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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FATHERS Matches Found: 1382 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1945, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year in the pacific Subject(s): Fathers; War 1945, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year in the pacific Last Line: - ah jeanie, you're still in words Subject(s): Fathers; War 50 POEMS: 34, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father moved through dooms of love Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Consolation; Fathers 50 POEMS: 34, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father moved through dooms of love Last Line: Love is the whole and more than all Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Consolation; Fathers A BABY IN THE HOUSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that a baby was hid in the house Last Line: I am sure, very sure, there's a babe in that house. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Mothers; Infants A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A BALLAD OF LANCELOT, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By coasts where scalding deserts reek Last Line: The look, the soul of guinevere. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Despair; Fathers & Sons; Grail; Lancelot Du Lac; Love; Loyalty; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Holy Grail; Graal A BILL TO MY FATHER, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am typing up bills for a firm to be sent to their clients Last Line: And my father sends it Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Fathers A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A CABIN IN THE CLEARING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't believe the sleepers in this house Last Line: The kindred spirit of an inner haze Subject(s): Houses; Pilgrim Fathers A CHRISTMAS CHILDHOOD, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One side of the potato-pits was white with frost Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Fathers; Childhood; Nativity, The A CUBAN DREAM IN THREE PARTS, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dreaming again Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cuba; Fathers A DAUGHTER'S FEVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark ivy draws a wave across the yard Last Line: Small fingers curl. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A DAUGHTER'S MEMORY, by MARY L. LAWSON Poem Text First Line: My father, by the simple stone Last Line: That soar from earth beyond the sky. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A DESERTER, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their new landlord was a handsome man. On his rounds to collect rent she became friendly Subject(s): Desertion & Nonsupport; Jealousy; Fathers & Daughters; Suicide A FAMILY RECORD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to myself this breath of vesper song Last Line: Take my last offering ere I cross to thee! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers & Sons; Heritage; Heredity A FATHER OF WOMEN: AD SOROREM E. B., by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father works in us Last Line: Now that your sons are dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Butler, Elizabeth Thompson (1844-1933); Fathers & Daughters; Women's Rights; Feminism A FATHER ON THE MARSH, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poet's Biography First Line: My older boy said, 'let's make soup' Subject(s): Fathers A FATHER READING THE BIBLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas early day, and sunlight streamed Last Line: That home where god is felt! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bible; Fathers A FATHER TO HIS MOTHERLESS CHILDREN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gather closer to my side Last Line: Dear, smitten flock, good night; Subject(s): Fathers A FATHER'S DILEMMA, by E. PEARL DANCEY Poem Text First Line: He did not know that I was in the woodshed Last Line: You shouldn't disillusion little folks . . . About their dad! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A FATHER'S PRAYER, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, you have given me a son Last Line: A fit example for a son. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer A LAMENT ON HIS FATHER'S DEATH, by LIU HENG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look up, the curtains are there as of yore Last Line: Oh, where were the gods when that great hero died! Subject(s): Fathers; Orphans; Foundlings A LETTER FROM BROOKLYN, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old lady writes me in a spidery style Subject(s): Fathers A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer nights I sleep naked Last Line: On the day of the resurrection Subject(s): Fathers; Jews; Judaism A LITTLE TOOTH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Your baby grows a tooth, then two Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A MAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listened to them talking, talking, Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fathers A MAN TAKES HIS DAUGHTER, AGE 5, TO A PUBLIC EXECUTION BY GUILLOTINE, PARIS, 1857, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a bad man. He says this in french Last Line: Daddy, I still can't see the puppets Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Guillotines; Paris, France A MAN WITH SONS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come back with a heaped-shopping basket Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A MAN'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old woman who looks each night Last Line: But years of dread. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A MEETING WITH MY FATHER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father came to me in one of the intermissions Subject(s): Fathers A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A MOUNTAIN MOTHER, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me my son must die Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Death - Fathers; Revenge A PARAPHRASE ON THE LORD'S PRAYER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father which art in heaven - / 'father' - to think of his paternal care Last Line: "till life becomes a practical ""amen." Subject(s): Fathers; God; Prayer; Rosary A POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I have an appointment to see the assistant Last Line: To be terrified by that thought and its possibilites Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A POEM FOR EMILY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants A POEM FOR MY FATHER, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad it must be / to love so many women Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A POEM FOR MY FATHER (96 YEARS OLD ON FEB. 29, 2000), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With exact wings Subject(s): Fathers; Childhood Memories A POET'S DAUGHTER, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks the minstrel's rhyme.' a lady asks? There was a time Last Line: All bard can give. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets A PRAYER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh heav'nly father! Gracious god above! Last Line: Which is not thee, or in thy spirit wrought. Subject(s): Fathers; God; Prayer; Soul A PRAYER FOR BILL, by M. REES Poem Text First Line: When me and bill wuz ridin Last Line: Wouldn't do to foller me. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Growth; Pine Trees; Trees A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PRAYER FOR MY SON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid a strong ghost stand at the head Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Poetry & Poets; Prayer A PRESENTATION OF TWO BIRDS TO MY SON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chicken. How shall I tell you what it is Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Birds A REQUIEM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, listening to music, that's me Subject(s): Fathers; Opera A SENSE OF DIRECTION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was moonless the night I drove my son Last Line: Am shivering in its draft. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Maps; Mothers & Sons A SKATING LESSON, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mother brought her halfway Last Line: Upright, devoted pupil Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Fathers & Daughters A SON'S LETTER TO HIS DEAD FATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am writing this to you Last Line: "up there somewhere in the silence, hear me, dad, and believe me / sincerely" Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A STORY, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad is the man who is asked for a story Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer A STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you were exchanged in the cradle and Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer A SYMPATHY, A WELCOME, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feel for your bad fall how could I fail Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A TOURIST AT ELLIS ISLAND, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found him, jankel olenik, Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration A VARIATION, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son who is stranger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A VISITOR, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, for example, / who was young once Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A WAR-LULLABY; AUGUST, 1916, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire dwindles and the wind moans Last Line: Baby soon will be asleep. ... Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fear; Marriage; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WEEK IN A BOY'S LIFE, by JACQUES BOE Poem Text First Line: Chill was our sky: the swallows all had fled Last Line: Beside his darling's grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Jasmin, Jacques Subject(s): Abel; Boys; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Prayer; Dead, The A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN WAKING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wakens early remembering Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives A YOUTH TO HIS FATHER, by WALTER R. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Too long a fledgling in the nest Last Line: So loose the bonds: I must go free. Subject(s): Fathers ABOUT INFINITY; AFTER H.H., THE 17TH KARMAPA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are stonebreakers in straw hats Last Line: Running in a running stream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; Dead, The; Nightmares ABOUT MY FATHER, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He became a teetotaler out of his socialist convictions, during Last Line: And wounded, but got back to warsaw alive %he believed in resistance Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Fathers; Warsaw Ghetto ABOUT TO FLY AWAY, by YMITRI JAYASUNDERA Poem Source First Line: My back is jammed on the door Last Line: You couldn't navigate, the boat turning and turning, %the oars crushing the flowers Subject(s): Boats; Fathers; Travel ACCIDENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them. Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains ACCOUNTING OF STOCK, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come here, little girl, come here! Last Line: They're so well adjusted for hugging your dad! Subject(s): Bodies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood AD ASTRA: 37, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O little hands and feet! O heart of mine! Last Line: Thy heart is mine, and beauty dwelleth there! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Hearts; Love; Infants ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want." Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips ADDRESS TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, DORA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou then survived Last Line: And reason's godlike power be proud to own. Variant Title(s): Asked And Answered Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ADIRONDACK SOUNDS, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I put the words in his mouth Last Line: I say to him paradise %and hear the pure word Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Youth ADVENTURES APLENTY LAY BEFORE YOU, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know what an innocent I am Last Line: Too cold to resist Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER DARK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are falling asleep and I sit looking at you Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters AFTER DARK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are falling asleep and I sit looking at you Last Line: At the last, your hand feels steady Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To lie in your child’s bed when she is gone Last Line: Who finds you here and lies down by your side Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters AFTER MAKING LOVE WE HEAR FOOTSTEPS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: For I can snore like a bullhorn Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Fathers; Men; Prayer AFTER MAKING LOVE WE HEAR FOOTSTEPS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I can snore like a bullhorn Last Line: This blessing love gives again into our arms Subject(s): Erotic Love; Fathers; Men; Prayer AFTER THE LONG ILLNESS, by TODD HELDT Poem Source First Line: More interesting than pneumonia Last Line: Coiled into that ball of fever, or buried in his chest Subject(s): Change; Fathers; Pneumonia; Sickness AFTER THE SEPERATION, DAD TAKES ME TO THE DANCE FOR THE DEAD, by MIRA CHIEKO SHIMABUKURO Poem Source First Line: At eight, we strung rope across oregon Last Line: Each light longing, on its line Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Daughters AFTER THE WHITEFELLAS CAME, by WILLIAM STONEKING Poem Source First Line: The son chases lizards Last Line: Moves inside %the humpy Subject(s): Fathers And Sons AFTERLIFE, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm older than my father when he turned Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Abortion AFTERNOON OF A MCGRATH, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning there was one mcgrath in aitken county Last Line: Dark holes in space I must recognize as home Subject(s): Fathers; Names; Sons; Towns AGAIN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was such darkness in him then. And I repeated Subject(s): Fathers; Illness; Mortality AGAINST PLURALISM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will you point to? In the needle's eye, Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Disappointment; Relationships; Divorce; Half-siblings; Relatives AGING FATHER LOSES HIS CHILDREN, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: A hitherto placid river stirred Last Line: Off sohre, near the beach, %where he breathed Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Fathers; Survival AJAX: CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair salamis, the billow's roar Last Line: The deepest, bitterest curse thine ancient house hath borne! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical ALICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! There's music here Last Line: To welcome thee I wait -- blest mother! Come to me. Subject(s): Deafness; Fathers & Daughters; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness ALL DAY, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning Last Line: Into the sea Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Thomas, Helen (1920-2013) ALL MY PRETTY ONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ALL MY PRETTY ONES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, this year's jinx rides us apart Last Line: Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, %bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion ALL THE WOMEN POETS I LIKE DIDN'T HAVE THEIR FATHERS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thanking you, ben for letting me be one Last Line: And haunts Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets ALONG THE NILE, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: What delight %to swim along the oozy, snoozy nile Last Line: Not - %so - %snoozy nile Subject(s): Animals; Fathers AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing & Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's left is the tiny gold glove Last Line: Holding his body up to pain Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing And Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping AMBITION, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy says his father wants to be a smurf Last Line: Now that the father wants his identity based on %something the son understands Subject(s): Ambition; Fathers; Marriage; Mothers; Secrets AN AFTERWORD TO MY FATHER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still the wood I knocked on Subject(s): Fathers & Sons AN ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has hiw own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AN ELEGIAC THOUGHT OF MRS. ANNE WARNER: MRS. WARNER ARRIVES ABOVE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her ancestors (a pious race) Last Line: "die, and partake my bliss; we are for ever one." Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mortality; Waiting; Paradise ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships AND ONE FOR MY DAME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A born salesman, / my father made all his dough Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; United States; America AND ONE FOR MY DAME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A born salesman, %my father made all his dough Last Line: Its highways built up like new loves, raw and speedy Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; God; Religion; United States ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have a boy of five years old Last Line: Of what from thee I learn. Subject(s): Fathers ANNUNCIATION, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: In this photo %she is blonde, blanched almond Last Line: Exotic, holy, %an infinite abacus of bees Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Wishes ANTHROPOLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the night you got drunk / and shot the roses? Last Line: For the archer’s bow to become a violin Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fathers; Guns; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ANTIQUE FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something Last Line: If you ever knew Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Secrets; Silence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ARALUEN (2), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep Last Line: Other hands will come and tend them -- other friends in other hours. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has his own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer ARRHYTHMIA, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't exercise my heart but watched Last Line: A beat every blessed second of my life Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Life; Track Athletics AS IF ENDING, by JAMES RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Because kate stood, face pushed to the screen Last Line: Took its long place on the water, %ending nothing, since nothing ends Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters AT MY FATHER'S GRAVE, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlicht still on me, you row'd in clood Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Fathers AT MY FATHER'S GRAVE, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlicht still on me, you row'd in clood Last Line: And ony sma'er thocht's impossible Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Fathers AT ONE AGAIN: 7. FATHERS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Move through the bowering hops, o lovers, -- Last Line: Let the matters rest between us -- rest Subject(s): Fathers AT SAN GABRIEL MISSION, by JAMIE O'HALLORAN Poem Source First Line: My father's knee fails him into a wrong genuflection Last Line: Skewer the walls to keep it all standing Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Missionaries And Missions AT THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was / nearly six my Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories AT THE WASHING OF MY SON, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: I ran up and grabbed your arm, the way a man Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %I help my dad Last Line: My dad %and I Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters AVE ATQUE VALE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat on the edge of the bed Last Line: How can you abandon me you %the one who loved me most Subject(s): Fathers B-24, by SUE ELLEN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: My father in his yankee airforce cap Last Line: And a man near the end of his life %who yields to its dark embrace Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Fathers BABY MAY, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cheeks as soft as july peaches Last Line: That's may bennett; that's my baby Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers & Daughters; Infants; Childhood BACH, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Six days a week my father sold shoes Last Line: Just in time he said, 'that's beautiful.' Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Fathers; Music And Musicians BALDWIN, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lie in bed listening Subject(s): Fathers & Sons BALLAD OF MU-LAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tsk, tsk, and tsk, tsk Last Line: But when two hares run side by side, %who can tell if I'm a boy or girl? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fathers And Daughters; Soldiers BALLAD OF THE MONKLAND COTTAR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's no a tale o' luve I sing Last Line: Was never ance forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Fathers; Livingstone, David (1813-1873); Marriage; Prisons & Prisoners; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts BANISHED FROM MASSACHSETTS; 1660 (PAINTING BY E. A. ABBEY), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the threshold of his pleasant home Last Line: The gain was theirs, the loss alone was thine. Subject(s): Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911); Exiles; Paintings And Painters; Pilgrim Fathers BARE FEET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulnerable, bare feet of old men Last Line: Is bearable but filling it brings tears. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thunder woke me to the early dark, I lay awake listening Last Line: Even the barrier of a blessing. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fear; Lightning; Love - Marital; Lightning Rods; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BATH TIME, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: Bath time is my favorite time Last Line: By the time my bath is over, though, %everything is wet! Subject(s): Fathers BECOMING A DAD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old women say that men don't know Last Line: "it's no cinch to become a dad." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers BED, by KENDRA BORGMANN Poem Source First Line: I used to sleep in a bed my father made Last Line: Down, pages split, the frame holding his place Subject(s): Beds; Fathers; Sleep BED, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's new wife was looking out a window Last Line: And woman as god had made them, almost %my parents, in love Subject(s): Beds; Fathers; Relationships BEDTIME, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Read me a story, %please read me to sleep' Last Line: As long as I know you are near' Subject(s): Fathers BEDTIME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Usually I stay up late, my time Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sleep BEDTIME RITUAL, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: I need another cookie, dad Last Line: Now I'll lay down my head Subject(s): Fathers BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Last Line: Under the coronal of sugar roses %the queen bee marries the winter of your year Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers And Daughters; Insects BEFORE THE FUNERAL, STILL AT THE HOME, by BETH SIMON Poem Source First Line: Because my father wears a yarmulke Last Line: My father punching the porch guard rail Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Funerals BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since it always begins Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): World War I; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Time; First World War; Heritage; Heredity BEING DAD ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They've hung their stockings up with care Last Line: To be their dad on christmas eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Christmas; Fathers; Nativity, The BELL, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: While the air is rejoicing in perfect stillness Last Line: Depths of the immense and muddy kiang Subject(s): Bells; Fathers And Daughters; Labor And Laborers; Legends BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was such speed in her little body Last Line: Lying so primly propped. Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Funerals; Social Protest; Death - Babies; Burials BEST WAY TO READ A BOOK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best way to read a book I know Last Line: For him who reads them to his boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Fathers & Sons; Reading BEYOND HARM, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A week after my father died Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Death; Dead, The BEYOND HIS REACH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He looked at his children, all nine Last Line: And loved his children like he loved question-marks. Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Love BIG THINGS, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: There's no need to court Last Line: Whether it is with us or without us Subject(s): Fathers And Sons BIRTHDREAM (5), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Just before dawn my father came to say goodbye Last Line: A golden song from stone Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Farewell; Fathers BLIND MAN'S HOUSE, by PAUL KELLER Poem Source First Line: This was her father's couch in the house of her father Last Line: His daughter's footsteps pass down the hall, %loving her Subject(s): Blindness; Fathers And Daughters; Sex BLISTERS, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father had them on his hands Last Line: His blessed offerings to hard work Subject(s): Fathers; Labor & Laborers BLOOD SOUP, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw father alive he was using Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Soup; Dead, The BLUE COLLAR, by TONY GLOEGGLER Poem Source First Line: He never showed me how to get down, stay Last Line: A hand through my hair, went upstairs to bed Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Labor And Laborers BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the lord by night Last Line: His way home to the mark. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America BOY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is in his room sulked shut. The small Last Line: May sons forgive the fathers they obey Subject(s): Fathers & Sons BOY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is in his room sulked shut. The small Last Line: May sons forgive the fathers they obey Subject(s): Fathers And Sons BOY AND FATHER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Mothers BOY AT THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It is heavy as a stone he tells himself like any rock in the field Last Line: Of the mind Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Fathers And Sons; Prairies BOY AT THE WINDOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the snowman standing all alone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Snowmen BOY AT THE WINDOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the snowman standing all alone Last Line: Such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer BOYS BUILDING MODEL BOATS, by RICHARD MORRIS DEY Poem Source First Line: The shavings fall away like leaves Last Line: All fathers and sons in the family tree Subject(s): Boats; Boys; Fathers BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the window, my girls are eating eggs and cereal Last Line: Except a hard one and want me to decide Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Dogs; Contests BRIEF HISTORY OF FATHERS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do we miss a thing we love Last Line: His empty eyes, a cold wind %coming on like dementia Subject(s): Fathers; History; Love BRIGHTNESS AS A POIGNANT LIGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tread the dark and my steps are silent Last Line: Perhaps to view itself in me Subject(s): Fathers BROTHERS: 4. IN MY OWN DEFENSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What could I choose Last Line: Could they have failed to hear. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Sin; Half-brothers BRUISES, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: My father's life is the sound of one hand Last Line: Hand, held out, makes the sound of one hand clapping. Listen Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Daughters BUDGIE BABIES, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Budgie babies slumber soundly Last Line: Dream of daddy in their sleep Subject(s): Animals; Fathers BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Last Line: Behind bar blinds we were caged, %some motes of sunlight cathedrally beaming Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers And Daughters BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness CAGE, by SUSAN YUZNA Poem Source First Line: My father was named for st. Francis of assisi, Last Line: His name, the skull of an animal, pulled down over his face. Subject(s): Fathers; Names CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this is what it means Last Line: My brother is. Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land of nod Last Line: Don't rise up Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons CALLING THE CHILD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the third floor I beckon to the child Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CALLING THE CHILD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the third floor I beckon to the child Last Line: And wags her head at last and makes a start %and starts her humorous marching up the stairs Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CALLING THE DOVES, SELS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon time, %on a lunch break from driving the tractor Last Line: And perch itself on a nearby tree Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Fathers; Mexican American Families CALLING THE WHISKEY ROSES, by MARTHA JANSON Poem Source First Line: It's always afternoon father, you Last Line: The easy slide of the dial. %any music at all Subject(s): Afternoon; Fathers CAMPING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see my father campng, twenty-seven years Subject(s): Campingl Fathers CARDIOVERSION, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Because your heart flutters Last Line: And pausing at the inge of dusk %to watch the last petal shut Subject(s): Fathers; Hearts CARTOONS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife rises every few hours to nurse our infant, so these Last Line: Robots with powerful beams of light Subject(s): Television; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Censorship; Cartoons & Cartoonists CATCH, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It darted across the pond Last Line: Your life for the privilege %all your life Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CERTAIN PEOPLE, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father lives by the ocean Last Line: I'd known him all my life. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Old Age; Strangers CHANGING DIAPERS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How intelligent he looks Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer CHANGING DIAPERS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How intelligent he looks Last Line: You and me -- and geronimo %are men Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?' Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHARLOTTE CORDAY; A MEMOIR OF A HAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child's small hand, lost in her father's - twined Last Line: When norman charlotte dared her noble crime. Subject(s): Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793); Fathers & Daughters; Hands CHARMS, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: The christmas I was seven my father left - for good this time Last Line: Lights illuminate him bent to the task of putting together a bike %painted a strange shade of green Subject(s): Absence; Christmas; Fathers; Gifts And Giving CHESS MADE SIMPLE, by KEVIN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: My father pressed the chess Last Line: Now it's my turn Subject(s): Chess; Fathers CHILDREN OF HAM, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Suddenly I can hear Last Line: And closed the door behind me Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fathers CHIN MUSIC, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watch. My father is about to get knocked on his ass Last Line: The country begins its long %reeling into death and my father's life begins Subject(s): Fathers CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ROBERT NAZARENE Poem Source First Line: Don't even begin to try to understand this poem Last Line: Lord jesus, I am losing my mind Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fire CHRISTMAS CHILDHOOD, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One side of the potato-pits was white with frost Last Line: And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned %on the virgin mary's blouse Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Fathers CHRISTMAS EVE ON THE ROAD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Herkimer, canajoharie, gloversville, cooperstown Last Line: Thinking nothing of the cold Subject(s): Christmas; Cooperstown, New York; Fathers; Gloversville, New York; Travel CIGARETTES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father burned us all. Ash Last Line: Smoldering halls. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fire; Parents; Smoking; Childhood; Parenthood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CIRCLING THE DAUGHTER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came / to be / in the month of malcolm Last Line: You break my eyes with your beauty: / ooo-uu-oo-baby-I love you Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CIRCLING THE DAUGHTER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came %to be %in the month of malcolm Last Line: You break my eyes with your beauty: %ooouu-oo-baby-I-love-you Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CLEANING FISH, by ROLAND SODOWSKY Poem Source First Line: Almost ninety now, my father marvels Last Line: Their eyes glazed and backs bowed. %'I doubt it. Not for long.' Subject(s): Cleanliness; Fathers; Fishing And Fishermen CLEAR JANUARY, ZERO DEGREES, MY LAST, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day in that state's Last Line: Sunday morning light %about their white, white necks Subject(s): Fathers; Religion; Winter CLEVELAND, by SCOTT MINAR Poem Source First Line: How could you know about Last Line: Because I was small and I needed %to be saved Subject(s): Children; Cleveland, Ohio; Driving And Drivers; Fathers; Memory CLOUDS: SON LEARNS HOW TO BEAT HIS FATHER, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old man it much concerns you to confute Last Line: Why should I suffer stripes, and you have none? Subject(s): Fathers And Sons COACH, by SATIAFA Poem Source First Line: Magical roles you played Last Line: I will dance my tributes %'on the sunny side of the street' Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers COAL, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He made a living selling land and coal Last Line: He made a living Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Business; Fathers; Relatives COCK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month before his dinner with the visiting spanish lawyer, Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Religion; Fathers & Sons; Lesbians; Theology COLOSSUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall never get you put together entirely Last Line: No longer do I listen for the scrape of a keel %on the blank stones of the landing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers COLTRANE AND MY FATHER, by RALPH SNEEDEN Poem Source First Line: Late one night I hear his breath Last Line: From nowhere, %then out of sight to the left Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians COME HOME, FATHER, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Father, dear father, come home with me now! Last Line: Please, father, dear father, come home Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fathers COME ONA MY HOUSE, by MEGAN SEXTON Poem Source First Line: My father looks at the house I live in, frowns Last Line: And I think we all got these wars and fire traps in our heads Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against Last Line: Through... Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean COMING UP DRY (2), by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: The clearing Last Line: The space within %where his dream had been Subject(s): Fathers; Forests COMPENSATION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the compensating springs! O the balance-wheels of life Last Line: Child of his love and his choice, oh, canst thou not wait for this? Subject(s): Fathers; Happiness; Joy; Delight COMPLEX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's madness is to own himself Last Line: Giving of himself with forced breath Subject(s): Fathers CONDIMENTS, by DONELLE R. RUWE Poem Source First Line: When my sister was miss idaho Last Line: And smiled and waved and waved Subject(s): Change; Children; Fathers; Life CONDOMS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She says the book she is reading is gross Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CONDOMS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She says the book she is reading is gross Last Line: She pulls her head under the blankets. %okay, she grimaces. That's gross Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters CONVERSATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl keeps talking to me Last Line: Don't leave. Don't leave me yet Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CONVERSATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl keeps talking to me Last Line: Don't leave. Don't leave me yet Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters COPLAS ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, THE GRAND-MASTER OF SANTIAGO, by JORGE MANRIQUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let from its dream the soul awaken Last Line: His deathless story Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Mourning CORSAGE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I stood in front of the fridge Last Line: And returning to the house my parents lived in Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Variant Title(s): Remembering Your Fathe Subject(s): Fathers; Flowers; Memory COUNTRY FELLOWS AND THE ASS; ABSURDITY OF ATTEMPTING TO PLEASE ALL MEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A country fellow and his son, they tell Last Line: To think of pleasing all is but a jest. Variant Title(s): The Countrymen And The Ass Subject(s): Fables; Fathers & Sons; Men; Allegories COUNTRY WAYS, by MARCIA LEE MASTERS Poem Source First Line: Either to keep the thinking in Last Line: Slowly, the pines drew night up the banks, %the silence of books settled over the hills Variant Title(s): Impressions Of My Fathe Subject(s): Country Life; Fathers COUSIN ALEX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cousin alex, tall and sinewy Last Line: At alex's absence Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Cousins DAD, by ALLAN A. DE FINA Poem Source First Line: I sometimes wish %he'd squeeze me Last Line: I love my dad %and I know he loves me Subject(s): Fathers DAD (1), by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Big hands hoisting me -- plunk Last Line: Blessing, and forget it Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Masculinity (psychology) DAD (2), by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Big hands hoisting him -- plunk Last Line: Scarlet white and pure as bone Subject(s): Fathers And Sons DAD 1970, by MARTA BOSWELL Poem Source First Line: He leans towards the camera Last Line: He hasn't killed anyone yet Subject(s): Fathers DAD AT HIS BEST, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Discipling me when I needed it Last Line: This has been you, dad-at your best Subject(s): Fathers DAD TURNS NINETY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Sometime between the birthday and %the birthday brunch Last Line: We were away, he changed his mind %and didn't die Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DAD'S BOW, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: My dad was an avid archer Last Line: He had a glimpse %of the other side Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Fathers DAD'S DINKY, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: At the wake, dad drank Last Line: And drank long from a tall, clear glass Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life; Fathers DAD'S FAVORITE, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: I've always been dad's favorite Last Line: That they're his favorites, too Subject(s): Fathers DAD'S LETTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My dad, ain't just the letter writin' kind Subject(s): Fathers; Soldiers DAD'S LITTLE FIDDLE, by FRED WARNER SIBLEY Poem Source First Line: Sarsarty was the fiddler's name Subject(s): Fathers DAD'S SHOES, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: He's gone now, and so Last Line: No harm, it's just a lace Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Poetry And Poets DADDIES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would rather be the daddy Last Line: Are the happiest men alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers DADDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days have kept on coming Last Line: The days in the confident man Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mothers & Sons DADDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days have kept on coming Last Line: I comfort my son with the hope %the life in the confident man Subject(s): Fathers And Sons DADDY, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When daddy shaves and let me stand and look Last Line: Like funny people in a pantomime Subject(s): Fathers DADDY, by MIRANDA PEARSON Poem Source First Line: He was short Last Line: Into her ear %unrepeatable Subject(s): Fathers DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Last Line: They always knew it was you. %daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis DADDY, by KIM R. STAFFORD Poem Source First Line: Rub my thumb in the empty hollow of the milkweed pod Last Line: Has gone, I found whistling the empty pod you left me Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural DADDY HUGS, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes dad gives gentle hugs Last Line: Great big all-together hugs %with love enough for three! Subject(s): Fathers DADDY KNOWS, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Source First Line: Let us dry our tears now, laddie Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Fathers DADDY NEVER FAILS, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Reading silly stories Last Line: Daddy never fails Subject(s): Fathers DADDY WARBUCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Fathers & Daughters; Incest; Death DADDY'S ACTING ODD IN SPRINGTIME (MARCH 16), by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Groaning on each other in windy woods Last Line: He's twined a willow spring around his head %and is laughing at arguing trees Subject(s): Fathers; March (month); Trees DADDY'S HANDS, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Daddy's hands were warm and tender Last Line: Daddy's never gone away Subject(s): Fathers DADDY'S HOME, SEE YOU TOMORROW, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always found my daughters' beaux Last Line: No boys from me but me from them Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DADDY: 1933, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one takes Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Fathers DANCING TO ELLINGTON, by JAN SELVING Poem Source First Line: I found him downstairs Last Line: To the place I could watch %my father dance Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Dancing And Dancers; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians DANTIS TENEBRAE (IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And didst thou know indeed, when at the font Last Line: On thy bowed head, my father, fell the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Fathers; Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale (1783-1854); Translating & Interpreting DARING, by CAROL KONEK Poem Source First Line: Daddyboy %trickster hero Last Line: Bring you down %to me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DARK ANGELS, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: To the sidewalk in front of my father's Last Line: My father said, 'you eat that,' and I did Subject(s): Fathers; Homecoming DAUGHTER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thinks about skeletons Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Childhood DAVID, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is young. The father is dead Last Line: The father is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Funerals; Mourning; Dead, The; Burials; Bereavement DAY COMES FOR MY FATHER, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Not long after the infinite weariness Last Line: And the sky opened wider than ever before Subject(s): Death; Fathers DE PROFUNDIS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep Last Line: Hallowed be thy name -- halleluiah! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Birth; Fathers; Child Birth; Midwifery DEAD THINGS, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: Rain lapped at the stones Last Line: The decaying faces of dead years Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven DEATH OF CHARLES OLSON, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She hove down Last Line: Who are of this make Subject(s): Fathers DEDICATION, by RICK BURSKY Poem Source First Line: My father was dedicated to his work Last Line: Yes,' he said, 'the world is a small place.' Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers DEEPER, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: It seems this wanting more Last Line: Take your breath away Subject(s): Fathers And Sons DELICACY, by JANICE MOORE FULLER Poem Source First Line: It was our only father-daughter ritual Last Line: What the earth would not take back Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DEPARTURE, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is standing on a railroad platform Last Line: The train is waiting with its breath of ashes Subject(s): Farewell; Fathers; Railroads DESK, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: My father is chopping up the desk he built me when I was a kid to get Last Line: Is getting him pissed off Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Fathers; Parents DESPONDING FATHER! MARK THIS ALTERED BOUGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To hope—in parents, sinful above all Subject(s): Hope; Fathers; Children DIAMONDS, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Diamonds; Fathers DISAPPEARING ACT, by LAUREL BLOSSOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watch: how he does it. Without a word Last Line: But a feeling so distant %no wonder you hang on for dear life Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DISCHARGING CARGO, by EARL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The dusky hallway %merged my sometime father Last Line: The art, as always, lay in letting go Subject(s): Fathers DISCUSS YOUR CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE WITH LANGUAGE: 2. FATHER, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in fields of clover Last Line: Love with nothing but air. Subject(s): Fathers; Language; Words; Vocabulary DISPARATES, SELS., by GORAN SONNEVI Poem Source First Line: I remember now my father's Last Line: Saw me go out with mama %through the sickroom door? Subject(s): Fathers; Hospitals; Sickness DISPROVED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People tell me I must do Last Line: Keeps on growing through his hair. Subject(s): Baldness; Boys; Fathers; Growth DIVIDED TOUCH, DIVIDED COLOR, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: As soon as I walked out I felt the mistake in the weather Last Line: A jar of powder. My father is a black line eating snow Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rage, rage against the dying of the light Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hate; Mourning; Old Age; Social Protest; Time DOING THE ROCK-HOP SKITTER, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Up on the kopje, way up high Last Line: Doing the rock-hop skitter! Subject(s): Animals; Fathers DOING THE TWIST, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Felix has four daughters Last Line: Is a regular dervish Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Fathers And Daughters DOVECOTT MILL: 13. THE FATHER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed is the even-song of the bird Last Line: Never a kiss till his lips were cold! Subject(s): Fathers DR. EGG: 3 SESSION 25: CHICKEN KILLING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I follow my father Last Line: Are twitching %like small, involuntary muscles Subject(s): Chickens; Death - Animals; Fathers DR. EGG: 6 I IMAGINE THE DEATH OF DR. EGG'S DAUGHTER, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Dr. Egg is walking her Last Line: They slip %right through his fingers Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers And Daughters; Psychology DREAM SONGS: 145, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: An instant longer, in the summer dawn %left henry to live on Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Suicide DREAM SONGS: 385, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying Last Line: I wouldn't have to scold %my heavy daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DRESSING MY DAUGHTERS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One girl a full head taller Last Line: They cry, “it’s not my fault.” Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress DUH, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is silent and distant Last Line: From rolling over my head one day Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Memory; Relatives DUH, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is silent and distant Last Line: From rolling over my head one day Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Memory DUSK, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It is the hour when the son comes in Last Line: Who sees only a void in the depths of the heavens Subject(s): Dusk; Fathers And Sons; Heaven EARLY DEFINITION, by MARLAINA B. TANNY Poem Source First Line: We are going to sail today, my father Last Line: I can relax for a little while Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Sailors And Sailing ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 13. AMERICA, PILGRIM FATHERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well worthy to be magnified are they Last Line: But in his glory who for sinners died. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; U.s. - Colonial Period ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 14. AMERICA, PILGRIM FATHERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From rite and ordinance abused they fled Last Line: Concord and charity in circles move. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; U.s. - Colonial Period ECLIPSE, by JESSIE HAEFNER Poem Text First Line: My sin / forms an eclipse / coming between my Last Line: Darkness. Subject(s): Eclipses; Fathers; Sin ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother! Be the teaties done? Last Line: Zoo I shall goo up out o' the waÿ o' the waggon. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Fathers; Food & Eating; Homecoming; Winter; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers ECONOMICS LESSON, by ROCCO SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: I asked you one day who posted Last Line: Can only watch them go away Subject(s): Children; Fathers ECONOMISIN', by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dad was tickled when I went Last Line: At my 'conomisin' so. Subject(s): Children; Economics; Fathers & Sons; Gifts & Giving; Childhood EGG BUSINESS, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Busy, busy: %I've got eggs Last Line: Empty eggs. %what to do? %need more eggs Subject(s): Animals; Fathers ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Graveyards; Dead, The ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Last Line: It was my love that did us both to death Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Daughters ELEGY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was born with a spade in his hand and traded it Last Line: Hymned out my blood to glory, for one good reason Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was born with a spade in his hand and traded it Last Line: Hymned out my blood to glory, for one good reason Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know but will not tell Last Line: Father, hello and goodbye Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The ELEGY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know but will not tell Last Line: Father, hello and goodbye Subject(s): Death; Fathers ELEGY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Aging ELEGY 3. CAVALCANTE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was cavalcante,' my mother said, 'killed you father' Last Line: I stood in the wreck of the death that had been my blood Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Fathers ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Dead, The; Work; Workers ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Last Line: I, with no rights in this matter, %neither father nor lover Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Labor And Laborers; Youth ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the ocean that stretches out wordlessly Subject(s): Fathers - Death ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: You lived remembering how your father Last Line: With picks, loosening the ground. Subject(s): Death; Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think by now the river must be thick Subject(s): Fathers; Fish & Fishing; Anglers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, WHO IS NOT DEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day I’ll lift the telephone Last Line: And waving, shouting, welcome back Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Dead, The ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 1. THE EMPTY BODY, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands were yours, the arms were yours Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 1. THE EMPTY BODY, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands were yours, the arms were yours Last Line: But you were not there Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 2. ANSWERS, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you travel? Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 2. ANSWERS, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you travel? Last Line: Yes, I am tired and I want to lie down Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 3. YOUR DYING, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing could stop you Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 3. YOUR DYING, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing could stop you Last Line: Not the life you had. %nothing could stop you Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 4. YOUR SHADOW, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have your shadow Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 4. YOUR SHADOW, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have your shadow Last Line: I have carried it with me too long. I give it back Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 5. MOURNING, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They mourn for you / when you rise at midnight Subject(s): Fathers; Mourning; Bereavement ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 5. MOURNING, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They mourn for you %when you rise at midnight Last Line: They mourn for you the way they can Subject(s): Fathers; Mourning ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 6. THE NEW YEAR, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is winter and the new year Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; New Year ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 6. THE NEW YEAR, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is winter and the new year Last Line: Because it is winter and the new year Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; New Year ELEGY: FOR YOU, FATHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, under the stone, accept your ruin Last Line: The end of heaven and the need of earth Subject(s): Death – Fathers ELEGY: FOR YOU, FATHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, under the stone, accept your ruin Last Line: The end of heaven and the need of earth Subject(s): Fathers ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism EMISSARY SHADOW, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: It may be that if a father abandons you you will see Last Line: Numinously shows when dawn burnishes the wall Subject(s): Fathers ENCOUNTERING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my father it happened driving Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Fathers; Death; Dead, The ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists ENTER THE DRAGON, by FRANCES SALOME ESPANA Poem Source First Line: I'll file my little horns sharp Last Line: I forgot to light the candle for %tonight Subject(s): Absence; Candles; Fathers; Prayer ENVOI, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange judgment upon me Last Line: In the same passionate vindication %of myself Subject(s): Fathers EPIGRAM: 21. THE POET'S FATHER, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever you are who wander near Last Line: They will not cast their friends away. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Fathers & Sons EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH ON MY FATHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains Last Line: For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers; Life Change Events; Religion; Theology EPITAPH: THAW, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little clicks all night in the back lane there blackness Last Line: Anvil of deep decree Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers EPITHALAMIUM AT ST. MICHAEL'S CEMETERY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father lay fifty years in st. Michael's bed Last Line: He sets his bounds by. Or that simply is Subject(s): Cemeteries; Fathers EQUALITY, FATHER, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Equality, father! Your dream has come true Last Line: Let us commit a mortal sin %worthy of death Subject(s): Fathers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EQUINOX, by TONY WHEDON Poem Source First Line: I stood outside the goodwill shop Last Line: Was scratching at the door Subject(s): Fathers; Memory ESTATE SALE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On igavel I bought Subject(s): Language; Fathers; Words; Vocabulary EUROPE AND AMERICA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father brought the emigrant bundle Last Line: As guns pounded on the shore Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants; Fathers; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration EUROPE AND AMERICA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father brought the emigrant bundle Last Line: As the knife fell; while I have slept %as guns pounded on the shore Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants EVE (RACHEL), by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been waiting to speak to you Last Line: In these bodies of soiled, broken, mending hands Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters EVE (RACHEL), by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been waiting to speak to you Last Line: Where you will plant your own crafted shoes %in these bodies of soiled, broken, mending hands Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters EVEN AS A CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a child to whom sad Last Line: Even as a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Grief; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING, by BEATRICE HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: The inside of the shell Last Line: When our father comes home %the day will be over again Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Subject(s): Bible; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Theology EXODUS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle of the children the brilliant Last Line: Of their brilliance miracle %of Subject(s): Bible; Fathers And Daughters; Religion EXPLANATION OF THE EXHIBIT, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day the challenger cracked and spread an immolating spider Last Line: I'm wondering if I should shake her gently now and wake %herup Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters EXTENDED FAMILY, by JANICE LOWE Poem Source First Line: No one notices the man wiggling like jelly at the front door Last Line: No lie %damn skippy Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers EXTRA INNINGS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Oh father, dear father, come home with me Last Line: Ere she bounces an iron off your brow! Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Sports EYES OF SOON CHILDREN, by HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS Poem Source First Line: How does my father Last Line: And name him as one of us Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers FACTS OF LIFE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter, dim those reverent eyes Last Line: What's that, my own? - I was afraid so Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FAIR JANET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye maun gang to your father, janet" Last Line: For father he has nane Subject(s): Fathers FALL RIVER, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball; Family Life; Anger; Relatives FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I must own, my dear sonny, 'tis likely but few Last Line: look me up in the year nineteen-hundred-and-one. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers & Sons; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise FAMILY MATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That christmas day, he wanted to kill his father Last Line: And confessed everything to the first whore he could find.' Subject(s): Christmas; Confessions; Fathers And Sons; Murder; Prostitution FANNY: 111, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She long had known that in her father's coffers Last Line: One whose high destiny was to breathe Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fathers; Money; Wealth FANNY: 58, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We fondly hope that he will be respected Last Line: Our country, and find food for the reviews Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Fathers FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL Poem Source First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost Last Line: This underpass is endless Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day FATHER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father fell backwards off the stool Last Line: I've had my day Subject(s): Fathers FATHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You spent fifty-five years Subject(s): Fathers; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers FATHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You spent fifty-five years Last Line: We laughed till we cried Subject(s): Fathers; Retail Trade FATHER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long lines of diesels Subject(s): Fathers; Disappointment FATHER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Happy the man who bears that holy name Last Line: He but reflects;his life a genesis. Subject(s): Fathers FATHER, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An east wind asperges boston with lynn's sulphorous brine Last Line: Come home, dead man, who made your mind my home Subject(s): Boston; Fathers FATHER AND DAUGHTER, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: She was born in the midst of the black frock-coats Last Line: Which she tore with her teeth Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FATHER AND DAUGHTER, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are holding my sister in your arms Last Line: A daughter to sing to you, %a small voice %emerging from the unlit room at dusk Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FATHER AND SON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: While we enjoy this meat, my son Last Line: A tongue that told no lie?' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Trust FATHER AND SON, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set against each other, ready to butt Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FATHER AND SON, by FREDERICK ROBERT HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: Only last week, walking the hushed fields Last Line: With whom now he is one, under yew braches, %yes, one in a graven silence no bird breaks Alternate Author Name(s): Higgins, F. R. Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Reunions; World War Ii; Second World War FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Last Line: Among the turtles and the lilies he turned to me %the white ignorant hollow of his face Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Reunions; World War Ii FATHER AND SON, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The FATHER FATHER SON AND SON, by JON SWAN Poem Source First Line: Sweet father, I have shrunk a bit Last Line: I must not falter on my wall Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FATHER INSTALLS SHOWER, CA. 1962, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: And then there was rain Last Line: The music is strung Subject(s): Fathers FATHER ON THE MARSH, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My older boy said, 'let's make soup' Subject(s): Fathers FATHER OUTSIDE, by NICK FLYNN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A black river flows down the center Subject(s): Fathers FATHER POEM, by SIOBHAN REAGAN Poem Source First Line: Father, strategiest, enemy Last Line: Into an instrument of pain, %more clumsy, less perfect Subject(s): Fathers FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ever seen my father's grave Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ever seen my father's grave Last Line: Lest I go into dust %I have not ever seen my father's grave Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Graves FATHER SPEAKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merry christmas, one and all! Last Line: Whoop, hurrah! It's christmas day. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Discontent; Fathers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Dissatisfaction FATHER TO SON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Crooked? He was so crooked, son Last Line: He'd shit a corkscrew Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Fathers And Sons; Ireland FATHER UNDER WATER, by THEA SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: All day I watched you Last Line: Like tools you'd forgotten how to use Subject(s): Fathers; Water FATHER'S BOUQUET, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My dad not only Last Line: Throw away Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers; Flowers; Graves FATHER'S CHORE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pa can hit his thumbnail with a hammer and keep still Last Line: When the water in it splashes down his front. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers FATHER'S DAY, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter has lived overseas for a number Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FATHER'S DAY (1), by W. C. LANE Poem Source First Line: Oh father of mine that came from above Last Line: And pop, I hope we will still be together on heaven's %shore Subject(s): Fathers FATHER'S DAY (2), by W. C. LANE Poem Source First Line: Father, oh father, oh father of mine Last Line: I would not have wanted any other papa to have %given me my start Subject(s): Fathers FATHER'S DAY (3), by W. C. LANE Poem Source First Line: Daddy, I thank you for all the good times we have Last Line: Thank god, you married mother and gave me my %start. %love, %w.C., sharon, %dustin and pepper Subject(s): Fathers FATHER'S DAY IN PALMYRA, NY, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Over the next hill, a golden angel, I'm told Last Line: Laughter drifting up over the field and hill Subject(s): Fathers FATHER'S GOOD SON, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The wheat hangs heavy to the further hill Last Line: Runs around the spit where turns the fatted calf. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Relationships FATHER'S MAGIC, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hundreds of starlings %landed on my trees Last Line: And all the starlings %flew away Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Fathers FATHER'S OLD BLUE CARDIGAN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it hangs on the back of the kitchen chair Last Line: Because he is riding backwards Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fathers; Love - Unrequited FATHER'S OLD BLUE CARDIGAN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it hangs on the back of the kitchen chair Last Line: Because he is riding backwards Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fathers; Love - Unrequited FATHER'S TALE, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come near, my children! Till the hour of prayer Last Line: The wonder and opprobrium of a world Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Fathers; Worship FATHER-IN-LAW, by JILL MACLEAN Poem Source First Line: The winter he's twenty-seven %he and his second cousin harvey walk Last Line: That brought him back and %nails shingles to the wall Subject(s): Fathers-in-law FATHER-IN-LAW, by MARGARET W. MAXFIELD Poem Source First Line: He hunkers glum, surviving christmas morning Last Line: He'll leave the shirt untried upon its hanger %until too late to change it, him, or me Subject(s): Fathers-in-law FATHER-IN-LAW, SIX YEARS LATER, by JAMES MCKEAN Poem Source First Line: He edges into the room Subject(s): Fathers-in-law FATHERHOOD, by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kiss, a word of thanks, away Last Line: Though he spread out his hands all day? Subject(s): Fathers FATHERHOOD, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: He wore his fatherhood with awe Last Line: The fatherhood of god. Subject(s): Fathers; God; Religion; Theology FATHERHOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you came, my little lad Last Line: The means of leading you astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers FATHERS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My children can't wait to leave Last Line: Three times each day I hear the silence Subject(s): Fathers; Religion FATHERS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Scattered, aslant Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The FATHERS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scattered, aslant Last Line: The ground, wants this frozen ground Subject(s): Death; Fathers FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers FATHERS AND SONS, by JOSEPH T. COX Poem Source First Line: My boy lives a half a world away, a man Last Line: Will always and never again be my little boy Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Fathers And Sons; Soldiers FATHERS AND SONS, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His boys are so embarrassed they can hardly stand it Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball FATHERS AND SONS (6), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They leaped like soap squirted in the first tub bath Last Line: A simple man with boots and a rifle of his own Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Fathers; Sons FATHERS CERTAINLY ARE FUNNY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fathers are the funniest things! Last Line: Fathers certainly are funny! Subject(s): Fathers FATHERS IN THE SNOW: 2, by JILL BIALOSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After father died Subject(s): Death - Fathers FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! They come, those sainted forms Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers FATHERS'S TEACHING, by ELANA HAYES Poem Source First Line: He took small brown hands Last Line: Secure in her identity Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers FEAR OF IRISH SONS, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I have this notion of you: irish Last Line: I fear of my first son Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons FEEL ME, by MAY SWENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Dead, The FEEL ME, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feel me to do right,' our father said on his deathbed Last Line: Lie down with me, and hold me, tight. Touch me. Be %with me. Feel with me. Feel me to do right' Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FERRY CROSSING, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the granite breakers, a world of roiling Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age FEVER, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Father was to her, and to me Last Line: A small plant set, by accident, close %to the window Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FIRESTARTER, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers FIRST BASEBALL GLOVE, by DONALD GRAVES Poem Source First Line: Stee-rike,' george yells Last Line: Feeling the sting %smart in the pocket Subject(s): Fathers FIRST FISH, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Water lapped blue tongues Last Line: In cool blue water Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fishing And Fishermen FIRST LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days pass, winds veer, and favoring skies Last Line: Where, on the fatal shoals, the wreck lies whelmed below. Subject(s): Cape Cod; Pilgrim Fathers FIRST MEMORY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago, I was wounded. I lived Last Line: It meant I loved Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FIRST SEX, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: When we found your father's playboy Last Line: In the dark and entered manhood Subject(s): Aids (disease); Children; Fathers; Homosexuality; Love; Sex; Sickness FIRST TIME, by JILL ROBIN SISSON Poem Source First Line: Aftewards he whispered do you like fishing and Last Line: Watching him measure and cut with strict thumbs a good %piece of the thin, invisible stuff Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Fishing And Fishermen FISHING WITH DAD, by DAVID ROGNER Poem Source First Line: Pinched into the triangle Last Line: Which both divided and united us Subject(s): Fathers; Fishing And Fishermen FLERIDA AND DON DUARDOS, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the month of april Last Line: Against the might of death and love %in vain is all assay Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Flowers; Love; Spring FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Last Line: My blueveined child Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer FLYING LESSON, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: This time, father says Last Line: That I can almost see Subject(s): Animals; Fathers FOG TROPES, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sheet of water turned over Last Line: Unknowning all, whose pain has just begun Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fathers And Daughters; Sickness FOLLOWER, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father worked with a horse-plough Subject(s): Fathers; Plowing & Plowmen FOLLOWER, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father worked with a horse-plough Last Line: It is my father who keeps stumbling %behind me, and will not go away Subject(s): Fathers; Plowing And Plowmen FOR A BOY IN A BUS DEPOT, by EDUARDO C. CORRAL Poem Source First Line: Moonlight topples %from the star-cabled night Last Line: Wings rimmed with the color of the apple Subject(s): Apples; Boys; Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fruit FOR A FATHERLESS SON, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be aware of an absence, presently, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sons; Fathers FOR HIS FATHER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I looked high and low for a father Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOR JESSICA, MY DAUGHTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I walked Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR JESSICA, MY DAUGHTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I walked Last Line: In the dark %when I am away Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MIRANDA, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter %walks in grace Last Line: To his visor'd mouth %there are white horses in manhattan Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking into my daughter's eyes I read Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking into my daughter's eyes I read Last Line: These speculations sour in the sun. %I have no daughters. I desire none Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We're not going to die Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're not going to die Last Line: We will not be forgotten and passed over %and buried under the births and deaths to come Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MY FATHER, by DURIEL E. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: December/ no signs of a chicago winter/no boulder-sized clumps of snow Last Line: Awkwardness/ small but indelicate failures/ elegant and human in the knowing Subject(s): Fathers FOR MY FATHER, by HANS LODEIZEN Poem Source First Line: O father we've been together Last Line: My lips my tender lips composed Subject(s): Fathers FOR MY FATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over again I dream a dream Last Line: In the quiet evening I am finding you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dreams; Fathers; Homecoming; Dead, The; Nightmares FOR MY FATHER LOOKING FOR MY UNCLE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clues are everywhere Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY FATHER LOOKING FOR MY UNCLE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clues are everywhere Last Line: Until we believed there was another indoors, %assiduous, free, a small community, a dream with shutt Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOR MY FATHER, DEAD AT FIFTY-SIX, ON MY FIFTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you humble a man in a fight once Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The FOR MY SON JOHN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonnel, this is for you -- my river-saint-named Last Line: The first life and the first and still the first Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOR MY SON JOHN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonnel, this is for you -- my river-saint-named Last Line: The first life and the first and still the first Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FOR MY SON, NOAH, TEN YEARS OLD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and day arrive, and day after day goes by Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer FOR MY SON, NOAH, TEN YEARS OLD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and day arrive, and day after day goes by Last Line: So we pass our time together, calm and delighted Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer FOR YOUR SAKE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For your sake who have left me grieving Last Line: I see your hands and I wake and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Old Age FORGET-ME-NOT, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: You forget yourself at times Last Line: And everything you can't recall Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FORGIVING MY FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is friday. We have come Last Line: And no accounting will open them up Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Forgiveness; Clemency FORGIVING MY FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is friday. We have come Last Line: You lie side by side in debtors' boxes %and no accounting will open them up Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Forgiveness FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 2. THE GARDEN, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ruined kingdom of his father's house Subject(s): Fathers; Gardens & Gardening FOUR POEMS FOR A CHILD SON / DECEMBER 18, 1972: IT WAS THE THIRD DAY, JULY 12 , 1971, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hitchhiking on the way to colorado Last Line: Look, the stones with voices Subject(s): Native Americans; Hitchhikers; Fathers & Sons FOURTEEN PAGES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930); Books & Reading FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: TO JOHN MOUNSON, SON AND HEIR TO SIR THOMAS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On you th' affections of your fathers friends Last Line: On each side placing you as near my heart! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Friendship FREEDOM, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: Observe the son stampede Last Line: Until he dies. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Revolutions FROGGY-BACK, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: This little froglet never Last Line: To swim all on his froggy own Subject(s): Animals; Fathers FROM A DAY-BOOK OF A FORGOTTEN PRINCE, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is happy or we should be poor Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Relatives FROM FATHER TO SON, by OPAL PALMER ADISA Poem Source First Line: It's no surprise Last Line: Just like your grandfather Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Sons FROM FATHER TO SON, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reject the complicated life Last Line: From father to son and from son to father Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FROM JOSEF IN THE REST HOME, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I'm still alive Last Line: By the t.V. Tray Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Immigrants; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Poland; United States FROM MY DAD IS A MAGICIAN 2, by LESLIE REESE Poem Source First Line: They say that all little girls adore their fathers/want to marry Last Line: That's why my birth certificate says that my dad was a 26 %year old alabama negro straightener for b Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FROM THE CADAVER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The arm you hold up Last Line: Cold in a stranger's hand Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fathers And Sons FROM THE FATHER OF MY COUNTRY, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If george washington Last Line: Father, %have you really come home Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FROM THEN TO NOW, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I've been thinking of your father Last Line: And make him give her back Subject(s): Children; Domestic Relations; Fathers FROM WAR AND MEMORY 1, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy at the stove or sink. Large Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FROM WAR AND MEMORY 1, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy at the stove or sink. Large Last Line: My daddy chasing %after me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FRONT MAN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a social man, talking Last Line: Only fear running in your head; the emptiness is moving too Subject(s): Fathers FUNDAMENTALISM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the eye has a short shadow or Last Line: He would not follow his father into war Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FUNERAL OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All in the centre of the choir bernardo's knees are bent Last Line: Still, father, thirsts that burning lance, and still thy son can wield it Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Death; Fathers And Sons; Funerals; Grief; Revenge FURNACE, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: I see the small girl following her father down the basement steps every Last Line: I see the moment of flame when %he told her to turn her faceaway, and she didn't Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Furnaces FUTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going to leave a child in an empty room Last Line: Prepare to live without me %as I am prepared Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GAMES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father orders me to run around a giant billiard Last Line: Their tiny, funereal flags Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers GARDENER, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Father, whom I knew well for forty years Last Line: This kiss, father, from his who was your son Subject(s): Fathers And Sons GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the rooms of the house Last Line: That arches toward the other shore. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Fratricide; Hunting; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Relatives; Hunters GET-AWAY, SELS., by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning when I was six I became my father's accomplice Last Line: In its locked berths the sleepers are soaring like arrows Subject(s): Fathers; Railroads GHOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GIFT, by RALPH BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my father-in-law gave me the knife Subject(s): Fathers-in-law; Gifts And Giving GIFT, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: If my birds don't fly Last Line: What I cannot even %tell myself Subject(s): Fathers And Sons GIRL FROM ANDROS: FATHER-SON CONFRONTATION, by PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pese anger not thyself so I thee pray Last Line: What woldyst thou say Alternate Author Name(s): Terence Subject(s): Fathers And Sons GLASS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it with wonder now Last Line: On the table, these last mouthfuls Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Glasses (tumblers); Love GLASS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd have thought by now it would have stopped Last Line: Not it's still no there, but something like come in, be still Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Mirrors; Mourning GLORY DAYS, by TANYA KERN Poem Source First Line: Daddy wanted a uniform Last Line: Drifts atlantic floor, hot guns on the kitchen table Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Fathers; World War Ii GOD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand worlds his face behold Last Line: And as the father, so the child. Subject(s): Fathers; God; Religion; Theology GOD AND MY COUNTRY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had the bluest eyes I ever saw Last Line: "to get some cigarettes and some shaving blades." Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War GOD LOVES YOU, AND SO DO I, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it is what he says always, to anyone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade. Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth GOING TO ZAKOPANE, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI Poem Source First Line: And so mama divided the potato among the three of us ...' Last Line: On the icy peak Subject(s): Fathers; Poland; Travel GOLD LILY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I perceive Last Line: Close enough to hear %your child's terror? Or %are you not my father, %you who raised me? Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was almost forty Last Line: Must now be postponed for fifteen years! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fathers & Daughters GOLDEN STATE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see my father Subject(s): Family Life; Death - Fathers; Divorce; Relatives GOLDFINCH, MY FATHER, IN THE FORSYTHIA, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is going on forever Last Line: The one that shot straight %from the heart Subject(s): Fathers; Fights GOOD SPIRITUAL FATHER, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: Confess, my daughter. I'm ashamed to start Last Line: But when I get in bed, I think I might Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GRATITUDE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The arc of your eyebrows-so new!-draws a splendid dome Last Line: I'm grateful to you for guiding me safely through the throes of birth Subject(s): Birth; Children; Fathers; Gratitude; Parents GRIEF CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a blue telephone Last Line: And haul us, prey and praying, into dust Subject(s): Grief; Fathers; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The GROTESQUES, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: When your surgeon-father retired Last Line: As you are now, his shop %silent less than a year Subject(s): Fathers; Retirement GUILTY FATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER, by JAMES SCHEVILL Poem Source First Line: Why are you always glad to see me? Last Line: Demon down the fatherly drain Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HAD I THE WYTE, HAD I THE WYTE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HAIKU, by NAKAMURA KUSADAO Poem Source First Line: A father at last Last Line: Stopping, starting, stopping Subject(s): Fathers HAIKU, by NICK VIRGILIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After father's wake Last Line: To the darkened house Alternate Author Name(s): Virgilio, Nicholas Subject(s): Fathers; Funerals HALLELUJAH!, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Praise the lord, I'm all but levitating Last Line: May I feel him, make my hair stand on end! Subject(s): Blessings; Fathers; God; Praise HANG-GLIDER'S DAUGHTER, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My forty-year-old father learned to fly Last Line: Then it was me flying, feet still %on the road. We're here, on top of the hill Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HANGIN', by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mom's a mess %dad says she's tired Last Line: Hangin'. %just us two. %hangin' all day long Subject(s): Animals; Fathers HAPPY, by STACY JO CROSSEN Poem Source First Line: When my daddy comes home Last Line: Just me, %I'm happy! Subject(s): Fathers HARD DADDY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to ma daddy Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks HARD DADDY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to ma daddy Last Line: Fly like the eagle flies %I'd fly on ma man an' %I'd scratch out both his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Daughters HE LIVES IN ME, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a strong and stalwart man Last Line: With hallelujahs. Trumpets, cymbals, and drums Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,' IT SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There! You shed a ray Last Line: Your father's autograph. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; History; Historians HEARING HIM TALK, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: My own father died of swine flu, spent Last Line: A lot of noise. The way I am Subject(s): Fathers; Holocaust, Jewish - Beginnings HEART'S NEEDLE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of my winter, born Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers And Daughters; Parents HEARTBEAT, SELS., by SANDY SHREVE Poem Source First Line: I am my father's daughter, no doubt about it Last Line: All I can do with this bisected vision %is imagine a heartbeat Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HEAVEN IS REALLY AN ISLAND WHERE MY IN-LAWS LIVE, by BRUCE BARTON Poem Source First Line: My father-in-law waits Last Line: Where nothing dies, %really Subject(s): Fathers-in-law HER FATHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met her, as we had privily planned Last Line: Of time, and wrack, and foes.' Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HER GREAT SECRET, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most every meal, when he's at home, my father says Subject(s): Fathers HER SCARLET LETTERS, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Since the day on the scaffold I have refused Last Line: Disclosing nothing to the men in black Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Guilt HILL DAUGHTER, by LOUISE MCNEILL Poem Source First Line: Land of my fathers and blood, oh my fathers, whatever Last Line: I have brought you a son Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HIPPITY HOP TO BED, by LEROY F. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: O it's hippity hop to bed! Last Line: Go hippity hop to bed Subject(s): Fathers HIS CHILDREN THREE; TO -- AT TWO YEARS OLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy with the wistful eyes Last Line: He watches over his children three! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The HIS EXAMPLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are little eyes upon you, and they're watching Last Line: For the little boy who's waiting to grow up to be like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons HIS GHOST, AGAIN, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I'm tired of my father coming around Last Line: On the piano cover, an apple, %fingers finding the sweetest low notes Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Ghosts; Supernatural HIS SIGNIFICANT DAY, by BECCA HENSLEY Poem Source First Line: The head was a black circle Last Line: Jaundice the white mats %of the others Subject(s): Fathers; Funerals HIS SMELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of my father's life Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Smells; Dead, The; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances HIS SMELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of my father's life Last Line: Smelling him, breathing him in %as you would breathe the air deeply before going into exile Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Smells HIS STILLNESS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor said to my father, you asked me Subject(s): Fathers; Incurable Diseases; Courage; Valor; Bravery HIS STORY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born under a crooked star Last Line: And one female / gone Variant Title(s): His History Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HIS STORY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born under a crooked star Last Line: And one female, %gone Variant Title(s): His Histor Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HOLDING ON (FOR HIS FATHER PREMATURELY OLD), by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning my father studied the dead wasps Last Line: A thread passing between his teeth, %towards a loud kite in a remembered sky Subject(s): Aging; Fathers HOLES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Your father's fighting world war ii %and you're in a brown foxhole you dug Last Line: And wail at the whole damn sky Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Fathers; Play; Soldiers; World War Ii HOME AFTER THREE MONTHS AWAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone now the baby's nurse Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Home After Three Months Away Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HOME AFTER THREE MONTHS AWAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone now the baby's nurse Last Line: I keep no rank nor station. %cured, I am frizzled, stale and small Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Home After Three Months Awa Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HOMECOMING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOMING PIDGIN, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Smoked-glass highrises Last Line: I t'ink dees mus' be heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HORSE IN THE CAGE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its face, as long as an arm, looks down & down. Subject(s): Horses; Fathers; Dreams; Nightmares HOSPITAL WINDOW, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just come down from my father Last Line: I have just come down from my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hospitals HOST, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: My father's body is the narrow grave Last Line: Pressed to the sternum of the world Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Peace; Rest; Silence HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 1. BRONWEN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should ever grow rich by chance Last Line: I shall give them all to my elder daughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 2. MERFYN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were to own this countryside Last Line: Should be his till the cart tracks had no ruts Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers And Sons HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 3. MYFANWY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I give my daughter the younger Last Line: That time without contentment brings Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters HOW MANY TIMES, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: No matter how many times I try I can't stop my father Last Line: It's our father, and still the door opens, and she %makes that small oh turning over Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fathers And Daughters HOW MY FATHER FLEW, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: His tawny, kohl-ringed eyes Last Line: And flew against the moon Subject(s): Fathers HOW THE PAST INHABITS, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: When she was twelve, my mother Last Line: Frets daily over what she should eat Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Past HOW TO BE UNCLE SAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father knew Subject(s): Fathers; Parades HOW YOU FIXED?, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How you fixed, dad? Pretty busy?' Last Line: How you fixed? Subject(s): Fathers HUNTING FOR A '55 CHEVY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My son wants a car with dents, rusted Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Automobiles; Fathers And Sons; Repairing HUSBANDRY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: And what does the farmer's daughter think Last Line: And thinks: 'when I marry, I'll marry a farmer.' Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fathers And Daughters; Girls; Milk HUSH, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way a tired chippewa woman Subject(s): Fathers & Sons I DIDN'T SAY A WORD, OR WHO CALLED THAT PICCOLO PLAYER ..., by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man could be granted to live a dozen lives Last Line: So why does everbody have to shush me? Subject(s): Fathers I DOTE THE MORE, THE MORE I CONTEMPLATE, by VINCENZO MONTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hath graven in thy tender father's breast Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Beauty I WANT TO BE SIDE OF PAPA, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I want to be side of papa, Last Line: And live more close to god. Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Paradise I WAS MADE OF THIS AND THIS, by GERTRUDE ROBINSON ROSS Poem Text First Line: (I was mad eof this and this- / and angel's prayer, a gipsy's kiss.) Last Line: The angel's prayer, or the gipsy's kiss! Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Family Life I WILL GO WITH MY FATHER A-PLOUGHING, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Plowing & Plowen; Fathers & Sons I WONDER WHERE MY PAPA IS?, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder where my papa is Last Line: "till we reach that home afar." Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Fathers IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Last Line: They are all of me, I am me, they are thee, and I have no children to float in the space between Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons And Prisoners IF FATHER COULD HAVE CRIED, by DAVID HENRY KYES Poem Text First Line: He was not given to shedding tears. He faced Last Line: Each tearless grief supreme love verified. Subject(s): Fathers IF I WERE AN EGG, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source Last Line: Me: big daddy's big bad %emperor penguin-to-be Subject(s): Animals; Fathers IF THERE'S A GOD..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god of amphetamine, he's also the god of wrecked Last Line: "laughing at all who stumble. Put out your tongue and receive it." Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Medicine; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IMMACULATE VIEW, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love: the power of lust turned generous, the power of sleep Last Line: Prescient body: Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Lust IMMRAMA, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, have trailed my father's spirit Subject(s): Fathers IN DEDICATION OF 'THE CERTAIN HOUR', by JAMES BRANCH CABELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over Last Line: Love for his son. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN DREAM TIME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tomasito Last Line: Just had a last fall Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN FATHER'S DAY, by J. K. DURICK Poem Source First Line: By reputation, my father drank far more Last Line: The future fathers invent %at just such a moment Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Fathers IN HONOR OF DAVID ANDERSON BROOKS, MY FATHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dryness is upon the house Last Line: Old private charity Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters IN HONOR OF DAVID ANDERSON BROOKS, MY FATHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dryness is upon the house Last Line: Translates to public love %old private charity Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by GEORGE+(2) BARLOW Poem Source First Line: Always first to rise Last Line: Filled his great lungs %with cool air Subject(s): Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians IN THE AIRPORT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man called dad walks by Subject(s): Fathers IN THE BLOOD, by DAVID WELCH Poem Source First Line: Even before his father died Last Line: And the autumnal new moon %relaxing of shoulders Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Sons IN THE HIGH COUNTRY, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days I am happy to be no one Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my father lifted up his nightie, I Variant Title(s): The Lifting Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Dead, The IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my father lifted up his nightie, I Last Line: The veils would fall from our eyes, we would know everything Variant Title(s): The Liftin Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Daughters IN THE LAST DAYS, by PETER EVERWINE Poem Source First Line: In the last days of my father's illness Last Line: In the dark and sped away %as he watched Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness IN THE MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reggalerly every day, / when my papa's gotten up Last Line: Puttin' prickers in my chin. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Shaving IN THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS AROUND LAKE WOLFER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mountain valleys around lake wolfer Last Line: And flapped their peppery feathers and ran after me Subject(s): Fathers IN THE STUDY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nicest place in all the house Last Line: Just as wise and big as he. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Rooms; Childhood IN THE THIRD MONTH, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: First snow wet against the windshield Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING, NONCHALANCE IS GOOD AND, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really, it is not the Last Line: Of manner, best bespeak that weapon, self protectiveness. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons (turgenev) IN WHAT DIRECTION OR WHEN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the time I find he was gone, it is Subject(s): Fathers INCANTO: 1, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: I sit waiting for one of the two kinds of miracle Last Line: Sunday - 8 october - 72 %michele now nothing but an emptying dress in the grave Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters INCANTO: 4, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: Enough is never enough - that voice comes back - suave shell Last Line: For a moment - %no more death Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters INJURY, by SUNSHINE GLENSTONE Poem Source First Line: My memory of my father is that he sat in the parlor Last Line: I suppose we were all happier in summer Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Memory; Pain INQUISITION, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: You always want to know where I'm going Last Line: You sure do ask a lot of questions, dad. %thanks Subject(s): Fathers INSCRIBED ON A TOMBSTONE, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY Poem Source First Line: Here lies hersh itsi's son: on his unseeing Last Line: Were left to all the children in his will Subject(s): Fathers; Graves INSIDE THE MOUNTAIN, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father's hand smoothing my hair Last Line: So the horses could wear down their hooves %on ground, sharpen their teeth %on grass and thistles Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters INVENTING FATHER IN LAS VEGAS, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could see nothing but the smoke Subject(s): Fathers INVITATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who had the sense Last Line: Let us be conscious and talk of these things. Subject(s): Fathers IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS: AGAMEMNON TRIES TO AVERT SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENEIA, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O! Gods! How very wretched am I grown! Last Line: Here take it for it is your victory Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sacrifices IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the voice of orpheus, o my sire Last Line: Life is more precious than the noblest death! Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Fathers & Sons; Murder IRON PANTS, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: New they were black now top-frizzed like charcoal Last Line: A winter warmth that underneath the hoar %frost's rime-skin wears like iron warms blood Subject(s): Fathers; Time IT'S ONLY FAIR, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother has had a heap of praise Last Line: I sing a little song to dad! Subject(s): Caregivers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets JEALOUSY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Flatbush! Flatbush! Rah! Rah! Rah! Last Line: See the bobbed-head riding on the bob-tailed car. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jealousy JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Already two months alone %twice no blood Last Line: My father will kill him and steal his land %I am a widow in a blood-stained shawl Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by BARBARA KEENER SHENK Poem Source First Line: My father promised, so there is no chance Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood before her father's gorgeous tent Last Line: And she was dead -- but not by violence. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Jephthah (bible); Sacrifices JOHNSON BROTHERS LTD, by R. H. VAN DEN HOOFDAKKER Poem Source First Line: In those days when my father was still big Last Line: From the little copper tap marked 'cold' Subject(s): Fathers And Sons JOSEPH KALLINGER, by JACK K. ISRAEL Poem Source First Line: I was his endless father, endless Last Line: My pale beard framed his face of seeds Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Murder JOSEPH'S LAMENT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My boy, my boy, and art thou dead? Last Line: My murdered boy! ... Woe, woe is me! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Murder; Trees; Dead, The JUMP, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays. Sun-narrowed eyes. My father Last Line: What I want most is on the other Subject(s): Arabs; Boats; Fathers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine JUST DAD, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's someone in the lower hall Last Line: "see who it is."" ""just dad, that's all." Subject(s): Fathers KATALIN'S CHILDREN, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: I'd have gladly given birth Last Line: Had I met the right one Subject(s): Children; Fathers And Sons; Marriage KILLJOY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother and father Last Line: Artist / & / killjoy Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Suburbs; Anti-semitism; Family Life; Fathers KITCHEN WALTZ, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: My small bare feet %spoon his shoes Last Line: To daddy's %kitchen waltzing song Subject(s): Fathers KOANS, by HOWARD NELSON Poem Source First Line: My father-in-law, a nobly intelligent and tense man Subject(s): Fathers-in-law KYOTO BORN IN SPRING SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful little children Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters KYOTO BORN IN SPRING SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful little children Last Line: Wild babies %in the ferns and plums and weeds Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LA PAMPA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead truck sits in the shimmering wheat Last Line: In white pajamas and turquoise slippers. Subject(s): Brothers; Fathers; Graves; Librarians & Libraries; Half-brothers; Tombs; Tombstones; Library; Librarians LAKOTA WARRIOR, by ARTHUR J. HARVEY Poem Source First Line: My lakota father Last Line: Only saluted, %at moment of death Subject(s): Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953 LAMENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of bees took away my father Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The LAMENT FOR MY FATHER, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: The southern clouds, like the signal fires, are dark Last Line: And grievingly watch the stars descend Subject(s): Fathers LAMENT OF A MAN FOR HIS SON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Son, my son! Subject(s): Fathers; Native Americans LAST DEATHS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few nights ago I was half-watching the news on television and half Last Line: But our little love days were just seeds it blew out on parachutes into the summer wind Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LAST SUPPER IN MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father-in-law begins the feast Last Line: Kept flying through the leaves. Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers-in-law; Food & Eating; Montana; Prayer LASTNESS: 2, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A black bear sits alone Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer LASTNESS: 2, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black bear sits alone Last Line: And smelled the grasslands and the ferns Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer LATE POEM TO MY FATHER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly I thought of you Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Love; Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LAWYER AND CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How large was alexander, father Last Line: About the size of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; History; Childhood; Historians LEADING THE LONELY, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: From the beginning we have moved, Last Line: Taking us deeper and %deeper into ourselves Subject(s): Fathers And Sons LEAR, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poor old king, with sorrow for my crown Last Line: Foolish -- and blind -- and overcome with years! Subject(s): Fathers; Lear, King LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN: 51. LOST CHILDHOOD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How was it possible, I a father Last Line: And it was as though satisfying %my own lost childhood Subject(s): Children; Fathers LEAVING THE GARDEN, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time to remember again Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Fathers LEE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's people Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Generals; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Slavery; Southern States; Virginia (state); Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.) LEE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's people Last Line: Chaining his mother to lee Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Generals; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Slavery; Southern States; Virginia (state) LESSON, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was 1963 or 4, summer Last Line: With him, I kept thinking, fixed against noise %from the dark Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Fathers LETTER FROM BROOKLYN, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old lady writes me in a spidery style Last Line: So this old lady writes, and again I believe, %I believe it all, and for no man's death I grieve Subject(s): Fathers LETTER TO A FATHER, LETTER FROM A SON, by LYNN SHOEMAKER Poem Source First Line: Cincinnati. Aprill 11th Last Line: And my anger shakes in the lilies Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Fathers And Sons; Letters LETTER TO DAD, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Write him a letter Last Line: It doesn't seem fair that...'(beep) Subject(s): Fathers LETTERS FROM A FATHER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ulcerated tooth keeps me awake, there is Last Line: So the world woos its children back for an evening kiss Subject(s): Fathers; Letters LETTERS FROM A FATHER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ulcerated tooth keeps me awake, there is Last Line: So the world woos its children back for an evening kiss Subject(s): Fathers LIFE AND DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is life, father? Last Line: "and god is over all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out %to watch the christmas eve crowds Last Line: Abstractions of the rascals %hwo live by killing you and me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love; Stars LIKE MY FATHER WAKING EARLY, by THOMAS LYNCH Poem Source First Line: Even for an undertaker, it was odd Last Line: I do this like my father, waking early, %I have my coffee, cigarettes, and worry Subject(s): Fathers; Undertakers LINE IS SLACK, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I know tonight what I've always known Last Line: The line is slack, and the dark waters ripple over Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Grief LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS FATHER ON ... PRESENT OF A KNIFE, by JAMES EDWARD AUSTEN-LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Though superstitious folks may say Last Line: And me, your duteous son beleive Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Gifts And Giving; Knives LINES TO MY FATHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The many sow, but only the chosen reap; Subject(s): Fathers LISTEN, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: One in high school, a friend Last Line: Smiling a little %his own prayer after the songs Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LISTENING TO A WHITE MAN PLAY THE BLUES, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: Pushing the seed into the ground Last Line: You don't know what dirt is %until you bury your first daughter Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LITTLE AGLAE; TO HER FATHER ON HER STATUE BEING CALLED LIKE HER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! The little girl we see Last Line: She kiss'd you first and ran away. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LITTLE BLACK POEM 4 LARRY, by LESLIE REESE Poem Source First Line: A big black man with a big black smile holds Last Line: Holds my smaller black hand and %protects me Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers LITTLE POPEET: THE LOST CHILD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near by the silent waters of the mediterranean Last Line: And lived happy with his father for many a day. Subject(s): Disappeared Persons; Fathers & Sons; Missing Persons LITTLE TOOTH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your baby grows a tooth, then two Last Line: You did, you loved, your feet %are sore. It's dusk. Your daughter's tall Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters LIVELIHOOD: PROEM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Audrey, these men and women I have known Last Line: In old incredible days before your birth. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters LIVES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bessie’s face lingers before me Last Line: And as if speaking for me Subject(s): Women; Music & Musicians; Fathers & Daughters; Perseverance LIVING ROOM, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the cave of memory my father Subject(s): Fathers LONELINESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who had all else heaven and earth Last Line: For loneliness, for loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Solitude; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Loneliness LOOMING FLOCK, by JUDY GALBRAITH Poem Source First Line: I was dreaming my father Last Line: A whole flock hanging behind and %coming even closer Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Goats LORD IVON AND HIS DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful it is! Come here, my daughter! Last Line: Thank god! Thank god! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Nature Of LORD ROBERTS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: He came, he saw, he conquered; though his heart Last Line: The idol of his country and his queen. Subject(s): England; Fathers & Sons; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; English LOST CHILDHOOD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How was it possible, I a father Last Line: My own lost childhood Subject(s): Fathers & Sons LOST SON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At woodlawn I heard the dead cry Last Line: Be still. %wait Subject(s): Fathers And Sons LOTUS LEAVES, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no peace beneath the noon Last Line: By sailing on the barren sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Fathers; Lotus; Lotos LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago I fell in love Last Line: And she'll be three weeks old on sunday! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Babies; Fathers & Daughters; Infants LOVE'S PHOTOGRAPH (OR FATHER AND SON), by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detected little things: a peach-pit Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Photography & Photographs LOVER BOYS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the movie where indiana jones Last Line: We couldn't even share the la-z-boy without fighting Subject(s): Courtship; Fathers And Sons; Love Affairs; Women LOWELL: 46., by AHARON SHABTAI Poem Source First Line: Little elegy for my father run over on columbus circle Last Line: Of the famous was for him an indispensible part of the city decor Subject(s): Death; Fathers LULLABY FOR A DAUGHTER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to sleep. Night is a coal pit Last Line: Her sweet subject, dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Sleep MAIDEN VOYAGE, by D. NURSKE Poem Source First Line: My father made me Last Line: Around a missing mouth Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fathers; Rivers MANTALK, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I was born when you were 29 Last Line: Of the language of men Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Fathers; Men MAPS, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Don't doubt it, they remember Last Line: There was still a thin strip of sky %in the one eye closing Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Sea; Ocean MARINA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Last Line: And woodthrush calling through the fog %my daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sea MATISSE TOO, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Matisse, too, when the fingers ceased to work Last Line: Damn the fathers. We are talking about defiance Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Courage; Art & Atists; Perseverance; Fathers MAYFLOWER, by JOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: In the gleam and gloom of the april weather Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers MAYFLOWER, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think some angel christened her Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers MEAT AND MEMORY, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: When my father receded, I became small Last Line: The smell of meat and memory Subject(s): Cows; Death; Fathers; Memory MEMORIES OF MY FATHER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we drove a spike too weak into wood too hard Subject(s): Fathers; Memory MEMORIES OF MY FATHER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we drove a spike too weak into wood too hard Last Line: That in mid-morning bursts %into glittering dust in the sunshine Subject(s): Fathers; Memory MEMORY OF MY FATHER, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every old man I see Last Line: Seems to say to me: %'I was once your father' Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Fathers MEN AND BIRTH; THE UNEXPLAINABLE, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malepractice and maleabsence issue is loneliness & limiting Last Line: Smiles occasional tears and undying commitment Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer MEN AT NY FATHER'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones his age who shook my hand Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers; Funerals; Burials MEN WITH SECRETS, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Our faults like san andreas Last Line: Well enough to start us telling Subject(s): Fathers And Sons MEN WITHOUT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a coward, and I have grown Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Fathers & Sons; Love; Estrangement; Outcasts MENTAL PATIENT MAULED BY POLAR BEAR IN VILAS PARK ZOO, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Father stood in the doorway Last Line: And I taste iron in my mouth %and my feet grow wings Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers; Insanity MERCY, by BRUCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: When you came down the river to me in your rush basket Last Line: Yet, little white girl, my moses Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MESSAGE TO CALIBAN, by ERIC HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Our one fall sign Last Line: His words cathedral-sized %and in those hands leaves Subject(s): Autumn; Fathers And Sons; Labor And Laborers; Leaves; Seasons MESSENGER, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For days I have wakened and felt immediately Last Line: Grandchildren, colourful and silent Subject(s): Fathers MESSENGER: 1. THE FATHER, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange house %in the strange town Last Line: Her hair back from her eyes. His eyes %settle. On us Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSES, by DEBORAH NARIN-WELLS Poem Source First Line: My son recites the names of birds Last Line: Upward, contemplating %the hard blue sky Subject(s): Birds; Change; Children; Fathers And Sons; Growth METAMORPHOSIS: 1. NIGHT, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel of death flies Last Line: Even the spot on the lung %was always there Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSIS: 2. METAMORPHOSIS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father has forgotten me Last Line: Turned away from the contract Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSIS: 3 FOR MY FATHER, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to live without you Last Line: Against your cheek, my hand is warm %and full of tenderness Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MIDDLE MANAGER, by ANTHONY OAKSON Poem Source First Line: When he trudges in the front door Last Line: Before he takes off his winter coat Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters MINUS ONE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of seven sparrows on a country wire Last Line: Hawk in this now? Unchosen? Come to choose? Subject(s): Sparrows; Hawks; Fathers & Sons MIRRU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tiptoed into her sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MIRRU, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tiptoed into her sleep Last Line: While the snow swirled so prettily on the lawn %like a white queen in a beautiful dress Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MISSING MY DAUGHTER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wall-paper has lines that rise Last Line: Or on a white page, a white poem. %the roses raced around her name Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Travel MISSING MY FATHER'S HEART SURGERY, by KRISTIN BECKER Poem Source First Line: They did not look between your ribs Last Line: That beat in you %like a smooth, heavy fist Subject(s): Fathers; Hearts; Surgery MOLLY, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: If I could scratch figures Last Line: A people who do not remember: %rain which falls upon a rock Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MOLOCH IN STATE STREET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set: while yet the dawn Last Line: God of the free! Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pilgrim Fathers; Antislavery Movement - United States MOMENTS WITH DAD, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Boxing with dad, %I but a child Last Line: That read empty the whole way Subject(s): Fathers MOON MONEY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: One huge arc Last Line: Circling his %hushed tongue Subject(s): Boys; Children; Fathers; Psychiatry; Psychology MOSS OF HIS SKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was only important Last Line: How I hold my daddy %like an old stone tree Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; God; Religion MOTETS: 4, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, yet I was with you when your father Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The MOTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what angelic countenance Last Line: To fatherhood and motherhood! Subject(s): Fathers; Mothers MOUNTAIN SONG: 1, by FENG MENG-LUNG Poem Source First Line: My old man's small, shriveled and shrunk Last Line: Every year the harvest of its flowers will be reaped by others Subject(s): Fathers MOURNING PICTURE (PAINTED BY EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker Variant Title(s): Mourning Picture Subject(s): Elmer, Edwin Romanzo (1850-1923); Fathers & Daughters; Paintings & Painters MOURNING PICTURE (PAINTED BY EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have carried the mahogany chair and the cane rocker Last Line: And leave this out? I am effie, you were my dream Variant Title(s): Mourning Pictur Subject(s): Elmer, Edwin Romanzo (1850-1923); Fathers And Daughters; Paintings And Painters MOUSE HAIKU, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Blind and tissue-skinned Last Line: Of fluttering hearts Subject(s): Animals; Fathers MOVING AGAIN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the mountains look like huge Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Divorce MOVING ON IN THE DARK LIKE LOADED BOATS AT NIGHT, THOUGH THE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: Master, then this -- I crossed my father's gate Last Line: How long how on how oft how long Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MR. FIX-IT, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Dad's not so good with hammers Last Line: There's no one like my dad Subject(s): Fathers MUSEUM MAN!, by LORINE NIEDECKER Poem Source Last Line: It would come back Variant Title(s): The Museum Man!.. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You smile and you smoke your Last Line: A trouble like yours, my boy! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fathers; Sons MY BUDDY, by FOREST M. KELP Poem Text First Line: Want to tell you of my buddy Last Line: Splendid buddyis my dad! Subject(s): Fathers; Hearts; Love MY DAD IS A MAGICIAN, by LESLIE REESE Poem Source First Line: Frederick douglass, crispus attucks, toussaint l'ouverture Last Line: Old alabama negro straightener for burroughs, corp Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers MY DADDY, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: My daddy %is a very, very, very good man Last Line: My daddy %is a very, very, very good man Subject(s): Fathers MY DADDY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a funny daddy Last Line: I hope he fries in hell Subject(s): Fathers MY DADDY IS A COOL DUDE, by KARAMA FUFUKA Poem Source First Line: When my daddy comes in from work %at night Last Line: My daddy sure is a cool dude Subject(s): Fathers MY DADDY'S FINGERS MOVE AMONG THE COUPLERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My daddy's fingers might be men again Subject(s): Fathers MY DADDY'S FINGERS MOVE AMONG THE COUPLERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What do the couplers know %about being locked together? Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers MY DADDY'S SHAKIN SOMETHING AWFUL, by RUBA NADDA Poem Source First Line: And my daddy's hands are shakin something awful as he Last Line: Crazy daddy, he's shaking something awful, I don't speak %his language. And he don't speak mine Subject(s): Children; Depression, Mental; Fathers MY DAUGHTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast thy mother's eyes, my child Last Line: The delicate darling of a dream. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Food & Eating; Pies MY DAUGHTER AND APPLE PIE, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She serves me a piece of it a few minutes Last Line: She says she loves him. No way %could it be worse Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Food And Eating; Pies MY DAUGHTER VERY ILL, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: My little darling looked so pale today Last Line: That alone stirs to courage and to walk %and to work Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY FATHER, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: You are far away, my father, there in your realm of shadows Last Line: Cast down upon immense arms that horribly mimic you Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Orphans MY FATHER, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: My way of life was strange and its paths wondrous Last Line: Testifies to him in truth: 'here lies a righteous and honest man' Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, by EULA BISS Poem Source First Line: I saw a windowsill full of wasps when I was six. A swarm of terrifying black Last Line: And our eyes meet as the first stitch is pulled tight Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, by ABRAHAM CHALFI Poem Source First Line: I live my father's old age Last Line: My father is sad Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: He had a big workshop. It was part of the world Last Line: He died alone, and with me. No one remembers him Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Solitude MY FATHER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father! In the vague, mysterious past Last Line: Longing (how oft!) with him to be at rest. Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was a cowboy Last Line: For my own catalog of metaphors Subject(s): Death - Fathers MY FATHER, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: My father doesn't live with us Last Line: But after he has gone away %I miss him Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: With springtime my father comes alive Last Line: Now I live in the flow of that green time, %and my father lives there too Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers MY FATHER, by FELIX MNTHALI Poem Source First Line: That we may have life Last Line: His sons would return Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER AMONG HIS SISTER'S CHILDREN, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: If his father hadn't been away Last Line: White shirts with collars and ties Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Memory; Photography And Photographers MY FATHER AND GOD, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain comes down on the desert and the next day Last Line: Making a huge %animal sound. It was just like a bear roaring, she said Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Greece MY FATHER AND I, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father prayed as he drew a bead on the graycoats Last Line: What is the matter? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Murder; Prayer; War MY FATHER AND MYSELF FACING THE SUN, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: We are both strong, dark, bright men Last Line: Night, night, night, before the following morning Subject(s): Fathers And Sons MY FATHER AT 75, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He makes his own soup from scratch Last Line: Penchant of a man who contends to stay home Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER AT 75, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He makes his own soup from scratch Last Line: Caress and afflict him %he has the neat %penchant of a man who contends to stay home Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER AT HIS HEIGHT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I grew to his exact same size Last Line: All right! That's it! Everyone out of the water!' Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Sons; Old Age; Sons MY FATHER COMES BACK FROM THE GRAVE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you must contrive to turn this stone Subject(s): Deat - Fathers MY FATHER DIED IMPERFECT AS A MAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My father's love, imperfect as a man Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER DYING: 1984, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: He hums [or, burns] with prostate cancer Last Line: Igniting everywhere karmaic fires.' Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Fathers; Labor And Laborers MY FATHER IN AN ORCHARD, by ROD TULLIS Poem Source First Line: Everything becomes obvious in the evenings Last Line: So he can give them an apple %and call them, once more, by name Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER IS A RETIRED MAGICIAN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER IS A RETIRED MAGICIAN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: & you gonna love it/bein colored/all yr life/colored & love it %love it/bein colored Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY FATHER TAMED WILD HORSES, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: My father who is eighty shot white bears Last Line: He gave me bows, and arrow barbs, %my ride, his rein, my name Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Mormons MY FATHER TRAVELS, by DILIP CHITRE Poem Source First Line: My father travels on the late evening train Last Line: Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass Subject(s): Fathers; Travel MY FATHER'S BIRTHDAY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My mother doesn't want to give the party Last Line: Rather pleased about it all %and says: I am an ancient man Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Worry MY FATHER'S BODY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they take it away, Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers; Corpses; Funerals; Cremation; Cadavers; Burials MY FATHER'S CAR, by JUSTIN BIGOS Poem Source First Line: Because it is winter rub out Last Line: In the usual folds and crevices %the same deep-seated pattern emerge Subject(s): Automobiles; Fathers; Home MY FATHER'S CORPSE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He lay stone still, pretended to be dead Last Line: To have the resurrected bastard back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons MY FATHER'S DESK, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: The wrinkles in the taxi driver's face Last Line: He was afraid for me-afraid I would break. %something the world could never feel for me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY FATHER'S DIARY (1), by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get into bed with it, and spring Subject(s): Diaries; Fathers & Daughters MY FATHER'S DIARY (2), by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit on the bed, and spring the brass Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Diaries MY FATHER'S DREAM, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: That winter of the war Last Line: My heart just broke,' he said, 'when I saw %that beautiful bird go down.' Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Winter MY FATHER'S FACE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old he was but not yet wax Last Line: This man not Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Fathers MY FATHER'S FACE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Over his fastidious hands Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER'S FACE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over his fastidious hands Last Line: A sacred seat with the father Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MY FATHER'S FOOTBALL GAME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He watched each tv game for all he was worth, while swaying Subject(s): Fathers; Football MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel; Similes MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel Last Line: As if they were his ripe prize vegetables Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel MY FATHER'S GHOST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I counted them, and now I look through the door Last Line: My father's ghost in my arms in his dark doorway Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Relatives MY FATHER'S HALLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's halls, so rich and rare Last Line: And bear me to my father's arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Separation; Isolation MY FATHER'S HEROES, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not jfk, not mlk Last Line: The last words %she'd give them Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Athletes; Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians MY FATHER'S HOUSE, 1908-1970, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live quietly and go nowhere Last Line: Its secret life as if a fortune were yours Subject(s): Fathers; Houses MY FATHER'S HOUSE, 1908-1970, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live quietly and go nowhere Last Line: Its secret as if a fortune were yours Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER'S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY (1), by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither the moon face, scarlet Last Line: As if a lover were cradled in his arms Subject(s): Birthdays; Fathers MY FATHER'S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY (2), by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not only the moon face, scarlet Last Line: As if a darling had crept into his arms Subject(s): Birthdays; Fathers MY FATHER'S LEAVING, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back, he was gone. Subject(s): Fathers; Mothers; Abandonment; Family Life; Desertion; Relatives MY FATHER'S NIPPLES, by ANDREA ENGLAND Poem Source First Line: The first dry shave Last Line: Careening back into myself Subject(s): Bodies; Fathers; Memory MY FATHER'S SHOES, by ROBERT NAZARENE Poem Source First Line: I am the son who polished his shoes Last Line: But never could fill them Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Shoes MY FATHER'S SONG, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanting to say things Last Line: And my father saying things Subject(s): Father MY FATHER'S TUMOR, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: It comes to me out of nowhere, always an image Last Line: And to kill him Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Love MY FATHER'S VOICE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as I rage, I see my daughter Last Line: Weathers the shaping blast. Subject(s): Anger; Children; Discipline; Fathers; Childhood MY FATHER'S WALLETS, by GEORGE O'CONNELL Poem Source First Line: It was august, and the end Last Line: The breath of a whole season Subject(s): Fathers; Memory MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches; Nightmares MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches MY FATHER'S YAHRZEIT, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: The flame yearns upward through thick glass Last Line: Let me repeat this prayer every year Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY FATHER, FAR IN SOME HOSPITAL, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I startle him with my late Last Line: I rage gently, %'goodnight' Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Fathers; Love; Old Age; Telephones MY FATHER, MY HANDS, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father gave me these hands, fingers Last Line: Keeping me steady above the world, still Subject(s): Fathers; Hands MY FATHER, MY SON, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, %one day longer on this earth than you Last Line: They were so bad I cried Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, THE PRISONER, by RAINER SCHULTE Poem Source First Line: After ten years Last Line: Not even his death %erases the memory Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER, WHO'S STILL ALIVE, by JOSE KOZER Poem Source Last Line: Who was a tailor and a communist Subject(s): Fathers MY FATHER-IN-LAW REMEMBERS THE ARGONNE, by MARINE ROBERT WARDEN Poem Source First Line: It helps to be mad Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Fathers-in-law; World War I MY FATHER: OCTOBER 1942, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He picks up what he thinks is Last Line: Or wrong. He just wins or loses Subject(s): Fathers MY GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MY JOSE, by MARTHA S. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: When he sees friends come home with me Last Line: Hey guys, this is my jose Subject(s): Fathers MY LAWRENCE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The future, rain in every syllable and cell Last Line: It was raining and no one knew who lawrence was Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930) MY LITTLE GIRL, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little girl is nested Last Line: Who has my love and prayers! Variant Title(s): My Drowsy Little Queen Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Mothers; Childhood MY LITTLE SON, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a son, a little son Last Line: You'll find that I'm not here Subject(s): Fathers And Sons MY MOTHER'S POEM, by MICERE GITHAE MUGO Poem Source First Line: The day after %my father Last Line: My father %was buried Subject(s): Africa - Neocolonialism; Fathers; Funerals; Mothers MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath / could make a small boy dizzy Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dancing & Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Bedtime MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath %could make a small boy dizzy Last Line: Then waltzed me off to bed %still clinging to your shirt Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dancing And Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play MY POOR NEIGHBOR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My neighbor hath a lordly pile Last Line: While I have homeand you, my dear! Subject(s): Blessings; Family Life; Fathers; Happiness; Neighbors; Poverty; Wealth; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Riches; Fortunes MY SON, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Religion MYRRHA TO THE SOURCE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fluent one, o muscle full of hydrogen, Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MYTH OF MUSIC, by RACHEL M. HARPER Poem Source First Line: If music can be passed on Last Line: With anyone %but you Subject(s): Fathers; Music And Musicians NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Last Line: Be more than the man %who watches Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Parents; Women NAMES, by DODIE MEEKS Poem Source First Line: If I had one like %makepeace Last Line: Saying what? What did you say? Subject(s): Fathers; Names NAMING OUR BOY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The jokes come first Last Line: For us, %touched my arm, and whispered, your shot, son. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Fathers And Sons; Names; Poetry And Poets NAMING THE UNBORN, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marry late and the next question Last Line: And await what will come, %this vigil we keep for the nameless Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters NANI WORRIES ABOUT HER FATHER'S HAPPINESS IN THE AFTERLIFE, by ANA CASTILLO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He knew nothing about death Last Line: This is hell. %this is not the whole story Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters NATURE'S LAW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other heroes boast their scars Last Line: To endless generations! Subject(s): Nature; Future; Fathers NECROLOGY: 1929, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: One generation did not see them come Last Line: Them all. He garnered in both wheat and tares. Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Fathers; Harvest NEWBORN ODE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A soft baritone lifts you up, the one that drives the sap Last Line: When I hold you in my arms I m the rock from the old testament Subject(s): Babies; Fathers NIGHT DRIVING, SELS, by JOHN COY Poem Source First Line: We walk outside Last Line: I see snow sparkling in the light Subject(s): Fathers NIGHT SONG, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get up in the night to pee Last Line: And though I have to desperately, not getting up to pee- %oh, how I hate it, hate it, being me Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Fathers; Night NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you, o infant of my midnight thought! Last Line: Ah, well, some day you 'll be a married man. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Marriage; Parents; Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood NO ANSWER, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It's not all been said Last Line: From fathers' tongues and goes out? Subject(s): Fathers And Sons NO MAN CAN ESCAPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: No man can escape from a woman's love Last Line: No man can escape if he tries. Subject(s): Fathers; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NO MAP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How close the clouds press this october first Last Line: Showing the dark places and how to escape them? Subject(s): Surgery; Fathers & Sons; Birthdays NO TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: From room to room he roared and strode Last Line: A barkin' dog has no time to bite Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fathers; Fear NO WORK POEM #1, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hurt my father most after his accident Subject(s): Fathers; Unemployment NOBODY CAN SAY DADDY WASN'T SAVED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: We were presbyterian Last Line: For nothing more than trying Subject(s): Fathers; Religion NOMEN (TO FEMI SODIPO AND MY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ANCESTORS), by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sunlight came pre-packaged Last Line: And having no need to let myself be robbed %a second time Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fathers And Daughters NOT BAD, DAD, NOT BAD', by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you are most yourself when you are swimming Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Swimming And Swimmers NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE NOW BETWEEN THE SKY AND THE LAKE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father slides into third base Last Line: Without gloves and a lit cigar in his mouth Subject(s): Fathers; Illness NUGGET AND DUST, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father clipped coupons at the kitchen table Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters OCHER ROAD, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I follow you, father Last Line: Where you died wrapped in a burlap sack Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers; Prisons And Prisoners ODYSSEUS TO TELEMACHUS, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My dear telemachus, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons OEDIPUS REFORMED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not kill my father Last Line: My wife will play my mother / and be kind Subject(s): Fathers OEDIPUS REFORMED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not kill my father Last Line: My wife will play my mother %and be kind Subject(s): Fathers OF A CHILD WHO WOULD NOT LEARN THE CRIS-CROSS ROW, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little child of mine, come hit her to my knee Last Line: Then the morning touched mine eyelids, and I woke. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Fathers; Regret; Religious Education; Childhood; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OF YOUR FATHER'S INDISCRETIONS AND THE TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer he stole the jade buttons Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters OF YOUR FATHER'S INDISCRETIONS AND THE TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer he stole the jade buttons Last Line: In the dress %red as a house burning down Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters OF, OR FROM, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: These sons %become me Last Line: Become me they %become me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons OFFERING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, you must have been Last Line: "ah . . . Dearest father, dear Subject(s): Boats; Fathers; Men OFFISA POPP; A MANEUVER IN CLASS WARFARE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father suited up Last Line: A goddam plowshare Subject(s): Fathers; Guns; Soldiers OIL & STEEL, by HENRI COLE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons OLD MAN ON TRAIL, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I prayed so hard for old age to come Last Line: Is today a curse in my hands? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age OLD SHEPHERD IN PROVENCE, by ROBERT FAGLES Poem Source First Line: Frightening, how he recalls my father Last Line: Ripen the work of my hands upon me, father, %full and ripe as adam in the fall Subject(s): Fathers; Provence, France; Shepherds And Shepherdesses ON HIS FATHER'S DEATH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death - Fathers ON MERE POINT, by ANDREW GOTTLIEB Poem Source First Line: Casting off the dock for stripers Last Line: Tense and failing -- until that glossy pose, %the wide stilled eye Subject(s): Fathers; Fishing And Fishermen ON SECOND THOUGHT, by MEG KEARNEY Poem Source First Line: I was wrong about happiness. I thought Last Line: You look so much like your father Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Happiness; Memory ON SOME LINES OF LOPE DE VEGA, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the man who turnips cries Last Line: Have a turnip than his father. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): Burlesque;burlesque Of Lope De Vega Subject(s): Fathers; Vega Carpio, Lope Felix De (1562-1635) ON THE BEACH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot help you' was the message Last Line: Away as a wing sewn by hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love - Nature Of; Seashore; Summer ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle Last Line: Ache of love Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle Last Line: And in my heart how deep unending %ache of love! Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore ON THE DEATH OF A GREAT CRITIC, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look up into the death of my father Subject(s): Death - Fathers ON THE DEATH OF ALLEN'S SON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man had seven sons Last Line: And it never again %can be pronounced the same Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers And Sons; Heaven ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, by WEI WEN-TI Poem Text First Line: I look up and see / his curtains and bed Last Line: Then why was he / not spared? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Death; Fathers; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home Last Line: "where blossoms never die"" to heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement ON THE DECLINE OF ORACLES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father kept a vaulted conch Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF MY FATHER'S DEATH, by CAROLYN LAU Poem Source First Line: Wandering into mother's bedroom Last Line: I want you to know, daddy, %I'm glad you're dead Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters ON THE JOB, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Billy says hid dad's an architect Last Line: Dad... %what is it you do, again? Subject(s): Fathers ONE STORY, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one story, the coyote sings us into being Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Paperweights; Dead, The ONE STORY, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one story, the coyote sings us into being Last Line: Mewing beneath the earth Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Paperweights ONE: HIS FATHER'S HANDS, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I drank firmly Last Line: Squirming and dropping out of it Subject(s): Fathers ONLY TIME, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Something in me knew that the sky Last Line: Could make silence an answer Subject(s): Fathers And Sons ORACLE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the burn's unstable, burning too hot Subject(s): Engineering & Engineers; Rockets; Fathers; Death; Dead, The ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORPHAN, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: My father's thinking out loud Last Line: But we won't notice that Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Old Age OUR DAILY BREAD, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Nine p.M. We close the store Last Line: Thank you for this crazy day Subject(s): Fathers OUR FATHER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that I loved the father Last Line: A star of perfect love. Subject(s): Fathers OUR FATHER AT 80 HAS MOVED TO THE COUNTRY WHERE, by MARTHA RHODES Poem Source First Line: He's no longer poisoned Last Line: (squirrels steeping in wine) Subject(s): Aging; Country Life; Fathers OUR HARDY DADS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Our daddies sat upon unpainted planks Last Line: Our daddies must have been the all-wool stuff! Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Past; Sports OUR HUNTING FATHERS TOLD THE STORY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To hunger, work illegally, %and be anonymous? Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Fathers; Hunting OUR LESSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, papa; -- that was all she said Last Line: Is but a training for their utterance! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters P. H. T., by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I may come near loving you Last Line: Can I love you at all Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Fathers And Sons PA DID IT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train of cars that santa brought is out of Last Line: I'm going to ask for toys an' things that my pa cannot break. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers PACK, by TINA CHANG Poem Source First Line: In the rain, the sound of them Last Line: That guard, that wander, that obey, that creep, that bleed Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Rain PAINTER'S DAUGHTER, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: It's a kind of blindness Last Line: Just like any father and daughter %out watching the sun go down Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PANTOUM: AT MOUNT HEBRON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This cemetery is no haven Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Sons; Grief; Jews; Mourning PAP'S OLD SAYIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pap had one old-fashioned sayin' Last Line: "shet up, and eat yer vittels!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Advice; Fathers PAPA, by NUBIA KAI Poem Source First Line: Papa, %when men like you die Last Line: Will come and join you %at our lord's throne Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers PAPER ANNIVERSARY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Symphonies; Concerts PAPER ANNIVERSARY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash Last Line: And see that startled face Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Symphonies PARENTS, by TERRY SPOHN Poem Source First Line: Dogs raise their heads from sleep. The rabbit's paws are wet. In the first Last Line: Bread cooling in the sun. She doesn't intend to die Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age; Parents PARIS FALLING: MY FATHER, DEAD OF ALZHEIMER'S, by GORDON GRANT Poem Source First Line: He. %he became. %he became he out of all the thousands Last Line: Christ, breathe your white distances %through him so the melting stops Subject(s): Alzheimer's Disease; Death; Fathers PASSAGES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come in in tiny boats Last Line: We must not look back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stones; Granite; Rocks PASSOVER HAMBURGERS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The hamgurgers Last Line: Bitter herbs Subject(s): Contentment; Family Life; Fathers; Food And Eating; Love; Passover PASTORAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened so fast. Fenya was in the straight Last Line: The vigil of astonishment. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Nursing (infants); Dead, The PATERNITY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only women dream the future's child Last Line: And all my being yearned: my son! My son! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons PATIENCE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is she ran shouting from the house? What if she Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters PEER GYNT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat down at last on a fallen log - that had Last Line: I take for my petals the darkness of this hour Subject(s): Wood; Fathers PENANCE, by VERA BEATTY Poem Source First Line: We are sixteen hours into my father's death Last Line: Shallow, repent, he will return Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Mourning PENATES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is omniscient Subject(s): Fathers; Wisdom PENATES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is omniscient Last Line: Behind her, father's sad eye blinks Subject(s): Fathers; Wisdom PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was insolent to me Last Line: I hit him: libery is to defend Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers & Sons PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was insolent to me Last Line: I hit him: liberty is to defend Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers And Sons PETITION OF A SCHOOLBOY TO HIS FATHER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most honour'd sir, I must confess Last Line: And your petitioner shall pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Money; Schools; Poetry & Poets; Students PHOTO OF HER FATHER'S LOVER, by DEBORAH BACHARACH Poem Source First Line: An old battered dresser in the background Last Line: Framed, %larger than she can lift Subject(s): Fathers PHOTO OF MY FATHER IN A SNOWBOUND TRAIN, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that his name has turned to elegy Last Line: Lost to this minnesota january, %where his name has turned to snow, to elegy Subject(s): Fathers; Railroads PIGGYBACK DAD, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: I don't want the ride to end Last Line: I hold you tight %right to the end Subject(s): Fathers PILGRIM FATHERS, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on this rock, and on this sterile soil Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers PILGRIM FATHERS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They come - that coming who shall tell? Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers PILGRIM MOTHERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now thank god for the women Last Line: Through sacrifice and tears? Subject(s): Mothers; Pilgrim Fathers; Women - Heroes PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the front yard, my father and his son Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Baseball PLAYING DEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Our father liked to play a game. Last Line: I’m way too young to quote ’em Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Death; Relatives; Dead, The PLEASING DAD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was but a little lad, not more than two or three Last Line: That he may claim the old-time joy of being proud of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons PLUMBLINE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world could snore, wrangle or tear Subject(s): Fathers POEM, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: My father could not make a poem Last Line: He made a poem in living green. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a heavy knocking Last Line: Is coming home Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood POEM, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hear that heroic big land music? Subject(s): Fathers POEM - UNFINISHED POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a way to spend the golden years, tomasito Last Line: To hell with that word, tomasito! Let's go out in the sun! Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Sons; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I have an appointment to see the assistant Last Line: To be terrified by that thought and its possibilities Subject(s): Fathers And Sons POEM FOR ME, by JR. JOHN MICKLOS Poem Source First Line: It was still dark when I woke up Last Line: But now it is Subject(s): Fathers POEM FOR MY FATHER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You closed the door Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters POEM FOR MY FATHER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You closed the door Last Line: Old man whose sperm swims in my veins, %come back in love, come back in pain Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POEM FOR MY FATHER, by ERICA ANNETTE PIERCE Poem Source First Line: He stood but 5'10 Last Line: Cast a giannt shadow Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers POEM FOR MY FATHER, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad it must be %to love so many women Last Line: Wife, I cross myself %with her confessionals Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POEM FOR MY FATHER, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night, long after the midnight movies Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration POEM FOR MY FATHER, by QUINCY TROUPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout Last Line: Father, a harbinger, of shock waves, soon come Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR MY FATHER'S GHOST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is my father Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Relatives POEM FOR MY FATHER'S GHOST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is my father Last Line: A brother who has walked his thousand miles Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers POEM FOR MY SON (II), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sexually I'm zero Last Line: Would have no imagination. %I would have a son Subject(s): Fathers And Sons POEM FOR TWO DAUGHTERS, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody wants to know Last Line: The world would have run out of %bones Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POEM: 2, by KIM HAEGYONG Poem Source First Line: When my father dozes off beside me I become my father Last Line: And my father's father's father's roles must live? Subject(s): Fathers And Sons POET FOR EMILY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Small fact and fingers and farthest one from me Last Line: When you were who knows what and I was dead %which is I stood and loved you while you slept Variant Title(s): A Poem For Emil Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PORCUPINE PA, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever pa neglects to shave Last Line: That's up against a grater? Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Fathers PORTRAIT OF A FATHER, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: My father was a hard man, closed Last Line: Flashing teeth flickering like gems in the dry air Subject(s): Fathers; Ranch Life PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The first time I felt his hands lifting me up like a gust of wind taking a Last Line: Nameless and unknown Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Portraits; Sermons PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, by BONNIE D. ELKIN Poem Text First Line: Man of the soil, an ageless man Last Line: A farmer's field of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Agriculture; Farmers PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER AS A YOUNG MAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel Last Line: In my more slowly disappearing hand Subject(s): Fathers PORTRAIT OF THE FATHER, by LINDY HOUGH Poem Source First Line: Once I stood in a green bough Last Line: My invasive mind on quietest hilly nights in%moon-black verdure of summer Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories PRAIRIE WIND, by DEBRA NYSTROM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pegeon wings shatter the sunlight Last Line: That wants to scatter us all, %warning it Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PRAISES, by STEPHANIE MCCLAIN Poem Source First Line: They sing of my father Last Line: Smelling kola nut and palmwine on his wine. I drank often Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers PRAYER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Great jehovah, loving father Last Line: We shall see thee face to face. Subject(s): Fathers; Holy Ghost; Religion; Trinity, The; Holy Spirit; Theology PRAYER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: She cannot tell my name / nor whence I came Last Line: When my child's call I hear, I catch her to my heart. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Love; Prayer; Death - Babies PRAYER BEFORE BED, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Of course I pray for mommy's health Last Line: Let daddy bring it home Subject(s): Prayer; Fathers PRAYER FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your head is still Subject(s): Fathers PRAYER FOR MY SON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid a strong ghost stand at the head Last Line: Protecting, till the danger past, %with human love Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Poetry And Poets; Prayer PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Last Line: Only she on her knees, peeking into %her own clasped hands Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Daughters PRETTY, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source Last Line: Oh, I wish he'd hurry up! Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Fathers PROBLEM, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Awake in the dark, I counted the planes Last Line: Until the tire began to spin Subject(s): Death; Fathers PRODIGAL SON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except for the flies, except that there is not water Last Line: For little, takes the first step toward home Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Prodigal Son PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Last Line: Slow horses and fast women Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) PROVENANCE, by RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: My father's paintings in my uncle's house Last Line: My father's paintings in my uncle's house Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Paintings And Painters; Uncles PROVIDER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say he's at the company christmas party Last Line: No place to call home Subject(s): Fathers; Houses; Men; Paranoia; Professions; Worry PSALM: MAGNOLIAS IN THE APRIL SNOW, by UROS ZUPAN Poem Source First Line: Let us bite through the chains of enchanted words, father, let us melt Last Line: Of my dreams, magnolias opening in the april snow Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Winter PURPOSE OF NUNS, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: As a young girl attending sunday mass Last Line: I'd resume my flight back to the world Variant Title(s): The Changelin Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters PUTTING ON MY FATHER'S SHADOW, by LINDA RAMEY Poem Source First Line: As a girl I'd dress in its lengthy shape Last Line: As a girl I'd dress in its lenghty shape Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Shadows QUARANTINE, SELS, by BRIAN HENRY Poem Source First Line: My father woke before dawn to work Last Line: I am the only one here who is falling Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Fathers And Sons QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Last Line: With two fiery arrows from her little red bow Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Knowledge QUIET MONEY, by ROBERT MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: The bootlegger opens his eyes and stares Last Line: How what we do to get them can make us sorry... %send the word, send the word to beware Subject(s): Alcock, John William (1892-1919); Ambition; Aviation And Aviators; Brown, Arthur Whitten (1886-1948); Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) RABBI BEN HISSAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben hissar rode one day Last Line: "'I thank thee, lord,' was all he said" Subject(s): Clergy;death;fathers & Sons;jews; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;judaism; RACE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk Last Line: All night %I watched him breathe Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Men RADIO, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since pa put in the radio we have a lot of fun Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers RAIN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon it rained, then Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods RAIN, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: As fluent as rain is in the desert Last Line: Ready for the seasons to change us Subject(s): Fathers And Sons READING A STORY TO MY CHILD, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a small boy Last Line: In a ragged coat. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs READING ALOUD TO MY FATHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the book haphazard Last Line: And let them pull it free Subject(s): Books & Reading; Fathers & Daughters; Mortality READINGS IN FRENCH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking into the eyes of gerard de nerval Subject(s): Poetry & Poets - French; Fathers REAL FATHER, by BURNIECE AVERY Poem Source First Line: Some plant a seed and walk away Last Line: We'll face this world together, %whatever the years my bring Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers REAPING, by JODY AZZOUNI Poem Source First Line: My father is dead Last Line: I pretend the snapshots are flowers Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Memory RECOGNITIONS, by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Having just been aroused by some gurgling, rising and falling Last Line: As the cold soaked in, I found myself thinking, yes, this isit, %I'm really travelling... Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters RELIEF PITCHING, by TED FLOREA Poem Source First Line: Because his dad was coach Last Line: My dreams too wild %to say out loud Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers And Sons; Sports REMEMBER, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Hey, dad %remember when I was six Last Line: I know that I do Subject(s): Fathers REMEMBERED HANDS, by WINIFRED UPTON MCCAIG Poem Text First Line: My father's hands were long Last Line: I feel his hand in mine. Subject(s): Fathers REMEMBERING MY FATHER, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: His face severe in clouds above he waters of childhood Last Line: To be reconciled Subject(s): Fathers REQUIEM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, listening to music, that's me Last Line: Between them what was impossible %to settle in their early days? Subject(s): Fathers; Opera RETURN, by GEORGE MACBETH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: After the light has set Last Line: My father turns, with tears on his young face Subject(s): Fathers RETURN OF THE LOST SON, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: It is color that carries our lives Last Line: The golden grip of sunflowers Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Old Age; Weariness RICE & BEANS, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: Dad?' yes. 'you are a wimp.' that's very nice, thank you. Eat your Last Line: Please. You haven't finished your grilled cheese, have you? 'that's just %the bones, dad. Toast bone Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Food And Eating RIDING THE EMPIRE BUILDER, 1948, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father in the snowy window, face incandescent Last Line: For where he's going too, crossed hands drowsing on his chest Subject(s): Fathers; Railroads RIVER, by PAUL ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: A bridge over the low-flowing river Last Line: A tail drooped indolently in the sun, %a root branching into a continent Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters RIVERLIGHT, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I lie down together. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Dead, The ROADSIDE POEMS: THIS WORLD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy world is made to fit thine own Last Line: Because thou, god, art all in all! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fathers; God; Childhood; World ROADSIDE POEMS: WHAT THE LORD SAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust my father, saith the eldest-born Last Line: Little ones, I pray you, come to god! Subject(s): Fathers; God; Love; Trust ROSARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a man full of small Last Line: I still thought her / beautiful Subject(s): Fathers; Rosary ROSARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a man full of small Last Line: The way to a man's heart is %through his %stomach Subject(s): Fathers; Rosary ROUGHAGE, by MARC LEVY Poem Source First Line: In a white sink Last Line: To look: that all boys are born %of a restless father Subject(s): Fathers ROUNDED WITH A SLEEP, by KRISSY BRADY Poem Source First Line: They're coarse and dry Last Line: And how they will be remembered in this %illusion of left or right Subject(s): Anger; Character; Fathers; Memory RUBBING MY FATHER'S BACK, by SHARON KRAUS Poem Source First Line: That was when %I began to learn Last Line: The tenderness of them, holding their lives in %their skin, away from me, I learned then %how to lov Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters RUFFIANS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my father got old, but not too old Subject(s): Fathers; Aging RULES OF THE PACK, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Nose low, tail high Last Line: Cubs like to play! %dads do, too Subject(s): Animals; Fathers RUNDOWN CHURCH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I had a son and his name was john Last Line: His son! His son! His son! Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; World War I SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian, Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards SALE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Older now, he is among us in diminished form Last Line: At everything spread down there for sale Subject(s): Fathers; Aging SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he could have kept Last Line: What did you do to my father? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers & Daughters; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he could have kept Last Line: What did you do to my father Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers And Daughters; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SAND-QUARRY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SAND-QUARRY WITH MOVING FIGURES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the ruined Last Line: He caught my hand as I cried, %and smiling, entered the pit,ran laughing down its side Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SCEPTICS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When your old dad was as little as you Last Line: We used to spank children for mischief like that. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Mothers; Childhood SCOTCH AND SUN, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home from night shift, my father Last Line: Though I held him in my arms Variant Title(s): The Art Of Tragedy; Scotch And Su Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life; Fathers And Sons; Seashore SEARCH, by JOHARI MAHASIN RASHAD Poem Source First Line: I look for my father in old men's faces Last Line: I keep looking away Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers SEARCHING FOR MY FATHER'S BODY, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As he sleeps leaning against a tombstone %and dreams, never considering %where he himself will one d Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Fathers; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii SEASON FOR FATHERS, by JEFFREY LAMAR COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Days before my thirty-fourth year Last Line: Of newfound absence, %should a good son do? Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Prayer SEASONS, by ROSALIE SHANNON Poem Source First Line: Old man %bent, gnarled, broken Last Line: Has paid his dues %proudly Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers SECONDS OUT, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: After humpty dumpty fell apart Last Line: And at the speed of light %sons are older than their space-men fathers Subject(s): Cambodia; Fathers And Sons; Men SECRET HEART, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Across the years he could recall Subject(s): Fathers SECRET HOME, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: It was in cornfields Last Line: I will not use words Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SEEING THINGS, by KIM BRIDGFORD Poem Source First Line: My father-in-law is going blind %because of his cancer Last Line: Back on his pillow, telling us a joke %he finds so funny he can't help crying Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers-in-law SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when we were eight, or nine, Last Line: Down into the belly of the world Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Disappointment SEPARATE PARTIES (FOR MY DAUGHTER), by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: While your great-grandmother and her sons Last Line: Child, though magician, elf, you're not %my imagination but my daughter Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SESTINA, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Outside this nursing home I'm not helpless Last Line: Helpless, not a child or man, without a father Subject(s): Fathers; Nursing Homes SEVEN, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: 1. I've come to visit father; he is like walking through snow Last Line: Clean the basement, packing the china, the silverware, the pho- %tographs. Night enters, and we stri Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers SEVEN HEADS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who bears such heart of baseness, a king I'll never call Last Line: To keep his children company beneath the moorish sod Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Death; Fathers And Sons; Moors (people); Murder SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Beringer, whose son / fell at the canal that strangers dug Last Line: That drift away Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; Fathers & Sons; Death; Arab-israeli Conflict SHABBY OLD DAD, by ANNE CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: His collar is frayed, and his trousers unpressed Last Line: Shabby old dad! Alternate Author Name(s): Stark, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SHANE, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: The father's plowing, one crooked row after another Last Line: Or because I put my hand in the hand of my new father Subject(s): Fathers SHORE LEAVE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wears the sailor suit - a blouse with anchors Last Line: All night long over the sleek, impossible cars Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters SHORE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We speak of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Waves; Boats & Boating; Fathers & Sons SHOULDERS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man crosses the street in rain Last Line: The rain will never stop falling. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Fathers & Sons; Peace; Nuclear Freeze SIESTA, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father took me to one side Subject(s): Fathers; Accidents; Tools SIGN FOR MY FATHER, WHO STRESSED THE BUNT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the rough diamond Last Line: I'm getting a grip on the sacrifice. Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Selflessness; Sports SIGNAL HILL, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO Poem Source First Line: My father leaves us in the car Last Line: And sometimes %jesus Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SILENCE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father used to say Last Line: Inns are not residences. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fathers; Guests; Home; Silence; Visiting SILENCE, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: I've heard it once or twice Last Line: Stop tempering it with thunder Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SILENCE A POEM MAKES, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Not that I haven't heard from you lately Last Line: But the silence a poem makes Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SIMPLE QUESTION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you hear me? Do you / understand Last Line: Of the author. Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness; Illness SIMPSON MEETS MONK, by RICHARD SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: 1 %on public radio, thelonious Last Line: And shining eyes, is, like you, %my beloved earth father Subject(s): Fathers; Monks; Religion SISTER FOR MY FATHER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: I try to imagine a sister for my father Last Line: Her back bent at the sink, her knife %poised on the fruit Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers SITTING ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was summer and I was back home for a while Subject(s): Fathers SITTING HERE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Roof's peak is eye Last Line: We were as gone Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters SITTING HERE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roof's peak is eye Last Line: And whatever %we were has gone Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SKIN-THE-CAT, by DAVID LANIER Poem Source First Line: I recognize that boy laughing Last Line: He's just begun to recognize as his Subject(s): Boys; Fathers; Memory SKY IS FULL, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: The sky is full of tricks Last Line: I guess at the beginning Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SMALL DEFEATS: MY SKELETAL FATHER, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Lank leg cocked Last Line: Soft songs to keep %his hells asleep Subject(s): Fathers; Memory SNOW, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth Last Line: The son! Before the weather changes. Subject(s): Cold; Fathers & Sons; Relationships; Snow; Weather SO LONG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers SOLILOQUY IN CIRCLES, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being a father %is quite a bother Last Line: But I like it rather Subject(s): Fathers SOLITAIRE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: It's raining lightly. The oak leaves Last Line: Alone in thick weather, the wind is rising Subject(s): Fathers SOME NOTES ON MY FATHER, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe he was happy in paris. He remembers a few french words, Subject(s): Fathers SOME PLACES OUT WEST, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: They celebrate the testicle Last Line: And the heavy weight of their delight Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; Tradition; West (u.s.) SOME VERY INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT MY DAD THAT I WOULD LIKE TO WRITE.., by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: My dad told my mom that every boy should have a dog Last Line: Just like my dad...Makes a very good man Subject(s): Fathers SOME YOUNGSTER'S DAD, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The greatest man who ever was Last Line: Some youngster's dad. Subject(s): Fathers SOMEBODY'S FATHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after the battle of gettysburg Last Line: "july 3, '63." Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fathers; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of SOMEDAY, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Someday %I sure heard that word a lot Last Line: Someday-it's finally here Subject(s): Fathers SOMETIMES A MAN STANDS UP DURING SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Toward that same church, which he forgot Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer SON AND FATHER, by MARK PIETRZYKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Sure, the sun's an ugly beast Last Line: More among the living than the living %can ever know Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SON OF JESSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father had eight sons Last Line: For my lord my brothers fathers sons Subject(s): Fathers; Sons SON TO HIS FATHER, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I thought, since I have grown and grayed Last Line: In godly ways my father taught to me Subject(s): Fathers And Sons SONG FOR MY FATHER, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I arrive Last Line: Inherent %when we dance Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SONG FOR OUR SON, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretending fatherhood was simply sperm Last Line: Forgive us, but we love you very much Subject(s): Fathers; Gays & Lesbians SONG OF THE NIGHT, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I am ancient, %two-toed Last Line: I am...Me. %I am yours Subject(s): Animals; Fathers SONG OF THE PILGRIMS [SEPTEMBER 16, 1620], by THOMAS COGSWELL UPHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze has swelled the whitening sail Last Line: England's shores, adieu! Adieu! Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers SONG TO MY SON, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: About my father's house, - the gale Last Line: Beats Subject(s): Fathers & Sons SONG UPON MISS HARRIET HANBURY, by CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear doctor of st. Mary's Last Line: Will, if she's alive, %be a goddess at fifteen, sir Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SONG; SUNG BY FATHERS OF SIX-MONTHS-OLD FEMALE CHILDREN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart leaps up when I behold Last Line: Then perhaps he'll struggle through fire and water %to marry somebody else's daughter Variant Title(s): Song To Be Sung By The Father Of Female Infant Children; Song To Be Sung By The Father Of Infant Female Childre Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) SONGS OF NEW-SWEDEN: DEDICATION, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These to my father's memory, since Last Line: Your simple lives, your pious worth. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back shining from the pane, the fire Last Line: My father, in my soul! Subject(s): Children; Cold; Death; Fathers; God; Memory; Night; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The; Bedtime SONNET, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see them sitting me before a mirror Subject(s): Fathers; Numbers SONS AND FATHERS, by RABINDRA K. SWAIN Poem Source First Line: Mahajanpur Last Line: The shore they are forgetting Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Life; Money SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 139, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the rose bush comes the rose Last Line: And he does not know for whom Subject(s): Children; Fathers And Daughters SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You took your father %from the bronx hospital Last Line: The vigil of your shimmering gaze Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans SPRING WALK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I go for a walk Last Line: Rotting in the green spring sun. Subject(s): Fathers; Mortality; Time STEP ON HIS HEAD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's step on daddy's head shout Subject(s): Fathers STEP ON HIS HEAD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's step on daddy's head shout Last Line: Have love enough will I have love %enough when it's not just a game? Subject(s): Fathers STERN PARENT, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father heard his children scream Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Fathers; Punishment STEWARDESS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Breakfasting on the best Last Line: Every suday for my daddy %in my fine waving hair Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Flight; Labor And Laborers STILL, by NIKIA LEOPOLD Poem Source First Line: Now, when my father is frail Last Line: Let something resist Subject(s): Aging; Fathers STONE AT THE BOTTOM, by MANUEL ULACIA Poem Source First Line: As my father's breathing Last Line: The stone, falling, %has hit bottom Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers STORIES, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: Nights she counted coins from my father's vending machines Last Line: Five languages at once & every house was white with red shutters Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Life STORY, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sad is the man who is asked for a story Last Line: Which posits that a boy's supplications %and a father's love add up to silence Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer STORY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no one in this world than my father Last Line: On the piano keys Subject(s): Fathers STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you were exchanged in the cradle and Last Line: Maybe I'm a king Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot now remember the first word Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies STUDIES STATIC AND ECSTATIC, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: In the house of my fathers Last Line: And goes on its way, whistling. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Home; Self; Soul; Relatives STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SUITE FOR MY FATHER, SELS., by LUIGI FONTANELLA Poem Source First Line: In the train at the time of ... %my father suddenty small Last Line: Judas and spy Subject(s): Fathers SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime SUNDAY NIGHT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the family would go to a restaurant, Subject(s): Waiters & Waitresses; Fathers; Bad Behavior; Shame; Sex SUPERHEROES, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Superheroes don't wear capes Last Line: Like the love my dad has for me Subject(s): Fathers SUPERNATURAL LOVE, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father at the dictionary-stand Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude Subject(s): Books; Fathers; Reading SUPERNATURAL LOVE, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father at the dictionary-stand Last Line: The flowers I called christ's when I was four Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude Subject(s): Books; Fathers SURVIVAL, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is my father? Last Line: All by himself. Subject(s): Blacks; Fathers; Slavery; Serfs SWEET DADDY, by PATRICIA M. SMITH Poem Source First Line: 62. You would have been 62 Last Line: But the moment is hollow. %it stinks. %it stinks sweet Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters SWEET FATHER, by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: And I call him Last Line: And talks to me %through fire Subject(s): Fathers SWIMMING POOL, by RALPH BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We dropped rubber bricks to the bottom Last Line: To his scalp but finned at top Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Fathers & Sons SYMPATHY, A WELCOME, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feel for your bad fall how could I fail Last Line: Deep in a forsaken wood, poor paul, %whose wild bad father loves you well Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers And Sons TABLE OVERTURNED, by BRIAN ADLER Poem Source First Line: Each time I remember %my father and the table Last Line: While I box shadows, and wait %to gin myself into the floor Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Drinks And Drinking; Fathers TAKE IT FROM FATHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son, I haven't much to tell you; I have Last Line: Don't you ever try to argue with a cop! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons TAKING IN WASH, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa called her pearl when he came home Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TAKING IN WASH, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa called her pearl when he came home Last Line: And I'll cut you down %just like the cedar of lebanon Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TAKING THE TRAIN HOME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk grew on the window. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Railways; Homecoming; Family Life; Fathers; Death; Relatives; Dead, The TAPROOT, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Stooping to pull up a weed Last Line: It was easy to love him then Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fathers; Love TARZAN IS DEAD, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: The radio announces Last Line: Tarzan is dead Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jungles TAXIDERMIST'S DAUGHTER, by NANCY SCHOENBERGER Poem Source First Line: Always long afternoon shadows Last Line: To put the last touch %to the beautiful wood duck Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TEA PARTY, by JEAN EARLE Poem Source First Line: I asked my dead to tea Last Line: And the westering sun. I had no plans for you %beyond the afternoon Subject(s): Fathers TEARS OF RAGE, by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: We carried you in our arms Last Line: We're so low %and life is brief Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TEENAGE DAUGHTER OBSERVATIONS: 1, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Small-framed %teenage girl Last Line: Goes back %to her geometry Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TEENAGE DAUGHTER OBSERVATIONS: 3, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: She doodles %a snowflake Last Line: All pencil shadowed %she breathes Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TERESA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I too happy? Have I lost Last Line: Bertrand and I and angelo! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mothers; Religion; Paradise; Theology TERMINAL RESEMBLANCE, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw my father for the last time, we both did the same Last Line: Like him, waved to disguise my hand's trembling Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TESTIMONY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I learned 'gomez' meant ox urine Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Relatives TESTIMONY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I learned 'gomez' meant ox urine Last Line: Hardening at the mere thought of 'drink' Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers THANKS FOR LOVING MOM, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Thanks for loving mom, %dad Last Line: Dad, %helps me feel loved, too Subject(s): Fathers THAT GRAY, COLD CHRISTMAS DAY (DECEMBER 25, 1620), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sailed away from provincetown bay Last Line: That gray, cold christmas day? Subject(s): Christmas; Pilgrim Fathers; Nativity, The THAT VALENTINE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once,I remember, years ago Last Line: I sent a tender valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Holidays; Valentine's Day THE ALIEN BOY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a mountain, near the western main Last Line: By the wide world forgotten! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Solitude; Loneliness THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War THE ARCHITECT (1), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The only places I can find you Last Line: Forms most faithfully the face of god. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Churches; Faith; Fathers & Daughters; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed THE ARCHITECT AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My stride was two to my father's by the sea Last Line: Surge, master of the arch of element. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fathers & Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE BATTLE ON THE FLOOR, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: My father was a soldier, so Last Line: A battle all her own. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Soldiers; War THE BEAR AND THE MAN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose there were a bear and a man. The bear Last Line: Coming from far up there, near the north pole. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE COMETH FORTH INTO THE DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am here, I have traversed the tomb, I behold thee" Last Line: "in the beautiful world by the bright lake of horus, / riseth the day" Subject(s): Death;fathers & Sons;heaven; "dead, The;paradise; THE BOY SOLDIER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each evening on my lap there climbs Last Line: Just as he captured me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE BREED OF WOE, by LUIS MONTOTO Y RAUTENSTRAUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now whither go ye? - would that we did know Last Line: Refuse us not an alms, for love of god. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fathers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE BROKEN HOUSEHOLD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly, vainly, memory seeks Last Line: Where none wander and none die. Subject(s): Death – Children; Family Life; Fathers; Survival THE BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erewhile, on england's pleasant shores, our sires Last Line: Her ruddy, pouting fruit. -- -- -- -- -- - Subject(s): England; Graves; Pilgrim Fathers; English; Tombs; Tombstones THE CATCH, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It darted across the pond Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE CHRISTMAS RIFLE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the spine of the ridge Last Line: The weight of his hand comes down on my shoulder. Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Rifles; Hunters THE COLOSSUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I shall never get you put together entirely Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers THE COMPLEX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's madness is to own himself Last Line: Giving of himself with forced breath Subject(s): Fathers THE COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears Last Line: "to one long penitence." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old colony days, in plymouth the land of the pilgrims Last Line: So through the plymouth woods passed onward the bridal procession. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; Standish, Miles (1584-1656); United States - Colonial Period THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 1, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the barren pasture and the wood Last Line: The dancing waters danced by dancing daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Friendship; Love; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; Childhood; Dead, The THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAUGHTER, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, mournful lute! Dear echo of my woe! Last Line: Pausing forgetful as he pass'd along. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEAD FATHER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be an old dog in a corner Last Line: And have you care for me forever Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Death – Fathers THE DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of my age, attend Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oysters we ate, / sweet blue babies Last Line: The woman won Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Oysters; Food & Eating; Coming Of Age THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 2. HOW WE DANCED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my cousin's wedding Last Line: Like two lonely swans Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Dancing & Dancers THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 3. THE BOAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father / (he calls himself 'old sea dog') Last Line: Bailing the boat Subject(s): Fathers; Boats THE DESK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the fire escape, crouched, one knee in cinders Last Line: To own my father's name. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fathers & Sons; Schools; Students THE DESPERANTO OF WILLYNULLY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her father's early portrait shows Subject(s): Time; Portraits; Fathers & Daughters THE DISCIPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are changed, and gone the day Last Line: In that fear doubteth thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Doubt; Education; Faith; Fathers & Sons; God; Humility; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE DISTANT FOOTSTEPS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is sleeping. His noble face Subject(s): Fathers THE DOOR CLICKS. HE RETURNS TO ME', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it measureless pain? Subject(s): Veterans; Homecoming; Marriage; Fathers & Sons THE DREAM SONGS: 145, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: Trying to make yourself forgive someone for something so unforgiveable Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Suicide THE DREAM SONGS: 385, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE ENTHUSIAST, SONGS OF ARLA: 3, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Impassioned strains my trembling lips rehearse Last Line: Her heart, resigned, to simple truth accords. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Passion THE ESSENTIAL STORY, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We each wanted our own story, my father and I Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stories THE EXCAVATION, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this dry, stubble field Last Line: In this dry, stubble field. Subject(s): Archeology; Artifacts; Curiosities & Wonders; Fathers; Native Americans; Old Age; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin. Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs THE EXILE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above him in the city street Last Line: The sound of one girl's laughter came from half a world away. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Mothers THE FACE AT THE WINDOW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We had gone down at christmas, where our host Last Line: "only the fact could make my story true." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Christmas; Fathers; Ghosts; Story-telling; Supernatural; Nativity, The THE FADING OF THE MAYFLOWER, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But is it fading? Is it doomed to die? Last Line: ^18^ so named from the town of worstead in england. Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers; United States; America THE FATHER, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was his sort Last Line: And cut him short. Subject(s): Fathers; World War I; First World War THE FATHER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I find among my notes Last Line: Where to, mistress quickly? Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHER IN SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfamiliar work and rule Last Line: Stays till school is at an end. Subject(s): Fathers; Schools; Students THE FATHER OF PREDICAMENTS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came at night to each of us asleep Subject(s): Fathers; Self; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians THE FATHER OF THE MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't help thinkin' o' the lad! Last Line: My boy has made a man o' me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHER'S BODY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father steps into the shower Subject(s): Fathers THE FATHER'S LOVE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far more priceless than the diamonds rare from golconda's rich mine Last Line: The blessing mine, the ray divine, may father's love e'er be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Fathers THE FATHER'S LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis no tmy home - he made it home Last Line: But I had only thine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fathers THE FATHER'S THOUGHT OF HIS DAUGHTER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will jilt a lover Last Line: When I am dead. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOSTS, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are not always Last Line: We both use it. / precisely. Often. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snug at the club two fathers sat Last Line: These impotent old friends of mine. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FERRYER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Three years after my father's death Subject(s): Fathers THE FINEST FELLOWSHIP, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There may be finer pleasures than just tramping with your boy Last Line: I spend it in the open with that little lad o' mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains THE FIRST PROCLAMATION OF MILES STANDISH [NOVEMBER 23, 1620], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, rose!' quoth the stout miles standish Last Line: And order a washing-day! Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; Standish, Miles (1584-1656) THE FOND FATHER, by ROBERT OF BRUNNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a man that some time was Last Line: That the son to the father is not kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Mannyng, Rober Subject(s): Fathers; Ten Commandments THE FOOTSTEPS, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the kitchen of the old house, late Subject(s): Fathers; Past; Family Life; Relatives THE FOUNDRY GARDEN, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Relatives THE FREEBORN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God made the man and bid him multiply Last Line: When this free man comes forth, what must he do? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Family Life; Fathers; Hunger; Poverty; Relatives THE FRONT MAN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a social man, talking Subject(s): Fathers THE FUNERAL SERMON, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost droll / in its assault on magisterial Subject(s): Funerals; Fathers; Burials THE FUTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am going to leave a child in an empty room Last Line: As I am prepared Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE GIFT; FOR MY DAUGHTER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scissors, glue, clumsy Last Line: Each beat a breath. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Gifts & Giving THE GLASS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it with wonder now Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Glasses (tumblers); Love THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GRANDFATHER-FATHER POEM, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rolled in the grass Subject(s): Grandparents; Fathers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE HANG-GLIDER'S DAUGHTER, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My forty-year-old father learned to fly Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE HIGHWAY DEATH TOLL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The highway's edge / of unmalicious deaths Last Line: If I'd turned it off before I might have heard. Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Fathers; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish THE HOSPITAL WINDOW, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just come down from my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hospitals; Dead, The THE HUMAN TRINITY, by GRANVILLE LOWTHER Poem Text First Line: The sunshine reached across the space Last Line: In father, childhood, motherhood. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers; Love; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Convicts THE IDIOT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With green stagnant eyes Subject(s): Fathers THE INDIAN'S WELCOME TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above them spread a strange sky Last Line: Say, who shall welcome thee? Subject(s): Americans; Native Americans; Pilgrim Fathers; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America THE INTERCEPTED SALUTE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden met me in the lane Last Line: It is an added glory on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Flirtation; Fathers & Daughters THE KEEPER'S SON, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black is the night and as though in fight Last Line: The son of the keeper had breathed his last! Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Poaching; Death - Babies; Relatives THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast Last Line: Freedom to worship god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America THE LAST THING I SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a thirteen-year-old sleeping Last Line: A small part of himself and sweet dreams. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood THE LAST TIME, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw him awake and talking Subject(s): Fathers; Prayer; Death; Dead, The THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out / to watch the christmas eve crowds Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Stars THE LONELY CHILD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you think, my boy, when I put my arms around you Last Line: Drift into dreams and healing sleep. Subject(s): Fathers THE LOST FAITH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shrine our fathers as their wars recede Last Line: So true in passing, if it must be past. Subject(s): Fathers; War; Transience; Past; Death THE LOST PILOT, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face did not rot Subject(s): World War Ii; Fathers; Second World War THE LOST SON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At woodlawn I heard the dead cry Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE MAIDEN'S SORROW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven long years has the desert rain Last Line: I shall feel it no more again. Subject(s): Death - Fathers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE MAN YOUR BOY WILL BE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sometimes worry, wonder what Last Line: The life his father led. Subject(s): Fathers THE MARTYR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and seven daughters,' said g Last Line: Gravel carters, that girls may have a treat! Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THE MAYFLOWER [DECEMBER 21, 1620], by ERASTUS WOLCOTT ELLSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Down in the bleak december bay Last Line: Mayflower. Subject(s): Carver, John (1575-1621); Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers THE MESSENGER: 1. THE FATHER, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange house / in the strange town Last Line: His eyes / settle on us Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MIRROR, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was no longer my father Subject(s): Fathers THE MISSION, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Back there then I lived Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Fathers THE MORTAL ONE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three months after he lies dead, that Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Dead, The THE MOSELLE BOATMAN AND HIS DAUGHTER (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not high nor full enough to show things clear Last Line: Twas sad to think we ne'er might see them more! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MOSS OF HIS SKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was only important Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE MOTHER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the nurse gone now? And are we alone at last? Last Line: The father (joyously): no, no; good-morning, mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MOURNING DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheels o'er the pavement roll'd, and a slight form Last Line: The chasten'd wisdom of attemper'd bliss. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Bereavement THE MYSTERIOUS ARRIVAL OF AN UNUSUAL LETTER, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It had been a long day at the office and a long ride back to the small apartment Subject(s): Letters; Fathers THE NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Women; Parenthood THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A grove of deep sycamores drifts into the hudson Last Line: Stepping out of a mountain into winter daylight. Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; Moths; Solitude; Thanksgiving; Loneliness THE NURSERY SAGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know a quaint philosopher Last Line: That fond expressiondad! Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Language; Mothers; Infants; Words; Vocabulary THE ODE OF PERFECT YEARS: 1. FATHERHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, father! Sitting at thy hearth Last Line: Even as thou dost these. Subject(s): Fathers THE OLD BARK HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In an old bark hut on the mountainside Last Line: And broken a woman's heart Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;family Life;fathers & Sons;hunting;waiting; "dead, The;relatives;hunters; THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails THE OLD MAN DREW THE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Old Age; Fathers & Sons THE OLD PROFESSOR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard Last Line: Seeks the high lark in god's clear element. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Teaching & Teachers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my heart are the Last Line: The leathern-bound bible my grandfather read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bible; Fathers; Memory; Past THE ONLY DAUGHTER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bid me strike the idle strings Last Line: May cost thee, too, a sigh. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE ORPHAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has been along time Last Line: -- no one with whom he could cry Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE OUTLAW, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the fair aurora spread Last Line: "the foreign lord no more appear." Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Percy, William De (1030-1096) THE PEACE MESSAGE, by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of his hut sat massasoit Last Line: His messenger of peace. Subject(s): Massasoit (d. 1661); Native Americans; Peace; Pilgrim Fathers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE PEDIGREE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Or if I will not rape Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Self THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone. Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to posterity! Last Line: The world forgets, but the wise angels know. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Germantown, Pennsylvania; Pastorius, Francis Daniel (1651-1720); Pilgrim Fathers; Spener, Philipp Jacob (1635-1705); U.s. - Colonial Period; Quakers THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by LEONARD BACON (1802-1881) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, beneath thy guiding hand Last Line: And spring adorns the earth no more. Variant Title(s): Forefathers' Hymn Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Theology THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice of grief and anger Last Line: Bring forth such men again! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pilgrim fathers, - where are they? Last Line: Shall foam and freeze no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day THE PILGRIM'S VISION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hour of twilight shadows / the puritan looked out Last Line: Here was the pilgrim's land! Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers THE PILGRIMS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold I make partition Last Line: As they had been of yore. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers THE PILGRIMS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How slow yon tiny [or, lonely] vessel ploughs the main! Last Line: Kneel, and renew the vow they breath'd to god Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers THE PILGRIMS CAME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The pilgrims came across the sea Last Line: We thank the pilgrims, every one! Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 108, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mister shih had two sons Last Line: Like buckteeth that never meet Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fathers & Sons; Success THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE FATHER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fateful hour, when death stood by Last Line: And lead me with thy helpless hands! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The THE PRODIGAL SON, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went back for redress Last Line: In setting him adrift Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE PULL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the flu goes on, I get thinner and thinner Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE PURITAN LOVERS, by ANNIE DOUGLAS GREEN ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Drawn out, like lingering bees, to share Last Line: Of white life-everlasting. Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Marian Subject(s): Love; Pilgrim Fathers THE QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE RACE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Men THE RANTIN DOG THE DADDIE O'T, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha my babie-clouts will buy? Last Line: The rantin' dog, the daddie o't. Subject(s): Sex; Fathers THE REMAINS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking out of the new cemetery, my father Last Line: My eighty-year-old father nodding off into sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Ancestry & Ancestors; Cemeteries THE RETURN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rested in your easy chair Last Line: I was quite sure I felt your smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Daughters; Death; Fathers; Legacies; Love; Dead, The THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1620-1920: 2. STRUGGLE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is my strength; of whom shall I be afraid Last Line: Of a greater hope than men have known! Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Theology THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1620-1920: 3. ACHIEVEMENT, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have felled the forest and pierced the hill Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Religion; Success; Liberty; Theology THE ROCK OF LIBERTY; A PILGRIM ODE, 1629-1920: 1. VISION, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god of hosts, defender of the weak Last Line: Should through the ages ring! Subject(s): Freedom; Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers; Prayer; Religion; Liberty; Theology THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SEEKERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our grandfathers were strangers and their absurd notions Last Line: We'll have to walk because we're going farther Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Knowledge; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE SOUL'S CRY (THE HIGHER ANTHROPOMORPHISM), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father, let thy little child Last Line: "to land, by the hushed wondering sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Soul; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: You took your father / from the bronx hospital Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans; Latinos THE SUBWAY ENTRANCE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was her guide. He lived in hell. Every day he thought Subject(s): Nursing Homes; Fathers & Daughters; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years we've circled round this date Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home." Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs THE TIME COMES WHEN YOU ARE FACING HIM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it is like the moment before going into battle Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE TRYST OF SOULS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low hung the moon, the wind was still Last Line: Till stars and shadows yield to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE TURTLE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not because of his eyes, / the eyes of a bird Last Line: He is your friend Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer THE TWINS: 2, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're the twins from aunt marinn's Last Line: Iram, coram, dago. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fathers; Names; Twins THE TWO INTERPRETERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds are fleeting by, father Last Line: Upon the father's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fathers; Love THE UPSTAIRS ROOM, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It must have been in march the rug wore through Last Line: And, for my life, imperishable Subject(s): Home; Death - Fathers THE WAKING FATHER, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I are catching spricklies Subject(s): Fathers THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, father Last Line: "a passing thrill, -- ""whippoorwill!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Fathers & Sons; Whipporwills THE WISH, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a tuesday I learned I'd never sit Last Line: This man was Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Here, father! I have found a horse-shoe Last Line: She may recover; so drive t'other nail in! Subject(s): Christianity; Curses; Fathers & Sons; Horseshoes; Witchcraft & Witches THE WORDS, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said, of course Subject(s): Cancer, Lung; Death - Fathers THE WORK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, this moment, speechlessly in pain, Subject(s): Fathers; Illness; Hospitals THE WRITER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THE ZEBRA GOES WILD WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neon stripes tighten my wal Subject(s): United States; Racism; Fathers; America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THEIR LAST GIFTS; FOR MY FATHER, JOSEPH LAPIDUS (1899-1990), by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Her last gift to him Last Line: Such a short time to hurt %such a long time to be immortal Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jewish Families; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THEN & NOW, by MICHAEL DENNIS RATTEE Poem Source First Line: I travelled to cities Last Line: Will be everywhere and welcomed Subject(s): Fathers And Sons THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 3. WOLVES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Today my father saw wolves on the french river Last Line: At each vista the moon hangs just for him Subject(s): Fathers; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Parents; Parkinson's Disease THINKING ABOUT IT NOW, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Thinking about it now Last Line: My heart says hold on tight Subject(s): Fathers THINKING ABOUT MY FATHER AT THE OMAK STAMPEDE, by ARGENTINA DALEY Poem Source First Line: They don't do it like this most places Subject(s): Fathers THINKING FOR BERKY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the late night listening from bed Last Line: Sirens will hunt down berky, you survivors in your beds %listening through the night, so far and goo Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THOREAU IN CALIFORNIA, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: It's wrong for life to be so complicated Last Line: No use. I can't read the rock my father and I love %as dearly as a wounded hand in perfect dark Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Last Line: What did I know, what did I know %of love's austere and lonely offices? Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter THOUGH HIS NAME IS INFINITE, MY FATHER IS ASLEEP, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my father disappeared Subject(s): Fathers THOUGH HIS NAME IS INFINITE, MY FATHER IS ASLEEP, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my father disappeared Last Line: In the sweep of those syllables - %wind, crushed bones, & ashes - %begin to live again Subject(s): Fathers THOUGHTS OF A FATHER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've never seen the father here, but we have Last Line: Man's greatest duty is to be the father of a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers; God THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter Last Line: May you not be long on the way! Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THRALL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is sparsely furnished Last Line: So you may write this poem. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THREE O'CLOCK; OCTOBER 17, 1923, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My brother met me at a prairie inn Last Line: "I will take his brave spirit along with me." Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The THREE PRAYERS OF TELEMAKHOS: 1., by BILL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Father, I know this sea better than my blood Last Line: Who will wait for me to come home? Subject(s): Fathers; Sailors And Sailing; Sea TIFFIN FOR TEA, LORRY FOR TRUCK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To say he got out of his village by cunning Last Line: Fog owns the morning and you can't travel Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants TO A CHILD, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: The years stretch far above thee Last Line: His work will not forget. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Hope; Time; Youth; Childhood; Optimism TO A FATHER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS ONLY CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand of the highest, who woundeth, can heal Last Line: That thou may'st go to him, though he cannot return. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Death - Babies TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 1. SIROCCO, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a place of ruined stone we brought you, and sea-reaches Last Line: And on the exposed approaches the last gold of gorse bloom, in the sorocco, shakes Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 1. SIROCCO, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a place of ruined stone we brought you, and sea-reaches Last Line: And on the exposed approaches the last gold of gorse bloom, in the sirocco, shakes Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 2. GULL'S CRY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White goose by palm tree, palm ragged, among stones the white oleander Last Line: Hands and sing, redeem, redeem! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 2. GULL'S CRY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White goose by palm tree, palm ragged, among stones the white oleander Last Line: Hands and sing: redeem, redeem! Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 3. THE CHILD, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door is defective because the mother Last Line: I smile stiff, say ciao, and think: this is the world Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 3. THE CHILD, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door is defective because the mother Last Line: I smile stiff, saying ciao, saying ciao, and think: this is the world Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 4. THE FLOWER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the beach, the vineyard Last Line: It will rustle all night, darling Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 4. THE FLOWER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the beach, the vineyard Last Line: It will rustle all night, darling Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 5. COLDER FIRE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained toward day. The morning came sad & white Last Line: But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys shall rejoice Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories TO A SAD DAUGHTER, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long the hockey pictures Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO A WALL OF FLAME IN A STEEL MILL, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 1969, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except under the cool shadows of the pines Subject(s): Fathers; Solitude; Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Agriculture; Farmers TO ADA, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the smile and thine the bloom Last Line: Thou art not near a father's heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing Last Line: It means you are a boy. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness TO CHARLES BURNEY, by FRANCES (FANNY) BURNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh author of my being! - far more dear / to me than light Last Line: Accept the tribute -- but forget the lay. Alternate Author Name(s): D'arblay, Madame Subject(s): Fathers TO DAD, by MARY CRANE CLARK Poem Text First Line: He never feared november days Last Line: Of youth revitalized by age. Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Soul; Youth TO FATHER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father! When I saw thee last Last Line: And lay thee down to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Fathers TO HER FATHER, by SOPHIE CABOT BLACK Poem Source First Line: He has gone away again Last Line: That comes just before clouds, %before the useless, inscrutable rain Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO HER FATHER WITH SOME VERSES, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most truly honored, and as truly dear Last Line: Such is my bond, none can discharge but I, %yet paying is not paid until I die Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO HESTER ON THE STAIR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hester, creature of my love Last Line: Mind this only, only mind! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hearts; Love; Dead, The TO HIS DAUGHTER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bought you flowers on ludgate hill Last Line: A queen like you, my darling. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Socialism TO HIS FATHER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ was your lord and captain all your life Subject(s): Fathers TO HIS FATHER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ was your lord and captain all your life Last Line: Of life, the snow-wreathed honor of extreme age Subject(s): Fathers TO HIS FATHER, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that pieria's spring would through my breast Last Line: Improve the fathers of a distant age! Subject(s): Fathers TO HIS SON, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three things there be that prosper up apace Last Line: It frets the halter, and it chokes the child Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Wood, The Wool, The Wag;the Wood, The Weed, The Wag;sir Walter Ralegh To His Son Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Dead, The TO JESUS VILLANUEVA, WITH LOVE, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first vivid memory of you Last Line: Enough. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations TO M. LE VAYER ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep on le vayer, make thine eyes an urn Last Line: And for these things we must for ever weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Loss; Dead, The TO MY FATHER, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: They tell me that I have this gift from you Last Line: Writing a poem upon the window-sill. Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO MY FATHER, by WILLIAM SYDNEY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes as alike as entirely Last Line: Takes over over our bodies. Alternate Author Name(s): Graham, W. S. Subject(s): Fathers TO MY FATHER, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good father o' the dusk, my love for thee Last Line: My mariner across the starlit sea. Subject(s): Fathers TO MY FATHER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the poorest may borrow some treasure Last Line: May ennoble my words unaware. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Prayer TO MY FATHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take of the first fruits, father, of thy care Last Line: Revealed man's glory, god's great human heart. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Fathers & Sons; God; Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO MY FATHER, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I kneel, my father, here beside thy grave Last Line: Where thou my father with the angels art. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven; Veterans Day; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise TO MY FATHER - 2, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dying of grief from the moment I saw you Last Line: Grow in the ground Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO MY FATHER - 2, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dying of grief from the moment I saw you Last Line: On the rooftops / of yr mind, but things %grow in the ground Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO MY FATHER AT EIGHTY-TWO, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where has your neatness gone Last Line: You once lived %on the far side of ruin Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters TO MY FATHER'S BUSINESS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leo bends over his desk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Careers TO MY FATHER'S VIOLIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does he want you down there Last Line: Your present dumbness, shape your olden story. Subject(s): Fathers; Violins TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sound upon the night Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 2, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that I should be Last Line: Of what has had an end Variant Title(s): To My Infant Daughter (2) Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 2, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, that I should be Last Line: Of what has had an end Variant Title(s): To My Infant Daughter (2 Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO MY SON, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou happy, happy elf! Last Line: I cannot write unless he's sent above.) Variant Title(s): To My Infant Son;a Parental Ode To My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months;to My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months;parental Ode To My [infant] Son Subject(s): Fathers & Sons TO THE BOY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wish, my little lad Last Line: Twas all worth while to be your dad. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons TO THE CARTER'S DAUGHTER, by ROCCO SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: I don't know how I can live near you any longer Last Line: To chase away the stars with his whip Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy country's curse is on thee, darkest crest Last Line: This curse should be a blessing. Fare thee well! Subject(s): Child Custody; Fathers TO TONY - AGED THREE (IN MEMORY T.P.C.W.), by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Gemmed with white daisies was the great green world Last Line: To win that heritage of peace you have. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Wilson, T.p. Cameron (1889-1918); Women And War; World War I - Casualties TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement TOGETHER, by JUDSON MITCHAM Poem Source First Line: When my father died Last Line: Goodness indeed, I am thinking. The birds %turn together in the air above the dead Subject(s): Death; Fathers TOOLS, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: My dad's old man was a carpenter Last Line: And permanent jet black ink Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Fathers; Labor And Laborers; Tools TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TRAVELING LIGHT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every restaurant boarded up in softwood Subject(s): Fathers - Death TREAD THE DARK: 1. BRIGHTNESS AS A POIGNANT LIGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tread the dark and my steps are silent Last Line: Beatin in, but %not for me Subject(s): Fathers TREETOPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father moves through the south hunting duck Last Line: Probable volume of dreams, think so. Subject(s): Death; Ducks; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Dead, The; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters TRICKSTER, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI Poem Source First Line: You filled the governess's shoes with frogs Last Line: Make a stout cage of these arms Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age; Practical Jokes TRIENNIAL ODE ON THE MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, from the mitred churchman's power Last Line: And clustering glories round their names shall bloom. Subject(s): Charity; Pilgrim Fathers; Philanthropy TRILOGY FOR A FRIEND WHO TOOK TO HIS BED: 3. HIS SON, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: My father curls up in his bed Last Line: And will not die till we are dead. Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness TURTLE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not because of his eyes, %the eyes of a bird Last Line: To unknown places. %he is your friend Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer TWELVE DARKNESSES FOR MY FATHER, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: One day the underwater currents Last Line: Again, you take all the darkness with you Subject(s): Fathers TWO, by DON BARKIN Poem Source First Line: Maybe we could take a walk.' Last Line: And as cold as the galaxy Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Stars TWO LIVES, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I remember him Last Line: Cannot be determined Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Murder UNDER THE MAUD MOON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the path Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters UNDER THE MAUD MOON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the path Last Line: You shall open %this book, even if it is the book of nightmares Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 28. TO MY FATHER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace and her huge invasion to these shores Last Line: Some lost, complaining seaman pilot home. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Sea; Ocean UNHAPPY FATHER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It makes poor father's spirit sad, when he Last Line: "thy victory, oh, death, where is thy sting?" Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness UNREAL PRECISION OF THE HOUSES AT FIRST LIGHT, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; Women; Fathers; War UPON MY FATHERS SUDDEN & DANGEROUS SICKNESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Though sad this lesson be to me Last Line: Deaths ev'n shall be the dawn of life to me. Subject(s): Fathers; Grief; Mortality; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness UPON THE FIRST SIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS TILLAM Poem Text First Line: Hail, holy land, wherein our holy lord Last Line: Come yee my servants of my father blessed Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers VALECITION - TO MY FATHER, by EDDY VAN VLIET Poem Source First Line: All I want to say is that I do not know Last Line: He walked out of the kitchen to the front door, %never to return Subject(s): Desertion And Nonsupport; Fathers VICTORY, VICTORIA, MY BEAUTIFUL WHISPER, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: You are the daughter who is sleep's beauty Last Line: Make of them your heart's bed Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Hearts; Love; Relationships VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In london's fair city a merchant did dwell Last Line: And vilikins and his dinah lie buried in one grave. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage - Forced; Suicide; Marriage - Arranged VIRGIL WATCHED THEM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Children; Childhood VIRTUOSO, by NOEL SMITH Poem Source First Line: It is the croquet game on the four o'clock grass Last Line: Now where was I?' he asks Subject(s): Fathers; Games VISITOR, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, for example, %who was young once Last Line: Had we loved in time Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters WALKING OUT OF THE ROOM BACKWARDS, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Out of work at fifty, smoking fifty a day Last Line: My father made me walk out of the room backwards, %bowing and saying, 'goodnight, my liege' Subject(s): Fathers WAREHOUSE WORK, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I turned fourteen, my father said Last Line: Work means will carry me through, us, them Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Labor & Laborers WATCHING FOR PAPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She always stood upon the steps Last Line: "will call with birdie voice, 'papa, / I's looten out for oo!'" Subject(s): Consolation;fathers & Daughters WAVING GOOD-BYE, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to know what it was like before we Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters WAVING GOOD-BYE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to know what it was like before we Last Line: As they made their turn into the empty highway Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters WAX FATHER, by NICK FLYNN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day / the son came for more, scraping comb Last Line: His entire body hung there Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sickness; Waxworks; Illness WAY OF KEEPING, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the meadow of the mind Last Line: The god in the forest of the heart Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters WE DID NOT FEAR THE FATHER, by CHARLES FORT Poem Source First Line: We did not fear the father as the barber who stood Last Line: We did not fear our father until he stooped in the dark Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Fathers WHAT BECOMES OF US, by KIEV RATTEE Poem Source First Line: Memory is a garden of statues Last Line: My paper god on fire somewhere up there Subject(s): Fathers And Sons WHAT BRINGS US OUT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about pumpkins caused Last Line: How fast you had to turn to make it move. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Fear; Pumpkins WHAT EFFECT HAS YOUR NEW SON HAD ON YOUR WRITING LIFE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While andrew sleeps Last Line: Andrew wants his bottle. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT GOES THROUGH IT, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Of all places, tonight you're by the ocean Last Line: You can forgive yourself. Subject(s): Fathers; Forgiveness; Pennsylvania; Relationships WHAT IS IT ABOUT DAD?, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: What is it about dad always being around Last Line: That dad's always around Subject(s): Fathers WHAT MATTERS MOST, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Mom's off to work Last Line: That someone's %home with us Subject(s): Fathers WHAT MY FATHER BELIEVED, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of his age, he believed in the things Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Teaching & Teachers; Patriotism; Educators; Professors WHAT PEOPLE DP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November november november the days crowd together Subject(s): Fathers WHAT SHE KNEW WHAT SHE SAW, by TANYA KERN Poem Source First Line: She can't breathe with him in the house Last Line: She wonders where he keeps the one he took Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters WHAT THE SEER SAID, by JANE COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She said I would see the future Subject(s): Fathers WHAT THEY DO, by MICHAEL JONES Poem Source First Line: My father-in-law loves Subject(s): Fathers-in-law WHEAT, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: The story of the good girl Last Line: After a strong wind has blown through %and everything is still Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Mourning WHEN DAD TAKES ME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dad sometimes some little trip Last Line: "that boy, with my consent, again." Subject(s): Fathers WHEN FATHER PLAYED BASEBALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of arnica is strong Last Line: The day he played baseball. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports WHEN HE GOES TO PLAY WITH THE BOYS, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I start for a saunter, I turn and say Subject(s): Fathers WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND MY MOTHER DIDN'T WANT ME, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father was killed and I never knew why Last Line: When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me Subject(s): Adoption; Death; Fathers; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships WHEN PAPA DRIVES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old sorrel straightens up her ears Last Line: When papa takes the reins! Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Fathers WHEN SONS AND FATHERS PART, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're going, son, the world to face Last Line: And, oh, remember us! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons WHERE WE NEVER WERE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: When my father died, I smelled a cigar Last Line: Names in salt, on the high forbidden door Subject(s): Death; Fathers WHILE WATCHING 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT' I THINK OF MY MOTHER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pull down the shades. Those waifs Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Absence; Abandonment; Separation; Isolation; Desertion WHITE APPLES, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When my father had been dead a week Subject(s): Death - Fathers WHITE CRANE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Fathers; Death; Cranes (birds); Dead, The WHO DAD USED TO BE, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: It's fun to hear stories Last Line: He's dad...To me! Subject(s): Fathers WHY I LOVE FOOTBALL, by DELORES BRYANT Poem Source First Line: It started with my father Last Line: Just %there Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Football WHY YOUR FATHER CRIED, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sister is telling the story. It was Last Line: "some of the best thoughts I had in my life." Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood WILD HORSE ISLAND, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: My father stabled wild horses %in his heart. At least that's Last Line: Five dead soldiers,' he said to the fridge, %'and one still cold' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fathers WILL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face, my boy, when six months old Last Line: And more than father, will! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons WILL I BE BIG?, by JANE MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Someday %will I be big like you, daddy? Last Line: Yes, honey, %but, oh, %not yet Subject(s): Fathers WINTER NIGHT ON THE YENTNA RIVER, by ARLITIA JONES Poem Text First Line: If the lives we live depend on the stories we tell Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Winter WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness WITH KIT, AGE 7, AT THE BEACH, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We would climb the highest dune Subject(s): Fathers; Labor & Laborers; Men; Prayer; Swimming & Swimmers; Work; Workers; Swimmers WITH KIT, AGE 7, AT THE BEACH, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We would climb the highest dune Last Line: As far as was needed,' I said, %and as I talked, I swam Subject(s): Fathers; Labor And Laborers; Men; Prayer; Swimming WOMEN OF TRACHIS: HERACLES' LAST WORSD TO HIS SON, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen first, and show what you're made of Last Line: Come at it that way, my boy, what %splendour, it all coheres Subject(s): Fathers And Sons WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood WORDS FOR MY FATHER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your gorgeous voice soared Last Line: Your gift to me %is my gift to you Subject(s): Fathers WORKING LATE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light is on in my father's study Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Law & Lawyers WORKING LATE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light is on in my father's study Last Line: At night in my father's study %now shines as late as mine Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Law And Lawyers WORRIER, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So he wouldn't think of his children Last Line: Whose funerals he might go to %out of some vague sense of duty Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Fathers WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, prudence, you have done enough to-day Last Line: "sir, the child is dead!" Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Pilgrim Fathers; Rivers; Sussex, England; Worth Forest, England; Streams; Creeks WRIST-WRESTLING FATHER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: On the maple wood we placed our elbows Last Line: Than when I snapped my father's arm down to the table Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Poetry And Poets WRITER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Last Line: I wish %what I wished you before, but harder Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters WRITING HISTORY, by ALISON MANDAVILLE Poem Source First Line: My daddy looks a fine small man in a tie Last Line: Always set to walk under %when love calls Subject(s): Fathers WYTHEVILLE HOSPITAL, FEBRUARY, 1985, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: To help his cracked ribs heal, he was supposed Last Line: You need a light on to read,' my father said, %'turn it on, son' Subject(s): Fathers; Hospitals YOU DIDN'T FIT, by SUSAN MUSGRAVE Poem Source First Line: You wouldn't fit in your coffin Last Line: And it is. We're all clutching Subject(s): Fathers YOU TAUGHT ME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All those years, alone Last Line: I didn't even know my name! Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sons; Childhood; Parenthood YOU WOULD KNOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem 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 YOU'LL DO, by STEVEN L. LAYNE Poem Source First Line: I got this dump truck, see Last Line: As the solution for all of them Subject(s): Fathers YOUR FATHER DEAD, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father dead and a field to mow Last Line: Is what he taught %but secretly hoped you'd outgrow Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers; Graves YOUTH, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange bird Last Line: Than he is, or I am Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers YOUTH, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange bird Last Line: The waters flow past, older, younger %than he is, or I am Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers; Industry; Labor And Laborers ZIGZAG, by RAY CLARK DICKSON Poem Source First Line: I walk down country backroads along zigzag fences Last Line: Zigzag fences wondering where my life had gone Subject(s): Fathers; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory |
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