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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ART GALLERYS Matches Found: 47 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat. Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys A POEM FOR MUSEUM GOERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down a long / passageway Last Line: Shriek in their ears Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys 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 AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn the page and read Last Line: About the cleft battlements of can grande's castle.... Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of a window Last Line: A shadow to the ground. Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys AT THE MUSEUM, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But in 2500 b.C. Harrappa Last Line: Came to harappa Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys AT THE TRAIN MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Topeka ... Junction city Subject(s): Museums; Railroads; Art Gallerys; Railways; Trains CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY; BRITISH MUSEUM, CASE NO. 6807, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A heap of crumbling bones Last Line: More fair than she. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mummies; Museums; Art Gallerys HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl: Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys HISTORICAL MUSEUM, MANITOULIN ISLAND, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a while it dawns on us Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys 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 IMPLEMENTS FROM THE 'TOMB OF THE POET'; PIRAEUS ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Text First Line: On the journey to the mundane afterlife Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Graves; Museums; Tombs; Tombstones; Art Gallerys IN A MUSEUM, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is a curious place Last Line: Of golden dreams! Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips IN GALLERIES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture & Sculptors; Art Gallerys IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you see in that time-touched stone Last Line: The voice of paul.' Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Art Gallerys; Saul Of Tarsus IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praised be the moon of books! That doth above Last Line: While in this liberal house thy face is bright. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Librarians & Libraries; Museums; Library; Librarians; Art Gallerys IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have not come! And ten is past Last Line: Portraits are hung by the committee? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys INDIAN MUSEUM, by GREVILLE ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: Here's not the pulsing of a fearsome life Last Line: Whisper of sad subjection in their tears. Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys JOE BRAINARD'S PAINTING 'BINGO', by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suffer when I sit next to joe brainard's painting bingo Last Line: She had misunderstood what I had said Subject(s): Brainard, Joe (b. 1942); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys 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 MUSEE DES AUGUSTINS: TOULOUSE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full 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 OLD SADIE, by EDITH CHERRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Old sadie, mop in hand, plods up a flight Last Line: How base the model clay has come to be. Subject(s): Museums; Old Age; Art Gallerys PAGANI'S, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautify normande cocotte Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys PICTURE GALLERY, by FRANCIS AUGUSTUS DRAKE Poem Text First Line: Quiet courtyard, neat and classic Last Line: For this fresh desire to think! Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys RONDEAUX OF THE GALLERIES, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In camelot how grey and green Last Line: Philistia! Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys SAN MARCO MUSEUM, FLORENCE, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: San marco was as quiet on that day Last Line: Were lit but for the spirit's eye and ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Museums; Art Gallerys THE BRITISH GALLERIES, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the great bed of ware Subject(s): Beds; Museums; Art Gallerys THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War; Art Gallerys THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come, Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped THE CURATOR EXPLAINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is my kingdom, this my small domain Last Line: That leave my heart aglow with joy and praise Subject(s): Books; History; Museums; Reading; Historians; Art Gallerys THE DIORAMA PAINTER AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His enormous hands / with fingers long and white Last Line: As violently foreshortened as a life. Subject(s): Museums; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys THE HEAD ON THE TABLE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enormous head of a bison Last Line: Of swamp water and peat. Subject(s): Explorers; Museums; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Art Gallerys; Granite; Rocks THE LOS ALAMOS MUSEUM, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this museum is a replica of little boy and fat man. In Last Line: Speed of light, but you can see it here in slow motion. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Museums; Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Art Gallerys; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around me the images of thirty years Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys THE STATUES IN THE MUSEUM, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Statues of fauns and wrestlers Last Line: Who do not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Wellesley College; Art Gallerys THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys TO A WEALTHY MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gave, but will not give again Last Line: But the right twigs for an eagle's nest! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Museums; Wealth; Art Gallerys; Riches; Fortunes TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who were you once? Could we but guess Last Line: Forgotten more profoundly! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Statues; Art Gallerys TO LALLIE (OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM), by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up those museum steps you came Last Line: What does it matter ? Subject(s): British Museum, London; Love; Museums; Art Gallerys TO PALEOLITHIC MAN (RESTORED IN A MUSEUM), by FANNY HODGES NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: My father! Lo, thy hundred thousand years Last Line: To leave thee standing naked, nameless, here? Subject(s): Museums; Paleontology; Prehistoric Peoples; Art Gallerys TO THE CARYATID (IN THE ELGIN ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long ago, and day by day Last Line: They are as sweet as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Caryatids; Museums; Women; Art Gallerys TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Artemidorus, farewell Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell." Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely Last Line: Be still, o soul, and know that thou art god. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys TRUMMERFRAUEN (THE RUBBLE-WOMEN), by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old paintings, the ones with silken oils Last Line: Never stop: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Altars; Architecture & Architects; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Pyramids; Art Gallerys TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street Last Line: When they see the bright, red, beautiful flowers in my window. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Museums; Poetry & Poets; Tulips; Art Gallerys |
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