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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AUNTS Matches Found: 96 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIRTHDAY CARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her eighties now, and weak and ill Subject(s): Aunts; Sickness; Birthdays; Illness A FAMILY TURN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All her kamikaze friends admired my aunt Subject(s): Aunts A VISIT, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: As she stirred her coffee at dinner in our house Last Line: Whereupon I went out in the garden and threw stones at the hens. Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Guests; Relatives; Visiting AGA KHAN, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: My aunt bebe %used to visit by surprise Last Line: Her protector, friend, %on his passage in %and out of that tiny universe %and when would he ever sto Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Aunts; Poetry And Poets AN EPITAPH ON MY DEAR AUNT, MRS. ANN STANHOPE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, bold passenger, forbear Last Line: Here she, who was the best of women, lies. Subject(s): Aunts; Epitaphs AN EPITAPH UPON THE DEATH OF HIS AUNT, ELIZABETH SKRYMSHER, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loe here beholde the certaine ende, of every living wight Last Line: That wee may live with christ himselfe, (above) that lives for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Epitaphs; Aunts AT AUNTY'S HOUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time, when we'z at aunty's house Last Line: When we et on the porch! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aunts; Cherry Trees; Country Life AUNT FLOSSY, by JEAN PRIESTLEY FLANAGAN Poem Source First Line: She climbs the stairs Last Line: Around noon %she'll have a beer Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age; Women AUNT HANNAH JACKSON, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Despite her sixty years aunt hannah jackson rubs on other people's Last Line: Her a good-natured fool Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age AUNT JANE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Aunt jane has little shiny feet Last Line: To think how soon aunt jane will die. Subject(s): Aunts; Mortality AUNT JANEY AND MABEL COOK SOUL FOOD, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey Last Line: Boil and pickle them?' she said.' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Aunts AUNT JANEY MEETS SISTER CAUDHILL, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey would buy her hats from sister caudhill, the hat lady, who Last Line: You at it!' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Aunts AUNT JANEY RESTIN' HER EYES SOME, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I remember how she'd Last Line: I was just restin' my eyes some Subject(s): Aunts; Memory AUNT JANEY SPEAKS OF THE CROOKED PREACHER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey suddenly Last Line: Screw him into the ground.' Subject(s): Aunts; Baptists; Preaching And Preachers AUNT JANEY VISITED BY THE SPIRIT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: It was a hot Last Line: In my arms Subject(s): Aunts; Catholics; Churches; Preaching And Preachers AUNT JANEY'S GREAT NORTHERNS AND BACON FAT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey could Last Line: And sizzling bacon grease Subject(s): Aunts; Prayer AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Last Line: Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights AUNT MARIA AND THE GOURDS, by DONALD DAVIDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt maria, to whom all doors are open Subject(s): Aunts AUNT MARY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt mary died of eating twelve red peppers Last Line: I pray the tear she taught me of us all Subject(s): Death; Aunts; Gluttony; Dead, The AUNT MARY'S, by CHARLES EDWARD MANN Poem Source First Line: On the table, a half used two-slice toaster Last Line: But absence, her imprint in the chair Subject(s): Aunts; Food And Eating AUNT SOPHIA, by LENORE MAYHEW Poem Source First Line: Under the soft hair of her wig Last Line: To worry when that day will be Subject(s): Aunts; Memory AUNT TABITHA; THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEM, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever I do, and whatever I say Last Line: Aunt tabitha'll tell me she never did so! Subject(s): Aunts AUNTIE JO, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: My auntie jo / makes a mouth like an 'o' Last Line: My auntie will shoot the whole nickel. Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers AUNTIE'S SKIRTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever auntie moves around Last Line: And trundle after through the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 15 Subject(s): Aunts; Noises; Sound AUNTS, by ALFONSO QUIJADA URIAS Poem Source First Line: They always went out together every afternoon Last Line: Until they formed between their fingers a lump, a little gray ball Subject(s): Aunts; Politics AUNTY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sorry for a feller if he hasn't any aunt Last Line: If pa's bought another baby in the time I've been away. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Aunts BACKYARD GARDENING IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, by ANNA LEAHY Poem Source First Line: I have an aunt who looks %into the backyards of neighbors Last Line: Waiting fo rht ecardinals to come %together to feed Subject(s): Aunts; Springfield, Illinois BECAUSE I COULD NOT GO HOME FOR MY AUNT'S FUNERAL, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because my mother's parents were immigrants Last Line: She coasts down the hill, poised, a surfer riding the big wave Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Immigrants BLUE DRESS, by RUTH MORRIS MOOSE Poem Source First Line: We buried her in blue Last Line: For eighty-six years %plus two Subject(s): Aunts; Death; Funerals CARD SHARKS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: They all sat around Last Line: If I deal the next hand?' Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Reunions; Uncles CHERRY, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Another wedding & aunt cherry %the only thing sexy about it Last Line: To concentrate his tiny kleig lights %on aunt cherry's legs Subject(s): Aunts CURE PORCHES, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Text First Line: Long before I was born, my aunt johanna caught Subject(s): Aunts; Hospitals; Tuberculosis; Consumption (pathology) DANCING WITH AUNT JANEY, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey, in a tight black dress on new year's day Last Line: And anointed my brow Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing And Dancers; Holidays; New Year DEAR AUNT CHOFI, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: You weren't the aunt chofi of jaime sabines' poem Last Line: Perhaps you recognize yourself %in this mirror Subject(s): Aunts; Politics DEMIGODDESS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt myrtle was very old now and lived Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age; Raccoons DEMIGODDESS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt myrtle was very old now and lived Last Line: Enough in this world Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age; Raccoons DIRE WARNINGS: AUNT ALICE: APPLIED ENGINEER, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't shake coke bottles. They'll explode Last Line: Unplug all the electrical appliances during a storm so %the house won't burn down Subject(s): Advice; Aunts DIRE WARNINGS: FROM AUNT EILEEN: SOCIAL ARBITER, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't chew with your mouth open Last Line: Get your feet off the coffee table Subject(s): Aunts; Etiquette DIRE WARNINGS: MY AUNT ROSEMARY: AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Love thy neighbor as thyself Last Line: If you get married, don't ask me to watch your kids Subject(s): Aunts; Neighbors ELEVEN A.M. ON DAY OFF, SISTER .. DESPERATE FOR BABYSITTER, by SHARON HASHIMOTO Poem Source First Line: Sitting in sunlight, the child Last Line: She eats the core but saves the seeds %to plant in the soft earth of my yard Subject(s): Aunts; Child Care ELIZABETH HOAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost I am tempted to essay Last Line: Never a poor return on self. Subject(s): Aunts FAMILY TURN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All her kamikaze friends admired my aunt Last Line: Pause -- 'and it's never been.' Subject(s): Aunts FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cherished four-leafed clover Last Line: Lies it there. Subject(s): Aunts; Four-leaf Clovers FROM OUR EMANCIPATED AUNT IN TOWN, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All has befallen as I say Last Line: And send her greetings. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Aunts GOING TO MEET THE MASTER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My uncle charles Last Line: With my young hand Subject(s): Aunts; Death GREAT-AUNT REBECCA, by ELIZABETH BREWSTER Poem Source First Line: I remember my mother's aunt rebecca Last Line: Soft as silk and tough as that thin wire %they use for snaring rabbits Subject(s): Aunts; Pioneers IF GOD WON'T TAKE ME WHY WON'T THE DEVIL?'; GREAT-GREAT-AUNT LEONORA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stroke your hands to make you smile Last Line: Casting you back. Subject(s): Aging; Aunts; Death; Dead, The IN A NORTHERN COUNTRY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday in a northern country Subject(s): Aunts; Death; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF ANN JONES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: After the funeral, mule praises, brays Variant Title(s): After The Funeral Subject(s): Aunts; Funerals; Burials IN MEMORY OF ANN JONES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the funeral, mule praises, brays Last Line: And the strutting fern lay seeds on the black sill Variant Title(s): After The Funera Subject(s): Aunts; Funerals IN THE WAITING ROOM, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, %I went with aunt consuelo Last Line: And it was still the fifth %of february, 1918 Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor And Laborers; Pain; World War I INTRODUCTION TO SOME POEMS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look: no one ever promised for sure Last Line: Good: now it is time Subject(s): Aunts LATE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your street was named for berries Last Line: Today I would answer for all those other things. Subject(s): Aunts; Childlessness; Family Life; Houses; Memory; Regret; Relatives MAG, by FREDERICK MUNDLE Poem Source First Line: Long after aunt mag went up Last Line: For ourselves -- now there's no need %to mention our paranoia Subject(s): Aunts; Fire MY AUNT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt! My dear unmarried aunt! / long years have over her flown Last Line: On my ancestral tree. Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids MY AUNT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard how a green thumb Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Aunts; Supernatural MY AUNT, by NANCY (NAN) SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Memphis - wet and humid Last Line: That hair %those hips Subject(s): Aunts MY AUNT ELLA MAE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was the first to tell me of juneteenth Subject(s): Aunts; African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives MY AUNT'S SPECTRE, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: They tell me (but I really can't) Last Line: And plague us as a spectre? Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Aunts; Ghosts; Supernatural MY AUNTS, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always caught up in what they called Subject(s): Aunts MY AUNTS ON BOTH SIDES WITH THE LONGEVITY GENES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Still a virgin at ninety-one Last Line: I guess the honeymoon is over Subject(s): Aunts; Longevity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY MOTHER'S SISTER, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her against the pearl sky of dublin Last Line: How can gthis be justified? How can it / be justified? Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids MY MOTHER'S SISTER, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her against the pearl sky of dublin Last Line: How can this be justified, how can it %be justified? Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters MY MOTHER'S YOUNG SISTER, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: A new decade, the teacher cried Last Line: Time being short, you had to travel fast Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia NEPHEW RUBS THE SORE FEET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Creaks in the pulley Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aunts; Grace; Nature NEW YEAR'S 1965 AT AUNT JANEY'S, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: A hog's head Last Line: Girl, you oughta be shot.' Subject(s): Aunts; Holidays; New Year OFRENDA FOR LOBO, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fierce guardian angel Last Line: You, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night Subject(s): Chicanos; Aunts; Ancestors & Ancestry; All Souls' Day; Mexican Americans OLD-FASHIONED LADIES (TO THE MEMORY OF MY GREAT-AUNT, MADAME K-), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ample hall, a stair with wide Last Line: That quaintness, calm and fine, god knows! Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Maturity; Relationships; Relatives ON ERNEST DOWSON'S AUNT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O grand old lady, how you hate Last Line: And were as curates deified. Subject(s): Aunts; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Genius; Jealousy ON MY AUNT MRS. A. K. DROWNED UNDER LONDON BRIDGE ... 1641, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The darling of a father, good and wise Last Line: The nation next, and king I will confound. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Aunts; Drowning OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary's Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother Last Line: Asleep this morning, whispering, %'tell %the boys to come.' ... And all is %well %out to old aunt ma Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary' Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth PHOTO OF EMILY, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wore a cloche hat Last Line: In the rue de seine Subject(s): Aunts PHOTOGRAPHY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt yetta sleeps, her mouth hanging open, her eyes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Aunts; Photography & Photographers SAPHRONIA, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Born out of wedlock, she had a son Last Line: She died sitting up in her chair. %her dog shed tears Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life SATIN DOLL', by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably the year her marriage Last Line: Until this is a song she can dance with too, %and I can let her go Subject(s): Aunts; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians SISTER EV, by FIONA HALL Poem Source First Line: She was my aunt, long dead when I was born Last Line: Your lemon-flavoured words I reassess %as pith, which, like your hair, now taunts in others Subject(s): Aunts SMALL DEFEATS: HANDIWORK, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Constructs of memory are frail, like lace Last Line: Than measured words are able to embrace Subject(s): Aunts SOLILOQUY OF A MAIDEN AUNT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies bow, and partners set Last Line: Than when I wore it. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers; Spinsters; Old Maids THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE GREAT AUNTS OF MY CHILDHOOD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buns harden like pomanders Last Line: With harsh yellow soap Subject(s): Family Life; Aunts; Relatives THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes Last Line: Like young seals around our rock. Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life THE PHOTO OF EMILY, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wore a cloche hat Subject(s): Aunts THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT AUNT IDA, by EDWARD BUTSCHER Poem Source First Line: I %alert eyes and benign smile Last Line: The so slow crow cold turning %away from the light and me Subject(s): Aunts TITTY BOAT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My aunt Last Line: Its black holds Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Aunts TO AUNT ROSE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt rose - now - might I see you Subject(s): Aunts TO AUNT ROSE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt rose - now - might I see you Last Line: The war in spain has ended long ago %aunt rose Subject(s): Aunts TO MY AUNT, ON HER BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse shall breathe a native lay Last Line: To bless our little band unite. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Aunts; Birthdays TO MY AUNTY, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: My ever dear an' worthy aunty Last Line: Your sage advice in this to follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Advice; Aunts; Critics & Criticism TRANSYLVANIA, by DIANNE STANNISH Poem Source First Line: My aunt lived there Last Line: Into mine. Twenty-seven, %alone, husbanded by danger Subject(s): Aunts; Travel TUNNEL, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: In my youth I lived for a time in the house of some aunts Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Youth UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn. Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight UPPER PENINSULA LANDSCAPE WITH AUNTS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Home from casino or fish fry Last Line: Through needles' eyes %to the shimmering kingdom of heaven Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Women VISITING AUNT AGGIE AND UNCLE LEW'S, by CRAIG PAULENICH Poem Source First Line: I cannot recall the whole house Last Line: Ascension into my own bed Subject(s): Aunts; Card Games; Children; Uncles WIDOWS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's playing cards with my aunt Last Line: The one who has nothing wins Subject(s): Aunts; Mothers; Widows And Widowers |
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