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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHAIRS Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEMORY OF THE SAD CHAIR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in a dream of the time it was Last Line: We had shared that sadness, but what's the use? Subject(s): Chairs AFTER A DEATH, by RUTH ELIZABETH BORSON Poem Source First Line: Seeing that there's no other way Last Line: Because the chair is there Subject(s): Chairs; Death AMERICAN CHAIRS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this country, we build the chair Subject(s): Chairs; God AMERICAN CHAIRS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this country, we build the chair Last Line: Lord, a chair is a chair is a chair. %lord, hear our prayer Subject(s): Chairs; God AN ADDRESS TO HIS ELBOW CHAIR, NEW CLOTHED, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear companion, and my faithful friend! Last Line: On his great voyage to the world unknown. Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Chairs ART OF SITTING IN A CHAIR, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is at half rest in the practice of a simple art Last Line: Birds humming go their iridescent way Subject(s): Art And Artists; Chairs; Furniture BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to %grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels CHAIR; POET'S AND PAINTER'S, by GEORGE BRUCE Poem Source First Line: Greek gives the chair dignity, suggests cathedral Last Line: Of imagination and love it proposes %no time past, no future, but is Subject(s): Chairs CHAIRS, by GIOVANNI RABONI Poem Source First Line: The armchair, of beech and indian cane Subject(s): Chairs CHAIRS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-backed and straight-backed, with tidy gay Last Line: A chair, and nobody in it! Subject(s): Chairs CHAIRS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Chairs %seem Last Line: To %rest Subject(s): Chairs LA CHAISE BLEUE, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: Shadows are moving across a wall Last Line: The blue chair stands empty Subject(s): Blue (color); Chairs; Home LION IN AN EASY CHAIR, by MICHAEL LOHRE Poem Source First Line: The walls of this apartment Last Line: Our orange easy war. %no, my orange easy chair Subject(s): Chairs MUSICAL CHAIRS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Chairs; Games; Insects; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Bugs MY MOTHER'S ROCKING CHAIR, by MARCELLA DRENNAN MALARKY Poem Text First Line: I loved my mother's rocking chair Last Line: The little rocking chair. Subject(s): Chairs; Mothers ODE. SITTING AND DRINKING IN THE CHAIR ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chear up my mates, the wind does fairly blow Last Line: Take for thy sail this verse, and for thy pilot mee. Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sea; Ocean OLD AGE, by JANE T. MANDERSCHIED Poem Text First Line: She sits in her winged chair, enthroned Last Line: Again she sleeps. Subject(s): Aging; Chairs; Sleep ONLY YOUR LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE COULD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And make these branches, leafless now so long, %blossom again in song Subject(s): Chairs; Trees PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY; OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Facts respecting an old arm-chair Last Line: And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will! Subject(s): Chairs PRICE OF STABILITY, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: It is with a wonderful sense of security Last Line: Rest of my furniture to smithereens Subject(s): Carpenters; Chairs; Climbing; Furniture ROCKING CHAIR, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It seconds the crickets of the province. Heard Last Line: To make a pleasure out of repeated pain, %its music moves, as if always back to a first love Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Chairs ROCKING CHAIR, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: It is a dream absolutely Subject(s): Chairs ROCKINGCHAIR, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We always love the cradle Subject(s): Chairs; Travel SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: One of the chairs is a big game seat Last Line: And one is no place for me. Subject(s): Chairs SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE FIRST CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When to a college town I go Last Line: And simply wave my hand. Subject(s): Chairs; Universities & Colleges SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE FOURTH CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: A chair against a ballroom wall Last Line: But none at a dance for me! Subject(s): Chairs; Dancing & Dancers SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE SECOND CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I'm getting used to the barber's chair Last Line: My head will resemble a knob. Subject(s): Barbers; Chairs; Hair SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE THIRD CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When I am in my chair at sea Last Line: As they go walking by. Subject(s): Chairs; Food & Eating; Sea; Tea; Ocean TALES FROM A ROCKING CHAIR, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: April glistens after the rain Last Line: And never could sing after that Subject(s): Chairs; Story-telling THE BACHELOR'S CANE-BOTTOM CHAIR, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars Last Line: And yonder she sits in my cane-bottomed chair. Variant Title(s): The Cane-bottom'd Chair Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship; Home; Nostalgia THE BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE CHAIR, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chair left out in the garden night all winter Last Line: All winter long even behind the day Subject(s): Chairs; Winter THE CHAIR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A funny thing about a chair: Subject(s): Chairs THE CHAIRS THAT NO ONE SITS IN, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see them on porches and on lawns Subject(s): Chairs THE HIGH-BACKED CHAIR, by T. P. SANBORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at it carefully, jim, old man! Last Line: On some girl or other, when no one's by. Alternate Author Name(s): Sanborn, Thomas Parker Subject(s): Chairs THE OLD ARM-CHAIR, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I love it! I love it! And who shall dare Last Line: My soul from a mother's old arm-chair. Subject(s): Chairs; Children; Mothers; Childhood THE OLD SEDAN CHAIR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stands in the stable-yard, under the eaves Last Line: To a fine-art museum -- that old sedan chair! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Chairs THE ROCKING CHAIR, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seconds the crickets of the province. Heard Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Chairs THE VIERZIDE CHAIRS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though days do gain upon the night Last Line: A-look'd on as I look'd on you. Subject(s): Chairs; Comfort; Fireplaces; Marriage; Nostalgia; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WICKER CHAIR, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a house on the ile-de-france Last Line: I'm the richest man alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Chairs; Poverty; Wishes UPON THE CHAIR MADE OUT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S SHIP ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this great ship, which round the globe has run Last Line: To her in oxford, and to him in heaven. Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians VAN GOGH'S CHAIRS, by STEPHEN HINES Poem Source First Line: He came over and I had no Last Line: Idea %about our chairs Subject(s): Chairs; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) WHAT PHILOSOPHERS MISS WHEN DISCUSSING THE REALITY OF CHAIRS, by GLEN MAZIS Poem Source First Line: How do we know they're real Last Line: Even in an auditorium %--of our similars Subject(s): Chairs; Philosophy And Philosophers WHITE AUTUMN, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She had always loved to read, even Subject(s): Chairs; Family Life WITH AN ARMCHAIR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the oak that framed this chair of old Last Line: That, seas between us, she is still his guest. Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship |
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