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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BIRTHDAYS Matches Found: 333 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 102 TODAY, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wystan auden were alive today Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Birthdays 30TH BIRTHDAY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I never be afraid Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Conduct Of Life 47TH BIRTHDAY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exactly the color / of a grey tear the sky is still Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; France A BIRTHDAY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we address it Subject(s): Birthdays A BIRTHDAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Light wakes you with no gentler kiss Last Line: Is fête to spare. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Youth; Childhood A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a singing bird Last Line: Is come, my love is come to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer tide has brought my natal hour Last Line: Scarce disentwined by keen philosophy! Subject(s): Birthdays A BIRTHDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again I come / with my handful of song Last Line: You who have soothed me with passion and roused me with passionate peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Time; Joy; Delight A BIRTHDAY CARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her eighties now, and weak and ill Subject(s): Aunts; Sickness; Birthdays; Illness A BIRTHDAY GREETING, by M. E. F. Poem Text First Line: What shall I wish thee for the coming year? Last Line: And, afterwards, the peace of victory won! Subject(s): Birthdays A BIRTHDAY PRESENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this, behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Birthdays; Dead, The A BIRTHDAY SALUTATION TO HELEN KELLER, by ELIOT WHITE Poem Text First Line: So runs the proverb of the long ago Last Line: And all the cherished beauty of your life. Subject(s): Birthdays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life A BIRTHDAY SONG, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ever wave, for ever float and shine Last Line: Montgomery, alabama, october, 1866. Subject(s): Birthdays A BIRTHDAY SONG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out and away, my song Last Line: Out and away! Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Parties; Joy; Delight A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE; TO J.F. CLARKE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the shepherd sent to lead Last Line: And sigh more love than ours can tell. Subject(s): Birthdays; Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888) A BIRTHDAY WISH, by MARY LYDIA CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: As thy ship sails o'er life's ocean Last Line: In the harbor of thy home. Subject(s): Birthdays; Wishes A BIRTHDAY WISH, by DOROTHY NELL MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: I do not wish you joy without a sorrow Last Line: And god's sweet peace when every day is done. Subject(s): Birthdays; Wishes A DOUBLE-BARRELLED SONNET TO MARK TWAIN: 1. FIRST BARREL, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The man whose birthday we renown tonight Last Line: Gainsay him the glory of being sixty-seven. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Birthdays; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) A DREAM OF FIFTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the losses, this was immense Last Line: Wind pressing leaves against a grid of fence. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Dreams; Future; Life; Loss; Nightmares A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This evening, I sat by an open window Subject(s): Birthdays A JOYFUL SONG OF FIVE, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us all sing very high Last Line: Because to-day you're five. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Birthdays A MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, thou hast known Last Line: Bless her in earth and heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Religion; Theology A NINTH BIRTHDAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing Last Line: Three times thrice. Subject(s): Birthdays; Love; Roundels; Winter A SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAY IN BRITTANY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who counts the foolish years? Last Line: Admiring still how sweetly you become them? Subject(s): Birthdays; Brittany, France A SHORT SONG OF CONGRATULATION, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long-expected one and twenty Last Line: You can hang or drown at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): One And Twenty Subject(s): Birthdays; Inheritance & Succession; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Wealth; Youth; Heirs; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birthdays ABSENCE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My birthday! O beloved mother! Last Line: And be no more, as now, in a strange land, forlorn. Variant Title(s): Birthday Verses Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ACT YOUR AGE, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Happy birthday to you Last Line: But you act like you're two Subject(s): Birthdays AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE POET MOORE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: O come and hail the day Last Line: And bind more closely friend to friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Birthdays; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets AND YOU ON MY BIRTHDAY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Prayer %on a grain of rice Subject(s): Arabs; Birthdays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine APPROACHING 50, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never thought we'd meet. Now here he is Last Line: Binoculars, maybe I'll see in the far distance %100, walking steadily toward me Variant Title(s): Approaching 4 Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is your / birthday and I have tried Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is your %birthday and I have tried Last Line: And not be ashamed Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations APRIL FOOL POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is yout Subject(s): Birthdays; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AS THE GREEK'S SIGNAL FLAME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the greek's signal flame, by antique records told Last Line: Lift high a kindled brand for thee, old poet. Subject(s): Birthdays; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) BEAUTIFUL TWENTY-SECOND, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people in this nation Last Line: Columbia's noblest son. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Birthdays BEC'S BIRTHDAY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This day, dear bec, is thy nativity Last Line: Where there will be no cares to fright her Subject(s): Birthdays BELATED BIRTHDAY, by SALLY MCMILLIN FAIRCHILD Poem Source First Line: This happy little angel Last Line: Just pretend it's me! Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: The next best thing to christmas Last Line: And a birthday cake and all Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The masques of dream - monk in his Last Line: Thirty-ninth skin. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET HILLERT Poem Source First Line: A birthday is a special thing Last Line: To dream about when it is done Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY (AUTOBIOGRAPHY), by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me, Last Line: Swim in my blood and distort my thought but the old man's welcome Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Parents; Parenthood BIRTHDAY ADVICE, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Today on your birthday Last Line: Acting just like your dad Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY AT WESLEYAN, MIDDLETOWN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Days fall about me, dead leaves Last Line: Decaying from my roots Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY CAKE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For breakfast I have eaten the last of your birthday cake that you Last Line: Will be full of flowers and birds. Subject(s): Birthdays; Cakes; Love - Age Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations BIRTHDAY CAKE, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: If little mice have birthdays Last Line: I bet a birthday cheese-cake %would please them most of all Subject(s): Birthdays; Mice BIRTHDAY CARD FOR A PSYCHIATRIST, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your friends come fondly to your living room Last Line: To join us in this neurotic enterprise Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY CHILD, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything's been different Last Line: To be a birthday child? Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY GHAZAL, by KATHLEENE K. WEST Poem Source First Line: I will speak of menopause as I'm at the age Last Line: At fifty - ! 'mad, bad and dangerous to know!' Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY GIFTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you look sad, my minnie? Last Line: How to give her all the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Love; Childhood BIRTHDAY GREETING, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What good gifts can we bring to thee, o king Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY LINES TO AGNES BAILLIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear agnes, gleam'd with joy and dash'd with tears Last Line: Of such investment, eye had ne'er perceived. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the tale the years are telling Last Line: Dawn for thee! Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 10, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A holy, happy birthday Last Line: With grateful heart we take. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 11, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no birthday gift to bring Last Line: And then his glory thine for aye! Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a happy year be thine Last Line: Glorious in the life divine. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 3, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many and happy thy birthdays be Last Line: That thy future life is made. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love would strew upon thy way Last Line: Gild thy life with sunshine true. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birthday blessings, fullest, sweetest Last Line: Gild thy natal day! Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upward, still upward, thy pathway be Last Line: Nearer and nearer the stars of light. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love of god the father Last Line: For this and every coming day! Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 8, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning, resting, trusting, loving Last Line: What has thou to fear? Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY MOTTOES: 9, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We pray thee for our dear one Last Line: While life itself shall last. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love and praise, and a length of days whose Last Line: Fair as youth and sublime as truth we find the fame that we hail to-day. Subject(s): Birthdays; Fear; Love; Praise BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring born in heaven ere many a springtime flown Last Line: Gives thanks for all thou hast given past thanks of all on earth. Subject(s): Birthdays; France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Spring BIRTHDAY PARTY, by KAREN DALE Poem Source First Line: Complications, months of setbacks. I never feel well enough or happy Last Line: Her head. They have been here all morning. She is dying of cancer Subject(s): Birthdays; Parties; Poetry And Poets BIRTHDAY POEM, by JULIE CARR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Usually I am elsewhere Last Line: Summer is a gift I don't want to open Subject(s): Birthdays; Family Life; Poetry And Poets BIRTHDAY POEM, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your pale regiment %is not usual as style %or tours of peru Last Line: Unsure of itself in %its deep attachment %to your nautical humor, %oaths and compasses Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY POEM, by ANA MARIA FAGUNDO Poem Source First Line: Thirty-six years later you lie upon the blanl Last Line: Always from gesture to stare, %from love to love always. %thirty-six years dawning Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY POEM, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Our fathers' slow climb Last Line: And the love, just beginning Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Beginnings; Love Affairs; Marriage; Parents BIRTHDAY POEM ON ANNIVRSARY OF BIRTH OF REV. DR. SWIFT, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day, the fav'rite of the year Last Line: "you never can, nor shall forsake him." Subject(s): Birthdays; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) BIRTHDAY POEM TO MY WIFE, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you considered how inconsequential we all Last Line: Devours me and like inconsequence I'm little and lost Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Birthdays; Marriage BIRTHDAY PREDICTIONS, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: In twenty years you will have money Last Line: And won't even know your own name Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY ROAST, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: We've gathered here to celebrate Last Line: Will catch up to (his/her) age Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY RULES, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Don't invite your friends who havent't learned to use the potty Last Line: And if you disobey them, you will be in lots of trouble Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY SONG, by PAUL PETRIE Poem Source First Line: Saddened by the mirror's bulging shape Last Line: In its weighless weight, begin to dance Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays BIRTHDAY SURPRISE, by MARGARET HILLERT Poem Source First Line: My birthday came, and in a box Last Line: All soft and warm and furry Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY TALK FOR A CHILD (IRIS), by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy dear, I'm only four Last Line: Because she learned and told you this. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood BIRTHDAY VERSES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow to the golden morning Last Line: They have learned that look of mine! Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers BIRTHDAY VERSES; WRITTEN IN A CHILD'S ALBUM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas sung of old in hut and hall Last Line: Into the inexorable sea. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY WALK (WRITTEN FOR A FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A birthday: -- and now a day that rose Last Line: On the broad tower of tamworth church Subject(s): Birthdays; Friendship BIRTHDAY WISHES, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I wish for peace Last Line: Would leave for college Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAY, BIRTHDAY, BIRTHDAY, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Balloons on the ceiling Last Line: Happy-snappy some more Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My friend has a birthday Last Line: Steady, old heart! Lie quiet! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birthdays BIRTHDAYS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A birthday is a solemn thing; a fellow Last Line: A few more teeth have fallen out, but I'm as happy as a boy. Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue BIRTHDAYS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: For my twenty-fifth birthday in the army Last Line: Smoked, and listened to tommy, the who. %maybe I'm writing this because it's so rainy Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Candles BIRTHDAYS AND MILESTONES, by KATE M. CHIDESTER Poem Text First Line: Birthdays are milestones Last Line: At setting of sun. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Experience; Poetry & Poets BLOW HARDER!, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: If you can't blow the candles out Last Line: That you're not turning ninety-two Subject(s): Birthdays BOTH OF THEM WERE SIXTY-FIVE, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ordinarily I wouldn't be introducing aaron copland to ida stern Subject(s): Birthdays; Love BOTH OF THEM WERE SIXTY-FIVE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ordinarily I wouldn't be introducing aaron copland to ida stern Last Line: A fiddle to match, a fire -- and candles -- burning Subject(s): Birthdays; Love BUNCH OF POEMS AND VERSES, SELS., by BEATRICE SCHENK DE REGNIERS Poem Source First Line: How old will you be on you birthday? Last Line: You %will %never %be %that %young %again Subject(s): Birthdays CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I'm calling you up to inform you Last Line: Please send me my present by mail Subject(s): Birthdays CECILIA HAVERGAL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ hath called thee, christ hath blest Last Line: L ive for him who died for thee. Subject(s): Birthdays CELEBRATING MY BIRTHDAY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: This week, my life took a turn. I'm not ailing. But then, who knows Last Line: After I survive what it's not Subject(s): Birthdays; Greenwich Village, New York City CHARLES JAMES; ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cam'st -- what pleasures new and bright Last Line: My charles, my cherub boy! Subject(s): Birthdays; Sons CLEVEDON VERSES: 7. NORTON WOOD (DORA'S BIRTHDAY), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In norton wood the sun was bright Last Line: Since last he saw algiers. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birthdays COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY; A PLAY. ACTS 1-3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That this should be her birthday; and the day Last Line: Whatever be the issue. Help me, cleves! Subject(s): Birthdays COMING OF AGE (J.H.S.), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do we seek for him today, who, through such golden gates Last Line: The king of kings, and lord of lords, our saviour and our friend. Subject(s): Birthdays COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON', by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little four years, little two years Last Line: Little two years will be four! Subject(s): Birthdays; Children COUNTDOWN, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: The countdown begins Last Line: A bag of poisoned candy Subject(s): Birthdays; Childhood Memories CREATIVE COOKING, by LESLIE DANFORD PERKINS Poem Source First Line: I baked my father's birthday cake Last Line: But wow! It sure looks nice Subject(s): Birthdays DAD TURNS NINETY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Sometime between the birthday and %the birthday brunch Last Line: We were away, he changed his mind %and didn't die Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DEAR AUNT FRANCIS, by MARILYN HELMER Poem Source Last Line: Your loving nephew, %vincent Subject(s): Birthdays DIRECTIONS FOR A BIRTHDAY SONG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To form a just and finished piece Last Line: And take a guinea for a flee Subject(s): Birthdays EARTH IS FULL OF THY RICHES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty! Hear thy children raise Subject(s): Birthdays EDITH HAVERGAL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early chastening, early blessing Last Line: L ight and life and love divine! Subject(s): Birthdays EPIGRAM: 9. 53. TO QUINTUS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your birthday I wished to observe with a gift Last Line: May the third is the date of my own Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Birthdays; Gifts And Giving FIFTY-THREE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've already had a lot of them Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age; Books; Trees; Reading FOR A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At two years old the world he sees Last Line: At two years old. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood FOR A BIRTHDAY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy day, that saw our fair maid's eyes Last Line: And see the heaven she never can forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Birthdays FOR A SOLDIER'S BIRTHDAY, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weather is war Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): War; Soldiers; Birthdays FOR E.P.S., by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Francie, may thy childhood be Last Line: S howering golden love and pleasure. Subject(s): Birthdays FOR ELIZABETH CLAY'S BIRTHDAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My presence shall go with thee Last Line: And he hath given me rest'? Subject(s): Birthdays FOR K.R. ON HER SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow out the candles of your cake Last Line: Blow out the candles of your cake Subject(s): Birthdays FOR K.R. ON HER SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow out the candles of your cake Last Line: You whet your wings till dawn shall break: %blow out the candles of your cake Subject(s): Birthdays FOR MICHAEL ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Source First Line: A distant time past Last Line: Men - beautiful and black Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Birthdays FOR MY DAUGHTER'S TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stroked her cheek with my finger Subject(s): Birthdays FOR QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHDAY 1691, by THOMAS SHADWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome, glorious morn Last Line: And long preserve the blessings thou hast giv'n. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mary Ii, Queen Of England (1662-1694); British Empire; England - Empire FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1697, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summon to the cheerful plain Last Line: Who fights to give freedom, and conquers to save. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1715, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise harmonious pow'rs Last Line: Only know to prize the blessing. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Happiness; Odes (as Poetic Form); Joy; Delight FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1718, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh touch the string, celestial muse, and say Last Line: And britain's festival be thine. Subject(s): Birthdays; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Relations With France; Triplets; United Nations FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1723, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hail to the lov'd, returning, glorious day! Last Line: Britannia! Ever blest, if they. Subject(s): Birthdays; Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When charles, from anarchy's retreat Last Line: Fame shall preserve the great, and just. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Happiness; Obedience; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1787, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest bards of albion's choir Last Line: His lyre had blameless been, his tribute all sincere. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Exiles; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Muses FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1789, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the demon of the summer storm Last Line: Albion the garland gives on this distinguish'd day. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Health FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1794, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rous'd from the gloom of transient death Last Line: Sacred to patriot worth, to patriot bosoms dear. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Wars With France; Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty FOR THE QUEEN MOTHER, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your people Last Line: Who chose you as his bride. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bowes-lyons, Elizabeth FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE, D.D. ON HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What lapse or accident of time Last Line: His mellowest music be his last. Subject(s): Birthdays; Hedge, Frederick Henry (1805-1890); Life; Youth GHAZAL OF BIRTHDAYS, by JOHN DRURY Poem Source First Line: The fruit flies celebrate constantly, getting drunk on nectar Last Line: The coronation ode of this moment, driftwood at sea Subject(s): Birthdays; Nature GIFTS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child, a heartstruck neighbor died Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Gifts & Giving; Dead, The GLORY, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A moment of glory every once in a while Last Line: Whose inhabitants haven't learned to create from nothing Subject(s): Birthdays; Family Life HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM YOUR LOVING BROTHER, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: My sister plays with barbie dolls Last Line: I am giving her a worm Subject(s): Birthdays HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, by MIKE ARTELL Poem Source Last Line: And the presents are free! Subject(s): Birthdays HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! SELS., by THEODORE GEISEL Poem Source First Line: Today you are you! That is truer than true! Last Line: If I say so myself. Happy birthday to me!' Subject(s): Birthdays HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH (OR) A CONSIDERATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, world, you have kept faith with me Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH (OR) A CONSIDERATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, world, you have kept faith with me Last Line: As each year might assign Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays HER THIRD BIRTHDAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My tiny lady, can it Last Line: For you to dream upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood HERE'S A WELCOME TO YOU, PROFESSOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Birthdays HIS BIRTHDAY, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Nay, master, dare we speak? O mighty shade Subject(s): Birthdays HIS BIRTHDAY, by KALFUS KURTZ GUSLING Poem Text First Line: I wonder if he went long, long ago Last Line: I'm glad that she was with him to the last. Subject(s): Birthdays HIS BIRTHDAY, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: The day the christ-child's tender eyes Last Line: May find somewhat to comfort them. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Birthdays; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The HOLY WORM OF PRAISE, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: Let's raise our glasses & give thanks Last Line: Our walking here & there on the earth & looking %around Subject(s): Birthdays HOROSCOPE, by JEANNINE HALL GAILEY Poem Source First Line: Chinese horoscope: born 1973, the year of the ox Last Line: As we build a nest from earth and water Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Birthdays I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I beg what I love and %I leave to forgive me Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Holidays; Maturity; New Year IF WE DIDN'T HAVE BIRTHDAYS, by THEODORE GEISEL Poem Source First Line: If we didn't have birthdays, you wouldn't be you Last Line: But you ... You are you! And, now isn't that pleasant! Subject(s): Birthdays IMPROMPTU ON MRS. RIDDEL'S BIRTHDAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old winter, with his frosty beard Last Line: And winter once rejoiced in glory. Subject(s): Birthdays; Winter IN MARY'S MONTH; TO MY YOUNGER SISTER ON HER BIRTHDAY, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: In mary's month, in mary's month Last Line: As first sweets of the spring. Subject(s): Birthdays; Oxford University; Sisters INVITATION, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: My birthday invitation %has balloons Last Line: To help me celebrate! Subject(s): Birthdays LINES ON MY THIRTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me!-the moments will not stay! Last Line: At twice the count of thirty-nine! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Time; Youth LINES TO MR. WYNCH ON HIS FORTH-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since life is a journey, a birthday 'tis clear Last Line: You meet a good inn, and sweet rest at the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Birthdays LINES, FOR MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day let pleasure smile on every face Last Line: Be clouded with a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers LITTLE BROTHER'S SECRET, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my birthday was coming Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Birthdays; Sugar LITTLE BROTHER'S SECRET, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my birthday was coming Last Line: And now it will all be melted. %oh the darling Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Birthdays; Sugar LUCY'S BIRTHDAY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seventeen rosebuds in a ring Last Line: And developing in grace. Subject(s): Birthdays LULLABY IN JANUARY, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bravely (it seems to me) you Subject(s): Winter; Sleep; Birthdays M.L.C.'S BIRTHDAY CROWN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only just a line to say Last Line: In the presence of thy lord! Subject(s): Birthdays MARY'S BIRTHDAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is at rest Last Line: Her anthem they shall swell, her joy they too shall know. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MICKEY'S BIRTHDAY, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: Two small-time whores from chicago sit on the bed Last Line: Tremble across space %toward denver Subject(s): Birthdays MIMOSA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It must have been july Last Line: He'd have heard my heart beating. Subject(s): Birthdays; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People MISS SUZY'S BIRTHDAY, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Miss suzy had a birthday Last Line: Till she was twenty-two Subject(s): Birthdays MIZPAH (MESSAGE FOR ABSENT FRIENDS): 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a leaf, yet it shall bear Last Line: What blessings from that prayer may flow. Subject(s): Birthdays MIZPAH (MESSAGE FOR ABSENT FRIENDS): 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grace, mercy, peace' Last Line: With our own, with yours and mine. Subject(s): Birthdays MIZPAH (MESSAGE FOR ABSENT FRIENDS): 3, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the same bright morning star Last Line: Our hearts may meet, and we are near! Subject(s): Birthdays MIZPAH (MESSAGE FOR ABSENT FRIENDS): 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sounding shell conveys Last Line: Fail not to rise for thee. Subject(s): Birthdays MIZPAH (MESSAGE FOR ABSENT FRIENDS): 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the circling flight of time may find us Last Line: Only welcomes wait us both above. Subject(s): Birthdays MONDAY'S CHILD, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monday's child is fair of face Last Line: Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. Variant Title(s): A Week Of Birthdays;days Of Birth Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Day; Mothers; Childhood MY BAPTISMAL BIRTH-DAY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's child in christ adopted, - christ my all Last Line: Yes! But not his -- 'tis death itself there dies. Subject(s): Birthdays; Religion; Theology MY BIRTHDAY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, there's no soft hand comes now Last Line: Brighter than that of meeting thee. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Nostalgia MY BIRTHDAY, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through a dull tract of woe, of dread Last Line: Are choked, are check'd, by many a weed. Subject(s): Birthdays MY BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My birth-day' - what a different sound Last Line: And comfortless, and stormy round! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Birthdays MY BIRTHDAY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not because I doubt who would believe Last Line: In some glad morning to be born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Birthdays MY BIRTHDAY, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the sun summon all his beams to hold Last Line: Bowed low before the throne 'mid the bright seraph choir. Subject(s): Birthdays MY BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the moonlight and the snow Last Line: As up the hills of morn! Subject(s): Birthdays MY BIRTHDAY; OCTOBER 20, 1927, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sixty-five years ago today Last Line: Dwell in my soul and heart. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Memory MY DAUGHTER VISITS ME AT HIGH CAMP, PLACER COUNTY, ON MY 52 BIRTHDAY, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Her blind friend lets the air out of her tires because she will not sleep Last Line: Forever if she didn't - even on introduction, not knowing she cared - tiptoe %around it to help it p Subject(s): Birthdays; Daughters MY FATHER'S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY (1), by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither the moon face, scarlet Last Line: As if a lover were cradled in his arms Subject(s): Birthdays; Fathers MY FATHER'S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY (2), by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not only the moon face, scarlet Last Line: As if a darling had crept into his arms Subject(s): Birthdays; Fathers MY FIRST BIRTHDAY GIFT, by SANDRA OLSON LIATSOS Poem Source First Line: They didn't give me Last Line: My present %was my name! Subject(s): Birthdays MY MOTHER IN PROVINCETOWN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, now pushing ninety Last Line: The men are pretty and the women are strong! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY NEW BIRTHDAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will have a new birthday to-day Last Line: For I take a new birthday -- to-day! Subject(s): Birthdays NICEST PART, by JEAN CONDER SOULE Poem Source First Line: Paper hats and frosted cakes Last Line: Is sharing it with everyone! Subject(s): Birthdays NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctually now, by all we learned at school Last Line: Law is the last law to be understood Subject(s): Army Life; Birthdays; Drills & Minor Tactics NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctually now, by all we learned at school Last Line: Law is the last law to be understood Subject(s): Army Life; Birthdays NINE YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of light, whose shrine no hands destroy Last Line: Here it hails a lord whose years are nine. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Love; Soul; Childhood NO MAP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How close the clouds press this october first Last Line: Showing the dark places and how to escape them? Subject(s): Surgery; Fathers & Sons; Birthdays O, DEEM NOT THEY ARE BLEST ALONE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birthdays ODE ON LORD HAY'S BIRTHDAY, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A muse, unskill'd in venal praise Last Line: While shouting nations gaze. Subject(s): Birthdays ODE TO SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the hearth is crowned with smiling fire Last Line: The birthday shines, when logs not burn, but men. Subject(s): Birthdays; Sidney, Sir William (1590-1612) ON A BIRTHDAY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fourscore long years, fourscore! Last Line: What still it holds in store! Subject(s): Birthdays; Bruce, Henry. Baron Aberdare (1815-1895) ON A BIRTHDAY, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of ronsard, nashe and beaumont Last Line: Sing loudly this my lady-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Birthdays ON A YOUNG LADY'S SIXTH ANNIVERSARY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby babbles - only one Last Line: You will soon put up your hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Birthdays ON BEING BORN THE SAME EXACT DAY OF THE SAME EXACT YEAR AS BOY GEORGE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must have clamored for the same mother, hurried for the same womb. Last Line: But I can set it straight. Subject(s): Birthdays; George, Boy (b. 1961); Baby Boom Generation; Women ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1536, by CHRISTIAN NAGLE Poem Source First Line: What time is it? The sky's unnaturally gray Last Line: Is out again! How I detest the thing Subject(s): Birthdays ON HER OWN BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 26, 1723, by JUDITH (COWPER) MADAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day beginning to a creature gave Last Line: That howe and pope vouchsafe to call her friend. Subject(s): Birthdays; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Self ON HER SECOND BIRTHDAY, by QUINTIN B. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I've seen the morning sun arise Last Line: The celestial cadence of your voice! Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood ON HIS FIRST BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: With hopes so rich enladen, with thy store Last Line: Eternal youth on all thy purpose there! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood ON HIS THIRTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY, by CH'ANG KUO FAN Poem Source First Line: More than thirty years have rushed Last Line: Better I stayed home %and raised prize melons Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age ON MY BIRTHDAY, JULY 21, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I, my dear, was born today Last Line: Thou, my dear, wert born to-day.' Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Life; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Dead, The ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES O. HARTMAN Poem Source First Line: It's easy to remember Last Line: The horses in their fields %kneel down in terror Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clad in all their brightest green Last Line: Combine to bless thy natal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: The thunderstorm is over Last Line: Because you cannot lie Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY; IN AFFLICTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Withering sorrow wilt thou come Last Line: "though thorns its dewy leaves enclose." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers; Sickness; Illness ON MY MOTHER'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Yes, mother, fifty years have fled Last Line: This tribute of a daughter's pen. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers ON SENDING MY SON AS A PRESENT TO DR. SWIFT, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A curious statue, we are told Last Line: A meaner were unworthy swift Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Gifts & Giving; Birthdays; Sons ON SOUTHEY'S BIRTHDAY, NOV 4, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No angel borne on whiter wing Last Line: Show us thy light and point the way. Subject(s): Birthdays; Southey, Robert (1774-1843) ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now six and thirty rapid years are fled Last Line: "but the fair guerdon is immortal fame." Subject(s): Birthdays; Fame; Happiness; Reason; Virtue; Reputation; Joy; Delight; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ON THE DAY THAT YOU WERE BORN, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source Last Line: Dropped you on your head Subject(s): Birthdays ON THE EVE OF MY THIRTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I do not think I'll dye Last Line: Of erections that will last Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Life ON THIS BIRTHDAY OF YOURS, by BEVERLY MCLOUGHLAND Poem Source Last Line: Could be happening to us!' Subject(s): Birthdays OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools PICTURE THIS:/ FOR THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dream of your birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002); Bowes-lyons, Elizabeth PINATA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The fat pink paper-mache burro Last Line: With the blushes of someone %hanged for the wrong crime Subject(s): Birthdays; Games; Parties PINNING THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source Last Line: And started to pin it on me! Subject(s): Birthdays POEM DELIVERED TO REV. DOCTOR SWIFT, DEAN OF ST.PATRICK'S, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixteen hundred sixty-eight Last Line: Make me a cart'ret, if you can. Subject(s): Birthdays; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) POEM FOR A 75TH BIRTHDAY, by MARILYN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Love of my life, it's nearly evening Last Line: There is, and night will never fall Subject(s): Birthdays; Love POEM FOR A BIRTHDAY, by MARISA DE LOS SANTOS Poem Source First Line: What my mind pushes back toward is irresponsible Last Line: Grown distilled, feeding both the living and the lost Subject(s): Birthdays; Poetry And Poets POEM FOR BROTHER FRANKLIN ON HIS 44TH BIRTHDAY, by ANN HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: May sister grain be with you always Last Line: And water, in springtime, your first green shoots of corn Subject(s): Birthdays; Brotherhood; Poetry And Poets POEM FOR ELLIOT CARTER ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking behind elliot carter Last Line: Playing anyway, invisibly unheard Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR ELLIOT CARTER ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking behind elliot carter Last Line: Playig anyway, invisibly unheard Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR JOAN INGLIS ON HER BIRTHDAY, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he stood saying goodbye Last Line: Small, darkly shaded lamp. Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Joy; Delight POEM FOR MY 36TH BIRTHDAY, by DICK ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cool weather at last! The air, this morning, was Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR MY BIRTHDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have stopped being the heroine Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birthdays; Self POEM FOR MY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clock that splits Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR MY THIRTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Itchy with time in the dogday summer stew Last Line: The stuck air open, like a death blown over Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the american graveyard, for my birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Cemeteries; Graveyards POEM FOR MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the predawn throbs on engine sound Last Line: The last compassionate necessity Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the predawn throbs on engine sound Last Line: The last compassionate necessity Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR SHANE ON HER BROTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by DONALD T. SANDERS Poem Source First Line: During the early winter Last Line: Silver tulips of electric light %for her brother Subject(s): Birthdays; Brothers POEM FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY; FOR BARBARA THOMPSON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year both our birthdays end in zero Last Line: The password at the boundary is friend. Subject(s): Birthdays; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism POEM IN OCTOBER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was my thirtieth year to heaven Subject(s): Birthdays; Youth POEM IN OCTOBER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my thirtieth year to heaven Last Line: On this high hill in a year's turning Subject(s): Birthdays; Youth POEM ON HIS 44TH BIRTHDAY, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: After so many years I've discovered Last Line: Rejoice, rejoice Subject(s): Birthdays; Family Life POEM ON MY BIRTHDAY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the juices of watermelons sparkle, be candles Subject(s): Birthdays POEM ON MY BIRTHDAY FOR IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: We have the day in common, also verses Last Line: Courage, %sister. Good courage, my white sister Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Human Rights POSTSCRIPT, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wrote the whole novel in his head Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Birthdays; Typewriters PRIMED, by PAULANN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: It was middle june Last Line: Crazy to be divisble by %only myself and one Subject(s): Birthdays; Summer REVEILLE FOR MY TWENTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now on the bluster and roil of the wind Subject(s): Birthdays REVENGE OF THE BIRTHDAY AUNTS, by MICHAEL PLATZER Poem Source First Line: Mom planned my birthday party Last Line: We're coming back next year.' Subject(s): Birthdays RITES OF PASSAGE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the guests arrive at my son's party Subject(s): Boys; Birthdays ROSE'S BIRTHDAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, perverse young year Last Line: Reserve thy frowns for mine. Subject(s): Birthdays SATURDAY NIGHT; TO THE REV. C.B. SNEPP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, refresh thy weary servant Last Line: Let his spirit always be! Subject(s): Birthdays SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 3. BIRTHDAY GREETING, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to hunt; and my brothers Last Line: Today I am fourteen years old Subject(s): Birthdays; Growth; Teenagers SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 3. BIRTHDAY GREETING, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to hunt; and my brothers Last Line: Today I am fourteen years old Subject(s): Birthdays; Growth SECRET, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On one of those birthdays of which I've had so many Subject(s): Birthdays SENT TO A LADY WITH FLOWERS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the last flowers your natal day Last Line: That smile would win me from the skies. Subject(s): Birthdays; Flowers SEVEN TIMES ONE [- CHILDHOOD. EXULTATION], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no dew left on the daisies and clover Last Line: I am seven times one to-day. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Children; Death; Flowers; Life; Childhood; Dead, The SIX YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the springs of six and seven Last Line: 09/30/80 Subject(s): Birthdays; Love; Spring SNIFFING A BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day it is my natal day Last Line: I shall not buy it in. Subject(s): Birthdays SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF EXISTENCE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: In the shrift, she says, 'it is always moving, even in slumber Last Line: Terror now in the hangar: the little door slides back Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Birthdays; Family Life; Ontology; Time SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONG, ON THE BIRTHDAY OF MRS. --, WRITTEN IN IRELAND, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all my happiest hours of joy Last Line: Be thus with joy remember'd ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Birthdays SONNET, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How shall I crown this child? Subject(s): Birthdays SONNET: 8. TO M. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born Last Line: Through time, and part it from eternity. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To - , On Her Birth-day;to Irene On Her Birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Transcendentalism SPECIAL DAY, by SANDRA OLSON LIATSOS Poem Source First Line: Today the sky %is bluer than ever Last Line: Today is the day %that I was born! Subject(s): Birthdays STAR DANCED, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And under that %was I born Subject(s): Birthdays STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1720, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All travellers at first incline Last Line: And crowd to stella's at four score. Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728) STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1723, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resolved my annual verse to pay Last Line: With stella's praise to crown the year Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728) STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1725, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As, when a beauteous nymph decays Last Line: To make me deaf and mend my sight. Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728) STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1726-7, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This day, whate'er the fates decree Last Line: That I'm alive to tell you so. Variant Title(s): Stella's Birthday, March 13, 1727 Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728) STEVENSON'S BIRTHDAY, by KATHERINE WISE MILLER Poem Text First Line: How I should like a birthday!' said the child?' Last Line: Not part of time, but immortality. Subject(s): Birthdays; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) THANK YOU, by GOLDIE OLSZYNKO GRYN Poem Source First Line: Thank you for the birthday cake Last Line: Doing this again! Subject(s): Birthdays THE AMERICAN JOKE (READ AT THE BIRTHDAY DINNER TO S.L. CLEMENS), by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller from the old world, just escaped Last Line: "I type their master-mood. Mark twain made me." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Birthdays; Jokes; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); Writing & Writers THE BIRTHDAY, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees were dripping, dank and still Last Line: And thoughts to linger in. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Cities; Fire; Rites & Ceremonies; Childhood; Urban Life THE BIRTHDAY CROWN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1824-1911) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If aught of simple song have power to touch Last Line: Give her the unfading crown!' Subject(s): Birthdays THE BIRTHDAY ODE, 1743, SELECTION, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of fields, of forts, and floods, unknown to fame Last Line: Sing, britons, tho' uncouth the sound. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sounds are the sea, breaking out of sight, Last Line: Of the children’s light high clear cries Subject(s): Birthdays THE BIRTHDAY WREATH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blossom and greenness, making all Last Line: This isthmian wreath of pine and oak. Subject(s): Birthdays THE CHILD'S BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When berries redden on the thorn Last Line: Shall crown the month my love was born. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Birthdays THE FIRST BIRTHDAY, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, sweet girl, hath run his year-long race Last Line: Its father's frown, its nurse's mimic rage. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Infants THE KING'S BIRTH-DAY IN EDINBURGH, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the day sae aften sung Last Line: And tunes her lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Birthdays; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Parties THE LOVER TO HIS MISTRESS ON HER BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any white-winged power above Last Line: As thou shalt see it rise. Subject(s): Birthdays THE TRIUNE PRESENCE (BIRTHDAY OR NEW YEAR'S HYMN), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly I will be with thee! Father!' I have found it true Last Line: True of old, and true this moment, I will trust jehovah's word. Subject(s): Birthdays; God; Peace THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF MARCH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gentle one, thy birthday sun should rise Last Line: And living fountains of a brighter land. Subject(s): Birthdays THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT; A POEM ON THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD SAVAGE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Twice twenty tedious moons have rolled away Last Line: I lose all memory of wrongs and woes. Subject(s): Birthdays; Honor; Poetry & Poets THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: ON MY TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's in november: the winds are at strife Last Line: To my twenty-fourth year. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birthdays; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THY BIRTHDAY, by CLAUDE A. BARR Poem Text First Line: Rememberest the lilies-of-the-valley, fair my love Last Line: Praise to thee, o faithful keeper of the fire, fair my love. Subject(s): Birthdays; Flowers; Love TO A FRIEND ON HER BIRTH-DAY, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, my gentle friend! Has time's swift flight Last Line: Which speaks them born above, though spent on earth below. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Birthdays TO AN INFANT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wak'st from rosy [or, happy] sleep, to play Last Line: He will remember thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Infants TO CHARLES FORD, ESQ. ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, be content, since out it must Last Line: Twelve pence a corner, if you dare Subject(s): Birthdays TO CLARE, CANDLE-WISHES, by EDWARD V. KILLEEN JR. Poem Text First Line: A birthday cake with tapers bright Last Line: My candle-wish to you. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Cakes; Candles TO DICK, ON HIS SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' I am very old and wise Last Line: The angel sent the stars to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Youth TO DR. FRANCIS N. PELOUBET; ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some men in age can well contrive Last Line: Up to the sunny skies! Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Peloubet, Francis Nathan (1831-1920) TO E.B. ON HER BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, sweet girl, these lays impart Last Line: Till on her cheek the rose expand. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays TO EDWARD KOCBEK ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I have avoided you, great poet Last Line: Moment by moment joy strengthens Subject(s): Birthdays; Poetry And Poets TO ERON ON HER THIRTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: When the last shadow Last Line: What outlasts us is our love Subject(s): Birthdays; Gratitude TO HATTIE - ON HER BIRTHDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your 'uncle jim' was Last Line: On her anniversary. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birthdays; Kisses TO HELEN, WITH CRABBE'S POEMS, A BIRTHDAY PRESENT, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give crabbe, dear helen, on your shelf Last Line: Nor hides the right, nor gilds the wrong Subject(s): Birthdays; Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Gifts And Giving TO HIS WIFE ON THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, WITH A RING, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee, mary, with this ring I wed' / so, sixteen years ago, I said Last Line: And teach me all things--but repentance. Variant Title(s): The Second Marriage Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birthdays; Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO HOLMES ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His last leaf flutters, not to fall Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Birthdays TO JANE (HIS WIFE, ON HER BIRTHDAY, THE SIXTH OF NOVEMBER), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear heart, and a most kind good-morrow Last Line: So may thy life be measured out by flowers! Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO JOHN HENRY C. - ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings on thee, darling boy Last Line: Through the one eternal day! Subject(s): Birthdays TO JULIA ON HER BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When time was entwining the garland of years Last Line: And pity shall nurse it with dew! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Birthdays; Time TO M.V.G.H. ON HER BIRTHDAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blessing of the trusting one Last Line: Of eternity! Subject(s): Birthdays TO MARK TWAIN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With memories old and wishes new Last Line: True wisdom comes with laughter and with tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birthdays; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) TO MISS CORNISH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, lady, that to-day Last Line: Miss cornish, on your natal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Birthdays; Sea; Women; Ocean TO MISS F.A.L. ON HER BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wish can friendship form for thee Last Line: If sunbeams prove her worth? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays TO MISS LEAR ON HER BIRTHDAY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, and very dear relation Last Line: And kindly meant in perpetration Subject(s): Birthdays; Creation TO MR. THOMAS SOUTHERNE, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resigned to live, prepared to die Last Line: And scorn a rascal and a coach. Subject(s): Birthdays; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Southern, Thomas TO MY AUNT, ON HER BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse shall breathe a native lay Last Line: To bless our little band unite. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Aunts; Birthdays TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fanny! Nine long years ago Last Line: Was this -- I wept. Subject(s): Birthdays; Daughters TO MY ELDEST BROTHER, LIEUTENANT .. HIS TWENTY-FIRST YEAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While hope, the syren fair and gay Last Line: "to hail the gallant fusileer." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers TO MY MOTHER ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER BIRTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's your natal day Last Line: Great happiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): To My Mother On Her Birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers TO MY SISTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These books you find three weeks Last Line: "ere we be young again." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birthdays; Sisters; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) TO MY WIFE ON HER BIRTHDAY; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! --ty years? -- I never could have guessed it Last Line: "have spent their life, and, ""dying, made no sign!" Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S CHILDREN ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where sucks the bee now? Summer is flying Last Line: Happy and bright is thy natal day! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Childhood TO ONE ON HER BIRTHDAY (2), by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, if my secret wishes could have wings Last Line: Of your soul's truth triumphant over wrong. Subject(s): Birthdays TO REV. DOCTOR SWIFT, DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S. A BIRTHDAY POEM, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, my true and faithful friend Last Line: You see, dear dean, my dream is out. Subject(s): Birthdays; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO RICHARD HOWARD ON OUR BIRTHDAYS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shedding the scales of early Last Line: Outspeeding its own sound. Subject(s): Birthdays; Howard, Richard (b. 1929); Middle Age TO TERRAUGHTY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Health to the maxwells' veteran chief Last Line: While burns they ca' me. Subject(s): Birthdays TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. LEFROY, WHO DIED ON MY BIRTHDAY, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day returns again, my natal day Last Line: Indulge the harmless weakness - reason, spare Subject(s): Birthdays; Obituaries TO THE REV. C.B. SNEPP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no hymn, my brother Last Line: Transmuted into praise. Subject(s): Birthdays TO VIRGINIA ON HER BIRTHDAY, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your past is past and never to return Last Line: I breathe this blessing, and I pray this prayer. Subject(s): Birthdays; Blessings TO-MORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, then, another drink! Ben jonson knows Last Line: Let's walk and hear the lark. Subject(s): Birthdays; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Today on your birthday Last Line: Wind up in the zoo Subject(s): Birthdays TWELFTH BIRTHDAY, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if because you lay Subject(s): Birthdays TWO AGES, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: My daughter thinks that the boogeyman is old Last Line: She's 48 and 19 Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays TWO BIRTHDAYS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your birthday, sweetheart, is my birthday too Last Line: On -- on -- from star to star. Subject(s): Birthdays TWO SISTERS; BIRTHDAY VERSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must I welcome in the day Last Line: Though writ another way. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Birthdays; Sisters UNCLE IKE'S BIRTHDAY, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well uncle ike! This beats me Last Line: "tank you sah; I must go." Subject(s): African Americans; Birthdays; Uncles; Negroes; American Blacks UNCOMMON NUMBER OF US DIE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And abruptly you're back home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Nature VERO BEACH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three score three years ago, a thousand miles Last Line: The forceps tug me one notch further out Subject(s): Birthdays VERO BEACH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three score three years ago, a thousand miles Last Line: The forceps tug me one notch further out Subject(s): Birthdays WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES S. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: All hail, thou glorious morn Last Line: Columbia's son. Subject(s): Birthdays; Holidays; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rockets flamed in sudden fire Last Line: The grandest name that stars the state. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Infants WHAT YOU WERE LIKE WHEN YOU WERE BORN, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: When you were born Last Line: On your head Subject(s): Birthdays WHEN FRANKENSTEIN CAME TO MY BIRTHDAY, by ROBERT SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: He came to my birthday and banged down the door Last Line: But don't invite frankenstein, ever again!!!' Subject(s): Birthdays WHICH?, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birth-day or earth-day Last Line: Which the well-worth day? Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight WILLY'S BIRTHDAY, by PHILIP C. KOLIN Poem Source First Line: Dress willy up in voices Last Line: Firing up the yard %late at night Subject(s): Birthdays; Change; Growth; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915) WISH, by A. FRIDAY Poem Source First Line: Each birthday wish %I've ever made Last Line: And every year %I %do! Subject(s): Birthdays YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Last Line: But you have been dead for thirty years Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past |
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