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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BEDS Matches Found: 55 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BED, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm glad I have a good warm bed to snuggle / in to-night Last Line: For the winds are in the alleys and the stars are cold and bright. Subject(s): Beds; Homeless; Poverty AT NIGHT, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Mamma, at night, puts out my light Last Line: My own mamma — and light. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Imagination; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Fancy; Bedtime AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime BALLADE OF THE SECOND-BEST BED, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of the almighty god, amen Variant Title(s): The Second-best Bed Subject(s): Wills; Beds; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BED, by KENDRA BORGMANN Poem Source First Line: I used to sleep in a bed my father made Last Line: Down, pages split, the frame holding his place Subject(s): Beds; Fathers; Sleep BED, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's new wife was looking out a window Last Line: And woman as god had made them, almost %my parents, in love Subject(s): Beds; Fathers; Relationships BED BOOK, SELS., by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most beds are beds Last Line: For the shooting stars Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Beds BED TIME, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Few beds are stonier than one shared by a sleeper Last Line: In bed we depend upon nothing but bed Subject(s): Beds BED-MAKING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Sunday's chambermaid comes in love-sleepy Last Line: Or at least, the interruption of dreams %for one of us Subject(s): Beds; Sleep BEDBUGS, by ELIZABETH AOKI Poem Source First Line: This kind of wiggly, lovable pest Last Line: Your doctor advises you make the bloodsucker %uncomfortable Subject(s): Beds; Insects BEDFELLOWS, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: They must have slept out nine dark Last Line: So much as the foolish thought %that they were bedfellows Subject(s): Beds; Friendship; Nature; Seasons BEDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: All night I turn between Last Line: Trying to distinguish one breath %from another Subject(s): Beds; Children; Love; Love Affairs BEDS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible beds, soft beds, wily, elusive beds, Subject(s): Beds BEDTIME STORIES, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In key west I visited d.J. Last Line: In search of what if not this love displaced? Subject(s): Beds; Story-telling BETWEEN YOUR PARENTS' SHEETS, by MIRANDA PEARSON Poem Source First Line: After the beach we rinse off sand Last Line: Take his shape %and no one stops you Subject(s): Beds; Parents; Relationships BIG QUIET SPACE IN THE BED FOR ALMOST AN HOUR AFTER MIDNIGHT, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: The lover and I are lying squarely Last Line: Pant. No one with the gift of speech. In this bed %tonight, breath a soaking rain Subject(s): Animals; Beds; Dogs; Relationships BUBBLE BED, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my first time in a bubble bed and I full of apprehension Last Line: And the bubble bed brought me two lovely dreams, one publishable and the other not Subject(s): Beds BY HER WHITE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By her white bed I muse a little Last Line: "would mutely plead: ""nay, lord! Let him so sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Flowers; Love; Night; Roses; Bedtime COT, by GROVER AMEN Poem Source First Line: I stopped in a sidestreet surplus shop, just south of yorkville Last Line: Adrift in true night with the stars, the river winds, and the abstract faiths of october Subject(s): Beds EVENING, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: From day's fair face the smile is gone Last Line: And lo, a jewelled coverlet o'er her they spread! Subject(s): Beds; Evening; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight FOR CITY SPRING, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now grimy april comes again Subject(s): Beds FOR THE BED AT KELMSCOTT, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's on the wold Last Line: Right good is rest. Variant Title(s): Inscription For An Old Bed;lines For A Bed Ay Kelmscott Manor Subject(s): Beds; Cold FORMED LONG AGO, YET MADE TODAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Beds HENRI ROUSSEAU'S BED, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my bed into the forest Subject(s): Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910); Beds; Forests; Woods HOTELS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the semi-dark we take everything off Last Line: The bundled outlines of another woman another man %hurrying toward the theater's blue tubes of light Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Beds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep IN THE ROOM, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was down, and twilight grey Last Line: Of births and deaths and bridal nights. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Beds; Death; Life; Dead, The INSCRIPTION FOR THE CEILING OF A BEDROOM, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily dawns another day; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Beds; Conduct Of Life JOHNNY HODGES DEATHBED BLUES, by GERALD MAJER Poem Source First Line: It must be the woman there %threading across his hands Last Line: The in-between of knowing who was there %and pull of the look, over at her - %sheer interval Subject(s): Beds; Death; Time JULIA'S BED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou that cloud as silver clear Last Line: Tis julia's bed, and she sleeps there. Subject(s): Beds; Love MY BED IS A BOAT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bed is like a little boat Last Line: I find my vessel fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 31 Subject(s): Beds MY GRANDMOTHER'S BED, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How she pulled it out of the wall Last Line: And her bed disappeared without a trace. Subject(s): Beds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY HUSBAND LOVES ME, by SHARON L. CHARDE Poem Source First Line: My husband loves me. He says Last Line: Mattress, the ghost of death is in our bed Subject(s): Beds; Death; Love; Marriage NARROW FOR LOVE THAT MUST BE FITTED IN, by SOPHIE HANNAH Poem Source Last Line: Once made it will (like love) be made again Subject(s): Beds; Hotels; Riddles NEARLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The most interesting aspect of complete fatigue Last Line: Effect the nearly resurrection %of the nearly dead. Subject(s): Beds; Sleep; Weariness NO SOFTIE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Snail in the light, worm in bed Last Line: But you're no soft mollusc,' she said Subject(s): Beds; Relationships; Snails; Worms NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 3. IN PORT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last, to the chamber where I lie Last Line: And in the land of nod at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 41. North-west Passage: 3 Subject(s): Beds; Sleep PUTTING MY MOTHER TO BED, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's shaking, shivering Last Line: You as they escape %in space Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Aging; Beds; Mothers REJUVENATION, by ALICE LOUISE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garden 'bed'; perhaps they call it so Last Line: To greet the golden glory of the skies. Subject(s): Beds; Sleep RIDDLE: BED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "formed long ago, yet made today" Last Line: Nor any wish to keep Subject(s): Beds;riddles SATYRS, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Going from bed to verse Last Line: The vacant vampire waits %and marks the time. Subject(s): Beds; Writing And Writers SINGING AND BARKING, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps in my bed like an enormous lizard, he says Last Line: Take my word for it Subject(s): Animals; Beds; Dogs; Singing And Singers SLEEPIN' AT THE FOOT OF THE BED, by LUTHER PATRICK Poem Text First Line: Did ye ever sleep at the foot o' the bed Last Line: A-sleepin' at the foot o' the bed. Subject(s): Beds; History; Historians THE BED, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be draped with serge or with brocade Last Line: Bids welcome and farewell to all his kin. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beds; Sleep; Heritage; Heredity THE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of all god's gifts the best Last Line: Softest, safest, blessedest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE BRITISH GALLERIES, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the great bed of ware Subject(s): Beds; Museums; Art Gallerys THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick and lay a-bed Last Line: The pleasant land of counterpane. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 16 Subject(s): Beds; Children; Play; Sickness; Childhood; Illness THE NIGHT LIGHT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When there is no moon Last Line: Has flown away! Subject(s): Beds; Children; Night; Sleep; Childhood; Bedtime THE OLD BED, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaming beneath the eaves, the sunset light Last Line: Upon the bed of bridal, birth and death. Subject(s): Beds THE OLD TRUNDLE-BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the old trundle-bed where I Last Line: Once bowed o'er my own in the old trundle-bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares THIS IS THE DOUBLE BED WHERE SHE'D BEEN BORN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And then entered straightaway into heaven Subject(s): Aids (disease); Beds; Sickness UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 32. A CAMP, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bed was made, the room was fit Last Line: At god's green caravanserai. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Camper's Night Song Subject(s): Beds; Night; Bedtime WELCOME GUEST, by JEAN D. ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: I've played host to opportunity Last Line: Exact my due and tax his surplus store. Subject(s): Beds; Guests; Visiting WHEN I GET INTO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm never frightened in the dark Last Line: As I get into bed. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Fear; Night; Childhood; Bedtime WHOSE ARE THE LITTLE BEDS,' I ASKED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When april woods are red Subject(s): Beds; Sleep YOU WERE, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: You were white sky Last Line: In a wild prairie-hill bed. Subject(s): Beds; Poetry & Poets; Sleep |
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