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First Line: "I must, I will have gin! - that skillet take"
Last Line: "I was born naked, and I'll die naked"
Subject(s): Art & Artists;indifference;nudity;portraits; Nakedness


& TIME TROTS BY, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad glad hairy drives
Last Line: Elitist for sure
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time


A BAROQUE WALL-FOUNTAIN IN THE VILLA SCIARRA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the bronze crown / too big for the head of the stone cherub whose feet
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy


A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters


A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 11, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounded wilderness of morris graves
Last Line: Among the hebrides
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


A CRITICAL MOMENT, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How capricious were nature and art to poor nell!
Last Line: She was painting her cheeks at the time her nose fell.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cheeks; Nature; Noses; Paintings And Painters


A DISCOURAGING MODEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just the airiest, fairiest slip of a thing
Last Line: To expect a result half so fair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Flowers; Models; Roses


A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. ART, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art's use; what is it but to touch the
Last Line: Strikes fearless at all evil that it knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Thought; Truth; Thinking


A MAN OF MANY PARTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a man of many parts
Last Line: A man of many parts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Art & Artists; Stars; Wisdom


A MINOR VAN GOGH (HE SPEAKS), by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The strokes are pulses: from my shapely cloud
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way
Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism


A NIGHT ON THE SAINT LAWRENCE (RIMOUSKI), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If the world were itself alone, - mere mountains and seas and cities
Last Line: Thou brooding, loving artist, whose holiest name is beauty.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Rivers; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime


A PICTURE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emerald, the rim of the sea
Last Line: That the dawn of day
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits


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 POET'S LOVE, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Lady, look from out thy bower
Last Line: When centuries have pass'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Poetry & Poets


A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE LITTLE ANNUITANT, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: He has departed by the road, the poor man, summoning up such
Last Line: So opportunely comes?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny


A STAR IN THE EAST; FOR FIRST ART EXHIBITION AT ST. JUDE'S, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a fair flower springing fresh, sweet, and bright
Last Line: Whereof they taste so small a draught to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Socialism


A STUDY IN CLAY, by NELLIE MACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The human face is a study to me
Last Line: Which the soul of the miser daily feed.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues


A SYMPHONY IN COLORS, by J. W. HAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never knew the seasons held
Last Line: In bridal garments dressed.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters


A VERY WOEFUL BALLADE OF THE ART CRITIC (TO E.A. ABBEY), by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit came to my sad bed
Last Line: "take up the pen, my friend, and write!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Museums; Portraits; Writing & Writers; Art Gallerys


A WATER-COLOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low hidden in among the forest
Last Line: Were just romantic parcels of her dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Forests; Sleep; Woods


ACCIDENT IN ART, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What painter has not with a careless smutch
Last Line: The shrine-lamp of god's purposing is found.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


AD AMICOS; MOUNT CUBA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes an hour of fate's serenest weather
Last Line: The happy song that cares not for its fame!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faith; Fate; Hope; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Optimism


ADORATION, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I have come from the berg string quartet opus 3
Last Line: Do it, do it, do it in the perforated gleam of the dollhouse window.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Success


AFTER WATTEAU, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Embarquons-nous!' I seem to go
Last Line: Embarquons-nous!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


AMBITION AND ART, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the maid of the lustrous eyes
Last Line: That lives for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Eyes; Life; Love; Soul


AMERICAN PAINTING, WITH RAIN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gates have closed to the rotted park
Last Line: Greeting the rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Paintings And Painters; Rain; Thunder; English


AMORETTI: 75, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day I wrote her name upon the strand
Last Line: Our love shall live, and later life renew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): "her Name;our Love Shall Live;to Immortalise His Love;one Day I Wrote Her Name;eternizing Her;""one Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand,"";
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Immortality; Love; Names; Seashore; Thought; Beach; Coast; Shore; Thinking


AN ANSWER TO CHESTERFIELD'S 'REBUS', by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paucis, friend aphanus, abhinc diebus
Last Line: Did it, believe me, to oblige your honour.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Riddles


AN ARTIST'S APOSTROPHE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Too often they linger apart
Last Line: Shall faint, fade, and perish.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Fate; Life; Truth; Destiny


AN ARTIST'S PLEA, by ARTHUR THEADORE ESTES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each life conceived since birth of man
Last Line: For us, near the end of the road.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Prayer


AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The art of english poetry, I find
Last Line: With righter verdict, tho' the court's a dream.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; English Language; Language Poetry; Poetry & Poets; Reading


AN ETRUSCAN RING, by JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, girt with orchard and with olive-yard
Last Line: In utmost england let it find a home.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Etruscan Civilization; Jewelry & Jewelers


AN IMPOSSIBLE NOVELTY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are, in painting, sculpture, song
Last Line: There's no new way of being right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ANCHERONTIA (A YOUNG PAINTER SPEAKS), by KATHARINE A. JENKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: See, I have painted your portrait
Last Line: Beating your cruel wings upon my soul.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits


ANECDOTE OF THE JAR, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I placed a jar in tennessee
Last Line: Like nothing else in tennessee.
Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Bottles; Civilization; United States; America


ANONYMOUS DRAWING, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A delicate young negro stands
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ANY TWO WHEELS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Firecrackers thundering day and night, and lightning silences
Last Line: And white as the snow of one night, all our nights.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Culture Conflict


APACHE PLUME; 2. REDUCTIONS AND ENLARGEMENTS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A chippewa designer dies from pancreatic cancer
Last Line: See the string pulse and stretch into curved light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Dead, The


ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I started on a lonely road
Last Line: Till I am lost amid the crowd.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Life; Nature; Roads; Youth; Paths; Trails


ARS POETICA, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They wanted from us
Last Line: Is our continual surprise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Despair; Poetry & Poets


ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes; when the ways oppose
Last Line: With the resisting mass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hen remarked to the mooley cow
Last Line: You can't do nothing but just produce -- / what them fellers does is art!
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars
Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World


ART, by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He wrote of a folk imagined
Last Line: "a wonderful work of art!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fables; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers; Allegories


ART, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All things are doubly fair
Last Line: On the unyielding flint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All finest art is seen
Last Line: In stuff that will not yield!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things are doubly fair
Last Line: On the unyielding flint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART, by APOLLON NIKOLAYEVICH MAIKOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Idly I cut me a reed by the shore where the sea heaves and thunders
Last Line: Fingering lightly the reed-stems and flooding the banks with the sea-sound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maykov, Apollon Nikolaycich
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Last Line: To wrestle with the angel -- art.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity


ART, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he died, or when he was thinking of dying
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Dead, The


ART AND LIFE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn comes, my orchard trees alone
Last Line: While I, not less an-hungered, gaze and sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART AND LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He faced his canvas
Last Line: "that sighing said, ""I'm dead there; love me here!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Love


ART AND POETRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wess he says, and sort o' grins
Last Line: "art and poetry is twins."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


ART CLASS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us begin with a simple line
Last Line: The horizon will not stop abstracting us
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Drawing; Poetry & Poets


ART CRITICISM, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First bring me raffael, who alone hath seen
Last Line: On one warm sunset of ausonian claude.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


ART INSTITUTE MEMORIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seems so long since she and I
Last Line: Was but a picture in a frame.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fantasy; Imagination; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Fancy


ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ART VS. TRADE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trade, trade versus art
Last Line: He crushes those who cry for daily bread
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Money; Social Commentary


ART [THE HERALD], by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond; beyond; and yet again beyond!
Last Line: Re-crucified in every wayside flower.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jesus Christ


ART'S MARTYR, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He said, the china on the shelf
Last Line: Are not æsthetic blacks!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Tattoos


ART'S RIDDLE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, friend, - her skein I also would unravel!
Last Line: Takes and gives back the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART-OWNERSHIP, by WARREN HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Creations of high art adorn the land
Last Line: Art-ownership is vested in the mind.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ART6 COUNCIL, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because there is no art
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Money


ARTIST'S LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the waltzes the great strauss wrote
Last Line: I am always finding -- you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians


ARTIST'S SUSTENANCE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The artist's hope, through the clear glass
Last Line: Again betrayed by husk and dregs
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ARTISTS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long have they borne god's hate
Last Line: They dare to thrive.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ARTISTS, by ALICE STETTINER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whether he perfectly paints a madonna's face
Last Line: Is an artist of distinction and class.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ARTISTS WRESTLED HERE!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Say repose!
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ARTSPEAK, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If art would only talk it would, at last, reveal
Subject(s): Art & Artists


AS WE READ BURNS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is speaking? Who has
Last Line: You outhold so lovingly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Nightmares


ASPIRATION, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We climb the slopes of life with throbbing heart
Last Line: Within us ever stirs. Can we repine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life


AT HIS WINTRY TENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only master of his art was he
Last Line: "old friend, good night -- for there is no good-by."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Friendship; Life; Tents; Dead, The


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ronceval, thou noble valley!
Last Line: Capers here and there thus strangely.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature


AUTO-DA-FE, by V. C.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Go feed the flames your torches lit with wonders / art has won
Last Line: The vine's the soul of music, and they flourished where it grew!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Victory


BALLADE OF NEGLECTED MERIT, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have scribbled in verse and in prose
Last Line: "but—I am not in ""men of the time!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets


BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by INA LADD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, artist, if I should ask you
Last Line: I always keep in my heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hands; Memory; Paintings & Painters


BEFORE A PAINTING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine
Last Line: The windows in some old cathedral dim.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


BEFORE THE MIRROR (VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White rose in red rose-garden
Last Line: The flowing of all men's tears beneath the sky.
Variant Title(s): Before The Mirror
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Portraits; Roses; Whistler, James Abbott (1834-1903)


BEGINNINGS; FOR ROSSETTI'S FIRST PAINTING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether the beginnings of things notable
Last Line: And yet—it's just a question.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


BEZALEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bezalel, filled with wisdom to design
Last Line: A dying rabble in a wilderness.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jews; Judaism


BLUE BOWL, by EMMET PENDLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bowl has very graceful lines
Last Line: An incense for a vanished time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet
Subject(s): Art & Artists


BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES ART, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now comes lovely art: watch bluebeard fascinate her
Last Line: The fate of lovingcup and cigarette.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers
Last Line: Earnest elements of nature.
Subject(s): Fog; Boats; Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Haze; Ocean


BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
Last Line: Earnest elements of nature.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Ocean


BOCCIONI'S MORNING AND TWILIGHT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah the so-bright future
Last Line: To the trembling future of the world
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


BYGONES, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Or ever a lick of art was done
Last Line: And you were a sky-blue square.
Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Longing; Dead, The


CALM, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sand-clock moon
Subject(s): Art & Artists


CAMEO, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: You were a shell upon a distant shore
Last Line: Great genius and an understanding heart!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hearts; Love


CENTER, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: How did you come
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Popular Culture; Art & Artists


CHARITY OVERCOMING ENVY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you time for a story
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charity; Tapestries; Philanthropy


CHATELARD, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A long day spent at chatelard for sketching
Last Line: And stopp'd the loving ere the sketch was done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The


CIPHER, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wall tattooed with signs
Subject(s): Art & Artists


CODA, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's little in taking or giving
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love


CONCERNING JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race
Last Line: Never a true crown but thy crown of thorn!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Statues; Truth


CONTINUITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: No sign is made while empires pass
Last Line: Some yet more lovely masterpiece.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; God; Life; Nature - Religious Aspects


CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh
Last Line: And tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


COUNTRYSIDE, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My darling works until she finishes -- I resist starting
Last Line: Small jar of anchovies olive oil & salt
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love


COUSIN LUCRECE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where the curfew
Last Line: Poor old lucrece.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress


CREATIVE URGE, by EMMA BRADFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through all the ages
Last Line: Creative urge is everlasting.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Prehistoric Peoples


CRITICISM, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet art hath less of instinct than of thought
Last Line: Till beams, with deathless love, the chiseled face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Critics & Criticism


CRITICISM, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No odds what kind of work you're doing
Last Line: Say.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Paintings And Painters


CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship
Last Line: Look lovlier still compared to the angry children
Subject(s): Abandonment; Art & Artists; Children; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Desertion; Childhood


DEAREST READER, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He painted the mountain over and over again
Subject(s): Art & Artists


DEATH'S VALLEY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, do not dream, designer dark
Last Line: Sweet, peaceful, welcome death.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Inness, George (1825-1894); Paintings & Painters; Religion; Theology


DELIGHT IN DISORDER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sweet disorder in the dress
Last Line: Is too precise in every part.
Variant Title(s): Sweet Disorder;the Poetry Of Dress (1)
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Love; Sex


DIS ALITER VISUM; OR, LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop, let me have the truth of that!
Last Line: Here comes my husband from his whist.
Subject(s): Old Age; Opportunity; Art & Artists


DISCLOSED, by GEORGE HERBERT FULLERTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thrice have I seen the living soul disclosed
Last Line: Each held a beauteous soul which god had given.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Soul


DOMESDAY BOOK: LILLI ALM, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In lola schaefer's studio in the tower
Last Line: Is lodged in father whimsett's heart or words.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Confessions; Religion; Soul; Theology


DOOR, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's behind that door?
Subject(s): Art & Artists


DRAWINGS BY CHILDREN, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun may be visible or not
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Art & Artists


DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The committee - now a permanent body
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares


DRIFTWOOD, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God's castoff sculpture on the lesser scale
Last Line: Gesture, these crumbling continents, god's juvenilia.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Sculpture & Sculptors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


EARTH TO EARTH, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the region grows without a lord
Last Line: With the red earth burning in your heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Earth; Nature; World


EFFET DE NEIGE, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saying: / figures of light and dark, these two are walking
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Monet, Claude (1840-1926); Paintings & Painters


ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE, IN A STORM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged pile!
Last Line: Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Variant Title(s): On A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm;nature And The Poet;peele Castle
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Paintings & Painters; Wordsworth, John


ENGLISH ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART (FIRST READING), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you mean to please every body you will
Last Line: Of lighting a lamp when you dont wish to see
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812); Mythology


ENIGMA, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are born from a question
Subject(s): Art & Artists


EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still to be neat, still to be drest
Last Line: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Variant Title(s): Clerimont's Song;sweet Neglect;simplex Munditiis
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics; Simplicity


EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won?
Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones.
Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


ETCHING MORALISED; TO A NOBLE LADY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest lady and noble, for once on a time
Last Line: With a fine india proof of your metal.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Etching; Morality; Ethics


EVENING VOLUNTARIES: TO LUCCA GIORDANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Giordano, verily thy pencil's skill
Last Line: Or lured along where greenwood paths he trod.
Variant Title(s): Endymion
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Giordano, Luca (1632-1705); Paintings And Painters


EXPRESSIONIST HISTORY OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue rider rode over the bridge into the bauhaus
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


F. HOPKINSON SMITH, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hop' smith, who built the lighthouse on race rock
Last Line: And told a tale as only he could tell.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915); Statue Of Liberty


FAMILY GROUP, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The low-branched oak-tree made
Last Line: But not in mortal flesh again that four.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures


FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich
Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect


FOR 'OUR LADY OF THE ROCKS' (BY LEONARDO DA VINCI), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, is this the darkness of the end
Last Line: Amid the bitterness of things occult.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


FOR A PICTURE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight lines and circles, triangles and squares
Last Line: Inclusive number, and the circle squared.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits


FOR A STATUE OF LOVE, by VOLTAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er you are, your master see
Last Line: He is, he was, or is to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Statues


FOR SPRING, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mask [or, masque] of what old wind-withered new year
Last Line: These mummers of that wind-withered new-year?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Spring; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano


FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND', by FORD MADOX BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last of england! O'er the sea
Last Line: She cannot see a void, where he will be.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892); Parting


FRIAR BACON, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seeing you come as friends unto the friar
Last Line: From dover to the market-place of rye.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more
Last Line: And feel a kind of regret.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs


FROM AN ARTIST'S HOUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bundle of twigs
Last Line: On twenty sheets of paper.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Houses; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


FROM THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, for a moment, all is well
Last Line: Nay, life is love; love lasts, o heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grass; Life; Love; Nature


FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF ANNE VERVEINE, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When his dogs leapt on actaeon, he
Subject(s): Mythology; Love - Erotic; Relationships; Art & Artists


FUTURISM, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said we were emptied out
Last Line: Trying to traipse across the mind’s vertiginous shifts
Subject(s): Art & Artists


GALATEA, by KATHARINE CARASSO    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is beyond the human ken to learn
Last Line: The joy of beauty knows no flesh, no stone.
Subject(s): Beauty; Art & Artists


GASPAR BECERRA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By his evening fire the artist
Last Line: Shape from that thy work of art.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Becerra, Gaspar


GHAZALS: 15, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did this sheep die? The legs are thin, stomach hugely
Last Line: Metaphor for the generally felt hidden-behind-bushes sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Grief; Sheep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


GHAZALS: 18, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I told the dark-haired girl to come down out of the apple
Last Line: My brain. We'll go to judah to wait for the apocalypse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Nightmares


GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE ON THE SUBLIME, OR FRA ANGELICO'S 'LAST JUDGMENT', by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How to behold what cannot be held?
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro


GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 4. FRA ANGELICO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They called him angel brother, for his smile
Last Line: Floats like a presence his so pure renown.
Subject(s): Angels; Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Jesus Christ; Soul


GRAFFITI, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the dayton avenue signal tower
Last Line: Three smooth strokes and he's gone.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graffiti


GREEN CLOISONNE, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now god be thanked for this stir from the south
Last Line: So much divine expectancy.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fields; God; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HANGING SCROLL, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have come back to princeton three days in a row
Last Line: Waiting for love
Subject(s): Art & Artists


HENRY IRVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis art reclaims him! By those
Last Line: Great likewise was the man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Genius; Mankind; Human Race


HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT PICTOR, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue eyes. Beethoven's forehead. Light-brown hair
Last Line: Save for their peasant's heart: god's gift of purest gold.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Paintings And Painters


HIRAM POWERS' GREEK SLAVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say ideal beauty cannot enter
Last Line: By thunders of white silence, overthrown.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Powers, Hiram (1805-1873); Sculpture & Sculptors


HIS LAST PICTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies have grown troubled and
Last Line: To where it wound into the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Paintings And Painters; Sky; Youth


HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Granite and marble
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Museums; Homage & Respect; Art Gallerys


HOPPER'S 'NIGHTHAWKS' (1942), by IRA SADOFF            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a town where no one walks the streets. Where the sidewalks
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hopper, Edward (1882-1967)


HORSES AT DAWN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The horses the horses the wild horses at dawn
Last Line: Out of the night
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary


HOW RICH THAT FOREHEADS CALM EXPANSE!, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their sanctity revealing!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty


HUGO VAN DER GOES 'PORTINARI ALTARPIECE', by RANDALL JARRELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a while the masters show the crucifixion
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Van Der Goes, Hugo


I PAINT WHAT I SEE (A BALLAD OF ARTISTIC INTEGRITY), by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you paint, when you paint on a wall?
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Paintings & Painters; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Rockefeller, Nelson (1908-1979); Liberty


IDOLS OF THE MARKET-PLACE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pure ideal lives, though vision fail
Last Line: The gilded idols of the market-place.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Markets; Supermarkets


IDYLL 11, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When drop on drop, they say, doth ever follow
Last Line: Twill wear the stone at last into a hollow.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Stones; Granite; Rocks


IDYLL 9, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yourself to artists always to betake
Last Line: The work is easy, if you will but try.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


IMPERIAL FIREPLACE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flames have turned to stone
Subject(s): Art & Artists


IMPRESSION: 3, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: An artist manque. Of the finest, fine
Last Line: Friendliest, kindliest, manliest ... First in heart and mind.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We artists have strange nerves!
Last Line: We had met before this scene.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IN THE GALLERY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fields of argenteuil, / where the summer day / dreams of claude monet
Last Line: Dreams of claude monet!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


IN THE LAND OF ART, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The artists / work on the art farm
Last Line: In the land of art.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


IN THE RAGING BALANCE; I.M. JACK CLARKE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Energy, the man said, equals
Last Line: Think of it it couldn't possibly be
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading


IN THE STUDIO, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bowed in the firelight's softly climbing gleam
Last Line: Falls on her face, and beauty looks at me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Art & Artists


INDIA, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These letters and sinuous lines
Subject(s): Art & Artists


INDIVIDUALITY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O yes, I love you, and with all my heart
Last Line: Through any channel, save the one he meant.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Passion; Soul


IRIS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am born from the womb of the cloud
Last Line: Is builded of light and air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Soul


ISIS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend, the young artist, is clever and kind
Last Line: For the woman is dead that my spirit hath known!
Subject(s): Art & Artists


JAPAN, -- OLD AND NEW, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The son of a japanese lord am I
Last Line: That foreigners brought japan.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Soul; Japanese


JOCULATOR, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though he knows not jot nor tittle
Last Line: Which is art and only art.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy


KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Held between wars
Subject(s): Women; Germany; Wars; Death; Children; Art & Artists; Germans; Dead, The; Childhood


KOSMOS, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of dust the primal adam came
Last Line: Lifting the heart of man with love.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Art & Artists; Bible; Love; Mankind; Soul; Eve; Human Race


LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology


LATE IMPRESSIONIST DREAM, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a late impressionist dream I am riding in an open touring
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pallid with too much longing
Last Line: Daughter of foam and fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Variant Title(s): The Venus Of Burne-jones
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women


LAYMAN IN AN ART GALLERY, by CLAIR E. GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A landscape draws your eye
Last Line: Will be known the measure of our kind.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


LIFE'S UNFOLDING, by JOHN OLIN KNOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon my study wall a picture hung
Last Line: "I read: ""it is my hand that leadeth thee."
Subject(s): Art & Artists


LIGHTS AND SHADOWS, by MRS HUNOLDSTEIN CHARLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: How like a canvas our lives are placed
Last Line: That the great master artist our lives may approve.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY C.R. LESLIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pride of my country! I delight
Last Line: Till ends his reign, a third like thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Picture Books; Portraits; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Leslie, C. R.; Art Gallerys


LINES TO A POET, by ETHEL W. DERBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: With living words he plied his art
Last Line: Enchanted years from one brief hour.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets


LINES TO AN ARTIST, by GERTRUDE FRENCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each stroke of your brush, a true story doth tell
Last Line: All the glory of life that enhances.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


LINES; TO ONE WHO WISHED TO READ A POEM I HAD WRITTEN, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, read it not, thou wouldst not know
Last Line: Thy would not speak of me.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Hearts; Nightmares


LIP OF THE REAL, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exhaust appearance & / get the what-was-hidden or what's
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997); Poetry & Poets


LORD BACON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Master of masters in the days of yore
Last Line: Withdrawn to uttermost oblivion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


LOVE, DEATH, AND ART, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, give me love! Give me the silent bliss
Last Line: While I can make these sweet to me in song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Love; Dead, The


MADMEN, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say you can jinx a poem
Last Line: Staring down at me with tiny illuminated eyes
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Vandalism


MARS AND VENUS (BOTTICELLI, CA. 1475), by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold tape gently billowing with her breathing
Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano


MICHAEL ANGELO, by AUGUSTE BARBIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How sad a glance, how shrunk a face thou hast
Last Line: Renowned but weary thou didst leave the light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Weariness; Fatigue


MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze
Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians


MICHELANGELO, by LOUISE LINCOLN NEWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a god, the artist said
Last Line: "upon it set thy seal."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God


MODERN ART, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Matisse, in a letter
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature


MONA LISA, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is your captor, mona lisa!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Crime & Criminals; Mona Lisa; Portraits


MONET'S LILIES SHUDDERING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monet never knew
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


MONSIEUR LE BRUN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur le brun (who must not be confused / with the great painter) jointly
Last Line: "so put a glass of water to my lips!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace; Sin


MORAL RUINS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Asia's rock-hollowed fanes, first-born of time
Last Line: One father -- worshipped with one voice -- above!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Ruins; Soul; Time; Dead, The


MR. W. H. TO THE POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My thanks, dear friend, as always! But, I fear
Last Line: And friendship is love's canonized name.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Friendship; Gratitude; Love


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery


MUSIC AND POETRY: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, poets, as ye list, of fields, of flowers
Last Line: In human speech such mysteries divine.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets


MUSIC AND POETRY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet words though weak are all that poets own
Last Line: One aim, one work, one destiny they share.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets


MUSOPHILUS, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fond man, musophilus, that thus dost spend
Last Line: Above the reach of lightness and contempt.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Muses; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Virtue; Wisdom; Thinking


MY CASTLES IN SPAIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, joyous friend with beard of brown!
Last Line: In andalouse or aragon.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Spain; Writing & Writers


MY PICTURE GALLERY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You write and think of me, my friend, with pity
Last Line: That owns a picture gallery half as grand?
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life


MY STUDIO, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love it, yet I hardly can tell why
Last Line: Flowed in the poets' sparkling hippocrene.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Rooms


NADAR, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You will be obscured by a cloud of postures
Last Line: Future classics, leaving us to enlarge on what cannot be divided, individuals
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nadar [gaspar Tournachon] (1820-1910); Portraits


NATURE AND ART, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once loved nature so that man was nought
Last Line: Who moulds the wills of men, and grasps the bars of fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Religion; Theology


NATURE AND ART, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature and art asunder seem to fly
Last Line: And under law thy perfect freedom gain.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature


NATURE AND ART; FOR AN ALBUM, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man goeth forth' with reckless trust
Last Line: Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature


NATURE AND ART; TO MY FRIEND CHARLES BOOTH NETTLETON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The young queen nature, ever sweet and fair
Last Line: And at the morrow's dawning they were wed.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature


NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover
Subject(s): Animals; Art & Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women


NOVEMBER, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who said november's face was grim
Last Line: Knows she has sweetness all her own.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Forests; Life; November; Woods


NOVEMBER 4TH, 1937, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ogden nash might say, I hate intenchly
Last Line: May they be merry then as we are now.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Century Association (new York City); Literature; Writing & Writers


OCTOBER, by MARGARETTA P. CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The summer days were almost gone
Last Line: "your work's well done, my child."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings & Painters


ODE DELIVERED ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two worlds wherein our souls may dwell
Last Line: "of my supremest immortality!'"
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ODE ON A GRECIAN URN, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou still unravished bride of quietness
Last Line: Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Elgin Marbles; Mortality


ODE ON ART, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, from the sacred garden driven
Last Line: Links realm to realm, and race to race.
Variant Title(s): Art
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ODE TO A RING-DOVE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vanish all vernal forms before the twain
Last Line: Thine empire is humanity at last!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Passion


ODE TO THE FUTURIST PAINTERS AND POETS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Futurist painters and poets!
Last Line: Painters and poets!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets


ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (1), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the warrior's helm, behold
Last Line: On such a bosom rise and fall so!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Minerva; Sculpture & Sculptors


ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (2), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cunning hand that carved this face
Last Line: On such a bosom rise and fall so!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Minerva; Sculpture & Sculptors


ON ART AS AN AIM IN LIFE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How was it that he knew it? Ay, or where
Last Line: A city like the soul of womanhood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Asked by a reporter out of questions
Last Line: And go home to nick yourself on poetry
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Passion


ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky
Last Line: Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters


ON THE SAME PICTURE (DEATH'S VALLEY), by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye, well I know 'tis ghastly to descend that valley
Last Line: Here, here 'tis limn'd.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Inness, George (1825-1894); Paintings And Painters


OPEN MY EYES, by ALICE E. BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would that I might learn to see the world
Last Line: Is to have found the world the artist sees.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


ORLIE WILDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A goddess, with a siren's grace
Last Line: "as mine to her -- as mine to her."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


OWEN SEAMAN; ESTABLISHES ENTENE CORDIALE IN MANNER GUY WETMORE CARRYL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the mismated pairs ever created
Last Line: Is apt to be sauce for the propaganda.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Carryl, Guy Wetmore (1873-1904); Life; Quarrels; Seaman, Owen, Sir (1861-1936); Arguments; Disagreements


PHANTASMATA: PROLOGUE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boreal sea is bathed in golden mist
Last Line: Sped swiftly upward through the smiling skies.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; Poetry & Poets


PHYLLIS LEE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a primrose 'broider'd rill
Last Line: "I'll keep them shut,"" said phyllis lee."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Women


PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art & Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings & Painters


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 3. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The over-all picture is winter
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 3, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In hintertime praxiteles
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 8, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sarolla's women in their picture hats
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


PICTURESQUE; A FRAGMENT, by JOHN AIKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: New follies spring; and now we must be taught
Last Line: Suffice to charm, and all it sees is good.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Vision


PISA'S LEANING TOWER, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tower in tiers of architraves
Last Line: A would-be suicide!
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Pisa, Italy


PLAINT OF ART, by FORREST BENJAMIN ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Art hangs suspended by a silken thread
Last Line: Is stifling art, and silencing the pen.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


PLATE 134. BY EAKINS. 'A COWBOY IN THE WEST ...', by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His hat, his gun, his gloves, his chair, his place
Last Line: Heartbreaking canteen, empty on the ground
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cowboys; Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916); Photography & Photographers


POESY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When men were rude, and rough, and wild
Last Line: And clothed them in her seemliest dress.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Mankind; Wisdom; Human Race


POET AND MERCHANT, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poet goes ragged
Last Line: "of the merchant, ""he is dead."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fame; Money; Reputation


PORTRAIT FOR A LAPIDARY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perfection is the sense of being whole
Subject(s): Art & Artists


PORTRAIT OF A WORLD, by CORAL MORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Loveliness is yours, all gracious things
Last Line: To nudge the sun-dial and sip the pool.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Portraits


PORTRAITE DE L'ARTISTE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When everybody's in bed
Last Line: Even in sleep, not separated
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Portraits


PRAYER, by LILIAN B. FORDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear god, of all the prayers I'd make
Last Line: And may each picture bless the one who reads.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


PRAYER TO BE AN ARTIST, by MARION CLINCH CALKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord, clip my wings, so may my feet learn flying!
Last Line: But keep me standing on the top-most stair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Calkins, Clinch
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Kisses; Prayer


PRELUDE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My song is born of rivalry. Cross time
Last Line: Save where I lift, and purify, and bless!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Singing & Singers; Time


PRIVATE AND PROFANE, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new
Subject(s): Religion; Philosophy & Philosophers; Art & Artists; Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life; Theology


PROGRESS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid faery voices, none
Last Line: "on, on for aye!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Soul; Truth


PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO A BIRD MASQUE: PROLOGUE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentles, just now I met an elf
Last Line: Be showered by my players' glad applause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Robins; Inspiration; Creativity


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1680, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thespis, the first professor of our art
Last Line: But who disturb'd both bishop and a crown.
Variant Title(s): Prologue To Sophonisba;the Prologue At Oxford, 1680
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets


PUT IN A QUAVER, HERE AND THERE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is smooth, fairly uniformly gray
Last Line: Vicinity: mute witnesses, they could yet prove to be guides.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Philosophy & Philosophers; Historians


QUERY FROM AN ARTIST, by NEVIN GREEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why try the skies?
Last Line: Ah men, were ships and motors not enough?
Subject(s): Art & Artists


QUI S'EXCUSE S'ACCUSE, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art is exact perception
Last Line: Need apologize for art.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


RAIN REVERY, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the lone of night by the pattering tree
Last Line: Rain on the roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers


REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE LIVING LUSTRES, BY T. M., by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O why should our dull retrospective addresses
Last Line: Till set to the music of erin-go-bragh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Nature; Theater & Theaters


RENOIR, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under striped flutter of awnings, have come
Last Line: A constellation visible at dusk
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings And Painters; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979)


RETURNING TO PARIS WITH PISSARRO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am in a painting by camille pissarro
Last Line: From the new world
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


RIVALS, by ARCHIE AUSTIN COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the avenue of an afternoon
Last Line: Her rivals.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That is no country for old men. The young
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy


SCARECROW GARDENS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late-summer squash put out to sea
Last Line: In many forms: the best is art.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Gardens & Gardening; Gold


SE APROVECHAN', by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They take advantage' -- the soldiers need clothes
Last Line: Rears up! - bugt the head is out of the picture
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters


SEEING A WOMAN AS IN A PAINTING BY BERTHE MORISOT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah tes cuisses
Last Line: As if we did not know the melody
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


SEEING THE DUKE OF ORMOND'S PICTURE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from the injured canvas, kneller, strike
Last Line: Nor homer's colours last so long as thine.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Paintings And Painters


SEURAT, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is sunday afternoon on the grand canal
Subject(s): Art & Artists


SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun
Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues


SHORT STORY ON A PAINTING OF GUSTAV KLIMT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are kneeling upright on a flowered bed
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


SONATA: 1. ALLEGRO, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You've seen her things? I saw them yesterday
Last Line: All on the line -- and landscapes, every one!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Models


SONATA: 2. SCHERZO, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, there the pictures are, the ones the model painted
Last Line: She's just a woman standing without her clothes.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Models


SONATA: 3. ANDANTE SERIOSO, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Women and men, dumb before my pictures
Last Line: Earth cannot, nor the ocean, nor the sky.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Models


SONGLESS, by ALICE WALKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the point / of being artists
Subject(s): Art & Artists


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 7. SWALLOWS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a room that we love
Last Line: And happy swallows ranging.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Love; Silence; Swallows; Nightmares


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 12, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morella, charming without art
Last Line: My gratitude maintains.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Passion


SONNET, by MARIE LUHRS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time, of all artists, draws most clear, most true;
Last Line: Quivered and cried -- there is no other way.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time


SONNET, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: What owe I to my sister of the poor?
Last Line: "together we may find the wished-for end."
Subject(s): Art & Artists


SONNET FOR A PICTURE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That nose is out of drawing. With a gasp
Last Line: But may be ravenously unripped in hell?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


SONNET TO ARISTE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let ancient stories sound the painter's art
Last Line: The charms that blossom on ariste's cheek!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Inspiration; Creativity


SONNET TO ARISTE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I praise thee not, ariste, that thine eye
Last Line: The fading orbit smiles serenely bright.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Praise; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Inspiration; Creativity


SONNET: 18, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Last Line: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Variant Title(s): "shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"";to His Love;
Subject(s): Admiration; Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Flowers; Immortality; Love; Roses; Summer; Transience; Impermanence


SONNET: 30, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You mean, my friend, you do not greatly care
Last Line: Of days when I shall please your taste, my friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


SONNET: 9, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I needs must praise the natural gifts of one
Last Line: His cheerful sunset light far round him glows.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Praise


SONNETS FOR PICTURES: A VENETIAN PASTORAL (BY GIOGIONE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water, for anguish of the solstice - nay
Last Line: Life touching lips with immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 4. A Venetian Pastoral, By Giorgione
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Giorgione Da Castelfranco (1477-1511); Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy


SONNETS: MARSDEN BAY, NEAR SOUTH SHIELDS, by ELLEN C. NICHOLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Were I an artist, I should paint the scene
Last Line: And weed-grown rock, and cavern heavy-brow'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Mrs. James
Subject(s): Art & Artists


SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mouth down at sides
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women - Writers


STRADIVARIUS, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your soul was lifted by the wings to-day
Last Line: "without antonio. Get thee to thy easel."
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Religion; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Violins; Theology


STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain
Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism


SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, shaping nations, the creative hand
Last Line: Is filled with humour, irony, and song.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Literature; Poetry & Poets; English


TABLE TALK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To weave a culinary clue
Last Line: Of these narcotic numbers.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; London; Marriage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TERZA RIMA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When michael angelo left the sistine dome
Last Line: O sublime blindness! O majestic fault!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel


TERZA RIMA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From sixtus' fane, when michael angelo
Last Line: Blindness sublime! Inestimable fault!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel


THE 'MOSES' OF MICHAEL ANGELO, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who is he that, sculptured in huge stone
Last Line: Had been your error in adoring him.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jews; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Moses; Sculpture & Sculptors; Judaism


THE 'MOVING WATERS' OF GUSTAV KLIMT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are they then
Last Line: And know each other
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


THE ANGELS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are above us all the time
Last Line: Comfort with terror our mortal afternoons
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE ARMS OF THE TRADE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coat of arms: two knitting needles
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE ART OF ALMA-TADEMA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no song his colours cannot sing
Last Line: A goddess with a wealth of tawny hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty


THE ARTIST, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O artist, range not over-wide
Last Line: And freshness to our fainting minds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE ARTIST, by ARTHUR GRISSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: He wrought with patience long and weary years
Last Line: And signed the canvas with his own great name!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


THE ARTIST, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood before his finished work
Last Line: Had closed his eyes in death.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Life; Dead, The


THE ARTIST PHILOSOPHER, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some paint landscapes objectively
Last Line: What is life but motif and connection?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Philosophy & Philosophers


THE ARTIST TO HIS WIFE, by STANLEY KILNER BOOTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: For always there shall be a quest
Last Line: While loving you, irrevocably exiled.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE ARTIST'S MORNING SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dwelling is the muses' home
Last Line: From that dear marriage-bed!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Muses; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE ARTISTS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue as a mile of pansies are the seas that circle the shores
Last Line: And peacock's neck!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fantasy


THE BALLAD OF IMITATION, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If they hint, o musician, the piece that you played
Last Line: And the man who plants cabbages imitates, too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Imitation; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets


THE BARTHOLDI STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land, that, from the rule of kings
Last Line: Who shields his license with thy name!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; Liberty


THE BRUSHES AWAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Creature of wind, whirlwind of whitecaps
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see
Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE CANTON VASE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I call you mine-and yet that cannot be
Last Line: Had painted all the joy within his heart!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings And Painters


THE CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the horses of the sun?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Delphi; Sculpture & Sculptors; Castri


THE CHICAGO PICASSO, AUGUST 15, 1967, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does man love art? Man visits art, squirms
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Sculpture & Sculptors


THE CHINESE AND ROMAN ARTISTS; OR, THE MIRROR OF THE HEART, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This contest heed, of chinaman's and roman's art
Last Line: With endless images reflections it incrust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali
Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Rome, Italy


THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT: 21, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anear the centre of that northern crest
Last Line: And confirmation of the old despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis
Variant Title(s): Melencolia
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Despair; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Engraving & Engravers


THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All feeling hearts must feel for him
Last Line: Man's final lore.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Gifford, Robert Swain (1840-1905); Paintings & Painters


THE COMPLETE WORKS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The big black bear and the prowling panther lived near our beautiful school
Last Line: At last at dusk the brisk skate returned.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets


THE CONFLICT: 6. THE REAL GERMANY, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bismarck - or rapt beethoven with his dreams
Last Line: Of buried guns gives birth to germany.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Music & Musicians; Philosophy & Philosophers; World War I; First World War


THE CONSTELLATION OF THE BODY, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eyes born of night / are not eyes that see
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE CRAFTSMAN, by MARCUS B. CHRISTIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ply with all the cunning of my art
Last Line: "he who creates true beauty ever lives."
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory
Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei


THE DEAD PAINTER, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day after day he sat beneath these eaves
Last Line: Whose vision holds a moment, not eternity.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Paintings And Painters; Vision; Dead, The


THE DREAM OF PENS, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue hand / has become a sketch pen
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The picnic-goers beautified themselves
Last Line: He'd hidden there
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


THE FIRST ARTISTS, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lava lane were artists
Last Line: And chalking up both sides.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE FLOWER SELLER AT COVENT GARDEN 1989, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A great great great granddaughter
Last Line: Over the madding crowd
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


THE GERMAN ART, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By no kind augustus reared
Last Line: From its deep—the heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Germany; Germans


THE GOOD GRAY POET, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Walt whitman-'good gray poet,' as we say
Last Line: Exponent of a newer artistry.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


THE GRANDEST BOAST, by DEANE SETTOON MERNAGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Never do I hear a woman say
Last Line: "I am the mother of themistocles!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE HOMAGE OF THE ARTS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossom, blossom, a bountiful tree
Last Line: Beauty to life and life to forms of art.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Masques


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 78. BODY'S BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of adam's first wife, lilith, it is told
Last Line: And round his heart one strangling golden hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Variant Title(s): Lilith
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Lilith; Paintings & Painters


THE IMPROVISATRICE; ILLUSTRATIVE OF PICTURE BY BONE ENGRAVED BY ROMNEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside her cottage door she sate and sang
Last Line: Which bone to beauty drew, and romney lined.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bone, Henry (1755-1834); Hallucinations And Illusions; Love; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Romney, George (1734-1802)


THE KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cowhorn-crowned, shockheaded, cornshuck-bearded
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)


THE LAST DITCH, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, through your varied views on art
Last Line: That laurence housman's people wear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress; Housman, Laurence (1865-1959); Love; Socialism


THE LEGEND OF JUBAL, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When cain was driven from jehovah's land
Last Line: The all-creating presence for his grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Christianity; Death; Heroism; Legacies; Legends; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


THE LIE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art begins with a lie
Last Line: That's the story, sharp speck in the eye.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE MAD SCULPTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far up in the quarry / I hewed a stone for pure delight
Last Line: And reaches me his hands!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Last Line: After the silence of the centuries?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology


THE MAN WITH THE HOE'; A REPLY, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature reads not our labels, 'great' and 'small'
Last Line: And let a kingdom go.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Labor & Laborers; Markham, Edwin (1852-1940); Work; Workers


THE MASTERPIECE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a weaver, centuries ago
Last Line: "only a master could have planned it so!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Weavers And Weaving


THE MIND OF THE FRONTISPIECE TO A BOOK, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From death and dark oblivion (near the same)
Last Line: The light of truth, and life of memory.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Engraving & Engravers; Reading


THE MOMENT OF CREATION, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A painter indicates the time of day
Last Line: A floor of jade, obsidian, turquoise, ebony, lapis.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation


THE NATIONAL PAINTINGS: COL. TRUMBULL'S 'THE DECLARATION...', by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake! Ye forms of verse divine
Last Line: I'll sound your praises in a sonnet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Trumbull, John (1756-1843)


THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame
Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America


THE OLD AND THE NEW MASTERS, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering, about adoration, the old masters
Last Line: Is the small radioactive planet men called earth
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nativity


THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Taddeo gaddi built me. I am old
Last Line: Hath leaned on me, I glory in myself.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Bridges; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE OLDER ARTIST, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kid's written a 200-page lament
Last Line: And too many shoes.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Reading


THE PALACE OF BRIC-A-BRAC, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where old nankin glitters
Last Line: Aldine and elzevir!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Music & Musicians


THE PATHOS OF ART, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft, seeing the old painters' art
Last Line: Whose life, whose art still lingers on!
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 1. THE ARTIST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Complete the altar stands; my task is done
Last Line: "but by your hand am I forever crowned!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Passion; Saints


THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: PROEM. TO THE ARTIST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because no other dream my childhood knew
Last Line: In double faith, and from a twofold call!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Youth


THE PLAY, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched you curve your arm over the back of
Last Line: But when they asked me about the play, I could not remember.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Art & Artists; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life


THE POET VISITS THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a long time
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE POETASTER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When a poet, as poetry goes now-a-days
Last Line: The man, after all, is but just where he was.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading


THE POSTCARDS: A TRIPTYCH, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The minoan snake goddess is flanked by a chardin still-life, somber
Last Line: Under these signs I am living
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE POTTERY MAKER, by CAREY YATES BUSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crouching dumb in caverns deep
Last Line: The perfect song.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Artifacts; Clay; Pottery And Potters


THE POWER OF ART, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not human art, but living gods alone
Last Line: The sacred past that should not pass away.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time
Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists


THE PROGRESS OF ART, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy time! Art's early days!
Last Line: As nothing to the young!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Youth


THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free
Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE RESTORATION OF THE WORKS OF ART TO ITALY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of departed fame! Whose classic plains
Last Line: "faint effluence of ""the day-spring from on high!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Italy; Italians


THE ROCKEFELLER COLLECTION OF PRIMITIVE ART, by DENIS JOHNSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solter my neighbor rocks his lover through the human night
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE SCREAM, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Observe. Ridged, raised, tactile, the horror
Variant Title(s): Munch's Scream
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Munch, Edvard (1863-1944); Paintings & Painters


THE SEA, by MARGUERITE E. WETZEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I could paint the colors of the sea
Last Line: The wondrous, boundless, open sea.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sea; Ocean


THE SEA-SHELL, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou silver shell that liest near
Last Line: Of days with gray is overcast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Memory; Sculpture & Sculptors


THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF (AND NECESSARY STEPS TOWARD) MAKING ART, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure art is, in a sense, pure innocence.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE SOLACE OF ART, by AMPHIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no comfort in adversity
Last Line: And sails beyond its troubles unperceiving.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE SPRIG OF MOSS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lived in munich a poor, weakly youth
Last Line: And be your only comforter in all your lonely hours.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Explorers; Moss; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Granite; Rocks


THE STUDIO (HOMAGE TO ALICE NEEL), by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An oily rag at her feet in the warehouse of scents
Last Line: And you're back in the basement studio
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings And Painters


THE SUNSET-IMAGES, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloud-ships afire in the west
Last Line: In the book of sunset-images for twilight dreams.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings And Painters


THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim
Last Line: O, the temeraire no more!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare


THE TEMPLE OF ART, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The temple of art lies open evermore
Last Line: And one man enters in a thousand suns!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Temples; Mosques


THE TINY HAT UPON THE BROW, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That elfin crown, so light and neat
Last Line: Not diadem upon the brow.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE TRUIMPH OF ART, by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Create! Create!
Last Line: Create!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity


THE ULTIMATE JOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have felt the thrill of passion in the poet's mystic book
Subject(s): Art & Artists;happiness;july;nature; Joy;delight


THE UNATTAINED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A vision beauteous as the morn
Last Line: "all shall pursue, but none shall claim me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Desire; Dreams; Vision; Nightmares


THE VISION OF FRA ANGELICO, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The glint of seraph wings had stirred all day
Last Line: And as they looked all hailed the work divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Art & Artists; Paintings And Painters; Religion; Guido Di Pietro; Theology


THE WATER LILY, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As slowly, as carefully as a wading bird
Subject(s): Art & Artists


THE WORD OF AN ENGINEER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She's built of steel
Last Line: That he has in an engineer!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Engineering & Engineers; Steel


THE WORLD ISN'T A WEDDING OF THE ARTISTS OF YESTERDAY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stub of red pencil in your hand
Last Line: Is a mystery rising behind you on the wind.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Legacies; Inspiration; Creativity


THE WORLD PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The entrance-price you willy-nilly pay
Last Line: Are shaken by its moods, -- mirth, anguish, mystery.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy; Earth; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; World; Dramatists


THE YOUNG CATS' CLUB FOR POETRY-MUSIC, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The philharmonic young cats' club
Last Line: And simper'd and look'd the wiser.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Winter


THEORY AND PRACTICE IN POETRY, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The idea that freezes me this time
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets


THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 1, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, it looked dark and dreary
Last Line: Down on his golden hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Future; Grief; Heaven; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 2, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The studio is deserted
Last Line: To comfort each new pain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Love; Silence


THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (1), by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reade one, and say, 'tis good; I beare the name
Last Line: So that I know a foole be not my iudge.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading


THROUGH TEARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An artist toiled over his pictures
Last Line: Of a world that looks on through its tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


TIME AND LOVE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An artist painted time and love
Last Line: "and, after marriage, cupid."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cupid; Love; Time; Eros


TO A FLORENTINE BUST, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perfect, as 'twere through very lack of art
Last Line: Remainest undefiled.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Honor


TO A FRAGMENT OF A STATUE OF HERCULES, COMMONLY CALLED THE TORSO, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And dost thou still, thou mass of breathing stone
Last Line: To draw down gods, and lift the soul to heaven!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Statues


TO A HIGHBORN BEAUTY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you had lived in that more stately time
Last Line: That takes the world into captivity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 2.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


TO A POET GOING TO ROME: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you shall meet them, as you doubtless may
Last Line: De la mare, abercrombie, most renowned.'
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


TO A POET GOING TO ROME: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then in your turn demand of them and ask
Last Line: Who knew high eros in his earthly seats.'
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Literature; Poetry & Poets


TO A YOUNG ARTIST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is good for strength not to be merciful
Last Line: And shards in the temple porches, turn home
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Youth


TO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a various tribute you command
Last Line: Your peerless gift of song -- your life of toil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You must agree that rubens was a fool
Last Line: And not a brewers servant my good sir
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Critics & Criticism; Mythology; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 15. THE MISSION OF ART, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, ugliness is but skin deep, young man
Last Line: So art should paint the inner beauty's ways.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: CODA, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, thou interpreter of love and truth
Last Line: And reflects sunshine in each troubled heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comfort; Happiness; Joy; Delight


TO MRS. AMY BEACH, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In silence lie the snowy keys
Last Line: We thank thee . . . With our tears.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hearts; Silence; Tears


TO MY LOTUS LADY, by JOSEPH KLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Background of dark deep brown
Last Line: Back to its sad dwelling. ...
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Portraits


TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. PETER LELY, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See! What a clouded majesty, and eyes
Last Line: None but my lely ever drew a mind.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Portraits


TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O liberty, god-gifted
Last Line: And marry henry george.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Statue Of Liberty; Liberty


TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line
Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. O LOVE - TO WHOM THE POETS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O love - to whom the poets have made verses
Last Line: Do I praise thee.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Poetry & Poets


TWO BACKGROUNDS: 1. LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here by the ample river's argent sweep
Last Line: Long years of peace and dreamless plenitude.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Churches; Cathedrals


TWO BACKGROUNDS: 2. MONA LISA, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon strange blue city crowns a scarped steep
Last Line: And drain joy's awful chalice to the lees.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Mona Lisa


TWO FRESCOES, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down there where europe's arms
Last Line: Rose over africa.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Africa; Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE, by ANNE KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though by a sodaine and unfeard surprise
Last Line: Which less resemblance of the persons have.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graves; Hales, John (1585-1656); Memory; Portraits; Tombs; Tombstones


UNEXPRESSED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dwells within the soul of every artist
Last Line: And waves of an unfathomable sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Time


UNRECOMPENSED, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The painter early toiled and late to win an honored name
Last Line: And noble effort elevates high art to grander plane.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


UPON THE CURTAIN OF LUCASTA'S PICTURE IT WAS THUS WROUGHT, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh stay that covetous hand, first turn all eye
Last Line: Is but its shadow, as this its;---now draw.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters


VAGABOND ARTIST, by SARAH SPENCER ROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I were an artist, I would paint the scenes
Last Line: To be again a wandering vagabond.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Paintings And Painters


VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF AN ARTIST, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How like soft skies that bend at even
Last Line: His italy in thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


VENUS OF THE LOUVRE, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the long hall she glistens like a star
Last Line: For vanished hellas and hebraic pain.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Louvre, Paris; Poetry & Poets; Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo


VICTOR RAFOLSKI ON ART, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You dull goliaths clothed in coats of blue
Last Line: Now do your worst to me!
Subject(s): Art & Artists


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 7, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In th'heauens vniuersall alphabet
Last Line: From thy first match: and liue a single man.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Astrology & Astrologers


VIRGILII CARMINA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I love thee, little book!
Last Line: With my virgil hand in hand!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers; Singing & Singers; Reading


WALKING SWIFTLY, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I wake, I hear sheep eating apple peels just outside the scfreen
Last Line: And carves oceanic waves into the dragon's mane
Variant Title(s): Finding An Old Ant Mansion
Subject(s): Art & Artists


WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your thoughts are for the poor and weak?
Last Line: Well, I'm your grandson. You'll grow wiser.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grandparents; Hate; Love; Names; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


WHAT'S IN A NAME?, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In letters large upon the frame
Last Line: "v. Stuyvesant de vere!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cynicism; Letters; Names; Paintings And Painters


WHEN I BUY PICTURES, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or what is closer to the truth
Last Line: It must acknowledge the spiritual forces which have made it.
Subject(s): Art & Artists


WILD HEART; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where would I be if not for your wild heart?
Last Line: How could I live? How could I make my art?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations


WILLIAM MORRIS, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep, eyes that beauty brightens!
Last Line: In chaucer's heir.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Freedom; Life; Love; Muses; Soul; Dead, The; Liberty


WINDOW TRIMMER, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He took some little, dark-red shoes
Last Line: I wonder what became of him?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Windows; Nightmares


[THE IMPORTANCE OF ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES], by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The days go by, and then more days go by
Subject(s): Art & Artists