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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CIVILIZATION Matches Found: 75 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary A RECIPE - FOR CIVILISATION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely, those sages err who teach Last Line: That turn'd the spit, to chop up dagon! -- Subject(s): Civilization; Cooking & Cooks; Cookery AMBER IS FOR CAUTION, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Eyes of pigeons shine as they fly Last Line: Fuel is low Subject(s): Civilization; Explorers; Roads; Travel AN ETRUSCAN RING, by JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, girt with orchard and with olive-yard Last Line: In utmost england let it find a home. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Etruscan Civilization; Jewelry & Jewelers ANCESTORS, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE Poem Source First Line: Lake of the sun, that near the clouds dost slumber Last Line: To make the new world's race which lives today! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Ancestors And Ancestry; Civilization; Incas; South America ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST CALENDAR FOR JULY, by DONALD LEVERING Poem Source First Line: This is the month in which Last Line: The short-lived sparks %and be free of our spindly bodies Subject(s): Civilization; History; July ANECDOTE OF THE JAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I placed a jar in tennessee Last Line: Like nothing else in tennessee. Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Bottles; Civilization; United States; America BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: What lo! We have heard tell of the grandeur of the kings Last Line: Most genial to his leeds; %and most desirous of praise Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: So. The spear-danes in days gone by Last Line: Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings Last Line: Of men he was the mildest and most beloved %to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Listen! %the fame of danish kings Last Line: The most just to his people, the most eager for fame Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Such is the grief of the grey-haired man Last Line: The one he has lost; there is too much room %in castle & country Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Grief; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF: HROTHGAR ANSWERED, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Hrothgar answered -- helm of the shield-danes Last Line: Linked mail-corselets -- if you live to return Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters CHATEAU PAPINEAU, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red-tiled towers of the old chateau Last Line: The shaded walks -- the shadowy hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): Houses; Middle Ages; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature CIVILIZATION, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: One man craves a scarf or glove Last Line: That the ages sanctify. Subject(s): Civilization CIVILIZATION, by YUAN CHIEH Poem Text First Line: To the south-east - three thousand leagues Last Line: Whether saints and sages have really done us good. Alternate Author Name(s): Tz'u-shan Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Civilization CIVILIZATION AND ITS DETRITUS, by ENOCH DILLON Poem Source First Line: Trash-man. %greater than god my father Last Line: To carry out the trash %from five billion people Subject(s): Civilization; Refuse And Refuse Disposal CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much of the great poetry Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Civilization; Poetry & Poets CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much of the great poetry Last Line: From the road, that's what he thought then, too Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Civilization; Poetry And Poets CYPRESSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tuscan cypresses %what is it? Last Line: And mechanical america montezuma still Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Etruscan Civilization; Florence, Italy DECAYING LAMBSKINS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all, we also stand on a height. Our blood and our culture Last Line: But only deep-wounded drag on for centuries Subject(s): Civilization; Destruction; Progress DOMUS CAEDET ARBOREM, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since the great planes were murdered Last Line: Were simply biding their time Subject(s): Civilization; Environment; Nature; Trees DREAM, DUMP-HEAP, AND CIVILIZATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the stench and smudge of the old dump-heap Last Line: Is civilization possible without it? Subject(s): Civilization; Refuse & Refuse Disposal DREAM, DUMP-HEAP, AND CIVILIZATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the stench and smudge of the old dump-heap Last Line: Is civilization possible without it? Subject(s): Civilization; Refuse And Refuse Disposal EDEN SAYS NO; GRAFFITI IN EDEN VILLAGE, COUNTY ANTRIM, by ROBERT JOHNSTONE Poem Source First Line: As a people favoured by the almighty Last Line: Within these walls fruit shall never grow %because eden will always say no Subject(s): Civilization; Graffiti ETRUSCAN TOMB, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leer and that spine moved Subject(s): Etruscan Civilization; Graves ETRUSCAN TOMB, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tarchna dreams by the distant ocean Subject(s): Etruscan Civilization; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ETRUSCAN TOMBS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To think the face we love shall ever die Last Line: The golden promise in their fleshless hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Etruscan Civilization; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ETRUSCAN VASE, by JEAN NUCHTERN Poem Source First Line: I am resilient and in love Subject(s): Etruscan Civilization; Vases EULOGY ON THE TIMES, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: Let poets scrawl satirick rhymes Last Line: The foremost in society. Subject(s): United States - Civilization GATES ARE BREACHED, by ROBERT R. HENTZ Poem Source First Line: If too little knowledge is a dangerous thing, %no knowledge is a catastrophe' Last Line: Spreading the plague of another dark age Subject(s): Civilization; Knowledge HELLENISTICS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look at the greek-derived design that nourished my infancy Last Line: Am a priest,' to kill them with spears? Subject(s): Greek Civilization LONG-LEGGED FLY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That civilization may not sink Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Civilization; Flies LONG-LEGGED FLY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That civilization may not sink Last Line: Like a long-legged fly upon the stream %his mind moves upon silence Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Civilization; Flies MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Last Line: In colour, with their eyelids shut Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language MISSIONARIES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rusted helmets, dog tags in the garden Last Line: How to iron their new white shirts. Subject(s): Civilization; Indonesia; Missions & Missionaries; Dutch East Indies MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders / not only stretch their silk between the limbs Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders; Bugs MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders %not only stretch their silk between the limbs Last Line: Bringing language and mathematics and religion into darkness Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders NEW INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF SHELLEY: 2, by ROBERT JOHNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Not from our dreams, not from our draft cadres Last Line: We demand contact with that better world Subject(s): Civilization ODE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People in the middle ages didn't think they were living Subject(s): Middle Ages; Conduct Of Life; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature ODE TO TASTE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave not britannia's isle,since pope is fled Last Line: Hurl'd wildly to the ground! Subject(s): Civilization; Great Britain; Poetry & Poets ONCE UPON A TIME, by W. L. WERNER Poem Text First Line: I am in love with a foreign word, / jadis Last Line: Loudly I'm singing to banish reason, jadis! Alternate Author Name(s): Jacob Subject(s): Middle Ages; Past; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature OUR COUNTRY, by JOHN TURVILL ADAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetly the voice of long departed time Last Line: Of lasting happiness, in calm and holy rest Subject(s): America, Settlement; Progress, Civilization PARENT OF ROMANS, MEN' AND GODS' DELIGHT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Civilization; Rome, Italy PERMANENT FACE, by LAURA ROSENTHAL Poem Source First Line: Content has been carried off since dawn Last Line: All that is known & nothing that isn't Subject(s): Civilization POPULATION, by MARK HALLIDAY Poem Source First Line: Isn't it nice that everyone has a grocery list Last Line: You've got to admit it's nice Subject(s): Civilization SIGN-POST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Civilized, crying: how to be human again; this will tell you how. Last Line: But born of the rock and the air, not of a woman Subject(s): Civilization SIMILAR CASES, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a little animal Last Line: To the neolithic mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Civilization SMALL WONDER THAT OUR OLD PROFESSOR IS NOW MAYOR OF ROME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I sat on a wall and sketched perugia Last Line: And in churches at that Subject(s): Civilization STAGE OF THE MANICHAEANS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Poetry, like beauty and Last Line: The mild and noble berry gatherers is much difference between footprints Subject(s): Civilization; Manes (216-176); Poetry And Poets STEEL USURPS THE FORESTS; SILENCE DETHRONES DIALOGUE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No longer are the forests green. Storms Last Line: Beyond their eyes' fixated distances - %and tremble! Subject(s): Civilization STILL THE MIND SMILES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind smiles at its own rebellions Last Line: Antistrophe of desolation to the strophe multitude Subject(s): Civilization SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 12. MERU, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Civilisation is hooped together, brought Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Civilization; Religion; Theology THE CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How patient man is in his time Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature; Second Coming Of Christ THE KINGDOM OF ALL-SOULS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard in my youth of a kingdom, lying far at the whole world's end Last Line: Majestical over my dark form that soul of morning towered. Subject(s): Christianity; Civilization; Humanity THE REED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the poet, muttering low Last Line: "come,"" said she, ""sing thy reed-song through the world." Subject(s): Civilization; Criticism & Critics; Justice; Music & Musicians; Nations; Poetry & Poets; United States; America THE SAVAGE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Civilization causes me / alternate fits: disgust and glee Last Line: (like pilate, when his hands he rinsed). Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Civilization; Soul THE WASTE LAND (1-5, COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: April is the cruellest month, breeding Last Line: Shantih shantih shantih Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Civilization; Decay; Emptiness; Rot; Decadence THE WHITE BONE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw the city lone Last Line: With the white bone. Subject(s): Cities; Civilization; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hallucinations And Illusions; Urban Life THE WORLD-SOUL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to the morning light Last Line: The warm rosebuds below. Subject(s): Civilization THERE IS WIND, THERE ARE MATCHES, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand times I have sat in restaurant windows Subject(s): Civilization; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THERE IS WIND, THERE ARE MATCHES, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand times I have sat in restaurant windows Last Line: Whistling bach and muczynski through the closed blinds Subject(s): Civilization; Restaurants TIRED, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else's civilization Last Line: I am tired of civilization. Subject(s): African Americans; Civilization; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A VOICE OVER THE EARTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of a voice floating round the earth Last Line: "wench: she cries, ""how good, how good it is, o come again!" Subject(s): Civilization; Farm Life; Fields; Peasantry; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER CIVILISATION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are a menace to you, o civilisation Last Line: We shall arise and sweep you away! Subject(s): Civilization TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ANDROMETA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now over the mediterranean shore, fronting the sun Last Line: Dragon guards its prey. Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology); Civilization; Democracy; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE TRIUMPH OF CIVILISATION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the outskirts of a great city Last Line: Other than hers. Subject(s): Civilization; Humanity WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What are we waiting for, gathered in the market-place [or, assembled in forum]? Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Civilization; War WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are we waiting for, gathered in the market-place [or, assembled in forum]? Last Line: They were, those people, a kind of solution Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Civilization; War WHY? (THE SPIRIT OF CIVILIZATION TO THE GOD OF WAR), by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN Poem Text First Line: Why have I builded me cities fair Last Line: Am left, and ever asking -- why? Subject(s): Civilization; Progress; War |
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