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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CURIOSITIES & WONDERS Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SPHINX, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never Last Line: I am one of those who know all you know and I keep my questions: I know the answers you hold. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Egypt; Sphinx AN ENIGMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To have not, is to long for with desire Last Line: What, saving death, hath any soul of gain? Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Enigmas; Oddities BARRY'S CALF, by JASON [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: When barry went upon the land Last Line: Was found to have a fertile vealer Alternate Author Name(s): Jason Subject(s): Cattle;curiosities & Wonders;pregnancy;wealth; Riches;fortunes CURIOSITY, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came from heaven -- its power archangels knew Last Line: O be his ripest years his happiest and his best! Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders CURIOUS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most curious that she should weep Last Line: Impetuously given. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Enigmas; Oddities DEAD MEN, TO A METAPHYSICIAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If they were shadows walking to and fro Last Line: Of questions solved by posing an enigma. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Shadows; Enigmas; Oddities ENIGMA, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: The watery pink of dawn is in the sky Last Line: Yet yosamura says life is futile. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Japan - Foreign Population ENIGMA (1), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By birth I'm a slave, yet can give you a crown Last Line: Sink when it rains, and when it freezes swim. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Life; Love; Slavery; Serfs ENTREATY, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Oh! Silver disc Last Line: He would be mine. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Idols; Secrets HOW STRANGE A THING, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange a thing to think upon Last Line: Doth bear us and our sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Curiosities & Wonders; Earth; Enigmas; Oddities; World LAST QUERY, by WILLIAM G. RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where curves the arched firmament Last Line: "and answer climbers, ""no one knows""?" Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders LITTLE WONDERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to know the whisp'ry things Last Line: They never tell me—never! Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poet's Biography First Line: I want to look at what happened Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen; Enigmas; Oddities RED SWAN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purple necks and green, fat drakes whiter than easter Last Line: To burn for a moment in the shape of a swan. Subject(s): Birds; Curiosities & Wonders; Lakes; Rumors; Enigmas; Oddities; Pools; Ponds RHYTHMS OF A MAIMED SPRINGTIME, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery that weighs upon my soul! Why do the shadows stifle me? Last Line: Blast my thoughts that cling to the eternal grind! Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Dreams; Mystery; Spring; Enigmas; Oddities; Nightmares SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 1. KNOWLEDGE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of men, with just regard attend Last Line: Which flaming swords and angry cherubs guard. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Happiness; Knowledge; Nature; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Joy; Delight SOME LAST QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the head Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Heritage; Heredity; Enigmas; Oddities SOMEONE ABROAD!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is someone abroad Last Line: Why surely—'tis god. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders THE ANOMALY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While riding in my buzz-buzz cart, I hit Last Line: That swiftly hies, I'll always try to run him down in preference to other guys. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE COPPERHEAD, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dwarfed limb Last Line: All spine and nerve. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Rattlesnakes; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The THE EXCAVATION, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this dry, stubble field Last Line: In this dry, stubble field. Subject(s): Archeology; Artifacts; Curiosities & Wonders; Fathers; Native Americans; Old Age; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin. Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs THE FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad Last Line: And there the wonder ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Fields; Friendship; God; Longing; Praise; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THREE SISTERS, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Johanna talks of lemuel Last Line: When she is sitting so. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Sisters; Enigmas; Oddities TO ONE WHO ASKS, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: Curious you should not see my feet are weary Last Line: Kisses from the dead? Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Grief; Enigmas; Oddities; Sorrow; Sadness TWO ENIGMAS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name any gentlemen you spy Last Line: Forth from the sanctuary of home. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): New Enigmas Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Home; Wandering & Wanderers VILLAGE MUSINGS: THE POET QUESTIONS THE ANT, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you, feeble as you were, attempt Last Line: Might as soon this ponderous earth divide. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Temptation WHAT PUZZLES ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something I'm awfully anxious to know Last Line: That you is you, an' me is me. Subject(s): Children; Curiosities & Wonders; Fate; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Enigmas; Oddities; Destiny |
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