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Last Line: "and the swallow, the swallow is here!"
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy;delight


A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is like a singing bird
Last Line: Is come, my love is come to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


A BIRTHDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I come / with my handful of song
Last Line: You who have soothed me with passion and roused me with passionate peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Time; Joy; Delight


A BIRTHDAY SONG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out and away, my song
Last Line: Out and away!
Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Parties; Joy; Delight


A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND ANTHEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark to the voices of the night
Last Line: On that first christmas night.
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas Carols; Happiness; Holidays; Singing & Singers; Winter; Joy; Delight; Songs


A COROT IN NATURE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset sky burns deep and red beyond
Last Line: That such dear pathos maketh almost glad?
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Happiness; Nature; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


A CREDO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: For the sole edification
Last Line: He is a fool his whole life long
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy;delight


A DREAM OF HAPPINESS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One sat and modelled a most perfect face
Last Line: Conceiving heaven, he lived without its gate.
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Heaven; Joy; Delight; Paradise


A FAREWELL TO FOLLY: CONTENT, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content
Last Line: A mind content both crown and kingdom is.
Variant Title(s): A Mind Content;maesia's Song;a Contented Mind;song
Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Life; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers


A HAPPY PAIR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see them coming up the road
Last Line: Who hath a happy heart.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


A LITTLE GIRL IN SCHOOL, by FRANCES VIOLA HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little girl in school
Last Line: How merry were the days!
Subject(s): Girls; Happiness; Life; Praise; Time; Joy; Delight


A MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is over the horrible pain
Last Line: Shall I joy with her joy in the end?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Martyrs; Sleep; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


A MOTHER SPEAKS, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my joy. My babe thrice blest
Last Line: This is my joy.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Joy; Delight


A MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should a fir-tree stark against the sky
Last Line: A mystery.
Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Rain; Snow; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


A NEW YEAR GREETING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark, the new year bells are pealing
Last Line: Start the new year well today!
Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight


A NEW YEAR'S SYMPHONY, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To rise at morn as blythe as little child
Last Line: Fill in my task another happy year!
Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Symphonies; Joy; Delight; Concerts


A NYMPH'S SONG; OF THE TRUE HAPPINESS, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst the azure clear
Last Line: "and echoes rang, ""this was true happiness."
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


A PHYSICAL MOON BEYOND PATERSON, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: William carlos williams had finished
Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over...
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


A PRAYER FOR SPRING, by MARGARET ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want to know the joy once more
Last Line: So god—let me see one more spring.
Subject(s): Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight


A PROPER ROUNDELAY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See thou, my joy, my care
Last Line: Through beauty beyond compare.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Faces; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


A REAL BOY, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a joy that is a joy
Last Line: In a boy that is a boy!
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight


A RHAPSODY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a god most surely in the heavens
Last Line: Of fair love lost for ever and a day.
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Religion; Joy; Delight; Theology


A SONG OF JOYS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O to make the most jubilant song!
Last Line: A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


A SPRING CAROL, by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the maples' red blooms the bluebirds are tilting
Last Line: Fragrant freshness fills the air.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


A SUMMER SKETCH, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis june, 'tis merry smiling june
Last Line: Twill always worship there.
Subject(s): Happiness; Summer; Joy; Delight


A SWEETER LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: No bitter tongue, no grief for what is gone
Last Line: To hold her skein and wind a ball of wool?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


A TALE OF CHRISTMAS EVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas christmastide in germany
Last Line: And bade the crowd good-night, then went home content.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Kindness; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


A THEOLOGICAL DEFINITION, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A small room, the varnished floor
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


A TOAST, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a health to thee, roberts
Last Line: And here's to all the lasses!
Subject(s): Happiness; Toasts; Joy; Delight


A VALENTINE, by WARREN K. BILLINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life's joys and sorrows rise and ever wane
Last Line: Just that, and nothing more.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Holidays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


A VENETIAN NIGHT, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All thro' the breathing night there seemed to flow
Last Line: That makes words empty and the senses dumb.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Passion; Joy; Delight


A WISH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May many happy moments come and go
Last Line: That breaks upon my soul with no alloy.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Wishes; Joy; Delight


A YEAR'S CAROLS: OCTOBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: October of the tawny crown
Last Line: To know what joy would fain forget.
Subject(s): Happiness; October; Seasons; Joy; Delight


ABROAD, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart, heart, / what of this joy
Last Line: Heart, how full is thy heart of joy!
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


AD ASTRA: 142, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seek not the unsanction'd joy, the illicit quest
Last Line: Remorse shall ask no questions of thy dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Passion; Joy; Delight


AD ASTRA: 29, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O heavy day for all who follow after
Last Line: And to the scents of eve add new delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): England; Happiness; English; Joy; Delight


AFTER THE SYMPHONY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last finale had crashed
Last Line: Then slow sleep muted all to oblivion.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


AFTERNOON HAPPINESS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At a party I spy a handsome psychiatrist
Last Line: There is only this useless happiness as gift.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Women; Women's Rights; Joy; Delight; Psychiatrists; Feminism


AIRS FOR THE LUTE: 4, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange, to remember tears
Last Line: Faint joy breathes in the air.
Subject(s): Happiness; Lutes; Joy; Delight


ALBA, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As cool as the pale wet leaves
Last Line: She lay beside me in the dawn.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


ALLATOONA EVENING, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half a mile through a briar scrub thickening to woods
Last Line: These three stars soaking up twilight.
Subject(s): Ambition; Emptiness; Happiness; Success; Joy; Delight


AN APRIL DAY, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: An april day and summer in the air
Last Line: For april leads the summer back again.
Subject(s): April; Happiness; Pleasure; Spring; Joy; Delight


AN EARLY CARDINAL SINGS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, gay little bird in the sycamore tree
Last Line: You opened the gates of spring for me!
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


AN OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey, old midsummer! Are you here again
Last Line: Well, this is just like old times, I declare!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Summer; Childhood; Joy; Delight


ANOTHER SUMMER DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dewdrop sparkled in the sun
Last Line: Another summer day.
Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight


ARE YOU SO POOR?, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you so poor? But in the past
Last Line: To find, is left.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Past; Time; Joy; Delight


ASCENSION (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The time is come / for times great lord to think
Last Line: And their ascension thus supply.
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Happiness; Heaven; Home; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joy; Delight; Paradise


ASPIRATIONS: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul is like a fragile flower
Last Line: And overbrims in tears of joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


AT SABBATH DOWN, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six times, the sun has hotly lit
Last Line: And I am very blest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


BALLADE: 10, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hope, alas, hath me abused
Last Line: And I remain all comfortless.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Truth; Joy; Delight; Optimism


BALLADE: 14, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That time that mirth did steer my ship
Last Line: And should be while that life doth dure.
Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hate; Life; Nature; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


BALLADE: 17, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The joy so short, alas, the pain so near
Last Line: That undeserved, causeless to remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Happiness; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


BALLADE: 21, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To my mishap, alas, I find
Last Line: Thus am I warned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


BALLADE: 41, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though some do grudge to see me joy
Last Line: As I deserve, so let me have.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Happiness; Health; Life; Joy; Delight


BALLADE: 8, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In faith I wot not well what to say
Last Line: But spite of thy hap, hap hath well happed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Faith; Fortune; Happiness; Smiles; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight


BE STILL, O YE WINDS!, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still, o ye winds! And attentive, ye swains!
Last Line: Gives joy to the night, and enlivens the day.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Love - Nature Of; Joy; Delight


BEATUS VIR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters
Last Line: Happy the man.
Subject(s): Happiness; Men; Joy; Delight


BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow!
Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


BEFORE A WINDOW, by HELEN BLODGETT ERWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, little boy who gazes through the glass
Last Line: "I only say, ""you know, they soon would break."
Subject(s): Happiness; Longing; Windows; Joy; Delight


BEFORE THE BLIGHT, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The elms stretched themselves in indolent joy
Last Line: Rocked in the sinewy arms of summer.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Happiness; Joy; Delight


BELL AND DRUM ON THE SOUTH RIVER BANK, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bell and drum on the south river bank
Last Line: Beyond treetops I see the slant of a bridge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Variant Title(s): Bell And Drum On The South River Bank (1101)
Subject(s): Happiness; Homecoming; Rain; Joy; Delight


BEYOND THE HAZE (A WINTER RAMBLE REVERIE), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the road was straight, the afternoon was gray"
Last Line: And all of a sudden find a trite relief
Subject(s): Happiness;travel;winter; Joy;delight;journeys;trips


BIRDS OF SPRING, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cheerily, merrily, heralds of spring
Last Line: Our hearts with delight.
Subject(s): Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight


BLACKBIRD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Day turns to night
Last Line: In a wet march lane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Happiness; Pain; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


BLISS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All bliss / consists in this
Last Line: With greedier eyes, more boys tho men.
Subject(s): Happiness; Worship; Joy; Delight


BULLIER, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pals of an hour, lovers' content, pocket-book and sentiment
Last Line: Sentiments that stir the pulsing youth of france.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


BY DIMPLED BROOK, by JOHN DALTON    Poem Text                    
Last Line: The cheering cup, and converse sweet.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


CAESURA, by GLORY E. SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Let me leave life
Last Line: So destiny, involved, is solved.
Subject(s): Calm; Happiness; Silence; Smiles; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Joy; Delight


CALIFORNIA POPPY FIELDS, by EMMET PENDLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poppy fields are mine today
Last Line: I feel a king, the world, my throne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet
Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Happiness; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight


CALL NO MAN HAPPY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call no man happy until he has stood
Last Line: No sorrow, but a lyric festival.
Subject(s): Happiness; Men; Joy; Delight


CALLING THE BIRDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who close beside our window-pane
Last Line: Toujours gai.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Joy; Delight


CAMADEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun, the moon, the mystic planets seven
Last Line: When camadeva came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; World; Joy; Delight


CARMEN NUPTIALE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O happiest kalend in the count of time!
Last Line: The rim of time to god's eternal deeps!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


CARPE DIEM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you say this happiness
Last Line: Merry, -- for my poor heart's sake.
Subject(s): Disease; Happiness; Hearts; Joy; Delight


CELIA TO DAMON, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What can I say, what arguments can prove
Last Line: Than any youth for any nymph before!
Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Love; Soul; Women; Joy; Delight


CERVANTES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are who gather with decisive power
Last Line: Of lightsome mirth, whose cause he seeks in vain.
Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Happiness; Writing & Writers; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Joy; Delight


CHANGING EVER, by CHARLES B. NOBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're happy, time, so stop with us
Last Line: And we be changed tomorrow.
Subject(s): Happiness; Time; Joy; Delight


CHASING A RAINBOW OF DREAMS, by MABEL ETHLEEN PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pilot am I / roaming the sky
Last Line: At the end of my rainbow of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


CHILDISH JOYS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went forth, on my ten toes, a snowball
Last Line: "grist of pain."" and as I feebly tottered by, a snowball hit me in the eye."
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Joy; Delight


CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where
Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight


CHRISTENING THE PRINCE: A STATE OCCASION, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: One circle round our sun - and o'er
Last Line: Edward beheld his bride, happy and free.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Togetherness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis christmas day! 'tis christmas day!
Last Line: And christmas carols sing.
Subject(s): Bells; Christianity; Christmas Carols; Churches; Happiness; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Songs


CHRISTMAS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rills that winter-bound have been
Last Line: Is smiling on the earth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS (1), by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us go a journey'
Last Line: She wept, 'o my lord!'
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Happiness; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The years come not back that have circled away
Last Line: "of solemn joy, o christmas bells!"
Subject(s): Bells;christmas;happiness;music & Musicians; "nativity, The;joy;delight;


CHRISTMAS DAY, by CAROLINE ELEANOR WILKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A loving atmosphere surrounds this day of ...
Last Line: The joy of heaven reaches us, this glad day of the year.
Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Happiness; Holidays; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by ANNE H. WOODRUFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long, long ago! Oh, heart of youth unheeding
Last Line: Another christmas night.
Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


COMFORT, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who would care to pass his life away
Last Line: Malgré alfred tennyson.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Variant Title(s): Lotus Eating
Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Joy; Delight; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


COMMON JOYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: See how those diamonds splutter and choke
Last Line: Pays all his debts, like children's kisses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


COMPENSATION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the compensating springs! O the balance-wheels of life
Last Line: Child of his love and his choice, oh, canst thou not wait for this?
Subject(s): Fathers; Happiness; Joy; Delight


CONTENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Divine content! / o could the world resent
Last Line: Wherever I am whirld about, be blest.
Subject(s): Happiness; Worship; Joy; Delight


CONTENT, by PHIL PERKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happy is he who through life's toil and care
Last Line: "and truly say, ""dear lord, I am content."
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


CONTRA MORTEM: THE ECSTASY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn will be the time and the forest will be the place
Last Line: Will stay upon the stone a long long while
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed
Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer.
Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight


CROWD CONDITIONS, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the frontier, imperfect sympathies are twinkling
Last Line: Such, my friends, is life wondered the president
Variant Title(s): Always Merry And Bright
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight


DANCE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Left and right and swing around!
Last Line: With the laughter of the heart!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Happiness; Joy; Delight


DAUGHTER O' MINE, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You came to me, dear, so welcome, so fair
Last Line: Blest little daughter o' mine.
Subject(s): Babies; Blessings; Daughters; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight


DAYS OF SUCCESS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun shines with a brighter beam,
Last Line: "the club ""is going good!"
Subject(s): Baseball; Happiness; Sports; Success; Joy; Delight


DELIGHT, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleeter than a tone scarce born
Last Line: Sunbeam of delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


DELL AND I, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a mansion grand, just over the way
Last Line: For I love and am loved by—one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Household Employees; Love; Wealth; Joy; Delight; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Riches; Fortunes


DIRGE AND HYMENAL, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe! Woe! This is death's hour
Last Line: Woe! Woe!
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Happiness; Marriage; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DOMESDAY BOOK: THE BIRTH OF ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the mortal facts / with which we deal? The man is thirty years
Last Line: This the beginning of the mystery: --
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away: let nought to love displeasing
Last Line: And I'll go wooing in my boys
Subject(s): Family Life;happiness;love - Marital; Relatives;joy;delight;wedded Love;marriage - Love


DRESDEN FIGURES, by NELLIE MACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: May these dresden figures bright and gay
Last Line: Who I hope will be happy anywhere.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


ECHOES OF JOY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a song of joy
Last Line: Wind-blown over the heather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


EILIDH MY FAWN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away upon the hills at the lighting of the dawn
Last Line: For o it was the hunting then of my bonnie, bonnie fawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Deer; Happiness; Hearts; Hunting; Joy; Delight; Hunters


ENTHUSIASM IN TWO PARTS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe a wasp will sting my throat again
Last Line: We get it back.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Joy; Delight; Optimism


EPIGRAM: 39, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In wilful riches I have found poverty
Last Line: In a paradise I suffered all this pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Pain; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


EPITAPH: 28, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew joy once and after could not bear
Last Line: Delight? Poor men who know her not at all
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Happiness; Joy; Delight


EPITHALAMIUM ON THE MARRIAGE OF JAMES ADDIE AND JULIA WAKEFIELD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The festal cannons boom
Last Line: In hope thou wilt approve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Happiness; Wedding Song; Joy; Delight; Epithalamium


ESSAY: NAKED AT THE ROOT-POST: JOY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That night there was the pleasurable feeling
Last Line: I am in a hurry to have this end
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


ESSAY: OF CANNIBALS, OF THUMBS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What revolves in the thinking disk? What reflects of the eye is due
Last Line: Burning to cover joy's shadow of joy beneath the thumb.
Subject(s): Cannibals; Desire; Essays; Happiness; Joy; Delight


ESTHER: 51, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has not wept with manon? Of all tales
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 50, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who has once been happy is for aye
Last Line: Of the world's courage in its martyrdom;
Variant Title(s): With Esther
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


EVENING SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloudlets are lazily sailing
Last Line: To have a better stare!
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


EVERMORE THOU ART VOICE OF MY HEART, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis from heaven, not earth, when thy lovely sweet voice
Last Line: Evermore, thou art voice of my heart.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


FABLE: THE SNAIL AND THE GARDENER, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When sons of fortune ride on high
Last Line: Is suited to the bearer's back.'
Subject(s): Fables; Happiness; Mankind; Allegories; Joy; Delight; Human Race


FAME AND LOVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, dearest, thou dost speak of fame
Last Line: My heart is at thy feet.
Subject(s): Fame; Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Reputation; Joy; Delight


FEW FORTUNATE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many we are, and yet but few possesse
Last Line: Those fields of everlasting happinesse.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud
Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight


FOR THE INVESTITURE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today bells ring, bands play, flags are unfurled
Last Line: One song, one prayer—god bless the prince of wales.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Castles; Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Songs; Welshmen; Welshwomen


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1715, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise harmonious pow'rs
Last Line: Only know to prize the blessing.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Happiness; Odes (as Poetic Form); Joy; Delight


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When charles, from anarchy's retreat
Last Line: Fame shall preserve the great, and just.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Happiness; Obedience; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun
Last Line: Hail, etc.
Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FRANCISCA MADRE; NEW YEAR, 1907, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: What cheer, francisco madre, what of cheer
Last Line: There's a cheer, francisca madre, there is cheer.
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Happiness; Holidays; Memory; New Year; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Joy; Delight


FRANCOIS VILLON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our good duke charles, you tell me, fain would know
Last Line: A sorry vintage.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Complaints; Sex; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); War; Joy; Delight


FROLIC, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children were shouting together
Last Line: The lovely lawns of the light.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Stars; Sun; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight


GARDEN LORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a flowery shrub the may brings
Last Line: "when your lady comes!"
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hearts; May (month); Joy; Delight


GHOSTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are ghosts in the room
Last Line: In each shadowy corner there lurketh a ghost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Happiness; Hope; Life; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Optimism


GIFTS, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You who have given me gladness
Last Line: When I am grown old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Joy; Delight


GIVE ME NOT TEARS: JOY, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, when the sun is set
Last Line: Then crave not of the night my vanished flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


GLAD ACRE, by LEONE RICE GRELLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They said he'd starve
Last Line: A hundred-fold.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight


GLADNESS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world has brought not anything
Last Line: My heart is clothed in mirth.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


GLADNESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My ole man named silas: he
Last Line: O gladness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Death; God; Happiness; Slavery; Childhood; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Serfs


GLITTER AND BE GAY, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Jewelry; Happiness; Shame; Joy; Delight


GOING SOFTLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She makes no moan above her faded flowers
Last Line: "she creeps, who must go softly all her days"
Subject(s): Flowers;happiness;hope; Joy;delight;optimism


GOODNESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bliss of other men is my delight
Last Line: The highest joys his goodness did prepare.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


GRAMPA'S CHOICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First and best of earthly joys
Last Line: Why, the one that's happiest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Grandparents; Happiness; Childhood; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Joy; Delight


GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Studious the busy moments to deceive
Last Line: Be now cut off, betwixt the grave and thee.
Subject(s): Death; Future; Graves; Happiness; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight


GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To field and forest
Last Line: The rapture of song!
Subject(s): Brides; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Spring; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HA! HA!, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer suns are glancing
Last Line: Ha! Ha! Ha! Malgherita! Malgherita!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


HAPPILY, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The manner in which we are present at this time to and fro
Last Line: To make sense to others
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! You do seem to think the ground
Last Line: Tis where the heart is holy.
Subject(s): Advice; Happiness; Hearts; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This world of ours appears to me
Last Line: To smile upon and love me!
Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Infants; World; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by P. J. CAZELLO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happiness is found in goodness
Last Line: And forever they remain.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by ALICE BOOTH DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happiness lives in the house next door
Last Line: She was baking an apple pie.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a spell in every flower
Last Line: The god who blesses me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning in the month of may
Last Line: "if virtue guides thee here!"
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Virtue; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's just no accounting for happiness
Last Line: To the wineglass, weary of holding wine
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by PRISCILLA LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happiness is like a crystal
Last Line: No one ever finds them all.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My neighbor johnsing can afford a lot of
Last Line: It with a pole, when seeing what it's done for him.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her eyes were full of witchery
Last Line: For she is happiness.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A month ago I was happy! No
Last Line: That never comes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
Last Line: And children and a keg of beer and an accordion.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember our happiness?
Last Line: This is the happiness he leaned his head against
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Search the budding flower
Last Line: Happiness is born.
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Rebirth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS (1); SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the few with signal virtue crowned
Last Line: But by the presence of the power of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS (2); SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A splendour amid glooms, - a sunny thread
Last Line: From earth it is enough to glimpse at heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS MAKES UP IN HEIGHT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, stormy stormy world,
Last Line: Of so much warmth and light
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESS WITHIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And yet it is a wasted heart
Last Line: The sooner it will break.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That happines do's still the longest thrive
Last Line: Where joyes and griefs have turns alternative.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAPPINESSE, by CHRISTOPHE PLANTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who hath a well-built house both clean and comelye
Last Line: Doth fynde lyfe gentlye untoe death attunynge.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HAY-MEAKEN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis merry ov a zummer's day
Last Line: The vo'k in haÿ-vield all day long.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Hay & Haymaking; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight


HAZARD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One step 'twixt loss and gain
Last Line: To look below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HE AND I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just drifting on together
Last Line: For the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; July; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


HE BADE ME BE HAPPY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He bade me 'be happy,' he whisper'd 'forget me'
Last Line: "from her who was ever my idol, my pride!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Love; Parting; Joy; Delight


HEAVENLY BLISS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Trouble o'erwhelms us in the world
Last Line: And taste a ray of heavenly bliss
Subject(s): Death;duplicity;happiness;heaven;sin; "dead, The;deceit;joy;delight;paradise;


HEIGHTS OF FOLLY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O crows circling over my head and cawing!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HENRY AND EMMA, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, to whose eyes I bend, at whose command
Last Line: To the true lover, and the nut-brown maid.
Subject(s): Beauty; England; Happiness; Love; English; Joy; Delight


HEPATICAS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are like sky children
Last Line: "at this miracle of spring!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hepatica; Plants; Spring; Joy; Delight; Planting; Planters


HERE IS MUSIC: 16. CHANT ROYAL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because I, spiritually starving, knew
Last Line: An-hunger'd and full fain for former happiness.
Subject(s): Aging; Happiness; Love - Marital; Youth; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HIS OWN EPITAPH, by MATHURIN REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lived a life was fancy free
Last Line: I alwayes kept him out of mind.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


HOLIDAY, by MARION PATTON WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With pilgrim staff and scrip
Last Line: We took a lift with pleasure.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


HOPE, by ERNESTINE RENEE (WHITE) SELLIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My days are tempered by your smile
Last Line: My heart this rapture deep allows.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Joy; Delight; Optimism


HOW CAN THE HEART UNHAPPY BE?, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now dawn the lovely days again
Last Line: How can the heart unhappy be?
Subject(s): Happiness; Melodies; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight


HOW MERRILY WE LIVE, by MICHAEL EAST    Poem Text                    
Last Line: We have no envy which sweet mirth confounds.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HUNTING JOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How sad a face this knowledge wears!
Last Line: Shall never know what sport is there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was joy in heaven!
Last Line: Then is there joy in heaven!
Subject(s): Happiness; Heaven; Joy; Delight; Paradise


I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: JOY, ALSO, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly a stone shaped like a
Last Line: Thick with leaves
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


I SHALL BE GAY, by MAY MCKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So sure and slow
Last Line: I—died—today ...
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


I SHALL NOT CARE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: While any lonely dog I meet
Last Line: I shall not care.
Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Sympathy; Joy; Delight; Empathy


I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am happy, nothing can divide me
Last Line: I see the white stuff and the black stuff and decide
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Humanity; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


I'M HAPPIEST WHEN MOST AWAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


ICE-BOUND, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can not make you songs for winter singing
Last Line: And silent.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


IF, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If life were never bitter
Last Line: And wine were always iced.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight


IF JOY WERE NOT DIVINE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If joy were not divine, immortal
Last Line: Are one, are one!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Joy; Delight


ILLUMINANTS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love bright things like candlelights
Last Line: A single shining head.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Romance; Joy; Delight


ILLUMINATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamed of you. I thought you came
Last Line: "we both should cry, ""I dreamed a dream last night!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


IMMORTAL JOY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all our roses huddle out of sight
Last Line: Shall gently fall upon its sleeping face.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Immortality; Roses; Spring; Joy; Delight


IMPERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Earth vaunts no joy that lasts
Last Line: Bliss waits you yet!
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evil; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight


IN A FIELD OF GOLDENROD, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Around me-gold!
Last Line: With joy's rich ecstacy.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goldenrod; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight


IN DAYS TO COME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perhaps, when you grow old--extremely old--
Last Line: Had!
Subject(s): Happiness; Spendthrifts; Joy; Delight


IN LIGHTER VEIN, by ELIZABETH KEMPER ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lighter vein, -- blue eyes and rosy lips
Last Line: In lighter vein.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


IN THE GARDEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder if you know
Last Line: Before I knew a joy had grown!
Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Joy; Delight


INFANT JOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have no name: / I am but two days old
Last Line: Sweet joy befall thee!
Variant Title(s): Joy Is My Name
Subject(s): Babies; Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Infants; Joy; Delight


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET ON THE BANKS OF A STREAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger! Awhile upon this mossy bank
Last Line: Of innocence, and thou shalt find her there.
Subject(s): Comfort; Graves; Happiness; Innocence; Rivers; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight


INSPIRATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lightest of dancers, with no thought
Last Line: High upon heaven-uplifted wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Happiness; Inspiration; Creativity; Joy; Delight


IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes
Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


IT IS WELL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the skies are tinted blue
Last Line: "and trusting say, ""it is well!"
Subject(s): Despair; Faith; God; Happiness; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight


JANUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee
Last Line: God sings the lovely carol of the flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 17, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rails in the subway
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOLLY SHEPHERD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "jolly shepherd, shepherd on a hill"
Last Line: Still sing and say: love's yoke is sweet
Subject(s): Happiness;love; Joy;delight


JOY, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I make of joy discovery
Last Line: A folding and a cool enfolded wing.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor souls, who think that joy is bought
Last Line: Wake me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight


JOY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though joy is better than sorrow
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't cry, it's only music
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Happiness; Grief; Love - Erotic; Joy; Delight; Sorrow; Sadness


JOY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let a joy keep you
Last Line: Keep away from the little deaths.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Newborn, how long to stay
Last Line: Unmakes the dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Babies; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight


JOY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am wild, I will sing to the trees
Last Line: Now at last I can live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a soft rosy glow o'er the whole world to-day
Last Line: O soul of me, drink, ere night falleth again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY (2), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing certain, nothing sure
Last Line: Some moments rare and rapture-kist
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY - A MOTH, by ADELE HART BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Joy is like a moth -
Last Line: In vandal fingers!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY AND DUTY, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy is a duty, --so with golden lore
Last Line: "life is divine when duty is a joy."
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Clergy; Duty; Happiness; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Joy; Delight


JOY AND PLEASURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now, joy is born of parents poor
Last Line: And sings and laughs with strangers near.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


JOY AND SORROW, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sullen skies today
Last Line: Come sweeter for past sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


JOY AND SORROW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we let joy go by
Last Line: But lo, he lingers, bidden not to stay!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


JOY SUPREME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The birds are pirates of her notes
Last Line: Her soft warm bosom swell on mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


KIND FORTUNE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind fortune smiles, and she
Last Line: Follow me, and you shall see.
Subject(s): Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight


KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest are shepherds, how happy their lasses
Last Line: Chorus: let not youth, ...
Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight


KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh sight, the mother of desires
Last Line: And if we may discover, &c.
Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight


KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How happy the lover
Last Line: The pleasures of love.
Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight


KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd
Last Line: Chorus: let not youth, ...
Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight


KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows
Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity!
Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism


L'ALLEGRO, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence loathed melancholy
Last Line: Mirth, with thee I mean to live.
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Night; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


LANDSCAPE WITH OPEN SPACES, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't stand this much open space, with joy
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


LATE SUMMER, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How I rejoice in thy delights
Last Line: And dwell alone with fantasy.
Subject(s): Happiness; Summer; Joy; Delight


LAUGHING SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing us something full of laughter
Last Line: Laugh, and we'll not miss the words.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


LAUGHTER, by CHARLES ELMER HUBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the heart
Last Line: You came.
Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Love; Joy; Delight


LET ME GO WARM, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Hearts; Parting; Joy; Delight


LET THE GAY ONES AND GREAT, by DAVID GARRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But health and diversion unite.
Subject(s): Happiness; Health; Joy; Delight


LIFE'S MAZE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy in the light
Last Line: Clouding all the morrows.
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight


LIKE ANY OTHER MAN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born with a knife
Last Line: Unlocked my body.
Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Salvation; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations


LINES (3), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is sweet, and fair, and bright
Last Line: Joy is life's tree -- grief but its leaf.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


LISLE'S RIVER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dust followed our car like a dry brown cloud
Last Line: What joy have you had since, that equaled this?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Happiness; Memory; Rivers; Water; Joy; Delight


LITTLE FAIRY CHILD!, by HELEN C. WILLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She is sweet and very pensive, so
Last Line: Land of fairy-lore!
Subject(s): Children; Fantasy; Happiness; Childhood; Joy; Delight


LITTLE THINGS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the little things
Last Line: It is the little things!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


LOOK UP!, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look up, not down
Last Line: Look up, not down!
Subject(s): Advice; Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight


LOOKING FOR A HAPPY SMILE, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Day after day / I while away
Last Line: Which helps to more irritate.
Subject(s): Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight


LOST HAPPINESS, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With happiness its precious freight
Last Line: Mine eyes tears almost blind.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


LOVE IN THE DAWN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn, with hallowed flame, seemed to sing your name
Last Line: Dawn again, dawn again, dawn again—with you!
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Sympathy; Togetherness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Empathy


LOVE, JOY, AND PLEASURE; AN ALLEGORY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night was calm, the sky serene
Last Line: On the scroll which charity gave them.
Subject(s): Fables; Happiness; Love; Pleasure; Allegories; Joy; Delight


LOVE-JOY, LOVE-SORROW, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand lilies, a thousand pinks
Last Line: Like clouds in the wind it vanisheth.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


LOVELIGHT, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy recollected in joy was upon me again
Last Line: Blushing maid!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


MABEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet little face, so full of slumber
Last Line: Till then, farewell -- farewell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Parting; Joy; Delight


MADISON SQUARE: CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is our worth. We cannot rear the towers
Last Line: And every one a star of bethlehem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Madison Square, New York City; Skyscrapers; Theater & Theaters; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Stage Life


MADRIGAL: HARK JOLLY SHEPHERDS, by THOMAS MORLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark jolly shepherds
Last Line: With echoes sweet rebounding.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight


MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow
Last Line: And where the stars are led.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


MAURINE: PART 1, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune
Last Line: To hide the glorious sun, ere it should rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; June; Love; Women; Joy; Delight


ME 'N JOHN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nigh erbout ten year ago this / comin' may
Last Line: "won't you p'int the day, maria?"
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are my sheep without their wonted food?
Last Line: Whereto this solace tends!
Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations


MOMENTARY (1), by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweetest song was ever sung
Last Line: One light of everlasting joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


MY DELIGHT, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thick and stormy was the night
Last Line: Night and wind and storm.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


MY HAPPINESS, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall I take my love? I'm weary
Last Line: Find happiness!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


MY HAPPINESS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear you singing happily
Last Line: Like the falling of a leaf.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


MY HAPPINESS, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I laid my happiness in a field
Subject(s): Happiness; Porcupines; Joy; Delight


MY JOY HAS FALLEN IN THE GRASS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My joy has fallen in the grass, good people of the plain, fortunate
Last Line: Fallen in the grass, help me to find it again.
Subject(s): Grass; Happiness; Love - Loss Of; Joy; Delight


MY POOR NEIGHBOR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My neighbor hath a lordly pile
Last Line: While I have home—and you, my dear!
Subject(s): Blessings; Family Life; Fathers; Happiness; Neighbors; Poverty; Wealth; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Riches; Fortunes


NATURAL MAGIC (2), by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are tired who follow after
Last Line: Join with you the dance of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Happiness; Magic; Joy; Delight


NEW YEAR'S EVES, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in marrakech, no - boys
Last Line: "anyone."" and he said, ""that wouldn't be nice."
Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Parties; Joy; Delight


NEW YEAR, GOOD-MORNING!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: New year, good - morning! Come and bring
Last Line: New year, good-morning!
Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Holidays; Morning; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight


NO CARELESS MIND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A granted joy can make a careless mind
Last Line: A seed of light throw up a magic flower!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


NO END OF FUN, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So he's got to have happiness,
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


NONE OF US, by KEN HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: None of us are born to be
Last Line: We are just ordinary sod.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


NONPAREIL, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let others from the town retire
Last Line: Though I were sure 'twould end in pain.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Flowers; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


NUNC DIMITTIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am dying; but what of that?
Last Line: That I've found you -- at the last.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


OBERMAIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Obermais! Obermais! / charming bit of paradise
Last Line: Thou hast won my heart and soul!
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Joy; Delight; Paradise


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 31. SEPARATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Early at eve on onchan head, because
Last Line: Had I but heard your low, sweet laugh's applause!
Subject(s): Happiness; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight


OCTOBER, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green elm with the one great bough of gold
Last Line: Shall no more blackened and obscured be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Autumn; Happiness; Seasons; Fall; Joy; Delight


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When spring adorns the dewy scene
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Spring; Happiness; Drinks & Drinking; Joy; Delight; Wine


ODE TO HAPPINESS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit, that rarely comest now
Last Line: "but won by silent fortitude."
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


ODE TO HOPE, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend to the wretch whose bosom knows no joy!
Last Line: And never-fading joy in heaven's full glories reign.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Strength; Joy; Delight; Optimism


ODE TO MIRTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, o mirth, with laughing eye
Last Line: Mirth shall crown the social board.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


ODE UPON THE NEW YEAR (1693), by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The happy, happy year is born
Last Line: And britain's cæsar light'ning in the chase.
Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Joy; Delight


ODE X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you, my friend, true bliss obtain
Last Line: Be humble, and contract your sails.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Joy; Delight


OF SUCH, by ALICE DOUGAN GASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I visited the squirming second grade
Last Line: "she lets us play red rover at recess!"
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


OF THE BLESSINGS ATTENDING MANKIND, CONTRADICTING POSEIDIPPUS, by METRODORUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happy mankind! For where we fix to live
Last Line: That wish they'd ne'er been born; or soon as born had died.
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight


OF WHAT IS LIFE?, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't the kind of work you do
Last Line: "I can say, ""it was good to live."
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight


OMENS BY THE WAY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear god! Our pilgrimage
Last Line: To meet this fluting run!
Subject(s): Graves; Happiness; Omens; Sleep; Voices; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight


ON A WEDDING, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! How the bells ring, how happy the day
Last Line: And all that she wish'd to receive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON ANY ORDENARY MAN IN A HIGH STATE OF LAUGHTURE AND DELIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As it's give' me to perceive
Last Line: God's pleased with him, same as you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Laughter; Joy; Delight


ON HAPPY WOMEN, by MARY D. CAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somehow life had passed me by
Last Line: That loving women prize.
Subject(s): Envy; Happiness; Women; Joy; Delight


ON MY WEDDING DAY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Abandon'd day, why dost thou now appear?
Last Line: And be like me, that's by thy self no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah
Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Soul; Youth; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now six and thirty rapid years are fled
Last Line: "but the fair guerdon is immortal fame."
Subject(s): Birthdays; Fame; Happiness; Reason; Virtue; Reputation; Joy; Delight; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


ON THE ICE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O the joy to ride on the sharpened
Last Line: But it cannot go as I go—so high, so high!
Subject(s): Children; December; Happiness; Skating & Skaters; Childhood; Joy; Delight


ON THE NEW YEAR, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis past: - another year for ever gone
Last Line: And lead my soul to peace—to bliss—to thee!
Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Joy; Delight


ON THE SUNNY SIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hi and whoop-hooray, boys!
Last Line: On the sunny side!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Pigeons; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


ORGAN SONGS: REJOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice,' said the sun; 'I will make thee gay
Last Line: "and man said, ""I rejoice."
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Humanity; Night; Sun; Wind; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


OUR GEM WREATH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heard ye the sounds of joyous glee
Last Line: In a union fond and true.
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight


PACKING THE WEIGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's easy when you breeze along
Last Line: Can you still pack weight and win?
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


PAIN OR JOY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! That's the nightingale
Last Line: Throbs in each throbbing vein?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


PEACE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though all the joys of life be done
Last Line: Oh, they walk there, see they walk there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Love; Peace; Joy; Delight


PENELOPE'S WEB: BARMENISSA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stately state that wise men count their good
Last Line: With patience lows thee quiet and delight.
Variant Title(s): Content
Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; Happiness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight


PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing
Last Line: Shames into silence death's despairful creed.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Girls; Happiness; Heart's-ease (flower); Lilies; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


PLURAL HAPPINESS, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A curtain bellying like a pregnant cloud, warm white
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


POEM FOR JOAN INGLIS ON HER BIRTHDAY, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As he stood saying goodbye
Last Line: Small, darkly shaded lamp.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Joy; Delight


POETICAL HAPPINESS, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a fountain, to whose flowery side
Last Line: Through the wide wilderness with empty urns!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


POMEGRANATE SONG, by ANDRE GIDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still for a long time you should seek
Last Line: That we pop near the fire.
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Happiness; Pomegranates; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight; Songs


POOL MAIDEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the lilies / she lies, she lies
Last Line: The heart of her crystal deeps.
Subject(s): Happiness; Household Employees; Wales; Joy; Delight; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Welshmen; Welshwomen


PRESENT AND FUTURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is life that we should love it
Last Line: Ever glowing more and more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Future; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sun; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


PRETTY HAPPY, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have no siblings who've killed themselves
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight


PSYCHE: CANTO 2, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh happy you! Who blest with present bliss
Last Line: Hope like the morning star once more shall re-appear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Happiness; Psyche (mythology); Joy; Delight


QUATRAIN: TEARS OF GLADNESS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: These happy tears, like drops of dew
Last Line: Reflect the glory of the skies.
Subject(s): Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight


QUATRAIN: THE SEED, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This bush of bloom that sweetens so the wind
Last Line: Has filled with wondrous happiness my mind.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


QUERY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can alleviate
Last Line: The sorrows of the poor?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


QUERY, by EMILY TELLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder if happiness
Last Line: Or was it an age-scarred tree?
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


QUEST, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The phantom happiness I sought
Last Line: Descend—my search is o'er.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


RECALLED, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing of love, and what sing I?
Last Line: So could still them, and be heard?
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


RELEASED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, bird, and to the sky
Last Line: Dear bird, for me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Joy; Delight


RELIEF COMING, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds are blustering and rough, the frost
Last Line: Just ahead that's bound to knock out sorrow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight


RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On beds of daisies idly laid
Last Line: Meet to adore some calf of gold.
Subject(s): Greed; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Pleasure; Retirement; Avarice; Cupidity; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers


RETURN OF SPRING, by GRACE AVERILL HERRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spring is here, the bluebird peals
Last Line: That bloom each year to show us light.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


REVERSAL, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: How should a puritan live in me
Last Line: Could happiness be right?
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


RICHES, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The countless gold of a merry heart
Last Line: Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury
Subject(s): Bible; Happiness; Mythology; Joy; Delight


ROADSIDE POEMS: BETTER THINGS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Better to smell the violet
Last Line: Than the king of all the earth.
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Virtue; Joy; Delight


ROBERT BURNS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What intuition named thee?
Last Line: Than any joy of all the glory there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Happiness; Soul; Joy; Delight


ROMANCE, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last farewells were said, friends hurried ashore
Last Line: Ere it goes down to darkness, whence it came! . . .
Subject(s): Betrayal; Boats; Death; Happiness; Lies; Love; New York City; Youth; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


RONDEAU OF HYS LADYE, by JEAN FROISSART    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soe blithe am I when I a rose doe smell
Last Line: Soe full of bliss when I my ladye see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Froissart, Jehan
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Love; Roses; Joy; Delight


RURAL BLISS, by ANTHONY C. DEANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city
Last Line: As long as maud is there, you see, -- what matters all the rest?
Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SADNESS AND MIRTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye met at the stately feasts of old
Last Line: And joy reigns alone, as the lonely sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SATISFIED, by HESTER A. BENEDICT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where moss-made beds are brightest by the river
Last Line: Of locks long longed for -- and am satisfied.
Subject(s): Babies; Happiness; Infants; Joy; Delight


SECOND FIDDLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just behind the first fiddle he bends
Last Line: And the fiddle called second, be first.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Soul; Joy; Delight


SECRET LAUGHTER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a secret laughter
Last Line: By god, I have a son!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


SEEKING JOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Joy, how I sought thee!
Last Line: Joy, I have found thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SINCE MAY ALL AFLOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since may all aflower calls us forth tothe fields
Last Line: Thy brow in its beauty, thy heart in its love.
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Nature; Joy; Delight


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 83, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind from my birth
Last Line: Where all joy-bells are ringing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Blindness; Happiness; Larks; Visually Handicapped; Joy; Delight; Skylarks


SINGING HEART, by N. M. FRIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Glorious gold of winter sunset
Last Line: Tediousness can never bore.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SINGING WITH SPRING, by JEAN WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today I matched my heart with spring
Last Line: "let us match our hearts together!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight


SLIPPING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slipping away -- slipping away!
Last Line: We are slipping away to the shores of peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Happiness; Peace; Seasons; World; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight


SO MUCH HAPPINESS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


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


SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 2. PLEASURE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Try then, o man, the moments to deceive
Last Line: Their wishes, smiles, and looks deceitful all, and vain.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pleasure; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Vanity; Wealth; Joy; Delight; Riches; Fortunes


SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 6. BORN TO THE PURPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most-like it was this kingly lad
Last Line: As now thou rulest, smiling there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Sea; Joy; Delight; Ocean


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, what hath overwrought
Last Line: Happy light to love's dreams.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, love, if ever thou didst find
Last Line: The only queen of love and beauty.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a time when silly bees could speak
Last Line: Thou 'rt bound to serve the time, the time not thee.'
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time stands still with gazing on her face
Last Line: Courage shall shew my inward faith, and faith shall try my love.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love stood amazed at sweet beauty's pain
Last Line: And would, but cannot die.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness
Last Line: O how much do I love your solitariness.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woeful heart with grief oppressed
Last Line: By thy loss than by her parting.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shepherd in a shade his plaining made
Last Line: Fie! Fie! On love that is a foolish thing.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Die not before thy day, poor man condemned
Last Line: So she ends her willing song.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faction that ever dwells
Last Line: Fortune, adieu.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Humour, say, what mak'st thou here?
Last Line: But that which only pleaseth you.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past
Last Line: That favours, hopes, and words can blind no more.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise blindness, eyes! For seeing, is deceit
Last Line: I know my dream was true, and yet I love.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace?
Last Line: When I die for the fair.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow, sorrow, stay
Last Line: And arise I never shall.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time's eldest son, old age, the heir of ease
Last Line: As good as shows masks, justes, or tilt devices.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When others sing venite exultemus
Last Line: To say amen when thou dost pray so well.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toss not, my soul, o love, 'twixt hope and fear
Last Line: The strength of sorrow quite is overthrown.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then sit thee down
Last Line: Thou canst not please her with a better part.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourn, mourn
Last Line: That thus the sun should harbour with the night.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White as lilies was her face
Last Line: [or love was turned to bitter scorn!]
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now cease, my wandering eyes
Last Line: Although our eyes do move.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Last Line: Do attempt, while she, for triumphs laughs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, crystal tears! Like to the morning showers
Last Line: Both from a spotless heart and patient eyes.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, wayward thoughts, and rest you with my love
Last Line: So sleeps my love—and yet my love doth wake.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, o now I needs must part
Last Line: Never shall affection die.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who master is in music's art
Last Line: Fa, la, la!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lend your ears to my sorrow
Last Line: Like heaven still in itself delighted.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Me, me, and none but me, dart home, o gentle death
Last Line: He never happy lived that cannot love to die.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What if I never speed
Last Line: For either I will love or admire thee.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold a wonder here
Last Line: And striking folly blind.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By a fountain where I lay
Last Line: The glory of all our green.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come when I call, or tarry till I come
Last Line: And love, till we die.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing
Last Line: Love should live free, and true pleasure prove.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, too fair, too chaste, but too, too cruel
Last Line: Farewell, farewell.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, unkind, farewell, to me no more a father
Last Line: Welcome, my love, welcome, my joy for ever.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fie on this feigning
Last Line: So mayst thou prove kind, or, at the least, less cruel.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must complain, yet do enjoy my love
Last Line: She hath more beauty than becomes the chaste.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flow, my tears! Fall from your springs
Last Line: Feel not the world's despite.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What poor astronomers are they
Last Line: They study false astronomy.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shepherd, we do not see our looks
Last Line: I still have fear.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis affection but dissembled
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or love me less or love me more
Last Line: Which for my sake you do put on.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love laid his sleepless head
Last Line: But day shall bring back delight.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


SONG, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my hands I have taken the rain that fell
Last Line: And the day as a hive hums thro' the air!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


SONG (9), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two doves upon the selfsame branch
Last Line: And never give a thought to night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Doves; Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG FOR A LITTLE SISTER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy you have and grace you have
Last Line: Only for a day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONG OF A SPENDTHRIFT, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a thousand dollars - a sudden rain of pelf
Last Line: Than book and bank and emptiness to carry down the years.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For miles along the sunlit lands
Last Line: Again we grow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Life; Sea; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean


SONG OF THE DAWN, by MARGARET ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn of the morning, a faint crimson hue
Last Line: As each contributes to nature's song!
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONG OF THE THISTLEDRIFT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gay is my heart as
Last Line: Beautiful mold me.
Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Thistles; Joy; Delight


SONG OF THREE SMILES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me call a ghost
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Charity; Happiness; Laughter; Smiles; Philanthropy; Joy; Delight


SONG: 42, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, robin, / jolly robin
Last Line: And let them warm with thee.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Robins; Women; Joy; Delight


SONG: 61, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As power and wit will me assist
Last Line: Even as ye list.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Truth; Joy; Delight


SONG: 62, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing
Last Line: And never to change you for no new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONG: 74, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart
Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 81, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, what undeserved cruelty
Last Line: Till my careful life may turn contrary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SONG: 82, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in your grace I know I was
Last Line: That once I was.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Ons In Your Grace I Knowe I Was
Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


SONG: SINGING AT SUNSET, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you hear it at the sunset
Last Line: Happy, happy song.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gentle wind, of western birth
Last Line: That we desire no more?
Subject(s): Day; God; Happiness; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Spring; Waking; Joy; Delight; Paradise; Optimism


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky has turned its heart away
Last Line: Green lies the summer grass.
Subject(s): Cold; Day; Happiness; Laughter; Winter; Joy; Delight


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: CONCLUDING SONG. A MORN OF MAY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the clouds about the sun lay up in golden creases
Last Line: O! Sweetly she did carol all on that morn of may.
Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Happiness; May (month); Night; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Songs


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea
Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold.
Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean


SONGS TO CONSOLE ME FOR BEING HAPPY: RICHARD CAEUR-DE-LION, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the ruddy plume of the carnation wild that the ruin doth
Last Line: Since in your chateau all the world abandons me.
Subject(s): Happiness; Passion; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 20, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phillis, give this humour over
Last Line: Live in far more perfect joy.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Happiness; Pride; Women; Youth; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight; Self-esteem; Self-respect


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 23, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain, alas! Poor strephon tries
Last Line: But, amoret, in thee.
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 9, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it, o love, thy want of eyes
Last Line: And double glory thine.
Subject(s): Despair; Eyes; Fates (mythology); Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


SONNET, by ANDRE FONTAINAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sea-road a-tremble where the dawnlight swoons
Last Line: And ware the cloud wherefrom the thunder's roll'd.
Subject(s): Happiness; Sea; Joy; Delight; Ocean


SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say that love and joy are one: and so
Last Line: Though burning for a martyr's diadem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


SONNET WRITTEN DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN COLLEGE, by CHARLES WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My spirit's on the mountains, where the birds
Last Line: To fancy is to feel our happiness.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONNET: 28, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If waker care, if sudden pale color
Last Line: Without whose help scant do I live a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 97
Subject(s): Fear; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


SONNET: 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky
Last Line: Pour out the feelings of my burthened heart.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dawn; Happiness; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Sunrise; Joy; Delight


SONNET: THE DOUBLE RAINBOW, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the passions and desires of man
Last Line: Soft with remembered grief and happiness.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Rainbows; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SORROW AND JOY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow and joy, two sisters coy
Last Line: And not too much o' t'other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SORROWS AND JOYS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise
Last Line: And warned by yearning sympathies.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not thirty miles away from here
Last Line: Delightedly, south warwickshire!
Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Warwickshire, England; Joy; Delight


SPRING, by HARRIET DAYTON BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The willows' celadon aigrets
Last Line: That spring's an antic life!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SPRING IN THE PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This day of april ardors, a careless passerby
Last Line: Blossomed and blessed the hour, redeemed the town.
Subject(s): April; Beauty; Happiness; Japan; Parks; Peace; Spring; Joy; Delight; Japanese


SPRING WILL COME, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring will come to help me: she'll be
Last Line: Naught she cares for harvest that lies so far away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight


SPRINGING UP, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly o'er my anguish stealing
Last Line: Like a choir of angels singing!
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come
Last Line: The grave the inn of rest.
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics


STRANGE, by MRS. L. B. SARTAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strange - the darkest shadows
Last Line: Delight in hurting me.
Subject(s): Happiness; Moon; Shadows; Joy; Delight


STRASBOURG, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw thee sombrely enthralled
Last Line: Seen thro' glad tears, the tricolors!
Subject(s): Flags; France; Happiness; National Songs; Pride; Progress; Strasbourg, France; Victory; Joy; Delight; National Anthems; Self-esteem; Self-respect


SUMMER JOY, by RUBY ARCHER GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I breathe the big valley today
Last Line: To remember your beauty alway.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


SUMMER WOODS, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O I am tired of painted roofs and soft and silken floors
Last Line: Like krishna and like radhika, encompassed with delight.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Seasons; Summer; Joy; Delight


SUMMER'S PASSING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single branch of flaming red
Last Line: The singing and the sighing!
Subject(s): Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Joy; Delight


SUNRISE, by DONALD R. STEELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The eastern sky is filled
Last Line: Dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunrise; Joy; Delight


SUNSHINE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The birds sing sweetly in the trees
Last Line: Where grief and pain are found.
Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Sun; Joy; Delight


SUNSHINE, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the white and blushing apple-blooms
Last Line: Nothing is alien that is born of man!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Sun; Joy; Delight


SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBB IN ECSTASY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What matter that you understood no word!
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Happiness; Transience; Sex; Joy; Delight; Impermanence


TALK HAPPINESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Last Line: And god shall hear your words and make them true.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE ACADEMY BELL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rich air is sweet with the breath of september
Last Line: Of the never-forgotten academy bell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bells; Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE ART OF HAPPINESS, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am too weak to speak,
Last Line: What’s a phone call or two?
Subject(s): Happiness; Water; Joy; Delight


THE BALLOON MAN, by JEAN M. BATCHELOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: How can he unenraptured stand
Last Line: Seeing it shrink, all worlds are so.
Subject(s): Balloons; Bubbles; Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE BASILISK, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's fine for a man to be cheerful
Last Line: Smile!
Subject(s): Happiness; Smiles; Joy; Delight


THE BEAUTIFUL SUN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful sun! With thy golden rays
Last Line: In our prayers every morning and night!
Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Praise; Sun; Joy; Delight


THE BETROTHAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, come, my lad, or go, my lad
Last Line: There's few enough as is.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dead man hears the thunderous steps of an ant, he feels eager
Last Line: The dead man has it all, even the worms and the dogs.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Nature; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): MORE ABOUT DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man wanted more until he had everything and wanted none of it
Last Line: The dead man did the same with substance and shadow.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


THE BOY SINGING, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little boy / is sitting on a fallen log
Last Line: Close to his happy heart.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Joy; Delight


THE BRIDE AND GROOM, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: True as magnet to the pole
Last Line: A happy groom and bride.
Subject(s): Churches; Happiness; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE BRIGHT ASSASSIN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I closed with pain. I slew distress
Last Line: Thou shalt be slain by happiness!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE BUTTERFLIES OF TAIWAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I said: because it is the case that
Last Line: Or curious, like the butterflies of taiwan?
Subject(s): Butterflies; Happiness; Insects; Taiwan; Wings; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Formosa


THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME AGAIN; VILLANELLE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men know but little more then we
Last Line: How happy days are made to be.'
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Thrushes; Joy; Delight


THE CALL OF HAPPINESS, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O happiness! Thy vision comes to me
Last Line: Will welcome us unto thy final sphere.
Subject(s): Happiness; Pleasure; Joy; Delight


THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE, by HENRY WOTTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How happy is he born and taught
Last Line: And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Variant Title(s): The Happy Life;a Good Man;lord Of Himself;of A Happy Life
Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Life; Religion; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Theology


THE CHILD IN THE HEART, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a child in my heart that sings and sings
Last Line: If ever the child in my heart be dead!
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Childhood; Joy; Delight


THE CHRISTMAS BALL; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Scintillant stars in the sky's blue height
Last Line: And the dancers meet at the christmas ball.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Nicholas, Saint


THE COLORING OF HAPPINESS, by EDITH" "MAY [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is full of prayer and praise to-day
Last Line: The building swallow plucks to line her nest
Alternate Author Name(s): "may, Edith;
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy;delight


THE COQUETTE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She laughs, the dimples come and go
Last Line: She weds old moneybags at last!
Subject(s): Flirtation; Happiness; Laughter; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE DAY FULL SPENT, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not count the day full spent
Last Line: Wherein was cause to love and smile.
Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Hope; Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism


THE DEAD BRIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There she lay so still and pale
Last Line: Death hath found her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Brides; Death; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Paradise


THE DEATH DANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O arone a-ree, eily arone, arone!
Last Line: O, o, arone, a-ree, eily arone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


THE DEATH OF ROLLA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Marie then, smiling, looked into the glass
Last Line: And for a moment two had tasted bliss.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Happiness; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Parting; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations


THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy, joy in london now!
Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight


THE DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest, rest; the troubled breast
Last Line: A very dream of dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


THE DREAM OF JOY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In life's young morn, with fairy wiles
Last Line: Ah! Soon, too soon will truth destroy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE DRUNKEN SONG, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O man, what seem
Last Line: "would have deep, deep eternity!"
Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE EDITOR'S WOOING, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We love, thee, ann maria smith
Last Line: A larger circulation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus
Subject(s): Editors; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


THE FIRESIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the hearth was clean, the fire clear"
Last Line: I ask no more of heaven
Subject(s): Family Life;happiness; Relatives;joy;delight


THE FIRESIDE, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear chloe, while the busy crowd
Last Line: And smooth the bed of death.
Variant Title(s): A Paradise Below
Subject(s): Fire; Happiness; Home; Life; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE FIRST SINGING, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I shall come one evening to god's house on the hill
Last Line: And the thrush and the blackbird their song in the cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight


THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit divine! Eternal, holy dove!
Last Line: Creating light, and beauty, fruit, and flower!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Holy Ghost; Love; Peace; Religion; Joy; Delight; Holy Spirit; Theology


THE GENTLE GHOST OF JOY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little while ago you knew not I was I
Last Line: When your face I do not see!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Absence; Happiness; Separation; Isolation; Joy; Delight


THE GIFTS OF GOLD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Desire of joy - how keen, how keen it is!
Last Line: Desire of joy and tears -- ah, gifts of gold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Gold; Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight


THE GOAL OF THE WORLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the goal of the world is joy
Last Line: The soul to its nobler realms above!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Death; Funerals; Happiness; Life; Marching & Marches; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight


THE GOLDEN HOUR, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must be golden for your eyes to find
Last Line: Before our trust, and our averted eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Joy; Delight


THE GREAT CAROUSAL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, do not think me dead when I
Last Line: The rich eternity of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Happiness; Immortality; Laughter; Soul; Joy; Delight


THE HAPPIEST DAY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was early may, I think
Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Relatives; Joy; Delight


THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A week ago; only a little week
Last Line: He sees me, he is coming; my own love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE HAPPY DAYS WHEN I WER YOUNG, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In happy days when I wer young
Last Line: In happy days when I wer young!
Subject(s): Happiness; Memory; Winter; Youth; Joy; Delight


THE HAPPY LAND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a land of rare realities
Last Line: A moment or a year.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm thist a little crippled boy, an' never goin' to grow
Last Line: "they's nary angel 'bout the place with ""curv'ture of the spine""!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE HAPPY MAN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I alone, the heavens decide, gain full felicity. Pray whither shall I
Last Line: How to sing everything.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Happiness; Dead, The; Destiny; Joy; Delight


THE HAPPY MAN, by ANTHONY HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: A plain, good man without deceit
Last Line: Pleased in himself and praised by all.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE HAPPY MAN, by GILLES MENAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: La galisse now I wish to touch
Last Line: Deprived him of his life.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


THE HAPPY NIGHTINGALE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Melodious creature, happy in thy choice!
Last Line: Compar'd to mine, thy happiness is most complete.
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Joy; Delight


THE HEREAFTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hereafter, o we need not
Last Line: The mute beyond is just.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


THE HOLLY THORNS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, love is the soul of christmas
Last Line: Where christmas is one of tears.
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Happiness; Holly; Love; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 82. HOARDED JOY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said: 'nay, pluck not, let the first fruit be'
Last Line: "and the woods wail like echoes from the sea."
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE HUNGER BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood
Last Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Happiness; Hunting; Youth; Woods; Joy; Delight; Hunters


THE JOVIAL BEGGAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a jovial beggar
Last Line: And begging will we go
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;happiness; Joy;delight


THE JOVIAL COBBLER OF SAINT HELEN'S, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I am a jovial cobbler, bold and brave"
Last Line: "I am the happiest mortal, mortal of them all"
Subject(s): Happiness;shoes; Joy;delight;boots;sneakers;shoemakers


THE JOY OF SERVICE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is ever singing
Last Line: That sorrows flee away.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


THE JOY OF THE SPRINGTIME, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Springtime, o springtime, what is your essence
Last Line: The roots of delight in the heart of the earth?
Subject(s): Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight


THE KEYBOARD, by ANNE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life is a keyboard / on which we press
Last Line: Hold music too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stark, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight


THE KING'S KISS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We rode through the shouting town
Last Line: I kissed in the market place!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; King Kong; Love; Passion; Joy; Delight


THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish


THE LAST MAN: CONCEALED JOY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just now a beam of joy hung on his eye-lash
Last Line: Into a darkening hole.
Subject(s): Eyes; Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE LAUGHING WOMAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I heard a woman laughing
Last Line: And life still crawls with maggots—that were men!
Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Love; Smiles; Sound; Joy; Delight


THE LIGHT-HEARTED FAIRY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh what is so merry, so merry, heigh ho!"
Last Line: With a hey and a heigh and a ho!
Subject(s): Fairies;happiness; Elves;joy;delight


THE LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "when I was bound apprentice, in famous lincolnshire"
Last Line: In the season of the year
Subject(s): Happiness;poaching; Joy;delight


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frost covers the reeds of the marsh
Last Line: My full heart throbs with bliss
Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Joy; Delight


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pass the day tense, day
Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple
Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


THE MAN WHO FELL NAKED FROM PARADISE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence, the hay is sweet, and 'tis the hour of grain
Last Line: Breathed by the deity.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Paradise


THE MASK OF MIRTH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho! This is mirth, fat-cheeked and laughing-eyed
Last Line: Ah, mirth, a truce; that grin may mask distress!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE MERRY MEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wise men they were seven
Last Line: And three men boys are we
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy;delight


THE MOMENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We passed the ice of pain
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Erotic; Joy; Delight


THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician
Last Line: Joy! Joy! All over joy!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE NINTH SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN UNDERSTOOD .. SEXUAL MESSAGE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man in terror of impotence
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight


THE OBLIGATION TO BE HAPPY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is more onerous
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE OLD TIMES WERE THE BEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends, my heart is half aweary
Last Line: That the old times were the best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Happiness; Nostalgia; Time; Joy; Delight


THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am fading from you
Last Line: While he crowns my past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Disease; Future; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Past; Temptation; Joy; Delight


THE ONE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are that beloved thing
Last Line: Now—I look—but cannot tell!
Subject(s): Courtship; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He isn't a religious man
Subject(s): Neighbors; Family Life; Fatners; Transience; Mortality; Happiness; Relatives; Impermanence; Joy; Delight


THE PLACE OF JOY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pilgrim sought the garden of delight
Last Line: "until contentment blossoms in the breast."
Subject(s): Doubt; Happiness; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Skepticism; Joy; Delight


THE PLAYMATES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are thy playmates, boy
Last Line: "new-born, is joy."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Happiness; Jesus Christ; Joy; Delight


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 145, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There may be punctilious people
Last Line: You'll regret that day
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 169, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I escaped to cold mountain
Last Line: I'm happy here in the cliffs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Mountains; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 207, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tientai mountains are my home
Last Line: The joys of roaming free are wonderful indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Freedom; Happiness; Mountains; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 265, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hermits hide from society
Last Line: Aren't stained by the muddy world
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Happiness; Hermits; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 42, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you wonder who stays happy
Last Line: I wonder about mankind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Peace; Solitude; Joy; Delight; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woods and springs make me smile
Last Line: All I hear is noise
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Happiness; Nature; Springs (water); Woods; Joy; Delight


THE POET'S JOURNAL: LOVE RETURNED, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a boy when first we met
Last Line: And rooted in my heart of hearts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Youth; Joy; Delight


THE POET'S JOURNAL: MARAH, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters of my life were sweet
Last Line: But, weeping, turn my head away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE PROPHECY: 1. TO ANOTHER LADY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have told a maiden of hours of grief
Last Line: Every tear wiped away -- every error forgiven.
Subject(s): Happiness; Prophecy & Prophets; Joy; Delight


THE PURITAN ETHOS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the man who loves
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE PURPLE WISTARIA, by RUTH LE PRADE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The purple wistaria grows upward, seeking the stars
Last Line: Oh, help me upward, for I, too, am seeking the stars!
Subject(s): Happiness; Wisteria; Joy; Delight


THE REGRET, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If inclination ruled the hour
Last Line: Levi bishop.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Regret; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


THE ROADS OF HAPPINESS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roads of happiness are not
Last Line: And days were not with burdens freighted.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE ROSE'S MITE, by ABBY MARY HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lovely rose was nodding
Last Line: To help him on his way.
Subject(s): Happiness; Kindness; Joy; Delight


THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The seals dive in the sun-dimpled bay
Last Line: Closest to the meaning of our awe.
Subject(s): Happiness; Seals (animals); Joy; Delight


THE SHREWMOUSE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The creatures with the shining eyes
Last Line: God smiled when she was born.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Contentment; God; Happiness; Innocence; Mice; Joy; Delight


THE SINGER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She stood behind the golden rail
Last Line: Again shall hear her.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE SON OF THE EVENING STAR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can it be the sun descending
Last Line: With the night and minnehaha.
Subject(s): Evening Star; Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE SONG OF THE COLORADO RIVER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: To my own again in the salton sea
Last Line: For the indian sagas are written in fire.
Subject(s): Colorado (river); Happiness; Legends, Native American; Joy; Delight


THE SONG OF THE UPRISING, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy wings his way
Last Line: New man is born from the old: joy shall leap laughing from sorrow.
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


THE SONNET-BALLAD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
Subject(s): Happiness; Mothers; Joy; Delight


THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night in my room
Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables.
Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks


THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS, by KENNETH KOCH            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE SUITOR, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lie back to back. Curtains
Last Line: For short visits, like a timid suitor
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE SUNBEAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall
Last Line: The faith touching all things with hues of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Sun; Women; Joy; Delight; Optimism


THE SUNFLOWER WOMAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the sunflower here in this strange island
Last Line: That part of me which is god.
Subject(s): Happiness; Sun; Sunflowers; Joy; Delight


THE SYMPHONY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder in happy eyes
Last Line: And find new life and deeper wonder there.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Youth; Joy; Delight


THE TIME OF WAITING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is fleeting, joy is fleeting
Last Line: For meek patience, let us pray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Religion; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Theology


THE ULTIMATE JOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have felt the thrill of passion in the poet's mystic book
Subject(s): Art & Artists;happiness;july;nature; Joy;delight


THE UNLEARNED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not admit her! I could not endure
Last Line: Who is unlearned in all but happiness!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE WAY TO BE HAPPY, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never to want what one may not have
Last Line: The now to the what-might-have-been.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE WEDDING, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, day of joy! The sound of pipe and flute with sweetly blending
Last Line: Of sweet-voiced instruments!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WISH, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well then; I now do plainly see
Last Line: And so make a city here.
Subject(s): Happiness; Solitude; Wishes; Joy; Delight; Loneliness


THE WORD, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today, whatever may annoy
Last Line: Twill be today and joy again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Variant Title(s): Today
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THE WORLD, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, what a palace rare hast thou created
Last Line: And the blood-offering of a grateful heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight


THE WORLD AND I, by NELLY M. HUTCHINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whether my heart be glad or no
Last Line: Nelly m. Hutchinson.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE WORLD'S ALL RIGHT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be honest, kindly, simple, true
Last Line: What ho! The world's all right, I say.
Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight


THERE IS A NEED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a need for every ache or
Last Line: Before us -- there's a need.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


THERE IS JOY IN MY HEART, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is joy in my heart that the world cannot give
Last Line: Have their doubts all removed and acknowledge him lord.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THERE'S A TIME TO BE JOLLY, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a time to be jolly, a time to repent
Last Line: It was best, after all, to have flirted with both.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THESE ARE BUT WORDS; THE SONNET, by MUNA LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What other form were worthy of your praise
Last Line: Love is the hardest where all things are hard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee
Subject(s): Despair; Happiness; Love; Seasons; Joy; Delight


THINGS THAT MAKE ME CRY INSTANTLY€”, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Tears; Happiness; Nostalgia; Love; Joy; Delight


THIS IS A JOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: This is a joy no laughter shakes
Last Line: Life's sweetest breath comes, latest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THREE WISHES, by KATHLEEN GARDNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wish you happiness
Last Line: Other three belong to you.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY; AFTER INGMAR BERGMAN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are out bathing in the sea at night
Last Line: Who escort us to and from shock therapy...
Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (b. 1918); Family Life; Happiness; Night; Sea; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Ocean


TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm
Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors


TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale
Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home?
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When peleus wedded on thessalia's plain
Last Line: Grow impotent and rotten in a stew.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Pleasure; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO A FRIEND: MR. BAKER IS WELL, by THOMAS CHATTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'erwhelm'd with pleasure at the joyful news
Last Line: The beauteous hoyland shall employ my line.
Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Men; News; Joy; Delight


TO A JILTED SWAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Get thee back neglected friends
Last Line: Curst is she that marrieth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Laughter; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO A MOCKING-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy taunting happiness
Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO A MOCKING-BIRD IN THE PINE-TOP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird of the south-sweet songster!
Last Line: Shall live for immortality.
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


TO A YOUNG LADY, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, madam, may with safety go
Last Line: It must proceed from you alone.
Variant Title(s): The Fortune-teller
Subject(s): Future; Happiness; Prophecy & Prophets; Secrets; Joy; Delight


TO ALEXIS IN ANSWER TO HIS POEM AGAINST FRUITION, by APHRA BEHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah hapless sex! Who bear no charms
Last Line: After fruition ne're to be concern'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara
Subject(s): Happiness; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky
Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief.
Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO DODINGTON, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He's not the happy man, to whom is given
Last Line: Thine is the fortune, and the mind is thine.
Variant Title(s): The Happy Man
Subject(s): Doddington, Philip (1702-1751); Happiness; Joy; Delight


TO EDGAR WILSON NYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O 'william,' in thy blithe companionship
Last Line: Only because thou jokest overwell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Joy; Delight


TO HENRY MCCULLOUGH, by JOHN MCCLURE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If ever I go singing a song
Last Line: To cheer my friends and me.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


TO MARIAN POWYS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh lace-maker, what joys, what fears
Last Line: And a dream beyond this dream?
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


TO MISS -- ON HER SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AT HER LOOKING GLASS, by MARY JULIA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: While at the mirror, lovely maid
Last Line: Nor yet, with life expire.
Subject(s): Happiness; Mirrors; Vanity; Joy; Delight


TO MISS DIXON, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May never less of mirth than now
Last Line: When mirth and pleasure fly with you?
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 8. THE TRUEST LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the world's book so full of vulgar things
Last Line: Of being just as true as when 'twas born.
Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: CODA, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, thou interpreter of love and truth
Last Line: And reflects sunshine in each troubled heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comfort; Happiness; Joy; Delight


TO MR. MCG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were all sad and could not weep
Last Line: To any threat'ning fears.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO NATURE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more I rise to offer with pure joy
Last Line: On all the stars that shine and winds that blow.
Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sea; Wind; Joy; Delight; Ocean


TO THE CORNFLOWER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How smiling, how wondering, the cornflower's eyes
Last Line: For you live right down here with me, and not so high and far.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Sisters; Summer; Joy; Delight


TO THE CROWD, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I hold a budding pleasure
Last Line: Buds and lees -- ambrosial power.
Subject(s): Happiness; Pleasure; Joy; Delight


TODAY I WAS SO HAPPY, SO I MADE THIS POEM, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the plump squirrel scampers
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


TORMENTUM, by CHARLES ADOLPHE CANTUCUZENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My fear beyond the door has sped
Last Line: Nay, for it may be thou art dead!
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Happiness; Lips; Love; May (month); Dead, The; Joy; Delight


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I AM A VOICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a voice singing the song of deliverance
Last Line: The song of joy—of deliverance.
Subject(s): Happiness; Home; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


TRANSCENDENT LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In all the world, the greatest thing is love
Last Line: By the sound in trumpet call—transcendent love.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Joy; Delight


TRANSFORMATION, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a little shrivelled seed
Last Line: Over the flower's heart of gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Joy; Delight


TREASURE SHARED, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tender wealth of happy married years
Last Line: And tranquil sense of sweet proportion learned.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TRIAD, by EDWIN C. GRABER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are like ships
Last Line: Bend over us.
Subject(s): Happiness; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Joy; Delight


TRIAD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the silence of time, time's silence borrow
Last Line: The builders of joy are the children of sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Silence; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TRIO, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say sorrow fades
Last Line: And a third, who had no song.
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Happiness; Women; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Feminism


TRIUMPHANT LIFE AGAIN, by CARMEN NELSON RICHARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last week I sat in thoughtful mood, alone
Last Line: And gay life reigns where late death's ruin lay.
Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Joy; Delight


TRUE HAPPINESS, by MORRIS TALPALAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are the things which once possessed
Last Line: And neither wish nor fear to die.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


TWELVE SONNETS: 5. GLAD SEASONS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: But lo! Thou comest like the sweet moonlight
Last Line: The very birds sing louder for thy sake!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


TYMPANISTAE: SUAVE MARI MAGNO, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can out-joy this -- to reach the land -- and then
Last Line: The raindrops pattering on the roof outside!
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be
Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn.
Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight


UNLESS IT WAS COURAGE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again today, balloons aloft in the hazy here
Last Line: But I was happy, and my happiness made others happy.
Subject(s): Courage; Happiness; Hot-air Balloons; Valor; Bravery; Joy; Delight


UNSPOKEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O he can hold her hand, and full
Last Line: There lives a love unspeakably sub lime.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Soul; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


VARIATIONS DONE FOR GERALD VAN DE WIELE: 1. LE BONHEUR, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dogwood flakes / what is green
Subject(s): Happiness; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891); Joy; Delight


VICTORY IN DEFEAT, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Defeat may serve as well as victory
Last Line: To stretch our spaces in the heart for joy.
Subject(s): Defeat; Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


VICTORY SONG, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I run to the springhouse / to get a cold drink, / I am laughing
Subject(s): Happiness; Wasps; Joy; Delight; Yellow Jackets


VILLANELLE: AU RETOUR DU PRINTEMPS, by PHILIP SCHUYLER ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thro' the forest deep comes a maiden fair
Last Line: Thoughtless and happy and free from care.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


VIOLIN SONGS: MY HEART, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, with her power to silence day
Last Line: To clothe a death-born son.
Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Love; Night; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


VIOLIN SONGS: MY HEART THY LARK, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou want to sing
Last Line: Thy lark to meet thy day!
Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Hearts; Larks; Joy; Delight; Skylarks


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 6, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wote not how the world's degenerate
Last Line: At our low sayle, and our hye happinesse.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Happiness; Soldiers; Youth; Joy; Delight


VISIONS IN VERSE: 5. HAPPINESS, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye ductile youths, whose rising sun
Last Line: To rapture and eternal day!'
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


VITA NUOVA, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time once more
Last Line: When the spring calls in the dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight


WAITING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again, a song! / would he be silent? Silence and doubt are wrong
Last Line: And in the cold night lies my life, under a beechen tree!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Singing & Singers; Waiting; Joy; Delight; Songs


WANTING, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wanting and dissatisfaction / are the main ingredients
Last Line: To procreate is the essence of decay.
Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Joy; Delight


WE ALL LAUGH, by GLADYS HOUTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some with the strange, sheer joy of it all
Last Line: I laugh to hide despair.
Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Laughter; Pleasure; Smiles; Joy; Delight


WE HAVE KNOWN, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have known such joy as a child knows
Last Line: And will not survive, though you have them.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Love; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Parenthood


WE WONDERING BEHOLD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: With swelling joy
Last Line: Of endless love and growth.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


WHAT IS THERE TO SAY, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do they say each new morning
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


WHAT WE HAVE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the mountain / the neighbor's dog, put out in the cold
Last Line: That I think, when looking back, was happiness.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Happiness; Poverty; Retrospection; Relatives; Joy; Delight


WHEN I WAS BORN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "when I was born, then others laughed. I cried."
Last Line: At death if love of life did not deceive them so.
Subject(s): Birth;death;grief;happiness; "child Birth;midwifery;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;joy;delight;


WHEN LOVE CAME IN TO ME, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The raging, roaring, hungry blast
Last Line: When love came in to me.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


WHEN PAY DAY COMES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When pay day comes what transports thrill
Last Line: When pay day comes!
Subject(s): Greed; Grief; Happiness; Money; Wages; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Salaries


WHICH?, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birth-day or earth-day
Last Line: Which the well-worth day?
Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight


WHY, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why all the embarrassment
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


WISHING, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I reflect how little I have done
Last Line: When his new world rose from the charmed deep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Soul; Wishes; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


WITH SILVER STRINGS, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With silver strings my harp is strung
Last Line: On silver wings!
Subject(s): Happiness; Harps; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Lyres; Songs


WITH THE TIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wave by wave o'er the sandy bar
Last Line: Fell on the night -- and the tide was out
Subject(s): Grief;happiness; Sorrow;sadness;joy;delight


WONDER-BOUND, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They'd told me he was hoar and old
Last Line: Had he to me less merry seem'd.
Subject(s): Happiness; Old Age; Joy; Delight


WORK, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I believed in days like today
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Joy; Delight


WORKWORN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the street, an humble woman lives
Last Line: My tasks, my heart, had much the lighter grown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Work; Workers


WRITTEN DURING DEPRESSION: HOW TO BE HAPPY, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be happy / a man must love death
Last Line: And why, my dear, I love you.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Future; Happiness; Love; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight


WRITTEN IN THE NOUVEAUX INTERETS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest be the princes, who have fought
Last Line: That happiness is but opinion.
Subject(s): Fights; Happiness; Names; Joy; Delight


YOU, by ROSE FORTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You came into my life and brought the sunshine
Last Line: You took the brightness when you went away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight


YOU WOULD KNOW, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That you, father, are 'in my mind'
Last Line: What I was, happy, maybe am, you would know.
Subject(s): Escapes; Fathers & Sons; Happiness; Past; Fugitives; Joy; Delight