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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DUST Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HANDFUL OF DUST, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stooped to the silent earth and lifted a handful of her dust Last Line: Who is trying to speak to us? Subject(s): Death; Dust; Past; Dead, The A PECK OF GOLD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Dust always blowing about the town Last Line: We all must eat our peck of gold.' Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Dust; Gold Rush; Forty-niners AN OLD BURYING GROUND, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW Poem Text First Line: Dust/ drifting hillward Last Line: Dust. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dust; Graveyards AUTUMN WIND, by ALFRED D. BUTTS Poem Text First Line: Break, o wind! / break against the trees Last Line: Kick up your heels and run away! Subject(s): Autumn; Dust; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall BLACK DUST, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be dust %to be dust Last Line: And %just %blow %away Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Dust CARRIE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's never an end to dust Subject(s): Dust CARRIE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's never an end to dust Last Line: There is never an end to it Subject(s): Dust COLOR OF DUST, by THEODORE OLSON Poem Text First Line: Now I have learned this much at twenty-five Last Line: Before the dark -- and may it not be long. Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted Subject(s): Dust; Experience DUST, by DOROTHY ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: What is dust? Last Line: And it is dust that keeps my eyes from being blinded by the stars! Subject(s): Dust DUST, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dust motes float Subject(s): Dust DUST, by DOLORES CAIRNS Poem Text First Line: I said, being humble Last Line: Of this terrible dust? Subject(s): Dust; Humility DUST, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: Smacked powder cloud in Last Line: A small cough, and the whispered %advice, keep moving Subject(s): Dust DUST, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: Where it cleared the roadway in a single bound Last Line: And where the bobcat's been, the dust still hangs Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dust; Hunting DUST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If life is dust, is not dust life? Last Line: Defend their rights as living dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dust DUST, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a child Last Line: Flowers grow out of dust. Subject(s): Children; Dust; Childhood DUST, by BLANCHE M. GARDNER Poem Text First Line: I wonder if the sun and moon Last Line: Out on a dust-whipped plain! Subject(s): Dust DUST, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only my dust is never laid Last Line: And then unmakes again the world the dance has made. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Dust; Dead, The DUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard them in their sadness say Last Line: And haunted by all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Earth; God; Humanity; Mankind; Dead, The; World; Human Race DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion DUST DEVIL, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through stubble the color of dust, the dust devil Subject(s): Dust DUST IN THE EYES, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes Subject(s): Dust; Eyes DUST IN THE EYES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes Last Line: And blind me to a standstill if it must Subject(s): Dust; Eyes DUST MOP, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of Last Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of the unicorn Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dust; Housekeeping DUST OF TIME, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: His picture stands upon the shelf Last Line: (but the gathered dust is all I note.) Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Dust DUST ON DUST, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: After staring at the volcano clearing its throat across ten miles Last Line: Fine, gray-white, unimportant, common, and personal Subject(s): Dust DUST TO DUST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dust to dust!' cries out an ancient church Last Line: And lo! From every tomb the stone is rolled. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Dust; Funerals; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones DUST TOO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is drawn on wings %to light Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dust; Nature DUST-BOWL, by DAISY LEMON COLDIRON Poem Text First Line: Out of the murky west Last Line: And the bones of a kiowa! Subject(s): Drought; Dust DUST-SONG, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flick me from your broom's end Last Line: You in my long arms! Subject(s): Dust EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FOR STOICS, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: No monument shall mark Last Line: But the flesh knows. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dust; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The HEALED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds like a pack of hounds Last Line: And its face was the face of a mother, and its voice was the voice of a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dust; Healing; Storms; Wind; Cures IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth IN THE DUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year, she announces to us all at dinner Last Line: Is going willingly. I send her willingly Subject(s): Daughters; Dust; Growth INTO YOUR EYE, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: It is not the foam in the wake of the ship Last Line: In the guest sweeping a lash into your eye Subject(s): Drought; Dust; Roads; Travel LET ME GO DOWN TO DUST, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go down to dust and dreams Last Line: Gives its worn body back to earth again. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dust; Night; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE DUST, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the clinging world I guess Last Line: Ancestral eyes peer forth at me. Subject(s): Dust; Houses MOTES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down, up and down Last Line: Motes! Subject(s): Dust ON THE REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF CALDERON; 1840, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a tomb more splendid than was thine Last Line: For lo, thy tomb is portugal and spain! Subject(s): Bones; Calderon De La Barca, Pedro (1600-1681); Dust; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones POLISH AND BALM, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust develops / from inside Subject(s): Abandonment; Dust; Cleanliness; Desertion QUERY ULTIMA, by CORINNE THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Soon now I shall crumble into dust Last Line: And the love you give back to me? Subject(s): Dust REVERBERATION, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the old house of life I lie alone Last Line: Of my heart's forest a far horn sounds drowsily . . . Subject(s): Dust; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness STONE DUST, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods have not yet learned to fear the lover Last Line: From a crumbling wall. Subject(s): Dust; Love - Nature Of; Stones; Supernatural; Granite; Rocks THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#34), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man is slag ash soot cinders grime powder embers flakes Last Line: Sides of a simple box. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gauley bridge is a good town for negroes, they let us stand Subject(s): African Americans; Labor & Laborers; Illness; Dust; Negroes; American Blacks; Work; Workers THE COURSE OF TIME: PROXIMITIES, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The memphian mummy, that from age to age Last Line: The clown that long had slumbered in his arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Bones; Dust; Egyptology; Mummies; Mystery THE DUST, by GERTRUDE HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It settles softly on your things Last Line: That kissed in some forgotten may.... Subject(s): Dust THE DUST, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dust blows up and down Last Line: To-morrow so shall I! Subject(s): Dust THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's I have conquered you Last Line: Curtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 38, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People crowd by in the dust Last Line: I think of their pain in the dust Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dust; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery THE PRAISE OF DUST, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of vile dust?' the preacher said?' Last Line: "of dust and nothing more." Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Dust TO DUST RETURNING, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fool! Fool! Last Line: From dust created, unto dust returns. Subject(s): Dust WHERE WE MOVED TO, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: I sweep and you find fault with sweeping Last Line: Telling the future: dust tomorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Dust; Moving And Movers WHY, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a name unknown Last Line: So long ago. Subject(s): Dust; Drinks & Drinking |
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