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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COTTAGE IN THE MIDST', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The flight of cawing crows
Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Landscape; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods


A NEW BIRTH, by ETHEL A. LARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, dear lord, when I die / let me utter not
Last Line: And thus perceive a new-born day. . . .
Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


A PLACE OF REFUGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In this my den the haunting muse
Last Line: In this my den.
Subject(s): Calm; Quiet Life; Rooms; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


AFTER THE GREAT WIND, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us not further trespass down this lane
Last Line: And over us the constellations wane.
Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


AT BROAD RIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, luxury! Beyond the heat
Last Line: And feel the best of life is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Rivers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


BUILD ME A LODGE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Build me a lodge in the mountain tops
Last Line: Through spirit powers.
Subject(s): Calm; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness


CAESURA, by GLORY E. SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Let me leave life
Last Line: So destiny, involved, is solved.
Subject(s): Calm; Happiness; Silence; Smiles; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Joy; Delight


CALM, by ALDO CAMERINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: If this divine quiet
Last Line: And I don't think of next %year's harvest
Subject(s): Calm


CALM, by JOHN R. CHIESA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unblown, calm, and silent sea
Subject(s): Calm; Sea


CALM, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: So tame, so lanquid looks this drowsing sea
Subject(s): Calm; Sea


CALM, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September sun, a little fog in the mornings. No sanctified terror
Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


CALM, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September sun, a little fog in the mornings. No sanctified terror
Last Line: Carved by a muskrat in the blue-gray distance of the pond, black-eyed susans every- %where. You can
Subject(s): Calm


CALM, by GWEN HEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Calm. I have become
Last Line: Passive storms, and then five more, to hold your face
Subject(s): Calm


CALM, by GRACE MINER LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out the great eternal I reach to take my own
Last Line: The world is a little better because I live today.
Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


CALM, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How calm, how beautiful comes on
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Calm


CALM AT SEA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night is clear
Last Line: To light the temple of devotion.
Subject(s): Calm; Sea; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Ocean


CAN DO, by EVERETT C. RICHMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Don't sit around and feel blue
Last Line: And he will always win for you.
Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


COLOPHON, by LEE JENNISON SCHWEPPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beryl waters are calm there, and biblus island
Last Line: I worry for the beryl waters and northern immigration
Subject(s): Calm


CONTRAST, by O. E. ENFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's april and the snow is sifting down
Last Line: As japonicas in the snow?
Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


COTTAGE IN THE MIDST', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The flight of cawing crows
Subject(s): Calm; Forests


DESERTED CHURCHYARD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lay an ancient churchyard
Last Line: The shadowy days of old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Calm; Churchyards; Desolation; Silence; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Loneliness


DOG DAYS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In the river's eddy
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Rivers


EVENING TRANQUILLITY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How still this hour! The mellow sun
Last Line: Grief's sail is furl'd for evermore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Calm; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


EXALTATION, by JEAN WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For ho! I have come to you, god of the woods
Last Line: Which I lose when I am among men.
Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


FOREST COUPLETS, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a redwood let me lie
Last Line: Of solace, peace, and calm content.
Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods


FOREST POOL, by ROSALIE REGEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had forgotten nature's depth of calm
Last Line: Is buried the green stillness of my pool.
Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods


HARBOUR STARS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer stars are great and low and still
Last Line: The roadstead wind that calls us out once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Calm; Night; Stars; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


HOPPER'S MORNING SUN, by MARGARET HOLLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is an uncluttered idyll, subtraction of stuff
Last Line: Everything, something serene and warm and clean
Subject(s): Calm; Serenity


IN A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was not well the other day
Last Line: Back to my labor in the rolling-mill
Subject(s): Calm;home;neighbors;silence; Placid;undisturbed;tranquility


IN FIELDS AND IN MUSEUMS, by J. S. VENIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are certain moments when a great calm
Last Line: Stories budding like a hill with wheat
Subject(s): Calm; Fields; Museums


LAST VOYAGE, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So ran my dream
Last Line: The city of my hope and dream ...
Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


LET US TAKE LEAVE OF HASTE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us take leave of haste awhile
Last Line: Come, comrade, let us try!
Subject(s): Calm; Greed; Haste; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Avarice; Cupidity


LIFE REMOVED, by LUIS DE LEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How tranquil is the life %of him who, shunning the vain world's uproar
Last Line: To the soft, tuneful sound %of zither touched by fingers' s kill profound
Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis
Subject(s): Calm; Life; Peace; Rest


LINES WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF EDEN, NEAR KIRKBY STEPHEN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From distant moor-land heights descending
Last Line: Eden, to thy dark stream farewell!
Subject(s): Calm; Eden (river), Great Britain; Rivers; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


LISTENING IN DARKNESS - SPEAKING IN LIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He hath spoken in the darkness
Last Line: In the everlasting light!
Subject(s): Calm; Rest; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 6, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just us %in our little house
Last Line: Listen. Hear the wind in the trees.'
Subject(s): Calm; Togetherness


LYNMOUTH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have brought her I love to this sweet place
Last Line: My love, and keep her till I tell her all.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Calm; Love; Lynmouth, England; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


MILK, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From time to time the placid
Last Line: From cut bank
Subject(s): Calm; Milk; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MY SHRINE, by ELMA SCHEEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the friendly loneliness of plains
Last Line: And waft to me old dreams that cannot die.
Subject(s): Calm; Introspection; Prairies; Self; Shrines; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Plains


NIGHT IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With star-dust scintillant the vault is sown
Last Line: As of some unimaginable thing!
Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime; Loneliness


NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NIGHT (STRAITS OF CARQUINEZ), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like miraculous shining electrum / this wide amber light
Last Line: Hushes heaven, whence radiance is drifting!
Subject(s): Calm; Moon; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


OASIS, by TOM HANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we are oasis in the desert
Last Line: Palms dream of flying the sky is starry dark %look long listen long linger long depart
Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food And Eating


ODE TO SLEEP, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O gentle, feather-footed sleep
Last Line: Confounds pale, trembling catiline.
Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Forgetfulness; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares


ODES II, 16. DESIRE FOR TRANQUILITY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In storms when clouds the moon do hide
Last Line: Shunning the knaves and fools, I scorn
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Calm


PARIS BY NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis the sea - calm surface. - and the great tide
Last Line: On a bed of the morgue—with staring eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Calm; Night; Paris, France; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


PARTITION SEPARATES IT FROM OTHER BODIES: A CALM IS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is: golden: of the blind: they are: kings
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Bodies; Calm; Love


PAX BRITANNICA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind her rolling ramparts england lay
Last Line: Watchful she leaned.
Subject(s): Calm; Great Britain - Relations With France; Nations; Peace; Retirement; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


PERHAPS, by WEN YI-TUO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps you have wept and wept, and can weep no more.
Last Line: I will slowly, slowly let the ashes of paper money fly
Subject(s): Calm; Sleep


PIOUS EVENINGS, by EMILE VERHAEREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To farthest off the sun at setting sheds
Last Line: Of which we cannot see the towering stem.
Subject(s): Calm; Evening; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sunset; Twilight


PROVERBS: HE THAT IS SLOW TO ANGER, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty
Last Line: And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city
Subject(s): Anger; Calm


RECOVERY #31, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From time to time I feel the moment for travel has come
Last Line: Let night's soundless blessing slowly descend %iridescent offerings of the seven stars
Subject(s): Calm; Death


RELAXATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I always like the freakish verse
Last Line: Just see -- again
Subject(s): Calm;poetry & Poets;rhyme; Placid;undisturbed;tranquility


REMINDER, by KAY BALLENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: A city is a giant sound
Last Line: To intimate tranquillity!
Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


REVELATION, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September-and an afternoon
Last Line: And the heavens, a jubilant chorus, are flushed with the fires of song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


REVERIE IN OPEN AIR, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I acknowledge my status as a stranger
Last Line: But news of a breeze
Subject(s): Air; Calm; Human Behavior; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ROADSIDE POEMS: HE HEEDED NOT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of whispering trees the tongues to hear
Last Line: An earnest, fearless, hopeless face.
Subject(s): Anger; Calm; Children; Grace; Humility; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Childhood


SAN BLAS, by BILL YAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: No moon no motors only a man
Last Line: And the white eyebrows of broken waves hiss- %and rise again again and once again
Subject(s): Calm; Singing And Singers; Waves


SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is a perfect summer day
Last Line: "and know ""there is no joy but calm."
Subject(s): Calm; Memory; Sea; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Ocean


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glory on the chamber wall!
Last Line: Leads back to golden morn.
Subject(s): Calm; Day; Dreams; Life; Nature; Summer; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares


SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairy spring, in kirtle green
Last Line: And gentle peace thy reign approve!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Spring; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry storms are over
Last Line: That hail the budding spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Spring; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


STATES OF MATTER, by SUSAN CONLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to buy a vowel
Last Line: Where a man in capped white sleeves serves fruit drinks
Subject(s): Calm; Life


STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solitude closes down around us
Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nakedness; Swimmers


STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solitude closes down around us
Last Line: Of your nude jubilation
Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming; Water


SUBURBAN IDYL, by POLLY CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are clearing ground to build a house
Last Line: And children's arms around us like a wall!
Subject(s): Calm; Family Life; Flowers; Suburbs; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Relatives


SUNBEAMS IN THE WOOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark ye not the sunbeams glancing
Last Line: To a home of light.
Subject(s): Calm; Old Age; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


SUNSET, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waves majestic
Last Line: Calmly silvering into night.
Subject(s): Calm; Night; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


THE BLUE-GREEN STREAM, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Every time I have started for the yellow flower river
Last Line: Dropping my fish-line forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Calm; China; Inland Waters; Nature; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE BOWER OF PEACE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hope's illusions all have waned
Last Line: His blood can make—has made them white!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE GARTH, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The weary leafage wanes
Last Line: A child indeed, and with a child's wide eyes. ...
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE HERMIT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the quietude of earth
Last Line: Smiles, and waves, and beckons me.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Calm; Hermits; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE HOUR OF TWILIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the unquiet hours depart
Last Line: Beckon the wounded spirit in.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Calm; Night; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


THE LONELY ISLE, by CLAUDIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in a distant bay, deeply hidden
Last Line: Where those curved arms shut in a tranquil sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus
Subject(s): Calm; Death; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The; Loneliness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 6, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just us / in our little house
Last Line: Listen. Hear the wind in the trees
Subject(s): Calm; Togetherness; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone
Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 5, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is like the autumn moon
Last Line: What more can I say
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE ROSE BOWER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A crimson bower the garden glows
Last Line: Shines with immortal worth.
Subject(s): Calm; Immortality; Life; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE SPEARGRASS LEA, by ELISHA ROSANOVA    Poem Text                    
First Line: June's freshness brings the speargrass lea
Last Line: Appease the grateful heart.
Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE STARS ARE MANSIONS BUILT BY NATURE'S HAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Stars


THE THRUSH AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time to get up! Time to get up! Says the thrush
Last Line: Time to get up! O thrush, I rise—I hear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Advice; Birds; Calm; Mankind; Noises; Thrushes; Waking; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Human Race


THE TOMBLESS MAN; A DREAM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke from sleep at midnight; all was dark
Last Line: And the glad waters murmuring to the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares


THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come blessed sleep, most full, most perfect, come
Last Line: And thou, with john, shalt lie upon my breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Calm; Sleep; Weariness


THIS CALM, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of what hollow
Last Line: He's been standing there for half the night
Subject(s): Calm; Silence


TO A FRIEND, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw two clouds at morning
Last Line: A purer sky, where all is peace.
Variant Title(s): Epithalamium
Subject(s): Calm; Love; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


TO MY BROOK, by JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brook little known whose waters run
Last Line: How time's swift stream doth ever flow.
Subject(s): Brooks; Calm; Streams; Creeks; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


TO SLEEP; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep expand thy downy wing
Last Line: That parts my soul from love—and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Love - Complaints; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness


TOUCHING THE SKY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: More important than remembering %names
Last Line: Almost touching water %which is sky
Subject(s): Calm; Sky


TRANQUIL AFTERNOON, ALMOST, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
Last Line: And to be able tenderly to recall them
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Calm; Youth


UNDINE: UNDINE'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gay are we and without care
Last Line: Weave their spell in the rose-lit dusk.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Calm; Seasons; Spring; Weather; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


UNFINISHED FRAGMENT (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise, depart! For this is not your rest!
Last Line: When he had risen, the shepherd good and fair.
Subject(s): Calm; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


VALIUM, by MITCHELL LESCARBEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your vacant blue-eyed pill
Last Line: No one can touch you
Subject(s): Calm; Drugs And Drug Abuse


VESPERS, by LOUIS MERCIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a sunday at home
Last Line: Vespers sound.
Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Peace; Silence; Winter; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness


WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How water is run
Last Line: Unexpected company %or %tipped back in a ladderback %watching ants %climb up your arm
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Calm; Country Life


WHEN IT HITS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a craving
Last Line: This is the calmest place on earth
Subject(s): Calm; Desire; Morality; Slavery