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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