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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BEAUTY Matches Found: 1436 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "AEGLE, BEAUTY AND POET, HAS TWO LITTLE CRIMES", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "she makes her own face, and does not make her rhvmes" Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets "DO NOT, O DO NOT PRIZE THY BEAUTY AT TOO HIGH A RATE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Through their own delay Subject(s): Beauty;pride;vanity; Self-esteem;self-respect "THE RUBAIYAT OF PRINCE ALEXANDER, SELS.", by PRINCE" "ALEXANDER [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "for some are false, - the empire and the crown" Last Line: And shall through all the ages yet unscrolled! Alternate Author Name(s): "alexander, Prince; Subject(s): Beauty;memory;soul 1944, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Get out, sheila,' he said, 'quit the place now Last Line: You'll rip marriages asunder with hair like that Subject(s): Beauty; Marriage A BEAUTIFUL LADY, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We like to listen to her dress Last Line: "miss josephine is going by." Subject(s): Beauty; Women A BEVY OF BEAUTIES, by J. KNOX CHRISTIE Poem Text First Line: With paper, pen, patience, and pleasure as well Last Line: Would you claim as your choice from this bevy of beauties? Subject(s): Beauty; Women A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your fair looks inflame my desire Last Line: O farewell, my life's treasure! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And would you see my mistress' face? Last Line: And this is that my soul pursueth. Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 28, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reprove not love, though fondly thou hast lost Last Line: Receives her due increase. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Beauty A BOY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the noise of tired people working, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Boys; Beauty; War; God A CANTICLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely is daytime when the joyful sun goes singing Last Line: Of glimmering petals down an air from far away. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature A CATCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along comes love / in the semblance of a boy Last Line: And grief turned joy! Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Boys; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Paradise; Songs A CHALLENGE, by WILLARD SNOWDEN Poem Text First Line: Name me the fairest flower of earth Last Line: I'll love and worship and adore. Subject(s): Beauty A CONSTANT HEART, by F. CLAY Poem Text First Line: Let him who will sing beauty's praise Last Line: O constant heart! Subject(s): Beauty A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 2. PROSERPINE BY LAKE PERGUSA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lifted on hollow lands and grassy miles Last Line: Dark lover, death, -- was he not beautiful? Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Lakes; Persephone; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds; Proserpine; Proserpina A DESCRIPTION, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing her worth and praises high Last Line: Two alabaster pillars stand, Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Beauty 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 DIZZYING SURMISE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if that fieriest substance - found so late Last Line: When the loosed afreet towered against the spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 10 Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Hate; Life; Love; Destiny A GARDEN ROSE, by G. LELAND GREEN Poem Text First Line: The whole world knows / that a garden rose Last Line: Is the loveliest thing that grows. Subject(s): Beauty A GARLAND FOR HELIODORA, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll frame, my heliodora! A garland for thy hair Last Line: Queen of them all, the red red rose, the flower which lovers love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses A HEALTH, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone Last Line: And weariness a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Mccausland, Georgiana A HINT TO CYNICS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, beauty, love, delight Last Line: That's blended with decay? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Cynicism; Love; Youth A HOP AT SARATOGA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hall is ample; gilded arches shine Last Line: That cheerful and majestic measure. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Time A LADY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are beautiful and faded Last Line: That its sparkle may amuse you. Subject(s): Beauty; Women A LADY'S BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladye, thy white brow is fair Last Line: On thy lip, and in thine eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Beauty A LOOK-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND: BEAUTY, A SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, alas! Where waft thou born Last Line: Heigho; and yet he eyes me not. Subject(s): Beauty A LOVE SONG FROM THE NORTH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me no more of thy love, papeeha Last Line: To me, forsaken of love? Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love A LOVELY WOMAN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now I can see what helen was Last Line: I ever saw, in any place. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty A MEMORY OF 1876, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ages past, before the forest deep Last Line: In the valley of the blue juniata. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Memory; Past A MOOD, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are so light and gay Last Line: It knows where it would go. Subject(s): Beauty A NATURALIST'S GRIEVANCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Flames there are that sink and chill Last Line: Charming every rapt spectator! Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Nature; Summer A NEW DIALOGUE OF THE DEAD; ODYSSEUS AND ARISTOTLE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: News from the earth, odysseus! 'tis of you Last Line: Thou hast endured, -- but o these literary men! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Truth A NEW SCULPTOR, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once to my fancy's hall a stranger came Last Line: "here is thy neighbor." Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Sculpture & Sculptors A NEW WOMAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Spring blossoms with a world of eyes Last Line: "a drowsy, faint ""dood night!" Subject(s): Beauty; Women 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 PAINTING OF MA-LIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just because you painted it so, ma-lin Last Line: Give wings to the heart! Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Death; Life; Paintings And Painters; Dead, The A PARAPHRASE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty that must me delight Last Line: Would make a mistress to my mind. Subject(s): Beauty; Love A PICTURE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her brown hair plainly put away Last Line: Heaven's beauty to an earthly face! Subject(s): Beauty A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism A PRAYER FOR A BEGINNING REIGN, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who is order, beauty, power and glory Last Line: Over a kingdom worthy, the world's wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Beauty; Coronations; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Prayer A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PRETTY WOMAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That fawn-skin-dapple hair of hers Last Line: Smell, kiss, wear it -- at last, throw away! Subject(s): Beauty A PROPER ROUNDELAY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See thou, my joy, my care Last Line: Through beauty beyond compare. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Faces; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight A PUBLIC DANCE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midst a crowd disorderly / walked a dreamer, angels seeking Last Line: Which every green oasis misses. Subject(s): Beauty A QUESTION, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maid, with your cheeks and chin Last Line: Had he to sing you? Subject(s): Beauty; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids A REPLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My poems no longer are 'beautiful' Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A REVERIE ON HATHERLEY CHURCHYARD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Nay, mock me not with shifting human smiles Last Line: For thou art righteousness, and love, and christ, and god! Subject(s): Beauty; Churchyards; Earth; Love; Nature; Truth; World A RHYME, by J. A. DAWE Poem Text First Line: I have seen great beauty Last Line: To let me die, to let me die. Subject(s): Beauty; Oxford University A ROSE-BUD BY MY EARLY WALK, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Youth; Beauty A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize Last Line: For after dying all reprieve's too late. Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Love; Destiny A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High state and honours to others impart Last Line: So give up my game. Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Love; Destiny A SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is any one sad in the world, I wonder? Last Line: And what heart sorrows? O no, not mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Light; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; World A SONG IN SEASON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose beauty Last Line: And its roots bears fruit forever. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Love; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG OF RICHES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will you give to a barefoot lass Last Line: Is the only millionaire. Subject(s): Wealth; Beauty; Riches; Fortunes A STORY OF A, B, C, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: When I'm going to town of a morning Last Line: Whomever her dreams desire! Subject(s): Beauty; Girls A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A SWEET CONTENTION BETWEEN LOVE, HIS MISTRESS, AND BEAUTY, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love and my mistress were at strife Last Line: For I awaked, and nothing saw. Subject(s): Beauty; Love A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She might, so noble from head Last Line: Drunk with the unmixed wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Women; Beauty A THREEFOLD TRIBUTE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To tenderest affection Last Line: With ripe luxuriance soon. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Music & Musicians; Summer A TRAGEDY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: O king darius! Well I knew Last Line: One whom I glorify. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Nature; Spring; Tragedy A VARIATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of this! Last Line: Reverently and adore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hate; Love - Complaints A VISION OF BEAUTY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where we sat at dawn together, while the Last Line: And before the glory fallen every other dream lay dead. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty A WINTER'S NIGHT IN IRONDEQUOIT, by EMMA MAGIN BISSELL Poem Text First Line: Oh, what a night in irondequoit! Last Line: They blaze before their eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Memory A WOMAN, by JOHN C. ADLER Poem Text First Line: Gold in the sunlight Last Line: Be the woman I love? Subject(s): Beauty; Women A WOMAN OF SIXTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shock came when I went up to her coffin Last Line: That might have been immortal given place. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Funerals; Life; Women; Dead, The; Burials A WOMAN WRONGED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead and in my grave Last Line: Let me alone. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ABLUTION, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door Last Line: "shall wreathe thy hair while thirsting for thy song." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flirtation; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women ACCUSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this is what you meant Last Line: If this is what you meant? Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Moon; Rain; Shadows; Sky ACTRESS SCORNS WEALTH AND HONOR TO PRESERVE HER CHASTITY, by LI YU+(2) Poem Source First Line: Beauty's power to stir the heart Last Line: They think - she's shy Subject(s): Beauty; Chastity; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) AD ASTRA: 16, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Nature is like a woman greatly loved Last Line: No answering love-light to our own replies! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Women AD ASTRA: 63, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When will he learn to look on thee aright Last Line: A true heart-union and espousal prove. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love ADMONITION, by FREDERIKA BLACKNER Poem Text First Line: We cherish the things that pass Last Line: Never knowledge. Subject(s): Advice; Beauty ADVICE, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could endure to have you die Last Line: Do not survive your thirtieth year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Old Age; Dead, The AESTHETIC, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If the creature stalking the poem Last Line: Few origins are so normal and vile %as certain roots of the beautiful. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry And Poets AESTHETIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a garb that was guiltless of colors Last Line: "I was thinking of nothing in space." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Praise; Women AESTHETICS, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your slender throat Last Line: In sudden slantings through the vale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty AFRICAN DANCER, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Your beauty is deep and comforting Last Line: Like the sand in your quicksand beds Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Negritude (literary Movement) AFTER THE STORM, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pathetic beauty in it all Last Line: Gayness to pathos, with no beauty lost Subject(s): Beauty; Rain AGAINST DRESS, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will neaera fondly deck Last Line: Untaught and artless charm the vale. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Nature; Vanity AHOLIBAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning god made thee Last Line: If his were that aholibah. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Women; Theology ALCIDA: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bird of juno glories in his plumes Last Line: Makes beauty wreck against an ebbing tide. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Peacocks; Self-love ALL WHITE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All white, all light, all beautiful she stands Last Line: Even that of death, so thou have loved thy best. Subject(s): Beauty AMERICAN BEAUTY, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Recitation by Author First Line: I was staring out the window across my lawn Subject(s): Beauty AMERICAN BEAUTY, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I was staring out the window across my lawn Last Line: My grandson's face blossoms into perfect beauty Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 17, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glorious portrait of that angel's face Last Line: That can expresse the life of things indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): Her Portrait Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue AMORETTI: 21, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the work of nature or of art Last Line: Such art of eyes I never read in bookes. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sovereign beauty which I do admire Last Line: The wonder that my wit cannot endite. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 31, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Why hath nature to so hard a heart Last Line: Such cruelty she would have soone abhord. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty; Cruelty AMORETTI: 51, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I not see that fairest images Last Line: But having her, my joy wil be the greater. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty; Persistence AMORETTI: 55, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I her beauty do behold Last Line: Be lyke in mercy as in all the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 56, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair ye be sure, but cruel and unkind Last Line: Whom ye doe wreck, doe ruine, and destroy. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 72, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft when my spirit doth spread her bolder wings Last Line: But here on earth to have such hevens blisse. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 79, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men call you fair, and you do credit it Last Line: All other fayre, lyke flowres, untymely fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "the True Fair;""man Call You Fayre, And You Doe Credit It,""; Subject(s): Beauty AMORETTI: 8, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than most fair, full of the living fire Last Line: Well is he borne that may behold you ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "love In Absence;""more Then Most Faire, Full Of The Living Fire,""; Subject(s): Beauty; Inspiration AMORETTI: 81, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is my love when her fair golden hairs Last Line: But this the worke of harts astonishment. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AN ANGLER'S SOLILOQUY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Bright fish, weak victim of my wiles Last Line: Our hearts of guile beware. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares AN ANSWER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one should bring a rose that had been fair Last Line: Square in your face I throw your offering. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Fire; Flowers; Hearts 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 AUGUST SUNSET, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what a glory in the west Last Line: Than in the first flush of its power. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Evening; Sunset; Twilight AN AUTUMN MORNING, by TERESA LARKIN CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I stepped without my doorway Last Line: Of wondrous opulence. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Seasons; Fall AN ELECTIVE COURSE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bloom that lies on fanny's cheek Last Line: As teaches me to love it much. Subject(s): Beauty; Harvard University AN ELEGY: TO AN OLD BEAUTY, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain, poor nymph, to please our youthful sight Last Line: He wrapped in wisdom, and they whirled by whim. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty AN EMPTY GLOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An empty glove - long withering Last Line: The poor husk of the hand I loved -- and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Gloves; Love; Time; Mittens; Muffs AN ENGLISH GIRL, by F. WYVILLE HOME Poem Text First Line: Speak, quiet lips, and utter forth my fate Last Line: Or let the cold green wave go over me. Subject(s): Beauty AN EPITAPH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a most beautiful lady Last Line: This lady of the west country? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence AN EPITAPH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last, stone, a little yet Last Line: Sharing in solitude her dreams with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence AN HYMN IN HONOUR OF BEAUTY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Whither, love, wilt thou now carrie me? Last Line: That can restore a damned wight from death. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AN HYMN OF HEAVENLY BEAUTY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rapt with the rage of mine own ravisht thought Last Line: Thy straying thoughts henceforth for ever rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty AN HYMN OF HEAVENLY LOVE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, lift me up upon thy golden wings Last Line: Kindled through sight of those faire things above. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty; Jesus Christ AN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The arching skies, the ancient wind Last Line: Deeper than mortal minstrelsy. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Love; Soul; Trees AN INTERLUDE * OF RARE BEAUTY, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seal in the depraved wave Last Line: No more than our affection / for naming. Subject(s): Beauty; Montague, John (b. 1929) AN IRISH BEAUTY, by ELLEN FORRESTER Poem Text First Line: Dark eyes softly beaming, and pearly teeth gleaming Last Line: My own darling nora, sweet nora magee. Subject(s): Beauty AN ITALIAN BEGGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, little girl, the road beside Last Line: For this land of lands and this day of days! Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Flowers; Hearts; Italy; Roses; Italians AN ODE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helen, did homer never see Last Line: So much my subject drowns the rest. Subject(s): Beauty AN ODE TO BEAUTY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, thou secret lamp, awake! Last Line: "and dare the grave!" Subject(s): Beauty AN OLD MASTER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw a picture yesternight Last Line: The white-pure moon looked out. Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Storms; Transience; Impermanence AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ANACTORIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is bitter with thy love; thine eyes Last Line: Thick darkness and the insuperable sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Life; Love - Nature Of ANGEL OR WOMAN, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thy beauty appears Last Line: But still be a woman to you! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Beauty; Innocence; Love ANGELICA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that heaven my wish hath granted Last Line: Gets so very quickly cold. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs ANNIE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie is fairer than her kith Last Line: For many a weary day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Hearts; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ANNIE LEE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Annie lee is fair and sweet Last Line: Tho' so fair to look upon. Subject(s): Beauty; Duplicity; Deceit ANOTHER RACE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, let me lead you, blind father Last Line: Feeding madness and beauty both! Subject(s): Beauty ANSWER, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: I demanded beauty, tasking Last Line: Guard your words! Subject(s): Beauty; Prayer; Wellesley College ANSWER TO CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, fairest proof of beauty's power Last Line: Who, dying thus, persists to love thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Nature; Tears; Youth ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing! Last Line: Present me to thy blissfull throne. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The; Nightmares APOLOGY TO A LADY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair sylvia, cease to blame my youth Last Line: And never settle more! Subject(s): Beauty; Forgiveness; Love; Women; Youth; Clemency ARIEL, by ANNE W. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Now with the wistful days Last Line: Shimmering gossamer! Subject(s): Beauty 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 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 ARTHURIAN SONGS: 4. GUENEVERE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God rest the lady guenevere Last Line: And for her soul pray we. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love Affairs; Prayer; Dead, The AS A VIOLINIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a violinist bends a loving face Last Line: So the poet looks to god, and yearns and sings. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Soul; Violins; Songs ASSAULT, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten how the frogs must sound Last Line: From one house to another! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Frogs AT A READING, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spare professor, grave and bald Last Line: Or flaw, and curls about her neck. Subject(s): Beauty; Scholarship & Scholars AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 2. FORMER BEAUTIES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn Last Line: Them always fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Transience; Fairs; Pageants; Impermanence AT DAWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The war of your great beauty is in all the skies Last Line: I am bewildered with multiplicity. Subject(s): Beauty AT LENNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By lake como's sylvan shore Last Line: I would dream that I am floating on the lake of long ago. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Life; Roman Empire; Nightmares AT MADDAME MANICURE'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daintiest of manicures! Last Line: And light up and twinkle so! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Hands; Manicurists AT PARTING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so we part! Last Line: And I have heart to rhyme. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Lips; Smiles; Separation; Isolation ATALANTA, by ELLINOR L. NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: She danced like a swirl of petals down Last Line: Of dreams buried deep in her heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Girls ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 18, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And it was the time of full moon Last Line: Cracking whips and shouts and halloing Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Beauty; Death; Arthur, King; Dead, The AUGURY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That girl in the stilettos and tight dress Last Line: They topple over and crush any man %who's still alive Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships AUGUST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She'll come at dusky first of day Last Line: And I will follow her away. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Love; May (month); November AUGUST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead is the air, and still! Last Line: Beauty, thus rethroned, accepts and blesses her children Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): August; Beauty; Life AUGUST (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mellow month and merry Last Line: With bangles in your hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Seasons AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now leafy winds are blowing cold Last Line: Upon another heart in tune. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN BEAUTIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From stubble field, woodland and meadow Last Line: Nothing could lovelier be. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Fall AWAKENING, by DOROTHY HOLLOWAY PFLAGER Poem Text First Line: With loving hands, a chiffon veil they bound Last Line: But feast on heights and depths forevermore. Subject(s): Beauty AWAY ABOVE A HARBORFUL, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Beauty; Desire AYANNA'S BLUES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: She had the kinda' beauty Last Line: Brokenphoenix fire, geechee woman blues Subject(s): Beauty; Women B IS FOR BEAUTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My girl has reached that lovely state Last Line: It thin away so soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'ONCE I LOVED A MAIDEN FAIR', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one! If thus kind you be Last Line: When y' are not, forsake you. Subject(s): Beauty; Love – Nature Of; Likes & Dislikes BALLROOM DARK, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With heavy eyelids I am still in love Last Line: And my lust for the girl at the next table Subject(s): Beauty; Parties BARTER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Life has loveliness to sell Last Line: Give all you have been, or could be. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets BATHER, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him do down to the water to bathe Last Line: Swift as the flight of a swallow and sure as the pounce of an eagle Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Beauty BE NOT AFRAID OF BEAUTY, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be not afraid of beauty when Last Line: And waste your heart away. Subject(s): Beauty; Fear BE'MI'STER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet be'mi'ster, that bist a-bound Last Line: My bwones when I do vall asleep. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer; Towns; Walking BEAUTIFUL EYES, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: E'en as the wand'rer for the forest's shadow Last Line: If thine eyes did not greet me there! Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes BEAUTIFUL LADY, by SHEILA BARBOUR Poem Text First Line: Clear windows catch your figure as you go Last Line: And your still face casts its cool look at you. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTIFUL NIGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh beautiful night, oh, beautiful night Last Line: Of those charms which the earth doth possess. Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Night; Bedtime BEAUTIFUL SLAVE, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black, yes, but beautiful. Sweet paradox Last Line: But whose dark eyes shine brighter than your day Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Beauty; Love - Cultural Differences; Slavery BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow! Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow. Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young Last Line: Than the young. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women BEAUTIFUL WORLD!, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful world! Though bigots condemn thee Last Line: From the god who did frame thee! Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What if I didn't shoot the old lady Last Line: Would the dead rise up and walk? Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Beauty; Death BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cathedral evening, tinkle of candles Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by LOUISE ABEITA Poem Source First Line: Beauty is seen Last Line: And even in your rest Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ABU HAFS Poem Text First Line: Upon her eyes they gazed Last Line: The world deep shadows fall. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: To catch some fragment from her hands Last Line: Whose thoughts are all the mysteries? Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horns to bulls wise nature lends Last Line: Fire and sword with ease subdues. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Women BEAUTY, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horns to bulls wise nature lends Last Line: Fire and sword with ease subdues. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Women BEAUTY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Blessed be beauty, that awaits Last Line: And all their world was good. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, thou wild fantastick ape Last Line: Wouldst damn me. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by JOHN CROSS Poem Text First Line: I shall be ever near thee; snow or rain Last Line: Flashing like sunlight on a falling tear. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was never form and never face Last Line: To die for beauty, than live for bread. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: To have it, you must make it Last Line: Composed, illuminated, wrung to clarity Subject(s): Beauty; Portraits BEAUTY, by JESSAMINE S. FISHBACK Poem Text First Line: Blue haze of autumn etching scrolls against the skies Last Line: Though all that dies, I know, shall live again. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEAUTY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is not a set and flawless rule Last Line: To draw the curtain for a last goodnight! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauti's no other but a lovely grace Last Line: Of lively colours, flowing from the face. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by L. L. HERSHBERGER Poem Text First Line: Beauty smiles from the rugged hills Last Line: Beauty's there! Have eyes and see it! Subject(s): Beauty; Vision BEAUTY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the medication she was taking Last Line: That, too, was beautiful Subject(s): Beauty; Brotherds And Sisters; Aging; Transience; Impermanence BEAUTY, by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis much immortal beauty to admire Last Line: Love and delight shall with delight devour! Alternate Author Name(s): Thurlow, 2d Baron Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEAUTY, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: It's time to put a swan on a lake, a few Last Line: Wings. Bring on the damn swans, anything that's beautiful %deserves its day Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Swans BEAUTY, by NEETA MARQUIS Poem Text First Line: They tell me winds of england stir Last Line: How should I bear the ecstasy? Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Last Line: Are her voice, and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEAUTY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much bunk is sprung concerning beauty Last Line: "warts." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Virtue; Women BEAUTY, by CHARLES MARIE PHOTIUS MAURRAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, that burns enshrined in the depths of my heart Last Line: No longer sees the bar 'twixt life and death! Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the grace of beauty, and it holds Last Line: When beauty's sun lights up life's 'wakening skies. Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEAUTY, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With naught the world contains or small or great Last Line: And yet, o beauty, touch us with thy might! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ARMEL O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: The sun shines bright in many places Last Line: Timeless beauty is my share. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whole round of the year is filled-is built Last Line: Past souls unconscious of the wealth they bear. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by STANLEY R. REDMAN Poem Text First Line: And this ... A whispered song Last Line: One lovely vision seen, 'tis beauty. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And shall not beauty reign beyond the grave? Last Line: May I forget thee, o beauty, and thy dearth! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a sword in the sun Last Line: Ah, but its stay is its flight! Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by CLARENCE SHARP Poem Text First Line: O beauty that I can not spell! Last Line: Until fit measure I repay. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty still walketh on the earth and air Last Line: Or noble music with a golden ending. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found no beauty Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps, her hiding-place unknown Last Line: To press his lips to hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does it mean? Tired, angry and ill at ease Last Line: Flies what yet lives in me: beauty is there Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping waters / dense verdure Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEAUTY, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping waters %dense verdure Last Line: So much beauty, %will it kill our death? Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEAUTY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty shall not lead me Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEAUTY, by FRANKLIN N. WOOD Poem Text First Line: I know the variable day will bring Last Line: These find rare beauty in the commonplace. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not of beauty she is good Last Line: The hard heart of a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY & RESTRAINT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We decided to make nothing definite Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Paradise BEAUTY & RESTRAINT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We decided to make nothing definite Last Line: Even the sun, hovering in this paradise, %eventually goes down Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven BEAUTY (1), by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough Last Line: Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now. Variant Title(s): One Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 1;a Young Bride (1) Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY (2), by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the wild hyacinth flower, which on the hills is found Last Line: Until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground. Variant Title(s): A Young Bride (2);one Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 2 Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY AGAIN, by GEOFF TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: Beauty's gone out of fashion, like pyjamas Last Line: Or praise these ugly streets Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion BEAUTY AND BEAUTY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When beauty and beauty meet Last Line: After -- after -- Subject(s): Beauty; Soldiers' Writings BEAUTY AND HER VISITORS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I looked for beauty:-on a throne Last Line: He shall not hurt you; -- sit to lawrence.' Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: That the transactions would end Last Line: And someone says, %no, this is my body Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her fur new-licked, the whitetail fawn Last Line: As they depart, and curse them. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Beauty And The Beast; Cruelty; Zoos BEAUTY AND TIME, by J. C. Poem Source First Line: What thing is beauty? 'nature's dearest minion!' Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY AS A SHIELD, by ELSIE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I will hold beauty as a shield against despair Last Line: And if there's something, I can still hope on. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY BE NOT CAUSED - IT IS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That you never do Variant Title(s): Poem: 516; Poem: 65 Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY COMPETITION, FR. BADAN DARIDAH, by FAHMIDA RIYAZ Poem Source First Line: The hips undulate, so what? Last Line: Do, please, measure some limb of yours! Subject(s): Beauty; Muslims BEAUTY CROWDS ME TILL I DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let it be in sight of thee Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY IN DEATH, by A. M. WATTS Poem Text First Line: We see a beauty in the dying leaves Last Line: A life with words and deeds of love aglow. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Death; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The BEAUTY IN MY HAND, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: Beauty, by my door Last Line: That I may understand. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY IS CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: All joy is not encased in the green bud Last Line: Nor warmth in snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Flowers; Roses; Seasons BEAUTY IS EVER TO THE LONELY MIND, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY IS VAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While roses are so red Last Line: And hide her away in a shroud. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Vanity BEAUTY KILLS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In virginia / I stalled a while watching a bay horse Last Line: Or makes him what he is Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY MAKES US HAPPY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy's the man who does thy beauty see Last Line: And safely say of thee, that heart is mine. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY MARKS AN URGE, by HALLIE DAVIS MASS Poem Text First Line: The grass returns to spears of brilliant green Last Line: Beauty is as old as the love of god. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY NEAR AT HAND, by ELLEN G. HILLEBOE Poem Text First Line: Thank god for gift to realize the wealth Last Line: Thank god for so much beauty near at hand! Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY OF LIFE, by MARY MILES COLVIN Poem Text First Line: Beauty of life has been given to me Last Line: "thank god for the beauty I've found today." Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love BEAUTY OF THE WORLD, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not what men see Last Line: To nobleness in small things, act of grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY OR FLIGHT, by DENVER BUTSON Poem Source First Line: The man who jumped from the highway bridge one afternoon Last Line: Who was trying to regain some sense of beauty, some sense of flight, %in its final dying seconds Subject(s): Beauty; Bridges; Death; Flight; Suicide BEAUTY ROHTRAUT, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the name of king ringang's daughter? Last Line: Hush! Hush! Wild heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY SECRET, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful %and the hideous Last Line: Made to seem %natural %and right Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Poetry And Poets BEAUTY SHIELDS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The snow has fallen softly through the night Last Line: Be suffered and ignored by wise humanity. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Snow BEAUTY STILL WAITS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blent delight of summer! Far and faint Last Line: To show her forth, for man's most fond regard. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Summer BEAUTY THAT IS NEVER OLD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When buffeted and beaten by life's storms Last Line: The only beauty that is never old. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love BEAUTY THAT KNOWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if my julia's happy eyes Last Line: And double every charm! Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY TREADS SOFTLY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I am remembering an august night Last Line: "in each grateful heart." Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY UNPRAISED, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is only you Last Line: None possess it Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY WITHOUT CHARM IS ONLY PLEASING, by CAPITO Poem Source Last Line: Fishing with bait but no hook Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY'S BABE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: A babe was born to beauty: the new care Last Line: "since now you rule the mistress, wife and mother." Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Infants BEAUTY'S BURDEN, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weighed down beneath a clustering load Last Line: Or note or scent that beauty's hand hath made. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY'S LIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Think not her face is patched with pink Last Line: Lost its soul's light in consequence. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty BEAUTY'S SOUL, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Yes, beauty dies; / beauty of flowers and eyes Last Line: Doubt not it shines and sings. Subject(s): Beauty; Wellesley College BEAUTY; PINDARIC ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty! Thou master-piece of heaven's best skill Last Line: By his own doom from beauty doom'd for me. Subject(s): Beauty; Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) BEAUTYWORKS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...All kinds of beauty in the world dense pressed-down spots in grass Last Line: Always on the other side of conciousness, no way .. This is beauty ... %to understand a thing about Subject(s): Beauty; Nature BEFORE THE TIME OF MOWING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in long seedling grass the meadows lie Last Line: Such is her descant. Nay, but thou art pale! Subject(s): Beauty; Comfort; Death; Love; Nature; Dead, The BESSIE, by W. WETHERBEE Poem Text First Line: Form so neat, tres petite Last Line: That is bessie. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty BETTER THAN BEAUTY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty hath a silken skin Last Line: Beauty cannot conquer love. Subject(s): Beauty; Love BETWEEN TWO LOVES, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I gotta love for angela Last Line: So w'at I gona do? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Variant Title(s): I Can No Marry Both O' Dem Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BEYOND THE HOUR, by MONROE HEATH Poem Text First Line: These hills have stood too long Last Line: Than linger, broken and diminished. Subject(s): Beauty; Past; Time BLACK CAMEO ON PINK QUARTZ, by JOHN W. BURTON Poem Source First Line: Yours is not a beauty Subject(s): Beauty BLACK EYES, SNUB NOSE, WIDE MOUTH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the speeding train, thinking Subject(s): Memory; Beauty; Old Age BONNIE ANN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gallants bright, I rede you right Last Line: Beware o' bonnie ann! Subject(s): Beauty BOW OF BEAUTY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow of beauty, arching o'er us, tinted with unearthly dyes Last Line: Love's and mercy's light assuming, like the rainbow it doth shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Cupid; Heaven; Jews; Love; Eros; Paradise; Judaism BRIDAL SERENADE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, thou sittest alone above Last Line: I'll bless thee dying at the door. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BROKEN DREAMS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is grey in your hair Last Line: Vague memories, nothing but memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Love - Erotic; Memory BROKEN OFF, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: In the spring-time of youth didst thou bless me Last Line: I leave thee for death. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Pride; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity BURNING LEAVES IN SPRING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When withered leaves are lost in flame Last Line: Eternal beauty, back to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Leaves; Spring BY THE AZOFF AND EUXINE SEAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saw you ever face so fearless Last Line: Blossom of the glowing south! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Beauty; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians CAELIA: SONNETS: 9, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, my thoughts (for you each minute fly Last Line: To get a love, a beauty so divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Beauty CALGARY OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives Last Line: The cloudless sapphire heaven of her territorial skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Beauty; Calgary, Canada CALISTO, OR THE CHASTE NYMPH: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As jupiter I made my court in vain Last Line: To bind your friends and to disarm your foes. Variant Title(s): Spilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken By Lady Wentworth Subject(s): Beauty; Crowne, John (1640-1703); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nations; Nymphs CANTICLES 5:6, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: Oh! How his pointed language, like a dart Last Line: Do the vain world no form or beauty see. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary CANTIGA, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full of grace exceedingly Last Line: Beautiful as she? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Sailors And Sailing CERTAINLY BEAUTY, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly beauty has a prevailing lover Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty CHAITIVEL; OR, THE LAY OF LOVE'S UNFORTUNATE, by MARIE DE FRANCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and lovers, may ye dwell Last Line: And so they two fight on till doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Shaftesbury, Marie, Abbess Of Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Love; Women; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CHAMELEON, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: Trembling in a doorway Last Line: In your dear name . . . Subject(s): Beauty CHANGEFUL BEAUTY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whether I find thee bright with fair Last Line: When gold or sable turns to grey Variant Title(s): Love In Her Hair Subject(s): Beauty;hair;love CHARADE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What a glorious city! -- behold Last Line: But the warfare is over: there's peace in my third! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The; Destiny CHARITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praised the myrtle and the rose Last Line: In charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Charity; Love; Sun; Philanthropy CHARMIAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter of the sun Last Line: Before thy dangerous beauty: I am free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Daughters; Memory; Soul CHEWING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I've never understood yet always loved Last Line: Chewing a slice of bewley's bread. Subject(s): Beauty CHIAROSCURO, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty was disrobing Last Line: From the garden of june. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Lilies; Nudity; Nakedness CHILD OF SUMMER, by ANNA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose Last Line: "tis lasting beauty to be wise." Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses; Transience; Impermanence CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: TO IANTHE, AND CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been staying Last Line: Ere greece and grecian arts by barbarous hands were quell'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Farewell; Portugal; Conduct Of Life; Travel CHILDREN DANCE: 6. THE LAND, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: We dance on chilean ground, sweeter Last Line: Today we just know how to dance! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Chile; Nature CHRISTMAS EVE: MY MOTHER DRESSING, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother was not impressed with her beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers CHRISTMAS EVE: MY MOTHER DRESSING, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother was not impressed with her beauty Last Line: And held the garment away from her %as she pulled it down Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers CICERONIS AMOR: LENTULUS'S DESCRIPTION OF TERENTIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightsome apollo in his richest pomp Last Line: And all this heaven was but terentia. Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical CLARI, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too cold, o my brother, too cold for my wife Last Line: With a mesh of her splendid hair. Subject(s): Beauty CLASSIC OF POETRY: 42, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A gentle girl and fair Last Line: You are but beauty's gift Subject(s): Beauty; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.) CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear to ask me, why I weep Last Line: My answer to thy dubious verse. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Mythology - Classical; Riddles; Tears; Venus (goddess) CLOTHES PIT, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young women are obsessed with beauty Last Line: The litter of pop thetoric blows down terry street, %bouncespast their feet, into their lives Subject(s): Beauty COAL TOWN, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They scarred the hillside here to build a town Last Line: Beauty is hammering, pounding through my brain. Subject(s): Beauty; Love COLLOQUY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I died for beauty, but was scarce Last Line: And covered up our names. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Truth; Dead, The COLOR, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blue-black nubian plucking oranges Last Line: In that old heaven where things are what they seem. Subject(s): Beauty; Blacks COMES TRUTH! COMES BEAUTY! COMES LOVE! (PRINCESS HELEN'S CHRISTMAS), by JOHN W. STOCKWELL Poem Text First Line: To hear, to speak, to see Last Line: Helen keller's eyes see the shining star! Subject(s): Beauty; Christmas; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Truth; Nativity, The COMMUNION: 1. FIDES, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a peak of limitless ascent Last Line: Radiant upon the starless precipice of birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Future Life; Trust; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COMPANIONED, by EUNICE CREAGER Poem Text First Line: I've sought for beauty in each bud of spring Last Line: Since I have come to know gethsemane. Subject(s): Beauty; Gethsemane COMPENSATION, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I dozed in a chilly dug-out Last Line: And a cleft-open, dew-wet nectarine Subject(s): Dreams; Perseverance; Gifts & Giving; Beauty CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tho' cool the hour, a fever blazed within Last Line: Became our choice. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Sin; Truth; Voices; Nightmares CONSTANTINT THE GREAT: DEDICATION: TO VERNON RENDALL, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lover of greece, her laughter and her tears Last Line: The firm, the brave, the fair fidelities Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Greece; Laughter; Love; Tears CONTRA MORTEM: THE WOMAN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among birches moving their white halfnakedness Last Line: Given and perfect and beyond and inconsolable Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Women COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer. Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight CORYDON - A PASTORAL, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good sir, have you seen pass this way Last Line: No maid at all did this way pass! Subject(s): Beauty; Women; Desire COUTURE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peony silks Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress 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 CUPID'S DARTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry Subject(s): Beauty;cupid;passion; Eros CUPS OF THE TULIPS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tip forward, spilling their snow Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Snow; Tulips CURLY LOCKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curly locks! Curly locks! Wilt Last Line: And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair; Love CURVES, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Of every gesture beauty makes Last Line: The silence into song! Subject(s): Beauty CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not conceal thy radiant eyes Last Line: Make men beleeve no paradice. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Modesty CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HER LOOKING-GLASS, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me leave, fairest cynthia, to envy Last Line: To give life to a glass, as make me stone. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mirrors CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HER RESEMBLANCE, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me cynthia, if (as poets use Last Line: In it, as thy fair cheeks do in the rose. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Virtue CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON SEEING AND TOUCHING, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wert thou as kind as thou art fair Last Line: Exclude me from the rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Love DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife Last Line: His lifeless flesh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]" Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAMARIS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know th' forks of th' road Last Line: The brief delusion can delude no more. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Beauty DANCE FIGURE, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark eyed, / o woman of my dreams Subject(s): Marriage; Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DAPHNE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Here's a tale from times called olden, further / qualified as golden Last Line: Not a laurel, but a wall-flower—which is not an evergreen! Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Unrequited; Mythology DARK WOMEN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must not cease from singing Last Line: Outweighed them one and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Memory; Women DAWN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet miles of golden sky Last Line: A little rose-bud of a song. Subject(s): Beauty; Dawn; Sunrise DE EROTIO PUELLA, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This girl was sweeter than the song of swans Last Line: My child-love and my playmate -- snatcht away. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Loss Of DE RERUM NATURE: BOOK 4. THE ARGUMENT, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet first his owne high prayses sings Last Line: Retaine mens love, when beauty fades away. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Praise DEAF TO LAUGHTER, by MEREDITH MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Say this of beauty, she was yours and mine Last Line: Beauty sprang from rapture an hour ago. Subject(s): Beauty DEAR ELIZABETH: (FOR ELIZABETH DIFIORE), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are almost all homely Last Line: Told by a wanderer totally blind. Subject(s): Beauty; Women DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grave-worm revels now Last Line: It is the second birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Grief; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death found strange beauty on that cherub Last Line: The signet-ring of heaven. Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Tears; Death - Babies DECALOGUE OF THE ARTIST, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of god Last Line: That most marvelous dream of god which is nature Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Creation; Nature DECRIED, by J. ROY ZEISS Poem Text First Line: Of beauty there will be always Last Line: Condemn the madonna? Subject(s): Beauty; Fruit; Mary And Martha (bible); Sun; Women In The Bible DEFINITION OF BEAUTY IS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Since heaven and he are one Variant Title(s): Poem: 988; Poem: 79 Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven 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 DELY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' lak toddy wahms you thoo Last Line: Dat's enuff 'uligion. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Beauty DEZIR, by MICER FRANCISCO IMPERIAL Poem Source First Line: Passing on no vain journey was I upon the Last Line: And that alone is worthy to be put beside %her face Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses DIALOGUE OF WATCHING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me celebrate you. I Last Line: One more beautiful than you Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women DIANA, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lower thy large pure eyes Last Line: Oft beauty snares and slays. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Beauty DIE NEUE MUSIK, by ROGER CALDWELL Poem Source First Line: They are beautiful people. Composer alban berg Last Line: Then for another's, inaccesible, but loved the more Subject(s): Beauty DIEU! QU'IL LA FAIT, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God! That mad'st her well regard her Last Line: God! That mad'st her well regard her. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Beauty DIM FACE OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim face of beauty haunting all the world Last Line: To a little sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Men; Peace; Stars; Nightmares DISCLOSURE, by EDNA HOWE Poem Text First Line: The transient butterfly declares Last Line: And a diviner duty. Subject(s): Beauty; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs DISCOVERY (2), by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty walked over the hills and made them bright Last Line: And I have paid thee with my thankfulness. Subject(s): Beauty DIVINE PORTRAITURE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: An artist painted a fair scene Last Line: Till beauty overpowers each taint. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Grief; Love; Soul; World; Sorrow; Sadness DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals, Last Line: Weave like a web in the air / divinely superfluous beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Desire DO NOT, O DO NOT PRIZE THY BEAUTY AT TOO HIGH A RATE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Beauty DOLORES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lithe-armed, and with satin Last Line: You wear like a gyve round your neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Wine DOMESDAY BOOK: GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, coroner merival, look at this picture! Last Line: And reads this letter to the jurymen: Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul; Tears DOREEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her curled and rosy beauty Last Line: That it must pass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement DOROTHY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes hold black whips Last Line: Under the flame. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Eyes; Hair; Hands DOVETAILS, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: At the shaker exhibit my husband marvels Last Line: Material witness in its fine and delicate bones Subject(s): Beauty; Wood DOWN THE TRAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hell is like this -- first stone Last Line: They must be beautiful Subject(s): Beauty; Hell; Nature DREAM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But now the dream has come again, the world is as of old Last Line: I have denied thou wert at all -- yet still I fight for thee. Subject(s): Dreams; Beauty; Nightmares DREAM LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not deem it half so sweet Last Line: But beauty's self in you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Love; Nightmares DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness DULCIORA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tear that trembles for a little while [or, space] Last Line: The breath of one who breathes in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): Lines Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Paradise EACH AND [OR, IN] ALL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Last Line: I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Subject(s): Beauty; God; Humanity; Nature EARLY WINTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown grass, picked out with red of bushes, tones Last Line: For long-withholden loveliness of june. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; June; Winter EARTH'S COMMON THINGS, by MINOT JUDSON SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: Seek not afar for beauty. Lo! It glows Last Line: While grass and flowers and stars spell out his name. Variant Title(s): In Common Things Subject(s): Beauty; Religion; Theology ECHOES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still the angel stars are shining Last Line: Cry farewell, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Farewell; Night; Voices; Parting; Bedtime ECLOGUE ON ELIZABETH BELSHAM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis betsy! The joy of the plain Last Line: With betsy the joy of the plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Beauty EDGES, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edges are more beautiful than anything Subject(s): Beauty ELABORATE IS THE COURTLINESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Imagination; Nature ELEANOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cherry-red her mouth was Last Line: Joyfully borne along. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Women ELEGANCE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All that is uncared for. Subject(s): Time; Beauty ELEGY: 1.2. BEAUTY UNADORNED, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear girl, what boots it thus to dress thy hair Last Line: The woman pleases well who pleases one. Subject(s): Beauty ELEGY: THE POET INVOKES THE SPIRITS OF THE ELEMENTS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sylphs, who banquet on my delia's blush Last Line: And burst my feeble body's frail control. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Obsessions; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women ELIDORE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her beauty came to his distrustful heart Last Line: To illume a heart, that had its grace, its power, misdeemed. Subject(s): Beauty; Distrust ELUSIVE BEAUTY, by MARGUERITE WARNER Poem Text First Line: Beauty, you are elusive Last Line: And vanish from my sight. Subject(s): Beauty EMERALD ICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a jeweler Subject(s): Beauty; Emeralds; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums EPIGRAM: PERJURY, by ROBERT NUGENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved thee, beautiful and kind Last Line: Twere perjury to love thee now. Alternate Author Name(s): Nugent, Earl Subject(s): Beauty; Transience; Impermanence EPITAPH FOR A DARLING LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All her hours were yellow sands, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Women; Beauty EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What on earth deserves our trust? Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies EPITAPH: 27, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My beauty was Last Line: Of air 'tis gone! Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs ESSAY: BEAUTIFUL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live soldiers swimming through silver Last Line: Comma. Brenda's carnival taffy. Yum. Subject(s): Beauty; Essays ESTHER: 30, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such was the legend. I had read it through Subject(s): Beauty ESTHER: 44, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sublime discussions! Let who will be wise! Subject(s): Beauty; Love ESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, by ETHEL MARY DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Beauty to her was less in rough, gray thunder Last Line: Her more articulate ashes told our blunder. Subject(s): Beauty; Esthetics ESTRANGED FROM BEAUTY NONE CAN BE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before identity was leased Variant Title(s): Poem: 1474; Poem: 151 Subject(s): Beauty ETERNAL BEAUTY, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: Do not regret the passing on of spring Last Line: Against a leaden sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Spring ETERNITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity is a wind-blown husk Last Line: And give me her little hand! Subject(s): Beauty; Fools; Future Life; Life; Love; Sleep; Idiots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EVELYN NESBIT IN MINNESOTA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The cornstalks Last Line: Who, looking, %have become so handsome Subject(s): Beauty; Marriage EXCLUSIONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across my thoughts the old wash of the sea Last Line: (I think there are yet things to be said of god.) Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Evening; God; Thought; Sunset; Twilight; Thinking EXHIBITION, by KATHRYN BUDD Poem Source First Line: Solemn smiles in gilded frames Last Line: Battered-beaten-bold beauty isn't for sale Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Exhibitions; Museums; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the face, however fair Last Line: You only her defects reveal. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prudent nymph, whose cheeks disclose Last Line: And beauty wrecks whom she adorns.' Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Nature; Nightingales FABRIQUE OF THINGS SPENT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All must have beauty, else they pine and die Last Line: The lovely semblance when ye say 'tis flown! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul FAIR IS THE ROSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fair is the rose, yet fades with heat or cold Last Line: So short-lived beauty a vain gloss doth borrow %breathing delight but none tomorrow Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses FAIR VIRTUE: HER BEAUTY, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her true beauty leaves behind Last Line: In a worthy woman's face. Subject(s): Beauty FAITH, by JAMES J. DALY Poem Text First Line: These caressed him Last Line: "close ears and ourselves be beauty?" Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Belief; Creed FAMOUS NIGHT, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: ...By the terraces, near the musical complaint of your hand's Last Line: And night is kneaded by the goodness of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Optimism FANNY: 117, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As any beauty of the highest grade Last Line: She calmly met their gaze, and stood before 'em. %smiling at vulgar taste and mock decorum Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Beauty FANNY; OR, THE BEAUTY AND THE BEE, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fanny, array'd in the bloom of her beauty Last Line: "go forth and be happy—I blame you no more." Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Forgiveness; Insects; Beekeeping; Clemency; Bugs FAUST: SOLDIER'S SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castles with lofty Last Line: Marching away. Subject(s): Beauty; Faust; Life; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; Songs FELISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said between us here Last Line: Good-night, good-bye. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of; May (month) FERN-LIFE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, life! Though it seems half a death Last Line: It may never attain. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Soul FINALE MARINA! IF EVER YOU'D SEEN HER!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wonderful fine she behaved! Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love - Beginnings FIRST SIGHT, by KEN HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: Whenever I see Last Line: I've ever wanted %anyone else Subject(s): Beauty; Sight FIVE ROSES IN THE MORNING, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On tv the showbiz of war Last Line: For us, I mean Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses FLAGELLANTS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is bleeding in thy sight Last Line: O love supreme, o love supreme!) Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The FLEXIBLE, by WILLIAM KULIK Poem Source First Line: It's a beautiful day: sunny, crisp, cloudless. I'm walking down the boul Last Line: That's it. First thing tomorrow, cowboy boots Subject(s): Beauty; Nature FLOS FLORUM, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One only rose our village maiden wore Last Line: As he lov'd her: and all this tale is true. Subject(s): Beauty FLOURINE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little flourine, with golden hair Last Line: Darling flourine! Subject(s): Beauty; Women FOCUSED TO REALITY, by ZOE KERNICK Poem Text First Line: Within the hidden realm of change and flow Last Line: For every well they dipped into was dry. Subject(s): Beauty; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FOOL'S ERRAND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, like a feather in the air Subject(s): Beauty; Cactus; Clowns; Girls FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 6. SPRING DELAYED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you tarry so long, spring? Last Line: The breath and the raiment of god! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Spring; Winter FOR A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, by XU YUAN Poem Source First Line: Pretty eyebrows, envy of the aromatic spring Last Line: Bamboo shadows swaying over clear waters Subject(s): Beauty FOR A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH, by THALIA BELL Poem Text First Line: I always loved the splendour of your youth Last Line: So long as beats one visionary heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Immortality; Youth FOR BEAUTY, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: The day the gardeners planted Last Line: Bruise, like paper imprinted %with the late evening news Subject(s): Beauty; Gardens And Gardening FOR BEAUTY'S LOVER, by ZUELLA STERLING Poem Text First Line: Should you be beauty's lover, vainly shut Last Line: Your step will make upon the frozen ground. Subject(s): Beauty FOR HELEN KELLER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have said many words I much regret Last Line: May I not envy you? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Envy; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision FOR M.W., by JEAN TOOMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no transcience of twilight in Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Beauty FOR MADAME, by ISAAC DE BENSERADE Poem Text First Line: When you behold your graciousness and glory Last Line: With these three goddesses that in her soul unite. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology FOR STOICS, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: No monument shall mark Last Line: But the flesh knows. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dust; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The FOR THOSE GROWING OLD, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: O you who through inexorable years Last Line: That when the body dies, is beauty born! Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Bodies; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness FOR YOU - TRULY, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: I dare not write too lightly Last Line: To tell you what you are! Subject(s): Beauty; Sea; Trees; Writing & Writers; Ocean FORMA BONUM FRAGILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a frail thing is beauty! Says baron le cras Last Line: She dropped the eye, and broke it. Subject(s): Anger; Beauty; Eyes FOUNDATIONS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those lovers old had rare conceits Last Line: One surety that we possess. Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Love FOUR SONNETS: 2, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, you will doubtless win me in the end Last Line: That I could love you more than second best. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Beauty FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you what your fair looks express? Last Line: For pure meetings are most sweet. Variant Title(s): "are You, What Your Faire Lookes Expresse?""; Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Truth FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her fair inflaming eyes Last Line: With a spirit to contend. Subject(s): Beauty FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So sweet is thy discourse to me Last Line: As with it all must shadowed be! Subject(s): Beauty FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. CHERRY RIPE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry! Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Faces; Love; Youth FRAGMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her flowing locks, the raven's wing Last Line: A crimson still diviner! Subject(s): Beauty FRAGMENT, by STELLA LUCIA MANN Poem Text First Line: Oh, let me not to beauty of a tree be blind Last Line: The song on wings against the sky! Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Trees FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day. Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World FRAILTY OF BEAUTY, by J. C. Poem Source First Line: The time will come when, looking in a glass Subject(s): Beauty FRANCESCA, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet of the dawn is she Last Line: Alone, and know. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Beauty; Love FRIAR BACON: A COUNTRY'S BEAUTY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee Last Line: ^1^ tint. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Women FRIENDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The first time I saw beauty and the beast Last Line: I knew my friends, though they'd swapped faces Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Friendship FROM THE FRENCH, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The color of coral and of your lips Last Line: Permitting space and voice to go without reference Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Flowers; Kisses; Love FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women; Nakedness FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Last Line: Most splendid naked, at night Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women 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 GALATEA, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: Through the night you showed me all Last Line: Beauty, are you woman too? Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty GARDEN RIVALS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pansy in the garden-bed Last Line: "likes the larkspur best of all!" Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses GATHERINGS, by MYRTLE JOHNS Poem Text First Line: I am a gatherer of beauty Last Line: Yet they are whole to pass on to you. Subject(s): Beauty GEO-BESTIARY: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it up to if it isn't up to you? Last Line: "the creatures who thought, ""it's just a vulture." Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty GERTRUDE, by J. H. SCRANTON Poem Text First Line: Fair gertrude lives at farmington Last Line: But, by jove, I'd not tell you. Subject(s): Beauty GHAZAL 2, by JOHN FALK Poem Source First Line: A beautiful woman, a sore on her neck Last Line: But we talked and talked till dawn Subject(s): Beauty; Dawn; Women GIANT RED WOMAN, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a delicious problem Subject(s): Beauty; Women GIBRALTAR ROCK, AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has set over spain and the lights of gibraltar Last Line: That beauty has made immortal -- and then forgot. Subject(s): Beauty; Gibraltar; Night; Spain; Bedtime GIORGIONE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bellini %giorgione Last Line: That I have slain you with will god forgive Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Venice, Italy; Women GIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the rivers flowing Last Line: God will give thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nature; Rivers GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We gaze, we also learn to love. Subject(s): Beauty; Perception GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 1. IN AN ITALIAN HILL TOWN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I missed the uses of my mother tongue Last Line: The universal language of a smile! Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Lips; Smiles; Italians GO THOU, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put off thy beauty now, as trees their leaves Last Line: Tingling amid my boughs are only life. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nature GOD GIVE ME EYES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God give me seeing eyes Last Line: God give me eyes to see it where it lies! Subject(s): Beauty; Vision GOD IS AN AMERICAN, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I still love words. When we make love in the morning, Last Line: Alright. It aches like an open book. It makes it difficult to live Subject(s): Beauty GOLD EGG: A DREAM-FANTASY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I swam with undulation soft Last Line: Because you seek within you? Subject(s): Beauty GONE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, with her sparkling beauty Last Line: Where there is eternal day! Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The GOZO MY CHILD IS THE ISLE OF CALYPSO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which made the little hills for to skip so! Subject(s): Beauty; Likes And Dislikes GRACE'S CHOICE, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw fair-featured grace Last Line: But wealth and—looks and pedigree. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beauty; Marriage; Wealth; Heritage; Heredity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes GRAY ARE HER LOVELY EYES, HER CHEEKS, by RUFINUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Than those of silver-footed thetis Subject(s): Beauty GREEK AND CHRISTIAN, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis neither wealth nor youth nor beauty fair Last Line: But all the deeper graces of the soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Soul; Optimism GREY WALLS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Why, though I had seen those things Last Line: Yet ever united? Subject(s): Beauty; Walls GUITAR SONG, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gastibelza, gun on shoulder Last Line: That hath maddened me! Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Songs GUNHILDA, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gunhilda, lady of my love and theme Last Line: She stands with rich sad eyes and ambern hair. Subject(s): Beauty; Love HAVE YOU MET MISS JONES?, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have. At the funeral Subject(s): Funerals; Beauty; Burials HAVENED, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, flower of life, and lay thy beauty's rose Last Line: Upon my heart thy curls' beloved gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Beauty; Love HE BROUGHT BEAUTY, by EMMA WILSON EMERY Poem Text First Line: He brought no flare of romance when he came Last Line: For dust has long since lain upon his eyes. Subject(s): Beauty HE COMPLAINS OF THE BEAUTY OF WOMEN, by RICHARD K. WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: What has thy daughter done Last Line: Are her deep scars? Subject(s): Beauty HE SEEKS A REFUGE FROM THE BEAUTY OF A WOMAN'S HAIR, by RICHARD K. WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: Oh, is there no rest from beauty's caress? Last Line: And the worshiper win to an easy breast? Subject(s): Beauty HE TAPS HIS BELLY AND, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Though beauty shines Last Line: Where she is not. Subject(s): Beauty; Solitude HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes Last Line: Before the unlabouring stars and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Aedh Tells Of The Perfect Beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Love HEART O' BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where are thy white hands, heart o' beauty? Last Line: Heart o' beauty! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Hands; Hearts; Waves; White (color) HELEN GREY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because one loves you, helen grey Last Line: When you yourself are nipped and grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Time HELEN KELLER, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the strength of ages in her face Last Line: Yet walking always in her maker's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life HELEN KELLER WITH A ROSE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Others may see thee; I behold thee not Last Line: Beauty for one and all, gave fragrance for the blind! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses HELEN'S BEAUTY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady, chiefest slave of love her lord Last Line: When april's gone, october bringeth tears. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Goddesses & Gods; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Tears; Youth HELENA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I saw helena. She whose praise Last Line: And know thou art not worth her faintest sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Women HENRY AND EMMA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, to whose eyes I bend, at whose command Last Line: To the true lover, and the nut-brown maid. Subject(s): Beauty; England; Happiness; Love; English; Joy; Delight HER BEAUTIFUL EYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O her beautiful eyes! They are as blue as the dew Last Line: So I grope through the night of her beautiful eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Love; Spring HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O your hands - they are strangely fair Last Line: Like the caress of your beautiful hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hands; Love; Roses HER CALLED HER IN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He called her in from me and shut Last Line: "god called her in from him and shut the door!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Love; Nature; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation HER FACE, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a look upon her face Last Line: To age or rime. Subject(s): Beauty HER HAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of her hair bewilders me Last Line: Whipped out in flossy ravelings of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair HER HAIR; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, blest symptom of consent Last Line: My youthful love shall flourish still. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair HER RIGHT NAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As nancy at her toilet sat Last Line: Your chloe, or your nut-brown maid?' Subject(s): Beauty; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Lavatories; Love; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey; Toilets HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON, by BELLE TURNBULL Poem Text First Line: You call that beauty, child? That regular Last Line: (well, kittens' eyes will open, left alone!) Subject(s): Beauty HERE IS THE PLACE WHERE LOVELINESS KEEPS HOUSE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Shouting, beneath the leaves' tumultuous green. Subject(s): Beauty HERITAGE, by DEMIE GENAITIS Poem Text First Line: These laughter-honeyed children, dirty-faced Last Line: In the arch company of stars and burning suns. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beauty; Children; Heritage; Heredity; Childhood HEY FOR A LASS WI' A TOCHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awa' wi' your witchcraft o' beauty's alarms Last Line: Then hey, for a lass, &c. Subject(s): Beauty; Love HIDDEN BEAUTY, by ELSA BARKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thy form's magic mirror of desire Subject(s): Beauty HIDDEN BEAUTY, by GLADYS BROWN DENISON Poem Text First Line: Here in the forest in the early spring Last Line: For beauty hidden in an ugly place. Subject(s): Beauty HIDDEN BEAUTY, by ISABELLE RUBY OWEN Poem Text First Line: In the dust by the wayside ... Wherever it Last Line: Will surely each kindness repay. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts HIDDEN GEMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what lies in us, till we seek Last Line: Which, seeking, thou shalt find. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Gold; Pearls; Thought; Wealth; Thinking; Riches; Fortunes HINTS FROM THE HIGHTS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And oh, the voices I have heard Last Line: The morning stars sing on and on Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Nature; Beauty HIS LADY'S MIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Those eyes which set my fancy on a fire Last Line: Such eyes, such hair, such wit, and such a hand Subject(s): Beauty HIS PHOENIX, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a queen in china, or maybe it's in spain Last Line: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Youth HOMAGE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elvira, by love's grace Last Line: Is without passers. Subject(s): Beauty HOME, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Let the scholar turn from study and the sailor Last Line: Home is where the heart is, and my heart is all with thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship; Hearts; Home; Love HOME, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a tribute or betrayal when Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Beauty HOMEWARD BOUND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the starry night is gone Last Line: Of our childhood . . . Long ago! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Home; Lakes; Childhood; Pools; Ponds HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is not for the wise, fear is for fools; Last Line: Had perished utterly, oh perfect loveliness of earth and heaven Subject(s): Hope; Wisdom; Beauty; Optimism HORACE: SONG AT THE END OF ACT 4, by PIERRE CORNEILLE Poem Text First Line: The young, the fair, the chaste, the good Last Line: To prove ungovern'd man the greatest beast. Subject(s): Beauty 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 HOW THEY GO ON, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The otherwise beautiful girl Last Line: The same as if they heard and understood Subject(s): Beauty HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 13. ENVOI, 1919, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dumb-born book Last Line: All things save beauty alone. Subject(s): Beauty; Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Singing & Singers; Songs HUMAN BEAUTY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shrine and symbol of god's loveliest creature Last Line: Of that shekinah given to thy trust! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses HUNGER'S DANGER, by MAGDA BRANDON Poem Text First Line: Weary in spirit and faint at heart Last Line: Bartering its birthright away. Subject(s): Beauty HUSKS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: They will not stay Last Line: The fruit ye leave! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Faith; Past; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The awful shadow of some unseen power Last Line: To fear himself, and love all human kind. Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals HYMN TO THE FLOWERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day-stars! That ope your frownless eyes to twinkle Last Line: Priests, sermons, shrines! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; God; Soul HYMN: 2. TO APOLLO, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hah! How the laurel, great apollo's tree Last Line: Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Envy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Youth I DIED FOR BEAUTY, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: What can be said Last Line: In the shallows just below %my pelvic hollow Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Skeletons I DOTE THE MORE, THE MORE I CONTEMPLATE, by VINCENZO MONTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hath graven in thy tender father's breast Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Beauty I HAVE KNOWN BEAUTY, by ISABEL BROWN SHURTLEFF Poem Text First Line: I have known beauty,' the poet said in glee Last Line: "patient, tired, wrinkled, old -- my mother's face." Subject(s): Beauty I HAVE SOUGHT BEAUTY, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought beauty in strange lonely places Last Line: For beauty rests behind the death-barred gate. Subject(s): Beauty I HEAR THE WOODLANDS CALLING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the woodlands calling, and the rid is like the blare Subject(s): Beauty I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some little splinter Last Line: In the hollows of her eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Night; Shadows; Bedtime I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love all beauteous things, / I seek and adore them Last Line: Remembered on waking. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Variant Title(s): To L.b.c.l.m. Subject(s): Beauty I WALK WITH BEAUTY, by IYDA REBECCA HIRSH Poem Text First Line: My lovely garden of flowers and grass was once a desolate spot Last Line: How beautiful are the morning glories round my kitchen door! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening I WANTED TO PENETRATE THE BLAZING HEART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: With the intensity of love Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Passion IBADAN DAWN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mist-hung curtains, adrizzle-damp, draw, fall Last Line: Tumble in her flaming tan! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides ICE STORM, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the hemlocks and broad-leafed evergreens Last Line: Extreme, which I intuit, but can't quite name. Subject(s): Longing; Beauty IDEAL BEAUTY, by FERDINAND DE HERRERA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O light serene! Present in him who Last Line: The immortal still I seek and follow %on to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Herrera, Fernando De Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Heaven; Immortality IDLE HOURS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye idle hours of summer, not in vain Last Line: O'er vasty deeps of the unknown and unseen. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Summer IF I WERE CERTAIN, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were certain, o my dear companion Last Line: Except yourself, except yourself, except yourself. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Beauty; Love IF LOVE WERE MINE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: If love were mine, if love were mine Last Line: Into love and beauty too Subject(s): Work; Love; Beauty IMITATION, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let men take note of her, touching her shyness Variant Title(s): The Gift Of Song Subject(s): Beauty IMITATION, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let men take note of her, touching her shyness Last Line: To flush all silence, may she by these songs %know it was love I have looked for at her hands Variant Title(s): The Gift Of Son Subject(s): Beauty IMITATIONS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That haughty tyranny of thine Last Line: Alone where the cold couch is dressed? Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Beauty; Love - Complaints IMMIGRATION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They arrived and were so beautiful, it was sad Last Line: And animal glitter of one another's eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies IMMORTAL BEAUTY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath october's paling sun how fair Last Line: Like these winged florets, this october day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Immortality; October; Seasons; Fall IMMORTAL JOY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all our roses huddle out of sight Last Line: Shall gently fall upon its sleeping face. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Immortality; Roses; Spring; Joy; Delight IMMORTALITY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sleeping beauty's castle Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Sleeping Beauty; Time; Flies IMPERFECT IS OUR PARADISE, by JOY KATZ Poem Source First Line: An orange leaf on every finger bowl: a dozen tongues Last Line: The not desiring so much more than this: an orange leaf %on every finger bowl. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Oranges IMPERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Earth vaunts no joy that lasts Last Line: Bliss waits you yet! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evil; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight IMPLACABLE BEAUTY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the wide waste the web of twilight trembling Last Line: Hangs, like a scimitar. Subject(s): Beauty IN A CITY PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stretch of lawn as smooth as happiness Last Line: A beauty, and a promise, and a dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Parks; Sin; Urban Life IN A FRIEND'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years have you been known to me, my friend Last Line: You stand revealed, as earlier you were not. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Soul IN A STATION OF THE METRO, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The apparition of these faces in the crowd Last Line: Petals on a wet, black bough. Subject(s): Beauty; Imagism; Paris, France; Subways IN AN ANATOMY LABORATORY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Over our bench in the dissecting-room Last Line: "alive or dead." Subject(s): Beauty; Corpses; Death; Science; Cadavers; Dead, The; Scientists IN AN OMNIBUS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile is like a treachery Last Line: The shadow of water, nought beside? Subject(s): Beauty; Paris, France IN AS MUCH ..., by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When for love it was fain of Last Line: "was done unto me." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Ugliness IN BEAUTY MAY I WALK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: It is finished in beauty Subject(s): Beauty IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life IN EXTREMIS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Her eyelids close - we think she sleeps Last Line: Who reign with him in paradise. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Paradise IN IMITATION OF HORACE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What means those amorous curls of jet? Last Line: To taste these sweets, alas! Is certain death. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Beauty IN MEMORIAM, E. H., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a silver head was bright beyond compare Last Line: Honolulu. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Youth IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure Last Line: Might seem the best to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses IN THE LISTS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I choose the age and fortunate season Last Line: To thank me because I defied! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Fortune; Freedom; Life; Liberty IN THE SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a princess in the south Last Line: Would blossom as a lily might. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Music & Musicians; Night; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.) IN THOSE OLD DAYS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those old days you were called beautiful Last Line: A deeper rhythm hearing mine: can it be indeed for me? Subject(s): Beauty; Memory; Youth IN WHAT CELESTIAL SPHERE, BY WHOM INSPIRED, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The gende music of her speech and mirth Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): Wyatt's Complaint Upon Love To Reason, Wth Love's Answe Subject(s): Beauty INCONSEQUENTIAL THINGS, by RUTH L. DROWNS Poem Text First Line: I love inconsequential things Last Line: Raindripped as the sun returns. Subject(s): Beauty INDIRECT BEAUTY; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet and artist think and care not whether Last Line: That nature should be never dark or hard. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Beauty INOPPORTUNE, by THOMAS H. BRIGGS JR. Poem Text First Line: Too brief her sun of beauty glows Last Line: Not now, not now! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Passion; Roses INVITES POETS AND HISTORIANS TO WRITE IN CYNTHIA'S PRAISE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye wits, that with immortal rhymes Last Line: Thus shall you live by her, and she by you. Subject(s): Beauty ISABEL, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her body's perfect sweet Last Line: Lips that ripen to a kiss. Subject(s): Beauty ISLE OF BEAUTY, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shades of evening close not o'er us Last Line: Isle of beauty, fare thee well! Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Beauty IT CANNOT BE WISDOM, by TANIA BROOK Poem Text First Line: This swift overture that beauty plays Last Line: Inviolate and numb. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness IT DOES UP BEAUTIFULLY, by MARILYN JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: She doesn't look up when I enter Last Line: Where she ironed alone 'til the basket was empty Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers IT IS THE THIRD WATCH. THE GIRL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And the wonder of her under the quilt Subject(s): Beauty IT WAS A GENTLE AIR, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gentle air of lilting spirals Last Line: And cruel and eternal is her laughter of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Melodies; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THERE'S A SKELETON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Girl getting out of her red car Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Nature; Skeletons JANUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee Last Line: God sings the lovely carol of the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight JAPONICA BUSH, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: Tranced in utter dreams she stands Last Line: This is iseult of the white hands. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Women JEAN HARLOW, by GORDON HICKEY Poem Source First Line: From the window king kong is staring at his bed. It is a boig bed, king Last Line: King kong takes a small step toward the bed Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; King Kong; Poetry And Poets JEWEL WORDS, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Give me, o muse, from your great opulence Last Line: For the adorning of dear beauty's brow. Subject(s): Beauty JUDICIUM PARIDIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, when young, 'beauty's the supreme joy' Last Line: Renders me back a saint unto myself! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Beauty; Youth; Aging; Wisdom; Courtship; Time; Likes & Dislikes JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight / pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: Indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Courts & Courtiers; Disasters; Beauty KARINTHA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon Last Line: ...When the sun goes down %goes down Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Youth KEATS WAS AN UNBELIEVER, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keats was an unbeliever,' - so they read Last Line: "he made ""believing"" possible for us." Subject(s): Agnosticism; Beauty; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology KINDLY VISION, by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM Poem Text First Line: Not in sleep I saw it, but in daylight Last Line: Full of beauty waiting till we enter. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne. Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations KRISHNA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I paused beside the cabin door and saw the king of kings at play Last Line: The glittering spray of planets in their myriad beauty fall. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Krishna (god) L'ALBUM D'UNE CANADIENNE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thought, it seems, a pretty thing Last Line: Thy sex to guard, the fair to crown. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Soul LA BEAUTE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am beautiful, o mortals, like a dream of stone Last Line: My eyes, my large eyes of eternally flashing light Subject(s): Beauty LA GIALLETTA GALLANTE OR THE SUN-BURN'D EXOTIC BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the sun, in whom his rays appear Last Line: And by thy gold show like some copper-mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Beauty; Sunbathing LADY FAIR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady fair, have we not met? Last Line: Have we not met, lady fair? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women LADY ISABELLA (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart warm as summer, fresh as spring Last Line: And these had lady isabelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Seasons; Women LAKE COMO IN AUTUMN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From como's curving base of blue Last Line: The sun will bring the spring again. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Lakes; Seasons; Fall; Pools; Ponds LAKE MCCROSSEN, by FREDERIC FADNER Poem Text First Line: The lights that across the dark water Last Line: Must die with the day in its fears? Subject(s): Beauty; Nature LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain was over, and the brilliant air Last Line: Good god, and what is all this beauty for? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Variant Title(s): Landscapes Subject(s): Beauty; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Vision; Willow Trees LANGUAGE OF EYES, by VIMAL C. MANAV Poem Source First Line: How amazing is the language of eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Morality LARKINESQUE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reading in the paper a summary Subject(s): Beauty LAST NIGHT, BELOVED!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Last night, beloved, I saw thee in a dream Last Line: Through space afar—not time's, but love's sublime. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Worship LAST SUPPER, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the shutter of the dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature LATEST FACE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Latest face, so effortless Last Line: And murder and not understand? Subject(s): Beauty LAUDO PUELLAM, by H. A. RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: O christmas girl, whose dainty feet Last Line: O christmas girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flirtation LAYS OF FRANCE: SONG (2), by MARIE DE FRANCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I might go far over sea Last Line: And too fond loving of thy hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Shaftesbury, Marie, Abbess Of Subject(s): Beauty; Love LEISURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this life if, full of care Last Line: We have no time to stand and stare. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty; Leisure; Time LETTER FROM BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What do they tell me? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Letters; Nature; Women LIBERATION BARBIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm visiting barbie again today Last Line: Pretty soon, you'll just buy boxes of barbie hair %with no barbie at all Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Girls; Toys LIFE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Alas poor life, no more will I Last Line: From this intestine warre, & I shall live. Subject(s): Beauty; Contrariness; Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits and illusions have died Last Line: Keeping stones, the flowing sky Subject(s): Beauty LIGHT VERSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the gas lamps light our street Last Line: Those lovely double burners! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers LIKE MUSIC, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your body's motion is like music Subject(s): Beauty LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies, ah, the lilies! Last Line: A lilied beauty bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies LINES, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay yet awhile and watch the shadows lengthen Last Line: Stay yet awhile. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Separation; Isolation LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JUNE 1805, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty, in a beauteous body dight! Last Line: Fair cloud which less we see, than by thee see the light! Subject(s): Beauty LINES TO A LOVELY LADY, by LILIAN C. B. MCA. MAYER Poem Text First Line: Now I have looked on beauty I concede Last Line: She moves across the evening like a song. Subject(s): Beauty 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 LIPS AND EYES, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In celia's face a question did arise Last Line: Weeping or smiling pearles to celia's face Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love LITANY OF BEAUTY, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beauty, perfect child of light! Last Line: Beauty endures to the end of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty LITTLE GIRLY-GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girly-girl, of you Last Line: "calling, ""little girly-girl!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Girls; Love; Memory; Nightmares LOCAL BEAUTY, by REX WILDER Poem Source First Line: We should all live on hill street, with its human rise and length Last Line: Black coffee, the blind cat's chair, the books on the windowsill Subject(s): Beauty LOCHANILAUN, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is the image of my last content Last Line: Your image in the mirrored beauty there. Subject(s): Beauty LOGOGRIPH, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For man's support I came at first from earth Last Line: All these are in my single name exprest. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Beauty; Nature LONG LOOKED FOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the eye hardly sees Last Line: And even I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Peace; Sleep LOOKING ON BEAUTY, by WALTER JOHN COATES Poem Text First Line: I have seen beauty; I have sensed her rhythms Last Line: Deep welling from her glorious life in me! Subject(s): Beauty LORNA LOCKS THE BATHROOM DOOR, by MELISSA HUSEMAN Poem Source First Line: Lorna, thirteen, lays the soft brown eyeliner man Last Line: Like the sea rocks salt, %in wet arms Subject(s): Beauty; Cosmetics LOST AND FOUND, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I found it yesterday, the book Last Line: And know thy blessing haunts me yet! Subject(s): Beauty; Tears; Truth LOST FLOWER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a marsh by the water's brink Last Line: Was wisdom such as I wished unheard. Subject(s): Beauty; Fame; Flowers; Reputation LOTUS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lotus flowers blossomed, and the river was drenched in red. Last Line: Why, then, didn't people look at the lotus Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Beauty; Lotus LOVE, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: Love has been dragged too often through ... Mire Last Line: To tarnish the white splendor of its name. Subject(s): Beauty LOVE AND SLEEP, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lying asleep between the strokes of night Last Line: And glittering eyelids of my soul's desire. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Sleep LOVE IN A LOOK, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me but feel thy look's embrace Last Line: Thy spirit blends with mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Sight LOVE OF BEAUTY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who loves all beauty loves beyond that we Last Line: That is not uttered till the first is gone. Subject(s): Beauty LOVE POEM, by VAGURA Poem Source First Line: Bracelets jingle every time Last Line: How beautiful is the threshing girl Subject(s): Beauty LOVE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beautiful is she, this woman" Last Line: Behind which it blooms Subject(s): Beauty;love - Complaints;women LOVE SONG , by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is a promise of happiness Last Line: And sometimes it is very ugly Variant Title(s): Love In The South Or The Movies Subject(s): Happiness; Beauty LOVE SONNETS OF A BOXER: 1, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Kid, I don't getcha. You say I should box Last Line: He'll be twice homelier than I am to-day! Subject(s): Beauty; Boxing & Boxers LOVE'S BLINDNESS, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now do I know that love is blind, for I Last Line: And all looks lovely in thy loveliness. Subject(s): Beauty LOVE'S BLINDNESS, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They call her fair. I do not know Last Line: Her beauty was of kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of LOVE'S CHARMING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of fifteen, in childlike beauty dight Last Line: These are the spells that charmed my wits away. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Laughter; Life; Love; Voices LOVE'S DAY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tide of dawn silently Last Line: Sing bride! Sing blossom! Sing bird! Subject(s): Beauty; Hair; Life; Love; Passion LOVE'S GREETING, by KATHERINE B. BUSHLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh beauty of nature's divine solitudes Last Line: And in our hearts forever dwells. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship LOVE'S HUMILITIES, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think of thee, to think of thee! Last Line: O sweet, suffice it thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares LOVE'S PERFECT POWER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun of my earthly worship, I declare Last Line: And love beats, burns, and freezes in its place. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Fate; Heaven; Love; Nature; World; Destiny; Paradise LOVE'S SOLICITUDE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou at this moment, love? - what doing Last Line: Light of mine eyes, blood of my veins, my love. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S SUBMISSION, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though it please you light my heart with fire Last Line: Stricken and bleeding at your beauty's feet. Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven; Love; Sacrifices; Paradise LOVE, HOPE, AND BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love may be increased by fears Last Line: For without hope it dies. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism LOVELY DAVIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how shall I, unskilfu,' try Last Line: The charms o' lovely davies. Subject(s): Beauty; Women LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loved one -- gladly would I know it Last Line: These the poet never made. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Vision MA BELLE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For your eyes of heavenly hue Last Line: I dearly love you. Subject(s): Beauty; Good; Love MA BELLE CREOLE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could tongue define / in warbling line Last Line: To sleep beneath thy velvet wing! Subject(s): Beauty; Women MACULATE BEAUTY, by KARL KIRCHWEY Poem Source First Line: To speak of maculate beauty, it is this Last Line: And gasp of brine: but has, being maculate beauty Subject(s): Beauty MADAME D'ALBERT'S [OR D'ALBRET'S] LAUGH, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! That fair neck, too beautiful by half Last Line: But only that sweet laugh wherewith she slays me. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women MADAME DE STAEL, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: There was no beauty on thy brow Last Line: Must mourn their own high doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Prophecy & Prophets; Women MADRIGAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My love in her attire doth show her wit Last Line: "but beauty's self she is, / when all her robes are gone" Variant Title(s): The Poetry Of Dress;seventeeth-century Madrigal Subject(s): Beauty;clothing & Dress;love MADRIGAL, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear or cloudy, sweet as april showering Last Line: And let your weeds lack dew, and duly sterve. Subject(s): Beauty MADRIGAL SET BY THOMAS WEELKES (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Like two proud armies marching Last Line: And dazzled reason yields as quite undone Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Beauty;reason; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals MADRIGAL: 109, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ravished by all that to the eyes is fair Last Line: But beauty and the starlight of her eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Variant Title(s): Poem 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Italian Renaissance MAIDENS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "nine are we who enter, each maiden votaress" Last Line: "gleaming like the star-shine, beautiful to see" Subject(s): Beauty MAIN STREET MUMBLES, by MARY SIEGRIST Poem Text First Line: From out her heaven of heavens beauty looked Last Line: And so main street forever mumbles on. Subject(s): Beauty MALLY'S MEEK, MALLY'S SWEET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking up the street Last Line: Mally's meek, &c. Variant Title(s): O Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet Subject(s): Beauty; Women MANA ABODA, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mana aboda, whose bent form Last Line: "josephs all, not tall enough to try." Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E. Subject(s): Beauty MARCH, by IDA PUTNEY RANSOM Poem Text First Line: Must all the beauty Last Line: To beauty and life. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers MARGARET AND DORA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret's beauteous - grecian arts Last Line: Dora to her poet. Subject(s): Beauty; Social Classe MARGINALIA, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Beauty burns in my own eyes Last Line: As I—so shall I find. Subject(s): Beauty MARIE, ARISE!', by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marie, arise, my indolent sweet saint! Last Line: A hundred times, to teach you early rising! Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Kisses; Love MARTHA, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I would loiter, could I have my way Last Line: —catholic daily tribune Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Beauty; Idleness; Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence MAY'S LOVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love all, you say Last Line: Only me--fair may! Subject(s): Beauty; Longing MCDONOGH DAY IN NEW ORLEANS, by MARCUS B. CHRISTIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cotton blouse you wear, your mother said Last Line: How dear comes beauty when a skin is black. Subject(s): African Americans; Beauty; Negroes; American Blacks MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fair is her body, bright her eye" Last Line: Giveth to lovers all great joy Subject(s): Beauty MEG GOLDLOCKS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye've heard of meg goldlocks of willington dene? Last Line: And their lovers allowed to tread willington dene! Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MELISSA'S BEAUTY IS THE GIFT OF, by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Her bed; the graces gave her grace Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Beauty MEMORABILIA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million years ago and men were not Last Line: As on the night I walked alone by the sea's edge. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Night; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a land, I, too Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth MENACE OF THE FLOWER, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: Flower of drowsiness, %lull me but love me not Last Line: Your hand in mine, %tremble lest you turn %into a woman one day!) Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Solitude MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' DESCRIPTION OF HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tune on, my pipe, the praises of my love Last Line: A sky-born form so beautiful as she. Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: SAMELA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to diana in her summer weed Last Line: Yield to samela. Variant Title(s): Doron's Description Of Samela Subject(s): Beauty; Women MENTAL BEAUTY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty has gone, but yet her mind is still Last Line: Fruition, which in hope will never end. Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1. APOLLO AND DAPHNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hir haire unkembd about hir necke downe flaring did he see Last Line: And with the better foote before, the fleeing nymph to chace Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Mythology - Classical MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opinion is not worth a rush Last Line: She. They say such different things at school. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Body, Human; Beauty; Women MILD BEAUTY, by NORMAN RUDOLPH FREUND Poem Text First Line: Aren't you quite beautiful Last Line: "this is the life,"" they're saying." Subject(s): Beauty; Contentment MILKWEED, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen beauty Subject(s): Beauty MINIONS OF THE MOON, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do not feel the vibrant joy of noon Last Line: —university of california chronicle Subject(s): Beauty; Moon MIRRORS, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I am told that beauty is a reflection Last Line: I am looking at a mirror and a reflection. Subject(s): Beauty; Mirrors; Old Age; Women; Youth MIRRORS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma makes me mad Subject(s): Grandparents; Beauty; Self-doubt; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MODERN BEAUTY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the torch, she saith, and what to me Last Line: The torch, but where's the moth that still dares die? Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical MONOCHROME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut fast again in beauty's sheath Last Line: And self begin to be. Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Sea; Human Race; Ocean MONOTONE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The monotone of the rain is beautiful Last Line: And the peace of long warm rain. Subject(s): Beauty MOONLIGHT PICTURE, by CHARLOTTE G. FRIETSCH GUNTER Poem Text First Line: Have you ever seen the fireflies dance by moonlight Last Line: That come to me on shining rays from distant star. Subject(s): Beauty; Night; Bedtime MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MORNING, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tip-toe on morning star, 'mid purpling light Last Line: Her melting glory in his arms of gold. Subject(s): Beauty; Love MOST BEAUTIFUL, by GUIDO GOZZANO Poem Source First Line: But the most beautiful of all is the un-found island Last Line: Tinting herself with blue, the color of faraway Subject(s): Beauty MOST BEAUTIFUL, by ENRIQUE HERNANDEZ MIYARES Poem Source First Line: O knight, pursue thy way with courage free Last Line: That she will ever be most fair of all! Subject(s): Beauty; Knights And Knighthood MOST BEAUTIFUL SWEET THING, by SHAMIM AZAD Poem Source First Line: I live where %the world's most excellent fruits Last Line: For the harvest's golden grains %in this place, like this Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven MRS. SMITH, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I trod these fields with di Last Line: She wears balmorals. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements MT. STUART, by J. A. LAURIE Poem Text First Line: Riven, rent, and cragged Last Line: We mountaineers unfurl old glory. Subject(s): Beauty; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MUNECA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Doll and wrist %first limp, then preciosa Last Line: Manipulate a pretty %spanish bit Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Man-woman Relationships; Toys; Women MUSE & DRUDGE (1), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as I am I come Subject(s): Beauty MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O soul of mine, look out and see Last Line: My bride -- my bride that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love - Marital; Marriage; Soul; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY CREED, by ELSIE CONLEY Poem Text First Line: Beauty is my creed Last Line: Crowned beauty the soul of eternal peace. Subject(s): Beauty MY GARDEN GIRL, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: My garden girl with sunburned nose Last Line: My garden girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Relationships MY LADY'S BATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sky hung dark and shaded Last Line: At the pearl-white glimpse of her.) Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Night; Women; Showers & Showering; Bedtime MY LOVE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like a lily bud Last Line: To love and ne'er to part! Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY MOTHER, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: All shining crowns do not adorn the brows of kings Last Line: And through a full life's usefulness, keep sweet ... Be kind. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mothers MY ROSE, by ELIZABETH WHITE Poem Text First Line: Yesterday, I picked you from Last Line: Lie sleeping in repose. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses MYRTILLA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the difference, neither, more or less Last Line: The latter with its grace. Subject(s): Faces; Beauty; Ugliness MYTHICS, by HELEN CHASIN Poem Source First Line: All the cautionary tales of strange girls Last Line: Now, rewarded, I submit to his transfiguration Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Ondine; Psyche (mythology); Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Women NAKED I SAW YOU, by PADRAIC PEARSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Though it mean death Alternate Author Name(s): Pearse, P. H.; Pearse, Patrick Henry Subject(s): Beauty NANCY WALSH (1), by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not on her gown Last Line: And I will go with thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair NATURE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That custom is a second nature, we Last Line: While how the same is so I comprehend. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Nature; Childhood NATURE OF BEAUTY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sometimes whiteness forms in a clear sky Last Line: Tell where we've really been, much less remain Subject(s): Beauty; Nature NATURE'S LITTLE COMPENSATION, by S. MINANEL Poem Source First Line: Beauty's depressed and tries to hid Last Line: (she never looked good anyhow!) Subject(s): Aging; Beauty NECTAR OF APAM, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Polychromatic beauty Last Line: Nearly four centuries of sorrow and silence Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty NEGLECT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art quickens nature; care will make a face Last Line: Neglected beauty perisheth apace. Subject(s): Beauty NEVER TOO LATE: CANZONE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As then the sun sat lordly in his pride Last Line: Her beauty far more brighter than the sun. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting and sighing in my secret muse Last Line: "wo worth the faults and follies of mine eye!" Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations NEW BEAUTY, by LORETTA COWARD Poem Text First Line: In after time this shall be beautiful Last Line: Come and taste here of this eternity. Subject(s): Beauty NEW SPRING: 35, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Care not, if my love I'm telling Last Line: But believes them poetry. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 7. VOICE OF A FRENCH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so the songs must go unsung Last Line: And I am well content. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Nightmares NO IMAGES, by WARING CURNEY Poem Text First Line: She does not know / her own beauty, Last Line: And dish water gives back no images. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity NO ONE SEES BEAUTY, by ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK Poem Text First Line: So many times have I made testaments Last Line: And life tastes sweeter with each faltering breath. Subject(s): Beauty NO SECOND TROY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I blame her that she filled my days Last Line: Was there another troy for her to burn? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Women NO WORDS CAN REACH, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Today, the world is gay with jewel trees Last Line: It climbs a height that words can never reach! Subject(s): Beauty NOBODY HOME, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In matters intellectual she's somewhat ineffectual Last Line: That such a lovely picture greets our eyes! Subject(s): Beauty NOLI ME TANGERE, by ELLEN GLINES Poem Text First Line: Touch beauty, and she flies; laces of frost Last Line: The intimate small kisses of the rain. Subject(s): Beauty; Touch (sense) NOMADS OF BEAUTY, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For you - ancestral acres Last Line: Your steppe flowers like stars. Subject(s): Beauty NONPAREIL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let others from the town retire Last Line: Though I were sure 'twould end in pain. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Flowers; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight NOT OUR GOOD LUCK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not our good luck nor the instant peak and fulfillment of time gives us to see Last Line: Of the far stars, remember we also have known beauty. Subject(s): Beauty 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, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How has november won Last Line: How close the tears! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; November; Tears; World O FORTUNATE FIELDS THROUGH WHICH MADONNA GOES, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That is not kindled with my passionate pains Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Beauty OBERMAIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Obermais! Obermais! / charming bit of paradise Last Line: Thou hast won my heart and soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Joy; Delight; Paradise OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 28, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-cheeked laura, come Last Line: Selves eternal. Variant Title(s): Silent Music;laura Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Seduction; Singing & Singers; Songs OBSERVE THE ROSE-BUD ERE IT BLOWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Let time possess it when it dies Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;roses;time OCTOBER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the world a-muse, and earth and sky Last Line: Down unillumined aisles the requiem wind. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Nature; October; Pan (mythology); Sky; World OCTOBER, by HENRI DEWITT SAYLOR Poem Text First Line: There's a murmur in the meadow Last Line: For the pageantry of fall. Subject(s): Beauty; Fields; Gardens & Gardening; October; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose soft and rosy hues Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: To all that breathe the airs of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Wine 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 TO A COUPLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My queen, how beautiful Last Line: She will marry me Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Beauty; Love ODE TO BEAUTY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who gave thee, o beauty Last Line: Unmake me quite, or give thyself to me! Subject(s): Beauty ODE TO SPRING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark! Did ye hear them - the rumours afloat Last Line: Bird-like to sing mid its own fragrant bower! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Spring; World ODE TO THE EARLIEST SNOWDROP, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Chaste flower, I fear to do thee wrong! Last Line: A rival host should mar. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Life; Winter ODES II, 8. TO BARINE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If, o barine, you paid whatever penalty Last Line: Recently virgins, fearful you will fascinate their husbands to dallying delay Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Beauty; Duplicity ODES IV, 10. TO LIGURINUS, A BEAUTEOUS YOUTH, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, thou yet art fair, my ligurine Last Line: Why am I old? Or why was ever young? Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Youth ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 8. AMORET, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If rightly tuneful bards decide Last Line: Sweet amoret in all her prime. Subject(s): Beauty OF A CERTAIN GENEROUS LADY, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Because this brook has quenched another's thirst Last Line: Because she's not content with loving you? Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Beauty; Generosity OF BEAUTY, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do I here! What's beauty? 'las Last Line: One fit for love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Beauty; Love OF BEING NUMEROUS, 32, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only that it should be beautiful, Subject(s): Beauty OF MODESTY, SELECTION, by MARY MOLLINEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus modesty, and spotless innocence Last Line: The heart, where vertue should prevail and reign. Subject(s): Beauty; Modesty; Virginity; Vestals OF QUINTIA AND LESBIA, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quintia is handsome, fair, tall, straight, all these Last Line: All graces and all wit from all hath bore. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Beauty OF TIME, by RICHARD FANSHAWE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let us use it whilst we may Last Line: Love may return, but never lover. Variant Title(s): Of Beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Time; Transience; Impermanence OF TRANSIENT BEAUTY, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-flower and flower of grass and flower of flame Last Line: The years may fashion an immortal name. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Beauty; Transience; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Impermanence OFF THE IRISH COAST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls on the wind Last Line: Ever for love that stung? Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Gulls; Ireland; Love; Seagulls; Irish OH HEART BE GLAD, by LILLIE REED ZORTMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh heart, be glad, be strong as one who knows Last Line: Oh heart be glad! Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Hearts; June; Sunset; Twilight OH SHE IS AS LOVELY - OFTEN, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And tallness stood upon the sky like a sparkling mane Subject(s): Roman Empire; Beauty OH, HER BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, her beauty was such that it Last Line: Till I had thanked god for so rescuing me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces OH, MY LOVE HAS AN EYE OF THE SOFTEST BLUE, by CHARLES WOLFE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Eyes; Beauty OLD YOUTH, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing very beautiful and nothing very gay Last Line: Than a tall stone temple that may stand too long. Variant Title(s): Little Things Subject(s): Beauty OLIVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who may praise her? Last Line: She remembers. Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love; Praise; Optimism ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look where she sits in languid loveliness Last Line: The wind-flower, -----delicate and full of grace. Subject(s): Beauty ON A BEAUTY WITH ILL QUALITIES, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistaken nature here has join'd Last Line: As unsuspected, as unseen. Subject(s): Beauty; Deception; Duplicity; Deceit ON A FAIR BEGGAR, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot and ragged, with neglected hair Last Line: And those fair locks shall pour down showers of gold. Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Cophetua, King (legend); Love ON A JUNIPER-TREE, CUT DOWN TO MAKE BUSKS, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst happy I triumphant stood Last Line: And of loves temple keep the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Soul; Trees ON A LADY WHO FANCIED HERSELF A BEAUTY, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes Last Line: That runs his link full in your face. Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 6th Earl Of; Middlesex, 1st Earl Of Variant Title(s): On Dorinda Subject(s): Beauty; China (porcelain); Love; Passion ON A LONELY SPRAY, by JOSEPH STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: Under a lonely sky a lonely tree Last Line: All that is lonely, and is beautiful! Subject(s): Beauty ON A PAINTER, by MARGETTA FAUGERES Poem Text First Line: When laura appeared, poor apelles complain'd Last Line: The charms which destroy, or the charms which repair. Subject(s): Beauty; Paintings & Painters ON A PICTURE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Among the faces of these girls Last Line: This garden in epitome. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls ON AN ANTIQUE MEDAL, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wine which gave the antique ecstasy Last Line: The immortal beauty of sicilian maids. Subject(s): Arethusa; Beauty; Transience; Impermanence ON AN ILL-NATURED BEAUTY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose's bloom her cheek adorns Last Line: And in her tongue we find the thorns. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Women ON AN ODDLY BEAUTIFUL FACE, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: Looking at you Last Line: To get to the end Subject(s): Beauty; Faces ON BEAUTY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is sometimes personified Subject(s): Beauty ON BEAUTY; A RIDDLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resolve me, cloe, what is this Last Line: Of idle tales, and foolish riddles. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Kisses; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Riddles ON BEING MADE A PRESENT OF AN ANCIENT CHINESE STIRRUP, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mandarin who set his foot in this Last Line: A mountain view, a breath of mountain air? Subject(s): Beauty; China; Nature ON BEING SHEWN A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY SEAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We grant they're thine, those beauties all Last Line: For others to enjoy! Subject(s): Beauty; Property ON MRS. MARGARET PASTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet Last Line: Now she is gone, the world is of a piece. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Mrs. Margaret Paston, Of Barningham, In Norfolk Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The ON PASTORAL POETRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, poesie! Thou nymph reserv'd Last Line: The sternest move. Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Poetry & Poets ON PRESENTING A MIRROR, TO BE PLACED IN LADIES' CLOAK ROOM, KNUTSFORD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair dancers, since the privilege is mine Last Line: Go! Smiling go! And bliss attend you all. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Mirrors; Appearances ON SEEING A BEAUTIFUL BOY AT PLAY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls Last Line: I sigh to look upon thy face, young boy! Subject(s): Beauty; Boys ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE EPHEMERALNESS OF BEAUTY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cruel thou, while yet the best Last Line: "why have I lost my pristine pep?" Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Beauty ON THE SIGHT OF A GENTLEWOMAN'S FACE IN THE WATER, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, you floods! Do not deface Last Line: A second venus rise. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces ON TOMASIN PARSONS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grow up in beauty, as thou do'st begin Last Line: And be of all admired, tomasin. Subject(s): Beauty ON WHAT PLANET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Uniformly over the whole countryside Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Planets ON WHAT PLANET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uniformly over the whole countryside Last Line: On saturn, with the rings and all the moons' Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Planets ONCE I WAS BEAUTIFUL ABOVE ALL WOMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now my grave is enveloped in cobwebs Subject(s): Beauty; Death ONE ONLY AIM AND THOUGHT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature formed cassandra, who should move Last Line: No aim or knowledge but the thought of her. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Love; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery ONE SPAKE TO HELEN, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Your beauty is a lyric thing Last Line: Your beauty—or my song? Subject(s): Beauty ORCHIDS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Freaks of bright crystal, airy beauties fair Last Line: Without one touch of contact with the ground Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Orchids ORGAN SONGS: I KNOW WHAT BEAUTY IS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know what beauty is, for thou Last Line: All glory else is glorified. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; God 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 ORPHAN GIRLS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: They looked too beautiful Last Line: Bearing no messages from the deep Subject(s): Beauty; Solitude OUR DAILY PATHS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Last Line: By the beauty and the grief alike, we are training for the skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness OUR LIES AND THEIR BEAUTY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved most Subject(s): Beauty; Lies OUR SHARE, by KATE BUTLER Poem Text First Line: We crave our share of beauty, then we strive Last Line: With eye that's keen reaps beauty everywhere. Subject(s): Beauty OUTCRY, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I, loving beauty, must live Last Line: Even you must not guess all my dearth! Subject(s): Beauty; Love OX-EYED DAISIES, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bonny things that ne'er have toiled not Last Line: And breathings even of the infinite. Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Sun OZARKS PICTURESQUE, by DORIS ELIZABETH KROETER Poem Text First Line: Purpling hills, with silver mist enshrining Last Line: Thanking god that beauty fills his soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Ozarks (mountains) PALE-FACE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark are those eyes, a solemn blue Last Line: The very self that made you so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Beauty PAMPINEA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying by the summer sea Last Line: I slept and dreamed of italy! Subject(s): Italy; Beauty; Italians PANSIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pansies! Pansies! How I love you, pansies Last Line: Fair as in the long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Pansies PARAGUAYAN WOMAN, by IGNACIO ALBERTO PANE Poem Source First Line: She was born like the sweetest warbling of the little Last Line: And the blood of pelayo gave glory! Subject(s): Beauty; Paraguay; Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Women PARENTALIA (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The here-and-now finds vigil transfiguring Last Line: In the faint rasp of autumnal flowers Subject(s): Beauty PASQUE FLOWER RETURNS, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the prairies the earth is awaking Last Line: Pasque flower returns! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers PASQUE'S RETURN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the pasque! Again the gift of beauty Last Line: Is lying in the beauty of the cup. Subject(s): Beauty; Spring PASSIONATE DOWSABELLA: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Oh! The red rich honeysuckles Last Line: Swung two butterflies in mid-air. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love PASTELLE IN BLUE, by IDA MAY BORNCAMP Poem Text First Line: Arabesques of morning Last Line: Only fairies know. Subject(s): Beauty; Morning PATCHES OF GOLD FLARING UP UNEXPECTEDLY, by INGRID FICHTNER Poem Source First Line: Patches of gold flaring up unexpectedly Last Line: Silently very fast %tout autre part Subject(s): Beauty; Sun; Time; Water PATSY NELL, by LOUISE POBAR Poem Text First Line: She is a child of divorce Last Line: This gentle, lovely patsy nell. Subject(s): Beauty PAWNSHOP, by ZHU XIANG Poem Source First Line: Beauty runs a pawnshop Last Line: She has already closed the door Subject(s): Beauty; Pawnshops PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this peace / that statesmen sign? Last Line: For being man. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Peace PEACH-BLOSSOM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly the hoar-frost freezes Last Line: And life shall never die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches; Spring; Dead, The PENN CALVIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Search high and low, search up and down Last Line: And glad the world is fair! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Calvinists; Life PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (3), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is my love, for april is her face Last Line: The rock will wear washed with a winter's rain. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Just as my fingers on these keys Last Line: And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Music & Musicians; Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible PHAON IN HADES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To-day the very dead would love his face Last Line: Of blame, were I to love his beauty less! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Hades; Persephone; Tears; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina PHILOMELA: WOMAN'S EYES; A QUESTION, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On women nature did bestow two eyes Last Line: Allow of two, and prove not nature vain. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women PHYLLIS, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In petticoat of green Last Line: Her hand seemed milk in milk, it was so white. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Beauty PHYLLIS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O painter, match an english bloom Last Line: To make the lovely child more dear? Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Beauty PICTURES OF MOTHER, by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH Poem Text First Line: My mother's picture as a girl Last Line: The smile of mother mine. Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers; Pictures PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips PILLAR WORK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, the lily blooms supreme Last Line: Fell on their hearts, and heavenly release. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares PIQUED, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: For beauty's sake she lives Last Line: She 's not the entire show! Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Youth PITILESS BEAUTY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty will not let me rest Subject(s): Beauty PLATO, MELENDEZ, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Plato was right, %melendez proves it Last Line: The cherries, the jug Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Paintings And Painters; Philosophy And Philosophers; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Poetry And Poets POEM FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read your lines Last Line: Is still beautiful. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Loss; Salvation; War; Wright, James (1927-1980); Inspiration; Creativity POEM OF THE ONE WORLD, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning / the beautiful white heron Subject(s): Herons; Nature; Beauty POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Last Line: You have used our skulls %for ashtrays Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights POET'S PLEDGE, by MELVIN STITES Poem Text First Line: Oh, it shall be my pleasure Last Line: That it too come beautiful! Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets POINT BALBIANELLO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From lake como's depths ascending Last Line: And the poet's dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Fear; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire PORTRAIT, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Your sunny smile, so bright and gay Last Line: Reposing on your empty head! Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Portraits PORTRAIT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: When rita fared along the village walk Last Line: Breaking a heart—or brightening a day. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, by MARGARET BENGSTON SEVERNS Poem Text First Line: She moves in her surrounding realm Last Line: With naught but tawdry gold and jade? Subject(s): Beauty; Mortality PORTRAIT OF HIS MISTRESS, by ANACREON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, master of the rosy art Last Line: O thou sweet face, speak to me Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Portraits POSSIBLE DEFINITIONS OF 'BEAUTY' AND 'HAPPINESS' [OR, POSSIBLES], by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babies / cry / all / different Last Line: Soft soft in the dark Subject(s): Beauty POST NUBES LUX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sink, sullen rear-guard of the storm Last Line: I half adore thee as divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Storms; Winter PRAISE, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, they are praising your beauty Last Line: Sung in a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas Subject(s): Beauty PRAISES IV: ON THE BEAUTY AND THE WONDERS OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in the early dawn and my hand has fallen asleep Last Line: "more of these shennhandigans could change the world without Subject(s): Beauty; Economics; Politics & Government; Sex; Women PREFERENCE, by CATHERINE LE MASTER ECKRICH Poem Text First Line: I do not like to look too deep Last Line: A truth I'd wish I did not know. Subject(s): Beauty; Perception PRESENTED TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER'S WIFE, YE NIANG, by XU YUAN Poem Source First Line: Her marvelous beauty possesses the fragrant spring Last Line: To gather greenery and enjoy a fine day together Subject(s): Beauty PRETTY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: When charlene, my homely friend Last Line: Gathered up enough courage %to meet me Subject(s): Accidents; Beauty; Facades; Human Abnormalities; Survival PRIE-DIEU, by DONALD DAVIDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of what sins have you made confession here Subject(s): Books & Reading; Beauty 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 PROGRESS OF BEAUTY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When first diana leaves her bed Last Line: Send us new nymphs with each new moon Subject(s): Beauty PSYCHE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her hand the little lamp, and Last Line: For she amor naked spied. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Psyche (mythology) PUS'HTO: THE BALLADE OF MUHAMMAD DIN TILAI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A twist of fresh flowers on your dark hair Last Line: And your hair is a panther's shadow Subject(s): Beauty;hair PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the light; - and then Last Line: To earth or sea or sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery Q & A, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Why must the beautiful always be Last Line: Beauty has no use for you Subject(s): Beauty QUANT SOUVENIR ME RAMENTOIT, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was so assailed by the memory Last Line: Then all this word means nothing at all Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Beauty QUATORZAINS: 4. TO SOUND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, who steals from silence's embrace Last Line: Or sleep for ever in my charmed ear. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Sound; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness QUATRAIN: BEAUTY, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High as a star, yet lowly as a flower Last Line: Strikes, and, behold! The marvel of her face. Subject(s): Beauty QUATRAIN: THE UNIMAGINATIVE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each form of beauty's but the new disguise Last Line: Never the earth's wild fairy-dance shall see. Subject(s): Beauty QUEEN OF THE VALLEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art beautiful, queen of the valley Last Line: Queen of the valley. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers QUEST, by FLORENCE M. BENNELL Poem Text First Line: In beauty's quest I may go far Last Line: Along the path, near my own gate. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses RACE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me here those looks of yours! Last Line: Unto each that yet shall live. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Beauty; Race Awareness; Youth RAPUNZEL, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Think what it must have been like for her, caged Last Line: Brave enough, their own minds not quick enough for %them to save themselves Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Women RE-CREATON, by MARGUERITE CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Breathless, I awake: for lo! Last Line: Break, break my heart again! Subject(s): Beauty; Morning REARMAMENT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass Last Line: Dream-led masses down the dark mountain Subject(s): Beauty; Pacifism; Peace Movements REASON, FOLLY AND BEAUTY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Reason, and folly, and beauty, they say Last Line: Yes,—liked him still better in that than his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REDFIELD FARM, MICHIGAN, by HERBERT BUCKLEN BRADY Poem Text First Line: At dawn the ragged sun - glints splash the morning - glories' lips Last Line: "oh god, our country, our land for always!" Subject(s): Beauty; Farm Life; Love; Mourning; Agriculture; Farmers; Bereavement REDISCOVERY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I go over your earthly body Last Line: Waiting a marriage of heaven and hell in the bed of this world Subject(s): Beauty; Explorers; Sex; Women; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers REEDS POLISH, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Of beauty, %of water Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nature REFUSING YOU IMMORTALITY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should tell, unstinted Last Line: Their own girls loveliest! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty REJECTED ADDRESSES: GEORGE BARNWELL, BY MOMUS MEDLAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: George barnwell stood at the shop-door Last Line: Rum ti, &c. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love REJECTED ADDRESSES: PLAY-HOUSE MUSINGS, BY S. T. C., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pensive public, wherefore look you sad? Last Line: [exit hastily. Subject(s): Beauty; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Life; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Thought; Thinking 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 RELATIVITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only this at last I say Last Line: Distance is the breadth of the soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Life; Nightmares REPLY, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, I seek your image in my heart Last Line: And, somewhere in the wood, a thrush replied. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Vision REPLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My poems no longer are 'beautiful' Last Line: For beauty is made %and not lamented on Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Poetry And Poets REPRISE, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN Poem Text First Line: It was such a short time ago Last Line: Yet today I read a poem—? Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets RHODOPE, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast hera's eyes, thou hast pallas' hands Last Line: But a god who shall win that heart of thine! Subject(s): Beauty RHYME-PROSE ON THE GODDESS OF THE LO, by TS'AO CHIH Poem Source First Line: Leaving the capital Last Line: I stayed lost in hesitation and could not break away Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien Subject(s): Beauty RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon erin’s honor and erin’s pride! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Beauty ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: VOYAGE BY NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The half-moon peer'd from the darksome clouds Last Line: Our number then was two. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Moon; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WOOD SOLITUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In former days, in my life's young morning Last Line: As if she some fearful spectre had seen. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairies; Forests; Life; Solitude; Elves; Woods; Loneliness ROMANTIC FOOL, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Romantic fool who cannot speak! Last Line: Romantic fool who cannot speak. Subject(s): Beauty ROSE PETALS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I looked within the petals of a rose Last Line: Within the petals of a rose. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses ROSES ONLY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not seem to realise that beauty is a liability rather than Last Line: Your thorns are the best part of you. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses ROSINA: SONG, by FRANCES (MOORE) BROOKE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her mouth, which a smile Subject(s): Mouths; Beauty ROTHKO'S YELLOW, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I don't understand is the beauty. Subject(s): Beauty RUTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood breast high amid the corn Last Line: Share my harvest and my home. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Jews; Love; Ruth (bible); Seasons; Women In The Bible; Youth; Fall; Judaism SADNESS BORN OF BEAUTY, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Last Line: From the clear sky, or waters pure of stain? Subject(s): Beauty SAILOR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: That bird flying for the first time Last Line: Who mends torn horizons Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses SAME OLD SONNET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I would a moment of my time engage Last Line: That one can't fathom it with fourteen lines. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations SAMPLES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me not all-this severed bit Last Line: The bottom of an empty cup! Subject(s): Beauty; Creation SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Last Line: Smell of saltwater swimming in the room Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women SARA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SAY NOT THAT BEAUTY IS AN IDLE THING, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Source Subject(s): Beauty SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology SEAL, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty's a stallion plunging in your mind Last Line: Neigh in the flowery chasm. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: 7. THE MEASURE OF BEAUTY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give beauty all her right Last Line: My sovereign is as sweet and fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Worship SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her rosy cheeks, her ever smiling eyes Last Line: Are only greedy of reward. Subject(s): Beauty; Love – Unrequited SECRETS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Blonde charlotte's face is aquiline Last Line: "that rare coquette—""which?"" you must guess!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Polygamy; Secrets; Male-female Relations SEEING A STRANGE WOMAN DEAD, by A. G. BECKMANN Poem Text First Line: She died in her fullest beauty Last Line: May god be with her lovers! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; God; Dead, The SEEKING BEAUTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Cold winds can never freeze, nor thunder sour Last Line: My life's a cheat, let death end my distress. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty SELF-EXAMINATION, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He might be tethered Last Line: To do with us? – madly flashing in the light. Subject(s): Beauty; Cancer, Breast; Radiology; Regret SEPIA FASHION SHOW, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Their hair, pomaded, faces jaded Last Line: You got at miss ann's scrubbing Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Beauty SERAPION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, child! Thou silent, shy Last Line: Thy father now, thy brother then. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Love; Soul; Childhood SHADOWS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song of shadows: never glory was Last Line: The shadow of thy beauty over me. Subject(s): Beauty; Shadows SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I on the palos verdes cliff Last Line: How beautiful are both these nothings Subject(s): Life; Death; Beauty; Dead, The SHE IS NOT FASHIONED, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is not fashioned to command Last Line: Ordained to bless this world below. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Saints; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SHE IS SO PRETTY, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: She is so pretty, the girl I love Last Line: Though she's so pretty, and I am so plain. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Simplicity SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in beauty, like the night Last Line: A heart whose love is innocent! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Love SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, by VARIS SHAH Poem Source First Line: Her lips are scarlet-red as rubies Last Line: Their stake is lost to start with Subject(s): Beauty SHE WAS A BEAUTY, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a beauty in the days Last Line: When madison was president. Subject(s): Beauty; Past SHE'S FAIR AND FALSE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's fair and false! That such a heart Last Line: Fade icy-cold in depths and gloom. Subject(s): Beauty; Duplicity; Women; Deceit SHOULD I SUDDENLY, by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON Poem Text First Line: Should I suddenly call you beautiful Last Line: Oh, beautiful, do you understand me? Subject(s): Beauty SIEGE: 7, by LJUBA MERLINA BORTOLANI Poem Source First Line: Great is my power over all your movements Last Line: Regret for having been afraid of beauty Subject(s): Beauty SILENCE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Silence walks through the city Last Line: How beautiful she was. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Silence; Urban Life SILENT SHE STOOD BEFORE ME, IN THE LIGHT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The idol of our worship to adore Subject(s): Beauty SKY SONG, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower of the alps told the seashell: 'you're shining' Last Line: I said: she's beautiful, so beautiful, she moves me Subject(s): Surrealism; Beauty SLEET STORM, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: There is a thought that haunts me in the night Last Line: Is pain the only soil where splendor grows? Subject(s): Affliction; Beauty; Ice; Night; Storms; Bedtime SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'ornament of asia' and the 'crown' Last Line: Her rise, make asia's fall magnificent. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Death; Nature; Sea; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The; Ocean SNOWQUEENSNOWKING, by KINGA FABO Poem Source First Line: When I was beautiful with hate and around-around / when Last Line: But already it wasn't possible Subject(s): Beauty SO GAY A FLOWER BEREAVED THE MIND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tradition ought to know Subject(s): Beauty SOLID LIKE THE CRADLE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Song of the blessed sharp breaks in the breath and opening the oyster there's a moment of hush Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flowers; Roses SOMALI SHOPPING FOR ORGANIC FIGS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking out of the health food store Subject(s): Beauty; Surprise; Women SOME FOLKS IN LOOKS TAKE SO MUCH PRIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: But ain't he beautiful within! Subject(s): Beauty SOME PENCIL-PICTURES: TAKE AT SARATOGA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your novel-writers make their ladies tall Last Line: The dearest objects of their fondest pride! Subject(s): Beauty; Saratoga, New York; Women SOMEDAY, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Someday my needy fingers Last Line: And beauty will call me friend. Subject(s): Beauty SONET WRITTEN IN PRAYSE OF THE BROWNE BEAUTIE ..., by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thriftles thred which pampred beauty spinnes Last Line: Twixt faire and foule therefore, twixt great and small, %a lovely nutbrowne face is best of all Variant Title(s): The Thriftles Thred Which Pampred Beauty Spinnes Subject(s): Beauty SONG, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're as lovely as a dawn of winds Last Line: In the passionate, silent forest way. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Woods SONG, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty and merit now are join'd Last Line: Is sure too much for me Subject(s): Beauty SONG, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said to my heart, to my restless heart Last Line: "but makes the pains of the past more dear!" Subject(s): Beauty; Healing; Melodies; Cures SONG, by GIL VICENTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou art sleeping, maiden Last Line: And waters wide and fleet. Subject(s): Beauty; Love SONG, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grace and beauty has the maid Last Line: Cattle, vale or mountain range %as beautiful as she? Subject(s): Beauty; Love SONG, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, lovely rose Last Line: That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Variant Title(s): The Rose Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Flowers; Love; Modesty; Roses; Transience; Impermanence SONG (4), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her; she was lovely Last Line: And hailed the coming day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers,/this big woman Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion SONG FOR A DANCER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream my love goes riding out Last Line: U[pn my lips they laid Subject(s): Beauty; Women SONG FOR A DANCER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream my love goes riding out Last Line: Upon my lips they laid' Subject(s): Beauty; Women SONG FROM THE MOUNTAIN CHANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The voice that beautifies the land Last Line: The voice that beautifies the land Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;nature SONG OF THE OPEN LAND, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We of the open country Last Line: Hail, from the open land! Variant Title(s): Song Of The Open Road Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG TO FANNY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy bloom is soft, thine eyes are bright Last Line: United in the skies for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers SONG TO ONE WHO, WHEN I PRAIS'D MY MISTRESS' BEAUTY, SAID I WAS BLIND, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder not, though I am blind Last Line: Then are you blinder far than I. Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; Visually Handicapped SONG, IN DEPRECATION OF PULCHRITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty (so the poets say) Last Line: My attention from my work! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty SONG: 111, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love doth again Last Line: She shall my heart obtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 55, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Of Love Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 6, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first upon your tender cheek Last Line: They sicken, and expire. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Infants SONG: A BEAUTIFUL MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when the sun at noon displays Last Line: Both light and darkness, night and day. Variant Title(s): Night And Day To His Mistress Subject(s): Beauty SONG: GOOD COUNSEL TO A YOUNG MAID, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze not on thy beauty's pride Last Line: A perpetual blush to thine. Subject(s): Pride; Beauty; Love – Nature Of SONG: MURDERING BEAUTY, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll gaze no more on her bewitching face Last Line: I surfeit with excess of joy, and die. Subject(s): Beauty SONG: ON HEARING A SONG IN PRAISE OF A LADY'S BEAUTY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the lily-brow I prize Last Line: The look that love alone can see! Subject(s): Beauty SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 105, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that spreading light far over the sea Last Line: But yvonne with her scarlet mouth? Subject(s): Beauty SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 107, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What lies across my lonely bed Last Line: The rose of beauty of all time? Subject(s): Beauty SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 35, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes like summer after sundown Last Line: When the wind is gone. Subject(s): Beauty SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 62, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sighed along the garden path Last Line: Spreads like a madness among men. Subject(s): Beauty SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 63, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then I knew the first vague bliss Last Line: Of launcelot and guinevere! Subject(s): Lilith; Beauty SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 64, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew, by that diviner sense Last Line: To glad one mortal lover more. Subject(s): Beauty; Passion SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 79, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was crocus yellow Last Line: Dies in the aspen tree. Subject(s): Beauty; Love – Loss Of SONGS OUT OF THE ORIENT: A BAGHDAD LOVER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O queen of beauty, who hast conquered Last Line: I see the stars shine and white lilies bloom! Subject(s): Beauty; Love 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 SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 20, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, give this humour over Last Line: Live in far more perfect joy. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Happiness; Pride; Women; Youth; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 25, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe beauty has and wit Last Line: And kindly help to quench the fire. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Mercy; Women SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst others proclaim Last Line: And there is no living without her. Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros SONNET, by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lady's presence makes the roses red Last Line: Falls from mine eyes, which she dissolves in showers Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers SONNET, by ALBERT COOTE Poem Text First Line: Your souls are blinded and your eyes deceived Last Line: And search her out with unencumbered eyes. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the golden book of spirit and sense Last Line: But see not twice unveiled the veiled god's face. Subject(s): Beauty; Love SONNET, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have touched hands with peace and loveliness Last Line: The lovely beauty of an evening star. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET (13), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pent in this common sphere of sensual shows Last Line: Earth presses closely, -- heaven is cold and far. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET IN ASSONANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand bluebells blossom in the wood Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Solitude; Loneliness SONNET SEQUENCE: 1, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I care not what the colour of her hair Last Line: Such wondrous beauty in so fair a shrine. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET TO A CERTAIN POET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At beauty's altar fervent acolyte Last Line: Where wordsworth stands, feeding the multitudes. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn SONNET TO G. H. B., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You comfort me as one that, knowing fate Last Line: Some demon works unseen, and saps the pile. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Fate; Grief; Love; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO LADY FITZGERALD, IN HER SEVENTIETH YEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such age how beautiful! O lady bright Last Line: As pensive evening deepens into night. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women SONNET TO MANON: DEPRECIATING HER BEAUTY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love not thy perfections. When I hear Subject(s): Beauty SONNET TO MANON: THE POWER OF HER BEAUTY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lighthearted now. An hour ago Subject(s): Beauty SONNET, TO GENERVA (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe Last Line: I worship more, but cannot love thee less. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Heavenly And Earthly Beauty Combined Subject(s): Beauty SONNET, TO GENEVRA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes' blue tenderness, thy long fair hair Last Line: With nought remorse can claim -- nor virtue scorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: 106, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in the chronicle of wasted time Last Line: Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. Variant Title(s): "beauty Beyond Praise;to His Love;""when In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time""; Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Love SONNET: 130, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Last Line: As any she belied with false compare. Variant Title(s): "my Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun"";common Sense;shakespeare Refuses To Praise His Mistress; Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Love SONNET: 18, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not megaboetes nor cleonymus Last Line: Can win my ganymede; with them t'abide. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic 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: 186, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those eyes, whence love diffused his purest light Last Line: But for his own sad fate, thus wrapt in starless night! Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: 19, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah no; nor I my selfe: though my pure love Last Line: Are dearest unto me, as doth ensue. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 2, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beuty and maiesty are falne at ods Last Line: The lists of love, fought in faire beauties field. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Beauty; Love SONNET: 20. PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sitting, sad, and all alone Subject(s): Memory; Beauty; Youth, Aging SONNET: 26, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is not blind. I see with single eye Last Line: I wonder only why they prize it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of 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: 41, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet why, of one who loved thee not, command Last Line: And cry: such eyes a better poet need. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: 43, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The candour of the gods is in thy gaze Last Line: And a lost music I remember well. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: 45, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare Last Line: Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Euclid (450-374 B.c.) SONNET: 46, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I survey the harvest of the year Last Line: How beauty can be true and virtue fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue SONNET: 65, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Last Line: That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Variant Title(s): "time And Love (2);""since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea""; Subject(s): Beauty; Language; Men; Time; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: BEAUTY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal beauty, truth's interpreter Last Line: Veiled in rich vestures, loved but still unknown. Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: IN PRAISE OF DELIA, by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold is the senseless heart that never strove Alternate Author Name(s): Bamfylde, John Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: OF BEAUTY AND DUTY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two ladies to the summit of my mind Last Line: And duty in the lofty ends of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Beauty SONNET: THE BEAUTIFUL; TO STELLA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things of beauty are not theirs alone Last Line: Or in my neighbor's garden blooms for me! Subject(s): Beauty SONNET:17. ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY, NOW NO MORE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When last we parted, thou wert young and fair Subject(s): Beauty; Transience; Aging; Impermanence SONNETS FOR BEAUTY, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Scatter no tears for beauty culled and slain Last Line: Of that which steeps the heavens and earth in light. Subject(s): Beauty SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 3. BEAUTY UNLOOKED FOR, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Not sweeter was the breast of venus white Last Line: Where silver ripples chime on english shore. Subject(s): Beauty SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 7. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Ah! Beauty, let me wake thee with a kiss! Last Line: Lock thou thine hand in mine,—and have no fear! Subject(s): Beauty SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 13, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew it well; an enemy has been near Last Line: Who came to wound me -- and worse still, to stain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Muses SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 7, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, said the chief of sophists, is born free Last Line: Lady! Is gathered up and sheaved in you. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Soul; Liberty SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 9, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the thoughts of all the minds of men Last Line: And beauty perfect from the hands of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Sea; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Thinking SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown Last Line: Where shall be then the beauty of the globe? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evening; World; Sunset; Twilight SONNETS: 8. BELOVED EYES, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, beneath your lashes' shadow bides Last Line: With wings of pity once more wash them clean. Subject(s): Beauty; Doves; Eyes; Love SOS, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is posted in the clubrooms Subject(s): Beauty SOUL BEAUTY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Grace incarnate, glory's heir Last Line: Ripened for supernal glory. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Soul; Time; Youth SOUTH OF THE ALPS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Signorina angeli, veteran of vogue Last Line: Tell me - why doesn't anything last? Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Transience SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 10, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With a flower I compared you Last Line: While all fall in love with you Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 150, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To me you are the sun Last Line: In the air they go, %in the air Subject(s): Beauty; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 162, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I often pass by the bridge Last Line: If you love me, the same shall I do Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 33, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I heard the praise of your beauty Last Line: And your slender waist Subject(s): Beauty SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 36, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My love Last Line: When she wakes up in the morning Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 37, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beautiful rosy carnation Last Line: Are mine and not yours Subject(s): Beauty; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 40, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Like the water crystalline Last Line: Just a bit more beautiful Subject(s): Beauty; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 44, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My beloved is prettier Last Line: Which open out in the morning Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 45, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A face like your little face Last Line: Can show so much beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Faces SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 46, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lily is purity Last Line: You, my constant love Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 5, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The tiles of your roof Last Line: Must belong to me Subject(s): Beauty SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 6, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The tiles of your roof are wanting Last Line: In the month of april born Subject(s): Beauty; Spring SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants SPIRITUAL BEAUTY, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That pale and shadowy beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Beauty SPRING FANTASIES: 2. THE SPRING RETURNS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring returns! Not as a strange newcomer Last Line: May rest, but gypsy-like fleets on for ever. Subject(s): Beauty; Memory; Nature; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purity of water and the peace Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares SPRING IN THE PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day of april ardors, a careless passerby Last Line: Blossomed and blessed the hour, redeemed the town. Subject(s): April; Beauty; Happiness; Japan; Parks; Peace; Spring; Joy; Delight; Japanese SPRINGTIDE OF THE SOUL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh to fragrant whitening of the bough Last Line: Deep meanings, silent, 'mid earth's melodies. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Spring; Thought; Thinking STALKING BEAUTY, by JOSEPHINE INGRAM Poem Text First Line: Trotting ahead like an eager hound Last Line: The trail leads on with its nose to the ground. Subject(s): Beauty STANZAS ADDRESSED TO ... LADY VISCOUNTESS KIRKWALL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tho' with feeble hand I strike the lyre Last Line: Of simple beauty, but of lasting hues. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Beauty STANZAS FOR MUSIC (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There be none of beauty's daughters / with a magic like thee; Last Line: Like the swell of summer's ocean. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): For Music;nature's Daughter Subject(s): Beauty STANZAS TO THE MARQUISE, by PIERRE CORNEILLE Poem Text First Line: Marquise, if on my face you spy Last Line: Whose printed word may bless or blight you. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Time STARK BEAUTY, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: The cities rise in high serated peaks Last Line: A fitting symbol of the age of steel. Subject(s): Beauty STARLIGHT DISTILLETH, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tree by tree filleth Last Line: All earth is quiet. Subject(s): Stars; Beauty; Night STARS WHICH SEE, STARS WHICH DO NOT SEE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sat by the water. The fine women Last Line: And then its promise, but never the water. Subject(s): Beauty; Seine (river), France; Water; Women STAY THOU, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay thou thy beauty, lovely shape and / shadow Last Line: And hold thy hand still bare against the east. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Trees STELLA AND FLAVIA, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stella and flavia every hour Last Line: Each day give stella more. Subject(s): Women; Charm; Beauty STOLEN MONEY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Stolen money softpedals the darkness Last Line: And a slim man facing the door of hell %beats with a golden hammer. Subject(s): Beauty; Crime And Criminals; Greed STREETS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered through the eight hundred and eight streets of the city Subject(s): Women; Beauty; City & Town Life SUBLIME ILLUSION, by FLORENCE BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I cannot wait until hallucination Last Line: In beauty wrought, or in the sky, a vision. Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Hallucinations & Illusions; Vision SUDDEN BEAUTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go look around the house corner Last Line: Or, maybe, immortality. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Immortality; Stars; World SUNLIGHT THROUGH A WINDOW, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty streamed into my hand Last Line: Like a scar. Subject(s): Beauty SURUGA DANCE (AZUMA ASOBI UTA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah! On udo beach Last Line: The seven precious stones %beautiful from head to toe Subject(s): Beauty SUSTENANCE, by VERLIE PARRY STORY GILES Poem Text First Line: Her heart is fragrant, garden place Last Line: Dispends sustenance of loveliness. Subject(s): Beauty; Gardens & Gardening SWEET MAID, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Source First Line: Sweet maid, you perform a singular feat Last Line: But with strands of your beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Beauty SWEET SIXTEEN, by H. W. BANKS Poem Text First Line: Her voice - like rich and mellow notes Last Line: What must the blossom be? Subject(s): Beauty SWEET TALK, by FERREIRA GULLAR Poem Source First Line: You're more beautiful than a silvery ball Last Line: As the cuban revolution Subject(s): Beauty; Love SYLVIA IN THE SPRINGTIME, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the youth of the year Last Line: Oh, to see sylvia's face! Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Youth SYMPHONY, by BORGHILD LEE Poem Text First Line: Brazilian palm-trees Last Line: Walking to the sea -- Subject(s): Beauty; Brazil; Girls; Brazilians SYNONYMS, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where eons back earth slipped and cracked Subject(s): Beauty; Reality; Nature TAME CAT, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rests me to be among beautiful women Last Line: "is both stimulating and delightful." Subject(s): Beauty TAUT FORM / SLENDER / TAUT AND SLENDER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Iris good thunder oh put on your fatigues Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses TESTIMONY, by ELSIE J. COSLER CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: Testimony comes Last Line: Witness to the rose. Subject(s): Beauty THAT EVENING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What the most beautiful woman god created Last Line: May not be repeated Subject(s): Beauty THE ANACREONTICS: 8, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her (o transcendent sight Last Line: Have felt them in my heart ere this. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Beauty; Women THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 2. PRELUDE. BEAUTY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty deludes. O shaft well shot Last Line: Hangs such a jewel in its snout. Subject(s): Beauty THE ARMOUR OF THE ROSE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The gorse by her parent, the golden broom Last Line: —to ward off the cattle miscall'd menkind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses THE ARRAIGNMENT OF A LOVER, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At beauty's bar as I did stand Last Line: Ever or never Subject(s): Beauty; False Accusations THE ARROW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of your beauty, and this arrow Last Line: I could weep that the old is out of season. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire 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 AWAKENING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauties of the world do master me Last Line: And make my nest and sing the joy thereof. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Soul; Nightmares THE BAKERY WAITRESS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What face lifts, so perfect in profile? Last Line: Curious, how very blind these eaters can be! Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Beauty THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean THE BAYADERE, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays Last Line: The nimbus of a thousand hearts' desire. Subject(s): Beauty THE BEAR'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have taken the woman of beauty Last Line: For her I made this song and for her I sing it Subject(s): Beauty;haida Indians;love;native Americans;women; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE BEAUTIFUL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three things there are more beautiful Last Line: Showing her child before it is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty THE BEAUTIFUL, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful! What is not perfect hero below Last Line: Who scorn the giver, and his gifts despise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Beauty THE BEAUTIFUL BEESHAREEN BOY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, black-eyed boy Last Line: Home to thy orphaned nile. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Arabs; Beauty; Children; Egypt; Childhood THE BEAUTIFUL CITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful city! Forever Last Line: And loosen the trump at the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Fantasy; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE BEAUTY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O do not praise my beauty more Last Line: My cheek begins to clam. Subject(s): Beauty THE BEAUTY OF GOOD DREAMS, by OWEN REDINGTON WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: How rich the world in beauty of good dreams! Last Line: Dream thou great dreams and make more fair the earth. Variant Title(s): Good Dreams Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Soul; Nightmares THE BEAUTY OF THINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things – earth, stone and water Last Line: The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason Subject(s): Nature; Landscape; Beauty THE BEND OF THE ROAD, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that bend of the road, how it baffles, yet Last Line: I must go to the end—I must know what comes after. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Solitude; Loneliness THE BIRD OF PARADISE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art perfected splendor without the / peacock's feet Last Line: With the cunning of a blow-pipe may bring thy beauty down. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Heaven; Paradise THE BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER, by JAMES H. STODDART Poem Text First Line: Away, philosophy and creeds! Last Line: Thy dawn of love, fair musing maid! Subject(s): Beauty; Daughters; Knowledge THE BODY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was Last Line: Over age that darkens, and griefs that destroy? Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Flowers; Roses; Women THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE SINGETH IN THE UNDERWORLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pure is the body in the earth Last Line: And goest on the way Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology - Egyptian THE BRIDE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in white and silver Last Line: The red red roses grew. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Flowers; Love; Roses THE BRIGHT DARK, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: Forever conscript to profoundest dark Last Line: Assume terrestial orbit with the sun's. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Dead, The THE BROWN BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the two contraries of black and white Last Line: You more than any may be dignifi'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Beauty; Black (color); Brown (color); White (color) THE BUBBLE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out springs the bubble, dazzling bright Last Line: The bubble bursts, -- and this is life! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Graves; Life; Nations; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones THE COCOA-NUT TREE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the green and the graceful - the cocoa-nut tree Last Line: There will a picture of beauty be! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Beauty; Cocoa; Islands; Sea; Trees; Ocean THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can Last Line: A living death, from year to year.' Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers THE COMMON LOT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Call it not vain, this life Last Line: Strength to prevail! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nations; Night; Peace; Bedtime THE COMPANIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How few are they that voyage through the night Last Line: By hosts of unknown men. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eyes; Flowers; Soul; Spring; Nightmares THE COMPARISON, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, thy tresses are not threads of gold Last Line: So be within as fair, as good, as true. Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue THE COMPLEMENT, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my dearest, I shall grieve thee Last Line: But, wouldst thou know, dear sweet, for all. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Beauty THE COQUETTE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melinda, who had never been Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Beauty; Flirtation; Youth THE CRYSTAL, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This crystal here Last Line: It, of itself, will constant be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Beauty THE DAFFODIL, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: She wore one day a yellow hat Last Line: "I rather like the line." Subject(s): Beauty; Daffodils THE DAISY'S MISTAKE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunbeam and zephyr were playing about Last Line: "I had now been safe in my native bower!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Kisses THE DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on; we would not touch you Last Line: Dance like a star on the sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Life; Music & Musicians; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE DARK HAIR'D GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my dark hair'd girl, thy ringlets deck" Last Line: "the pride of being loved by my dark hair'd girl / and oh, etc" Subject(s): Beauty;girls;hair;love THE DEATH OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a double gardenia Last Line: A dark brown odor. Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The THE DEED: 2, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sight earth yields our eyes is lovelier than Last Line: That all he is approves what he doth do. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Human Race THE DEFINITION OF BEAUTY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty, no other thing is, then a beame Last Line: Flasht out between the middle and extreame. Subject(s): Beauty THE DOGWOODS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, in the week Subject(s): Dogwood; Beauty THE DOOM OF BEAUTY, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Choice soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see Last Line: That death should spare perfection so complete? Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Beauty THE EGLANTINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting in the summer west Last Line: And memories of the by-past, sad and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses; Youth THE EMULATION. A PINDARICK ODE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Tell me why, deluded sex, thus we" Last Line: "will owe our charms of wit, of parts, and poetry" Subject(s): Beauty;secrets;women THE ENAMEL GIRL, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fearful of beauty, I always went / timidly indifferent Last Line: Dream I am touching a butterfly. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty THE END OF THE WAY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I seen by the winding way Last Line: Jesu, I am tired. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Love - Complaints THE ETONIAN; TO JULIA, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julia, while london's fancied bliss Last Line: And hate a female whipper-in. Subject(s): Beauty; Women THE EXILE OF BEAUTY, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go seeking in the human forest old Last Line: Be ugliness to them, though beauty's self thou art. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Exiles; Lips; Love; Dead, The THE FAIR BUT CRUEL GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind Last Line: "who sees her must love; who loves her, must die" Subject(s): Beauty;love THE FAIR STRANGER; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy and free, securely blest Last Line: Yet kill us if you go away. Subject(s): Beauty; Smiles; Soul; Strangers THE FAREWELL TO FOLLY: DESCRIPTION OF THE LADY MAESIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her stature and her shape were passing tall Last Line: To show what nature's cunning could afford. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women THE FARMER, THE SPANIEL, AND THE CAT, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why knits my dear her angry brow? Last Line: And spurn'd the snarler from his side. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Cats; Dogs; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FATAL ROSE, by LILLIAN MACK Poem Text First Line: In a fairy-like bower / I found a sweet flower Last Line: My rose was a passionate love! Subject(s): Beauty THE FAUN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my garden's silence and seclusion Last Line: Thy pagan soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Past THE FOUNTAIN OF SHADOWY BEAUTY; A DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I would I could weave in Last Line: With thee now I go. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nightmares THE FUGITIVE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty has come to make no longer stay Last Line: But you that die. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The THE GARDEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O what a world of beauty lies within Last Line: With a most tremulous stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Youth; Nightmares THE GARLAND, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pride of every grove I chose Last Line: The justice of thy chloe's sorrow.' Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GIRL WITH THE JERSEY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can sing of the maid Last Line: But the girl with the jersey is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Women THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are one with all the dead, since she is gone Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Beauty THE GOOD COUNSEL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ride thou for the crest, / beauty to thy breast Last Line: For that beauty yet to be! Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Women THE GREAT JOKESMITH, by ARTHUR SPINGARN Poem Text First Line: Those blind to beauty oft have brightest eyes Last Line: I wonder why, I wonder why? Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Truth; Visually Handicapped THE GREAT VIEW, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up here, where the air's very clear Last Line: There is france. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Beauty; France; Nature THE GREAT WAGER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If need be, god of the living universe Last Line: Unless it is one you open and tread with us. Subject(s): Beauty; Evil; God; Nature; Universe THE GUILD OF HER BEAUTY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: What cunning craftsman coin'd the thread Last Line: I'm all consumed with desire? Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Hair; Lips THE HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE ROOM, by WILLIAM MACQUORN RANKINE Poem Text First Line: I've always been told that I'm pretty Last Line: Of the handsomest man in the room. Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Male-female Relations THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay beside you ... On your lips the while Last Line: I hear strange voices calling through the night. Subject(s): Beauty; Ghosts; Kisses; Love; Supernatural; Vision THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 18. GENIUS IN BEAUTY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty like hers is genius. Not the call Last Line: Upon this beauty's power shall wreak no wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Beauty THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 31. HER GIFTS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High grace, the dower of queens; and therewithal Last Line: Breathe low her name, my soul; for that means more. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Beauty 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 IMAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a wild grace I see Last Line: And sleep, o kindest one! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; God THE IMMORTAL, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is still immortal in our eyes Last Line: And hear new stars come singing from god's hand. Subject(s): Beauty; Immortality THE INDIAN EMPEROR: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To all and singular in this full meeting Last Line: Wit live by beauty, beauty reign by wit. Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Love; Mythology - Classical THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): HYMN TO VISHNU, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou that held'st the blessed veda dry Last Line: Unto wise ears he tells. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE EIGHHTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For when the weary night had worn away Last Line: Vilakshalakshmipati.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE ELEVENTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus followed soft and lasting peace, and griefs Last Line: Displayed; may all approve! Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE FIFTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low whispers the wind from malaya Last Line: Sakandkshapundarikaksho.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE FIRST, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful radha, jasmine-bosomed radha Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled samodadamodaro.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE FOURTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then she whom radha sent came to the canes Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled snigdhamadhusudano.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE NINTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet not quite did the doubts of radha die Last Line: Mugdhamukundo.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE SECOND, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus lingered krishna in the deep, green wood Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled kleshakeshavo.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE SEVENTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meantime the moon, the rolling moon, clomb high Last Line: Nadaranarayano.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE SIXTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But seeing that, for all her loving will Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled dhrishtavaikunto.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE TENTH, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But she, abasing still her glorious eyes Last Line: ^1^ much here also is necessarily paraphrased. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS (GITA GOVINDA): SARGA THE THIRD, by JAYADEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thereat, as one who welcomes to her throne Last Line: (here ends that sarga of the gîta govinda entitled mugdhamadhusudano.) Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE ISLANDS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But beauty is set apart Last Line: And from greece. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares THE LADY I HAVE VOWED TO PAINT, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Beauty THE LADY IN ORANGE COUNTY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful lady, loops of country road Subject(s): Seashore; Beauty; Beach; Coast; Shore THE LETTER L, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat on grassy slopes that meet Last Line: "the letter l." Subject(s): Beauty; God; Jealousy; Letters; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LIBELLED BENEFACTOR, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They warned me by all that affection could urge Last Line: "but short-sighted mortals have christened me death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Death; Life; Dead, The THE LIFTED SHELL, by MARY CHILTON CHASE CORNELIUS Poem Text First Line: Beauty is not a pebble on the shore Last Line: To them the lifted shell gives back no sound. Subject(s): Beauty THE LILY IN CRYSTAL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have beheld a smiling rose Last Line: Raise greater fires in men. Subject(s): Beauty THE LITTLE LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the little lady's dainty Last Line: Lady. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hands; Praise THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May I go to the field,' said the little white rabbit Last Line: So run, my little one, run.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Rabbits; Hunters; Male-female Relations; Hares THE LIVING BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bade, because the wick and oil are spent Last Line: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty THE LOST CARYATID, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When over salamis stands homer's moon Last Line: "shall build once more our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Fear; Moon; Belief; Creed THE LOST HERITAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty gone, and beauty gone Last Line: And loveliness its toy. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Beauty; History; Knowledge; Love; Time; Historians THE LOVELIEST FACE AND THE WILD ROSE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest face! I turned to her Last Line: In the white being of one girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses THE LOVER, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Come let us now to each discover Last Line: "my loves begun, it will not end" Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Beauty;faces;flowers;love THE LOVER TO HIS LADY [THAT GAZED MUCH UP TO THE SKIES], by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girl, thou gazest much Last Line: Thee with all mine eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Beauty THE LUST OF THE WORLD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since man first lifted up his eyes to hers Last Line: And twixt the two maintain an equal course. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Lust; Mankind; Time; Human Race THE MAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are feverish and dull Last Line: So moan yourself to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Life; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The THE MAIDEN OF OTAHEITE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: And wilt thou fly me? Must thy fickle sail Last Line: She was not with the stranger, out at sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Sailing & Sailors THE MALICE-DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An intolerable singing Last Line: Round that dial of the moon! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE MAN AT THE TURNPIKE BAR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I was fifty-odd year on the lancaster pike Last Line: All the dear roads that I sit an' look afther, now! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul THE MISSED SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk in my spacious garden Last Line: Had vanished the sunset glow. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Grief; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOABITESS, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet moab gleaner on old israel's plain Last Line: And god himself smiles on their godlike beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism THE MOMENTS OF BEAUTY, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Up through the mud and gravel beauty climbs Last Line: Halts us, long after, with remembering. Subject(s): Beauty THE MOTHER (1), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great passions I awake that must Last Line: Lord, make me worthy, keep them blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Love; Mothers; Childhood THE MOURNING-GARMENT: HEXAMETRA ALEXIS IN LAUDEM ROSAMUNDI, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I heard my lief coridon report on a love-day Last Line: "for there is one, more fair than thou, belov'd of alexis""!" Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology THE MYSTERY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not dead; thou art not gone to dust Last Line: The light of mine, and give me death with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Time; Dead, The THE NATURE OF BEAUTY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sometimes whiteness forms in a clear sky Last Line: Tell where we've really been, much less remain Subject(s): Beauty; Nature THE NEW INN: A VISION OF BEAUTY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a beauty that I saw Last Line: All beauty! -- and without a spot. Variant Title(s): "perfect Beauty;""it Was A Beauty That I Saw"" (from The New Inn); Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty THE NEW MOON, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you shiver? Has the air grown chill? Last Line: There is no light could make your eyes more blue! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Light; Moon; Spring; Tides THE NOBLE ANGUISH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep in sight perfection, and adore Last Line: Than keep her long'd-for loveliness in sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty THE NORTHERN PINE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Hark! O man, to the urgent song I sing Last Line: Hark! O man, to the urgent song I sing. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Nature; Pine Trees THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two days I've been crying Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE OLD WOMAN LAMENTS THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I seem to hear lamenting / the armoress who once was fair Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women; Youth; Transcience THE OLDEST ONE, by DELLA B. VIK Poem Text First Line: The sky becomes a canvas grand Last Line: And I thank god, who put it there. Subject(s): Beauty; Paintings And Painters THE OUTCASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of god was in the air Last Line: While they remain uncomforted. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Beauty; Death; Youth; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE PAGAN PAST, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sylvan god was worshipped here? Last Line: I sail, companioned by the past. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Pan (mythology); Past; Dead, The THE PAINTED LADY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sick of lust,' the painted lady said Last Line: "and I would to god that I were dead!" Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Paintings & Painters; Women THE PART OF THE BEE'S BODY EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bee-boy, merops apiaster, on sultry thundery days Subject(s): Bees; Beauty; Beekeeping THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD: AGLAIA. A PASTORAL, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvan muses, can ye sing Last Line: Till she come abroad again. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Beauty THE PAST, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick darkness broodeth o'er the world Last Line: Forever near, yet oh how far! Subject(s): Beauty; Future; Life; Night; Past; Bedtime THE PAST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fling my past behind me, like a robe Last Line: My new robe shall be richer than the old. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Past; Tears THE PERFECT DAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blast has swept the clouds away Last Line: As yester-evening's mist and rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Beauty; Calm; Day; Death; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The THE PERFECTION; A NEW SONG. TO THE DUCHESS OF GRAFTON, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: We all to conqu'ring beauty bow Last Line: Would seem but as one day. Subject(s): Beauty THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 2. THE WOMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh give not beauty to an artist's eye Last Line: Might touch the lips of prayer and make them blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Kisses; Love; Women; Belief; Creed 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 PLEASURES OF HOPE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow Last Line: "love! -- mercy -- wisdom! -- rule for evermore!" Variant Title(s): Hope;the Distant In Experience Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Hope; Landscape; Nature; Politics & Government; Liberty; Optimism THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 168, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day I left the mountains Last Line: Men don't ever get free Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Chinese Literature; Men; Women THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 20, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside jade hall is a curtain of pearls Last Line: She'll look like chewed sugarcane Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Chinese Literature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 42, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a brilliant scholar once Last Line: What can you say about broken tiles or melted ice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Scholarship & Scholars; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 63, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In loyang so many girls Last Line: Or thinking of husbands at home Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Girls; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 64, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring women flaunt their looks Last Line: Their husbands know why Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Flirtation; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 93, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All kinds of people exist under heaven Last Line: I'd head east Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Humanity; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations THE POET'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He craves not the boon of pleasure Last Line: And the voice before he dies. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Voices; World THE POET'S GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That century to century may tell Last Line: Of earth, so long as pens and books endure. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Gifts & Giving; Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: ATONEMENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst died at midnight Last Line: Without, the sun and snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Penance; Sun; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: CHURCHYARD ROSES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woodlands wore a gloomy green Last Line: Of love, that death has sanctified! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Woods THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE TORSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In clay the statue stood complete Last Line: The ruined sculptor's monument. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Life; Patience; Statues; Optimism THE PORTRAIT; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty picture hangs before my view Last Line: Such very sunshine to a northern heart! Subject(s): Beauty THE PRAISE OF ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour we roses into wine! Last Line: Drinking mid the summer's heat. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Praise; Roses THE PRICE, by EMMA J. BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: I painted a picture in gladness Last Line: Was the blood from a broken heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Paintings & Painters THE PRIDE OF BEAUTY, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: A gallant youth, whose lady-love possessed Last Line: "handsome or homely, all is one to me!'" Subject(s): Beauty; Love THE PRIZE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope wafts my bark, and round my way Last Line: In the waves of my dark despair! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire THE PROGRESS OF BEAUTY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first diana leaves her bed Subject(s): Beauty THE PROMISE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Alas! For stifled love, as tho' dull earth Last Line: Then let thy world within flame to love's glowing kiss! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Night; World; Bedtime THE PURBLIND PRAISES THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They cannot know, the keen of sight Last Line: That he remembers me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; God; Praise; Trees; Visually Handicapped THE PURPLE VIOLET, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Down by a fairy pool there grew, long years, long years ago Last Line: And trust their precious color to the hands of god to keep. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Violets THE QUESTION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is it enough to feel the opal spring Last Line: It is enough? Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Life; Soul; Destiny THE QUESTION, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I array my love? Last Line: With a clover in her hand. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains THE RACES, by GEORGE ELLIS Poem Text First Line: O george! I've been, I'll tell you where Last Line: But pity the dull squires, my neighbours. Alternate Author Name(s): Gander, Sir Gregory Subject(s): Beauty THE RANGE OF BEAUTY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I love the wild free play of life, unfettered force in Last Line: For these reveal and force me feel the mighty range of beauty. Subject(s): Beauty THE RED TURTLENECK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand for approval Last Line: As I wear it into my scent. Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion; Sand, George (1804-1876); Seduction; Women; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER?, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In may, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes Last Line: The self-same power that brought me there brought you. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Religion; Rhodora; Theology THE RHYTHM, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rhythm of beauty beat in my blood all day Last Line: And to find in the trough one more billow of thy infinite rhythm, o life! Subject(s): Beauty THE RIVER ROAD, by WILLIAM GARDINER Poem Text First Line: Perfume of honey, incense sweet Last Line: Not ecstasy? Subject(s): Beauty; Nature THE RIVER WAS THE EMBLEM OF ALL BEAUTY; ALL, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river swanly in its swanhood flowed Subject(s): Rivers; Nature; Beauty THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal. Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails THE ROCK, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sloping to its point pyramidal Last Line: And drank the sunrise glory of the sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow Last Line: A fair and fragile weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World THE ROSE OF SHARON, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Oh! I love to roam in fancy o'er the hills where Last Line: For our god has made our mission not for us but for all men. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Jews; Nature; Palestine; Roses; Judaism THE ROSE-BUD; TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of fragrance, lovely rose Last Line: And thou must be what they are now. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses; Transience; Impermanence THE SAGA OF THE SMALL-BREASTED WOMAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A prepuberty owl with popcorn Last Line: Delights in dumplings at the feast. Subject(s): Beauty; Breasts; Women THE SAME SUBJECT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that your sail bent to the ocean-swell Last Line: And left us only longing and regret. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Fortune; Lips; Muses; Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE SATURNIAN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I must follow it high and low Last Line: And from my birth have I been such. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Flowers; God; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime THE SCHOLAR'S EDEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the eden I'd like to build Last Line: In the eden I'm wanting to make? Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Reading THE SECEDERS: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the pure castalian fount our feet Last Line: They fall on us as rain on logs and stones. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Truth THE SECRET, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wouldst speak unto my grief, be wary Last Line: Is shape and sound of beauteous things gone by. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness THE SECRET ROSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, most, secret, and inviolate rose Last Line: Far off, most secret, and inviolate rose? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Guests; Secrets; Roses; Beauty THE SENSE OF BEAUTY, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit! Who over this our mortal earth Last Line: Which glimmering light leads nearest to the day? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Beauty THE SEVEN SISTERS, by NELLIE FORBES GABLE Poem Text First Line: Demurely sit you there a-row Last Line: The cloud-loved summits of the hills. Subject(s): Beauty; Praise THE SHEPHERD'S COMMENDATION OF HIS NYMPH, by EDWARD DE VERE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shepherd can express Last Line: These beauties make me die. Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De Subject(s): Beauty THE SICILIAN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden face, un tipo Last Line: A classic of the soil. Subject(s): Beauty; Sicily THE SINGING SHADOWS, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These things that star a casual day's beholding Last Line: With only death to seek your deathless face. Subject(s): Beauty; Shadows THE SIRENS AGAIN, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What am I to do with loveliness? Subject(s): Beauty THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 15, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Her beauty deepen'd, like a cobalt sky Last Line: Show'd her pale face more delicately fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 30, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And she hath placed a red rose in her hair Last Line: The freshest, fairest flower the dews begem. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Roses THE SMILING MOUTH, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling mouth and laughing eyen grey Last Line: The breastes round and long small armes twain. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Beauty THE SOLITARY ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy rose, red rose, that bloomest lonely Last Line: O happy rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Flowers; Night; Nightingales; Roses; Bedtime THE SOMNAMBULIST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Celestials must have piloted Last Line: Find heaven's rapture earth unveiled. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Night; Truth; World; Bedtime THE SONG OF BEAUTY, by JOHN WOLCOTT PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Yet wake, my love, the morn is fair Last Line: Less fair, less beautiful than thou! Subject(s): Beauty THE SONG OF RICHARD AND BLONDEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your beauty, lady fair" Last Line: Than love with others share Subject(s): Beauty;love THE SONG OF THE STANDARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands Last Line: Take to thy bosom the nations, and there shall the world come to rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Italy; Women; Italians THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.' Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPRING, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spring up-sparkles in the silent forest Last Line: Light of the soul, o beauty! Subject(s): Beauty; Spring THE STAR OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It dwells not in the skies Last Line: My star of beauty! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hell; Love; Stars THE STARS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make friendship with the stars Last Line: Ascend to him, from whom its essence came. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The THE STRAPLESS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scrawny yank of a kid Last Line: Paint in the women never filled. Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion; Women THE SUMMER GIRL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer girl doth now unfurl Last Line: "the cow with the crumpled horn" Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Seduction; Summer; Work; Workers THE SUMMER GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses Last Line: For an angel masquerading oft is she, the summer girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer; Women THE SWAN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Subject(s): Swans; Beauty THE SYLPH, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you and I named a flower Last Line: An evening of amethyst. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairy Tales THE SYMBOL SEDUCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There in her old-world garden smiles Last Line: For love, I leave love's haunted bower. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Seduction; Truth THE SYMPHONY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder in happy eyes Last Line: And find new life and deeper wonder there. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Youth; Joy; Delight THE THREE GRACES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have the picture of you in mind Last Line: So as I write this mary has died Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Death; Dead, The THE TUNEFUL LITTLE BIRD YOU SEE CONFINED, by TOMASSO STIGLIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Rapture so passing sweet and yet not die Subject(s): Birds; Beauty THE TWO HOMES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home was seated high and fair Last Line: "and the weary life of the valley!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Home; Storms; Nightmares THE VALLEY OF FERN: PART 1, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lone valley, few charms can it number Last Line: It may fall unreprov'd in the valley of fern. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Valleys; Landscape; Beauty THE VENUS OF MILO, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No live girl's body hath such pride impassioned Last Line: Into the squalid vortex of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Beauty; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Venus De Milo THE VICTORIAN POET IN HIS RONDOTAGE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am too old to be ensnared Last Line: I am too old. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme THE VILLAGE BEAUTY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glowing tints of a tropic eve Last Line: In the midst of the autumn corn. Subject(s): Beauty THE VINEYARD-SAINT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, pacing down the vineyard walks Last Line: "of pardon and of holiness!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Saints; Vines And Vineyards; Wine THE WAY THE BABY CAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this is the way the baby came Last Line: O this is the way the baby came! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Beauty; Birth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight Last Line: For the dusty day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE WEREWIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me in a dazzling guise Last Line: And the kiss of her stung like the fang of a snake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WILD MARE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a breath that comes and goes Last Line: The challenging scream of the conqueror-stallion. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses; Rome, Italy; Sea; Ocean THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers Last Line: Nature's most beautiful and perfect flower. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Roses THE WOMAN FROM SPIRITWOOD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping from mandan to jamestown Last Line: Before there can be freedom. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States THE WOMEN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What he holds to Subject(s): Beauty THE WOOD THRUSH, by SUSAN SHARP ADAMS Poem Text First Line: At eve I hear him in the woods Last Line: To reproduce his wildwood lay. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Songs THE WORLD APPROVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The shade and colour of her eyes can wait Last Line: And the world approves of dinah and my choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty THE WORLD WAS SURELY MADE FOR ME, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: The world was surely made for me Last Line: It suits me so completely. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Nature; World THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is like a star Last Line: Melody, fragrance and fire! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Sleep; Nightmares THE WOUND, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wounded am I, yet happier -- happier far Last Line: Pierces my willing bosom with a thorn. Subject(s): Beauty THE YOUNG BEAUTY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My two old neighbours come along the lane Last Line: For ah, I know a lovelier face had I! Subject(s): Beauty THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.' Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THE YOUNG THAT DIED IN BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls should only sheen so bright Last Line: Than when they died in beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The THEFT, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Death could not have thee, sweet, and be unsatisfied Last Line: Has ever love or beauty died? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THEIR BEAUTY HAS MORE MEANING, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday morning enormous the moon hung low on the ocean Last Line: Than the whole human race and the race of birds Subject(s): Beauty; Nature THENIEL MENZIES' BONNIE MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In coming by the brig o' dye Last Line: Theniel menzies' bonnie mary, &c. Subject(s): Love; Beauty THERE IS BEAUTY EVERYWHERE, by MARY RYAN COOPER Poem Text First Line: There's beauty everywhere Last Line: May end in misery. Subject(s): Beauty THERE'S BEAUTY ALL AROUND US, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around us there is beauty Last Line: And our work less irksome be. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Nature THESE ARE, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: These are more beautiful than words Last Line: A woman's eyelids opening from rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Clouds; Women THESE ENDURE, by MARION H. ADDINGTON Poem Text First Line: I have known sorrow; I have known laughter Last Line: But the lovely things are for our keeping! Subject(s): Beauty THEY SAY - ., by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say I have a constant heart, who know Last Line: Service to all of beauty -- and her due. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Light THING OF BEAUTY, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: For their annual beauty contest, the woodabe men of africa Last Line: By which they feel at once their own fast substances, their inborn masks Subject(s): Africa; Beauty THIS LUNAR BEAUTY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lunar beauty / has no history Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty THIS LUNAR BEAUTY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lunar beauty %has no history Last Line: Nor sorrow take %his endless look Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty THREE GRACES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have the picture of you in mind Last Line: And as I write this mary has died Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Death THREE IN TRANSITION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I understood the beauty Last Line: Of the branches Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Williams, William Carlos (1883-19530 THREE MAIDS, by ACHILLE MILLIEN Poem Text First Line: It is the hour when day in beauty dies Last Line: "-- ""'tis anguish,"" sighs the third, ""and hence I die!" Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Dead, The TIME TO YOUTH, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, fold her fast in thy victorious arms Last Line: To find some diminution of her charms! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Youth TO -, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And what was stella but a haughty dame Last Line: Compared with which, theirs were but beauty's shade. Subject(s): Beauty TO - (9), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Die when you will, you need not wear Last Line: An angel ready-made for heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty TO A BEAUTIFUL BUT HEARTLESS COQUETTE, by FRANCISCO DE TERRAZAS Poem Source First Line: Renounce those threads of twisted gold Last Line: To be grateful, cruel, vain, austere! Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; Spring TO A BEAUTIFUL OLD LADY (TO THE SWEET MEMORY OF LUCY HINTON), by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not - 'she once was fair;' because the Last Line: Sweeping each splendour with her queenly eye! Subject(s): Beauty TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A daughter of the gods, divinely tall Last Line: "thou who hast made me, make me worthy thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Beauty TO A CERTAIN SHOP GIRL, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: She should be buying pearls and persian brass Last Line: And casts a glamour on her prison-place! Subject(s): Beauty; Pity; Shopping; Youth TO A CHILD OF FIVE YEARS OLD, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest flower, all flowers excelling Last Line: Evergreens! Which ne'er decay. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Flowers; Nature TO A GREEK GEM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon. Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks TO A LADY'S BONNET, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Invidious shade! Why thus presume Last Line: Farewell the proud boast -- I am free! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Beauty; Hats TO A LADY: SHE REFUSING TO CONTINUE A DISPUTE WITH ME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare, generous victor, spare the slave Last Line: He sent; and as he fled, he slew. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty and health do companion thee, friend Last Line: Born of an impulse divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Brooks; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO A NEW YORK SHOP-GIRL DRESSED FOR SUNDAY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw the shop-girl go Last Line: Surely his angels lay their kiss. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO A PERSIAN BOY IN THE BAZAAR AT SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gorgeous blossoms of that magic tree Last Line: Or in the bowers of blissful samarcand. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Trees; Far East; East Asia; Orient TO A POET OF QUALITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of thy judicious muse's sense Last Line: Thou shouldst forget his daughter's beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets TO A PROUD BEAUTY, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperious fool! Think not because your're fair Last Line: Provoke my pen to write in such a strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Beauty; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO A SENORITA OF SOUTH AMERICA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: You have the loveliness of far-off hills Last Line: Beneath the sun, yet faithful year on year. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Beauty; Spain; Women TO A SPRING IN THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gurgling spring in sylvan beauty Last Line: You will ever here abide. Subject(s): Beauty; Cumberland Mountains; Springs (water) TO A WELSH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why that neck of marble whiteness Last Line: Ere that thou art old! Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Evil TO A YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fellow-artist, why so free / with every sort of company Last Line: With landor and with donne. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship - Selectivity TO A.D. UNREASONABLE DISTRUSTFUL OF HER OWN BEAUTY, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair doris, break thy glass, it hath perplex'd Last Line: I die a martyr, you an heretic. Subject(s): Beauty; Modesty TO ALL VERTUOUS LADIES IN GENERALL, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each blessed lady that in virtue spends Last Line: But chiefly those as thou hast graced so. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue; Women TO AN ELDERLY AMORIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even in passion, when grape-hung Last Line: Is in the very look of thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Laughter; Soul; Tears; Truth; Youth TO AN ENEMY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee once. I shall know thee ever Last Line: Thou high and blessed creature! Subject(s): Enemies; Beauty; God; Conduct Of Life TO ANY YET FAITHFUL, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: You who believed, believe no more in me Last Line: A jeweled fish where weeds now choke the brook. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Prophecy & Prophets; Belief; Creed TO BEAUTY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have thee far away Last Line: Until it shines like thee. Subject(s): Beauty TO BEAUTY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty on your wings - flying the far blue Last Line: Beauty! Fulfil me! Cool the heart of my desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Beauty TO BEAUTY, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful I be or not to thy soul-call Last Line: Like a sky-rover's at dawn. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love TO CELIA SINGING, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till I beheld fair celia's face Last Line: Soft love would enter love's own ear. Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship TO COLIN CLOUT, by ANTHONY MUNDAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty sat bathing by a spring Last Line: As when I fell a-sleeping. Alternate Author Name(s): Shepherd Tony; Shepherd Tonie Variant Title(s): Beauty Bathing;colin Subject(s): Beauty TO DELIA: 19, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If beauty thus be clouded with a frown Last Line: To use me thus and know I loved so long. Subject(s): Beauty; Love TO DELIA: 30, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once may see when years shall wreck my wrong Last Line: But phoenix-like shall make her live anew. Subject(s): Beauty; Love TO DELIA: 31, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose Last Line: But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again. Variant Title(s): "a Supplication;""looke, Delia, How Wee Steeme The Half-blowne Rose""; Subject(s): Beauty; Carpe Diem; Love TO DELIA: 32, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But love whilst that thou may'st be loved again Last Line: When once they find her flower, her glory, pass. Variant Title(s): Delia: 32 Subject(s): Beauty; Carpe Diem; Love TO DELIA: 44, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drawn with th' attractive virtue of her eyes Last Line: And muse-foe mars abroad far fostered be. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Youth TO DELIA: 47, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the lute that joys or else dislikes Last Line: And blessed hand that gives so sweet a touch! Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Muses TO DOROTHY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You are not beautiful, exactly / you are beautiful, inexactly Last Line: I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep. Subject(s): Beauty; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets TO HELEN (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Helen, thy beauty is to me Last Line: Are holy land! Variant Title(s): To Helen Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical TO HELEN KELLER, by FRANCES BEEBE Poem Text First Line: Whose eyes may handle beauty? Last Line: Of beauty neither seen nor heard! Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968) TO HELEN KELLER, by TOSCAN BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Our eyes to you no beauty can unfold Last Line: To wait the morning's call. Subject(s): Beauty; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: You who never saw the sun-flamed hills Last Line: Be evermore your slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Youth; Nightmares TO HELEN KELLER, by THOMAS NUNAN Poem Text First Line: A rose unfolding in the sun Last Line: And radiates a light divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses; Soul; Stars TO HIS FRIEND, PROMISING THAT THOUGH HER BEAUTY FADE, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wot full well that beauty cannot last Last Line: Nor beauty's want my first good will remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Beauty; Transience; Impermanence TO HIS MISTRESS FOR HER TRUE PICTURE, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, my life's mistress, and the sovereingn queen Last Line: Who from my mouth-grate and eye-window bawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Beauty; Love TO JOHN MASEFIELD, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too have searched for beauty in this life Subject(s): Beauty; Masefield, John (1878-1967) TO M. S. G. (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I view those lips of thine Last Line: No martyr shalt thou be to love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beauty TO MARY STUART, QUEEN OF FRANCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England and scotland and the land of france Last Line: And then be queen six months of the french land. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Nations; Mary Stuart TO MARY, ON RECEIVING HER PICTURE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This faint resemblance of thy charms Last Line: And meet my fond expiring gaze. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beauty TO MIRIMOND (HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost think that time, to whom stars vainly sue Last Line: If thou, when all is gone, wouldst still have all. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Beauty; Time TO MISS CRUIKSHANK, A SCHOOLGIRL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous rose-bud, young and gay Last Line: The loveliest form she e'er gave birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls TO MISTRESS DIANA CECIL, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diana cecil, that rare beauty thou dost show Last Line: When men might hope more than they understood. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Beauty TO MOTHER MARYANNE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see the infinite pity of this place Last Line: Guest house, kalawao, molokai. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beauty 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: 26. TRANSIENT BEAUTY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: All men and women are fair. Some you know Last Line: By all who marked its beauty in its day. Subject(s): Beauty; Transience; Impermanence TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: DEDICATION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It is somewhat like painting the lily Last Line: Of thoughts which are portrayed by you. Subject(s): Beauty; Character; Flowers; Lilies TO MRS, WILLIAM HAYES DANA I DEDICATE THIS BOOK .. FOR HER ROSE GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You took a piece of earth and made it fair Last Line: A coronal of beauty for tributing Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses TO MRS. FRANCES-ARABELLA KELLY, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today, as at my glass I stood Last Line: For universal tyranny.' Subject(s): Beauty TO ONE SAYING SHE [OR, HIS MISTRESS] WAS OLD, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not time hath played the thief Last Line: Thieves do not always thrive, I see! Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Love TO ONE THAT ASKED ME WHY I LOV'D J.G., by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I love? Go, ask the glorious sun Last Line: That I shou'd love, and he shou'd be ingrate. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Love; Rivers; Dead, The; Destiny TO PHYLLIS, by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said your beauty shamed the rose's blush Last Line: To hear itself compared, dear heart, to you! Subject(s): Beauty TO ROSAMONDE: A BALADE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madame, ye ben of all beaute shrine Last Line: Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce. Variant Title(s): To Rosamond;to Rosemounde; A Balade Subject(s): Beauty TO SARAH BERNHARDT, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In this scarred age thine own is beauty's bust Last Line: The lips of shakespeare on thy fingers press. Subject(s): Beauty; Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923); Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO TELL THE BEAUTY WOULD DECREASE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of introspective mines Subject(s): Transcience; Beauty TO TEUILA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been far, I have been near Last Line: So long as you are kind and fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beauty; Love TO THE AUTHOR OF THE FOREGOING PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By silvia if thy charming self be meant Last Line: And dies in woe, that thou mayst live in peace. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Beauty; Friendship; Hearts TO THE COUNTESS OF DORSET, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See here how bright the first-born virgin shone Last Line: There's no way to be safe, but not to see. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND, WITH THE POEM 'PALAMON AND ARCITE', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / the bard who first adorned our native tongue Last Line: And wear the garter of his mother's race. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: To Her Grace The Duchess Of Ormonde Subject(s): Beauty; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Somerset, Mary. Duchess Of Ormond; Thebes, Greece; Allegories TO THE EGYPTIAN LADY SENNUWY, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: With that same smile, scornful and sad and tender Last Line: If beauty alwys is truth, after all. Subject(s): Beauty; Egypt; Sennuwy, Princess (wife Of Hepzefa); Statues TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauties! -- (for, dressed with so much taste Last Line: A well-dressed english woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; England; Nature; Women; English TO THE LADY CASTLEMAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As seamen, shipwrecked on some happy shore Last Line: New life to my condemn'd and dying muse. Variant Title(s): To The Lady Castlemain - Afterwards Duchess Of Cleveland Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Villiers, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Women; Seamen; Sails TO THE PRINCESS LUCRETIA, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy unripe youth seemed like the purple rose Last Line: The sun's meridian glories blaze and warm. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty TO THE SKY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tis beauty's feast to scan thy shifting play Last Line: And what thy wisdom holds our need we blindly miss! Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Love; Truth; Nightmares TO THE TUNE OF CLEAR HAPPINESS, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds remind me of her dress Last Line: On the green jasper terrace Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Beauty TO THE VENUS OF SYRACUSE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silent form of beauty! O divine Last Line: Flow into being in the breathless stone. Subject(s): Beauty TO THEE WE BOW, by INEZ LINDSEY ELLIS Poem Text First Line: You are like the soul of woman Last Line: To give man happiness. Subject(s): Beauty; Women TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than the truth Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Women; Love; Beauty; Truth TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE YOU?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She's like a mynah bird Last Line: A moon upon the rise Subject(s): Beauty TO WHOM BELONGS BEAUTY?, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Tis mine, wherever beauty shows its face Last Line: Till beauty's substance—love—thy being fill. Subject(s): Beauty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WIND OF MAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O glorious wind, that in my lover's face blowest Last Line: Disclose thy heart, o wind, and the love thou bearest. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A SUMMER DAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing once again the ethereal blue of the sky Last Line: Dream-walking, till at length the real day may dawn. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! What a world I would create from my own, my lovers Last Line: We shall need no other world, no other worlds. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Earth; Friendship; Love; Socialism; World TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE LAKE OF BEAUTY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world Last Line: You. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (2), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall command the heart, that wondrous thing Last Line: The universe over? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Hearts; Love TRANSIT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I have never seen before Subject(s): Beauty TRANSLUCENT FINGERS, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Translucent fingers on the yellow keys Last Line: To live among the other waxen flowers. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Old Age TREES IN YELLOWSTONE FOREST, by FLORENCE RILEY RADCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: The silent generations hold you fast Last Line: A universe of beauty to renew! Subject(s): Beauty; Trees; Yellowstone National Park TREES UNLEASH SOMETHING, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: Only late july Last Line: Were only plums, sticky and warm %from sitting on the porch Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Change TRIAL, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty of old and beauty yet to be Last Line: When masks of beauty walk with beauty too. Subject(s): Beauty TRIBUTE, by EDWARD KINKADE Poem Text First Line: An invincible silence Last Line: Astonishment of death! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The TRITAMERON: THE DESCRIPTION OF SILVESTRO'S LADY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her stature like the tall straight cedar-trees Last Line: To show what nature's lineage could afford. Variant Title(s): Silvestro's Lady-love Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Appearances; Male-female Relations TRUE CULTURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The highest culture is to speak no ill Last Line: From common lips like weeds from marshy soil. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Culture Conflict; Life TRUTH IN BEAUTY (TO A GIFTED ORGANIST), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soothed is my spirit when you touch the keys Last Line: Starting this broken wave above a sea of melody. Subject(s): Beauty TRUTH, BEAUTY, TREE, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such embroidery of the green Last Line: We hope to see through (to) / always Subject(s): Beauty TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One leaned on velvet cushions like a queen Last Line: In basking in the death-light of his smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Heroism; Smiles; Heroes; Heroines TWO LIVES. PART 1: 6, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her beauty was upon me. That alone Last Line: As of some great event of other days. Subject(s): Beauty TWO WORLDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's world is bathed in beauty Last Line: Back to thy holy land! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; God; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 11. TO WILL H. LOW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth now flees on feathered foot Last Line: We have come the primrose way. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beauty; Low, Will Hicok (1853-1932); Youth 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 UNKNOWN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is most fair Last Line: May not exist Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Beauty; Love UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man must ponder Last Line: To me unknown. Subject(s): Beauty; Orion (constellation); Thought; Time; Thinking UNTITLED, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You did say, need me less and I'll want you more. Subject(s): Beauty UNTITLED, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lesbians; Beauty UNTITLED, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: Beauty comes from spain Last Line: A look at once inspired and blind %like borges's Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Beauty UPON MY LADY CARLISLE'S WALKING IN HAMPTON COURT GARDEN, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Didst thou not find the place inspired Last Line: Where fools with ease go in and out? Subject(s): Beauty; Carew, Thomas (1595-1640); Hay, Lucy. Countess Of Carlisle UPON THE BLACK SPOTS WORN BY MY LADY D.E., by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know your heart cannot so guilty be Last Line: Your face would wear not patches, but a cloud. Subject(s): Beauty Marks VARIATION ON BEN JONSON, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty! And oh 'twas I who saw Last Line: All beauty, and all in one spot. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beauty; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets VARIATIONS: 14, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful body made of ivory Last Line: Quietly you possess me. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nightmares VARIATIONS: 6, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are as beautiful as white clouds Last Line: All hastening to the sun. Subject(s): Beauty VENICE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the skies of this northern november Last Line: By all the chill blasts of november! Subject(s): Beauty; Venice, Italy; Vision VERSE WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF MADEMOISELLE -, by PIERRE DALCOUR Poem Text First Line: The evening star that in the vaulted skies Last Line: Beneath their brown lashes. Subject(s): Beauty VERSES LEFT ON A LADY'S TOILETTE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will young flavia, all-accomplisht fair Last Line: Who tire with gems and silks the dazled eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Simplicity; Vanity; Women VERY IDEA OF 2 LEGS, by MARY MOLINARY Poem Source First Line: The lower %part of the body, an idea pressed thin Last Line: Singular and blue-dyed: a desire. An excretion of worms. %glimmering Subject(s): Beauty; Factories; Labor And Laborers; Legs; Women Immigrants - United States VICTORY PARADE, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My girlfriend is a miracle. Subject(s): Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011); Beauty; Hair; Sex VIII TO PRISCILLA, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: Priscilla, my virtuoso beautician, so skilled your hands Last Line: Of how many times we made love, and in what ways Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women VILLANELLE: EXCEPTION TO THE RULE - 2, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Separation; Isolation VIOLETS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violets, shy violets! Last Line: Will wait on mine and gladden me! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Violets VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 6: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labeo reserves a long nayle for the nonce Last Line: Who would not but wed poets now a daies! Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poetry & Poets W.H.; AD. 1778-1830, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wet trees and the sorry steeple Last Line: Titian and wordsworth live; the people marches. Subject(s): Beauty; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830); Love; Time; Truth WATER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water-venus in dissolving beauty Last Line: From living waters into birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Mythology - Classical; Sea; Venus (goddess); Ocean WE ALL TO CONQUERING BEAUTY BOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Would seem but as one day Subject(s): Beauty;hearts;love WE HAVE BODIES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make palpable the bitter Last Line: Beautiful and bitter Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies WEDNESDAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon Last Line: Might drop his arms, that he had held up all day since the dew. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness WEIRD FANTASY, by IDA MAY BORNCAMP Poem Text First Line: The morning clouds are wreathing Last Line: And milky clouds below. Subject(s): Beauty WHAT HOLDS YOU, by KELLY RITTER Poem Source First Line: Late december Last Line: And spilling over, %like the last and the last Subject(s): Beauty; December; Sleep WHAT HOUSE TO LIKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some love the glow of outward show Last Line: If I but like the people in it Subject(s): Beauty;houses WHAT OF BEAUTY, by OLIVE CHRISTENSEN Poem Text First Line: What of beauty is there here? Last Line: It would be best to die here. Subject(s): Beauty; South Dakota WHAT THEN OF US, WE HUMBLE FIDDLING FOLK, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What then of us, we humble fiddling folk Last Line: Till the last mind forget its final dreaming. Subject(s): Beauty; Fiddles; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments WHEN ALL THE WILD VALLEY RECOVERS THE LEAF, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Beauty WHEN BEAUTY DIES, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should change fall in its fated hour Last Line: I shall seek these, when beauty dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Beauty; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College WHEN HE LOOKED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Why, when he looked at her beautiful Last Line: Did he see a skull? Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Skulls WHEN LOVE AND BEAUTY WANDER AWAY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love and beauty wander away, Last Line: Who have known beauty, and spring, and love? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of WHEN MAIMIE MARRIED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When maimie married charley Last Line: When maimie married -- charley brown! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHERE BEAUTY WALKS, by HOWARD VIGNE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: Here beauty walks in slippered feet Last Line: Walks in the sun. Subject(s): Beauty WHERE LILIES FLOAT, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: Three children played where lilies float Last Line: Of grace to feed the lean of soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Lilies WHERE'S AGNES?, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, if I had come back so Last Line: Poplars, cedars, cypresses! Subject(s): Trees; Beauty WHILE BEAMS OF ORIENT LIGHT SHOOT WIDE AND HIGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gleams from a world in which the saints repose Subject(s): Beauty; Imagination; Dawn WHITE AN' BLUE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is o' comely height an' straight Last Line: But gi'e her my breast-knot, white an' blue? Subject(s): Beauty; Love WHITE CLEMATIS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The old porch cries beneath its shabby paint Last Line: "elusive sweetness of white clematis." Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Paintings And Painters WHITE REQUIEM, by S. BERT COOKSLEY Poem Text First Line: Beauty has not spent herself. She is young Last Line: Always: it is I who have become old! Subject(s): Aging; Beauty WHITE SACRIFICE, by MILDRED CARTWRIGHT JOBSON Poem Text First Line: Not to the distant star that presses white Last Line: Yielding oblations to unworthy gods. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Stars WHITE TIGER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was beautiful as god Last Line: Over immensities that will not return Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Tigers WHITE, PILLARED NECK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White, pillared neck; a brow to make men quake Last Line: All—save her soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Women WHO KNOWS WHERE BEAUTY LIES?, by AGNES STEWART BECK Poem Text First Line: Does the harsh-toned voice of the crow Last Line: Think you? Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty WHO WALKS WITH BEAUTY, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who walks with beauty has no need of fear Last Line: The wine of beauty and the bread he breaks. Subject(s): Beauty WHY DID SHE LEAVE HIM?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "why did she leave him, they grew up together" Last Line: Why did she leave him? - because he was poor Subject(s): Beauty;grief;poverty; Sorrow;sadness WHY SHOULD I STRIVE TO EXPRESS IT?, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Not with her eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Eyes; Beauty WIFE POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it's clear at last, she dropped Last Line: And hot clouds of the old days of summer. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WILDFLOWERS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is a wildwood beauty spot Last Line: Where only god doth know. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Innocence; Leaves WINGED BEAUTY, by VIRGINIA PAULINE SPRIGGS Poem Text First Line: Mad audubon, whom failure could not blight Last Line: And motile beauty, ever on the wing! Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851); Beauty; Nature; Ohio River WINTER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter as a shrivelled scroll Last Line: Wanders by wood and waterway. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Winter WINTER TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sky, across the snow Last Line: And winter trees are beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Trees; Winter; Woods WISHES TO HIS SUPPOSED MISTRESS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er she be, / that not impossible she Last Line: Be ye my fictions: -- but her story. Variant Title(s): Wishes For The Supposed Mistress Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love WOMAN AND LEOPARD, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although she was beautiful Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Leopards; Zoos WOMAN'S BEAUTY, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thing shall be held up to woman's beauty? Last Line: And woman's beauty is the flame therein. Subject(s): Beauty WOMEN AT THE GYM, by SIOBHAN REAGAN Poem Source First Line: Women at the gym, you are beautiful Last Line: And leave politely pendant in a neutral shroud Subject(s): Beauty; Women WOMEN'S LOVELINESS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands Last Line: And what in truth, remains, when death has come our way? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Love WOOD WITCHERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way ran under boughs of checkered green Last Line: Unaging beauty by another name. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; New England; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets WOULD BE MORE THAN KIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady is most fair and kind Last Line: I cannot bear to be your brother! Subject(s): Beauty; Brothers And Sisters; Incest; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WOULD I WERE THY MIRROR!, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: How happy is the sun! To gaze on the Last Line: And when thou dost depart, it will forget thee! Subject(s): Beauty WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, FOR CHLORIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis friendship's pledge, my young, fair friend Last Line: These joys could he improve. Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Beauty; Dead, The X, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: I used to think of you as my helen Last Line: And I'll give you treasures you can't even conceive Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Relationships YES, THOU ART FAIR, YET BE NOT MOVED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In sky, air, earth, and ocean. Subject(s): Beauty; Inspiration YLLADMAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was, oh, so dense a blur Last Line: I'd waken up to die again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Love YOSEMITE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Now I have seen yosemite Last Line: —los angeles saturday night Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Yosemite Valley And National Park YOU, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this your body that my fingers touch? Last Line: And my white dream of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Beauty; Love YOU, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You are something exquisite, michel Last Line: Pagan gaze. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU SAY THERE IS NO LOVE, MY LOVE, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poet's Biography First Line: Here I lie like a princess Last Line: He prisons me Subject(s): Beauty; Pain YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Because you're classically trained Subject(s): Beauty YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When at each door the ruffian winds Last Line: Can feel the joy of summer's heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty; Youth YOUNG LOVELINESS, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: Her delicate form scarce dimples in the bed Last Line: Expends itself to die. Subject(s): Beauty YOUTH AND NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shining stars Last Line: Of this strange shadowed world. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Night; Peace; Youth; Bedtime YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: 'BEAUTY SHE HAD ...', by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember not my eyes when I am dead Last Line: Death set her free, and gave her life at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The ZEN AND THE ART OF TYING SHOELACES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Like trying to bring order to a dish of noodles Last Line: I swear I won't need anywhere to go Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Cinderella; Feet; Shoes |
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