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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DIARIES Matches Found: 316 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. A WOMAN'S HAND, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: None ever climbed to mountain height of Last Line: A woman's sacrifice and tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Subject(s): Diaries; Women A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. ENVOY, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I have play'd the little hour Last Line: Of joy, and then our infinite alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Variant Title(s): Reunited Subject(s): Diaries; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. INVINCIBLE, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why let them rail! God's full anointed Last Line: They know their end; they can afford to wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Subject(s): Diaries A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. LOVE'S OUTSET, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one would stand who saw a sudden light Last Line: And see no farther than my lady's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Subject(s): Diaries; Love - Beginnings ANNA CERNIK'S DIARY: OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS, by MARK SANDERS Poem Source First Line: Papa came in this morning Last Line: Over and over said he was angry at the winter Subject(s): Diaries ANOTHER'S OLD DIARY, JUST OPENED, by DONALD MORRILL Poem Source First Line: It may compare the spirit to dooryard fruit Last Line: Toward what there was, and is, and how they knew Subject(s): Diaries ANTARCTIC DIARY, by HANK MALONE Poem Source First Line: During a change of mood Subject(s): Diaries B.C. DIARY, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: Sunday: grammar is the science of realtions Last Line: Fixed in an uncompromising grin! %we resident aliens end where we begin Subject(s): Diaries BEIJING DIARY, by BARBARA LILEK Poem Source Last Line: But those who saw believed %broke down %and wept Subject(s): Diaries; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BLUE CASTRATO: 2. TO HIS DIARY, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Played mister lazy, mostly. Found Last Line: Some hunger (food, et al.). Resisted Subject(s): Diaries BOSWELL'S MODERN DIARY, by SANDY MCINTOSH Poem Source First Line: This morning, as I drove away Last Line: Of early morning browsers and shoppers. %too late for me to warn him Subject(s): Boswell, James (1740-1795); Diaries BUSINESSMAN'S DIARY, by RALPH WINDLE Poem Source First Line: January: we explored Subject(s): Diaries CAPTAIN'S DIARY, by TONY+(1) CURTIS Poem Source First Line: On the whole, a good year. By chance Last Line: From the irish sea cuts through tweed like a bayonet Subject(s): Diaries CHRYSALIS DIARY, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Novenber 13: %cold told me Last Line: I dreamt of flying Subject(s): Diaries; Insects CLOUD DIARY, by CAROL EDELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The swimming creatures never seem to need me Last Line: You must look out or in Subject(s): Diaries CODEINE DIARY, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On november 15, 1972 - one week after nixon was reelected - I Last Line: My eyes find work in the early sunlight, %my feet find their prints in the field Subject(s): Diaries COUNTRY DIARY, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: As march melts into april, the jovial countryman breathes a sigh of relief Last Line: Rewarding the good, punishing the bad Subject(s): Diaries DARK/THE DIARY, by JOSEPH HANSEN Poem Source First Line: In the front room, the chairs are Last Line: Day break above the tree tops Subject(s): Diaries DAY RANDOMLY PICKED FROM THE DIARY 1956, by MATT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: An essay on shakespeare's last plays Last Line: Brains from bombed sites, eyes watery %with disbelieving joy Subject(s): Diaries DEAR DIARY, by MARY LYNCH SWANDER Poem Source First Line: You should see me here all dressed in white -- Last Line: When thousands of tiny spirits beat furiously by Subject(s): Diaries DEAR DIARY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been retained to deliver the commencement speech at Last Line: But you know what %they say: 'if wishes put legs on sheep, we'd all be hairy %babies' Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 1, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The time of my life tells me Last Line: Like a shadow in a forest %of skulls Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 1, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: He fled the caravanserai Last Line: Where the scent of the withering rose %was all that drew him Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 1, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: You will always be my friend Last Line: O lord whose goodness never sleeps Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 10, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Bulletin: %a woman in love's been killed Last Line: A policeman crushed against a wall Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 11, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The future is already old Last Line: Consider yourself a stranger %if you stay Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 12, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: People were found in sacks Last Line: Do not, please, report these things Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 13, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: You will soon see Last Line: This is not your country any more Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 14, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The time is coming when it will be mandatory Last Line: Death, life, resurrection, %and peace be with you.' Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 15, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: He wears the uniform of holy war Last Line: Not dealing in clothes but in people Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 16, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: They dragged him to a trench and set him on fire Last Line: Now the air holds his memory Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 17, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Night. %trees seem like tears from heaven Last Line: The city was a branch %broken by death, %and the people fled Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 18, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: You were not killed because you lived Last Line: You were killed because you were the future Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 19, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The flower that lured the wind Last Line: To bear away its sweet scent %died yesterday Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 2, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: I'm standing now Last Line: I snip to stitch my way to darkness, %breath by breath Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 20, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The sun rises no more Last Line: It shrouds itself with straw %and vanishes Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 21, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Death will come at night Last Line: I am tired of hearing people breathe Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 22, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: From the wine of the palm to the peace of the desert Last Line: Between my face and these words written in blood, %I discover death Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 23, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: When trees bend, they say goodbye Last Line: Finally the poem says goodbye Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 24, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The airborne killer Last Line: Even I am not myself any longer Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 25, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Bombs are mirrored in books Last Line: That stitches a carpet of words like threads %over the face of beirut Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 26, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Even the stars seem bloody Last Line: The only holes left in the sky %are stars.' Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 27, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Night and daylight are the same Last Line: Sunlight and candlelight are one and the same Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 28, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: It's wrong to expect the sun not to record Last Line: And what the seasons forgot Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 29, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Night happens (these are papers he saved Last Line: Night happens while a man mumbles and fingers a glass Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 3, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Everything I ever said of life and death Last Line: Of the stone that pillows my head Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 30, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: When the sun begins to set Last Line: That they became a cloth %that veils the sky Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 31, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: He wrote a poem that said, I don't know where the road Last Line: He wrote a poem that killed him Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 32, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The cities shatter Last Line: Only one thing can unify them--love Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 33, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Should I mourn him now that he is dead? Last Line: I choose the entrance to a cave to shield me %while I pray Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 4, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Do I contradict myself? Absolutely Last Line: Do I contradict myself? Absolutely Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 5, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The moon arms itself Last Line: With a cap of stone %to battle its shadows Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 6, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: The door of my house is sealed Last Line: I choke with gratitude, %but I cannot speak Subject(s): Diaries; Middle East - Conflicts DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 7, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: Murder has transformed beirut Last Line: Smoke is but the breath of human beings Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 8, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: We meet no more Last Line: Death becomes our only point of contact Subject(s): Diaries DESERT: DIARY OF BEIRUT UNDER SIEGE, 1982: 9, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: He locks the door Last Line: Not to seal in his happiness %but to free his sorrow Subject(s): Diaries DIARIES, by BEN SCAMMELL Poem Source First Line: I had been trying to get through all day Last Line: In the evening I go to see friends, %knocking on doors when no one's in Subject(s): Diaries DIARIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martha was a girl after my own heart Last Line: People in my life. Subject(s): Diaries DIARISTS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They catalogue their minutes: now, now, now Last Line: The sudden mood of truth that gave them birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by PATRICIA BURKE BROGAN Poem Source First Line: We didn't see the star Last Line: I am against discrimination of every kind Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by CHARLOTTE DECLUE Poem Source First Line: Moon of the hiding doc Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by DESMOND EGAN Poem Source First Line: The thirtieth of a wet may Last Line: 1973 inked on its spine put away %like an old book of poems in a leather binding Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've heard and heard, and finally believe Last Line: Duty? - who really needs it? Trust your love Subject(s): Diaries; Longing DIARY, by ALAMGIR HASHMI Poem Source First Line: The hibiscus at noon wags a red tongue Last Line: You will light a candle %before the words inflame Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day's / big event was when Last Line: State of combustion Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by ANNA KIRWAN Poem Source First Line: The pages curl and separate Last Line: Moths, wings, dreams, flame Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-april: out of sync Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by REBECCA LILLY Poem Source First Line: Hermits' bodies are winged tattoos--there is little else one can know of Last Line: Haven't heard since, dirtiest of the second-hand dealers Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day gambols up to my bed like a dog Last Line: In whose brown peace I brood, becoming %a shadow watching the shadows Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by CALLY POURAKIS Poem Source First Line: The diary of my memories Last Line: The spring will end tomorrow %but unlike the finished past %it will always return Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am at last that thing, a stranger in my own life Last Line: And holding on between the few late pinched tomatoes %and the whistling dove Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Diaries; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DIARY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At monday dawn, I climbed into my skin Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At monday dawn, I climbed into my skin Last Line: And love in a coil. On sunday, I wrote this Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by M. J. WILSON Poem Source First Line: Got up, went to school Last Line: Quick fish escaped Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years ago, a spring / like this one, azaleas spilling Last Line: Together, this blossom, this flower Subject(s): Diaries; Memory DIARY, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years ago, a spring %like this one, azaleas spilling Last Line: We wanted to make this child %together, this blossom, this flower Subject(s): Diaries; Memory DIARY (EASTER, 1966), by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I hadn't walked the tow path in central park Last Line: Bears you away, ashore: %the city Subject(s): Diaries DIARY ENTRIES, SELS., by GEORGE SEFERIS Subject(s): Diaries DIARY ENTRY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in a mood for disaster Last Line: Trying to do business on his scale Subject(s): Diaries DIARY ENTRY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in a mood for disaster Last Line: Trying to do business on his scale Subject(s): Diaries DIARY ENTRY (11 AUGUST 1983), by CARL DJERASSI Poem Source First Line: We sit in copenhagen: %chemists from a dozen countries Last Line: What do I do besides what I do %besides chemistry? Subject(s): Diaries DIARY ENTRY IN NEW ZEALAND, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Over too much tea with lawrence, the possibility Last Line: It ws once, back in america, in a gentler time Subject(s): Diaries; New Zealand DIARY ENTRY, JANUUARY SEVEN, by ELKE ERB Poem Source First Line: Visited the jumping jack Last Line: Feet off the floor to avoid damage Subject(s): Diaries DIARY ENTRY: GALENA CREEK, by JOANNE DE LONGCHAMPS Poem Source First Line: Morning: watching dragons doing push-ups Last Line: Sleek, pouncing on softness Subject(s): Diaries DIARY EXCERPT (JULY, 1983), by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: I was just thinking, suppose - say, I Last Line: As much choice as a rat in a maze Subject(s): Diaries DIARY FROM THE TERRITORIES, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: Each hearth was a thought of dominion Subject(s): Diaries DIARY IN THE DESERT, SELS., by EUGENE WATTERS Subject(s): Diaries DIARY IN THE DESERT, SELS., by EUGENE WATTERS Poem Source First Line: Sun-day %in the glazed mind of the river Last Line: The script distorted beyond reading Subject(s): Diaries DIARY KEY, by REBECCA LILLY Poem Source First Line: To remember an old life, open a diary, not a photograph album Last Line: Even for a moment to take hold Subject(s): Diaries DIARY NOTE, by HANNAH KAHN Poem Source First Line: This is the way I lean my head Last Line: I lean my head %shield my body %break my bread Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A BOSNIAN TEENAGER, by CHRISTOPHER LOCKE Poem Source First Line: To claim that you know how to suffer Last Line: I am up to 85 Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A CHURCH MOUSE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here among long-discarded cassocks Last Line: With people I don't see at all %except at harvest festival Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A DISTURBANCE, FEBRUARY 1985, by CHRISTINE CRAIG Poem Source First Line: On martin luther king's birthday Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A MOUNTAIN TOWN, by SHIN KYONGNIM Poem Source First Line: Should we live as listlessly as we do now? Last Line: In this mountain village? Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A NIGHT WATCHMAN, by CAROL CARPENTER Poem Source First Line: In my nightmares, it is noon Last Line: These rings, like her, forget the axe, %the prophecy of bones Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: CEMETERY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: This tiny village of dead people has stayed on Last Line: Life that is highst and deepest in the abandoned city Subject(s): Abandonment; Cemeteries; Death; Diaries DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: DEEP NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: New york deserted -- without a person Last Line: Around the night in the sky, now toward the west Subject(s): Abandonment; Diaries; New York City; Solitude DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: I TOOK OFF PETAL AFTER PETAL, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose Last Line: Immense and living Subject(s): Diaries; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Poetry And Poets; Roses DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: IN THE SUBWAY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: In the subway, the suffragette, with an ugliness Last Line: A final spark of blood in his cler eyes that are weak and blue Subject(s): Diaries; Human Behavior; Racism DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: NIGHT PIECE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The sea with no waves we recognize Last Line: But who love it anyway Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Memory; Poetry And Poets DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: SOMETHING SO CLOSE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Something so close to the soul Last Line: Something true and not yet real, beautiful Subject(s): Absence; Diaries; Dreams DIARY OF A RACCOON, by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Here on this open, ancient book Subject(s): Diaries; Raccoons DIARY OF A ROUGH TRADE ANGEL: CHAPTER FIVE, by LISA JARNOT Poem Source First Line: Ever I'd stand to know your walk and clever I'd stand to watch your drink and e Last Line: Me up and run your home across my hands some then that this is not a good idea to watch and %step an Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A ROUGH TRADE ANGEL: CHAPTER FOUR, by LISA JARNOT Poem Source First Line: No loves I was not aware at the time of the time at the place where they come l Last Line: Back of the bar next to lewis Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A ROUGH TRADE ANGEL: CHAPTER ONE, by LISA JARNOT Poem Source First Line: And then help me because and then and help and then I said I won you said I sai Last Line: Raspberries in the ferris wheel wrench Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A ROUGH TRADE ANGEL: CHAPTER TWO, by LISA JARNOT Poem Source First Line: And hear me the modern received I and letters today I and landlords but better Last Line: Spelled wrong down one fox hole and out the next. Page me once and then he said my name and %called Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A ROUGH TRADE ANGEL: EPILOGUE, by LISA JARNOT Poem Source First Line: If ever there was a mistake it was the verge of this link called the cuffed and Last Line: Ever to. Stop. Crossed at the clever and cuffed with an ever and then some. To stop.) Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A SKULL, by RANDALL WASTSON Poem Source First Line: I was born in the year Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF A TASHKENT JEW, by GLORIA GLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: In white siberia where the fallen have risen Last Line: We who were murdered lie eternally awake %stirring ashes Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIARY OF A VERY SHORT WINTER DAY, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: At the first hint of dawn Last Line: As we watch the sun set Subject(s): Diaries; Penguins DIARY OF A WHITE COLLAR WORKER, by PATRICIA MARKERT Poem Source First Line: The sun rises pale and fills the sky Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF AN ACTOR I, by BARBARA ANN BLATNER Poem Source First Line: Trees and geese were taped to my forehead during the first act Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF AN ACTOR II, by BARBARA ANN BLATNER Poem Source First Line: Moe and georgia are hard at work on a new piece called the Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF AN ACTOR III, by BARBARA ANN BLATNER Poem Source First Line: Last night, death came to the play, sat in the front row, bit its Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF AN ANT, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: Because I never definitively sit Last Line: I live to write this down and not to guess Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF AN INVISIBLE APRIL, SELS., by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He folded the four seasons and remained like a tree the Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF AN UNKNOWN, by GLORIA MACARTHUR Poem Source First Line: When charlie massey went to war Last Line: And it didn't matter any more Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF DESERT WAR (1990-1991), by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Sundown, nasty country -- over a stony plain in armored cars Last Line: Hospital at dawn, heard the war news Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF DIANA ABNEY, WELCH CAMP, NEVADA, 1863, SELS., by ROBERT JOE STOUT Poem Source First Line: Three weeks into winter she wrote simply Last Line: I'd take my chance with wolves Subject(s): Camping; Diaries; Nevada DIARY OF FIFTY-SIX DAYS IN AN ISREALI PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: On the first day Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF INTERNMENT, SELS., by WIKTOR WOROSZYLSKI Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, SELS., by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source First Line: From darkness %I go onto the road Last Line: Moon, shine on me from far %over the mountain edge Subject(s): Diaries; Night DIARY OF MAKAPUU, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Moving to hawaii %I didn't mark the equinox Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 1, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Of makapuu %drop on drop you cannot hear Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 10. THE CHIEFS, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: You ask, what is the use of the chiefs? Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 2, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: At quis custodiet custodem? %who will watch the watchman on his rounds Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 3, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Some bits of coral Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 4, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: For no reason I %hurried back in time to look Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 5, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: With unremitting energy %starting from a far storm Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 6, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: The steady trade winds Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 7. DOLPHINS, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: They have no hands and make no cities Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 8, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: That ocean chaning %colors are many waters Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MAKAPUU: 9. CHRISTMAS 1968, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Daisy chose and I have cut Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF MECHANICAL DIFFICULTIES: HAIR, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: Last night I hardly slept, having realized that Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF SORTS, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Fifty years on earth Last Line: Putting away the things of a child Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE DEPARTED, by H. L. HIX Poem Source First Line: God of the chaste, god of the ambitious Last Line: Now I see she has become the water %and I must become the wind, the wind Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE FIELDS: 1, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: In the fields young shoots appear Last Line: All we can do is run errands Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE FIELDS: 11 (VAN GOGH), by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: In an ash-coloured sky Last Line: On every side stretch those wheat-fields %he loved to destruction Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE FIELDS: 2, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Urging on his ox Last Line: The ploughshare bites into the soil, %ripping through %thorns and creepers Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE FIELDS: 27, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: In the thick forest Last Line: Only the trinity of autonomy, dilgence, harmony Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE FIELDS: 28, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: So far, I have never heard Last Line: But alas encounter no light, only vast emptiness Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE FIELDS: 3, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Three days married! Last Line: In the morning when the ground first thaws %the whole world exhales beauty Subject(s): Diaries DIARY OF THE STRIKE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picket lines are for fingers and legs Last Line: Walking quietly home Subject(s): Diaries; Industry; Labor And Laborers DIARY PAGES: AMSTERDAM NO.263 PRINSENGRACHT, 1979, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anne frank bore no adult grief, but what is adult grief? Last Line: If you even could, would you give to her? Lucky bastard: %she could never be like you Subject(s): Diaries; Frank, Anne (1929-1945) DIARY THREE, by KATE LIGHT Poem Source First Line: Last night after supper with d. And b., a real game of whist Last Line: (on horseback). Then whist and endless anger Subject(s): Diaries; Love DIARY WITHOUT DATES, 8, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source First Line: 1. %you walk down %death road Last Line: So stuck-up, so shy, %so all your own Subject(s): Diaries DIARY WRITTEN FROM THE WEST WING: APRIL, by MARCELLE M. SOVIERO Poem Source First Line: I've been moved to a different Subject(s): Diaries DIARY WRITTEN FROM THE WEST WING: MARCH, by MARCELLE M. SOVIERO Poem Source First Line: I had my mind Subject(s): Diaries DIARY WRITTEN FROM THE WEST WING: MAY, by MARCELLE M. SOVIERO Poem Source First Line: Jesus christ is alive in the body Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, EARLY FALL OF 1982, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again this hailstorm in my hip! Last Line: Straight ahead into the afternoon Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, SELS, by GEOFFREY JACQUES Poem Source First Line: All this talking late into the night Last Line: & the journey to those picture-lined walls Variant Title(s): From A Diar Subject(s): Diaries DIARY, SELS., by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old year is a diary where is set Subject(s): Diaries DIARY: DAY OF REST, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: The poplar tops buck, inflate, die down Subject(s): Diaries DIARY: HOW TO IMPROVE THE WORLD, SELS., by JOHN CAGE Poem Source First Line: Continue; I'll discover where you Last Line: The house is full of fleas Subject(s): Diaries DIARY: HOW TO IMPROVE THE WORLD: 42, 59, 66, 72, 79, 86, by JOHN CAGE Poem Source First Line: To %know whether or not art is contemporary Last Line: Ancient buddhist realization (sitting in different seats) Subject(s): Diaries DIARY: HOW TO IMPROVE THE WORLD: 8, 14, 18, 23, 28, 34, by JOHN CAGE Poem Source First Line: The daily warmth we %experience, my father said, is not Last Line: Connecting means but the things to be %connected Subject(s): Diaries DOMESTIC DIARY, by JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT Poem Source First Line: Tonight, my parsimonious lover Last Line: Monday they must be polished Subject(s): Diaries EASTER DIARY: HOSPITAL VISIT, by ROBERT DEMOTT Poem Source First Line: Laguardia, bleak march day Last Line: In the name of everyone I never loved enough Subject(s): Diaries EDWARD THOMAS'S WAR DIARY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night in the trenches Last Line: A piece of burnt paper Subject(s): Diaries; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ENTRY FOR A DIARY, by DAVID MORTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quite suddenly - today - the spring is over Subject(s): Diaries EPIGRAMS. COMPOSED ON READING A DIARY LATELY PUBLISHED, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That flesh is grass is now as clear as day Subject(s): Diaries EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A POLITICIAN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through m-nch-st-r square took a canter just now Last Line: "for ""young I am and sore afraid." Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Diaries; Politics & Government F TRAIN MORNING DIARY, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: Monday Last Line: Riding the f train on saturday %like a guy on disability %who shows up at the plant Subject(s): Diaries FASCINATING POET'S DIARY, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am keeping this diary because I am fascinating Last Line: Old-fashioned six button book. %oh little book, oh sweetie, how you adorn me! Subject(s): Diaries FINDING MY TWENTY-YEAR-OLD CHICAGO DIARY, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of my life I can Subject(s): Diaries FRAGMENTS FROM THE DIARY OF AMELIE PATINE QUADROON MISTRESS, by SYBIL KEIN Poem Source First Line: Morn,%coeur casse. My life is settling in a cup of silk stockings Last Line: The doleful moon breaks against my window. Or did %my shadow move? Subject(s): Diaries FROM A CRUMPLED WARTIME DIARY, by ALEKSANDR TRIFONOVICH TVARDOVSKY Poem Source Last Line: Forgotten, tiny, lying there Subject(s): Diaries FROM A DIARY, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imperfections of substance, dross of the day-by-day Last Line: Within me my heart's numb, indifferent blood Subject(s): Diaries FROM A DIARY OF DREAMS, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dreams wait around corners, linger in jesus lane Last Line: Expose themselves, linger in jesus lane Subject(s): Diaries FROM A GREEK DIARY, by SINCLAIR BEILES Poem Source First Line: Loneliness! Last Line: And my laughter seemed like churchbells %ringing in my ears Subject(s): Diaries FROM A LOST DIARY, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had not begun the great journey I was to undertake. I did not Last Line: Though the sun continues to stand at my door Subject(s): Diaries; Conduct Of Life FROM A LOST DIARY, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had not begun the great journey I was to undertake. I did not Last Line: Look at the night, the velvety, fragrant night, which has already %come, though the sun continues to Subject(s): Diaries FROM A SUMMER DIARY, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: Only memory holds Subject(s): Diaries FROM A TRAVEL DIARY, SELS., by THOMAS HERBERT PARRY-WILLIAMS Subject(s): Diaries FROM A TRAVELER'S DIARY, by AMERICO PAREDES Poem Source First Line: Looking into a flower shop Last Line: Then we passed each other by %and lost ourselves among the crowd. %march first, shanghai Subject(s): Diaries FROM A WAR DIARY, 1939-41: 1, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: The background of the european peace Subject(s): Diaries FROM A WAR DIARY, 1939-41: 2, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Grim evils -' so I reckoned - 'will not fail' Subject(s): Diaries FROM A WAR DIARY, 1939-41: 3, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Of us who heed the whispers of the soul Subject(s): Diaries FROM A WAR DIARY, 1939-41: 4, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Relying on diasters of the war Subject(s): Diaries FROM A WAR DIARY: FRAU PANNWITZ, by HENRIKAS NAGYS Poem Source First Line: Achtung, achtung ... The midday sky shakes Last Line: Vater %unser Subject(s): Diaries FROM AN AFRICAN DIARY (1963), by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the painting of the kitsch congolese artists Variant Title(s): An African Diary (1963), Sels Subject(s): Diaries FROM AN AFRICAN DIARY (1963), by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the painting of the kitsch congolese artists Last Line: The one who has arrived has a long way to go Variant Title(s): An African Diary (1963), Sel Subject(s): Diaries FROM DARKNESS, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: Where pain is rank %like black bamboo Variant Title(s): Here In This World, Fr. The Diary Of Izumi Shikib Subject(s): Diaries FROM HER DIARY, by DEBRA NYSTROM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His muscles tensed driving that fast Subject(s): Diaries FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: When ice breaks you gaze into blue water Last Line: -or she leaves me. %it's how age comes Subject(s): Diaries; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (3), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: -pull exerted by photography-not the photographer! Last Line: -if arne knew I thought these things-! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Diaries; History; Photography And Photographers; Saint Kilda (scotland) FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (4), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The train-ride out to skye and blots Last Line: What madness keeps us from imagining our age? Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (5), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I suppose the american is right: dreamed Last Line: In local guise, specific and expert Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (6), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: A fierce storm nearly carried my tent downhill Last Line: That hold the world had peeled away and floated free Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MR. BOWLES' DIARY, by JAN SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: Touch me,' she said. 'I live ...' Subject(s): Diaries FROM MY DIARY, by YAROSLAV VASILYEVICH SMELYAKOV Poem Source First Line: Yesterday %I jumped off a moving tram Last Line: And the other with this new leg Subject(s): Diaries FROM MY DIARY, JULY 1914, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves / murmuring by myriads in the shimmering trees Last Line: Expanding with the starr'd nocturnal flowers. Subject(s): Diaries; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War FROM MY PARISIAN DIARY, by MBELLA SONNE DIPOKO Poem Source First Line: Thirty centimes is all the money I have left Last Line: And we must open new fronts even in our dreams Subject(s): Diaries; Exiles FROM THE DIARY OF D. BURNHAM, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Atop the crenellated trail Last Line: Children wrapped in bark %approach the light, lips %in wonder parted Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF JUAN DE PAREJA, by JUDITH BAUMEL Poem Source First Line: The sun streaming in our atelier Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 1, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: It was a cold, stormy night. I was working Last Line: In fact went all the way back with me. %from that time on we were the biggest sort of friends Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 10, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: After your stroke and my taking care of you Last Line: And I'll write you a letter once a week %but I won't come visit you in camden Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 11, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: I was turned away at your funeral Last Line: Did I cry %for us, walt, blind and exhausted Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 12, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: 200 dolars and a gold watch in your will Last Line: Hear you gave them to another %boy instead Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 13, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: For those eight years of love and suffering Last Line: That rolls in overnight and leaves its taste %metallic and burning on my tongue Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 2, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: We strolled after work, walt and I Last Line: Of an evening to shake loose and drift %the streets with walt Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 3, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: He's good to me so why do I despair? Last Line: He got up kinda hurried %called me 'son.' embraced me. I went home to bed Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 4, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: I am ugly I know Last Line: What do you want of me? %I feel like I'm some kind of cosmic joke Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 5, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: When I got home tonight Last Line: Struck me blank at first %but it was walt, all right Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 6, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: I'm so low-down blue and miserable Last Line: More misery, spread around around more %like smashing a wasp's nest with a stick Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 7, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: It's almost like a marriage Last Line: And that almost is what kills... Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 8, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: He took me to the doctor to see about my face Last Line: I guess I know, too, %your kisses so hearty and so neutral! Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF PETER DOYLE, 9, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: I've read 'leaves of grass,' the calamus poems Last Line: Insists on having its way-%not to break and unravel slowly to the end Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE DIARY OF WILLARD GIBBS, by JOHN BURT Poem Source First Line: I wanted to write about 'the mind and nature' Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE GHOST DIARY, by WILLIAM DWYER Poem Source First Line: The night I died it rained Subject(s): Diaries FROM THE HENCHMAN'S DIARY, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Once it happened that I staggered Last Line: I cannot die any longer, %ever since I replaces the diamonds in the crown Subject(s): Diaries GHOST: (DIARY ENTRY: NOCTURNE), by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fall ago, in rain Last Line: And the listening dead, and you, with %chestnut blood Subject(s): Diaries GROUP DIARY, by TRACY PHILPOT Poem Source First Line: Imagine we never meet Last Line: Someone's life is a meteor let go Subject(s): Diaries HAPPY LAND SOCIAL CLUB FIRE: 1. SONNET FOR INCENDIARY AFFAIR, by JACK AGUEROS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Julio, 36, loved lydia, 45, in 1990. Lydia loved candles Last Line: Got 25 to life. Lydia escaped unburned. Julio still loves lydia Subject(s): Diaries HER DIARY, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell mr. D. About it Last Line: She put him down tenderly, %this girl, %her beauty beginning Subject(s): Diaries I LEFT MY HILLS, , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: For I still hunger %to be with you again Subject(s): Diaries I WISH YOU WOULD COME , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: I brave the scandal: %go to you %and say I love you? Subject(s): Diaries IF YOU HAVE NO TIME , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: I want to learn the way %of writing poems %as a way to you Subject(s): Diaries ILLINOIS PIONEER'S DIARY: AUGUST 12, 1832, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: After my vexing, dull chores were done Subject(s): Diaries IMAGINARY DIARY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep an imaginary diary Last Line: Away - it's all imaginary Subject(s): Diaries IN HER DIARY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zofia nalkowska writes in her diary on april 14, %1943, when the germans were Last Line: Scream of horror comes from, the defense of the %peculiar place of man begins Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INCENDIARY, by VERNON SCANNELL Poem Source First Line: That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese Last Line: Which would have been content with one warm kiss %had there been anyone to offer this Subject(s): Diaries INCENDIARY NIGHT, by DEBBIE WESTBURY Poem Source First Line: Overhead the stars Last Line: Love descends in a cloud of ash Subject(s): Diaries INDOCHINA DIARY, by WARWICK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: In ayutthuya I wrote Subject(s): Diaries IOWA DIARY 1 TO MA CHINGGI, by HWANG TONG-GYU Poem Source First Line: A room hidden behind a curtain Subject(s): Diaries JACK'S BEANS: A FIVE-YEAR DIARY: BUGGING, by TOM SMITH Poem Source First Line: Laura takes me bugging Last Line: They look a little shy Subject(s): Diaries JACK'S BEANS: A FIVE-YEAR DIARY: CYCLING OUT, by TOM SMITH Poem Source First Line: The other freak Last Line: Now we are playmates %& such stuff Subject(s): Diaries JACK'S BEANS: A FIVE-YEAR DIARY: PROMENADE, by TOM SMITH Poem Source First Line: We sit on the cobble bridge Last Line: & I will take her to the prom Subject(s): Diaries JACK'S BEANS: A FIVE-YEAR DIARY: SIGNS OF LIFE, by TOM SMITH Poem Source First Line: We pass a bakery Last Line: Laura, for instance, %remains Subject(s): Diaries JOPPA DIARY: JANUARY 25TH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night in the flue like a trapped thing Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Diaries JOPPA DIARY: JUNE 15TH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this day of errors Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Diaries JOPPA DIARY: MAY 10TH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mean %the fiddleheads have forced their babies Last Line: Still wearing their dime-store lacquer, %still cramped and wet from the journey Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Variant Title(s): May 10t Subject(s): Diaries JOURNAL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November 2nd monday evening-took my place Last Line: Myself-yours most obliged Subject(s): Diaries; Life Change Events; Memory; Time KING'S DIARY, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rien,' he wrote, because it chanced that day Subject(s): Diaries LADY WHO GOT FAMOUS THROUGH HER DIARY, by HANK MALONE Poem Source First Line: And then she took out Subject(s): Diaries LAOCOON DREAM RECORDED IN DIARY DATED 1943, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In half-sleep felt an arm go round me Last Line: The dream was done, so there was no escape Subject(s): Diaries LATE AFTERNOON FRIDAY DIARY ENTRY FOLLOWING CORPUS ..., by J. W. RIVERS Poem Source First Line: Are my thoughts more important than my very life? Can I trust them, ever? Last Line: Sheep? Little that I enter on this page seems down-to-earth,even as the %day, with wings, delivers e Subject(s): Diaries LEARNING THE PART OF OTTO FRANK IN THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, by MARK LAWSON CANNADAY Poem Source First Line: What good to wail these sad moments? Last Line: And I can never forget, never forget Subject(s): Diaries; Frank, Anne (1929-1945) LETTERS AND DIARY, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another participant in the attack upon belloy-en-santerre Subject(s): Diaries; Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LITTLE DIARY ON GROWING OLD: 14, by CARLO BETOCCHI Poem Source First Line: At noon I watch the sun shine Last Line: Nothing more, without pulp, wrinkled Subject(s): Diaries LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 4. THE FIRE, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Also destroyed her diaries. Although I think that even there Last Line: Springtime, when the whole world dies through its petals Subject(s): Diaries; Self; Women LITTLE TRAVEL DIARY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wending our way through the gambas, angulas Last Line: For our quest for the rocher de la vierge and salt spray Subject(s): Diaries LONELY DAYS (VERSIFIED FROM A DIARY), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely her fate was Last Line: And she knew nought. Subject(s): Diaries; Solitude; Loneliness MADAME LEGERDEMAIN FRAGMENTS FROM ADELAID HERRMANN'S DIARY:1897-98, by A. V. CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: I am learning, learning Last Line: Ladies and gentlemen - yes you can %look right through her Subject(s): Diaries MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MARGARET ADAMS FROM ST KILDA (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Margaret-love. You must burn this Last Line: Quite soft, come in could not Subject(s): Diaries; Letters; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MALAY DIARY, by JR. RICHARD MYERS PEABODY Poem Source First Line: We always imagine fighting back Subject(s): Diaries MAY I READ YOU A FEW LINES FROM PEPYS' DIARY?, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The green is everywhere, over hinksey hill and cumnor Last Line: And only giants will do Subject(s): Diaries MEDITATION ON VIRGINIA WOOLF'S FINAL DIARY ENTRY ..., by ROBERT JEFFREY LEVY Poem Source First Line: Her last warning to herself, courtesy Last Line: A certain hold on sausage and haddock %by writing them down Subject(s): Diaries; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) MOTHER'S DIARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Morning! Baby on the floor Subject(s): Diaries MOUNT VERNA (DIARY): 2. RETURN, by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: I leap (into space outside of time Last Line: Makes up my bed. Dull gentleness of the patriarchal life. End of the pilgrimage Subject(s): Diaries MY DIARY, by FRANCES OGLEVEE WHITE PERCIVAL Poem Source First Line: Everday's a holiday in my diary Subject(s): Diaries MY FATHER'S DIARY (1), by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get into bed with it, and spring Subject(s): Diaries; Fathers & Daughters MY FATHER'S DIARY (2), by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit on the bed, and spring the brass Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Diaries NEGRO SOLDIER'S VIET NAM DIARY, by HERBERT WOODWARD MARTIN Poem Source First Line: They had been there a month; the water had begun to tear them apart Last Line: Have you prayed, lately, for that? Subject(s): Diaries NEW DIARY, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This clerk-work, this first january chore Subject(s): Diaries NEW LEAF IN A DIARY: FOR C, by MARTIN BELL Poem Source First Line: My mother's concern, fanatical Subject(s): Diaries NEW WIFE ON A DIARY FARM, by WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: The anglo neighbor was Last Line: Then she broke off %a lot of blackeyed susans %and made a bouquet Subject(s): Diaries NOTE FROM AN INTIMATE DIARY, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF Poem Source First Line: You must remember this, the cold turning year Subject(s): Diaries OLD DIARY, by ALICE B. FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Dark and airless there until opened, after eons Last Line: Anything I ever knew or thought %I would remember Subject(s): Diaries OLD DIARY WITH A PAGE TORN OUT OF IT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words that formed in a child's mouth Last Line: Whenever a stranger entered it Subject(s): Diaries; Homosexuality ON A SEVEN-DAY DIARY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh I got up and went to work Last Line: Refreshed but tired by the weekend Subject(s): Diaries ON A SEVEN-DAY DIARY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh I got up and went to work Last Line: Refreshed but tired by the weekend Subject(s): Diaries ON READING THE WAR DIARY OF A DEFUNCT AMBASSADOR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that's your diary - that's your private mind Last Line: That once kept europe safe for perpetuity. Subject(s): Diaries; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Freedom; Peace; Veterans Day; Liberty ON THIS WINTER NIGHT , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: I wore out the darkness %until lazy dawn Subject(s): Diaries ONE FOR MISS PARDO'S TRAVEL DIARY, by MIHALY VOROSMARTY Poem Source First Line: What can we, a small nation adrift, beg of mighty britannia Last Line: Hungary's way to the fold: strive as we learn to survive Subject(s): Diaries ORANGE LEAVES ARE GONE , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: If only yesterday we'd gone %to see the mountains! Subject(s): Diaries ORIOLE DIARY, by MERRILL GILFILLAN Poem Source First Line: Friday: the last time here it was august. We Last Line: Hot dogs on lilac hot dog sticks: downwind from smoke and splash and blossom Subject(s): Diaries PAGE FROM A DIARY, by ATTILIO BERTOLUCCI Poem Source First Line: In bologna at la fontanina Last Line: Sparkling, inebriating us: %love within your dark eyes played %as running fire ignites a glade Subject(s): Diaries PAGE FROM A DIARY, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO Poem Source First Line: I think I see them sometimes Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Diaries PAGE FROM A SCHOOLBOY'S DIARY, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Radio beijing broadcast the victorious news Last Line: We would do the same thing when we grew up Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Diaries PARADISE DIARY, SELS., by CYNTHIA JAY CORY Poem Source First Line: I am talking about the 20th century Last Line: I was so afraid of dying I began again Subject(s): Diaries PEPY'S DIARY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me what was his intent? Last Line: We know as pepys his journal. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Diaries; Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) POEM FOUND IN A DIME-STORE DIARY, by IAN YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Place these slips inside your diary Last Line: Tomorrow is Subject(s): Diaries POEMS FOR A DIARY: 1980, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: And when I go up as a pilgrim in winter, to recover Last Line: You're making the sign of the cross. I'm making my pencil its pledge Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PROVINCIAL WRITER'S DIARY, by THOMAS MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: On cold nights in november he read late Last Line: One moring he thought, as if explaining all misery, %that such homes were the nests of the military Subject(s): Diaries RAIN DIARY, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not a host of heaven this morning Subject(s): Diaries RAINBOW DIARY, by MARTIN MCGOVERN Poem Source First Line: It's summertime. Let's go everybody. Everybody ready Subject(s): Diaries READING FOR WHO YOU ARE, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: Thank you. I'd like to begin tonight by reading this statement Last Line: Exactly 15 minutes have elapsed since the time I was given to read this. %thank you Subject(s): Books; Diaries; Letters; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers RECIPROCATION, by ESTHER BALDWIN YORK Poem Text First Line: You believed the words I said Last Line: You believed me! Subject(s): Diaries REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE BEAUTIFUL INCENDIARY, BY THE HON. W. S., by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sobriety, cease to be sober Last Line: Be stacked with defunct lady mugg! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Diaries; Drury-lane Theatre, London; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834) SCHOOLCRAFT'S DIARY WRITTEN ON THE MISSOURI: 1830, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waters are loose: from judith and the larb Last Line: Minutes before it broke, a circling mass %of split-tail swallows came and then were gone Subject(s): Diaries SEEDS IN THE WIND: FROM THE DIARY OF A RAILROAD WORKER, by ALAN CHONG LAU Poem Source First Line: After working on the railroad Subject(s): Diaries SEVEN DAY DIARY (FIRST LINE FROM ALAN DUGAN), by DAVID CHIN Poem Source First Line: Oh, I got up and went to work %cleared the lab bench Last Line: And then sunday was completely gone Subject(s): Diaries; Science SEWING-GIRLS DIARY, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here - am I here Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Diaries SINCE THAT NIGHT , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: And sleep recklessly %on a strange bed Subject(s): Diaries SMALL DIARY, by JOHN SKOYLES Poem Source First Line: In the town house lounge Subject(s): Diaries SOMEONE ELSE / LOOKED AT , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: With the same rapture %when the moon %crossed the dawn Subject(s): Diaries SOOYU-RI DIARY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For whose neck is this silk noose? Last Line: Burns red and white again and again Subject(s): Diaries SOOYU-RI DIARY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: For whose neck is this silk noose? Last Line: Burns red and white again and again Subject(s): Diaries; Government; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners SPRING OF MY LIFE (DIARY), SELS., by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last summer, around the day for bamboo planting Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Diaries STONE DIARY, by PAT LOWTHER Poem Source First Line: At the beginning I notice Last Line: They grow smoother %and smoother Subject(s): Diaries STRANGE DREAM DIARY FRAGMENTS ON A LINED YELLOW PAD, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: August 5 on a sunday Last Line: Of gold a %moon of silver Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Diaries SUBSIDIARY ROLES, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said to the brook stones Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Diaries SUGARLESS DIARY, by GREGG SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: Coffee and amphetamines Last Line: My hands don't want to do it %but my lips keep asking for more Subject(s): Diaries SURREALIST'S DIARY, by KOH CHANG-SOO Poem Source First Line: Shall I guide you gently Subject(s): Diaries THE BLUE CASTRATO: 2. TO HIS DIARY, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Played mister lazy, mostly. Found Subject(s): Diaries THE DIARY OF A WEEK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A record of the inward world, whose facts Last Line: On such these records linger. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Diaries THE HAPPY DIARY, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man on the train feeding grapes to his son Last Line: Day, when I was undone Subject(s): Diaries; Happiness THE LADY'S DIARY, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lectured by pa and ma o'er night Last Line: And ran away with captain clackit. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Diaries THE MISSIONARY'S SON WRITES IN HIS DIARY, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am gnawn with desire for the daughters of lam kee chow Last Line: It is madness! I write no more. Subject(s): Asia; Desire; Diaries; Far East; East Asia; Orient TOSA DIARY, SELS., by KI NO TSURAYUKI Subject(s): Death - Children; Diaries TRANSPARENT DIARY, by AMY PENCE Poem Source First Line: Amber laminar surface moon Subject(s): Diaries TRAVEL DIARY, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every other avenue exhausted Last Line: Apple-scented foliage of home Subject(s): Diaries TRAVEL DIARY, by AMY NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Just like that, the opening Last Line: The howling wilderness of letters, characters in a tract, %digging in at the heels Subject(s): Diaries TURNING THE PAGES OF MY DIARY SLOWLY, by LENRIE PETERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turning the pages of my diary slowly Last Line: Would be just another link %when I have gone over the brink Subject(s): Diaries UNHAPPY DIARY DAYS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: She returned from the clinic Last Line: Turning on the wrong trees at dusk %she crashed through the glass Subject(s): Death; Diaries VERMONT DIARY, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly %the dried up pond Last Line: A big birthday party (mine) Subject(s): Diaries VERSES MISTAKEN FOR AN INCEDIARY SONG, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, all conflagrating fellows Subject(s): Diaries WAR OF THE SECRET AGENTS: 4. KIEFFER'S DIARY: 1942-45: EXCERPTS, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: It is like a musical composition Last Line: They fear what I might say, yet I would not speak: %the methods the methods go on Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Diaries WHEN YOU BROKE FROM ME , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: Yet now, for you, %I don't want to die Subject(s): Diaries WINTER DIARY, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: On both sides of my street Subject(s): Diaries WINTER DIARY, by MARY YORK SAMPSON Poem Source First Line: A battle of snowflakes %what a sight Last Line: And it's all so quiet %and heavenly Subject(s): Diaries WITHOUT DIARY (AN OLD YORUBA VILLAGE), by E. LATUNDE ODEKU Poem Source First Line: Men for centuries his their faces Subject(s): Diaries WRITING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man who keeps a diary, pays Last Line: Of fulness than of emptiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Diaries YOU SAT UNDER AN ELM, by RONALD WARDALL Poem Source First Line: You sat under an elm writing a letter in your diary with a stub of pencil Last Line: Your last breath durable as dirt Subject(s): Diaries; Elm Trees YOU WEAR THE FACE , FR. THE DIARY OF IZUMI SHIKIBU, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source Last Line: Seeing the moon we saw %in our night of no sleep Subject(s): Diaries |
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