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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HANDS Matches Found: 132 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 |
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