Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: FURNITURE
Matches Found: 12

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ART OF SITTING IN A CHAIR, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is at half rest in the practice of a simple art
Last Line: Birds humming go their iridescent way
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Chairs; Furniture


CHAIRS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Actually it is the history of the furniture that matters
Last Line: Not to take a seat
Subject(s): Furniture; Jews; Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation


FURNITURE MOVER, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah the great
Subject(s): Furniture; Moving & Movers


IT WAS IN HOUSTON, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was in houston I saw this disgusting sideboard
Subject(s): Furniture; Writing & Writers


MOVING IN, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May roses bloom beside the bloomberg windows
Subject(s): Houses; Furniture


PARLOR FURNITURE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: She kept the blinds down so it would not fade
Last Line: The moths of loneliness had nibbled through!
Subject(s): Furniture


PRICE OF STABILITY, by KJELL HJERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is with a wonderful sense of security
Last Line: Rest of my furniture to smithereens
Subject(s): Carpenters; Chairs; Climbing; Furniture


ROOM FULL OF USED BABY FURNITURE FOR SALE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scolic scabs have been pried off
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Furniture; Family Life; Relatives


SANDING THE CHAIRS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the way down to clean wood where the grain
Last Line: The curve of wood stays firm in the muscles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Furniture; Past; Repairing; Mending


SMALL A TABLE IS, TWO CHAIRS PULLED UP, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gray in the courtyard. Windless
Last Line: No cobble groans, no gray small rain rains
Subject(s): Furniture


THE ANTIQUE DESK, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This maimed antique still holds
Last Line: By time and scars and truth.
Subject(s): Antiques; Furniture; Nostalgia; Past; Youth


THE FURNITURE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To things we are ghosts, soft things
Subject(s): Furniture; Mankind; Human Race