Text Last Line: For all that's true & beautiful & good Subject(s): Friendship I'M GUIDED IN THE DARKEST NIGHT Poem Text Last Line: To show you my peculiar love Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians I'M NOT ALONE First Line: I'm not alone Last Line: The truth finds his own praise Subject(s): Solitude; Truth I'M THANKFUL THAT MY LIFE DOTH NOT DECEIVE Poem Text Last Line: They’ll lay another by tomorrow’s sun Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life I'VE HEARD MY NEIGHBOR'S PUMP AT NIGHT Poem Text Last Line: Or else the squeak of a meadow hen Subject(s): Wells; Neighbors I'VE SEARCHED MY FACULTIES AROUND Poem Text Last Line: And then declare to man what god hath meant Subject(s): Life I'VE SEEN YE, SISTERS, ON THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE IF FAULTS ARISE, MY FRIEND WILL SEND FOR ME Poem Text Last Line: Under the sky Subject(s): Friendship IF FROM YOUR PRICE YE WILL NOT SWERVE IN ADAMS FALL Poem Text Last Line: We shall all reach the skies Subject(s): Adam & Eve IN DAYS OF YORE, TIS SAID, THE SWIMMING ALDER Poem Text Last Line: Suffice to cross the purling wave and gain the destin'd port? Subject(s): Trees; Sea IN THE BUSY STREETS, DOMAINS OF TRADE Poem Text Last Line: Than brotherhood by law Subject(s): Brotherhood IN THE EAST FAMES ARE WON Poem Text Last Line: In the west deeds are done Subject(s): Fame INDEED INDEED, I CANNOT TELL Last Line: One iota to abate %of a pure impartial hate Subject(s): Hate; Men INDEPENDENCE Poem Text First Line: My life more civil is and free / than any civil polity Last Line: Wears its emblazonry. Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Liberty INSPIRATION (1) First Line: If with light head erect I sing Last Line: Which wooed me young, and woos me old, %and to this evening hath me brought Subject(s): Religion INSPIRATION (2) Poem Text First Line: Whatever we leave to god, god does Last Line: Who has his maker's nod. Subject(s): God INSPIRATION (3) First Line: I hear beyond the range of sound INSPIRATION (4) Poem Text First Line: If thou wilt but stand by my ear Last Line: But the same power will abet my tongue. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity IT IS A REAL PLACE Poem Text Last Line: Lies high in my thought Subject(s): Boston IT IS NO DREAM OF MINE JOURNAL, SELS. First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few Last Line: May work.' Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas KNOWLEDGE Poem Text First Line: Men say they know many things Last Line: Is all that anybody knows. Subject(s): Life Change Events LAST DAYS OF JOHN BROWN, SELS. Subject(s): Social Protest LAST NIGHT AS I LAY GAZING WITH SHUT EYES LIFE Poem Text First Line: My life is like a stately warrior horse Last Line: Breasting the waves with an unsanded bow. Subject(s): Life LIFE IS A SUMMER'S DAY Poem Text Last Line: And it is gone Subject(s): Summer; Conduct Of Life LINES First Line: Though all the fates should prove unkind Last Line: And sink her in the indian seas - %twine, wine, and hides, and china teas LOVE Poem Text First Line: We two that planets erst had been Last Line: Revolve about one centre. Variant Title(s): Friendship Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Stars LOVE INESCAPABLE First Line: There's nothing in the world, I know LOVES FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Light hearted, careless, shall I take my way Last Line: With usurer's craft, more than myself to find. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MAN MAN IS THE DEVIL Poem Text Last Line: The source of all evil Subject(s): Mankind; Devil MANHOOD Poem Text First Line: I love to see the man, a long-lived child Last Line: From the recesses of a brave man's eye. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians MAY MORNING Poem Text First Line: The school boy loitered on his way to school Last Line: Its blue commingling with the firmament. Subject(s): May (month); Spring METHINKS THAT BY A STRICT BEHAVIOR MIST Poem Text First Line: Low-anchored cloud, / newfoundland air Last Line: Of healing herbs to just men's fields. Subject(s): Mist; Nature MORNING Poem Text First Line: Thou unconverted saint Last Line: While the late risen world goes west. Subject(s): Heresy; Morning; Heretics MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: With frontier strength ye stand your ground Last Line: May I approve myself thy worthy brother! Variant Title(s): To Wachusett Subject(s): Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Far from this atmosphere that music sounds Last Line: At some late day unto himself again. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MY BOOKS I'D FAIN CAST OFF, I CANNOT READ, SELS. First Line: Here while I lie beneath this walnut bough MY BOOTS Poem Text First Line: Anon with gaping fearlessness they quaff Last Line: Rather rubbed in than off. Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers MY FRIENDS, MY NOBLE FRIENDS, KNOW YE MY FRIENDS, WHY SHOULD WE LIVE? Poem Text Last Line: Some far remote and heavenward hill to gain Subject(s): Life MY GROUND IS HIGH MY LIFE Poem Text First Line: My life has been the poem I could have writ Last Line: But I could not both live and utter it. Subject(s): Life; Transcendentalism MY PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Great god, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Last Line: Or overrated thy designs. Subject(s): Prayer NATURE Poem Text First Line: O nature! I do not aspire Last Line: Only be it near to you. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NOON Poem Text First Line: What time the bittern, solitary bird Last Line: Save where the wagtail interrupts the noon. Subject(s): Birds; Noon NOT UNCONCERNED WACHUSETT REARS HIS HEAD Poem Text Last Line: New annals in the history of man. Subject(s): Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts OLD MEETING-HOUSE BELL Poem Text Last Line: When I listened to its chimes Subject(s): Bells ON BEING EXTRAVAGANT First Line: I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough Last Line: Prevails so much more widely and fatally Subject(s): Language; Men ON FIELDS OER WHICH THE REAPER'S HAND HAS PASSED Poem Text Last Line: In subtler webs than finest summer haze Subject(s): Harvest ON PONKAWTASSET, SINCE, WE TOOK OUR WAY Poem Text Last Line: And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round? Subject(s): Travel; Stars ON SHOULDERS WHIRLED IN SOME ECCENTRIC ORBIT Poem Text Last Line: Where time doth plume his wings Subject(s): Time ON THE SUN COMING OUT IN THE AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: Methinks all things have travelled since you shined Last Line: But in the shade I will believe what in the sun I loved. Subject(s): Sun ONLY THE SLAVE KNOWS OF THE SLAVE OUR COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: It is a noble country where we dwell Last Line: A pause in the long westering caravan. Subject(s): Americans; Patriotism; United States; America PENS TO MEND, AND HANDS TO GUIDE POVERTY Poem Text First Line: If I am poor it is that I am proud Last Line: He would not need to hide beneath a fold. Subject(s): God; Poverty PRAY TO WHAT EARTH DOES THIS SWEET COLD THING BELONG Poem Text Last Line: Increase his rule by gentlest summer means Subject(s): Nature RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP Poem Text First Line: There is a vale which none hath seen Last Line: Their thoughts conversing with the sky. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Transcendentalism; Lyres SALMON BROOK Poem Text Last Line: May they still endure? Subject(s): Water SIC VITA Poem Text First Line: I am a parcel of vain strivings tied Last Line: While I droop here. Subject(s): Life SMOKE Poem Text First Line: Light-winged smoke! Icarian bird Last Line: And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Variant Title(s): "light-winged Smoke, Icarian Bird""; Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Smoke SMOKE IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell Last Line: As some refulgent cloud in the upper sky Subject(s): Smoke SOMETIMES I HEAR THE VEERY'S CLARION Poem Text Recitation Last Line: Of virtue evermore Subject(s): Birds STANZAS Poem Text First Line: Nature doth have her dawn each day, / but mine are far between Last Line: With fairest summer weather. Subject(s): Nature; Sun; Transcendentalism STRANGE THAT SO MANY FICKLE GODS, AS FICKLE AS THE WEATHER Poem Text Last Line: Throughout dame natures provinces should always pull together Subject(s): Nature; Weather SUCH NEAR ASPECTS HAD WE Poem Text Last Line: Of our life's scenery Subject(s): Life SUCH WATER DO THE GODS DISTILL Poem Text Last Line: Of helicon again. Subject(s): Water; New England SYMPATHY Poem Text First Line: Lately, alas I knew a gentle boy Last Line: Nor mortals know a sympathy more rare. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sympathy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Empathy TALL AMBROSIA Poem Text First Line: Among the signs of autumn I perceive Last Line: For what old crime of theirs I do not gather Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weeds; Fall TELL ME YE WISE ONES IF YE CAN Poem Text Last Line: Even, the sight we know so well Subject(s): Mankind THAT PHAETON OF OUR DAY Poem Text Last Line: And we shall ethiops all appear. THE 'BOOK OF GEMS' Poem Text First Line: With cunning plates the polished leaves were decked Last Line: Till other springs fell faintly on the ear. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ASSABET Poem Text First Line: Up this pleasant stream let's row Last Line: With her simple stanza'd ode. Subject(s): Assabet River, Massachusetts; Rivers THE ATLANTIDES Poem Text First Line: The smothered streams of love, which flow Last Line: And the ventures of past years. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean THE BLUEBIRDS Poem Text First Line: In the midst of the poplar that stands by our door Last Line: On purpose to sing to me. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BREEZE'S INVITATION Poem Text First Line: Come let's roam the breezy pastures Last Line: Such sweet music as he'll hear. Subject(s): Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind THE CHICADEE Poem Text Last Line: Hops near to me Subject(s): Chickadees THE COWARD EVER SINGS NO SONG Poem Text Last Line: To build the lofty rhyme Subject(s): Cowardice THE DEEDS OF KING AND MEANEST HEDGER Poem Text Last Line: Stand side by side in heaven's ledger Subject(s): Judgment Day THE DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: In this roadstead I have ridden Last Line: Sighed plaintively. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: Which seems so barren once gave birth Last Line: Who plowed her seas and reaped her grains Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World; Heroes; Heroines THE ECHO OF THE SABBATH BELL - HEARD IN THE WOODS Poem Text First Line: Dong -- sounds the brass in the east Last Line: And the sun has not reached its tower. Subject(s): Bells; Public Worship; Church Attendance THE EVENING WIND Poem Text First Line: The eastern mail comes lumbering in Last Line: From hence to athabasca lake. Subject(s): Evening; Wind; Sunset; Twilight THE FALL OF THE LEAF Poem Text First Line: Grown tired of this rank summer's wealth Last Line: Or pine upon the winter's crudity. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Winter; Fall THE FISHER'S BOY Poem Text Recitation First Line: My life is like a stroll upon the beach Last Line: And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew. Variant Title(s): Upon The Beach Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FISHER'S SON Poem Text First Line: I know the world where land and water meet Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean THE FRESHET Poem Text First Line: A stir is on the worc'ter hills Last Line: Her young disciples leaves behind. Subject(s): Nature; Summer THE FRIEND Poem Text First Line: The great friend Last Line: A profounder mystery. Subject(s): Friendship; India; Sea; Ocean THE FUNERAL BELL Poem Text First Line: One more is gone Last Line: Into sweet rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE GOOD HOW CAN WE TRUST? Poem Text Last Line: Whose knowledge is their sympathy Subject(s): Wisdom; Knowledge THE HERO Poem Text First Line: What doth he ask? Last Line: Till a miracle putteth that fire out. Subject(s): Fate; Heroism; Destiny; Heroes; Heroines THE INWARD MORNING Poem Text First Line: Packed in my mind lie all the clothes / which outward nature wears Last Line: Which from afar he bears. Subject(s): Morning THE JUST MADE PERFECT Poem Text First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MOON Poem Text First Line: The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray Last Line: She's mistress of the night. Subject(s): Moon THE MOON MOVES UP HER SMOOTH AND SHEENY PATH THE MOON NOW RISES TO HER ABSOLUTE RULE First Line: The moon now rises to her absolute rule THE MOUNTAINS IN THE HORIZON Poem Text First Line: With frontier strength ye stand your ground Last Line: And mak'st thyself a clearing in the sky. Subject(s): Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts THE NEEDLES OF THE PINE Poem Text Last Line: All to the west incline Subject(s): Pine Trees THE OFFER Poem Text First Line: I make ye an offer Last Line: Somewhat larger than here. THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD Poem Text First Line: Where they once dug for money Last Line: By the old marlborough road. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE PEAL OF THE BELLS Poem Text First Line: When the world grows old by the chimney side Last Line: When it meeteth another in space. Subject(s): Bells; Sound THE POET'S DELAY Poem Text First Line: In vain I see the morning rise Last Line: No woods still echoing to my lay? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writer's Block THE RABBIT LEAPS Poem Text Last Line: In angry mood Subject(s): Animals; Nature THE RESPECTABLE FOLKS Poem Text First Line: The respectable folks,- / where dwell they? Last Line: For all are their debtors and all their friends. Subject(s): Immortality; Nature; Oak Trees THE ROSA SANGUINEA Poem Text First Line: As often as a martyr dies Last Line: Informs us which way he is gone. Subject(s): Martyrs; Nature THE SHRIKE Poem Text First Line: Hark -- hark -- from out the thickest fog Last Line: He whistles in his ear. Subject(s): Birds THE SOUL'S SEASON Poem Text First Line: Thank god who seasons thus the year Last Line: And strews his honors on the summer's bier. Subject(s): Seasons; Soul THE SUMMER RAIN Poem Text First Line: My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read Last Line: Who in a beaded coat does gaily go. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading THE THAW Poem Text First Line: I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears Last Line: So shall my silence with their music chime. Subject(s): Earth; Sun; Time; World THE VIREO Poem Text First Line: Upon the lofty elm tree sprays Last Line: Striving to lift our thoughts above the street. Subject(s): Birds; Elm Trees; Vireos THEN SPEND AN AGE IN WHETTING THY DESIRE Poem Text Last Line: Thou needs't not hasten if thou dost stand fast Subject(s): Time; Desire THEY MADE ME ERECT AND LONE Last Line: To the center all is near THEY WHO PREPARE MY EVENING MEAL BELOW Poem Text Last Line: With such secure delight they hardly seemed to flow Subject(s): Sounds THIS IS MY CARNAC, WHOSE UNMEASURED DOME Subject(s): Architecture And Architects THOU DUSKY SPIRIT OF THE WOOD Poem Text Recitation Last Line: Lay thy haunts low? Subject(s): Nature TIS VERY FIT THE AMBROSIA OF THE GODS Poem Text First Line: Tis very fit the ambrosia of the gods Last Line: Upon their humble fare Subject(s): Food & Eating TO A MARSH HAWK IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: There is health in thy gray wing Last Line: And resume new life again. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks TO A STRAY FOWL Poem Text First Line: Poor bird! Destined to lead thy life Last Line: As erst by indus' bank and far ganges. Subject(s): Birds; Ganges River, India TO DAY I CLIMBED A HANDSOME ROUNDED HILL TO EDITH Poem Text First Line: Thou little bud of being, edith named Last Line: To cumulate thy sin & piety. Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO THE COMET Poem Text First Line: My sincerity doth surpass Last Line: We entreat thee come not near. Subject(s): Comets TO THE MAIDEN IN THE EAST Poem Text First Line: Low in the eastern sky / is set thy glancing eye Last Line: Stand in their sylvan bowers. TO THE MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: And when the sun puts out his lamp Last Line: With unexplored grace and savage frowns. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TRAVELLING Poem Text First Line: If e'er our minds be ill at ease Last Line: To find us out in every place. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRUE KINDNESS IS A PURE DIVINE AFFINITY Poem Text Last Line: Superior to family and station Subject(s): Kindness TRUTH -- GOODNESS -- BEAUTY -- THOSE CELESTIAL THRINS TWAS 30 YEARS AGO Poem Text Last Line: & when the birds were hushed Subject(s): Apple Trees; Deforestation UNTIL AT LENGTH THE NORTH WINDS BLOW Poem Text Last Line: Leaving behind the cold, cold year Subject(s): Winter; Geese; Time VIRGIN First Line: With her calm, aspiring eyes VOYAGERS SONG Poem Text First Line: Gentle river, gentle river Last Line: Gaily live we while we may. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers WAIT NOT TILL I INVITE THEE, BUT OBSERVE Poem Text Last Line: I'm glad to see thee when thou com'st Subject(s): Friendship WAIT NOT TILL SLAVES PRONOUNCE THE WORD Poem Text Last Line: And farewewll slavery Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery WALDEN Poem Text First Line: True, our converse a stranger is to speech Last Line: First dipped their pens in mist. Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN, SELS First Line: The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year Last Line: Day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star WALKING, SELS. First Line: We hug the earth, - how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate Last Line: With a sudden gush return to my senses Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Nature WAR BETWEEN TWO RACES OF ANTS First Line: It was - a war between two races of ants Last Line: The battle which I witnessed %took place in the presidency of polk Subject(s): Polk, James Knox (1795-1849); Social Protest; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) WE SHOULD NOT MIND IF ON OUR EAR THERE FELL Poem Text Last Line: Some sense of cunning, more of oracle Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of WE THE PLANET FALL WHAT'S THE RAILROAD TO ME? First Line: What's the rail-road to me? WHEN BREATHLESS NOON HATH PAUSED ON HILL AND VALE Poem Text Last Line: And I walk once more confounded a denizen of earth Subject(s): Sounds WHEN IN SOME COVE I LIE Poem Text Last Line: Seaward with it Subject(s): Peace; Contentment WHEN THE TOADS BEGIN TO RING Poem Text Last Line: Or off your petticoats fling Subject(s): Clothing & Dress WHEN WITH PALE CHEEK AND SUNKEN EYE I SANG Poem Text Last Line: Dreaming of peace when all around was war Subject(s): U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) WHERE I HAVE BEEN Poem Text Last Line: There was none seen Subject(s): Nothing WHERE'ER THOU SAIL'ST WHO SAILED WITH ME Poem Text Last Line: Be thou my muse, my brother— Subject(s): Friendship WHO EQUALLEST THE COWARD'S HASTE Poem Text Last Line: Though it assume the lowest part Subject(s): Fame WHO HEARS THE PARSON Poem Text Last Line: To sqauat with hymn book he doth use Subject(s): Clergy; Churches; Public Worship WHO SLEEPS BY DAY AND WALKS BY NIGHT Poem Text Last Line: Will meet no spirit but some sprite WHY TOLL THE BELL TODAY Poem Text Last Line: Its knell has died away Subject(s): Bells WILD MALLRD THOUGHT First Line: In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Last Line: Hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day Subject(s): Men WINTER MEMORIES Poem Text First Line: Within the circuit of this plodding life Last Line: To go upon my winter's task again. Subject(s): Nature; Winter YE WHO DO COMMAND ME TO ALL VIRTUE EVER YET LET US THANK THE PURBLIND RACE Poem Text Last Line: And quiet fame as well Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts YOU BOSTON FOLKS & ROXBURY PEOPLE Poem Text Last Line: Will want tom hyde to mend your kettle Subject(s): Boston; Roxbury, Massachusetts YOU MUST NOT ONLY AIM ARIGHT Poem Text Last Line: But draw your bow will all your might Subject(s): Archery |
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