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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EARTH Matches Found: 664 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 35, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Light seen as fall Last Line: From folds of the plow %never did find her Subject(s): Earth; Light 36, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Never did find her Last Line: Scales entwine arms %dropped in the furrow Subject(s): Earth 37, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Dropped in the furrow Last Line: Aint much of a gig Subject(s): Earth; Sun A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine! Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt Last Line: The star of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean A DROP OF ANY SEA ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to try the deeper waters, spread Last Line: And gave himself till dark pools held him dead. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Sea; World; Ocean A FAITH ON TRAIL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning of may Last Line: Him through handmaiden me.' Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Forests; World; Belief; Creed; Woods A KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day; World; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A MARCH SNOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the old snow be covered with the new Last Line: Even as the new snow covers up the old. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Life; March (month); Snow; World A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A NEW WORLD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who had sought afar from earth Last Line: And bright with burning gold. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World A NOON INTERVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A deep, delicious hush in earth and sky Last Line: The wand waves, and the dozer sinks away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Noon; Sleep; Summer; World A PARAPHRASE ON THE 65TH PSALM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, jehovah, grateful sion sings Last Line: And the full valleys laugh and sing and shout around. Subject(s): Bible; Earth; God; Nature; Praise; Prayer; World A RAINBOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A rainbow is god's pledge of peace Last Line: Or clinging to a rose. Subject(s): Colors; Earth; Rain; Rainbows; World A REVERIE ON HATHERLEY CHURCHYARD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Nay, mock me not with shifting human smiles Last Line: For thou art righteousness, and love, and christ, and god! Subject(s): Beauty; Churchyards; Earth; Love; Nature; Truth; World A SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is any one sad in the world, I wonder? Last Line: And what heart sorrows? O no, not mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Light; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; World A SONNET FOR THE EARTH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am weary for delight and spent Last Line: A song for thee amid the farthest sky. Subject(s): Earth; World A SPECK ON THE DOT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe this world is the tiniest dot Last Line: I've got all eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Life Change Events; World A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye who in this vain life Last Line: Lighten and cheer? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight A VAIN SHADOW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world, - what a world, ah me Last Line: As what is and passes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Vanity A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones A WHITE WORLD, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never knew the world in white Last Line: On this fair world of thine! Subject(s): Earth; World A WORLD FOR LOVE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care Last Line: Herself grow eden once again, possest of love and thee. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Nature; World A YAWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary; is it death? Last Line: They live and die and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Arks; Death; Earth; Sea; Dead, The; World; Ocean ABOVE THE RIO GRANDE, PILAR, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Fallen on the edge of a dirt road Last Line: Is rock and water %wind and dust Subject(s): Earth; Nature ABOVE THE RIO GRANDE, WHITE ROCK, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Faint river sounds Last Line: Shines like a beacon %in the afternoon light Subject(s): Earth; Nature ABOVE THE SNOW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Above the snow the milky way Last Line: To burn beyond recognition %beyond self Subject(s): Earth; Nature ABYSS, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: I was expecting anything t hat can happen Last Line: The world ready for sleep was turning over Subject(s): Earth; Future AD ASTRA: 127, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Grant that in man may dwell empyreal power Last Line: Allot each world its orbit and its place! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Soul; World AD ASTRA: 128, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Faith born of reverence ever lives and glows Last Line: If here the soul its last bright web is weaving? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Mankind; World; Human Race AD ASTRA: 143, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For, if there be no heaven nor hell-but here Last Line: man true to man, and earth were heaven indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; World; Paradise AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar AFTER ANY BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of earth: these are my children's voices! Born Last Line: And butchery to sacrifice! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Tears; Voices; Dead, The; World AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems! Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World ALCHEMY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Stars die in the milky way Last Line: Atmosphere %whose body? Subject(s): Earth; Nature ALMA MATER, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother earth, by the bright-sky above thee Last Line: I love thee, o, I love thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Earth; World ALREADY THERE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In my dream, a branch Last Line: As if they were not %already there Subject(s): Earth; Nature AMOR MUNDI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing Last Line: "this downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; World AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that rich soule which to her heaven is gone Last Line: The grave keepes bodies, verse the fame enroules. Variant Title(s): To The Praise Of The Dead Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; Science; World; Scientists AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing could make me sooner to confesse Last Line: The trumpet, at whose voyce the people came. Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Earth; World AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MRS. BEHN; THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "summon the earth (the fair astrea's gone,)" Last Line: Nor would endure the world when he had lost his throne Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);death;earth;heaven;tears;" "dead, The;world;paradise; AN ENIGMA, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, I boast celestial date Last Line: What thousands I deny. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World AN EPICUREAN ODE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since that this thing we call the world Last Line: To tell what others were, came down? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Earth; World AN OLD DESIRE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I searched thro' memory's lumber-room Last Line: And there are ruins in my fire. Subject(s): Desire; Earth; Memory; Ruins; World ANCESTORS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: These mountains are my parents Last Line: To the sky, offering %all they have Subject(s): Earth; Nature AND THERE THE ANGELS OF GOD WERE ASCENDING, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: In heaven, the children are harming one another Last Line: As afterimage, starlight, the air above [or, about] a shortened grave Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Future Life; Heaven ANGLE OF ASCENT, by JR. WILLIAM HENRY GREENWAY Poem Source First Line: How the earth keeps cleansing itself Last Line: Window, tossing layers of old laundry, %the slow rinse cycle of rock Subject(s): Cleanliness; Earth ANGRY EARTH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry earth, give me thy fury Last Line: Angry earth, to outface death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ANOTHER CAPTIVE STAR...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must blood of murders and of wars regale Last Line: Which drowns in blood each age's history! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Earth; War; Dead, The; World ANTARCTICA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: On this continent time is a whiteout Last Line: And then the disconnect Subject(s): Earth; Nature ANTARES, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: The earth has whirled its little men around the sun Last Line: Hot and blood red is the heart of him! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; World ANTS AT NIGHT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: All day they vanished %down the dark funnel Last Line: Which they carry back %to nourish the community Subject(s): Earth; Nature ANY MINOR WORLD, by PAULA MCLAIN Poem Source First Line: The mud-dauber's nest is ugly and efficient Last Line: The window's edge with web, I'm almost still %and still there Subject(s): Earth; Nature APOCALYPTIC, 1915, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our world beyond a year of dread Last Line: Sculptor of immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Chaos; Earth; Pain; War; World; Suffering; Misery APOLOGIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These bitter stammered rhymes Last Line: To belong to the infinite stream. Subject(s): Children; Earth; Life; Rhyme; Childhood; World APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The true sphynx's form's the same as Last Line: Earth would fall from its foundation. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Egypt; Riddles; Sphinx; Dead, The; World APPRECIATION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was not earth before her sons appeared Last Line: That change in thee, if not thyself, I claim. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lyric tremor and lift Last Line: Is deep with love and wise with ancient good. Subject(s): April; Earth; Love; Spring; World APRIL IN THE HILLS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the world is wide and fair Last Line: Till earth and I are one. Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature; Spring; World ARISTARCHUS (THE NAME OF THE MOUNTAIN IN THE MOON), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was long and long ago our love began Last Line: And I followed till I traced it to its source. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Love; World ARRANGEMENTS WITH EARTH FOR THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet earth, he ran and changed his shoes to go Last Line: The change of tone, the human hope gone gray Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ARRANGEMENTS WITH EARTH FOR THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet earth, he ran and changed his shoes to go Last Line: The change of tone, the human hope gone gray Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Death; Earth ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World ATHEISM: ANNIHILATION, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doubt, cypress crowned, upon a ruined arch Last Line: And silence claims again her region cold and drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; World ATLANTIC DOLPHINS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Dolphins leap in the dawn Last Line: From the distant currents %of the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature AUTUMN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A frost came overnight. Then all the day Last Line: A haunt for spirits and a home for stars. Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Eyes; Frost; Leaves; Seasons; Stars; Fall; World AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know! Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime BATS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Sleeping through the desert heat Last Line: Still calls me deeper %into the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature BENEDICTION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Secrets sleep in the flesh Last Line: In silent benediction Subject(s): Earth; Nature BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face Last Line: The dead, the dead must be. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean BLESS YOU, by S. P. HEALEY Poem Source First Line: I say this as the continents continue to drift Last Line: Although she can't hear me. %bless you Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Trees BOOK OF THE WORLD, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: April afternoon silence Last Line: And the wings beat furiously silent above us Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips BOUND TO THE MAST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mildly falls the deluge of the grass Last Line: Bound to the mast of song. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise BREAGHY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When twilight flutters the mountains over Last Line: Come from this heart that was touched by the flame. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Nightmares; World CAMADEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, the moon, the mystic planets seven Last Line: When camadeva came. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Earth; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; World; Joy; Delight CANTILENA MUNDI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the rainbows rise through sunset rains Last Line: "to-morrow all the world is not." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Presence; Rainbows; Voices; Separation; Isolation; World CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many other codices Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many other codices Last Line: And I studied %I could read him like an open book Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition CANYON WINDS, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Roaring through the cottonwoods Last Line: As I would do tonight Subject(s): Earth; Nature CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains Last Line: At the moon or the sun! Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care. Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness CHANGE ASSURED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This world it is a pleasant place Last Line: When it will be too warm Subject(s): Earth;nature;pleasure;seasons; World CHIPS, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Wild eyed with the light of april in his eyes Last Line: (chips . . . Chips . . . Chips . . .) Subject(s): April; Earth; World CHRYSALIDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Her gaze meets his as he looks down Last Line: Are chrysalids of winged dreams Subject(s): Earth;reality;socialism;streets;towns; World;avenues CLOSE TO SLEEP, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: I am close to sleep Last Line: To help pass the time %until I get home Subject(s): Earth; Nature COLOSSIANS: 3, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we cling to earth? Its sweetest pleasures Last Line: No longer cling to earth, but soar to yon bright heaven! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Praise; Singing & Singers; World; Songs CONCERT FOR EARTH, by HELEN FERGUSON CAUKIN Poem Text First Line: Sky-strutting tempest wields a windy lash Last Line: In dying, lovely, quivering, misty notes. Subject(s): Earth; World CONDITION OF THE WORLD, AUGUST 1997, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Channel 4 says latex kills slowly Last Line: Lub dubbed like a fetal kitten in a red silk sack. %how clean the body was, split open Subject(s): Earth; News; Sex CONFESSION, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love came to earth with faith and trust Last Line: "and god serenely answered -- ""it is mine." Subject(s): Death; Earth; Faith; Love; Peace; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed CONFLICT BEFORE VICTORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand at gaze upon an autumn knoll Last Line: The mellow magic of october's moon. Subject(s): Earth; Evil; God; Love; Mankind; Victory; War; World; Human Race CONQUEST, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh conqueror, what is left to win? Last Line: "our earthly heavens arejust outside." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; World; Paradise CORMORANT BOATS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: One night in japan Last Line: While my fingers fumble %at the leash Subject(s): Earth; Nature CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth upon earth %between the confines of the day Last Line: The head in the hands, %the urn upon the knee Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars CROCUS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves Last Line: And then lead on again the universe? Subject(s): Crocuses; Earth; Plants; Universe; World; Planting; Planters CROWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is raw with this one note Last Line: Starts for a moment from its dust. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Earth; World DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrote bernard of cluny (al Last Line: Bad as bernard said it was Subject(s): Bernard Of Cluny (12th Century); Earth DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence hast thou gone Last Line: Alma victrix! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World DE RERUM NATURA: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE WORLD, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And (memmius) least you thinke I false grounds lay Last Line: Soe is herselfe diminsht and renewd Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Earth DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle Last Line: Night sinks on the sea. Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865 Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean DEPTHS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm on a parapet looking down Last Line: And still be reeling on another roof Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Earth DER AUGENAPFEL, by JEANNE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: The world Last Line: With its hunger %and awakened into flight Subject(s): Earth DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible that to seem – itis to be Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Earth; Imagination DESERT HYMN TO THE SUN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arches of the morning sky Last Line: But one who keeps, and shall reclaim his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food & Eating; Sun; World DETAILS OF THE SOIL, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: Not yet, I haven't taken a bite Last Line: Of pleasure from the pliable dirt Subject(s): Earth DIDEROT, by STEVEN HENRY MADOFF Poem Source First Line: The earth is whole, unwounded, it hears itself Last Line: Inmost heart, without tears flowing, here, from my eyes Subject(s): Earth DIFFERENT TIME, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In what way do the cows Last Line: Over the strong warm backs %of cattle? Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace DIRT, by MAXIMILIAN S. WERNER Poem Source First Line: Snails leak down Last Line: I know even then %this dirt walks with me Subject(s): Earth DISILLUSIONED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: We slumber in youth Last Line: Of glory divine? Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Youth; World DIVINE PORTRAITURE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: An artist painted a fair scene Last Line: Till beauty overpowers each taint. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Grief; Love; Soul; World; Sorrow; Sadness DOMINION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patrician overthrown Last Line: Except the lyric seers. Subject(s): Earth; Government; Injustice; Order; World DOWN-HILL ON A BICYCLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rolling earth stops Last Line: God, that were life! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Climbing; Earth; Life; World DRIVING THROUGH A WORLD NOT SEEN, by MARGARET LLOYD Poem Source First Line: The narrow road winds between sea and mountain Last Line: Bloom, a color close to blood Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Earth DRIVING WEST TEXAS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Cotton tufts cling to withered plants Last Line: Sucking up the black death %of their ancestors Subject(s): Earth; Nature DUALITIES, by M. H. THATCHER Poem Text First Line: Two laws of motion rule our ancient earth Last Line: To live by law, the task of sighted man! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs 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 DEVIL, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Born in the high desert Last Line: Want to dance with their dust Subject(s): Earth; Nature DUST TO DUST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth wedded, life atwain Last Line: To dust will come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Earth; World EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A midnight black with clouds is in the sky Last Line: By which thou shalt be judged, are written down. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is where it was dry Last Line: Was a nice place %once Subject(s): Earth; Wilderness EARTH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, let me speak to you Last Line: Finds the faint evening star. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH, by EVELYN OSLUND Poem Text First Line: Earth turns no beaten wanderer from her breast Last Line: All the strength and all the love the earth bestows. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH, by ANDRES RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: She scooped a handful of shiny pebbles Last Line: A dance taking ages to perform Subject(s): Earth; Nature EARTH, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad is my lot; among the shining spheres Last Line: Roll on from morn to night, and on from night to morning. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Koper defines darkness. Mothballs of circumcision Last Line: A fugue, and a cantilena are the same: utter bliss Subject(s): Earth; Planets; Travel EARTH AND A WEDDED WOMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd, with his eye on hazy south Last Line: Thrice beauteous is our sunshine after rain! Subject(s): Earth; Rain; Summer; World EARTH AND AIR, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is the tower of granite, the floor of loam Last Line: That open a door. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH AND HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water calmly flowing Last Line: In heaven is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise EARTH AND HER PRAISERS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is old Last Line: And hail upon the vine!' Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her great venture, man Last Line: Or dated leaf. Subject(s): Earth; God; Mankind; Nature; World; Human Race EARTH CHILD, by LOIS LORING Poem Text First Line: I love you, earth Last Line: I am, indeed, your child! Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH DEFACED, by HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful, how beautiful, the world Last Line: With our mean uses the majestic place Subject(s): Earth EARTH DOES ITS BEST FOR HIM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paintings are under glass Last Line: It is incense, the seasonally %renewed offering of the live earth Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Earth EARTH ELEGY, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on the shingles, on the maples Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World EARTH IS FEMININE IN MOST LANGUAGES: A PSALM, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: From food comes all, all that lives upon the earth Last Line: Worlds, and in works, immortality Subject(s): Earth; Food And Eating EARTH LIKE A MOTHER, by ETHEL JOHNSTON MCNAUGHT Poem Source First Line: Earth turns no beaten wanderer from her Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life EARTH LISTENS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last our dull earth listens Subject(s): Christmas; Earth EARTH LOVE, by BEATRICE REDPATH Poem Source First Line: God, in they heaven hast thou ever known Subject(s): Earth EARTH LOVER, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old loveliness has such a way Last Line: What sudden wonder brought me close to tears. Subject(s): Earth; Love; World EARTH TEDIUM, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If part of earth, I am a sullen part Last Line: And in all fruitfulness there lurks a pain. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World EARTH TO EARTH, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the region grows without a lord Last Line: With the red earth burning in your heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Earth; Nature; World EARTH TOUCHED MOON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Blushed. Everyone saw it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Earth; Moon; Nature EARTH VIEWED FROM THE SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Arriving from the horizon, our ship Last Line: Shown only by our signal lights Subject(s): Earth; Sailors And Sailing; Sea EARTH WISDOM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the earth: / I love you, flower Last Line: Said the earth. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; World EARTH'S ANSWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth rais'd up her head / from the darkness dread and drear Last Line: "that free love with bondage bound." Subject(s): Bible; Earth; Mythology; Religion; World; Theology EARTH'S BREAST, by ELIZABETH BARBARA CANADAY Poem Text First Line: Dear earth, it almost seems a sacrilege Last Line: Of earth. It breathes so near the heart of god. Subject(s): Earth; Walking; World EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature; Earth; World EARTH'S PAIN, by CATHERINE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Vast clouds of vapor rise up through the gloom Last Line: And on her shield of truth rose earth's new day. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH'S PREFERENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth loves her young: a preference manifest Last Line: Wry in the shape she wastes her milk to rear. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World EARTH'S SECRET, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not solitarily in fields we find Last Line: For earth, that gives the milk, the spirit gives. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; World EARTH'S STORY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: With primal void and cosmic night Last Line: As conscious nature crowned its king. Subject(s): Earth; World EARTH'S TRIBUTE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First the grain, and then the blade Last Line: To render god the things of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Earth; Religion; World; Theology EARTH-LOVE, by IRENE NILES Poem Text First Line: I shall not mind when time comes to me here Last Line: And watch you where you go, old lovely earth! Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EARTH-TILLER, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: So where does he turn Last Line: & nose through hard shale %into the secrets of coffins Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise! Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World EARTH: THE PASSING OF A DANCER, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is made of mist and silver, and her Last Line: And the floor of heaven darkens, and the sound of feet is stilled. Variant Title(s): Earth: The Passing Of A Danger Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ECHO CANYON, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: A raven croaks %atop an ancient juniper Last Line: A raven swoops down to %totem soda cans Subject(s): Earth; Nature EDEN, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Wind borne, the dust Last Line: Dust gathers %like original sin Subject(s): Earth; Nature ELECTRONS, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: Swirl and toss their lives away Last Line: Somewhere, some time? Subject(s): Atoms; Earth; Science; Space & Space Travel; World; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension ENDING WITH A LINE BY A BAND CALLED X, by DAN MEMMOLO Poem Source First Line: I want death to find me lying in a hammock Last Line: The world's a mess, it's in my kiss Subject(s): Death; Earth EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won? Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones. Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels ERYTHRONIUM AMERICANUM (LILIACEAE), by M. TRAVIS LANE Poem Source First Line: This is a small flower Last Line: For earth, itself, its private needs, %not us Subject(s): Earth; Flowers ESSAY: OF SPACE, STAINLESS STEEL, OF GIFTS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Excellent earth, magnet jar, now Last Line: Touch this axis Subject(s): Earth; Essays; Geology; World EVEN NOW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Once we grew antlers Last Line: In tender bone %into the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature EVENING, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: There are some white clouds floating by Last Line: The weary souls akin. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Soul; World EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The coherent starlight Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Mothers; Judgment Day EVOLUTION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The hubble telescope is sending back Last Line: The atoms of the first stars %will still remember Subject(s): Earth; Nature EX LIBRIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the stream, where the ground is soft Last Line: No title, no name. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Seasons; Snow; Winter; World EX-VOTO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When their last hour shall rise Last Line: Me too, my mother. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; World; Ocean FACE WITHOUT MAKEUP, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Pictograph this Last Line: Fashioned by salvador dali Subject(s): Dali, Salvador (1904-1989); Earth FACT THAT EARTH IS HEAVEN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To dwell in such a place Variant Title(s): Poem: 1408; Poem: 143 Subject(s): Earth; Heaven FAR FLIGHT, by JESSIE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My hand upon the wheel, I rode Last Line: My hand still on the wheel! When comes the dawn? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Memory; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones FIGURE AND GROUND, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: In the summer I walked a trail, trying to accept things as they Last Line: Him, %to notice me Subject(s): Earth FIRST DIVINITIES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The first divinities %rested in the earth Last Line: As they brush past us %on their way back in? Subject(s): Earth; Nature FLEDGLING, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The jointed clump of dark feathers Last Line: Until it can fly away Subject(s): Earth; Nature FLOOD PLAIN, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: The land lies flooded and fat. The sun Last Line: Is fluent and flashing and vast Subject(s): Earth; Floods; Prairies FLORAL TEACHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye red-blushing summer roses, ye Last Line: But rest awhile waiting the morning beam. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Roses; World FLOWER-PIECES: 1. LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Last Line: Love lies bleeding. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Love; Roundels; World FLYING THROUGH CLOUDS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harder for me to understand than calculus Last Line: About the ultimate purpose of life on earth Subject(s): Clouds; Earth FOR A HIGH MOUNTAIN JUNIPER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Sprung from a crevice in the rock Last Line: Honoring the slowly burning center %of your years Subject(s): Earth; Nature FOR ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sweet sound of distant waters Last Line: Rise at the last trumpet call. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Grief; Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness FOR THE COAST PRICKLY PEAR, BAJA, CALIFORNIA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Last night they grew cold Last Line: Climb to distant mountains %soft with rising mist Subject(s): Earth; Nature FOREST FIRE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Day after day %smoke shrouds the mountains Last Line: Oily ashes, flutter down Subject(s): Earth; Nature FORMAGGIO, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world Last Line: That would be the self in the present Subject(s): Earth; Rivers FOUR ELEMENTS: AIR, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Air, in its normal state, secretes a steady cloud of pepper that makes Last Line: Moon gives the sea its salty taste Subject(s): Air; Earth; Nature FOUR ELEMENTS: EARTH, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The world is made of water, earth, air and fire and the earth is not Last Line: The mustache Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Planets FOUR ELEMENTS: WATER, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: In the form of rain, water becomes an Last Line: That will be discussed later Subject(s): Earth; Water FRAGMENTS (2), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open horizons round Last Line: The depths to sound. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day. Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World FREE RIDE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Circling the sun %earth travels with it Last Line: What difference does it make %where we get off? Subject(s): Earth; Nature FREQUENTLY THE WOODS ARE PINK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By but twelve performed! Subject(s): Earth; Nature FROG FINDS HIS HOME IN THE DAMP, DAMP WORLD, by TODD HELDT Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the swamp out back Last Line: Pinned to nowhere on a map %anyone will ever find Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Frogs FROM A BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! We are loose. Hear how they shout Last Line: That stares into eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Balloons; Earth; Future Life; Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FULL CIRCLE, by ANN D'AGOSTINO CLUNE Poem Source First Line: Readying the carrot bed Last Line: The world makes sense, and I am whole Subject(s): Earth; Gardens And Gardening GABRIEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once let the angel blow! Last Line: And take reproach from the fallen time! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Gabriel; Heaven; Trumpets; World; Paradise GAIA, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep blue sea baby Last Line: Ah. Subject(s): Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Earth; World GARDEN CLOSES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth buffets and harasses Last Line: For solace and for sleep. Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Sleep; World GASTROPODA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Make a song for this fossil Last Line: As the grasp of the sun Subject(s): Earth; Nature GENESIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer world that was before this earth Last Line: So shall a man be after among the dead. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Life; Light; Universe; World GEOMETAPHYSICS, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was once a circle-stage Subject(s): Earth; World GEORGICS: 1. WORK AND THE EARTH, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Until jove let it be, no colonist Last Line: By labor and by force of bitter need Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Earth; Labor And Laborers GETHSEMANE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In golden youth when seems the earth Last Line: The purpose in gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; Gethsemane; Soul; Youth; World GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'let earth give thanks,' the deacon said" Last Line: And thank god that it ain't no wuss! Subject(s): Clergy;earth; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;world GOD MADE A WORLD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: God made a little world in time's beginning Last Line: And, looking on his world, still finds it good. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; World; Human Race GOD'S GIFTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God gave a gift to earth: a child Last Line: God will judge them and thee aright! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Children; Earth; Gifts & Giving; God; Love; Childhood; World GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GOD'S MEASURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God measures souls by their capacity Last Line: And clasps all earth and heaven in its embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise GOOD NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear earth, I am going away to-night Last Line: And I rise from my slumber to put it on. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World GRAND CANYON, by GRACE CONNER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Through the webby mist Last Line: For the perfection of tomorrow. Subject(s): Earth; World GREAT WHITE WORLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Great white world beyond the window-sill Last Line: White fence, white tree, white cart, white hill Subject(s): Earth; White ( Color) GREENLAND ICY MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand Last Line: Let them think of the cold and hardships greenland sailors have to fight. Subject(s): Continents; Earth; Greenland; Tourists; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips HALLOWED EARTH, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: A carpet of gold's on the pathway Last Line: Hearts are tuned to the father above. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Landscape; Nature; World HAMATREYA, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minott, lee, willard, hosmer, meriam, flint / possessed the land Last Line: Like lust in the chill of the grave. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World HAPPINESS, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours appears to me Last Line: To smile upon and love me! Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Infants; World; Joy; Delight HAUNTED EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven at last Last Line: Remembering paradise! Subject(s): Earth; World HEAD SKY CONVOY PATTERN; I.M. FRANCO BELTRAMETTI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit murmur echoes Last Line: Leaf tip holds dawn's door Subject(s): Astronauts; Beltrametti, Franco (1937-1995); Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Earth; Planets; Sky; World HEAVED FROM THE EARTH, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: After the tornado, a dead moccasin Last Line: Pushing the fire thorns in Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Hurricanes; Storms; Thunder HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speed not afar, thou wandering wraith Last Line: "for evermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hell; Religion; World; Paradise; Theology HISTORIES: THAT WOBBLE OF LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hereby cluster all day loveliness with flick Last Line: A fire of your house. Subject(s): Earth; Planets; World HOMERIC HYMN TO THE EARTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o universal mother, who dost keep" Last Line: "a happy life for this brief melody, / nor thou nor other songs shall unremembered be" Variant Title(s): Homeric Hymn: Earth The Mother Of All Subject(s): Earth; World HOMEWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest Last Line: "and testifies: ""god's will is alway best." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise HOPE'S YEARNINGS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is, when wearied with the jars Last Line: To realise the aspirings of the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Soul; World; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism HOTEL BY THE HIGHWAY OF ALL SAINTS, by MICHAEL CADNUM Poem Source First Line: We agreed: Last Line: His whole body plowed %into the yellow light Subject(s): Earth HOW STEP BY STEP WE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the sixteenth century nicholas copernicus Last Line: And that's hard. That's hard Subject(s): Change; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543); Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Earth; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Science HOW STRANGE A THING, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange a thing to think upon Last Line: Doth bear us and our sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Curiosities & Wonders; Earth; Enigmas; Oddities; World HUNT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We have begun to see them Last Line: To wait for us, mouths open %with wet tongues Subject(s): Earth; Nature HUSKS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: They will not stay Last Line: The fruit ye leave! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Faith; Past; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed HYMN OF MAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began Last Line: Glory to man in the highest! For man is master of things. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God; Mankind; Soul; Universe; World; Human Race HYMN OF THE EARTH, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My highway is unfeatured air Last Line: Are mirrored in its round abode. Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Earth; World HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the harps which the winds play Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean HYMN TO EARTH, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, incomparable element Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; World HYMN TO EARTH, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, incomparable element Last Line: The traveller dust, although the dust be vile, %sleeps as thy lover for a little while Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth HYMN TO THE EARTH. HEXAMETERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth! Thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the mother Last Line: Wandered bleating in valleys, and warbled on blossoming branches. Subject(s): Earth; World I AM ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH NOW', by DAVID HELLMAN Poem Source Last Line: Scraper canyons of a city that never sleeps %everyone is asleep Subject(s): Earth; Sleep I LOOK FOR THE LORD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our wealth has wasted all away Last Line: And sweetness to the taste Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desolation; Earth; God; Heaven I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dream of water - what does it harbor? Last Line: The waters darken. The continent vanishes Subject(s): Earth; World I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dream of water - what does it harbor? Last Line: The waters darken. The continent vanishes Subject(s): Earth I WANT THE HORIZON, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: That brief hill slope uprears so close! Last Line: Draw home my heart! Subject(s): Country Life; Earth; Sea; World; Ocean I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue Last Line: All sandwiched in between Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea Last Line: If so tomorrow saves? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean IMPERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Earth vaunts no joy that lasts Last Line: Bliss waits you yet! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evil; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My des autels, whose true Last Line: Your friend, ronsard. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise IN PRAISE OF THE HERCULES MOTH, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: If a giant moth %spinning from star to star Last Line: I would sink to my knees %on the earth Subject(s): Earth; Nature IN PRAISE OF TREES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: On the mountain Last Line: Into atmosphere %into us Subject(s): Earth; Nature IN THE CROWD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy they are, in all seeming Last Line: T is better than showing the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Secrets; Smiles; Spring; World IN THE LONG RUN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run fame finds the deserving man Last Line: In the long run. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Love; Night; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, when I sit and write Last Line: May hear, if he lists aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INSIDE DESERT ROCKS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Inside desrt rocks %in tiny pools that seep Last Line: Will we, like the algae, go on? Subject(s): Earth; Nature INSIDE THE ANIMALS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: I have seen an animal Last Line: This one has been making a path %for us to follow Subject(s): Earth; Nature INSIGHT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Heaven and hell, she thinks Last Line: Hank we call this life %or sometimes earth Subject(s): Earth; Nature INTO SPACE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sad old world should jump a cog Last Line: While the stars looked on and wondered? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Stars; Sun; World INVISIBILITY 0, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Planets of air Last Line: Of the faithful pupils Subject(s): Earth; Islands; Vacation INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will waken the wind for me? Last Line: Who will waken the wind? Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery INVOCATION TO MOTHER EARTH, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Thy face hath not the grace Last Line: "room, mother, in thy breast!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Earth; World INVOCATION TO THE EARTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest, perturbed earth! Last Line: And the pure vision closed in darkness infinite. Subject(s): Earth; World IT IS COMMON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: So are the stars and the arching skies Last Line: "blessed be god, it is common" Subject(s): Earth;life; World IT'S A SMALL SMALL WORLD; THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSITY ACCORDING TO ..., by SUSAN SONDE Poem Source First Line: Is everywhere at once Last Line: The fairy tale our lives had come to be Subject(s): Disneyland, California; Earth; Size And Shape JUST AS OF OLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as of old! The world rolls on Last Line: Just as of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Rivers; Time; World JUST NIGHTS, by RENE CHAR Poem Source First Line: With a wind more strong Last Line: My downfall, my love, my ruin Subject(s): Earth; Night KIN, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: When my hands turn harsh and dry Last Line: While we are waiting %under the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature KIND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The close green hedge, as table set Last Line: "but I was oak"" and ""I was beech." Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies Last Line: There swell your lungs, and vainly, vainly threat. Variant Title(s): To Britannia Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Singing & Singers; Spring; World; Songs KISMET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rock the road is cut full deep Last Line: Dear hearts, farewell, farewell!' Subject(s): Children; Earth; Roads; Sea; Childhood; World; Paths; Trails; Ocean KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought Last Line: And they see nothing without end Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day LACHRYMOSE WRITERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye human screech-owls, who delight Last Line: To bless the exhaustless grace they now deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Life; Soul; Writing & Writers; World LANDS AND OCEANS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Lands and oceans are all curled Last Line: Houses, people, trees and all Subject(s): Earth LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground Last Line: Contented and desirous to the nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Vision; Eden LE MONDE EST MECHANT, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is malevolent dear Last Line: What feeling and wit you display! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Earth; Man-woman Relationships; World; Male-female Relations LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World LIFE'S SALUTATIONS (FROM AN ALBUM), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This earth resembles a highway vast Last Line: Compelling our sad separation. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World LIMITATIONS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Thou cravest sympathy yet never think Last Line: How much I dwarfed and wronged thy nature here below! Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Sympathy; Truth; World; Optimism; Empathy LIZARD LIGHT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The lizard on our sidewalk Last Line: The light already shining %from its wound Subject(s): Earth; Nature LOOKING AWAY, by ERIN ERGENBRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The world holds less danger for me now Last Line: I can feel this green land moving beneath me, %turning in my hands Subject(s): Change; Earth LOVE ATTACKED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is more sweet than flowers Last Line: Indifference. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Love; World LOVE DEFENDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who extols a wilderness Last Line: Great is its relief. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S PERFECT POWER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun of my earthly worship, I declare Last Line: And love beats, burns, and freezes in its place. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Fate; Heaven; Love; Nature; World; Destiny; Paradise LUNAR ECLIPSE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We have hiked on the mountain Last Line: Travelled among stars? Subject(s): Earth; Nature LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth had long been avaricious Last Line: "they ""madam"" entitle, with chilling formality." Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Earth; Laughter; May (month); World LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 33, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is so fair, and the heavens so bright Last Line: The corpse of my mistress dear caressing. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Heaven; World; Paradise MAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray Last Line: And april airs be here! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND SPRING, by IVAR CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Now wedded earth puts on her splendid dress Subject(s): Earth; Soldiers; World War I MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy, the rapture Last Line: God. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World MEASUREMENTS, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our world is very little in the sky Last Line: Earth's breadth, love's narrowness, must learn to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Earth; Love; World METAMORPHOSES: THE GOLDEN AGE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When faith and honesty with willing hand Last Line: And blest content prolonged the golden reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Flowers; Honesty; World; Belief; Creed MIGRATING EELS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: After years of feeding Last Line: More than we do on our way Subject(s): Earth; Nature MIGRATION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We have always known Last Line: Is a blessing, and they %are the sun Subject(s): Earth; Nature MIGRATIONS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: You see everything, everything: the breath of flies, a teapot Last Line: Now you know the bell tolls for you and for us Subject(s): Earth; Life MILKY WAY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Imagine the hair of a woman Last Line: How they will die Subject(s): Earth; Nature MISTRESS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how earth claims him as he passes by Last Line: For flight and freedom, and suddenly sunder %dreamer from dream in a mute surrender? Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Earth MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king! Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World MOTH, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Sometime while we slept Last Line: Fearing the blameless %dark Subject(s): Earth; Nature MOTHER EARTH, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM Poem Source First Line: Moth earth, much trampled, sun-washed Last Line: I seek the heavens through you Subject(s): Earth MOTHER EARTH, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, a grand old time has the earth Subject(s): Earth MOTHER EARTH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the star-dust and the ether-flaw Last Line: To ease thine agony. Subject(s): Earth; World MOTHER EARTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Last Line: Holdest the poem of god, eternal thought and emotion. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World MURMURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou make bright music Last Line: That bids the world rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Peace; Religion; Wind; World; Theology MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore? Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness MY COUNTRY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My country is the world--the whole round world Last Line: The worldmy country. Subject(s): Earth; Nations; World MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down in my garden fair Last Line: As it follows its promenade solitaire? Subject(s): Earth; Gardens & Gardening; Solitude; World; Loneliness NAMING AND ADAM GAVE NAMES TO ALL THE CATTEL AND TO THE FOWL OF, by MARTHA E. BOSWORTH Poem Source First Line: The lust for knowledge: everything of earth Last Line: We name our deities and barely nod %before our hunger craves a greater god Subject(s): Creation; Earth; God NAMING WEATHER: NOTES FOR JEAN: 2 TRANSITIONS:STRATUS, CUMULUS, NIMBUS, by MARY PINARD Poem Source First Line: Then, in that progressive ohio village Last Line: And changed now, I'm beyond them Subject(s): Clouds; Earth NATURAL RESOURCES, by CHRIS ARTHUR Poem Source First Line: Our world, or so it sometimes seems Last Line: We have only scraped the surface of this treasure-trove of wordy wealth Subject(s): Earth; Nature NATURE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hand that tries to shake a hand Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World NATURE, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: The earth has started her Last Line: With this butcher block of a world? Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Nature NATURE'S DRINKING-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth drinks rain through every pore Last Line: Come let us drink, drink, drink! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Earth; Moon; Nature; Singing & Singers; Wine; World NATURE'S WORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In holy moments, when great nature seems Last Line: Or where we know not, but we trust the word. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Nature; Nightmares; World NIAGARA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving westward near niagara, that transfiguring of the waters, Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Nature; Earth; Social Commentaries; World NIGHT AND DAY, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: The music on the radio Last Line: Is waiting sleeplessly %to take me home Subject(s): Earth NIGHT SKY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: When something taps your window Last Line: To a shining that sings Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace NO COUNTRIES BUT THE DISTANCE OF THE WORLD [AND THE SMOKE OF THE], by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: My life has always been too large for me deep in the heart of the darkest Last Line: Was the hand and that was the prayer and there is always a kind of %response Subject(s): Earth; Time NOCTILUCA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In northern latitudes on clear nights Last Line: By the constellations %of that light Subject(s): Earth; Nature NOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: And has joined us with a nod. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Kisses; Noon; Wisdom; Dead, The; World NORTHERN EARTH MOOD, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Vision the sun and stars Last Line: Shows the working of fingers. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Earth; Sun; World NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean NOTICE TO TOURISTS, by LEONARDO [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: But most avoid italia's coast Last Line: For british virtues left behind? Alternate Author Name(s): Leonardo Subject(s): Earth;tourists;travel; World;journeys;trips NOVEMBER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How has november won Last Line: How close the tears! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; November; Tears; World NUN SNOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she / thoughtless of life Last Line: Dropping the curtain so soon! Subject(s): Earth; Moon; World OCTOBER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the world a-muse, and earth and sky Last Line: Down unillumined aisles the requiem wind. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Nature; October; Pan (mythology); Sky; World ODE TO A BLACKBIRD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Troll out thy passion from yon vantage spray Last Line: Resounding thro' the echoing arbours of my brain! Subject(s): Blackbirds; Earth; Evil; Heaven; World; Paradise ODE TO SPRING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark! Did ye hear them - the rumours afloat Last Line: Bird-like to sing mid its own fragrant bower! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Spring; World ODE TO THE EARTH, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tireless earth! O earth of long desire! Last Line: The purposes of pain! Subject(s): Earth; World OF MANY WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just like in a nest of boxes round Last Line: A world of worlds, as pendents in each ear Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Earth OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed OH, EARTH!, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, earth! That liest still to-night Last Line: But gazing on the sky. Subject(s): Earth; World OLD HYMN-TUNES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise Last Line: Till silence settles over all! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World ON HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY HOPE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected on the lake, I love Last Line: As false and fleeting as 'tis fair. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hope; World; Paradise; Optimism ON LEAPING OVER THE MOON, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie Last Line: As o'er our heads, a place of bliss. Subject(s): Earth; Icarus; Moon; Mythology - Classical; World ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden, her doll to her Last Line: Mother to mother means dear to dear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fear; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; World ON THE OUTERMOST EDGE, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: On the outmost edge of the ocean Last Line: Toward the star, which alone shimmers %in black air Subject(s): Creation; Earth ON THE WESTERN FRONT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dreadful acre of the dead Last Line: If you fail now, we shall not see or hear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Peace; Silence; War; Dead, The; World ONE DEGREE, by BEN RENZ Poem Text First Line: He stands alone Last Line: One degree. Subject(s): Earth; World ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life OUR BIG HOME, by LINDA GLASER Poem Source First Line: We all live here Last Line: One precious living home Subject(s): Earth; Nature OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar Last Line: Our hold on the planet wouldn't have so increased Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar Last Line: Or our number living wouldn't be steadily more, %our hold of the planet wouldn't have so increased Subject(s): Earth; Rain OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The halo round the seraph's head Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips OUR QUEER OLD WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a purty hard world you find, my Last Line: It's a purty good world, old man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cruelty; Earth; Experience; Wisdom; World OUT OF ANY DEARTH, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Transmuting rocks to flowers Last Line: I will sieve my songs. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Stones; World; Granite; Rocks OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise OUT OF THE DARK AND THE DEARTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! But the darkness was densely Last Line: And that was the dawn -- the dawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Night; Sunrise; World; Bedtime OUT WITH THE WORLD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm out with all the world to-day Last Line: Ah me! The bonny world. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Earth; World OUTWARD, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Always the thrust is outward Last Line: Fertilized by its own %unfolding light Subject(s): Earth; Nature PAINTING, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Let some one fasten this piece of silk Last Line: Three quarters of a slightly yellow moon Subject(s): Earth; Paintings And Painters PERCH, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perch on their water perch hung in the clear bann river Last Line: In the everything flows and steady go of the world Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Water PERFECTION, by CLARE PERCY WESTPHAL Poem Text First Line: This earth / beautifully Last Line: Harmonize ... Subject(s): Earth; God; World PETROGLYPHS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: It begins in sandstone Last Line: Of tufted grass, waiting %for us to enter Subject(s): Earth; Nature PHYSICS OF THE NEW WORLD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Here on the third planet, bulging vaguely like an egg Last Line: In the thermal energy and simple particles of the cosmic brine Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Physics; Planets; Universe POETRY OF EARTH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: There is always room for beauty: memory Subject(s): Earth POINT OF VIEW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In a night tree Last Line: Who can see us %as we are? Subject(s): Earth; Nature PRAETERITA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft airs that fan the face Last Line: O'er brightness fled? Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Hearts; Past; World PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters PRAISE OF EARTH, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O earth %I count the praises thou art worth Subject(s): Earth PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee Last Line: Made whole again! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous' Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean QUESTION, by EDWIN GLADDING BURROWS Poem Source First Line: Night and a loose line Last Line: A rope reaching out to retrieve %a banner blown away by the wind Subject(s): Earth; Flags; Patriotism QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is earth, sexton? - a place to dig graves" Subject(s): Earth;wisdom; World RAIN MOOD, by W. FRANCIS POTTER Poem Text First Line: Rain is beating upon my face Last Line: O come, and bring impassioned solitude! Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World RAINBARREL, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: My friend's family kept a rainbarrel Last Line: Lifting our little acorn cups %to taste old rain Subject(s): Earth; Nature RAINFOREST SLASH AND BURN, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Fallen across one another Last Line: We will never meet Subject(s): Earth; Nature RAINPATTER, by DIANA KEARNY POWELL Poem Text First Line: Fall lightly, rain, the earth will be Last Line: For hearts are bound with cords of rain. Subject(s): April; Earth; Rain; World RAVEN'S LEGS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: When the raven approaches the cottonwood Last Line: That have just begun to yellow Subject(s): Earth; Nature READING ABOUT ROCKS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book, solid and heavy as rock Last Line: Surfaces of both solids-your hand and the rock Subject(s): Books; Earth; Geology; Stones READING THE PINE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: There are galaxies in the grain Last Line: They leave you behind Subject(s): Earth; Nature REALITY DEMANDS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality demands / that we also mention this Subject(s): Earth; War; World REALITY DEMANDS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reality demands %that we also mention this Last Line: And we can't help %laughing at that Subject(s): Earth; War RELATIVITY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: As you sleep, the moon Last Line: Neither your slow breaths %nor its own Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace RELIC, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We keep the finger-bones of saints Last Line: Courses through our bones Subject(s): Earth; Nature RELIGION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To learn the secret of the silent grass Last Line: The life that lasts, tho' I and all men die. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Love; Religion; Secrets; World; Theology REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light. Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World RESURRECTION UPDATE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then it happened Last Line: An aspirin in a glass of water Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; World RETURNED - 'MISSING', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I was sad and anxious Last Line: Might be brought back at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World RETURNING, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We migrate toward the spine Last Line: Returning to the sea Subject(s): Earth; Nature RIDDLE: AS THE WORLD TURNS, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm up and down and round about Last Line: Can move an inch except I will Variant Title(s): As The World Turns; On A Circle (riddle Subject(s): Earth; Riddles RIDE NOT TOO FAST WITH BEAUTY, by ELSIE TWINING ABBOTT Poem Text Last Line: From its chain. Subject(s): Earth; Pain; World; Suffering; Misery RIVER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Slowly grinding sandstone Last Line: That all of life is simply %letting go Subject(s): Earth; Nature RIVERS, by CHALLIS SILVAY Poem Text First Line: O sleeping earth! What ruthless lover Last Line: The need of mirrors for the stars? Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Stars; World ROADSIDE POEMS: THIS WORLD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy world is made to fit thine own Last Line: Because thou, god, art all in all! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fathers; God; Childhood; World ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tough day on the mesa Last Line: Since a beginning, and we survive %doubts of an ending Subject(s): Earth; Stones; Tourists; Travel RODIN'S TEMPEST CALLS, by HELEN MINTUS Poem Source First Line: Face thrust forward Last Line: Save our planet from extinction, %there is only one day left.' Subject(s): Earth ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 2. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've snuff'd at every smell that has birth Last Line: Once more we may hope to meet with each other. Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; Fortune; Graves; World; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones RUINS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We are always trying to enter the earth Last Line: In its frozen fire Subject(s): Earth; Nature RUNNING SOIL, by RAYMOND QUENEAU Poem Source First Line: All I ask is to put a bit of earth in the hollow of my hand Last Line: I expect nothing from my friends but a bit of earth in my hands - %and from others death Subject(s): Earth; Nature SAINT DOROTHEA, MARTYR, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: Account it most strange if I should fear Last Line: You will run, you will run to welcome death! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The; World SALUT AU MONDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O take my hand walt whitman Last Line: For all the haunts and homes of men. Subject(s): Earth; World SALVATION, by PHILIP HAMMIAL Poem Source First Line: A man sets out to shave the world. It's logical to start with himself Last Line: Wrists & ankles he gets a punch in the nose. Tough luck for the %world; it won't be shaved today Subject(s): Earth; Shaving SAND, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I am not the subject %I am god's strongbox Last Line: I made no decision to look %either down or up Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food And Eating; Rain SATURDAY NIGHT, by MARY COLBURNE VEEL Poem Text First Line: Saturday night in the crowded town Last Line: Walking in arcady, land of love. Subject(s): Earth; Neighbors; Night; Streets; Towns; World; Bedtime; Avenues SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA-VOICES, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother earth, farewell! / from this sequestered spot Last Line: Dear mother earth, farewell! Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; World; Parting SEAFARER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And learn o voyager to walk Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Advice; Earth; World SEAFARER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And learn o voyager to walk Last Line: Of sound the rushing planet makes: %and learn to sleep against this ground Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Advice; Earth SEASONS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the cheerful budding-time Last Line: And all hope of life seems lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World SEEDS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: The world is barren now Last Line: Where I have always been. Subject(s): Earth; Seeds; World SELF RELIANCE, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a picture of earth on my wall. Last Line: On our own Subject(s): Earth; World SERENADE IN GREY, by SAMUEL GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: The soft eyelid of the dew doth set Last Line: When color mixes to choice -- behold a lover! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World; Songs SERENGETI PLAINS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Death does not feed these plains Last Line: On its journey through the dark Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace SETTING THE WORLD RIGHT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Meeting in truckee with the Last Line: Later, my wife would call our %get-together male bonding Subject(s): Earth; Life SHADOWS, by MAUDE S. REA Poem Text First Line: White-capped waves and shimmering sands Last Line: But shadows -- shadows -- come -- and go. Subject(s): Earth; World SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We are but shapes and shadows Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World SHORE ROCK, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Dragged here by some glacier Last Line: As I kneel to greet it Subject(s): Earth; Nature SHOREHAM: TWILIGHT TIME, by SAMUEL PALMER Poem Text First Line: And now the trembling light Last Line: And mark'st when sparrows fall. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; God; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight SILENCE, by LUCY KENT Poem Text First Line: Out into the afternoon Last Line: Whom silence made forever one. Subject(s): Afternoon; Earth; Life; Silence; World SINGLE FIRE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Our lungs breathe for the earth Last Line: Feed a single fire Subject(s): Earth; Nature SLIPPING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping away -- slipping away! Last Line: We are slipping away to the shores of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Happiness; Peace; Seasons; World; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight SNAKES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Guardians of the sacred Last Line: Because it is the only music %I have Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism SNOWFLAKES, by FREDA EFTER Poem Text First Line: Whirling breathless through the air Last Line: Of the earth and sky! Subject(s): Earth; Sky; Snow; Trees; World SOLID, IRONICAL, ROLLING ORB, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And of me, as lover and hero Subject(s): Earth SOLIDITY, by PAUL F. KEEN Poem Text First Line: Calmly the earth survives the storm Last Line: Its pulsing bosom soft and warm. Subject(s): Earth; World SOME CITIES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The dogs know %each night they lift dark noses Last Line: Observe their populace %alive with sacrifice Subject(s): Earth; Nature SOME PART OF THE LYRIC, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some part of the lyric wants to exclude Last Line: Reflects the world it meant to exclude. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Poetry & Poets; World; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth Last Line: Lulling us from many woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World SONG OF THE ARTESIAN WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the stock have started dying, for the lord has sent a / drought Last Line: It is flowing, ever flowing, further down. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Singing & Singers; Water; World; Optimism SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weapon shapely, naked, wan Last Line: Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth. Subject(s): Axes; Earth; Hatchets; World SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For miles along the sunlit lands Last Line: Again we grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Life; Sea; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth we came Last Line: Old time has laid them low. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song Last Line: Such is the song of the sea. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs SONGS OF CREATION: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stuff out of which a poem is wrought Last Line: From being artist'cally treated. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Women; World SONGS OF CREATION: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefest reason why I made Last Line: Creation made me once more sound. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Soul; World SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.' Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked beside a dark grey sea Last Line: I walked in joy, and was not cold. Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Sea; Snow; Winter; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown Last Line: Where shall be then the beauty of the globe? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evening; World; Sunset; Twilight SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean SONNETS; MORNING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful earth! O how can I refrain Last Line: And praise, through thee, the god that gave thee birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Morning; Nature; Sun; World SONNETS; TO THE SETTING SUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou central eye of god, whose lidless ball Last Line: Still bid my memory survive and bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Night; Sun; World; Bedtime SOPHISTICATION, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man, I thought, had come too far Last Line: And then, had no more love for earth. Subject(s): Earth; World SOUND OF THE WORLD, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Words, shameful Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Earth; Sound SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The hours are softly calling Last Line: Bidding thee arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Seasons; Spring; World SPRING COMES TO LANESBORO, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: The hardwoods fade into night Last Line: Just stay here. The rest is easy Subject(s): Earth; Spring SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beauteous spring I see Last Line: Making all our passion vain. Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World SPRING SONG ON TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms drifting Last Line: May sweetly woos the earth. Subject(s): Apples; Earth; Flowers; Fruit; May (month); World SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World STANZAS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this vain, busy world, where the good and the gay Last Line: Since the world, the base world has no pleasure for me. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; World STAR FACTORIES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Great monoliths of hydrogen and dust Last Line: Who will inherit the dust? Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace STOP TO THINK, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Stop to think-the earth Last Line: The earth has not been %till then Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Future Life; Planets; Universe STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: A solar system drifting god knows where Last Line: The race, which speeds a toy balloon, at dawn. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Earth; Mars (planet); Planets; Stars; Universe; World SUBJECTED EARTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound Subject(s): Earth; Graves; England; World; Tombs; Tombstones; English SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They teach such funny things in school! Last Line: Or see the things I see! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students SUDDEN BEAUTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go look around the house corner Last Line: Or, maybe, immortality. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Immortality; Stars; World SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 4. CAPRICCIOSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay! The longings tender Last Line: So caught, is held to my impatient heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Life; World SUNRISE, SUNSET, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Lie down in a field of tall grass Last Line: A green flash arcs from your spine Subject(s): Earth; Nature SYCAMORES IN BLOOM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like flame-wing'd harps the seed blooms lie Last Line: The red harps of the sycamores. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Plane Trees; Singing & Singers; World; Sycamores SYMBIOSIS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The hawaiian bobtail squid Last Line: To do for the earth %that means so much? Subject(s): Earth; Nature SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race TAKE THE WORLD AS IT IS, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the world as it is! - there are good and bad in it Last Line: And the wisest and best take the world as it is. Subject(s): Earth; Friendship; World TASTING THE EARTH, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark hour, tasting the earth Last Line: In a dark hour, tasting the earth. Subject(s): Earth; World TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tears born of wild emotion Last Line: And all is stainless gold! Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness TERRA DOMUS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the deep-set valley Last Line: Our home is here! Subject(s): Earth; Home; World TETE-A-TETE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a bit of ground, a smell of earth" Last Line: "they sleep, and know nor pain nor joy" Subject(s): Earth; World THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide Last Line: The song of a million years. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains THE BAD LANDS, by ROY B. HERRICK Poem Text First Line: They call them bad lands, these Last Line: The awesome building of a world. Subject(s): Earth; World THE BATH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off, fetters of the falser life Last Line: Between the land and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; God; Life; Sea; World; Ocean THE BEELAH VIADUCT, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: O wondrous age! A wondrous age we live in Last Line: When we have bid farewell to earthly things. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Faith; Religion; World; Belief; Creed; Theology THE BEGINNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell strange things of the primeval earth Last Line: On certain days I dream about her still.' Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Hearts; Life; World THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice three moons had waxed in heaven Last Line: "god is god; there is none other; I his chosen prophet am!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World; Paradise THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World THE BOOK [OF THE WORLD], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of this fair volume which we world do name Last Line: It is some picture on the margin wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The Book Of Nature;the Lessons Of Nature;the World Subject(s): Bible; Books; Earth; Religion; Reading; World; Theology THE BREATH OF LIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From the cool and dark-lipped furrows Last Line: Hail, forever, hail! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Variant Title(s): The Earth Breath Subject(s): Earth; World THE BROKEN BALANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways, Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BURDEN OF A SIGH, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we on earth have run our race Last Line: Be felt beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Graves; Life; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE CALL OF THE SIDHE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's Last Line: Unto the light of lights in burning adoration Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World THE CHANGING SEASON, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Golden sunlight floods the earth Last Line: Interpreting god's moods. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Seasons; Weather; World THE CHILD-WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child-world, yet a wondrous world no less Last Line: Of any tool he might not chance to own. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World THE CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: This! This is earth! Beneath my heel Last Line: Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face! Subject(s): Earth; Parks; Time; World THE COMFORT OF THE STARS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am overmatched by petty cares Last Line: My trouble merged in wonder and in love. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; Love; Planets; Stars; World THE COMING OF THE SNOW, by MARION L. BERTRAND Poem Text First Line: At yestere'en the world was dull and bare Last Line: We had not been such fretful, restless men. Subject(s): Earth; Silence; World THE CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam made the world Last Line: Anyone is out there, listening. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Earth; Sin; World THE CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth upon earth / between the confines of the day Last Line: Felt that he wished to sit and sharpen an arrow Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars; World THE DAWN OF DARKNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come earth's little children pit-pat from their Last Line: Hope departed with the twilight, leaving only dumb despair. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Night; World; Bedtime THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend Last Line: From the depths of the sea Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, like a sleeping child Last Line: Breathes low in the gardens of sleep in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Sleep; Wind; World THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting THE EARTH, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our eyeless bark sails free Last Line: Strikes never moon or star. Subject(s): Earth; World THE EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me that the earth is still the same Last Line: Careless if on his face were smile or frown? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; World THE EARTH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which seems so barren once gave birth Last Line: Who plowed her seas and reaped her grains Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World; Heroes; Heroines THE EARTH AND MAN, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little sun, a little rain Last Line: Have left it younger than a boy. Subject(s): Mankind; Earth; Human Race; World THE EARTH CRY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blue the sky is and how sweet the air! Last Line: That god is good and you have quite forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Spiritual Life; World THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a black shambling bear Last Line: Feel her brushing it clean Subject(s): Earth; Life; World THE EARTH MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise old mother lets man play a while Last Line: "welcome to love, and sleep, and holiday." Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Seasons; Soul; World THE EARTH-CHILD, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the veins of the world comes the blood of men Last Line: For my dreams are one with my body, yea, one with the world. Subject(s): Earth; World THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ago the lulling twilight Last Line: And still shall weep, a world above its loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Earthquakes; Evening; Loss; World; Sunset; Twilight THE FEMINEAD: FEMALES, SACRED AND PROFANE, by JOHN DUNCOMBE Poem Text First Line: The modest muse a veil with pity throws Last Line: Your empty sneers, and shock the sex no more. Subject(s): Earth; Sacrifices; Women's Rights; World; Feminism THE FIRST OF MARCH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bud is in the bough, and the leaf is in the bud Last Line: O thou sunny first of march! Be it dedicate to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; March (month); Peace; World THE FLAG OF PEACE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men long have fought for their flying flags Last Line: The rainbow flag of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Death; Earth; Nations; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; World THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord. Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE GOLDEN AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning breaks above us Last Line: Nourished by eternal truth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Earth; Youth; World THE GREATEST WONDER, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To spread the azure canopy of heaven Last Line: That angels stand amazed to think on it. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Heaven; Nativity, The; World; Paradise THE GYRE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world was a globe that sat on a table Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Earth; God; World THE HOLY EARTH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the immense cathedral of the holy earth Last Line: Upon her myriad altars flames the one sacred fire. Subject(s): Churches; Earth; God; Cathedrals; World THE HOOSIER IN EXILE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoosier in exile - a toast Last Line: "the hoosier in exile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Exiles; Nightmares; World THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below Last Line: They slide to us and air. Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs THE JOY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sudden wings arising from the Last Line: Though our hearts and footsteps wander far from home. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World THE KINGDOM OF GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through storm and sun the age draws on Last Line: As the waters fill the sea.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Earth; God; Heaven; World; Paradise THE LAST HERO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We laid him to rest with tenderness Last Line: How all the story of earth was told. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Heroism; World War I - Casualties; World; Heroes; Heroines THE LAST MAN: INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why what's the world and time? A fleeting thought Last Line: A brief parenthesis in chaos. Subject(s): Earth; Time; Transience; World; Impermanence THE LUTE OF LIFE, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ash and flame, sand and dew Last Line: Upon the cross the spirit sings. Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Lutes; World THE MAMMOTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the deluge ceased to pour Last Line: A second mammoth dies. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Europe; Life; Dead, The; World THE MAP OF THE WORLD CONFUSED WITH ITS TERRITORY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a drawer I found a map of the world Subject(s): Maps; Earth; World THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE MEASURE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Now frail the flower and strong the weed Last Line: Measures the long step of the sun. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Nature; Planets; World THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery THE MEMORY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wet dusk silver sweet Last Line: "so to close her tragic story." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Memory; Tragedy; Dead, The; World THE MESSIAH, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: He came unto a world that was not ready Last Line: To welcome as its king the baby boy. Subject(s): Earth; World THE MODERN SAINT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells Last Line: And ministers to men with all his might. Subject(s): Earth; Eyes; Faces; Hearts; Saints; World THE MOON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their footprints on her face Last Line: For women are, after all, only space. Subject(s): Earth; Snow; Women; World THE MOUNTAIN RAPTURE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contentment have I known in lowlands green Last Line: Of fiery heavings, throbbed into repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Passion; Singing & Singers; World THE NEW CHRISTMAS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the good old days, in the spacious days, when the christmas Last Line: As the snow a man shakes from his shoulders as he comes to his own front gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Snow; Socialism; Nativity, The; World THE NORSEMAN'S RIDE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frosty fires of northern starlight Last Line: "gleam surtur's hoofs of gold!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Mythology; Silence; Singing & Singers; World THE OLD AND THE NEW EARTH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the first bright dawn of sabbath-day Last Line: And entering, dwell there eternally. Subject(s): Earth; World THE OPEN DOOR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of life Last Line: And crown his plan. Subject(s): Earth; God; Hearts; Hope; Life; Soul; World; Optimism THE PAIN OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the earth grow grey with grief Last Line: In our hearts the tears are shed. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; World; Sorrow; Sadness THE PELICANS AT WHITE HORSE KEY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you follow the spiral Last Line: Set out to float on the sea of repentance Subject(s): Pelicans; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Repentance THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 3. THE CHILD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad son of earth, if ever to thy care Last Line: "I come!"" I cried; and with the cry awoke." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fate; Life; Saints; Childhood; World; Destiny THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun Last Line: And uncaring give us death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean THE POET'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He craves not the boon of pleasure Last Line: And the voice before he dies. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Voices; World THE POWER OF SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columns uplifted high Last Line: Throughout the earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Virtue; World; Reputation THE PRAYERS OF SAINTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fragrance of the early months, when earth Last Line: Perfumed and perfect for that heavenly place. Subject(s): Earth; Faces; God; Prayer; Saints; World THE PROMISE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Alas! For stifled love, as tho' dull earth Last Line: Then let thy world within flame to love's glowing kiss! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Love; Night; World; Bedtime THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow Last Line: A fair and fragile weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World THE SEARCHLIGHT, by DOROTHEA LAMORE Poem Text First Line: Out of the dark a yellow light Last Line: Earth has all secrets you want to know? Subject(s): Earth; Light; Night; Sky; World; Bedtime THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SHARING OF THE EARTH, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the world,' cried god from his heaven Last Line: "we'll admit you whenever you call!" Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; Thought; World; Thinking THE SICK-ROOM, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit is treading the earth Last Line: And a heap of ashes gray. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Spring; World THE SOMNAMBULIST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Celestials must have piloted Last Line: Find heaven's rapture earth unveiled. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Night; Truth; World; Bedtime THE SONG OF THE ELEMENTS, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit amidst the universe Last Line: Of its own unvanquished power. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Universe; Water; World THE STORM-KING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back! Stand back / from my giant track! Last Line: I am monarch, and earth must obey! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Earth; Storms; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; World THE SUN'S ECLIPSE -- JULY 8TH, 1842, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis cloudless morning, but a frown misplaced Last Line: The thrilling joy, whose tears were on my cheek! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Eclipses; Sun; Dead, The; World THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE THAW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears Last Line: So shall my silence with their music chime. Subject(s): Earth; Sun; Time; World THE THREAT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: How tame has earth become Last Line: The thirst of emptiness. Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; World THE THUNDER STORM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Above the heavens are flaming Last Line: I would know that thou art near. Subject(s): Earth; Lightning; Storms; Weather; World; Lightning Rods THE TRANSIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was as if the ring had gone from the horizon Last Line: But for the space of a thought it was as if it seemed. Subject(s): Earth; Music & Musicians; World THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O'er hampshire's snow-heaped hills the sun Last Line: Remorse is punishment enough! Subject(s): Earth; Homecoming; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips THE TRUE WITNESS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I heard thee say to me Last Line: I know he is! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; World; Theology THE TURQUOISE BOWL, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bowl in the hand is the earth Last Line: The winged sun sting its side like a bee. Subject(s): Bowls; Earth; World THE TWILIGHT OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wonder of the world is o'er Last Line: Dominion and ancestral sway. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Mythology - Celtic; Past; World THE UNKNOWN EARTH, by PAUL SANDOZ Poem Text First Line: In the cold rain the scents of spring will hurt Last Line: And every worm is cool and green and proud. Subject(s): Earth; Spring; World THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WAVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children are we Last Line: Sorrows and hopes of earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Heaven; Sea; Waves; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Ocean THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another? Last Line: Mother, my mother. Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEEPING EARTH, by PEARL LENORE POLLARD CURRAN Poem Text First Line: What! Is earth sodden of anguish? Last Line: With thy wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Worth, Patience Subject(s): Earth; World THE WIDE WORLD IS DREAR, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Oh say not the wide world is lonely and drear Last Line: And rewarded with smiles for the fall of a tear. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WINTER SLEEP, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden o'erwearied Last Line: Thy lover is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Sleep; Spring; Winter; World THE WORLD, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fie! What a wretched world is this! Last Line: With death, that hourly waits for me. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is wise, for the world is old Last Line: But the love of god would do all for thee. Subject(s): Earth; God; Religion; World; Theology THE WORLD, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love built a stately house; where fortune came Last Line: And built a braver palace then before. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; World; Belief; Creed THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day she wooes me, soft, exceeding fair Last Line: Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When adam first did from his dust arise Last Line: And ever will the same. Subject(s): Earth; God; World THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE WORLD IS A BUNDLE OF HAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Earth; England THE WORLD IS SO SMALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a very little place Last Line: To suit me so. Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Infants; World THE WORLD PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The entrance-price you willy-nilly pay Last Line: Are shaken by its moods, -- mirth, anguish, mystery. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy; Earth; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; World; Dramatists THE WORLD WAS SURELY MADE FOR ME, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: The world was surely made for me Last Line: It suits me so completely. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Nature; World THE WORLD WE MAKE, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON Poem Text First Line: We make the world in which we live Last Line: We make our world -- and there we live. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD'S ADVANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Judge mildly the tasked world; and disincline Last Line: Ere reason ripens for the vacant place. Subject(s): Earth; Progress; World THE WORLD'S AGE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will say the world is dying? Last Line: That the world is young. Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD'S ALL RIGHT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be honest, kindly, simple, true Last Line: What ho! The world's all right, I say. Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight THE WORLD'S HARMONIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh listen, listen, for the earth Last Line: Who turneth from his sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World THE WORLD: A CHILD'S SONG, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world Last Line: "you can love and think, and the earth cannot!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Variant Title(s): The Wonderful World;the Child's World;the World;the Child In The Midst Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD; QUATRAINS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is older than our earliest dates Last Line: Phantasmal, pale, her awful death-morn gleams! Subject(s): Earth; World THE WRECK OF THE 'STELLA', by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Easter comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave Last Line: For great is the empire of earth, more great the command of the soul. Subject(s): Earth; Easter; Holidays; Love; Tears; Time; World; The Resurrection THE YELLOW LEAF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year is on the wane - the blue Last Line: Visions, whose resting-place is heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; World THEY MAY RAIL AT THIS LIFE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may rail at this life-from the hour I began it Last Line: And leave earth to such spirits as you, love, and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; Love; Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the beauty I have seen Last Line: Where we go! Subject(s): Earth; World THIS COMPOST: 1., by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something startles me where I thought I was safest Last Line: I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. Subject(s): Earth; World THIS COMPOST: 2., by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold this compost! Behold it well! Last Line: Leavings from them at last. Subject(s): Earth; World THIS SPACE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rushing past us Last Line: Within the irresistible vector %of the ocean's pull Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Waves THIS SPINNING EARTH, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This spinning earth we prattle of so much Last Line: Rings like a terrible bugle down the sky. Subject(s): Earth; World THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of merchants, lords of trade and gold Last Line: Then build his temple on high, -- not, not till then. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Thought; World; Thinking THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a house born of the brown earth Last Line: And wondered where it was calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Variant Title(s): An Adobe House Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World THROUGH THE STORM, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Dogs bark through the storm tonight Last Line: To distant barking in the rain Subject(s): Earth; Nature TICK-TICK, TICK-TICK, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The sky all dark, clear Last Line: On all the planets, here too -- in the wolves, the swans, %in the giraffes grazing high in the trees Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Earth; Planets; Shadows; Universe TIRED LAND, by ELEANOR RHODES Poem Source First Line: In ill-won rest I lie stripped bare Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life TO A BOASTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall not cover you Last Line: And be forgotten. Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Pride; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean TO A FAIR MAIDEN WHO BLADE ME SHUN WINE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must I wholly banish hence Last Line: To grace the praise of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Muses; World; Paradise TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When horace, as the snows descended Last Line: To realms celestial. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World TO A PAIR OF LOVERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you only love each other Last Line: Love each other best Subject(s): Earth;hearts;love; World TO DELIA: 28 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the spotless ermelin distressed Last Line: Thus shades my life so long as wants endure. Subject(s): Earth; Fortune; Life; Soul; World TO EARTH, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Oh, fortunate the waiting that shall end in wonder Last Line: And men be the seeds of our wild planting. Subject(s): Earth; World TO EVERYTHING THAT ENDANGERS...', by CATHERINE FUCHS Poem Source Last Line: Between the gold and the night %of a wounded love Subject(s): Earth; Nature TO KEEP THE PEACE, by DANIEL GARNETT BICKERS Poem Text First Line: Rejoicing, celebrant and wild with joy we were Last Line: Of peace shall be impossible. For vision in this work we ask! Alternate Author Name(s): Bickers, D. G. Subject(s): Earth; Peace; War; World TO MOTHER EARTH, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, earth, earth! Where wilt thou hide thy slain? Last Line: The wrath of man but works his will, earth's sovereign judge is he. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Earth; Social Protest; War; World TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 24. THE WORLD'S NEED, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The whole round world is but a woman's child Last Line: Enjoy and bless her for eternally. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Earth; Mothers; Infants; Childhood; World TO THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIAH, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "long since, it was by me desir'd" Last Line: And with bright angels compasy round Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;earth;elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia;freedom;heaven;" World;liberty;paradise TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sleepless sphinx! Last Line: Eternal sphinx! Subject(s): Earth; Egypt; Patience; Sphinx; Time; World TO THE WORLD, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False world, goodnight: since thou hast brought / that hour upon my morn of age Last Line: Here in my bosom, and at home. Subject(s): Earth; World TODAY AND TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is out in leaf Last Line: Fast asleep and weary -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 2 Subject(s): Change; Earth; Life; Spring; World TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! What a world I would create from my own, my lovers Last Line: We shall need no other world, no other worlds. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Earth; Friendship; Love; Socialism; World TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. STANDING BEYOND TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing beyond time Last Line: Standing beyond time. Subject(s): Earth; History; World; Historians TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (1), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the starry lightnings and the life Last Line: Forsakes this world and seeks a fairer one. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Universe; World TRANSFORMATION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: This morning, leaves and small birds Last Line: In the rivers of this wind %that takes us all Subject(s): Earth; Nature TRANSLATION: WORDSWORTH WROTE THAT, by JOHN RUFF Poem Source First Line: The world is too much with us Subject(s): Earth; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TROUT STREAM, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Great fish %hang in the swift waters Last Line: You too may hear them singing %flesh to flesh Subject(s): Earth; Nature TURBOPROP, by RUSTIN LARSON Poem Source First Line: Before the world got so freaking ambitious Last Line: Their bodies leaving the ground, %uncertain and liberated Subject(s): Change; Earth TURBULANCE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Now and then an airplane Last Line: The pterodactyl sails on through the aether %unable to come home Subject(s): Earth; Nature TWIN PENDANTS, by BEN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: From the ice-choked throat of the northern pole Last Line: To rest in the caves of your ocean? Subject(s): Earth; World TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind. Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I said underneath the dusky trees Last Line: And whose day shall no more turn back to night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Memory; Dead, The; World TWO WORLDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's world is bathed in beauty Last Line: Back to thy holy land! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; God; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise UNQUIET EARTH, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: When they call earth quiet Last Line: Our feet once trod. Subject(s): Earth; World UPSTREAM, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The fetal bear who floats Last Line: They follow still, as they swim upstream? Subject(s): Earth; Nature VALE ATQUE AVE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall return to thee Last Line: I shall return to thee earth, my mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Love; Mothers; World VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust Last Line: At the williest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad Subject(s): Boundaries; Earth; Travel; Versailles, Frances VIOLIN SONGS: FAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, if aught should check thy race Last Line: "from the sun of liberty!" Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Space And Space Travel; World; Belief; Creed VISIBLE SOUND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, have we not felt it and known Last Line: In the soul of all beauty is one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Earth; God; World VISIBLE STAR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my collection of gluons whose color adds up Last Line: Out there / hissing Subject(s): Earth VITA BREVIS EST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray thing, life, and the bright thing, love Last Line: Then the woven boughs, and the long cool rest. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; Love; World; Paradise VIVISECTION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild nature not by kindness won, because Last Line: Nor shall it die within me till I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Life; Time; World; Belief; Creed VOYAGER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: It probes the solar system Last Line: Among the stars Subject(s): Earth; Nature WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime WAITING IN WINTER (1), by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Text First Line: They were tired, tired, and outside Last Line: And earth and heaven looked harsh. . . . Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Paradise WAITING IN WINTER (2), by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Source First Line: They were tired, tired and outside Last Line: That overbloomed their hearts and now was dead Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep WALKING, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We hug the earth, - how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate Last Line: With a sudden gush return to my senses Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Nature WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WATCHING BOXES, by MATT GIULIANO Poem Source First Line: I wish I could %watch this world Last Line: Trust your mind's camera,' %and he drifts past my ear Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Eyes WAY THE WORLD ENDS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a saddled stallion Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Earth WE'RE EXTREMELY FORTUNATE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're extremely fortunate / not to know precisely Subject(s): Earth; World WE'RE EXTREMELY FORTUNATE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're extremely fortunate %not to know precisely Last Line: The sign 'no walking on the grass' %a symptom of lunacy Subject(s): Earth WHALE HEAT; FOR SCOTT MCVAY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Whales dive into frigid waters Last Line: Seethes in their bones Subject(s): Earth; Nature WHAT AILS THE WORLD?, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails the world?' the poet cried Last Line: Unanswered -- and the poet dies. Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; World WHAT COMES AFTER THIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water earth fire air Last Line: After this -- whether it is air %or it is nothing Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Future; Introspection; Water WHEN HE COMES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A vision fair - of clouds and sky Last Line: To do him honor there. Subject(s): Earth; Holy Ghost; Lightning; Religion; Soul; World; Holy Spirit; Lightning Rods; Theology WHICH?, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birth-day or earth-day Last Line: Which the well-worth day? Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low swampy ground, with spagnum moss Last Line: The candles of the lord. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Swamps; World; Bogs; Fens; Marshes WHITE WATER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Fragments of the sun Last Line: Echoes an ancient tongue Subject(s): Earth; Nature WING OF A MOTH, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: For days I have watched Last Line: The warp and woof of something %that will last Subject(s): Earth; Nature WINTER MUSIC, by SARAH KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: A red fox I was Last Line: I slike the snapping of the spine Subject(s): Earth WINTER STOLSICE, by Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cold night crosses Last Line: (the dance unmoving) Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Winter; Cold; Moon; Earth WITHIN THE WIND, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We live within the wind Last Line: Of those who bend over us %the wind Subject(s): Earth; Nature WOMAN OF AIR, WOMAN OF WATER, by GLORIA DIEZ Poem Source First Line: I know that a seaweed wind Last Line: Will be a woman of earth %a woman of fire Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Human Rights; Water; Wind WORK (2), by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman sixty years old and of no special courage Last Line: This is the world, and this is the work of the world Subject(s): Earth; Labor And Laborers WORK IN THE EARTH SO FAST, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruffles of pungent radiance, gold, maroon Last Line: Almost too promptly and too modestly to see Subject(s): Earth; Labor And Laborers WORLD (1), by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: It was just a gas station. It was not spectacular carnage Last Line: Let's see the world. Are you coming with me. What's for dinner Subject(s): Earth; Life WORLD (2), by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: Some are born Last Line: Some are born %--who can use this %--use this Subject(s): Birth; Earth WORLD MUSIC, by FRANCES LOUISA BUSHNELL Poem Text First Line: Jubilant, the music through the fields a-ringing Last Line: Pipe of pan was once its naming, now it hath a name diviner. Subject(s): Earth; World WORLD PEACE HYMN, by BENJAMIN D. DAVIES Poem Text First Line: On earth peace and goodwill toward men, the Last Line: Singing melodies of peace. Subject(s): Earth; Peace; United Nations; World WORLD PUT BACK TOGETHER, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To climb a tree and shout up at the sun Last Line: And what's this music whispers in my ear? Subject(s): Earth; Peace WORLD'S END, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: At the world's end Last Line: Time goes so fast %in this empty country Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; Judgment Day WORLDS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1120's not the only year eirik gnupson Subject(s): Vikings; Earth; World WORLDS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For alexander there was no far east Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Earth; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); World YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the mane Last Line: Across the worlds. Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips |
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