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Subject: ART & ARTISTS Matches Found: 421 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "STRIP ME NAKED, OR ROYAL GIN FOR EVER; A PICTURE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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: "butI 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 yetit'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 deepthe 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 |
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