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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ANNIVERSARIES Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GOLDEN WEDDING: C.B.-E.A.B., 1825-1875, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speech is silver - silence gold' Last Line: "earth how fair and heaven how bright!" Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A POET'S CENTENARY, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We were a busy people; axes rang Last Line: Breaks from beyond the sunset and the stars! Subject(s): Anniversaries; Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets A SILVER WEDDING: B.F.B.-E.G.B., 1855-1880, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in other days and climes Last Line: There unending love and light! Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TENTH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPH, 1952, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Look at their faces. You know it all. Subject(s): Marriage; Anniversaries; Life Choices; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this tumultuous world of joy and fear Last Line: And gaze upon you both with wistful heart? Subject(s): Anniversaries AN ANNIVERSARY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two decades and a minute Last Line: Two decades and a minute. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Anniversaries; Time AN ANNIVERSARY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love, it is our wedding day! Last Line: To flood all heaven and earth with song! Subject(s): Anniversaries AN ODE TO THE QUEEN; ON HER JUBILEE YEAR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound drums and trumpets, far and near Last Line: And let her live and die in peaceis the end of my song. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Leadership; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) ANNIVERSARIES, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: From now to then my way I make Last Line: And aids our feet when crossing. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANNIVERSARIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forty-odd years ago Last Line: This whispering wrist sustains the dream of nations Subject(s): Anniversaries; History; Time; Historians ANNIVERSARY, by TIMOTHY KELLY Poem Source First Line: A sea lion perched on reef rocks %near vashon landing bellows, anticipating Last Line: Streaming up, with ceremonial honks and waves %into the steep, wind-waxed island woods Subject(s): Anniversaries ANNIVERSARY, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Where were we in that afternoon? And where Last Line: We relive memory: shell of moon %on day sky, two o'clock in lazy june -%and twenty years gone in an Subject(s): Anniversaries; Memory ANNIVERSARY, by CHRISTINE SNEED Poem Source First Line: In bed you are bitter with every bad word Last Line: As the neighbor's bed begins to clack the ceiling %with its dull rhythm of joy Subject(s): Anniversaries ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANNIVERSARY OF THE AIR, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past storefronts lit among the dusk-swept avenues Last Line: With thanksgiving to our lady - the color is enough Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Marriage APPLES OF GOLD IN A NETWORK OF SILVER (FOR A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: You have walked the trail together Last Line: Fifty years. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Gold; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love AT CHIDEOCK: SEPT 2, 1914, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In skies washed over with bright amethyst Last Line: For england, and for man, and for the world! Subject(s): Anniversaries; France; Future; Nostalgia B'NAI B'RITH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Adown the vista of the long ago Last Line: And with its bloom and fragrance fill the earth! Variant Title(s): I.o.b.b. Poem: 57th Anniversary Subject(s): Anniversaries; Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; B'nai Brith; Judaism EPIGRAM ON MY WEDDING DAY: TO PENELOPE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day, of all our days, has done Last Line: And five since we were two. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): To Penelope Subject(s): Anniversaries; Divorce FACE-TO-FACE WITH MY LOVER ON DAITO'S ANNIVERSARY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Monks recite the sutras in honor of the founder Last Line: Mock the empty formal discipline of others Subject(s): Anniversaries; Hearts; Love FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Last Line: Found, in doubled vision no cost %of time or death shall blind Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms And Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968) FORTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY, by DORIS RADIN Poem Source First Line: Speaking to the dough as he kneads it Last Line: When I lean on a staff %of his making Subject(s): Anniversaries FRAMINGHAM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair to the red man, was framingham Last Line: With virtue, and valor, and beauty, gem! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Anniversaries; Framingham, Massachusetts FRANCESCO AND CLARE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was there, in that little town Subject(s): Anniversaries GOLD; WRITTEN FOR THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF MR. AND MRS. ALDEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold -- of the blessedest sunshine Last Line: Your wealth can never be told. Subject(s): Anniversaries GOLDEN WEDDING, by JAMES ABRAHAM MARTLING Poem Source First Line: Not they are fully wed who just Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage I.O.B.B. POEM: 47TH ANNIVERSARY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The perfume of numberless roses Last Line: Of brotherly friendship and love. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; Love; Poetry & Poets; B'nai Brith; Judaism ON HIS GOLDEN-WEDDING DAY, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love burned once in your cheeks where now, as ashes Last Line: When soul meets soul upon love's eminence. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ON MY WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a happy new year! But with reason Last Line: He'll visit you in hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Anniversaries; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount OUR THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY, by ERNA HENNESSY Poem Source First Line: I think each moment is a little death Last Line: And run together down the slippery hill Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital PSALM FOR AN ANNIVERSARY, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Praise to boredom: to the summer solstice Last Line: That glow vermilion now, to second chances Subject(s): Anniversaries QUESTIONS REGARDING A DREAM OF INCOMPATIBLE FRUIT, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: A cake you ordered is delivered on our anniversary Last Line: Did I cry out? Did you hold me Subject(s): Anniversaries ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 12. THE ANNIVERSARY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not one mass will e'er be chanted Last Line: A fiacre all ready for thee. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SILVER WEDDING, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silver wedding! On some pensive ear Last Line: Shall gleam in glories of a deathless day. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War THE ANNIVERSARY, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: The mighty tides of fate still ebb and flow Last Line: Is love -- and I love thee and thou lov'st me. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love THE ANNIVERSARY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course we failed, by succeeding Last Line: In nothing. Don't leave me, don't leave me Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ANNIVERSARY, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night / the comet could still be seen Subject(s): Anniversaries THE ANNIVERSE: AN ELEGY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So soon grown old! Hast thou been six years dead? Last Line: (like me) with no arithmetic but tears. Subject(s): Anniversaries THE DIAMOND JUBILEE; AN ODE. JUNE 20, 1897, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, give thanks for all the centuries Last Line: And bless with heart and voice this fair auspicious day. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Great Britain - History; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); English History THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by DAVID GRAY (1836-1888) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, whose patient pilgrim feet Last Line: To-night shall turn to wine. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF LONGWOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow Last Line: Our friends are now in either world, and love is sure of love. Subject(s): Anniversaries THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF STERLING AND SARAH LANIER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rainbow span of fifty years Last Line: Macon, georgia, september, 1868. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of june Last Line: And may she wear a crown of glory hereafter when dead. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Crows; National Songs; National Anthems THE SYMPATHIES OF THE LONG MARRIED, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh well, let's go on eating the grains of eternity Subject(s): Anniversaries TO HATTIE - ON HER BIRTHDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your 'uncle jim' was Last Line: On her anniversary. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birthdays; Kisses TO HIS WIFE ON THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, WITH A RING, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee, mary, with this ring I wed' / so, sixteen years ago, I said Last Line: And teach me all things--but repentance. Variant Title(s): The Second Marriage Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birthdays; Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TONIGHT, WALT WHITMAN, THE PACIFIC, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Tonight, soul mate, I summon you out of the pacific Last Line: Singing your angelic song Subject(s): Anniversaries; California; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Singing And Singers; Travel TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fifty years through wind and sun and rain Last Line: We shall perchance awaken. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Churches; Gold; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TROTH-PLIGHT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I brought her home, my bonny bride Last Line: Have lasted until now. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Anniversaries VERSES TO -- --, ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR MARRIAGE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the early dream of love Last Line: Be heaven's eternal jubilee. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Anniversaries WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: This is the anniversary of the day Last Line: To us, for all the ills life chose to send. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restaurant said it overlooked the wide river Last Line: And to lift our wineglasses and toast the night shift Subject(s): Anniversaries WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even past sunrise, frog-legions peeped in spring Subject(s): Anniversaries WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even past sunrise, frog-legions peeped in spring Last Line: Would come, and come the day of which he sings? %has gone onsinging. Will go on to sing Subject(s): Anniversaries WORKS AND DAYS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Dare I this task? Ah! Mightier hands than / mine Last Line: "as stars do in the fulness of the day!" Subject(s): Anniversaries; Bowdoin College; Death; Prayer; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors YOSEMITE: 40TH ANNIVERSARY CLIMB, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Marriage too is a climb that %earlier couples teach us to go up Last Line: Freudian' & champagne crusted in foil Subject(s): Anniversaries; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage |
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