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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GAMES Matches Found: 267 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 209 CANAL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not hell but a street, not Last Line: Like a mouth to open wider after hours Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards A BALLAD OF THE CHAMPIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dear little willie takes the ball Last Line: The boys are laying bogie low! Subject(s): Boys;games; Recreation;pastimes;amusements A BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some gain a universal fame Last Line: I like the game of tennis best. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Games; Sports; Tennis; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A BALLADE OF PLAYING CARDS, by GLEESON WHITE Poem Text First Line: To soothe a mad king's fevered brain Last Line: Puppets of knave, and queen, and king. Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards A BALLADE OF THE GAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "tier upon tier, through the stands are strown" Last Line: "'yale, old yale, and a victory!" Subject(s): Games;victory; Recreation;pastimes;amusements A DREAM OF GAMES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His fingers hesitate over Last Line: The loser connected with his law Subject(s): Scrabble (game); Card Games; Dreams; Playing Cards; Nightmares A DUPLICATE GAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A game of whist? Who could resist Last Line: A game of whist? Subject(s): Chance; Deception; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A GAME OF BOWLS (WRITTEN DURING AN AIR RAID), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: My body's crouched beneath a table shelter Last Line: Reaches me still and keeps me unafraid. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Games; Soldiers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A REAL BOY, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a joy that is a joy Last Line: In a boy that is a boy! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight A SHUFFLE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a rumpus in the pack Last Line: Of diamonds and hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards A SUMMER SERMON FOR MEN, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: I have fought a good fight,' the parson said, his weekly text declaring Last Line: Felt of his muscle on the sly — and felt like god's anointed! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Play; Sermons; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ACTRESSES I'VE KNOWN GROW YOUNGER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wounds, I won three olympic gold medals Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Olympic Games; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTER READING THE GREAT AMERICAN MARBLE BOOK, by MICHAEL CLEARY Poem Source First Line: Ring taw? Ringer? Chasies Subject(s): Games; Sports AFTER THE GAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They played at cards on the yellow sand Last Line: She finds that he played the knave Subject(s): Games; Recreation;pastimes;amusements ALAS! POOR BRAG, THOU BOASTFUL GAME!', by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Poor brag, thou boastful game! - what now avails thine empty name? Last Line: Such is the mild ejaculation, of tender-hearted speculation Subject(s): Card Games; Games AND THE SORROW, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Here! Any to be my sons so a scream spears me Last Line: What must a jew train so for not sports? Subject(s): Jews; Olympic Games; Terrorism AT THE NIGHT GAME (FLUSHING, QUEENS), by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Like lyrics from a lost land Last Line: Love is a distant whisper %and a listening in Subject(s): Games; Queens, New York City; Sports BAD NEWS (MCSURLEY'S BAR), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your flame is married I understand' Last Line: As we shuffled the cards and played the game. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Card Games; Gambling; Single People; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting; Bachelors; Unmarried People BALLAD ON THE GAME OF TRAFFIC, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lord to find out who must deal Last Line: To deafen 'em with puns and rhyme Subject(s): Games BALLADE OF THE FAN, by WILLIAM FREDERICK KIRK Poem Text First Line: Madly I long for the day Last Line: Ho for the crack of the bat! Subject(s): Admiration; Fans; Games; News; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BASEBALL BY THE OLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this is the time of the year, my boys" Last Line: The gray - head who would play baseball! Subject(s): Baseball;games;play;spectator (periodical);sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shuttlecock soars upward Last Line: With a weight at the end. Subject(s): Badminton; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BLACK WINGS, by REGINALD SINCLAIR LEWIS Poem Source First Line: God must have cut you Last Line: Past odin feasting on the souls of %long-dead heroes? Subject(s): Olympic Games; Track Athletics BLACKJACK SESTINA, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty stories high above the desert Subject(s): Cards Games; Gambling; Wagering; Betting BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When silver snow decks susan's cloaths Last Line: Then laws were made to keep fair play. Variant Title(s): Song Third By An Old Shepherd Subject(s): Bible; Games; Mythology; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PLAYINGCARD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First comes the sprightly damsel playingcard Last Line: For that she dies -- bring on another wife! Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards CARD HOUSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little niece and I - I read Last Line: "yes, lizzie, build it up again." Subject(s): Children;games;play; Childhood;recreation;pastimes;amusements CARNIVAL, by FRANCIS CARCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gilded mask and domino Last Line: Spare, o lord, thy last bohemian! Subject(s): Carnivals; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements CASSANDRA'S VISION, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Look, mantineans brandish the crest Last Line: As they leave their town where horses foal...' Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece CHECKERS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER Poem Text First Line: A checkerboard of ebony and ivory Last Line: Let's begin! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements CHIRON, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Prophetic chiron, %the son of philyra Last Line: On the trojan marauders' %blood he lets...' Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece CLOUD GAME, by WILLIAM REICHARD Poem Source First Line: The clouds carry in another of june's remonstrances. Last week Last Line: The sternest of salvations sky spared them Subject(s): Clouds; Games CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 9. TRAFFIC HEAVY AND VERY SLOW, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The stars are being pitched into Last Line: Of vast machines always alert Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Baseball; Games; Sports; Traffic CROQUET BY MOONLIGHT, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a moonlight evening, in the month of may Last Line: Chorus: this play, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements CROWN THAT FLAMES, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: In opening roses Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece DANCE-SONG (1), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Clear as a lydian touchstone Last Line: Brings out the blaze of man Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece DANCE-SONG (2), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: No lolling on couches now Last Line: And bring into light some exquisite song Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece DANCE-SONG (3), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: O periclitus, I expect you Last Line: To appreciate what's plain Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece DANGEROUS GAMES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fly a black kite on a long string Last Line: Trembling on an aphid-riddled leaf. Subject(s): Games; Kites; Women; Women's Rights; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism DARKENING HILLS, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: It went on longer than anyone thought possible. During full regulation Last Line: Hills Variant Title(s): The Distant Hill Subject(s): Football; Games; Sports - Arenas And Stadia DICING, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: It's sport for gentlemen, but rage and pain Last Line: But learn to give each hour what fits it best. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Dice; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements DIDACTIC POEM ON MURDER, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: The witch doctor plays dominoes Last Line: In this darkness? What %answer hsall I give my son? Subject(s): Dominoes; Games DIXIT DOMINUS, DOMINO MEO, by RICHARD GARCIA Poem Source First Line: He insists that I play dominoes with him. I don't know how Last Line: Language of dominoes: snake eyes. Bleeding. Boxcars. Boneyard. %ivory soap Subject(s): Dominoes; Games DOMINO PLAYERS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The players have been doing this Last Line: Of going home at dusk Subject(s): Dominoes; Games; Luck DON'T WAKE THE CARDS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since my chronic bad luck Subject(s): Card Games; Love - Erotic; Playing Cards DRAW GLOVES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At draw-gloves we'l play Last Line: Shall have for his winning a kisse. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ECLOGUE ON NOBLE ASSEMBLIES REVIVED ON COTWSOLD HILLS BY ROBERT DOVER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What clodpates, thenot, are our british swains! Last Line: To saint him in the shepherd's calendar. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Country Life; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements EDNONDS: 53, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Kings of ionia revel in luxury Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece ELEGY VI, by ERNIE HILBERT Poem Source First Line: To pass the time we played backgammon with Last Line: Sifting the ripples, feeling for a source Subject(s): Children; Games; Time EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 10. BLIND LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is that childish play call'd blind-man's bluff Last Line: When's little brains are dashed against a post. Subject(s): Games; Love - Nature Of; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ENCOMIUM (1), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Neither oenone, %paris' engaging wife Last Line: And firmed her in spurred rock: %her agony ended Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece ENCOMIUM (2), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: No, no carcass of beef is here, no gold Last Line: And splendid wine in boeotian cups Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece ENCOMIUM FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: No rest for the clean cut Last Line: Who shed such blazing light on men Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece ENCOMIUM TO ALEXANDER SON OF AMYNTAS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Down from the peg, my lyre! Last Line: Spumed from the wine and a drinker's glow Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece EPIGRAM: 1, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Daughter of pallas, lady of victory famous in lauded names Last Line: Wrap cean bacchylides round with opening wreaths Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece EPIGRAM: 2, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Eudemus planted this shrine on his fields Last Line: And they flayed chaff from his swelling stalks Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece EVENING GAME, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: We sat along the sturdy planks Last Line: To o toward where the sun had set Subject(s): Competition; Games EXCELLENCE SHOWERED WITH PRAISE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: Branches high like a tree Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece FACING THE WINDOW, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The drugs drip into his arm Last Line: The marbles, %rain rolling down the glass Subject(s): Children; Games; Rain FESTIVAL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughter is not celebration Last Line: Lay down and embraced a lean shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Festivals; Games FIERCE GIRL PLAYING HOPSCOTCH, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sway like a crane to the tunes of tossed stones. Subject(s): Girls; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FILLING IN THE BLANKS; FOR CONSTANCE MERRITT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blank verse, as good as marlowe's mighty line Last Line: Overhead, the circling, screaming birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Crossword Puzzles; Games; Messengers; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FLEEING THE FLOODTIDE SEA, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece FLUSHING LARKIN, by EDWARD LOCKE Poem Source First Line: Cezanne knew cardplayers have speculative Last Line: The poem is passed from one mind to the next Subject(s): Games; Poetry And Poets FORGETTING GAME, by VALERIE FOX Poem Source First Line: The last time we drove here the road was all torn Last Line: Finish it off. Marry early, and often Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Games FORMS OF SOLITAIRE, by PADDY MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The most popular version %is played exclusively Last Line: Noticing. In conversation. With food. %with god, and the godless Subject(s): Card Games FROLIC, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children were shouting together Last Line: The lovely lawns of the light. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Stars; Sun; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships GAME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thursday nights in spring Last Line: And the unmowed field is foaming at the mouth with flowers Subject(s): Games; Spring; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements GAME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thursday nights in spring Last Line: And the unmowed field is foaming at the mouth with flowers Subject(s): Games; Spring GAME, by HARRY HUMES Poem Source First Line: Two of us would be given a head start Last Line: Spreading out, sticks up to their shoulders, %taking careful aim Subject(s): Games GAME, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: It is a night like february, withholding light Last Line: Your word. My stand Subject(s): Games GAME AFTER SUPPER, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is before electricity Last Line: If we are lucky Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements GAME AFTER SUPPER, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is before electricity Last Line: He will be an uncle %if we are lucky Subject(s): Games GAME OF CONSEQUENCES, by PAUL DEHN Poem Source First Line: Coffee-cups cool on the vicar's harmonium Last Line: Today mr. Pomfret has left for karachi %and little miss montague screams in her ward Subject(s): Games GAME OF PIQUET, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Source First Line: See, as you turn a page Last Line: And death played our the hand %of spades Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Card Games; Death GAMES, SELS., by VASKO POPA Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco Subject(s): Games GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said / once Last Line: That it could be a temple & tempestuous & strange of body because of marriage Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENDER GAME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One said %once Last Line: - paint them - %ruby red Subject(s): Games; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Sex GIFTS OF THE MUSES, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: To all who handle arms Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece GIRL ON ROLLER SKATES, by SALLY THOMAS Poem Source First Line: She sits on the boardinghouse steps Last Line: When she moves, the wet air parts Subject(s): Games; Girls GOD DOOMS ONLY A FEW, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: And not fall foul of grief Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece GRAVITY'S FIRST LESSON, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Tired of raging ive decided Last Line: Let myself go %gently Subject(s): Games; Introspection; Self; Youth GRENADE HORSESHOES, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: It hamletmatizes Last Line: Hambo thrown it or run hamlet-last scene %with only you and nguyen the audience Subject(s): Games; Shakespeare - Hamlet HANDICAPPED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a game of whist Last Line: Leading the mating instinct. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Games; Life; Nature; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HERACLES - FOR THE DELPHIANS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: No songs of apollo now Last Line: She stooped to a centaur's uncontrolable marvel Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece HIDE AND GO SEEK, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an old, old, old, old lady Last Line: And the boy who was half-past three. Variant Title(s): One, Two, Three!' Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND SEEK, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children play on into Last Line: And hugging the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Children; Games HIDE AND SEEK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child we played sometimes in the dark Last Line: When the game is over and we are put to bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Games; Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND SEEK, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, Last Line: "coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Games; Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HOBBINOL, OR THE RURAL GAMES, SELS., by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What old menalcas at his feast reveal'd Last Line: Great sultan of the vale Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Country Life; Games; Milton, John (1608-1674) HOLE IN THE LAKE, by JAMES HAUG Poem Source First Line: The smart thing to do would have been Last Line: Of great value dangles before it Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Games HOMETOWN, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Not everyone still has a place from where they've come, so you try to de Last Line: Look at him Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Sports HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Superb in pride we strained upon the golden chariot-pole Last Line: Though slumber takes us—still they talk low-whispering in the ilex walk! Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Collective Behavior; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Games; Victory; Mobs; Crowds; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HOW TO GROW OLD PLAYING HANDBALL, by THOMAS FOX AVERILL Poem Source First Line: First, quit diving for the ball Subject(s): Aging; Games HYMN, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Now my child Last Line: Climbing sorrow - %unspeakable Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece HYMN TO HECATE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Hecate who holds her torch on high Last Line: Daughter of night with the deep breasts Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece I HEAR YOU CALLING ME!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I hear you calling me--and I Last Line: I'll say I heard you calling me! Variant Title(s): I Hear You Calling Me Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards IDAS - FOR THE LACEDAEMONIANS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Once in the dancing rings of sparta Last Line: Heir of ares with gilded shield Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece IN DIVES' DIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing Last Line: Let's have another look at another five Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling IN THE RATHOLE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A street of madhouses Last Line: The house always wins, %the madhouse made of cards.' Subject(s): Card Games IO - FOR THE ATHENIANS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Rife are the roads Last Line: And the chorus that wins wreaths Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece ISTHMIAN ODE FOR AGLAUS OF ATHENS (FOOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Fame, herald of virtue Last Line: Lift aglaus' rising roll of glory Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Racing ISTHMIAN ODE FOR ARGEIUS OF CEOS (BOYS' BOXING MATCH) (1), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: O gates flung up by the gods Last Line: The marvelous emblem of fame stands Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boxing And Boxers; Games - Greece ISTHMIAN ODE FOR ARGEIUS OF CEOS (BOYS' BOXING MATCH) (2), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Quick on the wing Last Line: Pantheides' precious son Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boxing And Boxers; Games - Greece JACK, by SARAH ELISABETH FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: A lack of shortening in the house. A sprung limb. There is no name Last Line: Not a thing can be done about it. I'm waiting to be finished with %or lost Subject(s): Games JACKS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: First you lag. Kneeling on the pavement Last Line: Nothing but the hot, white flagstones Subject(s): Children; Games JIHAD SOUNDS OF HOME, by MARCEL BEYER Poem Source First Line: They're playing jihad sounds of home Last Line: First cars, you pass into a light sleep Subject(s): Games; Play KARL MARX, by ROBERT GRAY Poem Source First Line: Karl marx was playing a parlour game Last Line: It is the most essential of all %the complete works Subject(s): Games; Human Rights; Marx, Karl (1818-1883) KICKING THE LEATHER BALL, by MA RUYU Poem Source First Line: Her dainty waist sways with gentle force Last Line: Under pomegranate skirts a pair of phoenixes fly Subject(s): Games KIND SIR: THESE WOODS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind sir: this is an old game Subject(s): Children; Games; Self; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements KNIFE ON A PLATE, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements LAST ROWS OF SUMMER, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: From here, the players look like ants Last Line: Most dust and spit stay far below Subject(s): Games; Summer LEUCIPPIDES, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Crafting a chorus Last Line: For cypris' violet glance Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece LIFE AFTER LIFE, by MARY BELLE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: At each stage of the video game Subject(s): Video Games LIQUID DOMINOES, by PETER HARVEY Poem Source First Line: The days are all like one another. They're warm and the sun shines Last Line: Falling, liquid dominoes Subject(s): Dominoes; Games LITTLE GIRL, by EDDY L. PINAS Poem Source First Line: I love you ten Last Line: What an immeasurable lot that was Subject(s): Games; Girls LITTLE GIRL BLUE, by UNKNOWN+261 Poem Source First Line: Before you know what years are made of they are lost Subject(s): Games; Sports LUCK, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackjack table he felt it Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Card Games; Luck MALTHUSIAN THEORY, by W. R. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Like every longshot it seemed like a sureshot and his legs were so long Last Line: Amusement Subject(s): Entertainers; Gambling; Games MANIFESTS PURE GOLD, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: To mens opinions Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits Subject(s): Games; Poetry & Poets; Time; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits Last Line: In the rainbow's silence Subject(s): Games; Poetry And Poets; Time MELE UHIUHI, by CHARLES W. KENN Poem Text First Line: Let us play a game Last Line: All the night. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements MEMPHIS SPARED BY SNOW, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: And the reedy nile Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece MEN CAN MANEUVER NO HOLD, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: Destiny - that pandora - ranges Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece MEXICAN NURSERY SONG: 14, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "little pony, little pony" Last Line: Long live antonio! Subject(s): Games;ponies; Recreation;pastimes;amusements MONOPOLY, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loneliness of two people %together, rolling dice Last Line: Desire to win without luck Subject(s): Games; Luck MS. PAC MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Video fever comes late. I am found Last Line: But don't Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Video Games MS. PAC MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Video fever comes late. I am found Last Line: Will put me over %but don't Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Video Games MUSICAL CHAIRS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Chairs; Games; Insects; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Bugs NEMEAN ODE FOR AUTOMEDES OF PHLIUS (PENTATHLON), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Graces, thread your gold Last Line: The pentathlon victor Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece NEMEAN ODE FOR PYTHEAS OF AEGINA (PANCRATIUM), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: He will abolish reckless pride Last Line: That herald him over the land Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece NEMEAN ODE FOR TEISIAS OF AEGINA (WRESTLING MATCH), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Like an expert pilot, %clio queen of song Last Line: And from alpheus glinting in sunlight Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece NEVER UNDERHAND, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: Resonates in man Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece NONE HOLDS JOY, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: Through his length of time Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece NOT UNSEATED, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: Gods stand worlds from men Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece NOUN VERSE, by CAROLINE MARY CRAVEN AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Question: which is the prettiest brooch in the room? Last Line: But her poor mother's temper was always rather proud Subject(s): Games; Poetry And Poets NUMBERLESS BENTS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: Distinguish men Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece OBSESSIVE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be a clip, it could be a comb Last Line: The father of a friend just sickened and sickened. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Games; Obsessions; Childhood; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ODOR OF EARTH, by SHANNON BORG Poem Source First Line: As a child war was august's game: I typed a black code Last Line: Until the curved tooth %of zero turned o opened me deep in its pollen-mouth Subject(s): Children; Games; Nature; Summer OEDIPAL GHAZAL, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The family in the cabin, playing cards. The cards Last Line: As if the family lived in a house of cards Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Card Games; Family Life OLD INTO NEW INTO OLD, by MIKE CLUFF Poem Source First Line: Video game torture %runs amok in austria Last Line: Those who can't reocgnize the obscene %from the absurd Subject(s): Austria; Video Games OLD MAN THROWING A BALL, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is tight at first, stiff, stands there atilt Subject(s): Old Age; Dogs; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Clio showering gifts that charm Last Line: Of the nightingale of ceos Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Splendid in destiny Last Line: Unrocked in realms of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (1), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Brilliant daughter of time and night Last Line: Pierced through chaerolas' barrowing tomb Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; Racing OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (2), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Lauds to lachon %from zeus great lord Last Line: That feeds the fame of ceos Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; Racing OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LIPARION OF CEOS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: I sing of pytho %and altars piled with sheep Last Line: Won in phrygian pelops' famous games Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUS, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Water is best, but gold blazing like fire Last Line: With victors, foremost in every skull among the hellenes Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Best of all things is water; but gold, like a gleaming fire Last Line: Let it be mine to stand beside you %in victory, for my skil l at the forefront of the hellenes Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even as water is most excellent, while god, like fire flaming Last Line: And be foremost in the lore of song among hellenes in every land Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. PRAISE OF HIERON'S OLYMPIC VICTORY, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each element to water yields Last Line: Proclaim'd unrival'd in my song. Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing ONLY TRUTH AND THE GODS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: One hearth, one state of mind Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PAEAN (1), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: They were just decking out the food Last Line: And exuberant ballads of boys flare up Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PAEAN (2), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: One writer picks another's brains Last Line: Is no small job Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PAEAN (3), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Why beat around the bear? Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PARABLE OF DOMINOES, by ALICE GORTON HART Poem Source First Line: My small child built a tower of dominoes Last Line: As the directions directed %and keeping careful score Subject(s): Dominoes; Games PARADISE, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: We arrive by shuttle bus, precious tickets Last Line: Into the dry moat behind the outfield wall %that we fill with our cries of joyful disbelief Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Sports PARTY GAME, by MICHELE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I pretend there is no boy so that Last Line: Or a hat when there is not one Subject(s): Games; Imagination PASIPHAE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Pasiphae, prey %to the lust of cypris Last Line: When he learned her scheme Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PEEK-A-BOO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cunningest thing that a baby can do Last Line: How to hide, and play peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PETRAEAN ODE FOR CLEOPTOLEMUS OF THESSALY (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Best is splendid destiny Last Line: To gather the fame of chariot triumph Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PICTURE PUZZLES, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seated one day at a table Last Line: And I doubt if I do it then! Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PINATA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The fat pink paper-mache burro Last Line: With the blushes of someone %hanged for the wrong crime Subject(s): Birthdays; Games; Parties PLAY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your move I would have Last Line: To ransom. He, if he plays, plays %unconcernedly among the pawns Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Games PLAYERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the spacious bay the sun of afternoon Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards PLAYING BO-PEEP WITH THE STAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "who are you winking at, bright little star" Last Line: "ah! Laughed the child, we can both play bo-peep" Subject(s): Games;stars; Recreation;pastimes;amusements PLAYING BOWL-AND-BEAD, by TATE RYUWAN Poem Source First Line: Nothing under the bowl - it's shifted again! Last Line: Lots of people nowadays know how to roll the beads! Subject(s): Games PLAYING DOMINOES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress morning -- well she knows Last Line: Who will be the victor, pray? Subject(s): Dominoes; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements PLAYING JACKS IN BHAKTAPUR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a cruciform cloth squared in black and white Last Line: She names. Subject(s): Games; Travel; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips PLAYING PINOCHLE AT LAFAYETTE CLINIC, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: In the distinct, harsh days Last Line: Here are the exulting, monstrous translations %of the night Subject(s): Card Games; Hospitals; Insanity PLAYING THE GAME, by BARBARA GOLDOWSKY Poem Source First Line: You stick out your fist: stone Subject(s): Games; Sports PLAYING TIME, by THERESA PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: On the front steps, our mothers wait for us, flushed Subject(s): Games; Sports POKER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to draw, or not to draw, that is the question" Last Line: And lose the right to open Subject(s): Gambling;games; Wagering;betting;recreation;pastimes;amusements PROCESSIONAL (1), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: One criterion, one approach Last Line: All the gladness dies Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PROCESSIONAL (2), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: God heaps on Last Line: An especial grief %for each Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Second World War PRODIGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up bent over Last Line: In chess, too, the professor told me, %the masters play blindfolded, %the great ones on several boar Subject(s): Children; Games; World War Ii PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full 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) PUFFBALL TALE, by BRIAN BARTLETT Poem Source First Line: Every game but one vanished from the common Last Line: Those rays carving clear shapes everywhere Subject(s): Games PYTHIAN ODE FOR ALEXIDAMUS OF METAPONTION (BOYS' WRESTLING MATCH), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Victory, source of sweetness Last Line: Surging achaean acts of strength Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PYTHIAN ODE FOR ARISTOTELES OF LARISA (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Hestia, goddess of hearth %on your golden throne Last Line: Lasher of racing horses Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece PYTHIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Always apollo the blond Last Line: And a heaping share of the best parts? Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece PYTHIAN ODES: 2. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Magnificent city, syracuse, precinct of ares Last Line: Is a slippery path. May I %please and consort with noble men Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing PYTHIAN ODES: 3. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Would that chiron, son of philyra Last Line: Excellence by illustrious song %is feted long, but accomplishment is easy for few Subject(s): Games - Greece QUEENE ANNE GAME, FROM BELFAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lady queen anne she sits on a stand Last Line: We will get pins to pin our clothes, %you will get nails to nail your toes Subject(s): Games QUEENE ANNE GAME, FROM SWAFFHAM, NORFOLK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Queen anne, queen anne, she sits in the sun Last Line: The ball is mine, and none o' thine, %and so good-morning, valentine Subject(s): Games QUESTION AND ANSWER (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is that, mother?" Last Line: That he is swell enough to play at golf? Subject(s): Games;golf;mothers;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements RECKONING, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my love go laughing Last Line: Is, false or true, he was my man. Subject(s): Games; Love; Sermons; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements RINGS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A veairy ring so round's the zun Last Line: On elem boughs, on mossy limbs. Subject(s): Games; Play; Wheels; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SCROLL-SECTION, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: You who practise the four elegant occupations Last Line: The seal of your mind borrowed and not returned. Subject(s): Games; Nature; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SENRYU: BLIND DATE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Scrabble tiles spilled Last Line: No one keeping score Subject(s): Language Games SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 4. TYROMANCY-DIVINATION BY HOLES AND MOLD..., by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The fungi and holes in cheese Last Line: Who jumps to conclusions Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Card Games; Prophets And Prophecy SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 107, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house of cards Last Line: That's the fun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SKIPPING SONG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skippety skip, skippety skip! Last Line: And isn't skipping easy? Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Rope; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SKY-BOY, by EDWARD P. GILCHRIST Poem Text First Line: In the time before forever Last Line: Yes! He's you! Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SNAKE EYES, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Subject(s): Boys; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SNAKE EYES, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Last Line: Past the policeman on his beat. Unsmiling, refuse to bend her head Subject(s): Boys; Games SNAP THE WHIP, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: Centrifugal, those first places: circles Last Line: This time. More than ever like lash, like snap Subject(s): Children; Games; Learning SOLITAIRE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black queen on the red king Last Line: Behind like materiel in a trench Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SOLITAIRE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black queen on the red king Subject(s): Card Games SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the oblivion of cards Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the oblivion of cards Last Line: Under the oak trees, completely released Subject(s): Card Games SONNET: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, many a time our memory slips aside Last Line: And crowned our nights with coronals of dreams. Subject(s): Family Life; Games; Memory; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SONS OF ANTENOR, OR HELEN DEMANDED BACK, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Godly antenor's wife %of the pious mien and movement Last Line: Of earth and all their insolence.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece SPIT, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chipewyans play it Subject(s): Native Americans; Games; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements STOOL-BALL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At stool-ball, lucia, let us play Last Line: And have for all a kisse. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SWAPPING MINDS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melissa and I were sitting Last Line: Watching the ducks on the pond Subject(s): Games SWEATHOGS MEET CHARLIE'S ANGELS BEHIND THE SHED, by TODD FULLER Poem Source First Line: Some days we'd see brian or david scampering Last Line: In a glittering, tight ensemble I'd never seen Subject(s): Children; Games; Practical Jokes TAKIN' A CHANCE, by WAYNE B. WALTERS Poem Text First Line: The boys were all excited Last Line: In a game they call polo. Subject(s): Boys; Games; Victory; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements TAKING SHAPE IN SANTORINI, by MELISSA BERTON Poem Source First Line: Here is a test, or game, of sorts: start Last Line: To this mixed world, and how she'll come each day to sort it Subject(s): Games; Language TEN MILLS: IN DIVES' DIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing Last Line: Let's have a look at another five Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations THE BLOODY SIRE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is not bad. Let them play. Subject(s): Violence; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE BOROUGH: LETTER 9. AMUSEMENTS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of our amusements ask you? - we amuse Last Line: Think of their danger, and their god adore. Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements 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 CARD-DEALER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could you not drink her gaze like wine? Last Line: And know she calls it death. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Card Games; Women; Playing Cards THE CHESS-PLAYERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The clock, unheeded, peals the midnight hour Last Line: And each automaton becomes a man. Subject(s): Chess; Competition; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHICKEN; OR, MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT GAME OF GOLF, by S. F. OUTWOOD Poem Text First Line: Once upon a day most dreary, I was wandering weak and weary Last Line: And would play it never more! Subject(s): Games; Golf; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CIRCLE GAME, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children on the lawn Subject(s): Games; Children; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Childhood THE FACE, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The man with the acid face Last Line: Who wills to act. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Card Games; Faces; Playing Cards THE FIRST NEMEAEAN ODE OF PINDAR, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous ortygia, the first breathing place Last Line: Bull, centaur, scorpion, all the radiant monsters there. Subject(s): Olympic Games THE GAME, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis played with eyes; one uttered word Last Line: My own to play again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Eyes; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GAMES, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: Luck makes him head, he meets it pranksomely Last Line: Youth, and romance, and music of the moon! Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GLORY OF THE GAME, by WILLIAM HAMILTON CLINE Poem Text First Line: A song to the football players Last Line: And the honors and glories he bears! Subject(s): Football; Games; Play; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GOLDEN ROAD TO BARCELONA: 1992, by MARTIN FAGG Poem Text First Line: We athletes who, with sternest discipline Last Line: We took the golden road to barcelona.' Subject(s): Olympic Games THE GOOD AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contrary to the views Last Line: To any word you say. Subject(s): Games; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism THE LIFTING OF THE MIST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the long day the vapours played Last Line: That greets the lifting of the mist. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fairies; Games; Elves; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE LOST CHILDREN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago, as dusk seeped from the blue Last Line: Eidolons, adrift on the night air. Subject(s): Children; Games; Loss; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE MERCHANTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the frost Last Line: Happy the few who will buy of the rain. Subject(s): Children; Games; Merchants; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, by E. A. L. GRIFFIN Poem Text First Line: What blissful thrills of merriment are found Last Line: Till, lo! He calls a halt—and comes the end. Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Children; Games; Merry-go-grounds; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Carousels THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths Last Line: With tender care and love. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 39, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In april when silkworms are small Last Line: This place is better than mine Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 65, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A group of girls play in fading light Last Line: White temples and a trembling heart Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Longing; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE SECOND OLYMPIQUE ODE OF PINDAR, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of all harmonious things Last Line: Is equally impossible. Subject(s): Olympic Games THE SKI-RUNNER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Above you burns a molten - copper sun Last Line: Then out! Into a wilderness of light! Subject(s): Games;ice;skiing; Recreation;pastimes;amusements THE SLUGGER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WAR CLUB, by C. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: Farewell, good old pal of the national pastime Last Line: And now we must travel our separate ways. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Farewell; Games; Sports; Travel; Parting; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips THESEUS, OR TRIBUTE TO THE MINOTAUR - FOR THE CEANS ON DELOS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Black at the beak that craft Last Line: Grant us godspeed, work our seachange Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece THESPIAN, by MARION F. LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Small phillip played a part sublime Last Line: The greatest art of all! Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THESUS, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Chorus of athenians %king of our sacred athens Last Line: He strides on to illustrious athens! Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece THREE LEMONS, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: Benign january, beneath Last Line: That memories have Subject(s): Games THRU THE EYES OF THE YOUNG MAN IN THE VIDEO GAME PARLOR, by MBEMBE MILTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: At first christ on the cross Subject(s): Video Games TOUCH, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made our own laws. Last Line: For collision. We called it touch Subject(s): Games; Youth; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 5. TO THE SAME, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Accept of these olympian games the crown Last Line: -- have those immortals more? -- Subject(s): Olympic Games; Victory UNCLE WIGGLY GOES TO TIBET, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: One afternoon three of us played a tibetan board game Last Line: Discovering hell's indescribable pain, heaven's indescribable bliss Subject(s): Games; Heaven; Hell UPON PLAYING AT OMBRE WITH TWO LADIES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that fortune long has wanted sight Last Line: And gives success in every suit -- but hearts. Subject(s): Card Games; Fortune; Playing Cards VERSES FROM THE 'ANNALIA DUBRENSIA', by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You faire assemblies that renowne Last Line: Rarius eveniunt solatia—— Subject(s): Animals; Games; Horseback Riding; Hunting; Rabbits; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Hunters; Hares VICTORY ODE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: This for the last time Last Line: Profoundest minds Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece VIDE-OUCH, by SHELLEY LESSIN STOCKWELL Poem Source First Line: Partners at the video game Last Line: You anymore. %'it's only a game,' I reply Subject(s): Video Games VIDEO GAMES, by JULIA RANDALL Poem Source First Line: In claude lorrain, the trees win every time Subject(s): Video Games 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 VISITING AUNT AGGIE AND UNCLE LEW'S, by CRAIG PAULENICH Poem Source First Line: I cannot recall the whole house Last Line: Ascension into my own bed Subject(s): Aunts; Card Games; Children; Uncles VIVE LE ROI!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One in a long dark pigtail cries Last Line: The noble game of basket ball Subject(s): Basketball;games;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements WAY IS WIDE, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece WHEN I WAS A CHILD, by MARY MACKEY Poem Source First Line: When I was a child %I played with the boys Last Line: Spills blood %and kills-without-mercy Subject(s): Children; Games; Native Americans WHOSE TURN IS IT, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Stand, each of you who has in your closet Last Line: Who carry sticks and guns for a living Subject(s): Games; Memory WHY I PLAY VIDEO GAMES, by TONY BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: It's rock 'n' roll 'n' bowl night Last Line: So I become money, quarter by quarter %and live as long as I can live Subject(s): Video Games WINNER OF THE PENTATHLON, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Philo begat diophon, who was crowned at the isthmus and delphi Last Line: Winning the race and the leap, wrestle and discus and spear Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Games WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements WOYI, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI Poem Source First Line: In south oregon the klamath play Last Line: Who ran for a mile before %they fell Subject(s): Games WRAITH OF THE MAN OF ITHACA, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source Last Line: Dyed in darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece YO-YO KING, by SYMA CHERIS COHN Poem Source First Line: When he showed up on the sidewalk in the old neighborhood Subject(s): Games; Sports |
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