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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: APRIL Matches Found: 270 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BABY'S EPITAPH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, made me: winter laid me here away asleep Last Line: Here I sleep not: pass, and weep not here upon your child. Subject(s): April; Babies; Death; Epitaphs; Infants; Dead, The A BALLAD FROM APRIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am dazed and bewildered with living Last Line: And a something that weeps when I smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Love; Summer A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o! Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day A POET ON MONDAY IN APRIL, by EDITH FOSTER Poem Text First Line: I am glad today is april Last Line: O well -- a poet has to dream -- Subject(s): April A RAINY DAY IN APRIL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Last Line: Giving to me my ditty. Subject(s): April; Rain A SONG OF APRIL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The censer of the eglantine was moved Last Line: And ground winds rocking in the lily's steeple. Subject(s): April A TITANIC MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Och! 'tis come again, april, the same fine air Last Line: Of an april morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): April; Grief; Mothers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A YEAR'S CAROLS: APRIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned april, king whose kiss bade earth Last Line: Praise him, the flower of all thy flowers. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Seasons ACQUAINTANCE, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All that we know of april is her way Last Line: And these bright legends we have learned to say. Subject(s): April ALREADY APRIL, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The second day in a row I watched the same Subject(s): April ALREADY APRIL, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The second day in a row I watched the same Last Line: I had been so ashamed and outmaneuvered Subject(s): April ALWAYS MARRY AN APRIL GIRL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise the spells and bless the charms Last Line: Ever changing, ever true - %I love april, I love you Subject(s): April AN APRIL BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence are thou? From what chrysalis Last Line: Her lips between? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): April AN APRIL DAY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: On such a day as this I think Last Line: On such a day as this. Subject(s): April; Kisses; Love AN APRIL DAY, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: In from the blue a galaxy of sound Last Line: God minds us all upon an april day. Subject(s): April; Birds; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas AN APRIL DAY, by ANNE MURRY MOVIUS Poem Text First Line: Weighted with unborn loveliness Last Line: The secrets of unfolding. Subject(s): April AN APRIL DAY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lark sung loud; the music at his heart Last Line: Each change, and, like a tide, the distance comes and goes! Subject(s): April AN APRIL DAY, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE Poem Text First Line: An april day and summer in the air Last Line: For april leads the summer back again. Subject(s): April; Happiness; Pleasure; Spring; Joy; Delight AN APRIL MORNING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an april morning: fresh and clear Last Line: May call it by the name of emma's dell. Variant Title(s): Poems On The Naming Of Places: It Was An April Morning Subject(s): April AN APRIL ROMANCE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crystal spears of slantwise-driven rain Last Line: The princess daffodil, of trembling gold. Subject(s): April; New York City - Dutch Period; Rain AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 3., by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That skylark curving toward the south Last Line: Cradles flowers in their sleep. Subject(s): April; Flowers AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 4. APRIL FLAME, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the foaming air Last Line: White wisdom now! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Spring AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 5., by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why grieve to see the light in air Last Line: Arise, and shout with may! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring AN APRIL SONG, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the world and through the world Last Line: This life's heavenly fellowship! Subject(s): April; Friendship; Love; Spring AN APRIL WELCOME, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up, april, through the valley Last Line: Of thy feet among the flowers! Subject(s): April AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, close by our summer dwelling Last Line: Their dower of beauty from thy glad looks. Subject(s): April; Country Life; Holidays; Trees AN ODE OF DEDICATION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would have thought a month of spring Last Line: Lead on! We come. Subject(s): April; Spring AN ORPHAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Everything has sisters, brothers Last Line: Like an orphan in the sky. Subject(s): April; Children; Orphans; Childhood; Foundlings APRIL, by JANET NORRIS BANGS Poem Text First Line: It's that roustabout, born of a fairy mother Last Line: Trip me up, april -- laugh once more! Subject(s): April APRIL, by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: After the month of the double face Last Line: For the sweet little month of folly. Subject(s): April; Wellesley College APRIL, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At morn when light mine eyes unsealed Last Line: Hath stamped the work of nature's mints. Subject(s): April APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lyric tremor and lift Last Line: Is deep with love and wise with ancient good. Subject(s): April; Earth; Love; Spring; World APRIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild and windy march once more Last Line: Of their eternal spring? Subject(s): April APRIL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Here comes april! Filmy-fair Last Line: Self-determination. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): April APRIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An altered look about the hills Last Line: Receives its annual reply. Variant Title(s): Poem: 140;poem: 90 Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL, by ELIZABETH DAVIES DUTCHER Poem Text First Line: I never saw an april quite like this Last Line: Brings cheer and happiness to me. Subject(s): April; Spring APRIL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The april winds are magical Last Line: The lore we care to know. Subject(s): April APRIL, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Even when all my body sleeps Last Line: My dust will dream of you! Subject(s): April; Graves; Love - Nature Of; Tombs; Tombstones APRIL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the wealth of pearly blossom, o the woodlands emerald gleam Last Line: And your springtide path shall brighten to the perfect summer day! Subject(s): April; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection APRIL, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lessons sweet of spring returning Last Line: Trust entire, and ceaseless praise. Variant Title(s): First Sunday After Epiphany;the Nightingale;influences Of Spring Subject(s): April; Birds; Nightingales APRIL, by EDNA SWANSON KING Poem Text First Line: April bows her head and weeps Last Line: Though april he's bereaving. Subject(s): April APRIL, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll take my fill of april Last Line: Across the heart of spring. Subject(s): April; Spring APRIL, by LOUISE MOSS MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: April's skies are jeweled Last Line: April music all the year! Subject(s): April APRIL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: To normal seeing, a cloud that is also known Last Line: If time is one answer, if space has a will of its own Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring APRIL, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half fearful, half in joy, with tearful eyes Last Line: The golden glory of deep autumn's day. Subject(s): April APRIL, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful april! Sweet month of the spring! Last Line: First a smile, then a frown, and next a tear. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring APRIL, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first of april! Yet november's haze Last Line: Is it dead autumn, or the dreaming spring? Subject(s): April APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black north wind that chills Last Line: When I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth APRIL, by VIDAME DES CHARTRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fields catch flower Last Line: And evil-speaking shall part. Alternate Author Name(s): Guillaume De FerriÈre Subject(s): April; Love; Spring APRIL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, april / laugh thy girlish laughter Last Line: Weep thy golden tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): April APRIL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you had come away with me Last Line: I awoke smiling but tired. Subject(s): April APRIL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the hillside! The april month is here Last Line: To reign there all the song-time, the child-time of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): April; Primroses; Spring APRIL (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many a flower that sleeps Last Line: And lazarus lives again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): April APRIL (1896), by JOHN HENRY GRAY Poem Source First Line: Joyful table; and thereon Last Line: Ah, her watchful heart was wary Subject(s): April APRIL 2ND, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have been patient - and they named us weak Last Line: And in the much-abused, high name of god we speak at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): April APRIL AFTERNOON, POINT LOMA (1769), by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There feasted on these heights wild earth-hued folk Last Line: Swept down la playa where awed indians knelt. Subject(s): Afternoon; April; Ships & Shipping APRIL AGAIN, by ISABEL NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snows that whitened avalon Last Line: Lest april break my frozen heart. Subject(s): April; Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King APRIL AGAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April again, / the funeral month, heaping Last Line: Under my feet Subject(s): April; Farm Life; Spring APRIL AND THE NEW PHYSICS, by STUART LISHAN Poem Source First Line: I went into the forest Last Line: Beneath blossoms Subject(s): April; Dogwood APRIL DAY, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: There is a holiness about an april day Last Line: Of all these gallant folk! Subject(s): April APRIL FANTASIE, by ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON CORTISSOZ Poem Text First Line: The fresh, bright bloom of the daffodils Last Line: "april hath a fickle mind." Subject(s): April APRIL FOOL, by ELEANOR PALMER HAMMOND Poem Source First Line: Small april sobbed Last Line: And smiled a rainbow %overhead! Subject(s): April Fool's Day APRIL FOOL'S DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The first of april, some do say Last Line: But on this day are people sent %on purpose for pure merriment Variant Title(s): All Fool's Da Subject(s): April Fool's Day APRIL FOOLS, by KATE MASTERSON Poem Source First Line: Dear jack, your letter came today Subject(s): April Fool's Day APRIL IN 'THE STREET', by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: April of shining tresses, / tearful mouth, and laughing eyes! Last Line: Cease to grind awhile! Subject(s): April; Streets; Avenues APRIL IN THE DESERT, by SUDIE STUART HAGER Poem Text First Line: My heart turns gratefully to you Last Line: With you I see the spring! Subject(s): April; Deserts; Food & Eating APRIL IN THE HILLS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the world is wide and fair Last Line: Till earth and I are one. Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature; Spring; World APRIL IN TOWN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Straight from the east the wind blows sharp with rain Last Line: A new-lit candle through the fading light. Subject(s): April APRIL IS A BABY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: April is a baby, laughs and cries and plays Last Line: Laughing, crying, laughing – so she spends the hours Subject(s): April APRIL LADIES, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April rains are shod with silver Last Line: Wake the crocuses from sleep. Subject(s): April; Rain APRIL LAKE, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: The lake has many different gowns Last Line: When april leads the sun to rest. Subject(s): April; Lakes; Pools; Ponds APRIL MAGIC, by FRANK R. WAXMAN Poem Text First Line: We bid you joyous welcome Last Line: Beneath thy fairy feet. Subject(s): April APRIL MIDNIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side through the streets at midnight Last Line: In the miraculous april weather. Subject(s): April; Dancing & Dancers APRIL MORNING, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once more in misted april Subject(s): April APRIL MORNING, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: I would spend a morning Last Line: But how shall I begin? Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL MORTALITY, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion shook an ancient dust Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): April; Mortality APRIL MORTALITY, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion shook an ancient dust Last Line: Of wind made stir the pear-tree bough, %blew delicately down to earth Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): April; Mortality APRIL MUSIC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lyric sound of laughter Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL NIGHT, by MARION MITCHELL WALKER Poem Text First Line: Draw close the shutters...Lower the light Last Line: Memory breaks like a sob through the night. Subject(s): April APRIL NOT AN INVENTORY BUT A BLIZZARD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met ted at two parties at the same house Last Line: Not read a voice like my own like my own voice will be Subject(s): April; Relationships APRIL NOT AN INVENTORY BUT A BLIZZARD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met ted at two parties at the same house Last Line: Not read a voice like my own like my own voice will be Subject(s): April; Relationships APRIL ON THE BATTLEFIELDS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April now walks the fields again Last Line: Spreading her lovely grief upon the graves of man. Subject(s): April; World War I; First World War APRIL ONE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't believe it Last Line: Even the lost people are combing their hair Subject(s): April APRIL ONE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't believe it Last Line: Even the lost people are combing their hair Subject(s): April APRIL RAIN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The april rain, the april rain Last Line: Like life on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): April; Rain APRIL RAIN SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the rain kiss you Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; April; Spring; Negroes; American Blacks APRIL RAIN SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the rain kiss you Last Line: And I love the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; April; Spring APRIL REMEMBERS, by VIRGINIA WOODSON FRAME CHURCH Poem Text First Line: The old year was slow in passing this spring Last Line: April remembers. Subject(s): April APRIL SHOWERS, by MARY ELEANOR WILKINS FREEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There fell an april shower, one night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkins, Mary E. Subject(s): April APRIL SONG, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now, once more, the crocus flames Subject(s): April APRIL SPEAKS, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): April APRIL THEOLOGY, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be breathing and hearing and feeling and seeing! Subject(s): April APRIL TWILIGHT, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: So beautiful it is, this april dusk Last Line: Where april blossoms out eternally! Subject(s): April; Evening; Sunset; Twilight APRIL WALK WITH MY DAUGHTER, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: She asks, would you call this twilight or dusk? Last Line: Fresh and temperate, free of blemish Subject(s): April; Daughters; Dusk; Walking APRIL WEATHER, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soon, ah, soon the april weather Subject(s): April APRIL WEATHER, by JESSIE MCDERMOTT Poem Source First Line: When april, one day, was asked whether Subject(s): April APRIL WEATHER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hush, my heart, and take thine ease Last Line: For here is april weather. Subject(s): April; Weather APRIL WOMAN, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN Poem Text First Line: I walked against a sudden blue of sky Last Line: For something passing in the april weather. Subject(s): April; Togetherness APRIL [DAY], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the warm sun, that brings Last Line: Life's golden fruit is shed. Subject(s): April; Holidays; Trees APRIL'S AMAZING MEANING, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Source Subject(s): April APRIL'S CHARMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When april scatters coins of primrose gold Last Line: Of wood that's green and fill a grate with gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): April APRIL'S COMING, by LANCASTER POLLARD Poem Source First Line: April comes with sudden showers Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL'S DREAM, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream's breath tastes of the wood's perfume Last Line: Forth, into april's dream. Subject(s): April APRIL'S LAMBS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I was born in april's prime Last Line: "as tenderly as any lamb's." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): April APRIL'S SHINY NEW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Laughing-crying weather Subject(s): April APRIL, 1885, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanton with long delay the gay spring leaping cometh Last Line: In bulging heads that crown for miles the dazzling south. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): April APRIL, FR. JOY O' LIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something tapped at my window-pane Last Line: And here was april come back again. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL, OR THE NEW HAT, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My boots had been wash'd - well wash'd - in a show'r Last Line: "when I purchas'd thee, purchase a gingham!" Subject(s): April APRIL, THE MAGICIAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: April has a wand of gold Last Line: And all the world grows new! Subject(s): April; Spring APRIL; QUATRAIN, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, thy cheeks with tears are wet Last Line: Of that inconstant madcap march? Subject(s): April ARE YOU FROWNING, APRIL-CHILD?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: And then comes may Subject(s): April ARRAIGNMENT, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wage, what guerdon, life, asked I of you? Last Line: I think it would be best if I were dead. Subject(s): April AS IN A GLASS: 3. MOTION, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: My hand drew back a curtain Last Line: My own hand, pushing back the curtain, was all that moved. Subject(s): April AWAKENING, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: You little, eager, peeping thing Subject(s): April BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!" Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring BERKSHIRES IN APRIL, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not spring - not yet Last Line: And spring is pulsing out of the wakening soil. Subject(s): April; Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts BLACK APRIL, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could god have meant the spring to hurt us so Last Line: Just one black night of agony? Subject(s): April; Depression, Mental; Grief; Spring; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness BLUE SQUILLS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many million aprils came Last Line: May bear the scar of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): April BOOK OF THE WORLD, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: April afternoon silence Last Line: And the wings beat furiously silent above us Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature BUDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The raining hour is done Last Line: Of that companionship. Subject(s): April; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters BUT WELL I KNOW WHEN APRIL COMES, by RUTH LE PRADE Poem Text First Line: I would be a nun Last Line: To find my lover there! Subject(s): April; Nuns CALLING THE ROLL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: April calls, / through spring time halls Last Line: O the joy of spring! Subject(s): April; Spring CHIPS, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Wild eyed with the light of april in his eyes Last Line: (chips . . . Chips . . . Chips . . .) Subject(s): April; Earth; World COURT ORDER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My good fool' he %who was a king Last Line: That friday, it being april, %was all fools' day Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): April Fool's Day CRUELLEST MONTH: APRIL, 1986, by HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: This long, cold spring, this refusal Last Line: Take off, like birds of doom. Come summer, come Variant Title(s): The Cruellest Month; April 198 Subject(s): April DELLA PRIMAVERA TRANSPORTATA AL MORALE: 1. 'APRIL', by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beginning -- or %what you will: %the dress Last Line: The long-limbed trees whose %branches %wildly toss Subject(s): April EARLY APRIL, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the robin's breast aglow Last Line: Renewed by love as at the first. Subject(s): April EARLY EVENING IN APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A drift of fragrance down a lane of spring Last Line: Wistful and delicate and debonair. Subject(s): April; Evening; Mountains; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EARTH'S LYRIC, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April. You hearken, my fellow Last Line: One touch sets a-wing. Subject(s): April EASTER DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rabbits, chicks, and everything Last Line: And so—the world keeps easter day! Subject(s): Animals; April; Easter; Holidays; Rabbits; The Resurrection; Hares EASTER; APRIL 1, 1888, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading Last Line: Against the far blue sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): April; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Easter; Holidays; Lent; Time; The Resurrection EPIGRAM ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature is rising from the dead Last Line: Ah! Chloe, when, my charming fair? Subject(s): April Fool's Day; All Fools' Day ESSAY ON STONE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April abomination, that's what I call Subject(s): April; North Sea EVERLASTING APRIL, by LESLIE CROSS Poem Text First Line: The sun, a fiddling merry-andrew, shrills Last Line: April's perpetually seventeen. Subject(s): April EVERYBODY UP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam april woke one morning Last Line: Came around the corner! Subject(s): April; Spring FIRST OF APRIL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morn the god of wit and joke Last Line: The god has made us april fools Subject(s): April Fool's Day FIRST WARM DAYS, by EDWIN DENBY Poem Source First Line: April, up on a twig a leaftuft stands Last Line: We all are pleased by an air like of loving %going home quiet in the subway-shoving Subject(s): April FLORENCE; APRIL FIRST, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us be the willing fools Last Line: Trust we the larger sea. Subject(s): April; Time FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 5. VIOLET, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small fragrant print of april's feet Last Line: And lay it here among my rhymes. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Passion; Violets FOR CITY SPRING, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now grimy april comes again Last Line: Yet, still we praise that crocus head, / april! Subject(s): April FORGOTTEN IS DECEMBER, by MARY HELEN PAGE Poem Text First Line: I still remember april Last Line: And stiffen up in cold. Subject(s): April; December; Likes And Dislikes GATHERING APRIL; FOR SIMIC, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stuffing a crow call in one ear Last Line: In the shadow of each fence post. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): April GOLD, by MARY S. WOTKYNS Poem Text First Line: Young april is spending her punctual gold Last Line: Lo! April passed me by ... Subject(s): April GOLD HUNTING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The miser hurries through the town Last Line: Gather some before you're old! Subject(s): April; Dandelions; Flowers; Gold; Harvest; Weeds GRAY APRIL, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Is it april, these gray days Last Line: April! April! Is this you? Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): April; Rain; Spring HAMPSHIRE APRIL 1ST RHYME (USED AFTER 12 NOON), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: April fool's gone past Last Line: When april fool comes again %you'll be the biggest fool again Subject(s): April Fool's Day HAWTHORN AND LAVENDER: 7, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The april sky sags slow and drear Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): April HEIGH-HO, APRIL!, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): April HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HYMN TO LIGHT, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind-loving daughter of eternal day Last Line: The flowers of april blow Subject(s): April; Day I THOUGHT BECAUSE IT WAS THE MIDDLE, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: Of april and it was blossomed fully Last Line: How to divide to ascend three ways Subject(s): April I WAS BORN IN APRIL, by ERNESTINE GAROFALO First Line: I was born in april / the week the lilies came Subject(s): April; Birth; Marriage; Death IN APRIL, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY Poem Text First Line: If I am slow forgetting Last Line: Against the primrose west. Subject(s): April IN APRIL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something back in april Last Line: April was so glad! Subject(s): April IN APRIL, by LOU MALLORY LUKE Poem Text First Line: When apple-blossom petals blow Last Line: Stabbed by some instrument of death. Subject(s): April IN APRIL, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: There is a way that calls to me Last Line: White plum, white sea? Subject(s): April IN APRIL ONCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us! Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 83, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dip down upon the northern shore Last Line: And flood a fresher throat with song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): April Days;spring Subject(s): April; Spring IN THE GARDEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if you know Last Line: Before I knew a joy had grown! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Joy; Delight IN TWO MONTHS NOW, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Source Subject(s): April; Gardens And Gardening INAMORATA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bees were holding levees in the flowers Last Line: And keep me happy in your pious prayer. Subject(s): April; Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs IT WAS DEEP APRIL, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was deep april, and the morn Last Line: Indifferent to heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): April LADY APRIL, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady april when you're dancing Last Line: To the spot where blue bells grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): April LET'S TAKE THE ROAD AND FOLLOW APRIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: April calls and we are free Subject(s): April LOST - AN APRIL, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: How can new aprils come, when one was lost Last Line: In that one april that I lost last year! Subject(s): April LOVE'S RECORDING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, boy, and where the grass is thickest pied Last Line: How for love's sake I suffer and make moan. Subject(s): April; Life; Love MADRIGAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April eyes, april eyes / alight with laughter Last Line: Love is a rover. Subject(s): April; Eyes; Laughter; Love; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery MADRIGAL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be ye in love with april-tide? Last Line: I' faith, in love am I! Subject(s): April; Love MAGIC, by JEANNE FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Today the air quivered suddenly Last Line: With the proper shades of green. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring MARCH AND APRIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Stay in, stay in, o flowers, stay in Last Line: Come up, dear seeds, above the ground! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Spring; Childhood MARZO PAZZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mad march, with the wind in his wings wide-spread Last Line: Mad march. Subject(s): April; March (month); Marriage; Roundels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORY OF APRIL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say love is this, love is that Last Line: Love has not even visited this country. Subject(s): April MILLRACE, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each april's different: this one saw a spate Last Line: But mud and some erosion in the race Subject(s): April; Evolution; Time MOOD, by MAUDE HAYNES Poem Text First Line: Young april came to call today Last Line: And ran with her . . . Exultantly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hollowell, William Paul, Mrs. Subject(s): April MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT, by MARY WALTER GREEN Poem Text First Line: Hold your ear to the ground - you will scarcely believe Last Line: And weave mad dreams around your head! Subject(s): April; Morning MOTHERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Most good things-especially cakes and / toys Last Line: And that's the best of all, no doubt. Subject(s): April; Children; Mothers; Childhood MY LADY APRIL, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dew on her robe and on her tangled hair Last Line: And winter bringing end in barrenness. Subject(s): April MY MOTHER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made my mother on an april day Last Line: This poor bird-hearted singer of a day. Subject(s): April; Mothers NEW APRIL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God guard you, and greet you well Last Line: That shut me close in my retreat. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Spring NPM '98, by MICHAEL ROTHENBERG Poem Source First Line: The first day of national poetry month is all fools' day Last Line: Hopeless procrastination, blameless debauchery %and poetry Subject(s): April; April Fool's Day; Poetry And Poets O, VERY SOON, NOW, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, very soon, now, on the earth and sky Last Line: O, very soon, on doorstep, yard, and wall. Subject(s): April ON A NIGHTINGALE IN APRIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow moon is a dancing phantom Last Line: O moon-white maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): April; Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.) ON READING FRANCIS LEDWIDGE'S LAST SONGS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At april's end, when blossoms break Last Line: As apple flowers at april's end. Subject(s): April; Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917) ONE APRIL MORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twin violets amid the dew Last Line: One april morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): April PASTURES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They are too lost in yesterday, - too dull Last Line: And flocks for lonely pastures where they wait. Subject(s): April; Fields; Memory; Stars; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree Last Line: In the shining weather. Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood RAIN SONG, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't raining rain to me Last Line: It's raining violets. Variant Title(s): April Rain;a Song For April Subject(s): April; Rain RAIN, RAIN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rain, rains, april rain Last Line: And see you falling far and wide Subject(s): Rain; April RAINPATTER, by DIANA KEARNY POWELL Poem Text First Line: Fall lightly, rain, the earth will be Last Line: For hearts are bound with cords of rain. Subject(s): April; Earth; Rain; World RAVEN, DON'T STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR - CHANT FOR APRIL FIRST, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What pleasanter task for all fools' day than going over all the things Last Line: At daring even to contemplate such a devastatingly delightful impossibility Subject(s): April Fool's Day REFLECTIONS, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: It is april by the river! Last Line: Of that jewel in the stream! Subject(s): April; Spring REMINISCENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the crumbling cliff we ate or meal Last Line: "when destiny cried ""wait!" Subject(s): April; Fate; Heaven; Love; Memory; Destiny; Paradise RENEWAL, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April, when I heard Last Line: I am one with your first primrose or the shining daffodil! Subject(s): April RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY Poem Text First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows! Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day RETURN, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: March stirs and like a shaggy beast he shakes Last Line: April: oh earth; let nothing now befall her. Subject(s): April; March (month); Spring SACRISTY, by MAY GIBSON SHERBAKOFF Poem Text First Line: I must go to the woods at break of april Last Line: We'll yet find solace in her healing tears. Subject(s): April; Forests; Woods SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: APRIL, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infant april joins the spring Last Line: Sweet april fare thee well Subject(s): April SILVER SANDALS, by TRAVIS TUCK JORDAN Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw an april moon Last Line: But that I want to pray. Subject(s): April; Moon SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When day is over, mother sings songs Last Line: And he doesn't even hear mother putting out the light. Subject(s): April; Babies; Mothers; Sleep; Infants SNOW IN APRIL, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An april snow!- 'tis as the head of youth Last Line: "long shall I ""pause till it come back to me." Subject(s): Aging; April; Snow SONG, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely april, rich and bright Last Line: O lovely april rich and bright. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: O beauteous april, whom too often choral Last Line: Month, to such bitter bloom as once you bore. Subject(s): April; Love - Unrequited; Spring SONG OF A SECOND APRIL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April this year, not otherwise Last Line: You that alone I cared to keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): April SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 121, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue mystery of the april woods Last Line: And joy and ardour now! Subject(s): April SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE WARBLING OF BLACKBIRDS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear the waters fretting Last Line: "and a ""hey down derry, let's be merry! Little girl and boy!""'" Subject(s): April; Birds; Blackbirds; Voices SONNET, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What weather loves my soul the best? What / day Last Line: Such weather bred my viking forbears bold. Subject(s): April; Mourning; Bereavement SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: APRIL, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: I give you meadow-lands in april, fair Last Line: The babylonian kaiser, prester john Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): April; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SPECTATORS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We watched the monkeys in the cage Last Line: They turned and gravely laughed at us. Subject(s): Animals; April; Cages; Monkeys; Zoos SPRING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The robin saw the new spring bonnet Last Line: And it was spring! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Robins; Spring SPRING FROM A WINDOW: FOREBODING, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I keep april Last Line: When my songs are old? Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING FROM A WINDOW: IN APRIL, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am life's victim Last Line: I will not bow my head! Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING FROM A WINDOW: WHEN THERE IS APRIL, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would fear death when there is april? Last Line: Who love her speech. Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING IN THE PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day of april ardors, a careless passerby Last Line: Blossomed and blessed the hour, redeemed the town. Subject(s): April; Beauty; Happiness; Japan; Parks; Peace; Spring; Joy; Delight; Japanese SPRING NIGHTFALL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April is sad, as if the end she knew Last Line: Rebuked adoring hearts with change and flight. Subject(s): April SPRING RAPTURE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the spring's exultant joy Last Line: The green revival of the grass? Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING SIGNS OUT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The trees have hung their spring signs / out Last Line: "the news: ""spring is here! Spring is here!" Subject(s): April; Spring SPRING SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me over, mother april Last Line: When the sap begins to stir! Subject(s): April; Youth SPRING SONG IN FALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In my dark age, I know better Last Line: Or flowers opening for the bee's blast, %ever to be april's fool is my desire Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Children; Flowers; Spring SPRING: 2. APRIL, by DIANE HUETER Poem Source First Line: The clothesline sages with duty Last Line: To straighten the small body in bed Subject(s): April SWEET MONTH OF APRIL, by REMY BELLEAU Poem Source First Line: April, sweet month, the dantiest of all Subject(s): April TENDER MOON, by KATHARINE KENNON RUCKER Poem Text First Line: Let's to the brow of yonder hill Last Line: To greet the morrow's may. Subject(s): April; Moon TESTAMENT, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Scatter my dust on a prairie hill Last Line: Up from dust in april dawn. Subject(s): April; Death; Dead, The THAT FEVERED APRIL BREEZE MOVING THROUGH, by CAMILLE DUNGY Poem Source First Line: Today I felt the streets were mine Last Line: I had stripped myself too soon. I was slipping softly off %today. I felt the streets were mine Subject(s): April; Wind THE APRIL OF THE AGES, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, oh beautiful Last Line: In ever-dewy pages. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): April THE APRIL RAIN, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The april rain! The april rain! Last Line: In your pure and healthful play. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): April; Rain THE BELOVED MONTH, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I can find her many footsteps, I can hear her ribbons rustle Last Line: As she lights her flames among them, softly one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): April THE DEAD, by KATHERYN KOHBERGER Poem Text First Line: We rest in illimitable slumber Last Line: And is eternal night. Subject(s): April; Death; Graves; Light; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE FAIRY SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I know where the flowers go Last Line: And school is out at last! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Schools; Spring; Childhood; Students THE FIRST OF APRIL, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Now if to be an april - fool Last Line: We are april-fools, my love and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): April THE GRASS COMES, by A. JEAN HOLMES Poem Text First Line: The grass, the glad green grass Last Line: Has washed away the brown. Subject(s): April; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LAST OF APRIL, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old april wanes, and her last dewy morn Last Line: And my last end, like thine, be steeped in tears. Subject(s): April THE LIFE OF TOWNS: SYLVIA TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burners and the starvers Last Line: Lay on the desk Subject(s): April THE LIKENESS OF HIS YESTERDAYS ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The likeness of his yesterdays is such Last Line: Than yesterday's -- brought from the day before? Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Roses THE LIPS OF APRIL, by ARTHUR HENRY GOODENOUGH Poem Text First Line: There is vapor in the valley Last Line: But the lips of april smile! Subject(s): April THE LITTLE CLOUD COMES DOWN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The little spot of earth below Last Line: But the earth was as glad as the curly cloud! Subject(s): April; Clouds; Weather; Wind THE LITTLE ROADS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great roads are all grown over Last Line: And lead us by a wandering way. Subject(s): April; Forests; Hearts; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails THE LITTLE SEED SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if the people know Last Line: The fifth or sixth or seventh day! Subject(s): April; Growth; Maturity THE LOVER-IN APRIL, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast come back to me! Last Line: In the dear hyacinth and white anemone! Subject(s): April; Spring THE POET'S CALENDAR: APRIL, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I open wide the portals of the spring Last Line: Upon the bull with wreathed horns I ride. Subject(s): April THE RAINBOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fairies built a bridge Last Line: From here to far-away. Subject(s): April; Rain; Rainbows; Spring THE RECONCILIATION, by LAURA M. GREGG Poem Text First Line: The sun and april were at outs Last Line: Were gems for her adorning. Subject(s): April; Rain; Sun THE ROSSVILLE LECTUR' COURSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folks up here at rossville got up a lectur' course:-- Last Line: "got off at rossville, indiany, 'stid of michigun." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Lectures; Michigan; Towns; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking THE SECRET (2), by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: April whispered this to me Last Line: And I have done with sorrow. Subject(s): April; Immortality THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: APRIL, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, good hobbinoll, what garres thee Last Line: And twincling starres the daylight hence chase. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): April; Country Life; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 THE SOWING, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: April is a man Last Line: And we pray. Subject(s): April; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters THE SPRING RACE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Said the wee yellow crocus with hurrying / feet Last Line: How the old places looked and what beautiful weather! Subject(s): April; Spring; Weather THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, april, she with mellow showers Last Line: More wealth brings in, then all those three. Variant Title(s): The Four Sweet Months Subject(s): April; July; June; Spring; Summer THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked along, while bright and red Last Line: Of wilding in his hand. Subject(s): April; Morning THE WEST WIND, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries Last Line: In the fine land, the west land, the land where I belong. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): April; England; English THE WIZARD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring-like prospero through all the land Last Line: To set the april-blossoms free. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): April THE YEAR OF LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were four loves that one by one Last Line: The place wherein love grew. Subject(s): April; Love; Seasons THOUGHTS AND FLOWERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thoughts grow like flowers overnight Last Line: They will always want to grow. Subject(s): April; Children; Growth; Plantation Life; Childhood TO A GARDEN IN APRIL, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, and are you pleading now for pardon? Last Line: You hide in leaf, but oh! Your buds are swelling. Subject(s): April; Gardens & Gardening; Reproduction; Mating TO ONE DEAD, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: You are not there where the black pall waits Last Line: Abloom with spring. Subject(s): April; Death; Spring; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. APRIL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O april, month of nymphs and fauns and cupids Last Line: Towards the loved one. Subject(s): April; Cupid; Love; Eros TREES TO LET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I've pleasant rooms to rent, you've / heard? Last Line: To all the songs my tenants sing. Subject(s): April; Birds; Singing & Singers; Trees TWILIGHT ON A HILL, by CAVE OUTLAW Poem Text First Line: Here, where the earth's breast is warm Last Line: Behind a veil of mauve haze. Subject(s): April; Evening; Sunset; Twilight VERSE ON MARCH AND APRIL WEATHER, THE BORROWING DAYS (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Match borrowed from april Last Line: And freezes the wee bird's neb to the stane Subject(s): April; March (month) VERSE ON MARCH AND APRIL WEATHER, THE BORROWING DAYS (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: March said to averil Last Line: The silly hoggs cam' hirplin hame Subject(s): April; March (month) WASTED HOURS, by MEDORA C. (NUTTER) ADDISON Poem Source First Line: There was a day I wasted long ago Subject(s): April WHEN APRIL COMES, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When april comes as april will Last Line: For one who lived his life for them. Subject(s): April WHEN THE RAIN CAME DOWN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We watched the rain Last Line: We could laugh and have our fun! Subject(s): April; Rain WHITE HEN, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Then the wind-ruffled white hen of march Last Line: Cool-handed april and may! Subject(s): April; Chickens; Hens; March (month); May (month) WORK TO DO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What busy times the world sees now Last Line: Your way—you sing! Subject(s): April; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Plantation Life; Spring; Work; Workers WRITIN' BACK TO THE HOMEFOLKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear old friends - it jes' beats Last Line: And madaline and mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Family Life; Letters; Love; Relatives WRITTEN IN WINTERBORNE CAME CHURCH, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not use to listen well Last Line: And climb the pulpit-stair. Subject(s): April; Barnes, William (1801-1886); Churches; Poetry & Poets; Cathedrals WRITTEN ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So now it is your time to leave me Last Line: Goodbye, april Subject(s): April YELLOW SPRING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: April had come, brimful %of yellow flowers Last Line: God was opening his hand full of yellow Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring YOUNG APRIL, by EDWARD F. MORRILL Poem Text First Line: The tall pines stretch to deepening sky Last Line: Maine children love young april still! Subject(s): April; Pine Trees; Trees YOUR VIOLIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your violin! Ah me! Last Line: Of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Music & Musicians; Trees; Violins |
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