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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GUESTS Matches Found: 156 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Arising slowly in his place Last Line: "'please, sir, to let you in'" Subject(s): Daughters;guests;household Employees;revolutions; Visiting;servants;domestics;maids A JOURNEY TO HELL: PART 3. THE PARISH POOR-OFFICERS, by EDWARD WARD Poem Text First Line: These souls, my lord, assembled at the bar Last Line: Shameful to own and scandalous to hear. Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Soul; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips A SEAT FOR THREE: WRITTEN ON A SETTLE, by WALTER CRANE Poem Text First Line: A seat for three, where host and guest Last Line: "a seat for three." Subject(s): Guests; Visiting A THOUGHTLESS GUEST, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: We gave you mountain fare Last Line: Is naught to mountain men. Subject(s): Guests; Mountain Life - Vermont; Rudeness; Visiting; Bad Manners A VISIT, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: As she stirred her coffee at dinner in our house Last Line: Whereupon I went out in the garden and threw stones at the hens. Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Guests; Relatives; Visiting A VISIT FROM ABROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A speck went blowing up against the sky Last Line: And flew away. ... I fired at him but missed. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips A WAR STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii; Guests; Family Life; Second World War; Visiting; Relatives AFTER THE GUEST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guest departs Subject(s): Guests; Marriage; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE GUEST; FOR MY BROTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guest departs Last Line: I pray we'll grow old. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Guests; Marriage; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AIRLINE BREAKFAST, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: For the family, my mother Last Line: I was pleased to arrive still hungry Subject(s): Food And Eating; Guests; Markets AMBERGRIS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I was in the place where ambergris collects Last Line: Let you take everything off here. To let you make a thesaurus Subject(s): Guests; Temples; Travel AMUSING OUR DAUGHTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We don't lack people here on the northern coast Last Line: Sending our messages over the mountains and waters. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Daughters; Death; Guests; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Visiting; Feminism AN ARRIVAL, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now haste thee, light thee down, thy doors unbar Last Line: And hope thy bride, handfasted to despair. Subject(s): Guests; Despair; Visiting ANSWERING THE POEM LEFT BY MR. SU, NOMINALLY OF THE BUREAU OF FORESTRY, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Humbly I dwell by the valley's mouth Last Line: A bell's infrequent tolling that broke %through gibbons' night cries Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests ARE THEY WAITING FOR A STAR, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The clouds float back and forth through the wind's doors Last Line: The earth's housekeepers, waiting for guests %who never come Subject(s): Guests; Waiting BALMORAL CASTLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful balmoral castle Last Line: And thee dark river dee. Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year. Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL BALMERINO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful balmerino on the bonnie banks of tay Last Line: They can walk along the braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL ROTHESAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful rothesay, your scenery is most grand Last Line: After viewing the beautiful scenery of rothesay. Subject(s): Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL TORQUAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye lovers of the picturesque, away Last Line: And 'tis good for the health to reside there. Subject(s): England; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; English; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BETTY'S IGLOO, A BED & BREAKFAST, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Outside, backfiring four-wheelers Last Line: In the baskets of fruit and cheese, %origami geese that fold into swans Subject(s): Guests; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine. Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BUS NORTH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw him looking, I held myself in Last Line: And we are honoured you see to travel so far Subject(s): Buses; Guests; Hotels; Tourists; Travel CARVING AND GILDING, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see,' said our host, as we enter'd his doors Last Line: "pray less of your gilding, and more of your carving." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Hospitality; Superficiality; Visiting CHICHESTER FORTESCUE IS APPOINTED LORD PRIVY SEAL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious circumstance and one worthy of note must also be recorded Last Line: Are brought by 10 servants in livery Subject(s): Conventions; Courts And Courtiers; Food And Eating; Guests CHINESE LANTERNS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Peppers and onions piled in the sink Last Line: Cutting to the quick, easy way home Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Food And Eating; Guests; Parties; Picnics CLASSIC OF POETRY: 161, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yoo, yoo cry the deer Last Line: Thus I have this fine wine, %to feast and delight my worthy guests' hearts Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Guests DAYS IN PUNJAB, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sansevieria plants were vicious and hardy along the bricks %in front Last Line: At three, we waited for the postman's cycle bell and had tea a %few times before the war Subject(s): Guests; Punjab (asia); Travel DIANA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Diana, out of italy, my sister's protegee Last Line: "for the gods possess their copies of 'diana at the bath!' " Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Guests; Italy; Showers & Showering; Visiting; Italians DINNER PARTY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire is lit in the hearth, and flickers Last Line: Lifts his cup, and calls for more wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Conversation; Dinners & Dining; Fire; Guests; Tableware; Visiting; Cutlery; Forks; Plates DOORBELLS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You never know with a doorbell Last Line: Who may be waiting there! Subject(s): Guests DOORWAY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I was young and almost ridiculous that year, riding the train Last Line: Rain falls like tears and the corn grows tall as trees Subject(s): Aztecs; Guests; Memory; Mexico; Travel ENCOUNTER, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: Monotony of sun Last Line: Passes slowly by Subject(s): Guests EPISTLE TO DR. ENFIELD ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of those years which from youth's sparkling fount Last Line: A daughter's sorrows o'er her father's urn! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Youth; Friendship; Guests; Visiting FOR A SUMMER NIGHT, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: At first, a bar-like this one. Then you'd need Last Line: This is what's left to hope for. Oh, dear god, more music Subject(s): Guests; Summer FOR GUESTS AFTER THEIR VISIT, by LIU YA-TZU Poem Source First Line: Rotten wood is unfit for carving, so I slept at noon Last Line: I'd feel happier here than in the gold-powdered pavilions across %the yangtze Subject(s): Guests GOING HOME TO VISIT CENSOR WANG ON MY DAY OFF AND NOT FINDING HIM HOME, by WEI YING-WU Poem Source First Line: Nine days of hustle and bustle Last Line: And snow was filling the hills Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests GRIEVING FOR ZEN MASTER JIANZHANG, by WEI FENG Poem Source First Line: A frosty bell %anxiously overrides the waterclock Last Line: Dwindling sun descends %the distant peak Variant Title(s): Grieving For Zen Master Chien Chan Subject(s): Guests; Monks; Zen Buddhism GUEST, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed into the doorway Last Line: To permit me to forget him- %knowing I won't. He's the guest%of my knowing, though not asked Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Religion GUEST, by RUTH ECKMAN Poem Text First Line: Each time I go to her house Last Line: It lasts for days and days. Subject(s): Guests; Visiting GUEST, by JIM PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Thanks for stopping by Last Line: And two glasses for the wine you bought %but forgot to bring Subject(s): Gratitude; Guests; Surprise GUEST, by CHRIS SEMANSKY Poem Source First Line: The kitchen is ready Last Line: Your feet and offer %yourself to him, whole Subject(s): Guests GUEST, by ALAN ZIEGLER Poem Source First Line: I am lost and knock on the nearest door to ask directions. There's a Last Line: Can be such a bastard.' Subject(s): Guests GUINEA AFTERNOON, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: I took my guinea pig for a spin in the park Last Line: I would have grazed on her intoxicating moss Subject(s): Guests; Neighbors HAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER FREELY! ALL YOU SEE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And know not our departure. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Guests HAWAII BOUND: 2. POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once more the sun is shining Last Line: Defy the sea again! Subject(s): Guests; Harbors; Honolulu; Islands; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE TOMB OF.. IMPROPERLY TRAINED BOMBADIERS, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the saddest work I have ever seen Last Line: To simply go around them Subject(s): Art And Artists; Graves; Guests; Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tourists HELSINKI, 1940, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exploding, shattering, burning / big lights in the sky Last Line: All of whom really felt like living Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Neighbors; Visiting HILO'S HOSTELRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hilo, of thee I often dream! Last Line: And plant it secretly. Subject(s): Guests; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Visiting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips I COULDN'T GET THE REPAIRMAN, by LILACE MELLIN Poem Source First Line: Out of my basement. At first I felt rude Last Line: It was my house. I chose to burn it down Subject(s): Guests; Houses IN CELEBRATION OF THE VISIT OF HUANG YUANJIE OF JIAXING, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: A pair of candles helps to detain our guest Last Line: But you spirit cannot help shining through Subject(s): Guests IN THE VALLEY OF THE ELWY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember a house where all were good Last Line: Being mighty a master, being a father and fond. Subject(s): Guests; Visiting INSTRUCTIONS TO CELEBRATED LAUREAT: GEORGE III VISITS BREWERY, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, sing the stir that happy whitbread made Last Line: Rattled his chain, and wagged his tail for wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Beer; Courts & Courtiers; Drinks & Drinking; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Guests; Ale; Wine; Visiting INVITATION; FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO MY BROTHER, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear welcomer, I think you must agree Last Line: Until we talk ourselves to bed Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Guests; San Francisco INVITED GUESTS, by FRANCES EKIN ALLISON Poem Text First Line: A crowd of troubles passed him by Last Line: "we go — where we're expected." Subject(s): Courage; Guests; Hope; Valor; Bravery; Visiting; Optimism INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER, by SUSAN SNIVELY Poem Source First Line: Our fourth, a guest, is witty, a little shy Subject(s): Guests; Hospitality INVITING GUESTS, by CH'ENG-KUNG SUI Poem Text First Line: I sent out invitations Last Line: By discharge of emotion! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Guests; Visiting ISSEI, THE JAPANESE LADY, by JESSICA KAWASUNA SAIKI Poem Source First Line: She wears brown as a carapace, annonymous as Last Line: The paper screen, the brown Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Conversation; Culture Conflict; Friendship; Guests JANE HOLLYBRAND; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED: A GRACEFUL DIVINE, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The following day, about th' eleventh hour Last Line: The doctor bowed, and gracefully retired. Variant Title(s): Jane Hollybrand; Or, Virtue Rewarded Subject(s): Friendship; Guests; Visiting JANE HOLLYBRAND; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED: THE GOOD YOUNG SQUIRE, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: It hap'd a gentle youth - a lordly heir Last Line: And forth they'd come. Subject(s): Clergy; Friendship; Guests; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Visiting KEY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were guests in the house of a multimillionaire and we were Last Line: What you will dig out, but that masochistic operation will bring %you relief Subject(s): Dreams; Guests; Parties LAKESIDE PAVILION, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: From the window a rippling of waves Last Line: Everywhere hibiscus begin to open Subject(s): Camping; Guests; Lakes; Zen Buddhism LEDA 2: A NOTE ON VISITATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes another star chooses Last Line: Is the only shining thing. Subject(s): African Americans; Guests; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Negroes; American Blacks; Visiting LESSONS IN THE DESERT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The wodaabe aren't allowed to read Last Line: From getting lost in the lines of the page Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Guests; Travel LETTER TO NORA DECIE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear nora Last Line: Way round cape matapan & so to the piraeus as fast as we can Subject(s): Guests; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel LEWIS D. HAYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost glee of the christmas Last Line: Gave it again to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Guests; Holidays; New Year; Voices; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting LIGHT-BLUE PILLOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: It was all happening inside a huge light-blue Last Line: There we will dine, I said to my companions, %who again nodded their heads Subject(s): Guests; Sculpture And Sculptors LINES INSCRIBED ON A PLATTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessings on ye, honest wife Last Line: I'll ne'er gae by your door! Subject(s): Guests LOOKING FOR THE RECLUSE AND NOT FINDING HIM HOME, by JIA DAO Poem Source First Line: I asked his servant under the pines Last Line: But the clouds are so deep I know not where.' Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests; Zen Buddhism MAY MOON, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The may moon Last Line: --one thrush, a little lark, that's better-- %and violins. Bring up some more small rivers! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Friendship; Guests; Music And Musicians; Parties MIDWESTERN AUTUMN, by IMRE ORAVECZ Poem Source First Line: The sun still shines warmly Last Line: To the recent immigrants Subject(s): Guests; Presidents, United States; Roads; Tourists; Travel MISS NOBODY'S CHRISTMAS DINNER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One might travel this wide world over & over Last Line: An emblem too true of this make-believe world. Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Guests; Hospitality; Parties; Nativity, The; Visiting MY GUEST, by FRANCES MOYES Poem Text First Line: In the cool tender twilight hour Last Line: That wrapped me like an aureole. Subject(s): Guests; Visiting MY NEW YEAR'S GUESTS, by ROLLIN MALLORY DAGGETT Poem Text First Line: The winds come cold from the southward, with incense of fir and pine Last Line: "long life to the hearts still beating, and peace to the hearts at rest!" Subject(s): Guests; Holidays; New Year; Visiting NOMADIC LIFE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: When I come back with the cups of tea Last Line: The other woman %we each might have been Subject(s): Friendship; Guests; Travel ODE: THE DAY AT HOME, by LEANDRO FERNANDEZ DE MORATIN Poem Source First Line: Was there ever such a mess! Last Line: Let them go out and dance! Subject(s): Guests ON A BED OF GUERNSEY LILIES, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye beauties! O how great the sum / of sweetness that ye bring Last Line: That love supports his reign. Subject(s): Guernsey; Guests; Visiting OVER COFFEE, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you mean to say about the film is that Last Line: The first to address this exhilarating stranger Subject(s): Coffee; Conversation; Guests; Strangers; Visiting OVER COFFEE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you mean to say about the film is that Last Line: Of conviction, finally the stammers, the rush to be %the first to address this exhilarating stranger Subject(s): Coffee; Conversation; Guests; Strangers OVER KING YU MOUNTAIN WITH A FRIEND, by CHING AN Poem Source First Line: Sun sets, bell sounds, the mist Last Line: Horses tread men's shadows Subject(s): Guests; Zen Buddhism OVERNIGHT GUEST, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for your ride in front of the house Last Line: From poetry Subject(s): Guests; Visiting PARTY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: At a gesture from the host, the musicians stopped playing Last Line: And the party was never the same Subject(s): Abandonment; Ghosts; Guests; Parties; Supernatural POET AND PERSON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send my messages ahead of me Last Line: Alone, as I came. Subject(s): Guests; Love; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Visiting; Loneliness QUICK VISIT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Love dropped in for a quick visit Last Line: Then faced the road and the night ahead Subject(s): Guests; Love RHODIAN SWALLOW-SONG, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has come, she has come, the swallow! Last Line: Open, open your door to the swallow! Subject(s): Greece; Guests; Swallows; Greeks; Visiting ROADSIDE POEMS: ZACCHAEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom the heavy burden clings Last Line: And saved the lost whom he had won. Subject(s): Bible; Guests; Jesus Christ; Salvation; Truth; Zacchaeus; Visiting; Zaccheus SATIRE ON PAYING CALLS IN AUGUST, by CH'ENG HSIAO Poem Text First Line: When I was young, throughout the hot season Last Line: That august visitors should not be admitted. Subject(s): August; Guests; Visiting SEARCHING/NOT SEARCHING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What kind of woman goes searching and searching? Subject(s): Women; Guests; Visiting SHORT SONG, by CAO CAO Poem Source First Line: The wine before me as I sing Last Line: The duke of zhou broke off his meals, %and all the world turned to him in their hearts Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Guests 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 SMALL GARDEN, by CHENG HSIEH Poem Source First Line: Moonlight, harsh and clear, floods the high pavilion Last Line: As brightly colored clouds and cool dew overspread the green moss Subject(s): Guests SOMEWHERE IN A HOUSE WHERE YOU ARE NOT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: There is sunlight coming through windows Last Line: Revolve slowly around and around %without you Subject(s): Guests; Houses; Old Age SPENDING THE NIGHT IN REVEREND YE'S MOUNTAIN CHAMBER, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When evening sun passed over western peaks Last Line: My harp waits alone on the vine-hung path Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests; Nature STEW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: California lilac, ceanothus, embraced Last Line: And looking towards the stew Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Guests; Identity; Loss TANKA, by TACHIBANA AKEMI Poem Source First Line: Happiness is when %you're sick of reading a book Last Line: Knocks at your gate Subject(s): Guests; Happiness TEA, by MICHELLE LEIGH Poem Source First Line: That man with the burnished indian face. His eye catches mine, just past Last Line: And his small sharp mouth-corner, I see all this and I offer him tea Subject(s): Guests; Kisses; Love THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE BEWILDERED GUEST, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was not asked if I should like to come Last Line: We know we shall not meet him here again. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Guests; Hospitality; Life; Visiting THE CLOSED DOOR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knock! Knock! Bide not there baffled with Last Line: Knock, that the door may open! Knock, oh, knock! Subject(s): Friendship; Guests; Visiting THE COAL-FIRE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, we'll light the parlor fire Last Line: But coal of each sex shall contribute its part. Subject(s): Fireplaces; Guests; Winter; Women; Visiting THE CROSS OF THE DUMB; A CHRISTMAS ON IONA, LONG, LONG AGO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One eve, when st. Columba strode Last Line: Who on that day was glad and proud! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Columba, Saint (521-597); Generosity; Guests; Iona, Scotland; Miracles; Salvation; Strangers; Nativity, The; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Visiting THE DARK VISITOR, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: She waits for me at night Last Line: Shamefaced, she slinks away. Subject(s): Guests; Love Affairs; Night; Visiting; Bedtime THE DAWN INVADERS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Unbroken slumbers through the night Last Line: He has to get up anyhow. Subject(s): Dawn; Guests; Sunrise; Visiting THE DEN O' FOWLIS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful den o' fowlis, most charming to be seen Last Line: And such a blessing to the people shouldn't be forgot. Subject(s): Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE DINING ROOM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rather dull cupboard here Last Line: "good morning, mr. Jammes, how are you today?" Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Memory; Spiritual Life; Voices; Visiting THE EVENING COMPANY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sitting-room, the company Last Line: But tell him all about red riding-hood. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Guests; Visiting THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH'S HOUSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye good people, afar and near Last Line: And well versed in history, be it understood. Subject(s): Guests; Houses; Visiting THE FEAST OF THALARCHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is all prepared, xeanres? Last Line: My lord, my lord! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Festivals; Guests; Fairs; Pageants; Visiting THE FLEETING VISITANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These parting words we have to say Last Line: Seems on its farewell tour Subject(s): Farewell;guests;travel; Parting;visiting;journeys;trips THE GUEST, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed into the doorway Last Line: Of my knowing, but not asked Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Religion; Visiting; Theology THE GUEST, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Thou who tarriest at my gate Last Line: The greater love their guest. Subject(s): Guests; Love; Visiting THE GUEST, by S. BERT COOKSLEY Poem Text First Line: After awhile we will sit down together Last Line: What birds are saying down his orchard rows! Subject(s): Guests; Visiting THE GUEST, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel that death is very near Last Line: Slip quietly to sea? Subject(s): Death; Guests; Dead, The; Visiting THE GUESTS OF NIGHT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ride in a gloomy land Last Line: And the loves that are, remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Guests; Love; Night; Dead, The; Visiting; Bedtime THE INVITATION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sup with thee thou didst me home invite Last Line: I'le bring a fever; since thou keep'st no fire. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Guests; Inhospitality; Visiting THE INVITATION, by LEONARD WELSTED Poem Text First Line: Freeman, I treat tonight, and treat your friends Last Line: You know your friends; you know your bill of fare. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Guests; Visiting THE LAKERS, A COMIC OPERA: PROLOGUE, SELECTION, by JAMES PLUMPTRE Poem Text First Line: Where cumbria's mountains in the north arise Last Line: The natives by the name of lakers call. Subject(s): Guests; Opera; Travel; Vision; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE LOW BLACK SQUARE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is a table Last Line: They're just some flowers Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Restaurants; Tables; Visiting; Cafes; Diners THE MUSIC ONE LOOKS BACK ON, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In early autumn, there's a concerto Last Line: And geese, geese flying flying south out of winter Subject(s): Guests; Family Life; Friendship THE OPEN DOOR, by NETTIE STEPHENSON BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Tread softly through the open door Last Line: We leave no vacant chair. Subject(s): Guests; Presence; Visiting THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 218, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People who meet cold mountain Last Line: Visit cold mountain sometime Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Visiting THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 236, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one type of person Last Line: He acts like a hired man Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Ignorance; Visiting; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 44, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I usually live in seclusion Last Line: The spring is dry but not the stream Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I reached cold mountain Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SECRET ROSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, most, secret, and inviolate rose Last Line: Far off, most secret, and inviolate rose? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Guests; Secrets; Roses; Beauty THE SOUL THAT HAS A GUEST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The emperor of men Subject(s): Guests THE VOICE, by ESTHER TROWBRIDGE CATLIN Poem Text First Line: I heard a voice at early morning say Last Line: "give me this day!" Subject(s): Guests; Voices; Visiting THE WAYSIDE INN; SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set by the meadows, with great oaks to guard Last Line: Songs that will echo sweet the ages down! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Massachusetts; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THEME ON THE OFFICIALS' REST PAVILLION, WU-TANG PREFECTURE, by HSI CHOU Poem Source First Line: This perfectural pavillion Last Line: Mail off %these mumbles Subject(s): Guests; Sailors And Sailing; Zen Buddhism THREE GUESTS, by ETHEL SKIPTON BARRINGER Poem Text First Line: Fill joy's room with the sweet incense of Last Line: She deigns to stay -- always. Subject(s): Duty; Guests; Visiting TO FABULLUS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fabullus, I will treat you handsomely Last Line: Fabullus, that they'd make thee nose all o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Carmina, 13 Subject(s): Guests TO JERICHO AND BACK, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time I a visit had paid Last Line: May loving wishes soon summon you back!' Subject(s): Guests; Jericho; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips TO MY DEAR AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND, MR. IZAAK WALTON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst in this cold and blust'ring clime Last Line: You make all this a flatt'ring dream. Variant Title(s): Invitation To Izaak Walton Subject(s): Guests; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Visiting TO MY HOUSEGUESTS: A GENTLE ADMONITION, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source First Line: Fell forests high %in oregon! Last Line: Not by the square, %but by the yard Subject(s): Guests TO OUR POETRY GROUP'S IMPORTANT VISITOR, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source First Line: As each sad listener recognizes Last Line: I wouldn't have invited you Subject(s): Guests; Poetry And Poets TUAREG TEA CEREMONY, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: In the desert men drink shots Last Line: To the younger boys and they eat Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Food And Eating; Guests; Tea; Travel UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 17. HENRY JAMES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes to-night? We ope the doors in vain Last Line: Comes (best of all) himself -- our welcome james. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Guests; Night; Visiting; Bedtime VISIT, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: There's a knock. Attila jozsef walks in Last Line: He kisses me on the temple and leaves Subject(s): Guests; Poetry And Poets VISIT, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Before he came home from america Last Line: Thanks for the burbot soup, vanja Subject(s): Guests; Travel; Vacation VISIT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to abu dhabi Last Line: Alright by me. Subject(s): Birds; Falcons; Guests; Rooms; Visiting VISIT, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Marla gets off the plane and I see her walking fast, toward me, dressed Last Line: Coffee to lean down and rub my leg until I can stand on it Subject(s): Cities; Guests; Travel VISIT OF THE PRINCE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I never know what the words will bring to me, they like Last Line: Dampness of the rocks to the swamp of shadow, night entire in his boundless eyes Subject(s): Guests; Night; Shadows VISITANT, by EVA BERRY HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Your presence sweet oft comes to me in dreams Last Line: I love the night because it brings me you. Subject(s): Guests; Presence; Visiting VISITATION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'd been expecting her, the old eskimo Last Line: Outside, footprints in fresh snow, wind, %a gray form whelping three wolves Subject(s): Eskimos; Guests; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska VISITING, by ANNA PATTEN LOCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Tis fine to go a - visiting Last Line: And take the long road home. Subject(s): Guests; Homesickness; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips VISITING YANG YUN-SHIH'S VILLA ON THE HUAI RIVER, by HUI CH'UNG Poem Source First Line: The place is close Last Line: A bright moon's climbing %islands ahead Subject(s): Guests; Zen Buddhism VISITOR, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Down the hill, in the field of sweet alfalfa, they're freezing each other, the Last Line: Bring that strange dusty book you were reading. Subject(s): Children; Guests; Memory; Night VISITOR, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The man whose muscles I once admired Last Line: And imagine other lives, other places Subject(s): Guests; Past; Relationships WALKING IN THE HILLS AND LOOKING FOR THE RECLUDE .. NOT FINDING HIM IN, by QIU WEI Poem Source First Line: On the very summit his thatched-roof hut Last Line: The mood departed, I went downhill; %there was no longer need to wait for you Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests WAR, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: We changed our route to visit it again Last Line: That's war! Subject(s): Guests; Seashore; War; Visiting; Beach; Coast; Shore WASHING MY ROSE-COLOURED FLESH AND BRUSHING MY BEARD WITH A ...., by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yours with a l ( ) affection-the globular foolish topographer Subject(s): Guests; Travel WELCOME GUEST, by JEAN D. ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: I've played host to opportunity Last Line: Exact my due and tax his surplus store. Subject(s): Beds; Guests; Visiting WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o'clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel; Cars; Visiting; Journeys; Trips WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o' clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel |
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