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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BALLOONS Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AEROPHORION: THE AIR BALLOON, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail then ye daring few! Who proudly soar Last Line: And drinks in skies serene the unsullied stream of day. Subject(s): Balloons AIRBORNE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: In the racetrack parking lot, just a few spaces down from 'the tent Last Line: Or the whistles or the screaming engines Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Air Travel; Balloons; Tourists BALLOON MAN, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He always comes on market days Last Line: They would look pretty in the sky! Subject(s): Balloons BALLOON MAN, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clustering rainbow-grapes Last Line: Peddling joy %on the end of a string Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Balloons BALLOONISTS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: See the tall man there in the top hat Last Line: And the cheering imperceptibly subsides Subject(s): Air; Balloons; Tourists; Travel CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In just - / spring - when the world is mud- Last Line: Wee Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Balloons; Language; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Spring; Words; Vocabulary CHASING MEMORIES, by GENE FEHLER Poem Source First Line: Across the parking lot, empty save Last Line: And echoes from bursting childhood balloons Subject(s): Balloons; Memory FANTAISIES DECORATIVES: 2. LES BALLOONS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against these turbid turquoise skies Last Line: With the rubies of the lime. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Balloons FROM A BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! We are loose. Hear how they shout Last Line: That stares into eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Balloons; Earth; Future Life; Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HELIUM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For some reason you got up that morning Last Line: And we were glad of this Subject(s): Balloons HELIUM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For some reason you got up that morning Last Line: And we were glad of this Subject(s): Balloons IN SOAPSUDS STREET, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: Come down! Come down, balloon! Subject(s): Balloons LINES TO MISS F., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "forbear, sweet girl; your scheme forego" Last Line: But keep their sister angel there Subject(s): Air Travel;angels;balloons;beauty;faces;women ODE TO MESSRS. GREEN, HOLLOND, AND MONCK MASON, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lofty-minded men! Last Line: And all be von'd, because of your descent! Subject(s): Balloons; Flight; Flying PROGRESS OF BALLOONS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assist me, ye muses (whose harps are in tune) Subject(s): Balloons RED BALLOON, by CORY BROWN Poem Source First Line: There was this red balloon tied Last Line: The speck that was no longer there Subject(s): Balloons; Children SIESTA, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an aftermath of lying, lying Subject(s): Balloons SONNET. TO A BALLOON LADEN WITH KNOWLEDGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even Last Line: Shall dart like truth where falsehood yet has been. Subject(s): Balloons THE 'MONSTRE' BALLOON, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The balloon, the great balloon Last Line: Will all join in three cheers for the 'monstre' balloon. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Balloons THE BALLOON, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen balloons set, haven't you? Last Line: 't was only a balloon Subject(s): Balloons THE BALLOON MAN, by JEAN M. BATCHELOR Poem Text First Line: How can he unenraptured stand Last Line: Seeing it shrink, all worlds are so. Subject(s): Balloons; Bubbles; Happiness; Joy; Delight THE BALLOON MAN, by HOWARD MUMFORD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balloons like a a flock of colored birds, hovering over his Last Line: Sky! Subject(s): Balloons THE BALLOON PEDDLER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the man on chestnut street Last Line: And prick them with a pin! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Balloons THE BALLOON, 1819, by MOSES Y. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Huzza! Huzza! Clear, clear the way! Last Line: "the balloon—don't ascend to-day!" Subject(s): Balloons; Bowery, New York City; Friendship THE TOY BALLOONS, by EDNA BECKER Poem Text First Line: The mirrored dining room was filled Last Line: And held by boards and plastering! Subject(s): Balloons THE TOY-BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wuz a big day wunst in town Last Line: "columby, happy land!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Balloons; Toys TO MR. BLANCHARD, THE CELEBRATED AERONAUT IN AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From persian looms the silk he wove Last Line: A more sublime, enchanting scene %than thought depicts or poets feign Subject(s): Balloons; Blanchard, Jean Pierre (1753-1805) UNLESS IT WAS COURAGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again today, balloons aloft in the hazy here Last Line: But I was happy, and my happiness made others happy. Subject(s): Courage; Happiness; Hot-air Balloons; Valor; Bravery; Joy; Delight WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets |
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