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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 peace—is 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