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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FATE Matches Found: 343 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BILIOUS DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: One day I stalked, when fate had balked Last Line: The same I'll recommend. Subject(s): Fate; Friendship; Destiny A CHALLENGE TO FATE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why will you vex me with your futile conflict Last Line: My frail, serene, indomitable soul. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny A DIZZYING SURMISE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if that fieriest substance - found so late Last Line: When the loosed afreet towered against the spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 10 Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Hate; Life; Love; Destiny A FABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A raven, while with glossy breast Last Line: But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Subject(s): Fate; Ravens; Destiny A GIRL'S FAITH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the miles that stretch between Last Line: Whose smile shall wake my world to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Girls; God; Life; Belief; Creed; Destiny A GRACE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Weary and wishful of the woods, we hear Last Line: Always thyself abideth, calm and strong! Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists A MOOD, by MABEL N. LAWSON Poem Text First Line: So much of good lives in this world Last Line: Else god would not have so decreed. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny A NIGHTMARE, by ELIZA OGILVY Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I was sick and sore at heart Last Line: And still the pulse beat stronger for the pain. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Pain; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny; Suffering; Misery A PINDARICK, TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: I've toucht each string, each muse I have invok't Last Line: A female breast did ne're before commence. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE LITTLE ANNUITANT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: He has departed by the road, the poor man, summoning up such Last Line: So opportunely comes? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny A SINGER OF THE BUSH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is waving of grass in the breeze Last Line: And the combat I sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fate; Singing & Singers; Spring; Destiny A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize Last Line: For after dying all reprieve's too late. Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Love; Destiny A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High state and honours to others impart Last Line: So give up my game. Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Love; Destiny A SONG OF FATE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Life is short, the sea is wide, my sweet. Our eyes will rarely meet 'tis Last Line: And our love and your long waiting true and the new love that will come to you. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Destiny; Songs A THROW OF THE DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A throw of the dice Last Line: All thought emits a throw of the dice Subject(s): Disasters; Fate; Luck; Shipwrecks; Destiny AD AMICOS; MOUNT CUBA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes an hour of fate's serenest weather Last Line: The happy song that cares not for its fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faith; Fate; Hope; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Optimism AD ASTRA: 124, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Each hath a certain calling, each his sphere Last Line: And living as beneath the eye of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fate; Destiny AD ASTRA: 136, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We who are in the world are of the world Last Line: Impenetrable mists before, behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fate; Destiny ADVENTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I loved my garden; in its cloistered plot Last Line: Nor turn dismayed from unknown fate. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses; Sea Voyages; Destiny AGAINST THE GATE OF LIFE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: As mute against the gate of life you sit Last Line: A miracle to men! Subject(s): Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Memory; Destiny ALCESTIS: CHORUS. THE STRENGTH OF FATE, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven-high musings and many Last Line: Hail, lady, be gracious to usward; that alway her honor abide. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny ALHAMBRA SONGS: 2. IN THE BOOTH OF THE STORY-TELLER, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Upon a stream which from alhambra down Last Line: Ay, ay di mí!—the stars are fated so!— Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Fate; Spain; Destiny ALLEGORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that pass so swiftly o'er the downs Last Line: Must in the end be borne beyond the shore. Subject(s): Clouds; Fables; Fate; Sea; Allegories; Destiny; Ocean ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, who now was half asleep Last Line: Here! Jonathan, your master's bottle. Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Sleep; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unhappy a lover am I Last Line: For the souls to meet closer above. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 7 Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nymphs; Dead, The; Destiny; Optimism AMPHITRYON: PASTORAL DIALOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyrsis: fair iris and her swain Last Line: And fear not to be poor. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Kisses; Plays & Playwrights ; Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists AN ARTIST'S APOSTROPHE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Too often they linger apart Last Line: Shall faint, fade, and perish. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Fate; Life; Truth; Destiny AN ECLOGUE OCCASIONED BY TWO DOCTORS DISPUTING UPON PREDESTINATION, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Jolly thyrsis, whither in such haste? Last Line: Pan's cornet's blown, and the great sheep-shear's kept. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be darker soon, colder. You see Last Line: To do was wait, and everything was time Subject(s): Change; Evolution; Fate; Universe; Destiny AN OLD MAN'S ASPIRATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O glorious sun! Whose car sublime Last Line: And mine old age attest its meliorating power! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Aging; Faith; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Belief; Creed; Destiny APAUKEE, THE HALF BREED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apaukee, the half-breed, rode on the edge of the canyon Last Line: And claws of the coyote could not defile it. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fate; Love; Native Americans; Tears; Destiny; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My head by the maiden swarthy but fair Last Line: To bear heaven's dispensations. Subject(s): Bodies; Fate; Kisses; Tears; Destiny APPLICATION, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest daughter, of two dearest friends Last Line: And bade me imitate the turtle's flame.' Subject(s): Daughters; Fate; Love; Destiny ARACHNE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch her in the corner there Last Line: But day by day I spin my shroud. Subject(s): Fate; Insects; Spiders; Destiny; Bugs AT BAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desperate, at last I stand Last Line: But to greet you hand or fist. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Fights; Life; Destiny AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE GROUNDS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Pause passer, and thy thoughts a moment bend Last Line: As they whose girdles wear the keys of fate. Subject(s): Fate; Heaven; Destiny; Paradise ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, and mumma? Ah, poor mumma Last Line: "from the snow-white clouds advancing." Subject(s): Fate; Love; Women; Destiny ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are beautiful to the mother as we go Last Line: Sleeping bodies are not alone. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Ignatow, David (1914-1997); Rebirth; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Destiny BAD PLACE, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: The story is that the dacotah would never make their camp Last Line: Which route you take, you have to walk through on your %way home Subject(s): Fate BALLADE: 30, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All ye that know of care and heaviness Last Line: That it stunned their song thorough all the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery BEFORE THE JUDGMENT-SEAT, by SHIHO OKAMOTO Poem Text First Line: A little heart to judgment-seat was brought Last Line: "with this fair, cruel sister I will dwell!" Subject(s): Duty; Fate; Destiny BITTER-SWEET, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just to give up, and trust Last Line: Surely, now, the bitter is sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Fate; Destiny BLACK MESSENGERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some blows in life so hard...I don't know! Last Line: There are some blows in life so hard...I don't know Subject(s): Curses; Fate; Hunger; Poverty BLACK SWANS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie at rest on a patch of clover Last Line: By a mighty power with a purpose dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Birds; Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness BODY AND SOUL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor soul doth to the body say Last Line: Greet him from me a thousand times. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny BOUND AND FREE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, love! Come on the wings of the wind! Last Line: That you must be bound, love, and I must be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Love; Wind; Youth; Destiny; Liberty BROKEN WINGS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-headed poets, whom the full years bless Last Line: Immortal lays. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny BURDENED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! There is no sadder fate in life Last Line: You are but a weak woman at the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Women; Destiny; Ocean CANCION, by JUAN II Poem Source First Line: O love, I never, never fought Last Line: Til now, alas! I know it Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Fate; Love CARNAGE: 6. DESTINY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are what we imagine, and our deeds Last Line: And dream from that despair — democracy. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Democracy; Fate; World War I; Destiny; First World War CATHERINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beauteous star arises o'er my night Last Line: Their ghostly scent still haunts my bosom. Subject(s): Fate; Kisses; Life; Night; Stars; Destiny; Bedtime CHARADE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What a glorious city! -- behold Last Line: But the warfare is over: there's peace in my third! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The; Destiny CHIGWELL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: School that, in burford's honoured time Last Line: Tho' not quite all vexation. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; Schools; Writing & Writers; Destiny; Students CHIGWELL REVISITED, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deputed by the tuneful nine Last Line: And wormwood at the bottom. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Time; Dead, The; Destiny CINQUAIN: FATE DEFIED, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As it / were tissue of silver Last Line: Like the moon. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny CITIES OF ELD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the orient uplands afar Last Line: And even their gods unknown. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Dancing & Dancers; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Destiny CLAUDE MATTHEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steadfastly from his childhood's Last Line: By this divine promotion of his death. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Tears; Youth; Dead, The; Destiny COMFORT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou o'er the clear heaven of thy soul Last Line: Eternal rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Comfort; Fate; Hope; Life; Soul; Destiny; Optimism COMMUTERS, by ADELE M. RYERSON Poem Text First Line: They faintly smile or weakly grin Last Line: "of knowing they have to return on the ""5:15"" train." Subject(s): Commuters; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips COUCY-LE-CHATEAU: THE ARRIVAL AT COUCY-LE-CHATEAU, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I said, 'I shall behold white cloudlets, round and fair, in traversing Last Line: Hour when one dines, while the city fans itself with circling flights of doves! Subject(s): Fate; France; Destiny CURSE THE THORNS OF FATE, by RUHI Poem Source First Line: Curse the thorns of fate, and damn as well its roses and its garden Last Line: Remain with allah -- think not of life, nor pray for the delights hereafter Subject(s): Fate; Future Life DAN PAINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend of mine, whose chiming name Last Line: Smile on me just as now, dan paine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Friendship; Summer; Destiny DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate! Fortune! Chance! Whose blindness, hostility or kindness Last Line: Death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Fate; Fortune; Pain; Dead, The; Destiny; Suffering; Misery DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DESTINY, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours Last Line: Lies open onward to eternal day. Variant Title(s): Somewhere Subject(s): Fate; Destiny DESTINY, by LUCIA CATHERINE GRAEME GRIEVE Poem Text First Line: I was not made to turn to dust Last Line: Enough! God spake, and here am I! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DESTINY, by EMMA E. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It seems but yesterday Last Line: Unto your chosen destiny. Subject(s): Children; Fate; Parents; Childhood; Destiny; Parenthood DESTINY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like winds or waters were her ways Last Line: But craving for its sister soul. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny DESTINY, by HELEN A. SAXE Poem Text First Line: We are born! Last Line: Swayed by his will, and in the hollow of his hand! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny DESTINY, by RUTH SLONIM Poem Text First Line: Somewhere in the vague beyond Last Line: Of an unnurtured soul. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny DESTINY, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was then that destiny decided to take me by the hand Subject(s): Fate; Destiny DESTINY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft had a melancholy star Last Line: The splendor of the morning star. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fate; Destiny DESTINY, by CHARLOTTE TALLEY Poem Text First Line: Together in youth Last Line: Too late -- it was you! Subject(s): Fate; Regret; Destiny DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray, daughter of henry murray Last Line: And know her better, knowing merival. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Hunting; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Hunters DROWNING IS NOT SO PITIFUL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the bewildered gymnast Subject(s): Drowning; Fate DUST AND DESTINY, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dusts of ages cover Last Line: Of oblivion. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny EARTHENWARE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: Those gourmets on olympus Last Line: They palmed it off-gods, pimped us!- %thus dishing out our fate Subject(s): Fate; Mythology EROS TURANNOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She fears him, and will always ask Last Line: Where down the blind are driven. Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Destiny; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ESSENCE, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Poem Text First Line: Out of the darkness - a light Last Line: Only the world's staunch lover! Subject(s): Despair; Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Destiny EVENT OF THINGS NOT IN OUR POWER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By time and counsell, doe the best we can Last Line: Th'event is never in the power of man. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faith of years is broken Last Line: Once bound my soul to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Women; Belief; Creed; Destiny FALL, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the fall, the eternal fall of water Last Line: The way is clear, the end we shall not know, %the sea will carry us where tides run and currents flo Subject(s): Fate FANCY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fancy, if thou flyest, come back anon Last Line: A netted halcyon bird to sing of rest. Subject(s): Birds; Fate; Love; Rest; Destiny FAREWELL, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell!' another gloomy word Last Line: Without it? Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Farewell; Fate; Language; Poetry & Poets; Parting; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FATE, by W. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: When I picked up her glove Last Line: I let fate decide it Alternate Author Name(s): W. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK Poem Text First Line: Three steps and I reach the door Last Line: Know faces seen long before. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mist-strange mountains at the horizon line Last Line: The omened pinions of the wing of fate! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how I know Last Line: Oh, be nigh! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Dead, The; Destiny FATE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the man sits fast his fate Last Line: Is the same genius that creates. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is clouded, the rocks are bare Last Line: Was swallowed up in the earthquake shock. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by IBN ABDUN Poem Text First Line: May allah pardon us Last Line: We gather to our doom. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by BERTHA Y. KRAMER Poem Text First Line: On such a little thing our future hinges! Last Line: A spoken word, a careless note dispatched. Subject(s): Fate; Future; Soul; Destiny FATE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The steps of fate are dark and terrible Last Line: The heaven which is our future and our home. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lugh made a stir in the air Last Line: And my pipe yet new. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wide bare field 'neath blinding skies Last Line: Trail on and on, because they must. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: What time is it Last Line: That's why they gobbled him up Subject(s): Fate; Suicide FATE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudwrack o'er the heaven flies Last Line: We wither 'neath the vampire wing. Subject(s): Fate; Mourning; Destiny; Bereavement FATE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease your spinning, busy fate Last Line: "turning discord into song." Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Source First Line: Once I planted some potatoes Subject(s): Fate FATE, by SUSAN MARR SPALDING Poem Text First Line: Two shall be born the whole wide world apart Last Line: And die unsatisfied -- and this is fate! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FATE, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two shall be born the whole wide world apart Last Line: The broadway cable car - and this is fate! Subject(s): Fate FATE IS A CRUEL AND PROFICIENT POTTER, by VIDYA Poem Source First Line: Fate is a cruel Last Line: What he intends to produce %I cannot tell Subject(s): Fate FATE SLEW HIM, BUT HE DID NOT DROP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Acknowledged him a man Subject(s): Fate FIRST WORDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I tell thee, dear, what never words Last Line: The shifting of the changeful lights of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Language; Love; Pacific Ocean; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FLOWERS SLEEP BY THE WINDOW, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Destiny counts the clock ticks in decimals Subject(s): Fate; Silence FOES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank fate for foes! I hold mine dear Last Line: He guards me ever with his hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies; Fate; Hate; Life; Sin; Destiny FOR THE FUTURE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder did you ever count Last Line: Sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fate; Future; Life; Love; Destiny FORSAKEN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not buy my happiness Last Line: And pass me by. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FORTUNE IS LIKE THE MOON, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But my fate, on some throbbing wheel of god Last Line: She melts and comes again to nothingness. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FORTUNE! WHY THUS, WHERE'ER MY FOOTSTEPS TREAD, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: More keenly piercing proves, more dazzling bright Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Fate FROST AND HIS ENEMIES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When robert frost set down a poetic whim, Last Line: Or a patch of snow or the steeple of a church. Subject(s): Fate; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Innocence; Irony; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Destiny FUTURE, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: It will be one of those nights, cold Last Line: It will be that kind of night Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Solitude GOD'S WILL, by MILDRED HOWELLS Poem Text First Line: God meant me to be hungry Last Line: Deep in the earth's dark breast. Subject(s): Fate; God; Destiny GOETHE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose voice shall so invade the spheres Last Line: And made one talent ten! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Life; Poetry & Poets; Destiny HAMLET, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: He would see all, this thinker! He would see Last Line: Sink into nothing while he stares at fate. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Destiny HAP, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If but some vengeful god would call to me Last Line: Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. Subject(s): Fate; Social Protest; Destiny HE SHALL NOT DREAD MISFORTUNE'S ANGRY MIEN, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The lofty spirit and enduring heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Fate; Perseverance HELICOPTERS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: This is a city of the dead and dying Last Line: Shiver in your sleep and dream of helicopters Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fate; Rest HEROIC MAMBISA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Are you real? Last Line: I'll be more you. %I'll be more me. %I'll be more cuba. %in silence, %so you can understand me Subject(s): Cuba; Fate; Heroism; Latin America - History HON. JESSE HOLDOM OF CHICAGO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the great lake's pride Last Line: And the waning sun sink low. Subject(s): Babies; Fate; Fear; Future; Past; Infants; Destiny HORIZONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man whose ships never come home Last Line: And night -- and stormy circumstance. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Destiny; Ocean HOW M'GINNIS WENT MISSING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us cease our idle chatter Last Line: Going drifting out to sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fate; Rivers; Sea; Sleep; Tears; Destiny; Ocean HYMN TO CHANCE, by HOWARD PHELPS PUTNAM Poem Source First Line: How shall we summon you? Last Line: We travel in the belly of the wind; %it is you, lord, who will make us lame or swift Alternate Author Name(s): Putnam, Phelps Subject(s): Fate I AM NOT DONE YET, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As possible as yeast Last Line: Most of my lives is %where I'm going Subject(s): Fate I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I keep life's rendezvous Subject(s): Fate; Life I WOULD NOT HAVE IT SO, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I dreamed the world was wiped out in a day Last Line: Of mighty change — I would not have it so. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny I WRITE THE LIFE OF A WOMAN, SELS., by LOURDES ESPINOLA Poem Source First Line: Upwind from destiny Last Line: And a camellia %of fire between your legs Subject(s): Fate; Women ICE LAKE, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: Again I have been brought Last Line: I am destined to encounter and endure Subject(s): Fate; Ice; Lakes IN THE GARDEN OF TIME AND DESTINY, by NABI Poem Source First Line: In the garden of time and destiny, we have seen both Last Line: Who have exchanged a cup full of their desires for a beggar's bowl Subject(s): Fate; Time INEVITABLE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has been will be Last Line: Fore'er, without a flaw. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny INTO THE HEART OF LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am feeling my way into the heart of life Last Line: Soon or late! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Destiny IT MIGHT BE LONLIER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To perish — of delight — Subject(s): Solitude; Peace; Fate JESUS WEPT, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: At eve he rested there amidst the grass Last Line: And was consoled — then to his shelter crept. Subject(s): Consolation; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Jesus Christ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Destiny JOHNNY RIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny right, his hand was brown Last Line: Her own self had evoked her fate. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Human Behavior; Optimism; Pessimism; Fate; Alcoholism & Alcoholics K.K. - CAN'T CALCULATE, by FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER Poem Text First Line: What poor short-sighted worms we be Last Line: That 't ain't worth while to try. Subject(s): Cynicism; Fate; Nature; Destiny KISMET, by GERALD MCMAHAN Poem Text First Line: The roots of fate lie in the past Last Line: Who strive not whilst they dwell? Subject(s): Fate; Destiny LACQUER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Destiny rolls over me. Sometimes like an egg. Sometimes Last Line: We live only for a flash. Until the lacquer dries Subject(s): Fate LIFE-PHILOSOPHY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly to wait whatever chance may give Last Line: And the skies fall. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Time; Destiny LINES ON FORTUNE, A SKILFUL MECHANIST, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune, my foe, why dost thou frown on me? Last Line: I'll walk, I'll mount -- I'll be a man again. Subject(s): Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery LOVE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who veileth love should first have vanquished fate Last Line: Though watched of the divine hesperides. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Male-female Relations 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 LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way. Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots MASTERY, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate? I met her long ago Last Line: Stood and whipped her with a smile! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny MAY-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it is may! Last Line: Intimate, ever-renewed, than the circle of shallower changes. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; May (month); Memory; Destiny MEETING BY ACCIDENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As midas is of gold Variant Title(s): Poem: 1548; Poem: 157 Subject(s): Fate MEJNUN AND LAILI (AFTER THE PERSIC), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged at the breast of anguish, nursed Last Line: And toward the desert ran. Subject(s): Arabia; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MIRIAM'S EXHORTATION TO HER MINION, by H. GUNTHER Poem Text First Line: Twas not without design it happened so Last Line: To leave a name unique in fame for all time. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny MISERERE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of fortune I envy not Last Line: For ever -- o miserere. Subject(s): Catholics; Fate; Fortune; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Destiny MOTTO TO 'FATE', by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delicate omens traced in air Last Line: Is the same genius that creates. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability. Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces MY DEMAND, by MARION L. BERTRAND Poem Text First Line: Life, deliver up to me / all fate has Last Line: I, a starveling, know you're right! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny NATURE'S INSURGENTS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye mighty powers that haunt us Last Line: Shall find us restful still. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Nature; Tears; Destiny NOVEMBER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the day Last Line: Climbing the heights of heaven, to stand supreme at his solstice! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; November; Destiny OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIFE OF EPICTETUS, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: Poor epictetus, born the slave of fate Last Line: Of every spark of good we think or do. Subject(s): Epicetus (60-140); Fate; Heaven; Life; Stoicism; Destiny; Paradise ODE TO A THISTLE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Naught in fell or field, I trow Last Line: And salute thee reigning. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Love; Sin; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness ODE: IN IMITATION OF HORACE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, deluded, albion, wilt thou lie Last Line: And europe is redeemed, and william reigns! Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Heaven; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Paradise ODES I, 11, SELS., by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fate ODES X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If o'er life's sea your bark you'd safely guide Last Line: Learn wisely to contract the swelling sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Storms; Wisdom; Destiny; Ocean ODV; FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FATE OF ABRAHAM ISAACS OF IVY LANE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "true 'tis p t, and p t 'tis, 'tis true" Last Line: An s a unto death Subject(s): Alphabets;death;fate;sin; "dead, The;destiny; OEDIPUS, SELS., by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fate is the master of everything - it is vain to fight against faith Last Line: Leaping to avoid it - he meets it Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Fate OF BEING NUMEROUS, 8, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Amor fati / the love of fate Subject(s): Fate; City & Town Life; Destiny OH! THOSE ALONE WHOSE SEVERED HEARTS, by ; Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The presence of delight! Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Perseverance; Fate ON MY LEAVING LONDON, JUNE THE 29TH, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What cross impetuous planets govern me Last Line: And be to all the busy world as lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Fate; London; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery ON SEEING A DROWNING MOTH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little moth! Thy summer sports were done Last Line: Men make their fate, and do not fate obey. Subject(s): Fate; Moths; Destiny ON THE PROMENADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O joyous idler in the sun Last Line: O youthful dreams that come no more! Subject(s): Fate; Health; Tears; Wealth; Youth; Destiny; Riches; Fortunes ONE OF MANY (1), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have not done the things I know Last Line: That we, and not our stars, our fates assign. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Fate OSCAR C. MCCULLOCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would best please our Last Line: To all humanity -- our nobler lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Obituaries; Dead, The; Destiny OUR DEAD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is our own: we hold our pleasures Last Line: And, to save our treasures, claims them all. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Destiny OUR DOOM TO BLOOM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cumaean sibyl, charming ogress, Last Line: Unless ‘twould rather wilt than fade Subject(s): Fate; Destiny PARTING, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strangely planned in this strange life of ours Last Line: God keep thee, love! Alas! 'twas not to be! Subject(s): Farewell; Fate; Parting; Destiny PERMANENT GLORIA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wrought my work - more durable than steel Last Line: And bind his brows with laurel ever green. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Muses; Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise PETALS CHOOSE, by CHESTER ANDERS FEE Poem Text First Line: Two wild rose petals from a single stem Last Line: In rhythm to its final singing. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny PITILESS FATE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in my dream a wonderful stream Last Line: And lady and lover, and all together. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny POEM INTENDED TO INCITE THE UTMOST DEPRESSION, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Cervantes, dosteoevsky, poe Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Fate; Poetry And Poets POSSESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which we had we still possess Last Line: For what was ours we still possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Fates (mythology); Life; Property; Soul; Destiny; Possessions POSSIBILITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As day doth live beyond the sunset skies Last Line: And 'mid the wheels of fate a living god. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny PREDESTINATION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no peace for the blowing leaf Last Line: That he shapes his ways to his own desire. Subject(s): Fate; Predestination; Destiny PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime PRINCIP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there, a lad of nineteen years Last Line: Princip, with nineteen years, can you not tell? Subject(s): Assassination; Fate; Guns; Nations; World War I; Destiny; First World War PROCRUSTES'S BED, by BEATRICE HANSCOM Poem Text First Line: A grecian myth tells of a giant grim Last Line: Fitted to fate by force of circumstance. Subject(s): Fate; Mythology; Procrastination; Destiny PROLOGUE OF LABERIUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whither hath destiny (whose current strong) Last Line: Save the poor legend of a tomb -- my name Subject(s): "caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.);fate;roman Empire;" Destiny PROVIDENCE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little drunk he walked back slowly Last Line: & then the door slammed firmly behind him Subject(s): Fate PUB-SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So that is what they say? Last Line: What is there left to repent? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Fate Q & A, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where analgesia may be found to ease the infinite, minute scars of the day Subject(s): Fate; Destiny QUATRAIN: FATE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her planted eye to-day controls Last Line: That curse her when they come. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny QUITE BY CHANCE, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She flung the parlour window wide Last Line: Happen somewhere every day. Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RAINY-DAY NOTES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rasping rain runs down the pane Last Line: Anon, some hint of rapture? Subject(s): Fate; Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Rain; Destiny; Male-female Relations READ YOUR FATE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A world's disappearing. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny REMEMBER, FATE, by RALPH W. HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Remember, fate, though you should tear apart Last Line: May give a fool the skill to be a man. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny REMINISCENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the crumbling cliff we ate or meal Last Line: "when destiny cried ""wait!" Subject(s): April; Fate; Heaven; Love; Memory; Destiny; Paradise REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE MARRIAGE OF THE OISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Here, where are grouped fin-d'oise, maurecourt, andresy, conflans Last Line: O poesy, o poesy, o poesy! . . . Subject(s): Death; Fate; Marriage; Dead, The; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REVOLT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, and the world moves with you Last Line: That cower in the fold. Subject(s): Fate; Revolutions; Destiny RICHES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a pretty good world when I figure it up and balance the profit and loss Last Line: The love of a woman, the faith of a friend, and the smoke of a good cigar. Subject(s): Fate; Wealth; Destiny; Riches; Fortunes RISING VENUS, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have it wrong Last Line: Survives, strong and free, %engendering her own destiny Subject(s): Fate; Life RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O caves, and you, o springs Last Line: Of whoso hears. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise SALTBUSH BILL'S GAMECOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas saltbush bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way / to town Last Line: Remarked, 'discharged with a clean discharge -- the assault was justified!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Cooking & Cooks; Fate; Sin; Camps; Summer Camps; Destiny SARK OF THE LEEWARDS, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wreck of all that's solid, big and fine' Last Line: "again the choice was mine, all mine! Amen." Subject(s): Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Destiny; Seamen; Sails SHORT ENCOUNTER, by EDITH BERKSON Poem Source First Line: She sat on a bench, awaiting her bus Subject(s): Fate SIC SEMPER INSURANTIBUS, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre-habited / one stood without my door Last Line: The screams of one who ran to get himself insured. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Dead, The; Destiny SOLDIERS OF PEACE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the brave that first forget Last Line: One future, just and free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Peace; Soldiers; Tears; Destiny SOMETIMES FATE WILL STEAL A BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Soft as a bundle of rags Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Children; Fate; Nature; Old Age SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye little loves that round her wait Last Line: And haughty strephon scorns to die Subject(s): Fate; Destiny SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I took in my hand Last Line: Grows in weight Subject(s): Fate; Man-woman Relationships SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I took in my hand Last Line: Grows in weight Subject(s): Fate SONG, by ELIZABETH WILMOT Poem Text First Line: Nothing adds to loves fond fire Last Line: Your love, fond fugitive, to gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, Countess Of; Malet, Elizabeth Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG: 22, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, poor man, what hap have I Last Line: To love above my poor degree. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG: 95, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune doth frown Last Line: By destiny. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Destiny SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 22, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since by ill fate I'm forced away Last Line: Behold your picture in my heart. Subject(s): Absence; Charm; Eyes; Fate; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 26, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since, moggy, I mun bid adieu Last Line: Ought to be wretched ever. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny SONNET TO G. H. B., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You comfort me as one that, knowing fate Last Line: Some demon works unseen, and saps the pile. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Fate; Grief; Love; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO MANON: PRAISE OF HIS FATE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear others speak of this and that Subject(s): Fate; Destiny SONNET: 2, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How every hope of ours is raised in vain Last Line: Death only standeth fast for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Hope; Fate; Death SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 8, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You were not born to hide such gifts as yours Last Line: Like harlequin, and makes his jests his trade. Subject(s): Fate; Genius; Destiny SONNET: ANAGKE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a great rock which looming o'er the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Fate; Destiny SONNET: THE MOCKERY OF LIFE: 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then fate strikes us. First our joys decay Subject(s): Fate; Destiny SONNETS: 3. MAN AND THE ELECTRIC THEORY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the souls of men as moonbeams lashed Last Line: Death doffs our robes; we sleep; we may not die! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Nature; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean SONNETS: 4. VICTOR HUGO, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That hour the titan corsican first dared Last Line: Hope fired all plains and pinnacles of time. Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Time; Destiny; Optimism SONNETS: 9. GEORGE MEREDITH, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woven of sunlight was his deep romance Last Line: Triumphant fugues athwart life's tragic bass. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Nature; Soul; Destiny SORCERY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Because they taught her %to be silent Last Line: To peddle destiny %with words Subject(s): Fate SPHINX MOTH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: A moth the size of a hummingbird Last Line: And a silky smear from another world Subject(s): Fate; Poetry And Poets; Shadows ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No protesting, dearest! Last Line: Ghost-bereft! Subject(s): Disillusion; Fate; Decay; Destiny; Rot; Decadence STARTLED, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: A startled sparrow startled me Last Line: Your fate's no worse than that of man. Subject(s): Birds; Fate; Worms STERRA GAR ANAGKH' HEGUBA, 1295, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze into her loved eyes, and behold Last Line: "thus surely: "" ' fate is stern! '" Subject(s): Fate SUNKEN TREASURES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the uneasy waves of life subside Last Line: And bring a single jewel from its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; Tears; Treasures; Destiny TABULA SECUNDA IN NAUFRAGIO, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Poore heart, what is this poorer world to thee? Last Line: Unlesse omnipotencie can be crost. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness TALKING WOMAN, by HELEN OLSEN Poem Source First Line: It was his fate Last Line: Which drove him mad Subject(s): Fate; Women TERMINUS, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: They say our fates are fixed in dna Last Line: Let starchy angels chant, 'quantum mutatus!' Subject(s): Fate THE AFFIANCED ONES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou weep'st, and on me look'st, believing Last Line: Dear corpse, for ever fare thee well! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE ASTROLOGER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! For our ancient believings Last Line: But happiness still is to come. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Fate; Destiny THE BEACHCOMBER, by MILDRED DOSCH BANTA Poem Text First Line: He had not always meant to be Last Line: When better talents you could give? Subject(s): Ambition; Beachcombers; Fate; Destiny THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I quarrel not with destiny Last Line: The best is good enough for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Quarrels; Secrets; Destiny; Arguments; Disagreements THE BURDEN BEARER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing the sky on his back Last Line: On him as doubt of his fate. Subject(s): Fate; God; Mankind; Rest; Destiny; Human Race THE CHILD OF DESTINY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hero-heart of the enchanted isle Last Line: And shaking foamy heads toss the great ocean steeds. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Destiny THE COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone she sat with her accusing heart Last Line: To loathe her beauty and to curse her fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Truth; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones THE COST, by PANSY E. HOWELL Poem Text First Line: O fate, is it true that you can't take flight Last Line: And for stranger keep a welcome door. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE COURSE OF TIME: A CONTRETEMPS, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And as the anatomist, with all his band Last Line: The insult offered to his clay in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Fate; Immortality; Destiny THE DECEIVED LOVER SUETH ONLY FOR LIBERTY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If chance assigned / were to my mind Last Line: My death, or life with liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 33 Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fate; Freedom; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Liberty THE DEFINITION OF LOVE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My love is of a birth as rare Last Line: And opposition of the stars. Subject(s): Absence; Fate; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny THE ENGINE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the gloom of the deep, dark night Last Line: Alone will carry you through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Night; Soul; Truth; Destiny; Bedtime THE FABRIC, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: She could untangle without scandal Last Line: The structure into little bits. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE FATE OF THE HESSIAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who blusters along with his clattering blade Last Line: And field, camp, and prison knew friedrich no more! Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Legends; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Destiny THE FINAL FREEDOM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the grim end, no prison for me Last Line: "one with the wind and sky and sea." Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Love; Sea; Destiny; Liberty; Ocean THE FLOWER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not see at that hour Last Line: The blindness -- the blindness -- that ruined me! Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Moon; Night; Rain; Destiny; Bedtime THE FLOWER-GATHERERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where a brook with lisping tongue Last Line: Forgets he had a course to run. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Mothers; Destiny THE GOAL, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: We do not travel on beyond the place Last Line: With wings all spread to fly at one lone call. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Travel; Destiny; Journeys; Trips THE HAPPY MAN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I alone, the heavens decide, gain full felicity. Pray whither shall I Last Line: How to sing everything. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Happiness; Dead, The; Destiny; Joy; Delight THE HERO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What doth he ask? Last Line: Till a miracle putteth that fire out. Subject(s): Fate; Heroism; Destiny; Heroes; Heroines THE HOUREGLASSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Once as I in my study sate & saw Last Line: Triumphs o'r time by sure eternitie. Subject(s): Fate; Time; Destiny THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INEVITABLE, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the man who faces what he must Last Line: Who by a life heroic conquers fate. Variant Title(s): Conquering Fate Subject(s): Courage; Fate; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Destiny; Theology THE LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Celia and I the other day Last Line: I with thee, or without thee, die! Subject(s): Fate; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Destiny; Ocean THE LAST COACH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before her mirror in a pouting mood Last Line: This humble coach did stop before their gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fate; Waiting; Destiny THE LAW OF KARMA, by SYLVIA O'DESSIE HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: I go about my tasks today Last Line: We feed our hungry soul. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE MACCABEAN, by HORACE MEYER KALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether of fate, or by the hand of man Last Line: Flash like the sun into the clouded sky. Subject(s): Fate; Heroism; Jews; Destiny; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE MEADOW WHERE ALL THINGS GROW ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN DESIGN, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Destiny lies behind our forces Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE NOSTOMANIAC, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam Last Line: Go to my fate -- who knows, who knows! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE OLD GENTRY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That all from adam first began Last Line: Himself can fix or change his fate. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Fate; Labor & Laborers; Destiny; Work; Workers THE PATH OF TEARS: 5. IF YOU WERE DEAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were dead I should not weep! Last Line: O love, at last! Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Love; Destiny 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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 91, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hateful destinies cloud the eye Last Line: Recognize the king of things Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fate; 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 JOURNAL: IF LOVE SHOULD COME AGAIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If love should come again, I ask my heart Last Line: And silently we parted for repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Destiny THE POWER OF DESTINY, by MARY WHATELEY Poem Text First Line: Sure some malignant star diffused its ray Last Line: Had saved the poet from -- the poet's curse. Alternate Author Name(s): Darwall, Mrs. John Subject(s): Fate; Poetry & Poets; Destiny THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE QUESTION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is it enough to feel the opal spring Last Line: It is enough? Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Life; Soul; Destiny THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Last Line: And that has made all the difference. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: ACT 3, SCENE 1, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What to conceal desire, when every Last Line: Whose sight I have not courage to abide. Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Love; Passion; Plays & Playwrights; Destiny THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: PROLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Critics, ye are grown so much unkind of late Last Line: So may you still be fair, your lovers ever true. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Fate; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Destiny THE SANCTUARY: 2. THE ILLUSION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you may be as all men say Last Line: The very vision of god's dwelling-place. Subject(s): Fate; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SECRET PLACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I shake off the outer things Last Line: I fare me forth my fate to greet. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Love; Rhyme; Soul; Nightmares; Destiny THE SENTINEL OF THE AGES, by IBBIE MCCOLM WILSON Poem Text First Line: Under shining, under shadow Last Line: Brother to the prince of peace. Subject(s): Fate; God; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Judaism THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the funeral march. I did not think Last Line: A mere machine of murder. Subject(s): Fate; Funerals; God; Mortality; Murder; Religion; Soldiers; Destiny; Burials; Theology THE SWISS COTTAGE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gastric graces of pall mall Last Line: Is bright illumination. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny THE TIGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still jungle of the senses lay Last Line: The wakened tiger will not sleep again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Fate; Passion; Tigers; Destiny THE TRAITOR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Judas am I, or peter Last Line: And my love looking at me! Subject(s): Betrayal; Faces; Fate; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Love; Night; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Silver; Destiny; Bedtime THE TRIPLE LEAGUE TO MRS. SUSAN DOVE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Pensive eliza lately sat Last Line: That charming iris still is mine. Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Friendship; Soul; Eros; Destiny THE ULTIMATE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, of old, a chief died in the north Last Line: To the windless, unoared ultimate. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean THE ULTIMATE (2), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So this is the ultimate Last Line: Towards eternity! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Reason; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean THE ULTIMATE NATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once babylon, by beauty tenanted Last Line: She makes his ways her ways eternally? Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Fate; God; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sin; Dead, The; Destiny THE UNKNOWN TREK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Ye passed not this way heretofore Last Line: The unknown trek is thine,—explore! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Destiny THE UNLUCKY URCHIN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the shore of an island far away Last Line: "represses and chains the brave and great!" Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE WAKING (2), by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strolled across / an open field Subject(s): Fate; Waking; Destiny THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries. Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She had hair gold as her father's corn Last Line: She had sweet eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fate; Destiny 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 THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone Last Line: Lost in the infinite. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone Last Line: Lost in the infinite. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THIS MERIT HATH THE WORST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than it resists — the hound Subject(s): Fate THOUGHTS ON PREDESTINATION AND REPROBATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flatter me not with your predestination Last Line: Cætera desunt. Subject(s): Fate; Predestination; Destiny THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star Last Line: The couch is flowered for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THREE FATES: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O masquer, are you loth love sleep Last Line: To make the bed for you. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Destiny THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing? Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise THREE PRAYERS OF TELEMAKHOS: 3., by BILL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The hyades riding with the sun bear Last Line: I am wanton, I'm at sea, I am home Subject(s): Fate; Home; Sea TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO A LADY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for thy little god of love Last Line: And a memorial of thy donor. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Love; Eros; Destiny TO A PERSON TALKING OF 'REAL LIFE', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so you really hold Last Line: Go -- find a girl -- and see! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Fate; Jesus Christ; Life; Stars; Destiny TO A SHIP'S MAST, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You did not dream of ships, o mountain pine Last Line: So much we mortals know of destiny! Subject(s): Fate; Ships & Shipping; Destiny TO BE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Last night, a man knew Last Line: When the unguarded lion got greedy %and stood perfectly still Subject(s): Boys; Fate; Mankind TO BEAR WHAT IS, TO BE RESIGNED?, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have flung itself, and kissed thee dumb! Subject(s): Fate TO CAMDEN, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One fayre par-royall hath our iland bred Last Line: Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore Subject(s): Death; England; Fate; Islands; Sea; Dead, The; English; Destiny; Ocean TO FATE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Though you should toss one up to heaven Last Line: Which rose or fell? Subject(s): Fate; Destiny TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate laid upon you silence and the night Last Line: God knows that I am with you in this fight! Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Destiny; Optimism TO MARY ELLIOTT FLANERY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When looking down the vista Last Line: Wherever you may go. Subject(s): Fame; Fate; Memory; Reputation; Destiny TO MERAN'S NORTHERN MOUNTAINS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm Last Line: Retain, as well, the sweetness of the rose. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Mountains; Soul; Destiny; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO MUTIUS, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: A thousand great resolves, as great Last Line: With his eternal doom. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Mutability; Pride; Destiny; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO ONE THAT ASKED ME WHY I LOV'D J.G., by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I love? Go, ask the glorious sun Last Line: That I shou'd love, and he shou'd be ingrate. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Love; Rivers; Dead, The; Destiny TO THE EXCELLENT MRS. ANNE OWEN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are complete, and fate hath now Last Line: Be kept with us perpetuall holy day! Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Nations; Owen, Anne (lewis) (1633-1692); Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones 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 TO THE POSTMAN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Most welcome of all sights and sounds Last Line: One note ere day departs! Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Life; Memory; Postal Service; Destiny; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO THE URANIAN APHRODITE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My days pass wreathed in dreams while time's dim room Last Line: Hope's rainbow gleamed through foam of troubled seas. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Fate; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical; Time; Destiny TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master of human smiles and human moan Last Line: To live for love, and for love's sake to die. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Praise; Smiles; Dead, The; Destiny TO WILLIAM COWPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never hath gentler soul or purer heart Last Line: To thy meek sons, or make thy sages kind. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul; Destiny; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always on the eve of departure Last Line: Lo! This is thy fate, o blest one! Subject(s): Fate; Destiny TRAIN RIDE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things come to an end; / small calves in arkansas Last Line: No, they go on forever. Subject(s): Arkansas; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TRANSLATION OF A SONNET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In those eyes that glisten as in pity for my pain Last Line: "on my lips the breath is fleeting - can it, will it long remain?" Subject(s): Fate;pity; Destiny TRIOLET, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: How dared he do it Last Line: To kiss those girls! Subject(s): Courtship; Fate; Kisses; Destiny TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 9. THE SAILING OF THE SWAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate, that was born ere spirit and flesh were made Last Line: The light and sound and darkness of the sea. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Tristram And Isolde; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones TRIUMPHUS; OR, THE VANQUISHMENT OF FATE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I sat upon the sad sea wall Last Line: Then rise, o soul, and claim thy crown! Subject(s): Fate; Victory; Destiny TWO PRELUDES: 2. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate out of the deep sea's gloom Last Line: Fate. Subject(s): Fate; Roundels; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Ocean TWO RIDDLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sphinx was a monster that would eat Last Line: And runs away at last on four? Subject(s): Egypt; Fate; Oedipus; Riddles; Sphinx; Destiny UNABLE TO FIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right way to get out of bed Last Line: Make plans for summer -- winter even. Subject(s): Activity; Fate; Future Life; Longing; Morning; Exercise; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life USELESSNESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let mine not be that saddest fate of all Last Line: "she lives, but all her usefulness is past." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Trees; Dead, The; Destiny VERSES UNDER THE PICTURE OF FORTUNE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fickle seat whereon proud fortune sits Last Line: Of such as trust to fortune or to fate. Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Destiny VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilome the sisters nine were vestall maides Last Line: From common trulls, and loathsome brothelry. Subject(s): Fate; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Temples; Destiny; Mosques VOYAGERS, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: While we're still on the journey, I want you to know Last Line: With memory, here or afar, so we'll know it. Subject(s): Fate; Sea Voyages; Destiny WAKING (2), by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strolled across %an open field Last Line: Sang in my veins %that summer day Subject(s): Fate; Waking WALES: A GREETING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild land beyond sabrina's wave Last Line: The ever-climbing footsteps of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Wales; Dead, The; Destiny; Welshmen; Welshwomen WE COME BACK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, on this day of the first hundred flowers Last Line: In the pause of fate, the threading of the year Subject(s): Fate; Destiny WE COME BACK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, on this day of the first hundred flowers Last Line: In the pause of fate, the threading of the year Subject(s): Fate WE NEVER KNOW WE GO, - WHEN WE ARE GOING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And we accost no more Subject(s): Fate WHAT PUZZLES ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something I'm awfully anxious to know Last Line: That you is you, an' me is me. Subject(s): Children; Curiosities & Wonders; Fate; Mothers & Sons; Childhood; Enigmas; Oddities; Destiny WHEN MY TURN COMES, by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: When my turn comes, dear shipmates all Last Line: All the long night through. Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Destiny; Seamen; Sails WHY?, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet white flower peeped Last Line: May whisper why. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny WILL (1), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no chance, no destiny, no fate Last Line: And waits an hour sometimes for such a will. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean WILLIAM BROWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bore the name of william Last Line: All but the name of william brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; God; Dead, The; Destiny WINDMILLS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Yonder, borne onward by the strong wind's breath Last Line: A spiritual type, la mancha's knight! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Sailors And Sailing WINTER RAIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling upon the frozen world last night Last Line: I look straight in the world's bold eyes, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Rain; Winter; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness WOOD AND STONES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent trees above my head Last Line: May well give speech to stones and wood! Subject(s): Fate; Nature; Stones; Trees; Wood; Destiny; Granite; Rocks YOUNG FATE, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harmonious me, disparate from a dream Last Line: And burns in the somber goal of my yawning marble. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Fate; Nightmares; Destiny |
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