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First Line: What mean these loud aerial cracks I hear?
Last Line: "to see thy towering temple shine so fair / through the night-flaming, elemental air"
Subject(s): Escapes;freedom;guard Duty; Fugitives;liberty


ABSTRACTION, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white
Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods


ADVICE OF THE DREAM, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dream that escaped the dream
Last Line: Able to be everywhere in the world.
Subject(s): Advice; Dreams; Escapes; Freedom


AFTER, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing happened after. For three days
Subject(s): Danger; Escapes; Fugitives


AFTERNOON BLUES AND AN ACCIDENTAL LIFE, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: An accidental life came through the window
Last Line: That forgot where they'd been walking
Subject(s): Escapes; Music And Musicians; Single Parents


AGAMEMNON: CHORUS RECALLING HELEN'S FLIGHT, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a dream through sleep she glided
Last Line: On those soft silent wings that walk the ways of sleep
Subject(s): Escapes


AN AMERICAN SCENE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I reach beyond the laboratory brain. The brass
Last Line: The brain glowed in the dark above us.
Subject(s): Escapes; Lust; Science; Fugitives; Scientists


AN ESCAPE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A swift dark dream from the outer lands
Last Line: I wonder what he died of.
Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Escapes; Dead, The; Fugitives


BABYLEAVES THAT KILL THE RAVEN OR THE POSION TREE, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He ran away on a steamboat, a jalopy but quick. Playing
Last Line: When children and school openings collide. In mitsrayim
Subject(s): Escapes; Exiles; Ravens


BLOUDIE JACKE OF SHREWSBERRIE; THE SHROPSHIRE BLUEBEARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Why doth thine eye gleam so bright, bloudie jacke?
Last Line: And lose -- more than a shewsberrie cake!!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Discretion; Escapes; Pirates; Murder; Fugitives; Piracy; Buccaneers


CASUALTIES: 10. LEADER OF THE HUNT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He who began it all
Last Line: Though I stare the sun in the face
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Escapes; Hunting; Prisons And Prisoners


CASUALTIES: 15. EXODUS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They flee the altar who in
Last Line: The miracle of a generation
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Escapes; Farewell


CLIMBING TO REACH THE COSTLY HEARTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He ran away from earth
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1566; Poem: 162
Subject(s): Escapes


CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono
Last Line: I placed her %between my clothes in my packed suitcase. %that is how we left him %forever
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence


DEMETER, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first thing you know
Last Line: Ignoring the dreams of wallpaper
Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Escapes; Parents


DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And hemlocks bow to god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 475; Poem: 71
Subject(s): Escapes


DR. EGG: 7 DR. EGG ON INDEFINITE LEAVE, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: He takes off
Last Line: His young children %marooned in their sleep
Subject(s): Escapes; Psychology


EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador
Last Line: Not even the jews
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War


ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood as one enchanted
Last Line: Fled down the mossy way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty


ESCAPE, by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just a little while to wait,' she said, 'and I'll be back'
Last Line: "she may come again or stay away, I shall not care at all!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Tanaquil, Paul
Subject(s): Escapes; Love - Loss Of; Fugitives


ESCAPE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, let me go where no children are!
Last Line: Help me to go where no children are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Escapes; Stars; Fugitives


ESCAPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But I was dead, an hour or more
Last Line: O life! O sun!
Subject(s): Death; Escapes; World War I; Dead, The; Fugitives; First World War


ESCAPE, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After so many hours spent in the room,
Subject(s): Houses; Escapes; Fugitives


ESCAPE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is too much with us
Last Line: That only we need understand?
Subject(s): Escapes


ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep pools there are, pools quiet and still
Last Line: And yet cannot escape from you?
Subject(s): Escapes; Lakes; Memory; Moon; Stars; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds


ESCAPE, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When foxes eat the last gold grape
Last Line: The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Escapes; Fairies; Fugitives; Elves


ESCAPE IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE, by LYNN KOZMA    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Escapes


ESCAPE IS SUCH A THANKFUL WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon this trusty word
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1347; Poem: 136
Subject(s): Escapes


ESCAPE OF COUNT FERNAN GONZALEZ, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have carried afar into navarre the great count of castile
Last Line: Their swords shine bright, infanta, -- and every blade is thine'
Subject(s): Escapes; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714)


EXODUS, by JAIME TORRES BODET    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came from the terror and tumult
Last Line: On a soil that yesterday was a country
Subject(s): Escapes; Immigrants


FOR ME AT SUNDAY SERMONS, THE SERPENT, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming lightly, perfectly
Last Line: The ticket out
Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives


FOR ME AT SUNDAY SERMONS, THE SERPENT, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming lightly, perfectly
Last Line: The spark, the road, %the ticket out
Subject(s): Escapes


GET OUT OF TOWN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Get out of town before it's too late
Last Line: A thousand miles from water and as far from wood
Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives


GETAWAY GIRL, by TERRY ANN THAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the house, peak-roofed
Last Line: After dress %out of the branches
Subject(s): Escapes; Girls


HARRY DALE AND OLAF CUBB, by J. E. LIDDLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two men I knew met in a pub
Last Line: And out of it by coach that night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward
Subject(s): Betrayal; Crime & Criminals; Escapes; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Fugitives


HIMMY'S OUTING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Himmy went to market
Last Line: For his breakfast food.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Escapes; Forests; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives; Woods


HIPPOLYTUS: CHORUS, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O for wings
Last Line: And keep her spirit inviolate.
Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives


HOUDINI, by ELI W. MANDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I suspect he knew that trunks were metaphors
Last Line: With all his chains singing around his feet %like the bound crowds who sigh, who sigh
Subject(s): Escapes; Houdini, Harry (1874-1926)


HOW SHALL I SAVE YOU FROM DROWNING?, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The answer is always the same. %- no-one
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Escapes; Man-woman Relationships


IN HEAVEN'S ALLEY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tap the double drop
Last Line: The limb of a birch %stitch another white sail in the rain
Subject(s): Cities; City Traffic; Escapes


IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset: a smattering of rain
Last Line: Has something important to sing about %and all the warm night to sing it in
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Escapes; Nature; Vacation


LAMENT FOR THE TYRONIAN AND TYRCONNELLIAN PRINCES BURIED AT ROME, by OWEN ROE MAC AN BHAIRD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O woman of the piercing wail
Last Line: The blood of conn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Owen Roe Mac Ward
Subject(s): Escapes; Ireland; Lament; O'donnell, Rory (1575-1608); Fugitives; Irish


LAY OF THE CID: THE CID'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They spake these words and starightway the tent ungathered then
Last Line: Most solemnly that I will chant a thousand masses here
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Escapes; Horseback Riding; Travel


LIFE THAT TIED TOO TIGHT ESCAPES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If he is caught at all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1535; Poem: 155
Subject(s): Escapes


LONG JIM, by R. HOLT    Poem Text                    
First Line: We'd made a lively start away when 'mulga' had cut-out
Last Line: "it's time, I think,"" said mayne, ""for us to clear."
Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Escapes; Fights; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Fugitives


MAD ATTACK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bless them that curse you, he said
Last Line: Of rain. She dodged and danced and walked away %with her good name.
Subject(s): Curses; Escapes; Walking


MANGOES AND HONEY, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We met at the junction of
Last Line: Down by street and street
Subject(s): Escapes; Lies; Love - Cultural Differences


MARION LEE, by BERNARD ESPINASSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To 'the wanderer's rest at the foot of the rise
Last Line: And they say 'tis the ghost of poor marion lee.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Deception; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters


MORGAN, by EDWARD HARRINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When morgan crossed the murray to peechelba and doom
Last Line: "should heed the boobook's warning: ""go back, go back, go back!"
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Prudence; Dead, The; Fugitives; Caution


NO ESCAPE, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A form of aggression towards yourself %--pema chodron
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Change; Escapes; Grief; Loss; Self


ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cherish'd captive, ere thy tender wing
Last Line: Thy voice, thy pinion, for the skies unfit?
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Birds; Escapes; Larks; Fugitives; Skylarks


ON NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once fairly set out on his party of pleasure
Last Line: Making balls for the ladies, and bows to his foes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Escapes; Fugitives


OUT OF BABYLON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stole out of babylon beyond the stolid warders
Last Line: Dreaming of earth's loveliness, happy to be free!
Subject(s): Babylon; Escapes; Faith; Freedom; Morality; Music & Musicians; Fugitives; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Ethics


PARISH, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God only knows what he'd been doing. Painting or sewing?
Last Line: Of them vanishing into the hills.
Subject(s): Death; Escapes; Morticians; Dead, The; Fugitives


PLAY IN WHICH DARKNESS FALLS, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two girls runaway from the home. They have a revolver
Subject(s): Roussel, Raymond (1877-1933); Girls; Escapes; Death; Fugitives; Dead, The


POSSUM SONG (A WARNING), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Simmons ripenin' in de fall
Last Line: Run, brudder 'possum, run!
Subject(s): Escapes; Hunting; Fugitives; Hunters


REWARD, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Run away from this sub- / scriber for the second time
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Escapes; Black Heritage; Serfs; Fugitives


RUN-AWAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hospital has brought her back
Last Line: It looks like when you're in the a place %like this, you're forgotten
Subject(s): Escapes


RUNAWAY, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sara breaks eggs on the empty day ahead
Last Line: The blackest wave waits with sharp teeth
Subject(s): Escapes


RUNNED AWAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear sis: I wrote this noat to say I've been an
Last Line: Hiding in the stable.
Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Escapes; Family Life; Letters; Sisters; Half-brothers; Childhood; Fugitives; Relatives


RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was so certain yesterday
Last Line: I'll hurry home to mother now.
Subject(s): Children; Escapes; Fear; Solitude; Childhood; Fugitives; Loneliness


RUSH HOUR, by BRUCE A. JACOBS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My honda drops
Subject(s): Automobiles; Escapes; Family Life; Racism; Cars; Fugitives; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SAVING MY SKIN FROM BURNING, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a hole in the ground once; there was a manhole
Last Line: Into a pillow; I lay on my back recovering
Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives


SAVING MY SKIN FROM BURNING, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a hole in the ground once; there was a manhole
Subject(s): Escapes


SOME ARROWS SLAY BUT WHOM THEY STRIKE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too trackless for a tomb
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1565; Poem: 166
Subject(s): Escapes


SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out
Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup.
Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism


THE CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Fugitives


THE ESCAPE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another yard! Another foot! And then another inch!
Last Line: Then melted in another way than girls are wont to melt.
Subject(s): Escapes; Man-woman Relationships; Fugitives; Male-female Relations


THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dreadful city's roar
Last Line: Far from these clattering stones.
Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds


THE ESCAPED GORILLA, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he walked out in the park that early evening
Subject(s): Apes; Escapes; Zoos; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives


THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're my friend
Last Line: Amen!
Subject(s): Marriage; Escapes; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Fugitives


THE HOUR, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dark, thick branch in the last light is like
Last Line: Go fireflies striking their soft, yellow lights.
Subject(s): Activity; Dusk; Escapes; Evening; Hope; Exercise; Fugitives; Sunset; Twilight; Optimism


THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard
Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity!
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives


THE INHABITANTS, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early night and the evening bus
Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives


THE JANITOR'S BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy
Last Line: "with the janitor's red-haired boy."
Subject(s): Escapes; Janitors; Love - Beginnings; Fugitives


THE KELLY GANG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, paddy dear, and did you hear"
Last Line: I'll bid you all farewell
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;escapes;heroism;hunting; Fugitives;heroes;heroines;hunters


THE LEAP FROM THE LONG BRIDGE; AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now rest the wretched. The long day is past
Last Line: And her sorrow and bondage are o'er.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Escapes; Slavery; Washington, D.c.; Fugitives; Serfs


THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maiden through the favouring night
Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer.
Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives


THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF ROBERT ALLAN, THE FIREMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on october the fourteenth day
Last Line: And be sure to escape the pains of hell.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Escapes; Fire; Firefighters; Heroism; Fugitives; Heroes; Heroines


THE PRICE OF A KISS, by ELISE ESPINASSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the ranges dip down to the plain at their base
Last Line: Tis the smile he bought, maybe, that's still on his lips!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters; Convicts


THE REBEL, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I must look to see where I can run
Last Line: You are free.
Subject(s): Escapes; Prisons & Prisoners; Revolutions; Fugitives; Convicts


THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny
Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go back—my girl is american born.
Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians


THE RUNAWAY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall
Last Line: "ought to be told to come and take him in."
Subject(s): Animals; Escapes; Horses; Fugitives


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 WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock
Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow!
Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery


THOSE WHO FLEE INTO THE NIGHT...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: By the cowl of thorns
Subject(s): Escapes; Night


TO A YOUNG WRITER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cry, if you will. I'd say, though, rather than
Last Line: The knifey bunch are out to cut you down.
Subject(s): Escapes; Smiles; Tears


TWO LINES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM; FOR LARRY AND JUDY RAAB, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now we must get up quickly
Last Line: Move about, lighting the stove.
Subject(s): Escapes; Fairy Tales; Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863); Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859); Fugitives


UNBUNGLING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He unbungled his wife and hit the road
Last Line: Several familiar %children of god.
Subject(s): Escapes; Marriage


UNCLASSIFIED POEM: 1, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High on the terrace are sad strong winds
Last Line: But its shape and shadow were suddenly gone, %its swift wingbeats wound my heart
Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Escapes


WALKAWAY, by GREG RAPPLEYE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bobby runs from the day room
Last Line: The endless stupid drone of it
Subject(s): Escapes; Freedom; Sickness


WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door
Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream.
Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence
Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab


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