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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DISAPPOINTMENT Matches Found: 144 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "WALY, WALY (1)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o waly, waly, up the bank" Last Line: "amd I mysel were dead and gane, / and the green grass growing over me" Subject(s): Disappointment;grief;love; Sorrow;sadness A DISAPPOINTMENT, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On village green, whose smooth and well-worn sod Last Line: And tray responsive joins with long and piteous yell. Subject(s): Disappointment A PLACE IN MAINE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation A SIGH FOR KNOCKMANY, by WILLIAM CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take, proud ambition, take thy fill Last Line: To pipe the song of youth again. Subject(s): Ambition; Youth; Disappointment A TASTE FOR FALLING, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was the cold pulling through darkness stippled on darkness Last Line: A taste for falling, from which I never wake Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Nightmares A WOMAN'S LOVE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Last Line: "was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!" Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness ABUNDANCE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I had 1000 roses Subject(s): Flowers; Disappointment AGAINST PLURALISM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will you point to? In the needle's eye, Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Disappointment; Relationships; Divorce; Half-siblings; Relatives AGATHA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wanders in the april woods Last Line: Envies the dying year. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations AS CHILDREN KNOW, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elm branches radiate green heat Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Childhood ASHES OF ROSES, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Soft on the sunset sky Last Line: Ashes of roses. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness AT REHEARSAL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cousin kit macdonald Last Line: Of the part you are playing now. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Play; Disappointment AULD ROBIN GRAY, by ANNE LINDSAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the sheep are in the fauld, when the kye [or, cows] at hame Last Line: For auld robin gray, he is kind unto me. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness BAR XANADU, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect veronica, invisible, scallops air Last Line: Riffling your skirt in the scent of blood oranges and sweat Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Prostitution; Disappointment; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BARCOO JIM'S BATH, by C. H. WINTER Poem Text First Line: The water was scarce on the dead horse run one year when the land was bare Last Line: That the brownest man on the dead horse run is that very same barcoo jim. Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Dirt; Disappointment BERTHA IN THE LANE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put the broidery-frame away Last Line: I aspire while I expire. Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Women; Dead, The BLIGHTED LOVE, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers are fresh, and bushes green Last Line: Blighted love shall never blow! Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness CANTO 81, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; ; Relationships; Disappointment; Books; Reading CHAMBER MUSIC: 18, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sweetheart, hear you Last Line: Shall have rest. Subject(s): Friendship; Disappointment; Consolation; Desire CLOUDY DAY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is windy today. A wall of wind crashes against Subject(s): Disappointment; Crime & Criminals CUMNOR HALL, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dews of summer night did fall Last Line: The haunted towers of cumnor hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness DEAD LEAVES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking dead leaves 'neath my feet Last Line: To break of dead leaves in the heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Disappointment; Leaves DEAREST, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day broke Subject(s): Family Life; Disappointment; Relatives DEPRESSION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So proudly she came into the subway car Subject(s): Unemployment; Disappointment; Poverty; Indifference; Depressions, Economic; Recessions DISAPPOINTED, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gleaming pearl lay on the strand Last Line: No ice could colder prove. Subject(s): Disappointment DISAPPOINTMENT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A twofold harm we hate in thy one name Last Line: Blithe laughter in the mask-reft face of fear. Subject(s): Disappointment DISAPPOINTMENT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our yet unfinished story Last Line: An angel in disguise. Subject(s): Disappointment DISAPPOINTMENT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was feeling pretty religious Last Line: Lifting in the wind Subject(s): Disappointment DISAPPOINTMENT, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A faint smell of urine Subject(s): Disappointment DISAPPOINTMENT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy! Joy! My lover's bark returns Last Line: She reels -- she -- sinks -- o heaven! She's gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Disappointment; Love; Sea; Ocean DIVIDED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An empty sky, a world of heather Last Line: "are bridged by his thoughts that cross to me." Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness DOCKERY AND SON, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Middle Age' Universities And Colleges; Youth; Heritage; Heredity DOROTHY IN THE GARRET, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the low-raftered garret, stooping Last Line: And lifelong sorrow a breath on the pane. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Spinsters; Sorrow; Sadness; Old Maids DRIFT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Love - Complaints; Disappointment; Absence; Journeys; Trips; Separation; Isolation ED, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ed was in love with a cocktail waitress Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EIGHT VARIATIONS, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns Last Line: At a small window, green with rain Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Ghosts; Disappointment; Desire EITHER, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A northern hill aghast with weather Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Absence; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation ELEGIAC SONNET: 92. WRITTEN AT BIGNOR PARK, SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low murmurs creep along the woody vale Last Line: Return those rosy hours which here I used to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Disappointment; Home EROS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also the headache of Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Disappointment FAILED TRIBUTE TO THE STONEMASON OF TOR HOUSE, ROBINSON JEFFERS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We traveled down to see your house Subject(s): Disappointment; Carmel, California; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) FAIR INES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O saw ye not fair ines? Last Line: Has broken many more! Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness FATHER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long lines of diesels Subject(s): Fathers; Disappointment FIDELITY IN DOUBT, by GUIRAUD LE ROUX Poem Text First Line: Come, lady, to my song incline Last Line: And brave men still do their occasion meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Roux, Guiraud (1110-1147) Subject(s): Disappointment; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy GIVE BACK, GIVE BACK, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I married him for length Last Line: At the long entrance of the children. Subject(s): Children; Disappointment; Marriage; Pleasure; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GRAY WEATHER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true that, older than man and ages to outlast him, the pacific surf Last Line: To the bone, the careless white bone, the excellence Subject(s): Disappointment; Aging; Weather HIS REFRIGERATOR WAS DISAPPOINTING, by ANNE-MARIE CASTLEBERG Poem Source First Line: Not neat %not even clean Last Line: Our future % absolut and double delight Subject(s): Disappointment; Idleness HOTEL, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Loss; Disappointment HOW CAN I DISAPPOINT MYSELF?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wrinkled skin? Just one in pieces Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Disappointment; Introspection; Nature; Self; Self-pity HOW IT ADDS UP, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the day we swam in a river, a lake, and an ocean. Last Line: Of a crazy song Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Disappointment HUMAN CYLINDERS, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human cylinders / revolving in the enervating dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment I SHOULD HAVE BEEN TOO GLAD, I SEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "faith"" bleats—to understand!." Subject(s): Disappointment IN A YEAR, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never any more / while I live Last Line: Is it god? Subject(s): Disappointment INTERRUPTED MEDITATION, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside Last Line: Someone gave the name, sometime, of pearly everlasting Subject(s): Disappointment; Nature; Life ISN'T IT ROMANTIC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The guide book promised birds of paradise Last Line: Whirl me from this place I most wanted to be. Subject(s): Disappointment; Indonesia; Tourists; Dutch East Indies JUSTICE, COME DOWN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A huge sound waits, bound in the ice, Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Stories; Disappointment KRISTIN'S SONG, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor, my dear Subject(s): Disappointment; Death; Dead, The LADY ANNE BOTHWELL'S LAMENT; A SCOTTISH SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "balow, my babe, ly [lie] still and sleipe [sleep]!" Last Line: It grieves me sair to see thee weipe Subject(s): Disappointment;grief;love; Sorrow;sadness LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady clara vere de vere / of me you shall not win renown Last Line: And let the foolish yeoman go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love - Materialism; Sorrow; Sadness LEFT BEHIND, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the autumn of the year Last Line: "she loved you better than you knew." Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Disappointment LET US HAVE MADNESS OPENLY, O MEN, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A rotting barge of lean huge graves Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Disappointment LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology LOVE NOT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love not, love not, ye hapless sons of clay! Last Line: Love not! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the days are gone when beauty bright Last Line: On life's dull stream! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Disappointment; Love MAKE BELIEVE (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me, though you make believe Last Line: You are jesting with my pain. Subject(s): Disappointment; Kisses MATINS, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Disappointment; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MAUD MULLER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Maud muller on a summer's day / raked the meadow sweet with hay Last Line: Roll the stone from its grave away! Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Social Classes; Caste MIRROR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white room and a party going on Subject(s): Mirrors; Disappointment MONOLOGUE, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, but since you Subject(s): Transience; Friendship; Careers; Farewell; Disappointment; Impermanence; Parting MUCKRAKER, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That greasy letter into which my legs entered, Subject(s): Disappointment; Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY BROKEN HEART, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the 85th night of 19-- there were 280 days left in the year Last Line: Am I really better at being crushed than I was before? Subject(s): Disappointment MY GREAT UNCLE PATRICK HENRY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fortune to be made in just about everything Subject(s): Family Life; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity NIGHT IS THE LIGHT OF MY PLEASURE', by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I sought my lady bright Last Line: Where passions were opposed in rest Subject(s): Desire; Passion; Disappointment NOW I HAVE LEARNED, by GUY-CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: Now I have learned what women mean by love Last Line: But who at length will crush the head of woman? Subject(s): Betrayal; Disappointment; Learning; Women OF EACH SAD WORD WHICH IS MORE SORROWFUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of each sad word Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief OLD BLACK MEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have dreamed as young black men dream Last Line: As though they did not care. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Old Age; African Americans; Dreams; Disappointment; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Negroes; American Blacks ONLY A WOMAN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, the truth's out. I'll grasp it like a snake Last Line: The other woman was less true than I. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Women PROMISING AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving on the road to stinson beach Last Line: Who wept for mercy as you died. Subject(s): Disappointment; Driving & Drivers; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism REALISATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The morning after he murdered my dream Last Line: Shit never turns to cream.' Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams REUNION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For more than thirty years we hadn't met Last Line: Grateful, my dear, that I escaped from you. Subject(s): Disappointment; Reunions; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Educators; Professors; Feminism REVEILLE, FR. THE BETROTHED, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, awake! The day is peeping Last Line: Be thy bright shield the morning's mirror Variant Title(s): Son Subject(s): Disappointment; Morning ROBINSON AT HOME, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains drawn back, the door ajar Last Line: And the long curtains blow into the room Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Disappointment; Relatives SELF-CRITICISM IN FEBRUARY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bay is not blue but sombre yellow Last Line: Justice will prevail. I can tell lies in prose Subject(s): Self-defeat; Self-knowledge; Disappointment SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when we were eight, or nine, Last Line: Down into the belly of the world Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Disappointment SEVEN AGES, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Text First Line: Over the dim hill in the twilight Last Line: For I know it is the beginning. Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Future Life; Hope; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism SHADOWS: 1, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They owned their passion without shame or fear Last Line: And lovers love and perish as before. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Complaints SHIPS AT SEA, by ROBERT BARRY COFFIN Poem Text First Line: I have ships that went to sea Last Line: Evermore, evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, Barry Subject(s): Disappointment; Ships & Shipping SHIVER & YOU HAVE WEATHER, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the aftermath of calculus Last Line: As always I was beside myself Subject(s): Disappointment SLEF-HELP, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What kind of delusion are you under? Subject(s): Marriage; Disappointment; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SMARTY PANTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the most localized efforts Subject(s): Love Affairs; Disappointment SONG, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, o, take those lips away Last Line: Bound in those icy chains by thee. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: WHO WOULD LIVE AGAIN?, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh who would live again to suffer loss? Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Life SPOILT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Spoilt? Bet your life she's spoilt! Last Line: She came back six months pregnant.' Subject(s): Disappointment; Pregnancy STANZAS TO A LADY, by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain from clime to clime I stray Last Line: Which parts, to fall on thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Bamfylde, John Subject(s): Love; Disappointment STARLET, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That terrible day my heart took a blow that nearly killed Last Line: Do I know it's there at all? Subject(s): Disappointment; Actors & Actresses; Actresses STILL TO BE DONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Tiredness hits him, failure snuggles in close Last Line: Everything is still to be done. Everything. Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Weariness TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Courtship; Popular Culture; Relationships; Disappointment; Bullies THE BANKS O' DOON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flowery banks and braes o' bonnie doon Last Line: But ah! He left the thorn wi' me. Variant Title(s): Bonie Doon Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE BELLE OF THE BALL, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years, years ago, ere yet my dreams Last Line: But only mrs. -- something -- rogers! Variant Title(s): The Belle Of The Ball-room Subject(s): Disappointment; Women THE DIRTY OLD MAN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dirty old house lived a dirty old man Last Line: To that dirty old house and that dirty old man. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE DISAPPOINTED DEMON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: A japanese artist of old took a chisel Last Line: The laughter of blossom-cheeked somebody san! Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Unrequited THE DISAPPOINTED TENDERFOOT, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He reached the west in a palace car where the writers Last Line: "done." Subject(s): Cowboys; Disappointment; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DISAPPOINTMENT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Had you the eyes of a goat Subject(s): Disappointment THE DISAPPOINTMENT, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tears to her mother poor harriet came Last Line: "nor will disappointment ensue. " Subject(s): Disappointment; Mnemonics; Rain THE DREAM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is two-fold: sleep hath its own world Last Line: To end in madness -- both in misery Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sleep Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE END, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I know what people think of me Subject(s): Disappointment THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, the year's decline, midst storms and floods Subject(s): Farm Life; Autumn; Weather; Disappointment; Agriculture; Farmers; Fall THE FATALIST: HOME, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home whose names are produced by motion Last Line: But motion to the composition Subject(s): Disappointment; Time; Nature THE FISHER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters purled, the waters swelled Last Line: He sank to rise no more. Subject(s): Disappointment; Mermaids & Mermen THE FISHER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters purled, the waters swelled Last Line: He sank to rise no more. Subject(s): Disappointment; Mermaids & Mermen THE NUN AND THE HARP, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What memory fired her pallid face Last Line: "and I will pledge with mine!" Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Nuns; Sorrow; Sadness THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS WORLD, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Disappointment THE PALM-TREE AND THE PINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath an indian palm a girl Last Line: Renew their early vows. Variant Title(s): Shadows: 3 Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE PLANNED CHILD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always hated the way they planned me, she Subject(s): Birth Control; Disappointment; Contraception THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 111, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carried books and a hoe in my youth Last Line: To save a poor fish in a rut Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Abandonment; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Youth; Desertion THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 171, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago during liang times Last Line: And where are they today Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 42, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a brilliant scholar once Last Line: What can you say about broken tiles or melted ice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Scholarship & Scholars; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 81, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I labored in vain reciting the three histories Last Line: Every year with a season of green Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Education THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 10, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People who leave home want to be free Last Line: I can't laugh at you Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Freedom; Home; Monks; Liberty THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 33, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We slip into tientai caves Last Line: And going for a long long time Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Hell; Caverns THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 39, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A young man studied letters and arms Last Line: And monkeys ride clay oxen Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Scholarship & Scholars THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 41, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those who leave home nowadays Last Line: Flunkies in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Fools; Monks; Idiots THE PRINCESS, by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The princess sat alone in her maiden bower Last Line: "now the sun has gone down." Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE RESTAURANT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restaurant I walk into expects me to have the cash or credit Last Line: Excitement, combat, power and domination? Subject(s): Restaurants; Brotherhood; Disappointment THE RETURN (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To hide my anguish, in the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Disappointment THE SHADOW ROSE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A noisette on my garden path Last Line: To leave your shadow lingering there? Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPINNER, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: The spinner twisted her slender thread Last Line: "in a winding-sheet!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Spinning; Sorrow; Sadness THE STORY AFTER THE STORY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N bubbles to the elbow, on my knees Subject(s): Story-telling; Family Life; Children; Absence; Disappointment; Relatives; Childhood; Separation; Isolation THE SUNDIAL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain Last Line: A small gray spot, -- the record of a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sundials; Sorrow; Sadness THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curious to see caverns Subject(s): Lakes; Caves; Youth; Aging; Disappointment; Pools; Ponds; Caverns THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight past! Not a sound of aught Last Line: For each pearl my eyes have wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Disappointment; France; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wanderd the forest Last Line: But I met with scorn Variant Title(s): "as I Wandered""; Subject(s): Bible; Disappointment; Flowers; Mythology TIME'S REVENGE, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: She, who but late in beauty's flower was seen Last Line: And earlier wrinkles brand the haughty fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Love TO A PORTRAIT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pensive photograph Last Line: And lost it, she and I. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Portraits; Sorrow; Sadness TO DIANE DE POITIERS, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Since vain is all my care Last Line: One far less fond, perchance, had won ye! Subject(s): Diane De Poitiers (1499-1566); Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO MARTHA, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Mr. Best, you're very bad Last Line: Oh! Wicked mr. Best Subject(s): Disappointment; Man-woman Relationships TRIESTE - CIAO TO ITALY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe we should've fallen in love Last Line: This sad deservesa nothing / but a stony memory Subject(s): Italy; Disappointment; Grief; Farewell; Love – Complaints; Trieste TRUST, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better trust all and be deceived Last Line: Than lose the blessed hope of truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Variant Title(s): Faith Subject(s): Disappointment; Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O, the rain, the weary, dreary rain Last Line: Twenty golden years ago! Subject(s): Disappointment; Holidays; New Year; Past; Time UPS AND DOWNS, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: I use my email on the days Last Line: I wonder why I chose to! Subject(s): Disappointment VALENTINE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too high, too high to pluck Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Disappointment; Food & Eating WHERE SHALL I FIND A WHITE ROSE BLOWING?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No more winter and no more sorrow / to-morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Roses; Disappointment WILD OATS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About twenty years ago Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Disappointment; Time; Male-female Relations WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY, by ROBERT AYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved thee once, I'll love no more Last Line: A begging to a beggar's door. Alternate Author Name(s): Aytoun, Robert Variant Title(s): I'll Love No More;to An Inconstant Mistress [or, One] Subject(s): Disappointment; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy |
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