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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EXPERIENCE Matches Found: 38 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AS YOU CAME FROM THE HOLY LAND, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of western new york state Subject(s): Emptiness; Experience; Time BIRTHDAYS AND MILESTONES, by KATE M. CHIDESTER Poem Text First Line: Birthdays are milestones Last Line: At setting of sun. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Experience; Poetry & Poets CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CLOSED EPISODE, by MARY N. S. WHITELEY Poem Text First Line: Let this experience / be a picture thrown Last Line: Of something past that once was very fair. Subject(s): Experience; Memory; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals COLOR OF DUST, by THEODORE OLSON Poem Text First Line: Now I have learned this much at twenty-five Last Line: Before the dark -- and may it not be long. Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted Subject(s): Dust; Experience EDUCATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had lived many years when first I met Last Line: But oh, to feel the youth my age could hold! Subject(s): Death; Education; Experience; Grief; Knowledge; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EXPERIENCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need for you to cheer or nerve Last Line: That where I stand all beauty is the same. Subject(s): Experience; Growth EXPERIENCE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: No pain can nullify the boon of birth Last Line: And fretful for the fleshpots left behind. Subject(s): Experience EXPERIENCE, by MAUDE HICKS HICKMAN Poem Text First Line: A weary old man goes by astumbling Last Line: "I dwell in the past -- I am history." Subject(s): Experience EXPERIENCE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: One loved me once, I cannot tell you how Last Line: Insidious sin stole innocence away! Subject(s): Experience; Innocence EXPERIENCE BOWS A SWEET CONTENTED FACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Touches, embraces, hugs the invisible Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Experience EXPERIENCE TO LET, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Experience is a futile teacher Last Line: I'd trade my lack of experience %for just one drop of common sense Subject(s): Experience HISTORY LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Our bedroom becomes his new room. And it becomes him, this boy Last Line: Cause and effect medication. Can the pharmacist help us with the %dosage? Are there any contraindica Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Child Psychology; Children; Experience; Orphans; Psychoanalysis I'VE NEVER LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How about ninety billion galaxies Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Experience; Learning; Nature; Universe INNER SENSE OF CLOSURE ANOTHER DAY, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An inner sense of closure in unfamiliar experience - not yet apparent in Last Line: Recognized regret and another day Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Experience MY CLOAK, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I took / some bits of life Last Line: I wear. Subject(s): Experience; Life; Self O TRAVELER, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: O traveler, what trenchant wonder Last Line: And crowned you with a curse? Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips O'CLOCK: 16, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where twigs are breaking stones Subject(s): Experience O'CLOCK: 16, by FANNY HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where twigs are breaking stones Last Line: Half of every experience is lack of experience Subject(s): Experience OLD MASTERS, by JOHN ALEX LATTA Poem Source First Line: Dare to remain remote, indifferent to the theorizing frenzies and polemical Last Line: Formal listing. The ironist's rubric rarely red and closure is like 'is,' an %already expendable lur Subject(s): Experience; Language 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 PERPLEXED MUSIC, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Experience, like a pale musician holds Last Line: And, smiling down the stars, they whisper -- sweet. Subject(s): Patience; Experience POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 5. EXPERIENCE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Grateful the liquid, which I swiftly swallow Last Line: Killed at a moment of great gallantry. Subject(s): Experience PROGRESSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The resonance of wind and wave Last Line: The heart's experience only knows. Subject(s): Experience; Growth QUAE NOCENT DOCENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh? Might my ill-passed hours return again Last Line: But sage experience only comes with years. Subject(s): Experience SELF AND LIFE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Changeful comrade, life of mine Last Line: Life is justified by love. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Experience; Life; Love; Self SOME ONE ELSE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live my life over? I would rather not Last Line: And were I you, I might improve on yours. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Errors; Experience; Life; Mistakes; Fallacies THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore do the poor complain? Last Line: And these have answer'd thee! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Experience; Pain; Poverty; Reason; Wealth; Suffering; Misery; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Riches; Fortunes THE LAST DEMAND, by FAITH BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Life, you have bruised me and chilled me; fate, you Last Line: I demand to conquer memory! I demand that I — forget. Subject(s): Aging; Experience; Life; Memory; Wisdom THE OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Steadfast and serene Last Line: Old man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Experience; Life; Old Age; Wisdom THE OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Experience; Bedtime THE ROAD, by GEORGE ROBERT MCKEITH Poem Text First Line: What if I cannot see the road Last Line: And reach the final goal! Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WORLD'S WONDERS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being now three or four years more than sixty Last Line: Crawls in; and a tortured jew became god Subject(s): Modern Life; Experience THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence TO EXPERIENCE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hung out with me till I was eleven years old Subject(s): Experience TO EXPERIENCE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hung out with me till I was eleven years old Last Line: I'm no angel. I'm with you if you ring or if you crack the bell Subject(s): Experience TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Howe'er, 'tis well, that while mankind Last Line: I, phillis, but a perjured whore. Subject(s): Death; Experience; Fame; Fate; Mankind; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny; Human Race VIEWS OF LIFE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom Last Line: And bliss shall reign for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Experience; Hope; Youth; Optimism |
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