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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOY'S HANDS, by ALBERT EDMUND TROMBLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Locked all the winter long
Last Line: To make a fine whistle.
Subject(s): Hands


A WOMAN'S HAND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft and tender, smooth and white
Last Line: A woman's hand.
Subject(s): Hands; Women


AMORIS EXSUL: 5. IN THE FOREST OF ARQUES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why am I haunted by your hands
Last Line: Familiar comfort of your hands!
Subject(s): Hands; Memory


AN ITALIAN SONNET-SEQUENCE: 2, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the hand but a good instrument
Last Line: No gift in that small palm have we espied.
Subject(s): Hands; Love


AND THOSE HANDS I NEVER KNEW, by SCOTT YARBROUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: And those hands across our backs are like stones
Last Line: Glued to the wallpaper on her west wall. I never knew
Subject(s): Hands


AT DAWN A HAND POURS A GENESIS BLUE...', by LAURENCE VERRY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Does the only motto %run in your blood
Subject(s): Dawn; Hands


AT MADDAME MANICURE'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daintiest of manicures!
Last Line: And light up and twinkle so!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Hands; Manicurists


AUBADE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I would free the white almond from the green husk
Last Line: I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting.
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Hands; Love; Trees


BABY'S FEET AND HANDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink
Subject(s): Babies; Feet; Hands


BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by INA LADD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, artist, if I should ask you
Last Line: I always keep in my heart.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hands; Memory; Paintings & Painters


BIANCA: 4. HANDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your hands cling softly, like a cat
Last Line: In the suspensions of your heart.
Subject(s): Hands


BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: ONION SKIN & SPINE, by GLORI SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She maps his death in the unhinged streets
Last Line: The meeting %of two hands. Skin
Subject(s): Hands; Skin


CHARLOTTE CORDAY; A MEMOIR OF A HAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child's small hand, lost in her father's - twined
Last Line: When norman charlotte dared her noble crime.
Subject(s): Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793); Fathers & Daughters; Hands


CINQUAIN: AMAZE, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know / not these my hands
Last Line: Like these.
Subject(s): Hands


CUTTING HAIR, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She pays attention to the hair, not her fingers, and cuts herself
Subject(s): Hair; Hands; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


DEAR HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The touches of her hands are like
Last Line: Sleep, smoothing down the lids of weary eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Hands; Night; Sleep; Bedtime


DIAL-HANDS, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Index and thumb come from the invisible arm thrust from a shoulder
Last Line: Die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierr
Subject(s): Future Life; Hands; Thumbs; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


DOROTHY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes hold black whips
Last Line: Under the flame.
Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Eyes; Hair; Hands


EPISODE OF HANDS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The unexpected interest made him flush
Last Line: The two men smiled into each other's eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Hands; Industrial Accidents; Pain; Suffering; Misery


FEEL OF HANDS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hands explore tentatively
Last Line: I do not know whose hands they are
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Hands


FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing
Last Line: But I remember his hands
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing
Last Line: But I remember his hands
Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands


FOLD YOUR PALE HANDS, by KATHLEEN CLOSE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Light your clear stars.
Subject(s): Hands; Nuns; Prayer


GODS HANDS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gods hands are round, & smooth, that gifts may fall
Last Line: Freely from them, and hold none back at all.
Subject(s): Hands


HAND, by MARY BRODINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Resistless to the lowest task
Last Line: That out of chaos called the world.
Subject(s): Hands


HAND, by BOB HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've often wondered how the drafters know
Last Line: Heart divided, but hand one love, one thought?
Subject(s): Hands


HAND, by FRANK LIMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hand is all heart. It hops around like a toad to prove it
Last Line: Appear like rubber slugs in the moonlight
Subject(s): Hands; Reason


HAND, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a hand. God looked at it
Last Line: Messenger to the mixed things %of your making, tell them I am
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Hands


HAND MATTERS, by DORY L. HUDSPETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quicker than the eye, they translate
Last Line: Hands more worthy than these
Subject(s): Hands


HAND TRICK, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She had a trick that she liked
Last Line: But I don't want you to go away
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the amber morning by the inlet's high shore
Last Line: Our roots are in autumn, and store for no spring.
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Hands


HANDS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poor hands, overworked and dry
Last Line: Assert themselves through the skin
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Hands; Women


HANDS, by PEARL HOGREFE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not in her hasty blood, which beats its drum
Last Line: They feel their future: silence, earth their cover.
Subject(s): Aging; Hands


HANDS, by MARION HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weak and useless, like pale ghosts
Last Line: Almost gone, -- are you forgiven?
Subject(s): Aging; Hands


HANDS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It wuz' er hands! I warned 'er tew!
Last Line: It wuz'er hands!
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near tassajara
Last Line: And be supplanted; for you also are human
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close to boiling water spilled
Last Line: Burning now
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fire; Hands


HANDS, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: What astonishing contact, old man, your hands establish with our own!
Last Line: A single ray of light falls from one hand to the other, %dazzling
Subject(s): Hands; Russia - Stalin Era


HANDS, by EDVARD KOCBEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've lived between my hands
Last Line: Which shot up hot and high
Subject(s): Hands; Mountain Climbing


HANDS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, for with hands
Last Line: For jangling toys and shining things?
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meat-woofed looms
Last Line: Of what falls through
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS, by MARY ANN SOUTOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: My mother's hands could cradle large, brown jugs with ease
Last Line: Molded to sift the gold long laid away.
Subject(s): Hands; Mothers; Stepmothers


HANDS, by HENRY SPIESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hands that in my dream I see
Last Line: And I wait and wait. . . .
Subject(s): Fingers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Hands


HANDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little hands too soft and white
Last Line: Dear hands, that you were mine one night!
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange, how this smooth and supple joint can be
Last Line: Curved in a smile. . . . The mystery remains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS OF CHE GUEVARA, by ANNE DELANA REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crowds huddle close like harnessed cattle
Last Line: From his hands water flowed. She couldn't drink enough
Subject(s): Guevara, Ernesto (che) (1928-1967); Hands


HANDS ON A CARD-TABLE, by POLLY CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A woman's hands, with polished finger-nail
Last Line: Of lily-fingered lost persephone.
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS: 1, by PARK NAMSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: We should not have parted that way
Last Line: He had no hands. No hands at all
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS: 2, by PARK NAMSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moment an object falls
Last Line: When the fist relents %it turns into prayer
Subject(s): Hands


HANDS: THE DOCTOR, by KATE M. CHIDESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: His hands / do not till earth
Last Line: To health.
Subject(s): Hands; Physicians; Doctors


HANDS: THE GARDENER, by KATE M. CHIDESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: His hands / are not the hands
Last Line: In soil.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hands


HANDS: THE MOTHER, by KATE M. CHIDESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her hands / may not seek rest
Last Line: Their life.
Subject(s): Hands; Mothers


HEADS, HEARTS, AND HANDS, by GEORGE W. BUNGAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heads that think and hearts that feel
Last Line: Heads poised over hearts that feel.
Subject(s): Hands; Heads; Hearts


HEART O' BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O where are thy white hands, heart o' beauty?
Last Line: Heart o' beauty!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Beauty; Hands; Hearts; Waves; White (color)


HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O your hands - they are strangely fair
Last Line: Like the caress of your beautiful hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hands; Love; Roses


HER HANDS, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My hands were loved of many, when I was young
Last Line: My hands -- that are so terrible, so lonely?
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Hands


HIS GLOVES, by ESTHER HAKANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are his gloves
Last Line: In them, the print of his hands.
Subject(s): Hands


HIS HANDS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hands of christ
Last Line: Hands hold fast.
Subject(s): Hands; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice


HISTORY LESSONS: HANDS, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The walls of the shrines are stained with the conversation
Last Line: For the hard-gotten substance of generation
Subject(s): Hands


HOLY RIVERS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veins on the back of my hand (nwo that I'm old)
Last Line: I ask you to take it in yours and trace the holy rivers with your fingers
Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Hands; Old Age


HYMN, by JEFFREY CROTEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late at night and half asleep
Last Line: Covered with down %like your wrists
Subject(s): Hands; Relationships


I HAVE TOLD YOU YOUR HANDS ARE SALT, by JAMES PURDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen your hands asleep
Last Line: Command a terrible kiss
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hands; Sickness


I WAS BORN WITH TWELVE FINGERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through our terrible shadowy hands
Subject(s): Hands


INTRODUCTION TO AN INTRODUCTION, by DAVID AVIDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hand that strikes is the hand that has pity
Last Line: That will presumably be its last officialdom, %its primary. And already someone is in pain
Subject(s): Hands; Reason


ISEULT OF BRITTANY, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So delicate my hands, and long,
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Hands


LAMENT IN GOOD WEATHER, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: So would this be how I'd remember my hands
Last Line: Of hands once buried past the wrist in vines
Subject(s): Hands


LOOKING AT YOUR HAND, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This shadow passing over your hand
Last Line: For a moment it can shape itself into a cup of water.
Subject(s): Hands; Mankind; Shadows; Human Race


LOVE FOR A HAND, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white,
Subject(s): Marriage; Hands; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MASTER HANDS; TO DOCTOR ST. GEORGE FECHTIG, by LAVINIA R. CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strong, magic hands
Last Line: The tenderness of prayer.
Subject(s): Hands; Physicians; Prayer; Doctors


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 1, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: These little hands / are robber bands
Last Line: Ta-ron-ton-ton!
Subject(s): Hands


MILD COSMOS, by RAYMOND FARINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strange how
Last Line: In the subtle network of veins %in your wrist
Subject(s): Hands; Universe


MINIATURE ROSE BUD, by ZELLA SPILKA    Poem Text                    
First Line: I picked the little rosebud / I held it in
Last Line: Just lying there asleep.
Subject(s): Babies; Hands; Infants


MOCKINGBIRD SUITE: 4. JACK'S HANDS, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look, ma, none: forearms
Last Line: Olive oil and sweat, held ready %to let go in a moment
Subject(s): Hands


MOTHER & CHILD #3, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing below the wrist! Hands are missing
Subject(s): Hands; Mothers


MUNDUS MULIEBRIS, SELECTION, by MARY EVELYN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In pin-up ruffles now she flaunts
Last Line: Does with her vanity confound.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Hands; Women


MY BABY'S LIPS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My baby's lips can reach my hand
Last Line: Kiss on, o baby mine.
Subject(s): Babies; Hands; Kisses; Infants


MY FATHER, MY HANDS, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father gave me these hands, fingers
Last Line: Keeping me steady above the world, still
Subject(s): Fathers; Hands


MY HAND PLACED ON A RUBENS DRAWING: 1, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is what it is, %and being what it is, is something more
Last Line: The history that now rejects my hand
Subject(s): Drawing; Hands; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


MY HAND PLACED ON A RUBENS DRAWING: 2. WOMAN WITH CROSSED HANDS, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the usual rubens woman
Last Line: Have sculpted to simple peace and simple welcome
Subject(s): Hands; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Sculpture And Sculptors; Women


MY LITTLE GIRL'S HAND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By every bruise upon this little hand
Last Line: And lay, o god! More trustful hands in thine.
Subject(s): Hands


MY MOTHER'S HANDS, by ANNA MIKESELL BYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft and gentle
Last Line: Of my dear mother's hands.
Subject(s): Aging; Hands; Mothers


MY MOTHER'S HANDS, by ALBERTINE O. HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear, sweet, tired hands that were my mother's
Last Line: Dear, sweet, tired hands that were my mother's.
Subject(s): Hands; Mothers


MY MOTHER'S HANDS, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yawning, she yanks the shuttle through the frame
Last Line: Stuck motionlless and never moved
Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Hands; Relatives


NO-HANDS, by MATTHEA HARVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No-hands has hands but he keeps them clenched in fists at his chest. He appeared long ago on the
Last Line: I give you something and you take it from me
Subject(s): Hands


ON HEARING MADAME OLGA SAMAROFF PLAY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What hopes and fears, what tragical delight
Last Line: Have poured out to the world his heart's red wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Hands; Music & Musicians; Soul


ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cousin irene worked in the cold of a warehouse
Subject(s): Hands; Labor & Laborers; New Jersey; Work; Workers


ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cousin irene worked in the cold of a warehouse
Last Line: That have rooted her life to so much work and possibility
Subject(s): Hands; Labor And Laborers; New Jersey


ON THE SYMBOLIC CONSIDERATION OF HANDS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEATH, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watch people stop by bodies in funeral homes
Last Line: Old nuns in france who carve beads out of knuckle bones
Subject(s): Death; Hands


ONE ANGEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A homely little woman with big
Last Line: "a homely little angel with big hands!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Angels; Hands


ONE TOUGH KERATOSIS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hands have had their fun, and now must suffer
Last Line: A tidy rosy trace has still to heal
Subject(s): Hands


ONE TOUGH KERATOSIS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hands have had their fun, and now must suffer
Last Line: A tidy rosy trace has still to heal
Subject(s): Hands


PAEONIA 'SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU', INCIDENTALLY, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ground wants rain. Crouched here
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hands; Rain; Freedom; Liberty


PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by DOROTHY QUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: This age is epochal
Last Line: Half of your seeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs.
Subject(s): Future; Hands; Nations; Seeds; United States; America


PUTTING ON RINGS, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother looking at her hands
Last Line: The ring is the very temperature %your blood is
Subject(s): Hands; Jewelry And Jewelers


SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones
Subject(s): Hands; Surgery; Children; Childhood


SEQUOIA, by CHARLOTTE KELLOGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Could I but reach this hand
Last Line: Would it appear to you!
Subject(s): Hands; Squirrels


SIGNING SINGING, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flashing hands, face, eyes, arms, all the upper body
Last Line: With a 'p' before it, so something there is that sings, you see
Subject(s): Hands; Language; Singing And Singers


SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water
Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair!
Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 2. HER HANDS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother's hands are cool and fair
Last Line: Hollow and beautiful.
Variant Title(s): Her Hands
Subject(s): Hands; Mothers


SONNET: 14, by EDMUND JOSEPH BERRIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We remove a hand
Last Line: Await a grass hand
Subject(s): Hands


SONNY'S FACE, SONNY'S HANDS (2) SONNY'S HANDS, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sonny told me he 'gave up on intelligence long ago.'
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Children; Hands


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: A MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the hands
Last Line: They belong to the ox
Subject(s): Hands; Meditation


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: A MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the hands
Last Line: They belong to the ox
Subject(s): Hands; Meditation


THE CARPENTER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look at my hands
Last Line: Until our bodies fall off.
Subject(s): Hands; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Work; Workers; Serfs


THE FAIR HANDS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Showing the whiteness of flesh faint and fair
Last Line: By sordid toil, by barren tasks unhurt.
Subject(s): Grief; Hands; Kisses; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HAND, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The teacher asks a question.
Subject(s): Hands; Schools; Students


THE HAND AS A BEING, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the first canto of the final canticle
Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


THE HAND OF LINCOLN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look on this cast, and know the hand
Last Line: The thought that bade a race be free!
Subject(s): Hands; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues


THE HANDS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take the hands
Subject(s): Hands


THE LITTLE DEAD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a little dead man
Last Line: And a pencil in the right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Hands; Hearses; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


THE LITTLE LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the little lady's dainty
Last Line: Lady.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hands; Praise


THE LUMINOUS HANDS OF GOD, by ELEANOR WARFIELD KENLY BACON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the base, insensate clod
Last Line: Which god's effulgent hand keeps bright.
Subject(s): God; Hands


THE PASSING OF A HEART, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O touch me with your hands
Last Line: He touched her with his hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Hands; Hearts; Sleep


THE TOUCH OF CHILDREN'S HANDS, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, touch of children's hands! And whether ta'en
Last Line: Eternity — oh, touch of children's hands!
Subject(s): Children; Hands; Touch (sense); Childhood


THE TOUCH OF LOVING HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light falls the rain-drop on the
Last Line: Far lightlier falls the touch of loving hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Hands; Light; Love; Summer


THE TRANSIENCE OF HANDS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A swirl of dead skin
Last Line: On a schoolroom counter.
Subject(s): Hands; Memory; Men; Touch (sense)


THE TYPICAL HAND, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my left pocket is a hand
Last Line: So keen, cutting you now.
Subject(s): Hands; Healing; Cures


TO FANNY BRAWNE, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This living hand, now warm and capable
Last Line: I hold it towards you.
Variant Title(s): Lines Supposed To Have Been Addressed To Fanny Brawne
Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Hands


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 9. THE GUIDING HAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing, friends, is more beautiful to me
Last Line: And proves that love, when true, has strength to stay.
Subject(s): Hands; Love


TWO HANDS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the sea came a hand
Subject(s): Hands


WHAT HANDS IN MY HANDS, by DAISY ZAMORA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather's wide hands, freckled and brown
Subject(s): Grandparents; Hands


WHAT HAPPENS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh
Last Line: In heart and brain and spirit makes thee mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hands; Hearts; Soul


WHAT I REMEMBER FROM A SINGLE ENCOUNTER, by SUSAN L. HELWIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lunch: cafe pigalle
Last Line: He worked with his hands %soft %symbols
Subject(s): Hands


WHEN I WATCHED HER HANDS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I gave up everything I owned
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Admiration; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Nature


WHITE-HANDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O where in the north, or where in the south
Last Line: O, come to me, honey-mouth! Bend to me, honey-mouth! Give me thy kiss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Hands; Kisses; Love; Mouths; White (color)


WIKLY' AT THE CONGA DRUMS, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: His hands were born in the tin panic
Last Line: Would ever be the same again
Subject(s): Hands; Music And Musicians


WINTERLINES, by DANIEL GUTSTEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You're somebody who deals
Subject(s): Hands; Ugliness; Winter


WITH HER FACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With her face between his hands!
Last Line: With her face between his hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Faces; Hands; Love


WON THE POT, by J. R.    Poem Text                    
First Line: That little hand!
Last Line: That little hand!
Subject(s): Hands


WRITING ABOUT MY HAND, by STAN TYSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knuckle under to an undulating
Last Line: A torn fingernail spirit
Subject(s): Fingers; Hands; Thumbs; Writing And Writers


YEATS AND THE RIGHT HAND, by JOHN POCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I make my eyes the calmest almonds
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Hands; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


YOUR HANDS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love your hands
Last Line: ............. Even if you forgot.
Subject(s): Hands