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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COFFINS Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: By the rain and oak leaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii; Second World War A SELF-SERVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such was his greed of life and dread of the voidness of the tomb Last Line: And has taken with him only the pale posthumous tick of time. Subject(s): Coffins; Faces; Life; Soul ABE LINCOLN BUILDS A COFFIN, by HAZEL HILLIS Poem Text First Line: A coffin for my mother! Last Line: No lips but mine to pray. Subject(s): Coffins; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Mothers; Presidents, United States AFTER DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The four boards of the coffin lid / heard all the dead man did Last Line: "flesh to feed hell's worm upon." Subject(s): Coffins; Corpses; Curses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The BLESSED UNION, by DONNA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Here is one beginning: white church, paint peeling Last Line: Something borrowed, and always, %always,something blue Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Memory BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: At the red-taped grave in woodmere %by the rain and oakleaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii CASUALTIES: 4. THE BURDEN IN BOXES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boxes were brought by night Last Line: All making ominous music on the way Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Boxes; Coffins; Death; Gifts And Giving; Graves CEDARHOME, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Make no mistake. The cedar Last Line: What a cedarhome Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Coffins CID: PART 12, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The good ximena Last Line: A great connecting Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Coffins; Death; Funerals; Spain - History COFFIN HANDLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaves a lasting impression %on a hand Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Nature COFFIN IS A SMALL DOMAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or estimate or end Variant Title(s): Poem: 943; Poem: 89 Subject(s): Coffins DE NATURA RERUM, by YVES BONNEFOY Poem Source First Line: Lucretius knew: %open the casket Last Line: One of them all muffled %in red wool? Subject(s): Coffins; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.) ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crowd of strangers flies over your life Last Line: To stand on. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Wings; Graveyards; Dead, The FIRST COFFIN POEM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, my plain pine box Last Line: I am, sincerely yours Subject(s): Coffins FIRST COFFIN POEM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, my plain pine box Last Line: I am, sincerely, yours Subject(s): Coffins FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the grave of a departed friend Last Line: In grace, and love, and fellowship divine. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Quakers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise HEARSE-HORSE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Said the hearse-horse to the coffin Last Line: Said the coffin to the hearse-horse, %'worms!' Subject(s): Animals; Coffins; Horses IN FUTURO, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: E'en now, from mountain or from plain Last Line: My heart shall mingle with the clod. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Future; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LAZARUS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: He may stumble stiffly -- being obviously dead -- Last Line: To pierce whatever coffins he may wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Lazarus; Worms; Dead, The LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 70, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The numbers old and evil Last Line: And in it placed my love. Subject(s): Coffins; Dreams; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness MY GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At least 100 seabirds attended my grandmother's Last Line: Almost impossible to carry Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals PURCHASE, by RUTH D. MCGINNIS Poem Text First Line: It's better to have loved and lost' Last Line: Of a heart-shaped memory coffin! Subject(s): Coffins RATTLIN' JOE'S PRAYER, by JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Jist pile on some more o' them pine knots Last Line: So I guess I hed best turn in too. Alternate Author Name(s): Jack, Captain Subject(s): Bible; Coffins; Mass; Prayer; War SAD SONG, by MARIA ENRIQUETA Poem Source First Line: The hermit's lane, how said it is Last Line: The coffin for my dear! Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Grief SINERA CEMETERY: 10, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: The arranger of rows Last Line: Of docile to the mountains Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Graves SOMEONE, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Someone is dressing up for death today, a change of skirt or tie Last Line: As innocently as he had seen it first Subject(s): Coffins; Death SORROW'S MADNESS, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, clinging to your lidded coffin Last Line: To death's void galley chained like sullen slaves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SUNSHINE: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair Last Line: Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree. Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Coffins; Thought; Thinking THE COFFIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The songs, so old and bitter Last Line: And my too heavy care. Subject(s): Coffins THE CRADLE, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: For nine long months she made her mother's vows Last Line: Is made of oak, and to god's acre borne. Subject(s): Coffins; Cradles; Death - Children; Mothers; Pregnancy; Death - Babies THE CRADLE OR COFFIN, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: The cradle or coffin, the robe or the shroud Last Line: Tell us, o mortals, which like ye the best? Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Mortality; Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. WILSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of january Last Line: Then along with the people assembled there they left the burying-ground. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Prince henry of battenberg is dead! Last Line: And each one left with a sad heart and went home. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE LAST BED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a lonesome couch we came to spread Last Line: And spotted over with violets. Subject(s): Coffins THE LIFE AND DEATH; THE DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the toll of the passing bell Last Line: And rush from my own sad thoughts away. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Bells; Coffins; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE LITTLE DEAD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little dead man Last Line: And a pencil in the right. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Hands; Hearses; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THIS MAIDEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This maiden is dead, is dead in love's play. Last Line: They have gone to the fields, to the fields like every day. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Household Employees; Dead, The; Burials; Servants; Domestics; Maids TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Artemidorus, farewell Last Line: "remains but this""farewell." Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray's body lies below a slab that states Last Line: To end the thing that he'd begun to say Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Future Life; Coffins; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHEN THE EARTH WAS STILL OPEN, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Blackened corner of the cemetery %already bears its cross: matthias ancker, Last Line: Than those who are trying to mourn him Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Mourning WIT OF THE CORPSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is lost on the lid of the coffin Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Nature; Wit And Humor |
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