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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HEARTS Matches Found: 1760 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FEASTING, I WATCH", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: For they also have their lyre and crown Subject(s): Hearts "I PRITHEE, LEAVE ME", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: But thus in heaven tormented Subject(s): Hearts;tantalus (greek Mythology) "OH, SPEAK OF A MAN AS YOU FIND HIM", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Oif a smile or a frown change its doom Subject(s): Hearts 3 EPIPHANIES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ever happened to Last Line: He cut me like a man. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love A BALLADE OF LABOR AND LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the work-a-day world, with its woful greed" Last Line: Then moveth the heart to its own sweet tune Subject(s): Discontent;hearts;labor & Laborers;love; Dissatisfaction A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart breaketh with felicity Last Line: "farewell, farewell, for evermore farewell!" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation A BUNCH OF ROSES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses ruddy and roses white Last Line: Bending his head to a bunch of roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Hearts; Life; Roses; Dead, The A BURNING BOSOM, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in this tea-house Last Line: No, no, a mustard plaster. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery A CHANT OF MY BELOVED, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: My beloved / is the altar Last Line: Of earth or heaven. Subject(s): Altars; Hearts; Love A CHILDISH GAME, by REINMAR VON HAGENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long as I can call to mind Last Line: Sir walther von der vogelweide Alternate Author Name(s): Reinmar Of Hagenau Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love A CHOICE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An angel stooped down from the hill-side Last Line: For the heart of a friend lay there. Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros A CHRISTMAS LYRIC, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, as of old, the wise men scan Last Line: O god, reveal thyself in man! Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Nativity, The A CIDER SONG, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wine they drink in paradise Last Line: Goes all the way to wales. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Hearts; Romance A COQUETTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am never in doubt of her goodness Last Line: Whose birthdays are three, when all told. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring A CORNER OF MY HEART, by PAUL JANS Poem Text First Line: My pageant's page of pent-up poems Last Line: To tread on holy ground. Subject(s): Hearts A COURT-MINSTREL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed I was a virginal Last Line: Tis time I was a-musicking! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Minstrels; Nightmares A DAKOTA IDYL, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, gray, purple, gold! Last Line: With the treasure of her heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women; South Dakota; Parting; Squaws A DAY IN THE CASTLE OF ENVY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The castle walls are full of eyes Last Line: "we may live to laugh its knell." Subject(s): Envy; Hearts; Love A DAY OF DAYS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each rose before the sun, and saw the moon Last Line: King love had all the stars for diadem. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Love A DEAD YEAR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took a year out of my life and story Last Line: "and so dost thou." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hearts; Life; Nations; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The A DREAM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed / a dream of you Last Line: "always a dream." Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lips; Love; Nightmares A DREAM OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Without the world was beautiful Last Line: And clinging lips confess. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nightmares A DREAM OF THE MELBOURNE CUP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a quart of colonial beer Last Line: And I woke with 'the indigestion'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Hearts; Melbourne, Australia; Nightmares A FALSE STEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, thou hast trod on a heart Last Line: I trod upon ages ago!' Subject(s): Hearts; Unkindness A FICKLE HEART, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fickle heart! Let subtler poets sing Last Line: A fickle heart. Subject(s): Hearts A FLOWER-PIECE BY FANTIN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought Last Line: Heart's ease. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Roundels A GARDEN, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My love is red as oleander Last Line: Were meeter for my love to sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Soul A GIFT OF SPRING, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: For all thy youth given up to me so worn and weary Last Line: While round my head the golden midday burns. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth A GIRL'S COMPLAINT TO HER HEART, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I felt a breeze blowing upon my brow Last Line: How may it hope for morning? It must die. Subject(s): Girls; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Optimism A GREETING, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since once we crossed a daisied lawn Last Line: Through loving you so well! Subject(s): Hearts; Love A HIGHWAY FOR THE KING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Make of your heart a highway Last Line: So god can come to you. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Prayer A HOPELESS CASE (NYDIA), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I dream of that which cannot be Last Line: Shut in from cold and wind and storm of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares A HUSBAND'S VOICE, by FRANK WILLIAM HOLSLAG Poem Text First Line: My heart-and your heart Last Line: Since baby's gone away. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies A KISS, by M. ELLEN HOWELL Poem Text First Line: What is a kiss? A mystery true Last Line: It is god and heaven and home—in you. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paradise; Male-female Relations A LAST WALK TOGETHER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From end to end of the skies Last Line: Springtime and love and regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring A LEAF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve Last Line: When somebody mentioned your name last night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Names; Summer A LONELY HOUSE, by A. HARDY HETH Poem Text First Line: I dreamed last night there were no / broken hearts Last Line: I'd dream forever that there were no broken hearts. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness A LOST PEARL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know where I lost it Last Line: To my heart the lost heart of my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A LOVE SECRET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love has its secrets, joy has its revealings" Last Line: Deeds shall be done for her none ever did Subject(s): Hearts;love;pleasure A LOVE SONG FROM THE NORTH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me no more of thy love, papeeha Last Line: To me, forsaken of love? Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love A MONUMENT TO LOVE, by ELSIE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Where are you, darling? Last Line: Shall be your monument! Subject(s): Hearts A MOTE IN YOUR EYE, by MARY R. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: You found the mote in my eye Last Line: When hearts are trumps in the deal. Subject(s): Hearts A MOUNTAIN VIEW, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No loneliness can come in wood or fell Last Line: Stilly moves the wilding heart in passion there. Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has gone to her rest Last Line: Then shall ye sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness A PARABLE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thougjh well acquainted, mind and heart Subject(s): Hearts; Mind, The A PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, in sleeping dreams of night Last Line: And from my heart the woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Portraits; Nightmares A POET THINKS, by LUI CHI Poem Text First Line: The rain is due to fall Last Line: Old songs. Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Loneliness A PORTRAIT, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Her love is like the peaceful summer sky Last Line: He made the heavens, and he can understand. Subject(s): Hearts; Love A PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: May the strong arms of god be ever round about thee! Last Line: "die not thou for her,—never,—for I can." Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Prayer; Religion; Theology A RAJPUT LOVE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Were you a basil-wreath to twine among Last Line: And bear me to the fragrance of my beloved's breast! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers A REVERIE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I linger in the sacred fane of god's eternal light Last Line: Of servant to all diviner art. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Vision A ROAMER REVERTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The same thatch and food Last Line: With what's at home to eat. Subject(s): Hearts; Memory; Soul; Wandering & Wanderers A ROSE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: I send to thee this fair and fragrant rose Last Line: And seek the sunbeam through the wintry snows. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring A RUSSIAN SONG (1), by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lace and roses in the forest morning shine Last Line: Stir the morning in her, hear its pulses start. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians A SEA-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cry, I cry Last Line: And my heart that is mad. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean A SMILE OR A FROWN, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though my torment far exceeds Last Line: All my pomp were overthrown Subject(s): Hearts A SONG, by JOHN JONES SHARON Poem Text First Line: My heart's wrapped up in a little, old pine Last Line: Happen you know why she 's done wi' me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SONG, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought no more was needed / youth to prolong Last Line: That the heart grows old? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hearts; Aging A SONG FOR THE WEARY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Seems it so sad and strange Last Line: Thee to his breast! Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares A SONG IN SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bees that rifle the mango blossom Last Line: Their lips have tasted the purple sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Spring A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago Last Line: Wedding us there eternally! Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs A SONG OF LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rapture of life and of living Last Line: And as full of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Hearts; Life; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul A SONG OF LOVE, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: My own, the miles must not part us Last Line: Of the muessin,———to pray! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONNET TO YOU!, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Adown the sapphire race-course of the skies Last Line: That thy great heart must ever be my home. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love A SORROWFUL SIGH OF A PRISONER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, comest thou to me Last Line: The place to lay thy head! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness A STORY, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a gleam of sunshine a gentian stood Last Line: The bee flew over the plain. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Love A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 6, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night. Now a tent was pitched, and japhet sat Last Line: Nor specially a foe that means us ill.' Subject(s): Devil; God; Hearts; Night; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bedtime A SUGGESTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let us go and live in a perfectly new / house Last Line: Where we may live and love—with nothing more to learn! Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Love; Romance A SUMMER IN TUSCANY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, lucy Last Line: Till we too forget and die! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Relationships; Tuscany, Italy A TALE OF THE BOGLAND, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis myself that hates the city, and the hurry, and / the din Last Line: For he is on the bogland yet, an' I am far apart. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise A TIME-WORN TUNE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezes sweep like fairy brooms Last Line: The joy of living! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Spring A VENETIAN NIGHT, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All thro' the breathing night there seemed to flow Last Line: That makes words empty and the senses dumb. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Passion; Joy; Delight A VINDICATION, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: I claim the eternal right to love, without conditions Last Line: Till he restored thee, smiling, unto me. Subject(s): Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A VINE-ARBOUR IN THE FAR WEST, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laura, my laura! Yes, mother! I Last Line: "but I'll say to him, ""o my poor father, we wait you, come in.""'" Subject(s): Arbors; Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Mothers; Sun; Relatives A VOICE FROM THE INVISIBLE WORLD, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High o'er his moldering castle walls Last Line: "cleave thou thy destined way!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love A VOICE FROM TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, in the days of my droving Last Line: Is youth -- and I've thrown it away. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Towns; Voices; Youth A WARNING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Place your hands in mine, dear Last Line: And -- just as much -- in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul A WEDDING MARCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clash your cymbals, maids, to-day Last Line: Shout aloud for cynthia! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium A WISH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May many happy moments come and go Last Line: That breaks upon my soul with no alloy. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Wishes; Joy; Delight A WOMAN'S APOLOGY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If always I had slept within your arms Last Line: Deface a sanctuary, tombs, relics, images. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation ABANDON, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: I am wicked-wicked-wicked Last Line: In the spring! Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love; Spring; Desertion ABROAD, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart, heart, / what of this joy Last Line: Heart, how full is thy heart of joy! Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight ABSOLUTE, by HUI K'O Poem Source First Line: Selfless dharmas are all empty Last Line: Truth is in the middle of things Subject(s): Hearts; Zen Buddhism ABSURDITY, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: His paranoia gripped us in its fist Last Line: With sense gave the signal to begin Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love AD ASTRA: 1, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The leaves are falling fast, and winter drear Last Line: With rapture of a love that cannot die. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age AD ASTRA: 107, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Shall woman's sweet devotion also pass Last Line: And woman's virtue by each wind bespoken? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AD ASTRA: 13, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A many temples hath she set apart Last Line: Of love, supreme high priest and lord of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love AD ASTRA: 27, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For what is nature with no comrade by Last Line: The worship of twin souls at nature's shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of AD ASTRA: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O nature, tho' thy beauty never wanes Last Line: And all the stings of doubt at last remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 37, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O little hands and feet! O heart of mine! Last Line: Thy heart is mine, and beauty dwelleth there! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Hearts; Love; Infants AD ASTRA: 4, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Love is an union sweet of eyes and heart Last Line: Forgetful that the gift is from above! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships AD ASTRA: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O love! That sitt'st upon thy deathless throne Last Line: —ah! Once like this did dawn in eden rise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Eden; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Paradise AD ASTRA: 50, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So now I wait, if haply I may find Last Line: They told of depths I would have died to prove! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love AD ASTRA: 52, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No outward sign I ask of love's awaking Last Line: The swift response that maketh all things clear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness AD ASTRA: 54, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Be thou the guide and compass of my way! Last Line: And make my heart a habitation fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion AD ASTRA: 56, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: While in the mirror of thine own pure mind Last Line: A patriot of the world by gift of grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion AD ASTRA: 57, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How long, dear heart, how long must we repine? Last Line: The impassion'd peace that only lovers know? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Peace AD ASTRA: 60, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Awake, my love, the morn is newly drest! Last Line: As from thy lips they take their sweet supplies.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love AD ASTRA: 63, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When will he learn to look on thee aright Last Line: A true heart-union and espousal prove. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love AD ASTRA: 67, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Oh, when our passionate hearts have ceased to beat Last Line: How might we in thy clemency confide? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forgiveness; Hearts; Love; Passion; Clemency AD ASTRA: 69, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O give us love-strong, steadfast, undefiled! Last Line: Grant us to know thy greater heart of love! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love; Liberty AD ASTRA: 7, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So thro' the change of days, when winter hoar Last Line: The mocking winds that desolate the earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fights; Hearts AD ASTRA: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid nature's solitudes we needs must feel Last Line: Burdens more sad than human hearts may hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Relationships AD ASTRA: 74, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: These are thy first-fruits, o philosophy! Last Line: The key that shall unlock all worlds is love! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Philosophy & Philosophers AD ASTRA: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Only to hearts devoid of human feeling Last Line: Yet is more pitiless than wintry rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Emotions; Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed ADORATION, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not too near! Yon glory circled star Last Line: Let me revere! Subject(s): Hearts; Love ADVENT STANZAS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are we always creating you, as rilke said Last Line: I am too imperfect to bear Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets; Rebirth ADVENTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I loved my garden; in its cloistered plot Last Line: Nor turn dismayed from unknown fate. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses; Sea Voyages; Destiny ADVICE TO A CITY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O city, cage your poets! Hem them in Last Line: The savage, sweet, unpalatable truth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ADVICE TO AMANDA, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amanda, since thy lovely frame Last Line: A prize to faithful love Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love AFFINITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not made for me Last Line: That were shaken for me and you? Subject(s): Circe; Hearts; Moon; Sea; Sun; Ocean AGNES DE CASTRO, SELECTION, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: Ah! She who told me of my husband's heart Last Line: Read from his hand, the sad, amazing truth. Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights AIR CASTLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I'd build an air castle for thee, love, and me Last Line: This world would but usher love's eternity. Subject(s): Castles; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion ALCHEMISTS OF THE PALATE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I like to draw close %to the earth's beginning Last Line: Probe the earth as if it were %the mouth of love Subject(s): Alchemy And Alchemists; Cupid; Hearts; Love ALL RIGHT THEN, by MUNHYANG Poem Source First Line: All right then, but don't say those words. If you Last Line: We are all, all from heaven; %there is a love sent for me Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships ALL SAINTS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have brought gold and spices to my king Last Line: For lo! His banner over thee is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Theology ALLEGRA AND TRISTITIA, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Tristitia, the dark, the pale Last Line: For evermore. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Slavery; Serfs ALMA DE CASA, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For last night, in your faded photograph album of a voice Last Line: With two immense wings, one heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Soul ALMOST MOTHER-OF-PEARL, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Like man in the heart of the word, animals sparkle in the Last Line: And the moist lips of children's sex, almost mother-of-pearl Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love AMERICAN BOLERO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Bored by poetry videos Last Line: Spilling on the back of an elephant Subject(s): Hearts; Love AMOR MYSTICUS, by MARCELA DE CARPIO DE SAN FELIX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let them say to my lover Last Line: Of death to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion AMRAN'S WOOING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask, o frank! How love is born Last Line: The shekh himself can better tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Dead, The AMY ROBSART, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The hour is late, yet streaks of light appear Last Line: Dudley, I do absolve thee through my tears!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love AN AMULET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, the cruel blow fell on his heart Last Line: An amulet of ardor and of dew. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Memory; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime AN ANSWER, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I make shoddy verse Last Line: To hear the silver whisper of the frost. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets AN ANSWER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one should bring a rose that had been fair Last Line: Square in your face I throw your offering. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Fire; Flowers; Hearts AN ANSWER TO VARIOUS BARDS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in Last Line: And then return to sydney and vermilionize the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Death; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Camps; Summer Camps; Dead, The AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 4. APRIL FLAME, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the foaming air Last Line: White wisdom now! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Spring AN ARROW-SLIT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I clomb full high the belfry tower Last Line: And carry her, carry her on my breast.' Subject(s): Climbing; Faith; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Belief; Creed AN EQUATORIAL SUNSET, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sun has set-and sea and sky are blending Last Line: Clouds with remembrance many a lover's eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory AN INDIAN LOVE SONG (WRITTEN TO AN INDIAN TUNE), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy Last Line: Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses AN ITALIAN BEGGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, little girl, the road beside Last Line: For this land of lands and this day of days! Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Flowers; Hearts; Italy; Roses; Italians AN ORIENTAL MAIDEN, by J. O. JENKYNS Poem Text First Line: Thou fairest one of judah's daughters Last Line: And bid me not away Subject(s): Hearts; Jews; Jews - Women; Love; Judaism AN UNTOLD STORY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dark falls, and as a single star Last Line: For twice dead he who dies this second death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Dead, The AN UNWRITTEN TRAGEDY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream! Last Line: And pluck a feather out and write such things? Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy; Dead, The ANCIENT BALLAD: MASS OF LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dawn of a bright june morning %the birthday of saint john Last Line: Instead of amen, amen %they sang amor, amor Subject(s): Clergy; Hearts; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Love; Mass AND THEN YOU WERE PEELING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our luggage unopened %at the door Subject(s): Arabs; Hearts; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ANDANTE PASSIONALE, by ALEXANDER JAVIS Poem Text First Line: Listen, o my city! O my beloved! Last Line: O my city! O my beloved! I have made for you— this—my song! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations ANDREA, ONCE MORE, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Some say: great heart meets heart in raphael Last Line: Blood from a heart refined in infinite pains. Subject(s): Hearts; Love ANGINA PECTORIS, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If half my heart is here, doctor Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Hearts ANGINA PECTORIS, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If half my heart is here, doctor Last Line: My heart still beats with the most distant stars Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Hearts ANIMAE DIMIDIUM MEAE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: In phantasy of thought and phrase Last Line: Without the very half of me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion ANNIE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie is fairer than her kith Last Line: For many a weary day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Hearts; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ANNUNCIATION, by GEORGES DUHAMEL Poem Text First Line: From the tall mountain's brow Last Line: And the man that it will crush. Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ANOTHER BOOK, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another book! How my heart flees Last Line: Toward the inclusive sinecure. Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Soul; Reading ANOTHER LINEAGE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, blind father, let me show you the way Last Line: Of another breed sublimely insane! Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roses ANOTHER LULLABY FOR INSOMNIACS, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Sleep, she will not linger Last Line: And no ring on her finger Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love Affairs ANTARES, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: The earth has whirled its little men around the sun Last Line: Hot and blood red is the heart of him! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; World ANTICLIMAX, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked a city street, and suddenly Last Line: Fell on a mood more merry than mine own. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Streets; Tears; Bedtime; Avenues APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once saw I many a blooming flower Last Line: To steep in lethe's blissful night. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wast a maiden fair, so good and kindly Last Line: A little glacier seem'd to be thy heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Hearts; Life; Inspiration; Creativity ARCADY LOST, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry bloom and robin time of year Last Line: Where once, o comrade mine, we heard them sing. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Singing & Singers; Spring; Suffering; Misery ARCHAIC WARRIOR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I have seen ticketed and labelled Last Line: With angels for you! Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Love ARCHITECTURE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone - gone the spires, and pinnacles, and fanes Last Line: And all my necromancy is a tomb—my heart. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness ARLES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We have arrived in arles Last Line: Because we are a single goblet of silent, heavy wine Subject(s): France; Hearts; Love; Travel ARRHYTHMIA, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't exercise my heart but watched Last Line: A beat every blessed second of my life Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Life; Track Athletics AS A KING -- UNTO THE KING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love doth so grace and dignify Last Line: If we should come to love this world too much? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts AS CREATED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a space for good to bloom Last Line: After all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Good; Hearts; Mankind; Human Race AS EARTH BEGINS TO END, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach out my hand and it sinks through you like soft fruit Last Line: Or button the body's last, unbuttonable coat Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain ASPECTS OF AUTUMN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wonder of their weaving lie the forests and the fields Last Line: Yea, utterly forgotten, every one. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Seasons; Tears; Fall; Woods ASSUAGEMENT, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am head what shall this sorrow matter? Last Line: To be a symbol of my heart's glad singing. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth AT NIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: I love you and I give you my voice Subject(s): France; Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets; Romance AT THE COVE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Above the first pools Last Line: Before it grinds us down Subject(s): Hearts; Love ATAVISTIC, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn late and a blue mist blowing Last Line: And lures this migrant heart of mine away. Subject(s): Hearts; Love AUBADE, by ALISON PELEGRIN Poem Source First Line: This naked man, her first in months, a clown Last Line: She can't believe her nipples are so pink Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships AUGURY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That girl in the stilettos and tight dress Last Line: They topple over and crush any man %who's still alive Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships AUREOLA, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: Your spirit goes in pearl and rose Last Line: That's when I love your spirit best. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses AUTONOMY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand forth, my soul, and take thine own! Last Line: Be thou the captain of thy soul! Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Soul; Ocean AUTUMN TWILIGHT, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Autumn twilight %is sad to see Last Line: Holding the universe in my heart Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons BALLAD OF CONSTANCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My raiment is my weapons Last Line: All must be braved Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of BALLADE OF THE BRAVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prate not to me of weaklings, who Last Line: This is the ballade of the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Life; Soul; Valor; Bravery BALLADE: 10, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hope, alas, hath me abused Last Line: And I remain all comfortless. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Truth; Joy; Delight; Optimism BALLADE: 19, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if an eye may save or slay Last Line: Then fear not the eye to show the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Betrayal; Eyes; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness BALLADE: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, how I seek and sue to have Last Line: In joy or pain for to endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horrible of hue, hideous to behold Last Line: My heart for sorrow yet feel I quake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BALLADE: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where my heavy sighs to hide Last Line: Whose death it is out of thy sight to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pain; Sickness; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Illness BALLADE: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sith it is so that I am thus refused Last Line: Sith thus doth reign this false new-fangledness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Truth BALLADE: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though of the sort there be that feign Last Line: Then have I wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love BALLADE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lover: it burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire Last Line: Thus hearts be won by love, request, and moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Desire; Grief; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BALLATA II, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair women I saw passing where she passed Last Line: For sobbing out my heart's full memories Subject(s): Hearts; Italian Renaissance; Love; Women BARACAROLLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay Last Line: Sink sail! For such a dream as love is lost before the waking. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BASE METAL, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Troth might be split passed %between two sets %of lips in the first teen kiss Last Line: To himself or to the thousands, acting out %a sexual riff on love Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Single People BAXTER PRINT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against a tree that might be any tree Last Line: If she dare read it—all her story tell. Subject(s): Hearts; Love BEAUTY THAT IS NEVER OLD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When buffeted and beaten by life's storms Last Line: The only beauty that is never old. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love BEDOUIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love is like an untamed Last Line: To lash the mad life out of it! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of BEFORE THE LOOKING-GLASS, by CARLOS AUGUSTO SALAVERRY Poem Source First Line: Children twain at love are playing Last Line: Will retain your image still! Subject(s): Hearts; Love BEFORE THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals Last Line: About what they'll do with me, with you Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism BEL M'ES QUAN LO VENS M'ALENA, by ARNAUT DANIEL Poem Text First Line: Softly sighs the april air Last Line: I could nevermore go wrong. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring BELLS RING GLORIA, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: A miracle, little clara, is an event as rare as hard to Last Line: Will leave that secret of mine till some other time! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age BELOVED, by MABEL C. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Kiss me, beloved! Last Line: Kiss me, love! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BEREAVEMENT, by VIOLA BAILEY WILSON Poem Text First Line: I saw love die! Not slowly, but at once Last Line: Is this a dream, and shall I wake at morning? Subject(s): Hearts BEYOND, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: Beyond life, my love, always farther beyond Last Line: You permit love beyond the life of a man Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BEYOND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must not doubt, or fear, or dread Last Line: And that which makes this life so sweet shall render heaven's joy complete. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Love; Paradise BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep; Bedtime BEYOND LOVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything menaces us Last Line: Pause of blood between this time and another without measure Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep BLACK CUP, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's a cup of evil. The shrill whistle Last Line: Stamp their hooves in my flesh! Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love BLACK MOONLIGHT, by JOSEPH ELDRIDGE LOFTUS Poem Text First Line: The glaring lights discordant slash Last Line: As silhouette from lighting shade. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their folded mates they wander far Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face Last Line: The dead, the dead must be. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: If thou wouldst have christ's love endure Last Line: As a man thinketh, so is he. Subject(s): Blessings; Hearts BLOW-NOTES, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: He said, 'take this gun,' by the loghouse hearth, babydoll Last Line: Two wanted to %embrace and so %arose Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships BLUE APARTMENTS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: In the dry season he will come down from the mountain Last Line: I will ask him to stay %the night Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Love BODY AND SOUL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit is a spotless doe that haunts Last Line: The accusation of her hunted eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul; Spirituality BODY OF A WOMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs Last Line: And weariness follows, and the infinite ache Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BOLERO OF THE THIRD GOODBYE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sing well Last Line: Sing well, mi cielo, sing well Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BOOK OF VISIONS: ETERNITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: One does not need to credit death. The human heart to rest is fain Last Line: One does not need to credit death. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BOOKS AND LOVE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The books that fill the room Last Line: Killing the mistress and the lover %on an old shore Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Love BORROWED THOUGHTS: 1. FROM 'LAVATER', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trust him little who doth raise Last Line: Trust him least and last of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Thought; Trust; Thinking BORROWED THOUGHTS: 2. FROM 'PHANTASIES', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a bitter thought, a snake Last Line: Lest it should hear me and awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking BORROWED THOUGHTS: 4. FROM ***, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the kingdom of my soul Last Line: The haunted chamber in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Past; Soul BOUQUET WITH FLYING LOVERS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Even doused in bouquets, they are buoyant, out-dazzled Last Line: Squabbles of color only they can imagine Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love BOY ND THE SHRIKE, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: A boy became enamored of a shrike Last Line: And for that hurt, he loves her all in vain Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance BREAK, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: It will come on a cold street corner Last Line: The slush on the sidewalk will prevent you %from making a clean yesterday Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain BREATHINGS OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wak'st thou, spring? Sweet voices in the woods Last Line: Yes, gentle spring! No sorrow dims thine air, breathed by our loved ones there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Women BRIC-A-BRAC LOVER, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: O my lover, bric-a-bac lover, with your eyes Last Line: As aged flesh looks forward to a soul Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Youth BRIGHT STAR, by DAVID HINE Poem Source First Line: Oh, do you remember, my fairest Last Line: Like the star in the blue sky above Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Stars BRIGHTEST LIGHT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tranced, almost disappeared into the glare Last Line: I would like to catch him when he falls Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Transcendentalism BRING ME YOUR HEART, by CHARLOTTE A. STERE Poem Text First Line: Oh, shower your gifts on anyone Last Line: But bring to me your heart! Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Love BROKEN WINGS, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: The prison? It is very sad Last Line: My cell to paradise! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Nature Of BUDDING FORTH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, oh, I love thee!' - how those words Last Line: Wilt thou not look upon me as I kneel? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets BURIAL ANTHEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone Last Line: Beside that river blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Burials; Suffering; Misery BURIED LOVE, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: Now, though my love seem buried past recall Last Line: Wrapped in the garments of new life arise. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The BUT WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But what will they remember of the arm Last Line: Which hid itself in her persistent heart? Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Memory; Nightmares BYPASS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Packed closely around those tuberous roots Last Line: Write the rhythms of her heartbeat in a script that looked arabic Subject(s): Hearts; Surgery BYPASS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Three days ago jane called Last Line: Could never happen to me Subject(s): Hearts CALLOUS CUPID, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid does not care for sighs Last Line: Does not care for lover's weeping! Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros CALLS ON THE HEART, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Free heart, that singest to-day Last Line: Broken hearts triumph so.' Subject(s): Hearts; Freedom; Independence; Liberty CAMELLIA, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: Come to see the camellia Last Line: That closes upon itself-perfect Subject(s): Angels; Death; Friendship; Hearts; Heaven; Peace CAMEO, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: You were a shell upon a distant shore Last Line: Great genius and an understanding heart! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hearts; Love CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In remote meditation, I was fingering Last Line: Sweeping away dust and shooting up ash Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of CANTICA, by JORGE MANRIQUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of CANTICLES 5:6, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: Oh! How his pointed language, like a dart Last Line: Do the vain world no form or beauty see. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary CANTILENA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Spring in young hearts sets tenderness Last Line: From old hearts, memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Hearts; Old Age; Youth CANZONE OF THE GENTLE HEART, by GUIDO GUINIZELLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within the gentle heart love shelters him Last Line: Lord, if I loved her, count it not my shame Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion CANZONE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since love will needs that I shall love Last Line: To serve and suffer patiently. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CANZONE: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will ye see what wonders love hath wrought? Last Line: My life when it is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts; Life; Love CANZONE: HE PERCEIVES HIS RASHNESS IN LOVE, BUT HAS NOT CHOICE, by GUIDO GUINICELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hold him, verily of mean emprise Last Line: That I am glad to die for love of her. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Hearts; Passion CANZONETTA: A BITTER SONG TO HIS LADY, by PIER MORONELLI DI FIORENZA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lady amorous, / merciless lady Last Line: Fever and ague. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CAPTIVATED LOVER, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Suddenly, as a kiss brushed against the edge of the night, she Last Line: The voice-what did she do with the voice that had been forever %left behind? Subject(s): Hearts; Love CAPTIVE KNIGHT AND THE BLACKBIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tis now, they say, the month of may, - 'tis now the moons are bright Last Line: Nay, since he has no merle to hear, 'tis time his fetters fall Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Knights And Knighthood; Love - Loss Of CARDIOLOGICAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten heartbeats back our lips were touching. Ten? Subject(s): Hearts; Time CARDIOVERSION, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Because your heart flutters Last Line: And pausing at the inge of dusk %to watch the last petal shut Subject(s): Fathers; Hearts CARESS, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: The soundless dusk was growing dim Last Line: And I felt the sensation of a kiss Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Roses CARPE DIEM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you say this happiness Last Line: Merry, -- for my poor heart's sake. Subject(s): Disease; Happiness; Hearts; Joy; Delight CATCH AND RELEASE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I should have remembered Last Line: Now numbered among my losses Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of CAUTION, by FRANCES BROWN (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: When you love, love these alone Last Line: Secure in insecurity. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature CECILY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had a laugh Last Line: Vile -- they're vile!' Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Laughter; Women; Sorrow; Sadness CEREMONIES OF BREAD AND WINE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: These dark smears are called flashmarks Last Line: In silent recoil when the bee flies away. %pray for rain Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Saint Kilda (scotland) CERTAINLY THE DEER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only a few places like this left Last Line: Now clearly visible, now disappearing slowly into the swamp Subject(s): Cold; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Travel CHAMPAK BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amber petals, ivory petals Last Line: To ravish the winds of spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Spring CHANGE OF HEART, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My teacher, when I went to school, would Last Line: "by heck!"" and I remarked, ""gee whiz!" Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts CHANGES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, o rejoicing heart! Last Line: The hours fly fast! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Change; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness CHANT D'AUTOMNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp is lit and all the world is gray Last Line: "I paint my dreams." Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Passion; Nightmares CHARADE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What a glorious city! -- behold Last Line: But the warfare is over: there's peace in my third! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The; Destiny CHARLIE BROWN IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, by MELANIE JORDAN RACK Poem Source First Line: This howling makes me shiver, but it ought to be beautiful Last Line: Unruly, ready as a willing head waiting to be combed Subject(s): Hearts; Love CHASTENING, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Lord, when thy chastenings come Last Line: God loveth as he saith. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love CHATELARD, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A long day spent at chatelard for sketching Last Line: And stopp'd the loving ere the sketch was done. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The CHIRI MOUNTAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The sight of the snow-covered mountain Last Line: Oh! Chiri mountain, %chiri mountain Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Human Rights; Love CHRISTENING THE PRINCE: A STATE OCCASION, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: One circle round our sun - and o'er Last Line: Edward beheld his bride, happy and free. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Togetherness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS SONNET TO J. L. G., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could touch with petrarch's pen Last Line: When that which mine ambition wrought is dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca CLARISSA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my charming loving offers Last Line: Till they scratch thy nose severely. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sympathy; Tears; Empathy CLAY AND GOLD, by ROY LESLIE HERRICK Poem Text First Line: Not for you a face forgotten, not for you a flame erased Last Line: Clay you were in all appearance, but the heart within was gold. Subject(s): Hearts CLEAR HONOR OF THE LIQUID ELEMENT, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of him who holds and sways the trident %of the seas Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships CLOE HUNTING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind her neck her comely tresses tied Last Line: At human hearts we fling, nor ever miss the game. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Hunting; Laughter; Eros; Hunters CLOSING DOORS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sands of my heart, what wind moans low Last Line: Lost, lost, for thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Loss; Mothers; Sea; Childhood; Ocean COME NOT NEAR MY SONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaps my heart upon you! Subject(s): Hearts;innocence;love;love - Complaints;singing & Singers COME, WANDERING SHEEP! O, COME, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Hearts; Love COMPENSATION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Your heart broke when you answered me Last Line: I steal away to worship you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations COMPLAINT OF THE LAD WITH HEART-DISEASE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heart-disease Last Line: Mamma, are you calling? Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Physicians; Doctors COMPOSITION: 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: In this night, in my half hour dreams, I Last Line: The light, when in an instant, it is lost? Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Togetherness CONQUERED AT LAST, by MARIA LOUISA EVE Poem Text First Line: You came to us once, o brothers, in wrath Last Line: "and ""conquered by kindness"" we'll write on our heart." Subject(s): Hearts; Kindness CONSOLATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I watch at eve thy bright inquisitive eyes Last Line: But with honour, truth, and destiny not slain. Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Nature Of CONSTANCY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perdy! I said it not Last Line: Within my heart for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Canzone: 4 Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Life; Love; Pain; Faithfulness; Constancy; Suffering; Misery CONSTANT LOVE EVEN BEYOND DEATH, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes may close in the last remaining Last Line: Dust they shall be, yet dust in love Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Hearts; Memory; Soul COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations COR MIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts Last Line: Like summer, rouse one day the slumbering sense? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Roses; Seasons CORDIAL, by JOSHUA KRYAH Poem Source First Line: In your weak mouth the lozenge dissolves Last Line: The comb drained of its honey Subject(s): Hearts; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day CORINTHIANS REPLY, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: You speak in jive of fools and the devil Last Line: Sex is the greatest Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love COUNTRY LOVE SONG, by MELANIE ALMEDER Poem Source First Line: I try to think of the cup of a hand Last Line: Singing o darlin' darlin' darlin' Subject(s): Hearts; Love COUP DE GRACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you know what's up, what's what, what is or isn't true Last Line: Hostage taking. It is dangerous? Canst be thyself and true? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets COVERT LOVER OR HOW MY NA'ASHSHOOD DAYS ENDED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: He was leading me behind the abandoned school buildings Last Line: Somewhere in the mountains the wind was singing Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women COZY APOLOGIA; FOR FRED, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could pick anything and think of you- Last Line: I fill this stolen time with you Subject(s): Boys; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Youth CROWNS OF FIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Autumn draws its crowns of fire %as in a wakeful sleep Last Line: I am happy galloping in this autumn of reddish horses Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Seasons; Shadows; Solitude CROWNS OF FIRE: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You beg me to cease painting Last Line: Lost like the amber of blind %sailors Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters CURE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: When the humpback's fluke Last Line: To the arms and the lips of the sea Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Love CURIOUSLY EVANESCENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so perfect it requires Last Line: But it will vanish at a single kiss. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Kisses; Love DANCE SONG, by ANGELO POLIZIANO Poem Source First Line: I found myself, young girls, while it was may Last Line: In a green garden, at the break of day Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Roses DAR A LUZ, by PAULA C. BRANCATO Poem Source First Line: For hours, for months, for years. He's on top Last Line: Gave suckle by the light of her womb Subject(s): Birth; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DARK-WINGED SWALLOWS WILL RETURN, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They will not love you so! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Swallows DAWN, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: I have spent a restless and sleepless night Last Line: That I too have just come from the bath Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia DAY LABORERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They straggle down the street; the morning light Last Line: And leaveth not the poor uncomforted. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Tears; Nightmares; Work; Workers DAY OF SCATTERED RAIN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: It is a day of scattered rain Last Line: And let me break open! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory DE AEGYPTO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wet bank shines Last Line: If I die not in my own land. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Moon; Violets; Dead, The DEAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I hearken at your grave Last Line: By that road. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The DEAREST, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Dearest, hark to the song of the bird Last Line: You are lost in me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Perfume DEAREST ONE; A SONG, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are all of thee Last Line: Dearest one, o dearest one. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grave-worm revels now Last Line: It is the second birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Grief; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEATHLESS LOVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Out of life, out of death, there can never Last Line: It will bloom in the meadows of death. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love DECEMBER LOVE, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, as you will, you leave me in the dust Last Line: Give me the slip, black ice under my feet Subject(s): Automobiles; Cold; Frost; Hearts; Love DEEPEST CARESS, by JUANA GOERGEN Poem Source First Line: At times %on the tower of babel Last Line: From tongue to tongue Subject(s): Hearts; Love DEFEAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though you have struck me to the bloody core Last Line: Lift up your shadow eyes to mine still wet. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Tears DEFIANT OF DEATH, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so strong it dares defy Last Line: That love has sought to lighten our distress. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The DEFINING LOVE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's ice that burns, it is frozen fire Last Line: Who's in all things against himself! Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Passion DEFINITION, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Poetry. Is it not the heart's high tide Last Line: All hearts are knowing. Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets DESTINATIONS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark highway is lighted Last Line: Where there is only you. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Love; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips DIALOGUE, by ANDRES BELLO Poem Source First Line: How I should love thee, cloris, but Last Line: Did triumph o'er the lion of old spain! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital DID NOT, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a new feeling - something more Last Line: And yet, who did not. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love Affairs; Passion; Soul DIFFIDENCE, by DONALD G. TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: I have sighed for the gift of the muses Last Line: A diffident lover may care. Subject(s): Hearts; Love DINNA CHIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Dinna chide the mither! Last Line: Ye may na hae her lang! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Sickness; Infants; Illness DISTRACTED, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: You are no longer here. What I see Last Line: And you show me your absence Subject(s): Absence; Hearts DO YOU NOT KNOW?, by KATHERINE RUGGLES Poem Text First Line: Dear heart, have you not learned Last Line: That heaven bends low? Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Soul; Paradise DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. TRACE TO THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell you, coroner, the cause / of death of elenor murray, not until Last Line: The mother of this man in tokio. Subject(s): Autopsies; Death; Hearts; Dead, The DON JUAN'S GOOD-NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "teach me, gentle leporello" Last Line: One his whole wealth could not pay Subject(s): Hearts;love;passion;romance DONNA MARINA: WITHOUT YOUR LOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Without your love, life hath no hope for me Last Line: And live—without your love? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation DOUBLE MARTINI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember Last Line: Smiling, moving along, serving the lords of this world Subject(s): Hearts; Love DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 4. THE LOTTERY GIRL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lottery, lottery, / take a chance at the lottery? Last Line: From your eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Likes & Dislikes; Love DREAMS IN DIALOGUE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How suddenly her face on the plateau Last Line: Your eyes made out of diamonds fixed on me Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital DREGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains, as never before; and I don't Last Line: This afternoon it rains, it pours. And I don't %want to live, heart! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Rain; Tears; Weather DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs EARLY WINTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown grass, picked out with red of bushes, tones Last Line: For long-withholden loveliness of june. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; June; Winter EARTH TO SPRING, by R. W. COWARD Poem Text First Line: O maid with eyes of sweetest tender blue Last Line: By dainty touch of fairy finger tips. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Eros EARTHLY PARADISE IS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: The bonfires of the land of smoke Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters EARTHY LOVE IS OFFERED TO GOD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better to thee the heart of heathen fire Last Line: Thy vassal. Set his hands between thine own. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Praise EASING MY HEART, by TU MU Poem Source First Line: Ill-fated, I carried wine Last Line: Only a drifting name Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Longing EASTER MORNING, by EVERETTE BACH Poem Source First Line: How many years since that easter morning when I left him Last Line: We touched fingers, and whispered like children Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Memory EILIDH MY FAWN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away upon the hills at the lighting of the dawn Last Line: For o it was the hunting then of my bonnie, bonnie fawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Deer; Happiness; Hearts; Hunting; Joy; Delight; Hunters EL KHALIL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no chieftain, fit to lead Last Line: Yet in their hearts I rule, a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sin ELEGY, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: Every man has his sorrows; yet each still Last Line: They have but changed one for another woe. Subject(s): Hearts; Love ELEGY FOR MARIA BELEN CHACON, by EMILIO BALLAGAS Poem Source First Line: Maria belen, maria belen, maria belen Last Line: From santiago to camaguey Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Heaven ELEONORA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: How many years have passed away Last Line: Eleonora. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise ELK, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That it was-fleshwarm, earthen, a marvelous Last Line: The wind-singing cage, toward the invisible bird of the heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EMPTY ROOM, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: My wife is %gone Last Line: I'll rise above the far-off river, %a crescent moon Subject(s): Absence; Death; Emptiness; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners EPIGRAM, by ROBERT NUGENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart still hovering round about you Last Line: 18th century epigram. Alternate Author Name(s): Nugent, Earl Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Transience; Women; Impermanence EPIGRAM: 1, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss Last Line: The next shall clean out of my breast it pluck. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 44 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life EPIGRAM: 12, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in thy sight my life doth whole depend Last Line: I with thy sight, thou also with my smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 15, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath heard of such cruelty before? Last Line: She pricked hard and made herself to bleed. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Who Hath Heard Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts EPIGRAM: 19, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature that gave the bee so feat a grace Last Line: In change whereof I leave my heart behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 68 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Nature EPIGRAM: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest fast and I with woeful heart Last Line: Thou dreamest still which way my life to waste. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Sleep EPIGRAM: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain ye, mine eyes. Accompany my heart Last Line: His flamed heat shall sometime make ye warm. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 4, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat and sewed that hath done me the wrong Last Line: To feel if pricking were so good indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 54 Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers EPIGRAM: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since so ye please to hear me plain Last Line: And now I leave it to them that lust. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Lust EPILOG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the ears of wheat in a wheat-field growing Last Line: Than fiddles and flutes. Subject(s): Hearts; Love EPILOGUE TO 'TAMERLANE THE GREAT', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, the beardless author of this day Last Line: And always fails you at the second heat. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The female author who recites to-day Last Line: And the gray mare will prove the better horse. Subject(s): Friendship; Greece; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tragedy; Greeks EPISODE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, to begin with, dust blows down the street Last Line: Saying no word, since there's no word to say. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EPISTLE TO JAMES MOMTAGUE, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although you have out of your proper store Last Line: Than when they are esteemed and loved best? Subject(s): Hearts; Mankind; Montague, James (1568-1618); Religion; Sickness; Human Race; Theology; Illness ESTHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face more vivid than he dreamed who drew Last Line: Honor no second place for truth can keep. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fear; Hearts; Jews; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism ETCHINGS: 1. COLD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter...And still winter Last Line: Of the years! Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Winter ETERNAL BRIDAL BED, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only when it ceases to be is love strong! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love ETERNAL BRIDAL BED, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only when it ends is love strong! Last Line: In love's universal tryst Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean EVANESCENCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty that I long to stay Last Line: ...And in my love for you! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EVEN NOW, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still I try to remember when you first caught Last Line: Resembling coals in a fire, a warmth I can feel, even now Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love EVENING LINES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, dreamy world and liquid-sounding leaves Last Line: Mysterious harmony, perhaps heard elsewhere. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Lips; Silence; Belief; Creed EVERMORE THOU ART VOICE OF MY HEART, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Tis from heaven, not earth, when thy lovely sweet voice Last Line: Evermore, thou art voice of my heart. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight EVERYTHING RISING OUT OF PONDS, by TOM CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: I was told I should not Last Line: Down here we are breaking in two Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love EXCAVATION, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Underneath you I dig Last Line: For you to dig-deep Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EXPLOSION, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: If life is love, blessed be it! Last Line: My whole life is a month in bloom! Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Hearts; Life EXTASE, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Your beauty is a golden tide Last Line: May the end never be! Subject(s): Hearts; Love EYRIE (TO E.A.R.), by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only in silence can one hear, as you Last Line: About the heart, and tighten at the touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Symphonies; Concerts FACE-TO-FACE WITH MY LOVER ON DAITO'S ANNIVERSARY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Monks recite the sutras in honor of the founder Last Line: Mock the empty formal discipline of others Subject(s): Anniversaries; Hearts; Love FAINT HEART, by HARLAN COLBY PEARSON Poem Text First Line: My lady fair / her golden hair Last Line: When I'm a little braver. Subject(s): Cowardice; Hearts FAIRY SINGING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was my love and the pulse of my / heart Last Line: Empty the arms that your beauty had blessed. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers FAITHFUL BLACKBIRD, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: When the blackbird, in the new greenery, comes back Last Line: Goes crazy with love in the greenery! Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring FAITHFUL LOVERS, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Night, more night: love now a fact Last Line: Oh night, darker in our arms! Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Passion FALLING IN LOVE IN SPAIN OR MEXICO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am happy to meet you. My name is jose gomez carillo. What is Last Line: The end Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings FALSE LOVE AND TRUE LOGIC, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart will break - I'm sure it will Last Line: And now he's as he ought to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Women; Sorrow; Sadness FANNY: 140, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lovers call 'unutterable things' Last Line: Twas shrewdly guessed, would knock judge skinner down Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Hearts; Love FATHER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father's got the queerest valentine! Last Line: "that was mother, thirty years ago!" Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Mothers; Parents; Valentine's Day; Childhood; Parenthood FATHER, I BRING THEE NOT MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it too large for you? Subject(s): Hearts; God; Grief FEAR, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: Fear. Of you. Loving you Last Line: Of being, in you, your life? Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I start with a groan, swelling to a moan Last Line: I shake and shiver, grinning, in the filthy air Subject(s): Hearts; Love Letters; Memory FELL IN LOVE, GOT MARIED, by DANIEL BACHHUBER Poem Source First Line: You step out of the car - your first blind date, ever. You've grilled your Last Line: Two lives to work together Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song FERN-LIFE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, life! Though it seems half a death Last Line: It may never attain. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Soul FIELDS OF SORIA: 7, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silvered hills %grey downs and sombre rocky places Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of FINALE MARINA! IF EVER YOU'D SEEN HER!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wonderful fine she behaved! Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love - Beginnings FIRST LOVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the pulse that beats in my throat Last Line: And my heart's low sound! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion FIRST WORDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I tell thee, dear, what never words Last Line: The shifting of the changeful lights of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Language; Love; Pacific Ocean; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago he said Last Line: From calvary. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean FLAG IN THE HEART, by KIM NAM-JO Poem Source First Line: My heart is a flag Last Line: Now sobbing in quiet irish poetry%it prays in time and space invisible Subject(s): Hearts FLAGELLANTS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is bleeding in thy sight Last Line: O love supreme, o love supreme!) Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery FLAMENCO SKETCHES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Until the end- %I've traveled to other terrains Last Line: Inside my head you multiply %chrysanthemum smiles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Memory FLEEING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar Last Line: Is the higher self that I long to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Night; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking FLESH, CELESTIAL FLESH OF WOMAN!, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh, celestial flesh of woman! Clay Last Line: Before the eternity of what probably is...! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships FOLLOW ME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master and servant, through the storm and sleet Last Line: "step after step, my feet make prints for thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love FOODS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My roof is slate, my windows look Last Line: No heart knows. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Food & Eating; Hearts; Cathedrals FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 1. MRS. VERNON CASTLE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fair and utter grace of you Last Line: But—lady, must you sing? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Castle, Irene Foote (1893-1969); Hearts; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Women FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 7. SPRING ARRIVED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will carol all the day Last Line: Goes the pageant in a trice. Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs FOR EVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I have felt a pity surge for eve Last Line: Who kept with adam that first lover's tryst! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Hearts; Love FOR EVER AND EVERMORE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The woods are no less rich for all the flowers within them Last Line: For ever and evermore! Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR HELEN KELLER, by PHILLIPS RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: More lovely than the face Last Line: Her torch than all your metal statues. Subject(s): Hearts; Keller, Helen (1880-1968) FOR MUSIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O singer, canst thou summon up Last Line: So long ago? -- then sing! Subject(s): Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Spring; Scientists FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE SOUL OF MY BELOVED, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved: you've never wanted to be shaped Last Line: Let me flog myself %as a sinner Subject(s): Hearts; Love FOR THE WINTERSDORF GUILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal craftsman, lord of life Last Line: Love, bless our guild! Subject(s): Friendship; Guilds (associations); Hearts; Love FORECAST, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Take back, take back the harsh word now Last Line: How couldst thou bear the vision? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Vision FORESTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Among the flames of the forest Last Line: The lost season of love Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Portraits FOREWORD, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an old book I find the words of all Last Line: The book? You know it well—the human heart! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Reading FORSAKEN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: My heart is far too sad to sing Last Line: A galling grief. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love - Complaints; Optimism FORTUNE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvel no more although Last Line: To sing some pleasant song. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 52;song: 32 Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Life; Singing & Singers FORTY YEARS AFTER, by H. H. PORTER Poem Text First Line: We climbed to the top of goat point hill Last Line: Nor can she get both hers around me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Obesity FRAGMENT, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hath fetters on his feet Last Line: Love is at penance. Go apart and pray. Subject(s): Hearts; Love FRAGMENT, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sleep. The panoply of sense Last Line: The full theme of the song? Subject(s): Hearts; Fire FRAGMENT: 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Your smile breaks %before me Last Line: It is singeing my skin Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints FRESCO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to confuse myself with her Last Line: The blue, unedited hand of god! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love FRIAR BACON: A COUNTRY'S BEAUTY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee Last Line: ^1^ tint. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Women FRIAR-BACON: LOVE-SUPPLANTER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edward, prince of wales. / lacy, earl of lincoln Last Line: Is not of force to bury thoughts of friends.... Subject(s): Betrayal; Courtship; Friendship - False Friends; Hearts; Love; Fair Weather Friends FRIDA KAHLO & NICK MURAY, by KATHERINE HARER Poem Source First Line: Her long hands his body bright and loose as a shawl rebozo he liked the Last Line: The tiny cushion she gave him when she left Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships FRINGES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many happy sunlit hours come and go Last Line: Thy gentle heart is all I ask. Subject(s): Hearts; Longing FROG FROOM BASHO, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Monsoons have filled Last Line: In your malarial %dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love FROM A FULL HEART, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days of peace my fellow-men Last Line: Say, starting on saturday week. Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; War FROM SUMMER HOURS, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower petals fall Last Line: In the sick and soundless air? Subject(s): Hearts; Love FROM THE LITURGY, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: Once again %we've lived through Last Line: In the hierarchy of great banquets Subject(s): Hearts; Love FROM THE PALE AND THE DEEP, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And sweets in all Subject(s): Hearts; Life FULL WOMAN, CARNAL APPLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full woman, carnal apple, hot moon Last Line: Until it is and is not more than lightning in the darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Carnations; Hearts; Togetherness; Women GARDEN LORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a flowery shrub the may brings Last Line: "when your lady comes!" Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hearts; May (month); Joy; Delight GAS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The trees on the other side Last Line: To slither off the interstate Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion GEORGE A GREENE: GEORGE A GREENE AND BEATRICE (BETTRIS), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, sweet love, how is / thy mind content? Last Line: George. Happy am I to have so sweet a love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I homeward went, and as soundly I slept Last Line: And I awoke from my slumbers. Subject(s): Dreams; Germany; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares; Germans GHAZAL, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: This wind, bare and charred by our low-lying dance Last Line: Sway among fresh-fallen winter gardens Subject(s): Hearts; Homosexuality; Love GHAZEL OF UNFORSEEN LOVE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: No one could perceive the perfume Last Line: Your mouth now without light for my death Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Jasmine; Love - Loss Of GIACINTA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giacinta sat upon the garden wall Last Line: She was the fairest child of italy. Subject(s): Deception; Hearts; Love - Complaints GIVE ME A DAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a day, beloved, that I may set Last Line: An oasis with palm trees and a well! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets GIVE ME A SINGING HEART, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Give me a singing heart to free my life Last Line: Through inert shadows and through futile days. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets GIVE O'ER, FOOLISH HEART, by ROBERT VEEL Poem Text First Line: Give o'er, foolish heart, and make haste to despair Last Line: Did the gods seem so fair, men would ever adore. Subject(s): Hearts; Love GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWK, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Throw your heart to the winged beast Subject(s): Hearts GLADS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I first admired gladioli Last Line: Until even cut, in water, every one %flew its triumphant colors Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GLAMOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The knowledge of love Last Line: We turn away, shading our eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Love GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 2. IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May be it was her littleness, may be Last Line: And cherished her; her tears became my tears. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Noon; Tears; Childhood GLOOM THAT WINTER CASTS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which ne'er shall set again Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of GOD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel god who travels Last Line: Your heart must hurt you so much Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love GOD'S HEART, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: We don't know god's heart Last Line: Roads everywhere and sings in our hearts, %paths of quiet light Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Religion GODDESS, by DOROTHY O'GARA Poem Text First Line: Love was my taper. To this shrine of mine Last Line: I knelt too near the flame -- and I am blind! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Shrines GRAIN ELEVATOR, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: It was one of those sunny, shiny penny, slicked-back mornings in the Last Line: Way, lover,' I said, reaching for a jelly donut Subject(s): Hearts; Love GRASSES, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the distance, when purpling clouds lean down close Last Line: And is going-breath, shadow-feather, cloud Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital GRATITUDE IS THE MEMORY OF THE HEART, by JOHN LEE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Our education began %with your answer to a question Last Line: To the memory of our hearts Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Love GREAT COMRADE OF THE NORTH, SWEET GIANT OF POPPIES AND, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source Last Line: Steel rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Poppies; Roses GREEN STREET GRILL: FIRST DATE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: During the silence Last Line: Waiting to comply with the weather Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Travel GROWN COLD; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man asked me: what is love? I turned Last Line: To rest when all its gladness goeth by! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Love - Nature Of GYPSY HEART, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd love to be a gypsy Last Line: Gay slippers with red heels! Subject(s): Gypsies; Hearts; Love; Gipsies HALF FLEDGED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the stirrings in me of great things Last Line: Oh, beautiful but half-fledged thoughts of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Thought; Thinking HALLOWED EARTH, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: A carpet of gold's on the pathway Last Line: Hearts are tuned to the father above. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Landscape; Nature; World HAND AND MOUTH, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The mouths of men Last Line: A flower which opens up and %closes again Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace HANS BRINKER WAS MY BOYFRIEND, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Those were the days, hans Last Line: We glide through our diamond days %on skates of silver Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Romance HAPPINESS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! You do seem to think the ground Last Line: Tis where the heart is holy. Subject(s): Advice; Happiness; Hearts; Joy; Delight HAPPINESS, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours appears to me Last Line: To smile upon and love me! Subject(s): Babies; Earth; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Infants; World; Joy; Delight HARDWIRED, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zapped dandelions, blown streetlight heads -- o hardwired Last Line: Of heat lighting just before a storm Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships HAS MY HEART GONE TO SLEEP?, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On the shores of a great silence Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love HATE ME A LITTLE, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Hate me a little if you cannot love Last Line: Hate me a little if you cannot love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints HE KNOWS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Tis not in vain if in a glade Last Line: He knows! He knows! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Kisses; Nature 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, by RABBE ENCKELL Poem Source First Line: The longer life continues Subject(s): Hearts HEART, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has an opening that discharges blood Last Line: Fresh and willing %from having studied the heart Subject(s): Hearts HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Last Line: Cop-on-the-beat heart with its black billy club, %banging on the lid Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HEART, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At any moment the heart Subject(s): Hearts HEART, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its hinges rustless, / restless; opening / and shutting on trust Last Line: To hive our dust! Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Love; Trust HEART, by ALYCE SHULLA SANNELLA Poem Source First Line: Oh Last Line: Of sunset %oh! Subject(s): Hearts; Love HEART BEAT, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, when I had more heartbeats left Last Line: Will find the heart that wants to go along Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Life; Time HEART ECHOES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Should you ask me whence these accents Last Line: Through the here and the hereafter! Subject(s): Hearts; Love HEART HAS MANY DOORS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That somewhere, there exists, %supremacy Variant Title(s): Poem: 1567; Poem: 162 Subject(s): Hearts HEART MEMORIES, by JAMES THOMSON (1825-1888) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There are mem'ries treasur'd in the heart which tongue hath never told Last Line: When into that rich treasure-house we enter without fear? Subject(s): Hearts; Memory HEART MURMUR, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: There is so much to pretend here Last Line: Later someone else will break your heart Subject(s): 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) HEART OF A GIRL, by HWANG SOG'U Poem Source First Line: The heart of a girl is a spring dawn Last Line: If tossed, it shatters Subject(s): Hearts HEART OF A ROSE-HEART OF A MAN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A flurry of snow on the heart of a rose! Last Line: To the heart of a man is a sun-ray's gleam. Subject(s): Hearts HEART OF HEARTS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, heart of hearts, how heartily thou beatest Last Line: Shake out the deeds that shall be everlasting. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Hearts HEART TO HEART, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's neither red / nor sweet Last Line: To take me, , too Subject(s): Desire; Emotions; Hearts HEART TO HEART, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's neither red %nor sweet Last Line: To take me, %too Subject(s): Desire; Emotions; Hearts HEART'S AGONY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the spring %I see Last Line: To %bare myself and bloom Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Spring HEART'S DESIRE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall run away Last Line: And ask themselves to tea! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love HEART'S GARDEN, THE GARDEN'S HEART (COMPLETE), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young rice plants are just being Last Line: Dissipate in the clear sky Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love HEART'S LIMBO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thrust my heart, in danger of decay Last Line: Give me your heart to hold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HEART-DEATHS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts oft die bitter deaths before Last Line: And eyes must watch and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HEART-SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, what tho' I press the heedless throng Last Line: All the night long? Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs HEARTCLEANING TIME, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took my small dreams from my heart Last Line: I put them back like new. Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Love; Cures HEARTLAND, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that we've given our hearts away Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Hearts HEARTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trinket made like a heart, dear Last Line: Over all the buried past! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Parting HEARTS AND SLEEVES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: You fear I am too frank Last Line: From his two eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Love HEIGH-HO!, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty young maiden sat on the grass Last Line: Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Brides; Courtship; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HELEN TO MENELAUS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But I am constant to you, dearest one Last Line: My heart's true love is not spent with a kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion HELENA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I saw helena. She whose praise Last Line: And know thou art not worth her faintest sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Women HENDRICKJE STOFFELS, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: I have stolen the gesture of your arms Last Line: The door is open-step in and be my wife Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage HERALDIC DECORATION, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: O lady, the object of my abject homage Last Line: Like a carpet I lay my slave-heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints HERE'S TO LIFE, by VIOLETA PARRA Poem Source First Line: Thanks to life that has given me so much Last Line: Thanks to life that has given me so much! Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Life; Love HIDDEN, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: My garden flowers, I know them all Last Line: I hide within my heart. Subject(s): Bashfulness; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Shyness HIDDEN BEAUTY, by ISABELLE RUBY OWEN Poem Text First Line: In the dust by the wayside ... Wherever it Last Line: Will surely each kindness repay. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts HIGH-HEARTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud elephant, by accident of bulk Last Line: Too high and low at once, too hard and soft Subject(s): Elephants; Giraffes; Hearts HIS HEART OF CONSTANT YOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn through his life, each word Last Line: And how he loves you now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Youth HIS IMAGINARY FRIEND, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I meet her twice a day for tea Last Line: Before I consummate my love %in kleenex facial tissue Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Kisses; Love HIS LADY'S HAND, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O goodly hand Last Line: And rid it out of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 43 Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery HIS LADY'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the gardens, all through may, the rose Last Line: That dead, as living, she may be with roses. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones HIS OWN TRUE WIFE, by WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH Poem Text First Line: Hidden lovers' woes Last Line: Love so sweet bestows in all men's sight his own true wife! Alternate Author Name(s): Wolfram Von Eschonbach Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HIS VICTORY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: He deemed it but a passing thought Last Line: She prayed that god might give him strength. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HOLLOW, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: When its heart breaks Last Line: It teaches that %nothing comforts Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Comfort; Hearts; Mothers HOME, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Let the scholar turn from study and the sailor Last Line: Home is where the heart is, and my heart is all with thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship; Hearts; Home; Love HOME IN THE HILLS, by ALTHEA V. DIEHL Poem Text First Line: Home in the hills, - back where my heart is Last Line: I'd like a heart you reared and loved come out to welcome me. Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Mountains; Peace; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HORIZONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man whose ships never come home Last Line: And night -- and stormy circumstance. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Destiny; Ocean HORSE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a metal table, a horse's heart and lungs Last Line: That holds and carries us over the land, selflessly Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion HORSE AND ASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A train was rushing along one day Last Line: Will never want his oats and hay. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Hearts; Horses; Nature; Railroads; Mules; Railways; Trains HOUR, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: Take me now while it's still early Last Line: The climbing plant grows into cypress Subject(s): Hearts; Love HOURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright stars came out last night Last Line: And passed into the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Life; Time; Sorrow; Sadness HOW CAN THE HEART FORGET HER?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At her fair hands how have I grace entreated Last Line: "fix'd in the heart, how can the heart forget her?" Subject(s): Forgetfulness;hearts;love - Unrequited HOW ONE CHOSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the sea, in a green land Last Line: "seek you, for I am wearied out." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth HUDSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ma-hican-ittuck! / river to the mountains Last Line: Beats warm and unafraid. Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; New York City - Dutch Period; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HUMANITY, by GOTTFRIED KINKEL Poem Text First Line: Unnumbered years the hoary earth Last Line: The jewel of humanity. Subject(s): Hearts; Humanity; Love HYMN TO LOVE, by MANUEL MAGALLANES MOURE Poem Source First Line: Love, you are like the light. You enwrap everything Last Line: Circle, go wheeling round and round your crimson flower Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love I AM TAUGHT MYSTERIES, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The top of the hill was dark and clear Last Line: The wisdom I have learned. Subject(s): Hearts; Love I AND THOU, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Your lips have never kissed me, you've never Last Line: Gone rigid, too. I have gurgled with happiness only in you Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love I BLITHELY GO, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: I go from this dear world; but where Last Line: —adeline m. Jenney Subject(s): Hearts; Love I GAVE MY LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my love to a wastrel Last Line: I'd give it him again. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations I GO DREAMING ALONG ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If only I could feel you %piercing my heart!' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel I GO, SWEET FRIENDS!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go, sweet friends! Yet think of me Last Line: Think of me then! I go, I go! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love; Spring I HAVE COME REMEMBERING, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: These are the paths we loved Last Line: Have you come back tonight—remembering? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Romance; Sanctuaries I HAVE HEARD WHIPPOORWILLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say that I have grown so strange Last Line: That sing in kelser park. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Love; Whipporwills I HAVE PIPED AND YE DID NOT DANCE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man once lay at a woman's feet Last Line: "in the place that was flame in the once ago." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Male-female Relations I HAVE SMALL, BLUE FLOWERS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I have small, blue flowers, I have small, blue flowers, clearer than Last Line: On the road, my love, everywhere on the road. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love I HAVE SOUGHT...., by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought thirty years, my sisters Last Line: Seek as I have done. . . . Subject(s): Hearts; Sisters; Wandering & Wanderers I LOVE MY LOVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my love for she is like a garden Last Line: So she within my heart makes all things new. Subject(s): Hearts; Love I SAID IN MY HEART, by PATRICIA PEART Poem Text First Line: I said in my heart, I am one with running water Last Line: Things as untamed as these, derisive of time and space? Subject(s): Hearts; Rain; Time I SEE PEOPLE CHANTING A SUTRA, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Knowing full well there's no inside or out Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Zen Buddhism I SENT MY TRUE LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my true love on his way Last Line: Through long and empty years. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness I SIT UP, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: I sit up alone tonight Last Line: I will not meet his thoughts Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude I THINK DELILAH HAD A HEART, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: I think delilah had a heart Last Line: Heard the breathless shears snap. Subject(s): Hearts; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect I THINK OF THEE, by KATE GOLDSBORO MCDOWELL Poem Text First Line: When morning's jewelled fingers part Last Line: Where you may be and I am not. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory I WANTED TO PENETRATE THE BLAZING HEART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: With the intensity of love Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Passion I WATCH SWIFT PICTURES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch swift pictures flash and fade Last Line: Into to-morrow? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love I WONDER, LOVE, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: I wonder, love, are you Last Line: And that the most certain thing is goodbye Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Kisses; Lips I'M BLACK AND BLUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm black and blue from their worrying Last Line: Or even hated me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints ICE-BOUND, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can not make you songs for winter singing Last Line: And silent. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight IF A GYPSY LAD SHOULD CALL, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are days when I would go Last Line: Because you did not call! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation IF BUT A WORD, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: If but a word of mine could give you joy Last Line: And eyes half-veiled have told me you are mine. Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise IF I COULD RECONCILE REASON AND MADNESS, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source Last Line: Of absent immortals, light and dancing! Subject(s): Hearts; Love IF I HAD WORDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had words, if I had words / at least to vent my misery Last Line: Or if I died I could but die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The IF I SHOULD SAY MY HEART IS IN MY HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor to have lived nor to have died in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ – Suffering & Sacrifice IF LOVE WERE ALL, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If love were all, then might not thou and I Last Line: Lest in my blinding need god were forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love IF SUCH A HEART HAD YOU, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: My heart's a merry gypsy Last Line: I've got to keep apart. Subject(s): Hearts IF TIRED MEANT HEART, by JAN FREEMAN Poem Source Last Line: Tenderness simply touch %rather than world to me Subject(s): Faith; Hearts IF YOU, by PUDONG Poem Source First Line: If you were yi-doryong Last Line: Light from clear skies Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships ILLUMINANTS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love bright things like candlelights Last Line: A single shining head. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Romance; Joy; Delight ILSAN POEMS: 4, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Crickets %sing throughout the night Last Line: I may live without longing Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers IMMOBILE WE REMAIN IN THE SAME HOLLOW OF TIME, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And the light with a song of exiles Subject(s): Hearts; Love IN A CERTAIN PLACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found love in a certain place Last Line: Oh should I know him then? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN AN ANCIENT LAND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Upon the cliff of an ancient stream Last Line: Dreams that their love would find a way. Subject(s): Hearts; Love IN AN AUTUMN GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the air discloses Last Line: Beneath this haunted moon! Have you forgot? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Roses IN AN AUTUMN WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, too, o bronze-eyed darling of the feast Last Line: I love thy loveliness that hears no cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Fall; Suffering; Misery IN ANSWER (FOR AN OPERETTA), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunflower burning on to meet the sun Last Line: One life, one will! Subject(s): Hearts; Love IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life IN DAYS TO COME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days to come - whatever ache Last Line: In days to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Future; Hearts IN EXTREMIS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Her eyelids close - we think she sleeps Last Line: Who reign with him in paradise. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Paradise IN MANY PLACES OF THIS WORLD, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source First Line: In many places of this world there are great stretches of ripe wheat Last Line: Love, cradles and tombs...Oh weary heart, what more do you ask? Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love IN MAY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends whom I kiss'd and caress'd of yore Last Line: O beauteous world, I hate thee anew! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Kisses; Spring IN PRAISE OF LOVE, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love to the foolish giveth wit by great and potent art Last Line: Toward finding one that worthily may fill her vacant place Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Praise IN QUOTES, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: She asked me Last Line: One more detail, final %and inoffensive: %I understand Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships IN SPRING, by J. A. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, the joy to ride o'er the hills with spring Last Line: Nor the trials of life forgetting. Subject(s): Hearts; Spring IN SUMMER, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: In the afternoon when all is still Last Line: I wonder why she's crying. Subject(s): Hearts; Love IN THE BEAUTIFUL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still. Be still. Do not speak Last Line: Or stay—and be still! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness IN THE DARKNESS OF THE DARKEST ROOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And my full gaze spills upon them Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Sleep IN THE DROVING DAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a pound, said the auctioneer Last Line: He can take me back to the droving days. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Hearts; Horses; Life; Nature IN THE EYE OF STORM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I gather the calm of yesterdays wishes Last Line: Moving deeper into the wide ark of truth Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Quarrels; Storms IN THE GREEK TENTS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the soul grew afraid Last Line: In the narrow ravine of my nerves! Subject(s): Hearts; Pain IN THE HEART OF A CHILD, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the breast of a bulb is the promise of spring Last Line: In the heart of a child is the kingdom of god Subject(s): Children; God; Hearts IN THE LONG RUN LIKE GOVERNMENTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flattened, in thin snow spread out before us Last Line: No one can pick up or put back Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature IN THE NIGHT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, thou lost face Last Line: For her, and thee, and me? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, why break in idle pain Last Line: This thing that hath no grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Pain; Waves; Wind; Suffering; Misery IN THE PLAGUE YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old cartoon the terrified Last Line: In death's and mummy's %and big daddy's one shrinking eye Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Quarrels IN THE SHADOWS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the shadows filled the room with peace Last Line: Missed some beloved face. Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Peace; Shadows INCREDIBLE!, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be I am mistaken; one bird note Last Line: Who have winged with poetry beyond all prose! Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Walking INSANITY, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passion and strength! Strength, passion! Last Line: Heaven help this silly world of gods and men! Subject(s): Hearts; Passion INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips INTEGUMENT, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: She wears a long tea-gown of dim flesh-colored crepe Last Line: On the startled skin of a woman. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives INTERIM: 2, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see you sitting apart from me, unmoved Last Line: Eluding the grasp of our will. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love INTERIM: 3, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have got into my blood like a subtle poison Last Line: So you will pass to other thoughts, in time. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Thought; Thinking INTREPID FLOWERING, by LOIS CANFIL Poem Text First Line: If there are five white blossoms Last Line: Or a cleft, flowering tree. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Trees INVITATION TO LOVE, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA Poem Source First Line: Like jesus, love gives sight to the blind, speech to the Last Line: Empty shadow, the only good and sweet thing in life Subject(s): Hearts; Love INVITATION TO TEA, by MYRNA ST. JOHN Poem Text First Line: Some day when I am old and tired and grey Last Line: And after tea I'll wish that you would go! Subject(s): Hearts INVITE ME INTO YOUR DREAM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: The root of the foliage of the morning Subject(s): Emptiness; Hearts; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters INVOCATION TO THE MUSES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Awake! Ye tuneful nine, and sing Last Line: Such lustre as their dewy eyne. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery ISRAFIDDLESTRINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In heaven a spirit doth dwell Last Line: Hearing my griddle-cry Subject(s): Fiddles;hearts;heaven;musical Instruments; Paradise IT WAS HERE--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was here. Right here Last Line: Silently, toward %what isn't Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Pleasure; Spring JAMES THE FOURTH: CUPID, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a shepherd sing Last Line: If I would like the lad that so infects. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros JANE REED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could forget,' she said, 'forget, and begin again' Last Line: "and she sadly said, at last, ""but what will become of john?" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Dead, The JE NE VEUX DE PERSONNE AUPRES DE MA TRISTESSE, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, sweet, my grief and I, we may not brook Last Line: Must hear that whisper when his hour has come. Subject(s): Hearts; Love JEALOUSY, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jealous of you Last Line: I'd be content. Subject(s): Hearts; Jealousy; Love JEAN RICHEPIN'S SONG, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor lad once and a lad so trim Last Line: "are you hurt, my child, are you hurt at all?" Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Murder; Hearts JOURNAL ENTRY NO. 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: 2:13 am %ride the past Last Line: To put you Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness JULY PHANTOM, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: In the declivities of love, those terse gamuts Last Line: And this is a true skunk whose bright fur I am stroking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints JUNGLEFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maze jungle rising into sky Subject(s): Hearts; Love JUNGLEFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maze jungle rising into sky Last Line: Resilient magics or Subject(s): Hearts; Love KEEPING A HEART; TO M-- D--, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one should give me a heart to keep Last Line: Never to open it more. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Hearts; Love KEY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And still the planets go by Last Line: In the slow, blossoming traffic %and wallow of seamless oceans Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude KINDLY VISION, by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM Poem Text First Line: Not in sleep I saw it, but in daylight Last Line: Full of beauty waiting till we enter. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love KISSES OF FIRE, by FRANCES W. CARLIN Poem Source First Line: A kiss is just a way to say Last Line: Our love is brief, but oh the passion Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion KISSING THE ROD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heart of mine, we shouldn't worry so! Last Line: Just be glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Just To Be Glad Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness KIST (I.M. 14TH FEBRUARY 1975), by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: On that lovers' morning, our hearts chimed Last Line: Took on the wrinkled grain %of coffin wood Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Valentine's Day KOREAN LOVE-SONG, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: I have made me a sword, and the water Last Line: God made its sheath. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love L.T.N., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Happy winds whose wings caress Last Line: For thine and love's sake, sweet. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness LA COQUETTE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You look at me with tender eyes Last Line: Receive the whirlwind for your gain! Subject(s): Flirtation; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LA VITA NUOVA: 2, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye that pass along love's trodden way Last Line: And let my heart within travail and moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hearts; Love LACRIMAE RERUM, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs yap, sirens wail through the city Last Line: Sexual damps and dews slide away Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships LADY ALDA'S DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In paris sits the lady that shall be sir roland's bride Last Line: For sir roland has been slaughtered in the chase of roncesval Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Romance LADY ISABELLA (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart warm as summer, fresh as spring Last Line: And these had lady isabelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Seasons; Women LAMENT DROLATIQUE, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Death overtook her Last Line: Than ever. ... Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The LAMENT OF A DESPISED LOVER, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say, lovelorn heart, that art condemned upon despair to feed Last Line: And thou, poor tortured body, thou art wasted with thy pain Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Lament; Love - Complaints; Tears LAMENTS AND SAYINGS: CHIME AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This little chime they play, matinal, wandering, revives they vanished Last Line: Fresh heart of morn? Subject(s): Bells; Dawn; Hearts; Life; Sunrise LANDFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Landfall at dawn, and madeira rose from the sea Last Line: And sinking glad to his knees. Subject(s): Hearts; Landfall; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 1. DURING THE LAST MONTHS, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: The woman must smile back at the face of death. Privately, she is unable Last Line: Moon with me, he says, meaning: you will remember this forever Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 2. BEFORE HE DIES, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: It is best to try in the morning. She makes her lips into fish and kisses Last Line: Love,' the angel says seductively. 'all love.' Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LAST JUMPING JACKS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart deliberates upon the end of the world Last Line: Before the power is cut - still burning, still bright Subject(s): Death; Hearts LAST VALENTINE'S DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "last valentine's day, when bright phoebus shone clear" Last Line: "taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo" Subject(s): Hearts;holidays;love;valentine's Day LAST WEEK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the new - chum went to the backblock run Last Line: I drank it all up last week! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Dead, The LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Women LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Last Line: Mouths open. Last words flown up into the trees Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Women LATE ASTERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Where wonted, luscious sweets of scent Last Line: Are golden treasure-trove from malabar. Subject(s): Asters; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love LATE SUMMER'S NIGHT, by MIRIAM CASSEL Poem Text First Line: The cotton clouds float out like / seeds Last Line: With haunting pathos lightly kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LAVENDER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In the forests of lavender Last Line: Before the certainties of love Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LE MAIN DE DIEU, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Leaving rodin's garden, we stole Last Line: Rocked there, believing, in the hand of god Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses LE MARIAGE DE CONVENANCE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The cost of it! The waste of it!-this wrings Last Line: To build yourself a tomb of yellow clay. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Materialism LE PERE SEVERE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: King louis on his bridge is he Last Line: Than give my true love up for thee' Subject(s): Forgiveness;hearts;love - Complaints; Clemency LEANING INTO THE AFTERNOONS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets Last Line: Shedding blue tassels over the land Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LEAVE-TAKING, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tri-colored flower Last Line: And in my heart songs die Subject(s): Hearts LET LOOSE MY SKIN, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I let loose %my skin Last Line: And then slither %inside you Subject(s): Hearts; Love LET LOVE LIVE ON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Love is the precious jewel in our life Last Line: What kind of man her husband and our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LET ME BE AWARE!, by MADELEINE MOSCHENROSS Poem Text First Line: This my hope, my plea, my prayer Last Line: Gentle smiles in friendly faces. Subject(s): Hearts LET ME GO WARM, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Hearts; Parting; Joy; Delight LET ME GO WARM, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go warm and merry still Last Line: And let the world laugh, an'it will Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Hearts LETTIE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lettie-she lives in orchard room Last Line: While I'm—wal, I'm a-nussin' her! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love LIFE, by E. DEVILLIERS-HERTZLER Poem Text First Line: How shall the heart measure its rich content Last Line: Without the gauge of storm and fears? Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery LIFE-HOOK, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: Love: if I die don't take me to the cemetery Last Line: I will rise to watch you. I'll be the purple lilies Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LIFE-THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn, - the heavens were glowing with the light Last Line: Through studying god's works to study god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Love; Mankind; Religious Education; Human Race; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LIGHT, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think it's light, that something moving beyond the moment Last Line: And how that continues, will not dry up, stubborn, rivering beyond Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Memory LIMITATIONS, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: Content the heart must be Last Line: It break in self-destruction. Subject(s): Hearts LINES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifty years ago to-night Last Line: And time will ever prove us so. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time LINES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each ribbon of fire Last Line: A foot bathed in purple Subject(s): Hearts; Love LINES TO A FITFUL LOVER, by MIRIAM BARRANGER Poem Text First Line: I thought that when you left Last Line: I really couldn't wait. Subject(s): Deception; Hearts; Love LINES TO MACIAS EL ENAMORADO, by JUAN DE MENA Poem Source First Line: We in this radiant circle looked so long Last Line: That I should die, as I have lived, a lover! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Pain LINES; TO ONE WHO WISHED TO READ A POEM I HAD WRITTEN, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, read it not, thou wouldst not know Last Line: Thy would not speak of me. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Hearts; Nightmares LINGER, O GENTLE TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: All that I hold from thee and call my own? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Hearts; Secrets; Time LIPPO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we must part, my lippo. Even so Last Line: And cast it down. -- thou art as other men. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LIPS AND EYES, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In celia's face a question did arise Last Line: Weeping or smiling pearles to celia's face Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love LISTEN, LADY!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, lady! Let me sing Last Line: Looks and wins the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Loyalty; Passion; Relationships LITTLE SISTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl of presence fresh and fair Last Line: Making her saintly, while they make her dear. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Pain; Sin; Sisters; Soul; Optimism; Suffering; Misery LIVING AGAIN, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Her life, proscribed and narrow, had been spent Last Line: To clothe anew the life she thought was dead. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships LIVING FLAME OF LOVE, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O living flame of love %that, burning, dost assail Last Line: How delicate the love thou mak'st me bear Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion LLEWELLYN, PRINCE OF CAMBRIA; A WELSH BALLAD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Llewellyn stood as his palace door Last Line: "and I will yield to you." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hearts; Love; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged LOCATION, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I set my heart in the noontime sun Subject(s): Hearts LONGFELLOW (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentlest kinsman of humanity Last Line: Of common human need of kindliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Love; Dead, The LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stirs in my heart so? Last Line: I lie at thy feet! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never longed and loved Last Line: I lie at thy feet! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the sadness of my days Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness LOOKING AT YOUR BODY, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: As you walk Last Line: To finally embrace Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets LOST FOR A ROSE'S SAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I laved my hands Last Line: That my love marie / might love me yet Subject(s): Hearts;love - Complaints;pain; Suffering;misery LOST LOVE, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! When shall I, my glory Last Line: With tears of hope I will refresh my languor! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love LOST SUMMER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart hath its springtime, yea Last Line: And spring's unrest in blossom time. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Summer LOVE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O world! Somewhat I have to say to thee Last Line: Shall find fruition in a brighter sphere. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Love is joy in the heart Last Line: Love, dear, is you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You have not died, no Last Line: You are eternal, love %even as is the spring Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory LOVE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is love?- a hope, a dream? Last Line: The restful ecstasy of god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Peace LOVE, by HOWARD PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Like a rose that is blooming in beauty so Last Line: And the one who will keep it will have a great peace. Subject(s): Charm; Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This part of myself devoted to you Last Line: The glass hearts, the transparent bodies. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, you come no longer to my dead eyes Last Line: And engenders without sensual pleasure! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love LOVE AFTER SORROW, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, this hour I love, as in the glory of morn Last Line: And her who is the soul of my desire. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love LOVE AND COQUETRY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That tender passion! From its birth Last Line: One only source -- 'tis all divine. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; May (month); Passion LOVE AND DEATH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow lies upon the earth Last Line: Can this be death? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND KINDNESS, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice of pity strove to bless Last Line: But only love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE AND LATIN, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Dear girls, never marry for knowledge Last Line: "and not with a latin ""amo." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE AND OLD AGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just like a boy Last Line: Waiting for thee. Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Love LOVE AND THE MOUNTAINS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He rode through bitter mountains Last Line: He cried: oh in these cold hills to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of LOVE AND THE SIERRA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He galloped over harsh sierra ground Last Line: He screamed: to die in these cold hills alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Relationships LOVE AND TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The longest night of the year, they say Last Line: Time was nothing and darkness best! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Time; Bedtime LOVE AND WINE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Come, bacchus, bid thy nectar flow Last Line: Fling down his scythe and join us. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of LOVE FOUND TWO DOORS AJAR, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Love surely was not sleeping Last Line: And singing, love, of thee. Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros LOVE HANDLES, by LIANNE SPIDEL Poem Source First Line: In the dream he passed them to me Last Line: He goes, 'get a grip. Get a handle %on it. Get a life' Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE IN CHAINS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I flung love down upon the dungeon floor Last Line: For love rose up and bless'd me in his pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE IS ENOUGH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold Last Line: Love is enough! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes LOVE IS FOR EVERMORE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had thought to bury my love too deep for tears Last Line: In the heart of a woman by love forsaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE IS MASTER STILL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since that it may not be Last Line: For love is master still, or be we bond or free. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love LOVE IS NOT, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: Love is not for every lover Last Line: Then it must be Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love LOVE POEM OF THE ROMAN DAYS: 7. ISABELLA'S TREE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the courtyard, isabella's apricot Last Line: Dauphin into king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; Hearts; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 18, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fires Last Line: No one knows Subject(s): Desire; Hearts LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character of 'heart' Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature LOVE SONG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the day is done Last Line: Heart of my heart! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE SONG: ONE FAT WOMAN TO ANOTHER, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: All our tall, thin ex-lovers have gone mad or died Last Line: There are women all over the world who are starving for love Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Single People; Widows And Widowers LOVE SPEAKETH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why hast thou given me these gyves to bear Last Line: It is not well, o lord, it is not well! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Prayer LOVE STORY, by GRACIELA REYES Poem Source First Line: And I couldn't tell him not to worry so much Last Line: In love stories is what makes them, in the end, %necessary Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE'S ACCOUNTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburnt summer less devours Last Line: Love, for love of you. Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Summer; Woods; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S APPEAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: In vain, in vain, I try to tell thee, dear, / my love Last Line: Will quench the fire that once was love divine. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE'S BITTERNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should I love, where others would despise? Last Line: Their light I'd quench to prove thy constancy! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Jealousy; Love - Complaints LOVE'S BONDAGE, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: Between the constant urge of kindling thought Last Line: Leaves lyric issues stowed in rosy lands. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE'S BROODING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thy still loving helpful heart Last Line: The perfect end of god and man. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love LOVE'S BURDEN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All my longing, since first I beheld thee Last Line: God mingle thine ashes with mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE'S CONQUERING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If 't please you see how love's might overcame Last Line: To choose a child for lord; for guide, the blind. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Wind; Youth; Optimism LOVE'S CORONATION, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou and I Last Line: I will enthrone thee queen of my heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE'S FAIRYLAND; TO FLORENCE ON HER WEDDING DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is beauty on the mountains Last Line: There dawns another day. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Passion; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE'S FOOL TO HIS LADY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's fool am I. To thine imperial court Last Line: Love's fool am I. Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Faithfulness; Constancy; Dejection LOVE'S GOLDEN PILGRIMAGE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To one who loves, all things are beautiful Last Line: Perceives in nature things unseen before. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring LOVE'S HEALING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My chosen one - you to whom I have said Last Line: And wander there beside him in love's wood. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S HUMILITIES, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think of thee, to think of thee! Last Line: O sweet, suffice it thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares LOVE'S INCONSISTENCIES, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why closed thou thine eyes Last Line: Song doth not die! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians LOVE'S LANGUAGE, by S. JOSE M. PINO Poem Source First Line: What matter that thy modest lips, my dear one Last Line: Yes, many a time and oft! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints LOVE'S LIKENINGS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He. To what, love, shall I liken thee? Last Line: Ever till we meet the sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE'S LOVERS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Upon the altars of queen venus we Last Line: "for love and thee!" Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion; Venus (goddess); Eros LOVE'S METEMPSYCHOSIS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brief space for tears and prayers Last Line: And lead me into life. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion LOVE'S MORNING, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Into the shadowland of yesterday Last Line: In union more essential, more complete. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE'S MORNING HOURS AND EVENTIDE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When dawns the morn of love Last Line: At close of day. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE'S SLEEPLESSNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I can no more mine eyes to sleep compose Last Line: Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Sleeplessness LOVE'S SOLICITUDE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou at this moment, love? - what doing Last Line: Light of mine eyes, blood of my veins, my love. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S TELEPATHY, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are near, my love, so near to - night Last Line: Wherein I love my love and he loves me! Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; Hearts; Love; E. S. P.; Clairvoyance; Telepathy; Mind Reading LOVE'S VISITATION, by GREGORIO SILVESTRE Poem Source First Line: Certain verses very weary Last Line: In this rigmarole from hades Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets LOVE'S WILDWOOD TRAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a trail that leads Last Line: With his shafts and bow for thee. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros LOVE'S WORD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: He came unto a throbbing mart Last Line: A city's heart was stirred. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vague as the shadows, 'neath april-leafed trees Last Line: Is love's young dream! Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros LOVE, ATTRIBUTED CITY, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: Here I say again: the heart of the city has not yet died Last Line: Here I say again: love, attributed city Subject(s): Hearts; Latin America - History; Love; Patriotism; Poetry And Poets LOVE, WHOSE MONTH WAS EVER MAY, by ULRICH VON LICHTENSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When with may the air is sweet Last Line: Love inconstant I forbear. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE-LORN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her cage by my window swings a bird Last Line: The strain of the singer, her mate, that died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE: AN ELEGY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known Last Line: And lose, with pride, the lover in the man. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Parting LOVER'S LAMENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: I clasp you close and feel your arms entwine Last Line: It would be kinder far to tell me so. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love; Relationships LOVERS, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: Lovers become quiet Last Line: The beautiful life Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love LOVERS, by THERESE STEGMAN Poem Source First Line: In august, she had thrown away Last Line: And in each other's blood Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance LOVING YOU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "when lips are only lips, and eyes are only eyes?" Subject(s): Hearts LOWLINESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At purple twilight when the snow lies deep Last Line: Near foddered kine and faithfully folded sheep. Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Memory; Sunset; Twilight LUCKY-STONE, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: Lucky woman, she has missed Last Line: For all the ills she never knew? Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Love LULLABY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not sing you to sleep Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings LULLABY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not sing you to sleep Last Line: And hope the terror in my heart stirs you Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings LYNX, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: After 4 years of having known you Last Line: That illuminate the night my loves Subject(s): Hearts; Love LYRIC NAME, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: O helen! Flowered loveliness Last Line: The lyric of your name. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 22, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou scarcely could'st have forgotten it faster Last Line: That both were great, full well I know. Subject(s): Hearts; Love LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thine ear many tales they invented Last Line: In my heart was hidden from view. Subject(s): Hearts; Soul LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 28, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've no belief in the heavens Last Line: And thine evil heart as well. Subject(s): Evil; Hearts; Hell LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 37, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, were I but the footstool e'en Last Line: The thoughts that in me live and whirl Subject(s): Hearts; Love LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 43, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth once loved a maiden Last Line: Will soon be broken in two. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 56, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My songs with poison are tainted Last Line: And thee too, my dearest love, thee. Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 58, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand on the brow of the mountain Last Line: And healest the bullfinch's smart. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The land is silent, and the moon Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MA DEESSE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her brow, - no language can express Last Line: Aught of angel-perfectness! Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY (NEGRO LOVE SONG), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breeze a-sighin' and a-blowin' Last Line: Nuff to make me understan'. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MADCAP LOVE, by PAUL GUEST Poem Source First Line: I am archie, made flesh, if ink can be Last Line: My home and heart, bones and bars, broken Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MADRIGAL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my heart, lady, take my heart Last Line: And live but through my dying. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The MADRIGAL 121, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now love, see how this lady, young and fair Last Line: Avenge at last your honor and my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints MADRIGAL: BESIDE A FOUNTAIN, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a fountain / of sweet briar and roses Last Line: Come kiss me then and shew it. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love MANY ARE CALLED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many are called, dear heart, to happiness Last Line: Many are called by love, but few are chosen. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros MANY SEASONS, by DEIDRA SUWANEE DEES Poem Source First Line: It's been %many seasons Last Line: Marry %the preacher's daughter Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love MARIPOSA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the day Last Line: Where I used to see her eyes Subject(s): Butterflies; Hearts; Insects; Love MARJORIE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the hills of tennessee Last Line: That girl is mine—my marjorie! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of MARY'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my heart it will break, my eyes they will weep" Last Line: For unbroken and still is the sleep on his head Subject(s): Hearts;lament;love;sea;soul; Ocean MARY, MY HEART, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, my heart - because my heart is thine! Last Line: Heart, love, hope, soul, and universe to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Optimism MASSES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; and began to walk Subject(s): Brotherhood; Courage; Hearts; Soldiers; War MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow Last Line: And where the stars are led. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 2. RESTORATION, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of my heart, when you pick up my paper Last Line: Put it together again! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Paper MAVRONE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From arranmore the weary miles I've come Last Line: Aroon, machree, aboo! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Dead, The MAY AT THE WINDOW, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Now may is at the window Last Line: And laying its iron hand around your heart %--spring on earth Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; May (month); Spring MAY MORNING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: One flashed upon her dreaming Last Line: His promise to recall. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Love; May (month); Paradise MEDICI FOUNTAIN, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Citizens of democracy are gathered here Last Line: Or for the memory of what is gone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Memory MEMORIES, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful and strange and sweet Last Line: My heart breaks at their tugging mild. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory MEMORY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Once I touched her Last Line: And burns %the night white Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Prisons And Prisoners MENG WALL CAVE, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: Below the ancient city's wall lies Last Line: The heart must be empty of sorrow Subject(s): Hearts; Zen Buddhism MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women MESSAGE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: O dove that flyest towards my love Last Line: The mournful cypress tree! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning MESSAGE FROM ONE ENAMOURED, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Perhaps I shall forget your face Last Line: My heart how musically your lips could speak. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory MICHAEL OAKTREE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed Last Line: The sacrament and sabbath of the sea. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MIDSUMMER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the may time, and after the june time Last Line: And love's midsummer will fade too soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul; Summer MIDSUMMER FROST (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Unvexed by july's warm eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MIDSUMMER NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon's mild and silvery light Last Line: What joy 'twould bring to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Silence; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking MIND AND HEART, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wisdom and passion Last Line: Power and bliss. Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Reason; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MINISTERING ANGELS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angels of light, spread your bright wings Last Line: O take me home! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Fear; Hearts; Life MIR TRAUMTE WIEDER DER ALTE TRAUM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old dream comes again to me Last Line: Superfluous was the bite. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares MIRAGE, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: Across the spaces wild and free Last Line: And see the love-light in your face. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mirages MISSING MY FATHER'S HEART SURGERY, by KRISTIN BECKER Poem Source First Line: They did not look between your ribs Last Line: That beat in you %like a smooth, heavy fist Subject(s): Fathers; Hearts; Surgery MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the grey wild seas Last Line: To-day and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MONODY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou so sad, sweet soul Last Line: O love me, perfect soul! Subject(s): Hearts; Love MOOD, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: My heart is a gypsy Last Line: Answer back. Subject(s): Hearts; Moods; Solitude; Loneliness MOON SAILS OUT, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the moon sails out Last Line: Break out in sobs in the pocket Subject(s): Hearts; Moon MOON-BRIGHT DREAMS, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: How quiet I float Last Line: As out into life we go. Subject(s): Hearts; Love MORTEM, QUAE VIOLAT SUAVIA, PELLIT AMOR, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging rocks, whose ravenous throats Last Line: Will pass and flee, when thou art here. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sabbath; Titans (mythology); Sunday MOTHER HEART, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: I have lived deep days Last Line: How can one life of days suffice to reach the winnings? Subject(s): Hearts MOTHER WONDER, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: I have washed their clothes and their faces Last Line: I wonder! Subject(s): Children; Good; Hearts; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood MOUNTAIN, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The day is a remark made of clouds Last Line: On a field that stretches to the sea Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude MOVEMENT, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We crawl, we eat. Like commas Last Line: Laying wings down gently over the land Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of MOVIE ABOUT THE DEAD CELLIST, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is perfectly straightforward: it's england so there's a fog but also tea Last Line: Against the ceiling like bats: invisible, making no audible sound Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So much loving, so much loving Last Line: Eyes that once were gay are saddened %and cruelly aching Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Easter is coming, and I without him Last Line: My heart is cruelly grieving for him Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What shall I do, what will become of me? Last Line: Do not depart from me Subject(s): Hearts; Love MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What shall I do, my mother? Last Line: My beloved is at the door Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Presence MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart, my heart goes from me, lord Last Line: He is ill, when will he be well? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sickness MY BUDDY, by FOREST M. KELP Poem Text First Line: Want to tell you of my buddy Last Line: Splendid buddy—is my dad! Subject(s): Fathers; Hearts; Love MY FATHER, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: You are far away, my father, there in your realm of shadows Last Line: Cast down upon immense arms that horribly mimic you Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Orphans MY GARDEN, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Text First Line: Two steps from my garden rail Last Line: Burst with envy and despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MY GARDEN GIRL, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: My garden girl with sunburned nose Last Line: My garden girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Relationships MY HAND IS LADY MORI'S HAND, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The monks I train are grateful then Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Illicit MY HEART, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is strong as a sturdy oak Last Line: Or oak by the lightning riven. Subject(s): Hearts MY HEART, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a prisoned bird Last Line: At last, my mission is fulfilled! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness MY HEART, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is beating up and down Last Line: And all the lamps are lit. Subject(s): Hearts MY HEART AND I, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough! We're tired, my heart and I Last Line: I think, we've fared, my heart and I. Subject(s): Grieg; Weariness; Hearts; Fatigue MY HEART IS LIKE THE AUTUMN MOON, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You tell me - how it can be explained Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Hearts; Zen Buddhism MY HEART UPON A LITTLE PLATE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Might it be an apricot! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1027; Poem: 103 Subject(s): Hearts MY LADYE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis not that my ladye hath bountiful hair Last Line: And so, past redemption, I love her. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love MY LIBRARY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrine of my mind, my library! Last Line: Hence to the outer world good night! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Libraries & Librarians; Life; Love; Solitude; Reading; Loneliness MY LITTLE TRUANT HEART, by MABEL CLELAND LUDLUM Poem Text First Line: I built for me a little house / amidst a garden fair Last Line: I've never understood. Subject(s): Hearts; Love MY LOST LOVE, by KATE VAN HORSSEN MEYLINK Poem Text First Line: My dear lost love passed by last night Last Line: In the wailing of the wind. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Parting MY LOVE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My love, she is no longer young Last Line: The grace of paradise. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Wrinkles MY LOVE: ODELET, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to say something about my love. My love is Last Line: Friends Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion MY LOVE: WITH SECRET LATITUDINAL KNOWLEDGE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I love Last Line: Over the verge for a very long time. Subject(s): Hearts; Love MY LOVE? TELL ME, DO YOU REMEMBER, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over a frozen fountain? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory MY MUSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear muse, the world will never guess Last Line: "I am thy soul." Subject(s): Hearts; Muses; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery MY NEIGHBOR BUYS WHITE HYACINTHS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor drives her car at dawn Last Line: Because of life I miss. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY ONLY TITLE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My only title to her grace Last Line: Being wholly joined with me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love MY PROPHESY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: From the fog, the slow and secret fog Last Line: My palm is an open prophesy Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Prophets And Prophecy MY SONGS ARE POISONED, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My songs, they say, are poisoned Last Line: And, love, among them—thee! Subject(s): Hearts; Love NAMESAKES, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But where's the brown drifter that went out alone? Last Line: Ah, fare you well, my sailor. Subject(s): Hearts; Sailing & Sailors; Wind NANA, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My heart, listen Last Line: Speak if you will, for both of us Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Hearts; Love NATURE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: She whom I loved, not human in degree Last Line: Blind, deaf, and dumb, beside a moaning child. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature NATURE ELEMENT, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You have no choice. This is as natural as breathing Last Line: But uses you as it moves through, like music, %as insubstantial, as absolutely real Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Saint Kilda (scotland) NATURE LOVER'S LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They want only to look at it Last Line: But when the moment comes, they refuse to touch it Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature NATURE LOVER'S LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They want only to look at it Last Line: But when the moment comes, they refuse to touch it Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature NATURE'S WORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In holy moments, when great nature seems Last Line: Or where we know not, but we trust the word. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Nature; Nightmares; World NAUGHTY JOHNNIE FROST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little leaf,' said young jack frost Last Line: Wore a dress of red! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships NEITHER SPIRIT NOR BIRD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaping under the willows Subject(s): Desire;flutes;hearts;love;native Americans;relationships; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Subject(s): Animals; Art & Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Last Line: Of dream, lit chimera distilled from liquid air Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEVER AGAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again!' vow hearts when reunited Last Line: "never, never again, never again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself. Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NEW CONCEPT IT HAS CERAMIC INSERTS IN THE CYLINDER HEAD, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: And when I have time I learn to decipher the zebra code it says a lot that's for a novel Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Love Letters; Poetry And Poets NEW HEART, by SEMYON KIRSANOV Poem Source First Line: I'm busy! Last Line: I should never %extend it Subject(s): Hearts NEW MARRIAGE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't ask that either party love or honor (let alone obey) Last Line: The ceremony ends with each partner mumbling, % I guess. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage NEW SPRING: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neath the white tree sitting sadly Last Line: And thy heart with love is yearning. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thy dress doth gently touch me Last Line: That it scarce can follow thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love NEW SPRING: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hast good eyes, and look'st Last Line: Thou wilt tread the forest mazy. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs NEW SPRING: 19, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again my heart is vanquish'd Last Line: Hold the fond fool in derision. Subject(s): Hearts; Love NEW SPRING: 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the moon's fair image quaketh Last Line: While my own heart 'tis that shaketh. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Paradise NEW SPRING: 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have I not the self-same vision Last Line: Heart to heart so softly pressing! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 40, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My cherish'd wishes blossom Last Line: And bleeds away in my breast. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 5. VOICE OF AN ENGLISH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: South!...These stars I know!...And south is greece! Last Line: That hide but do not hush the river's brink. . . . Subject(s): Death; Greece; Hearts; Sleep; Stars; Dead, The; Greeks NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 7. VOICE OF A FRENCH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so the songs must go unsung Last Line: And I am well content. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Nightmares NIGHT POEMS: 3, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Michal, what wealth of kisses do I owe Last Line: To bear the fullness of your I am yours! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Passion NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals NIGHT WIND, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resonant with the day's din Last Line: O night wind, flooding my soul. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion NILE SHADOWS, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Soft shadows slipping from the dark'ning sand Last Line: Or cry of lonely beast could now be heard. Subject(s): Hearts; Shadows NINE O'CLOCK, by LYDIA SHARPE Poem Text First Line: From the great clock on the landing Last Line: But enchantment. Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Hearts; Time; Women NO CRUTCHES FOR MY HEART, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The harmonica played Last Line: I had been made a head shorter Subject(s): Hearts NO ME: DHARAMS ALL, by HUI K'O Poem Source Last Line: The truth cries out %where the arrow strikes the target Subject(s): Hearts; Truth; Zen Buddhism NO TANGOS TONIGHT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart meets death in a fashionable singles bar Last Line: But then a dance begins, a tango. Heart will sit it out Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Death; Hearts NO THORN WITHOUT A ROSE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no rose without a thorn Last Line: "no thorn without a rose!" Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON (A NEGRO SERENADE), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: De river is a-glistenin' in de moonlight Last Line: An' cose you know we kin trus' de moon. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight silvers the tops of trees Last Line: And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Old Age; Spring; Dead, The NOT ALL SWEET NIGHTINGALES, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are not all sweet nightingales Last Line: Making music for her I love Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Love; Music And Musicians; Nightingales NOT WISELY, NOR TOO WELL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: So thou, unmindful of the past Last Line: Thy mission is to bless thy kind. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Past; Optimism NOT-SO-STILL-LIFE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: White cherry blossoms %float the quad Last Line: Her biting smell in his beak Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships NUMBER SONG, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've multiplied, I'm 2 Last Line: Kind congruity. Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Love; Parents; Infants; Parenthood O BAKELITE MIZ MOON, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Jump a hundred times %and then get laid Last Line: My sweet bakelite miz moon Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love O FLAME OF LIVING LOVE, by JOHN CROSS Poem Source Last Line: How delicately thou teachest love to me! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships O HADA CIBERNETICA: 4, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Some day I'll finally Last Line: If not of fire, of air Subject(s): Hearts; Love O HAPPY HEART!, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved - o adorable and false Last Line: O happy heart on which your heart is laid! Subject(s): Hearts O, COME WITH ME, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, come with me and we will bide Last Line: Then, come! O, come! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Passion OBSCURE NIGHT OF THE SOUL, by JOHN CROSS Poem Source First Line: Upon an obscure night Last Line: Among the lilies, and forgetting them Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love - Marital; Passion OCTOBER, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: In the half-empty city hall Last Line: In a cold half-empty theater %with few people Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters OCTOBER ROMANCE, by LAUREN MCMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: On you I have waited Last Line: Was to be wreathed, for a moment %in your smile Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Romance ODE, by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Ah poor olinda never boast Last Line: He, like a god, is e'ry where! Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Liberty ODE TO A PAIR OF SANDPIPERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: No studious haunt this mossy nook! Last Line: For brighter pleasure! Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Nature; Sandpipers; Seasons; Fall ODE TO HER AROMA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soft woman, what do you smell of Last Line: That awaits me %in your mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships ODE TO MISS HOYLAND: MISS HOYLAND IS COY, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Hoyland, empress of my heart Last Line: And make thy baker blest? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Pleasure ODE TO MY HEART, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: Science tells me it's the size Last Line: In the air: a heartfelt bravo to you Subject(s): Hearts ODE TO THE TANGERINE, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: We want %to drink you up Last Line: With that %single kiss Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love ODES III, 9. DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORACE AND LYDIA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When no fond rival's favoured arms Last Line: To live with you, with you to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Smiles; Soul; Dead, The OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery OF HIS LADY'S OLD AGE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are very old, at evening Last Line: And gather roses, while 'tis called to-day. Subject(s): Hearts; Love OF LOVE'S AWAKENING, by JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES Poem Source First Line: When I was yet a child %a child dorila too Last Line: Our childhood and its joys, but new %love gave us his inste ad Subject(s): Hearts; Love OH HEART BE GLAD, by LILLIE REED ZORTMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh heart, be glad, be strong as one who knows Last Line: Oh heart be glad! Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Hearts; June; Sunset; Twilight OLD HANDS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Months since we've made love Last Line: Melting, your fingers blazing at the latch Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age OLD THINGS, by THOMAS T. BLEWETT Poem Text First Line: I love to smell old books Last Line: Fragments of dreams. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails ON A DEAD POET, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand that swept the sounding lyre Last Line: Forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets ON EIGHT MILE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: She appears as if at the edge Last Line: Can make me look away Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Hearts; Love; Nudity; Striptease Dancers ON GREDOS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone here on the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Solitude; Spain; Loneliness ON GREDOS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone here on the mountain Last Line: Here on the bosom of the mountain range %here in your midst , here I feel myself mine Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Solitude; Spain ON KILEY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go / on kiley's run Last Line: On kiley's run. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares ON MY BOY HENRY, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes a boy ye finest child from me Last Line: I mourne not for thy birth, nor cry. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Hearts; Soul; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ON REVISITING CINTRA AFTER THE DEATH OF CATARINA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apparel of green woods and meadows gay Last Line: Sere with herb that suits the %broken heart Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Mourning ON THE DISINTERESTED LOVE OF GOD, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love of god with genuine ray Last Line: Some feeling proof into his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Love ON THE TRAIN, by RUTH NOEL BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Through wisps of smoke swift, backward Last Line: Waiting the lips of you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Waiting ON THE TREK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day Last Line: For we're going on a long job now. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Soldiers; Dead, The ONCE ONLY: AUSTIN SNOW, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I saw you that way, late afternoons, always Last Line: Mating of a swan and some god of the night Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Snow ONE AFTERNOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below, cool grasses: over us Last Line: Who look on us from heaven to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Hearts; Nature ONE DAY WE SAT DOWN BY THE ROAD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Waiting for her. But she won't skip the date Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love ONE IS ONE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart, you bully, you punk, I'm wrecked, I'm shocked Subject(s): Hearts ONE ONLY AIM AND THOUGHT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature formed cassandra, who should move Last Line: No aim or knowledge but the thought of her. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Love; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery ONLY WATER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every great civilization %we know by heart dries up Last Line: Draining away from the tips %of skyscrapers and bridges Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature; Romance; Waterfalls OPEN THY HEART, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Admit into thy silent breast Last Line: My child, enough delight. Subject(s): Hearts OPTIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Be brave, faint heart Last Line: Be brave, faint heart! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Hope; Life; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OPTIMUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a deep and subtle snare Last Line: Because it is another's too. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Hearts; Life; Soul ORA PRO ME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave maria! Bright and pure Last Line: Ora pro me. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Mary And Martha (bible); Soul; Women In The Bible; Dead, The ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Last Line: To hear the black-robed choir of their sighs Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women ORPHEUS, by RODRIGO CARO Poem Source First Line: Oblivion's misty prison ceased its moan Last Line: Eyes such pains? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mythology OSTRICH, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melancholia, pull out your sweet beak now Last Line: And bare your woman's lip! Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Hearts; Melancholy; Ostriches; Pain OTHER LIVES AND DIMENSIONS AND FINALLY A LOVE POEM, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Separation; Isolation OTHER LIVES AND DIMENSIONS AND FINALLY A LOVE POEM, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers Last Line: In each place and forever Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets OUR BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty; Clemency OUR BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart Subject(s): Food And Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty OUR COTTAGE IN YVELINE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cottage, your trinkets are the rose, the marquerite Last Line: Cottage, this will endure as long as happiness. Subject(s): Hearts; Nature OUR DAILY BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breakfast is drunk down...Damp earth Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty OUR DEAD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is our own: we hold our pleasures Last Line: And, to save our treasures, claims them all. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Destiny OUR LOVE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: If our love were not Last Line: Our love would not be! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love OUR LOVE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: If our love were not Last Line: Our love would not be! Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Togetherness OUR LOVE IS NOT, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: Our love is not for you to give Last Line: For such a life, I will love Subject(s): Hearts; Love OUR LOVE OUT OF TOWN, by LAURA GOLDEN BELLOTTI Poem Source First Line: Oxnard not by-the-sea but Last Line: Glorified in hotel kisses Subject(s): Hearts; Honeymoons; Love; Travel OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 13, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: O love, my love, thou'rt in the passing crowd Last Line: Thy blood-warm spirit to hearts bitter cold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Solitude; Loneliness OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 5, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: There is no rest where weary mortals dwell Last Line: A fleeting moment from an hour of pain. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion OVANUNA BELIEVED, by ANDRE SALMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ovanuna believed that in america all Last Line: Like a weakfish that shatters the frying-pan. Subject(s): Hearts OVER THE MAY HILL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the night time, and all through the day time Last Line: My heart and my love will be lying ere long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Hearts; Love; May (month); Night; Dead, The; Bedtime OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like dreary prison walls Last Line: O beating heart, be still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Mountains; Dead, The; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain) PAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY, by VICENTE ESPINEL Poem Source First Line: He who is both brave and bold Last Line: Ne'er have conquered - never could Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships PAL OF MY HEART, by JULIA A. BRAND Poem Text First Line: Pal of my heart, need we to part Last Line: In my heart. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation PALACE FOR THE HEART, by NICK NORWOOD Poem Source First Line: Just after ludwig ii's death the surgeons opened Last Line: In cushions stuffed with eiderdown Subject(s): Death; Hearts PAN PLAYS IN THE RAIN, by DAVID THORNE Poem Text First Line: The rain falls calmly Last Line: And I love the scent of the hills. ... Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Rain PASSION IN THE METRO, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Antinous young lord of priapus lost Last Line: Antinous has slowly %eaten %a rose Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this peace / that statesmen sign? Last Line: For being man. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Peace PEACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the pulse of the tide again Last Line: And a broken soul to save. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul PERHAPS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, once, and a woman Last Line: For twenty years? Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Love PETITION (1), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O love! I watch for thee Last Line: If love should pass me by. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation PHANTASMATA: 1, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world was sleeping in the lap of night Last Line: To stay the rise of hyperion's orb. Subject(s): Creation; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes PHANTOMS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, ye phantoms of the past Last Line: Call upon me still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Ghosts; Grief; Hearts; Past; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness Last Line: The nomads walk & walk. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHOSPHORESCENCE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: At the end of love, disaster Last Line: In shapes of peaceful spirits Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships PHYLLIS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: She might have stepped out of a little book Last Line: And there was phyllis playing by the brook! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Love; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Reading PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 11. PURIFICATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remain thou in thy ocean-depths Last Line: And my rescued spirit rejoices. Subject(s): Hearts; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 5. HOMAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye songs! O my trusty numbers! Last Line: By her who last govern'd thy kingdom. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 7. IN THE CABIN AT NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea its pearls possesseth Last Line: In calm and radiant but excessive love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sea; Tears; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE RETURN HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On my life, a life of darkness Last Line: Keeping up his wretched dinning Subject(s): Hearts; Homecoming; Life; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips PILLAR WORK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, the lily blooms supreme Last Line: Fell on their hearts, and heavenly release. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares PIN, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: On a hill outside the city Last Line: The birds also are dead Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Old Age PIRATE OF MEMORY, by EDUARDO CHIRINOS Poem Source First Line: The time of those fallen in battle Last Line: The word now slipping away, leaving me on my own Subject(s): Hearts; Love PISIDICE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of the lesbian king Last Line: To dreamless rest, pisidicê! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations PLAY OF LOVERS, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Pears soft to the thumb, wine Last Line: Everyone has seen it Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses PLEDGED, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: If you believe that you alone have grieved Last Line: To love and beauty,—lost. Subject(s): Hearts; Love POEMS OF THE WEEK, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still and rest in that serene repose Last Line: How sweet the sense of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Life; Morning; Night; Time; Bedtime POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: VPON THE UNSEASONABLE TIMES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond vulgar, canst thou thinke it strange to finde Last Line: Men's sighes and teares are slight, and quickly done. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement POLKA DANCING TELEVISED LIVE FROM MANKATO ON SATURDAY NIGHT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: A dairy farmer all the way from albany, minnesota Last Line: Of his death-defying twirls Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Hearts; Love PONT-NEUF, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You are my flower, my lips, my heaven Last Line: My traitor, prolonging my life Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion POOR LITTLE HEART!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wind and sun — wilt thee array! Subject(s): Hearts PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A BAD HEART, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I seen her Last Line: It'd be the best thing. Subject(s): Hearts; Courtship POTENTIALITIES, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if my hand should touch you: well, what then? Last Line: And so I will not reach to you my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love PRAETERITA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft airs that fan the face Last Line: O'er brightness fled? Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Hearts; Past; World PRAISE OF LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And shall love cease? Ask thine own heart, o woman Last Line: And leads to endless glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Passion; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness PRAYER OF THE ROAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't even know whom this bitterness is for! Last Line: That rots in my heart! Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Travel PRELUDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a grove of ilex Last Line: This is the gift of the flower of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love; Rome, Italy; Nightmares PRENUPTIAL, by WILLIAM WENTHE Poem Source First Line: Lying in bed with you, not sleeping -sleep Last Line: Our little life is rounded with a sleep Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of PRIESTESSES, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: The delicate unearthly music Last Line: Of conquest on a thousand fields. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Male-female Relations PRIMAVERAL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, sun, green meadow, and a villa set Last Line: It's you who blossom newborn and rise here Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring PRINCESS JEHANARA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the road leads from delhi to the south Last Line: Let no more then be mine when I am dead.' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; India; Dead, The PRISON SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beat, beat, wings of my heart Last Line: For between -- the iron bars. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Singing & Singers PROEM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We found him in that far-away that yet to us seems near-- Last Line: The hearts of all his time are his, with your hale heart and mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hearts; Youth PROFESSOR LOVE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Write about anything else in this world Last Line: Now when %are we going to have dinner? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Writing And Writers PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose blood runs gay as summer's Last Line: One of your kith and kind. Subject(s): Blood; Hearts; Night; Bedtime PROMISES OF A VALENTINE'S DAY, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: My love: %I wanted to thank you for the gifts you sent me for Last Line: And I will make you happy. %you will be like a king for me. %and shall be your queen. %I promise you Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Music And Musicians; Valentine's Day PROMISING (A MAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, a new world, the sun-swart marinere Last Line: But -- ah, for present joy, give me one kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PROTEUS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Licked by the tongues of sleep %we dream of birth, of water Last Line: This is the heart of the matter: %cell deep, we cannot deny sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Sleep PROUD LOVE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Proud love is not a foaming tide Last Line: And lands you have not seen. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love PROUD OF MY BROKEN HEART SINCE THOU DIDST BREAK IT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See! I usurped thy crucifix to honor mine! Subject(s): Hearts; Grief PSALM: 10, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stand'st thou lord aloof so long Last Line: On vs may tyrannize no more. Subject(s): Curses; God; Hearts; Poverty; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PSALM: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou witness of my truth sincere Last Line: From dangers all securely keep. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Hope; Peace; Religion; Soul; Truth; Optimism; Theology PUNCHLINE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Who can figure how we end up where Last Line: Have come alive, at last, stay with me tonight Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV Poem Text First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns. Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The QUEEN MARY'S LETTER TO BOTHWELL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion Last Line: And his the victory who most shall venture. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations QUEEN STANDS ALONE, by LINDA A. CRONIN Poem Source First Line: It began with such enthusiasm Last Line: Before we ever swear I do Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Sacrifices QUEM TU, MELPOMENE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, no! You never loved the muse Last Line: The happy shepherd she has blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry & Poets QUERY, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: What shall our hearts Last Line: In dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Hearts; Sleep RAIN IN THE HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If this were all - oh! If this were all Last Line: "though ""into each life some rain must fall." Subject(s): Hearts;rain RAINBOW-SHIMMER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day upon the hillside Last Line: It's deep in mother's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Rainbows; Soul RAPTURE, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel a breath from other planets blowing Last Line: And of the eternal voice I am the thunder! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion REACTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh heart, sink into yourself and rally Last Line: Return to your solitude, oh heart! Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Night; Railroads; Woods; Bedtime; Railways; Trains RECOGNITION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: In some forgotten grove of france Last Line: When we two loved in france in guiltless guile. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations RECOLLECTIONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a lad deserted by his mates Last Line: They found him -- dazed and dumb that this could be. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Tears; Dead, The RECOMPENSE, by MABEL DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I'm glad I love you! Last Line: And found—and lost—the vision. Subject(s): Hearts; Love RECOMPENSE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not known the sweep of far blue seas Last Line: And I, on bended knees, have talked with god. Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Love; Valor; Bravery RECONCILIATION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: God of the granite and the rose! Last Line: Unite to praise thee evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Reconciliation RED WINE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour the red wine about! Last Line: Unto death. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Wine; Male-female Relations REFLECTIONS; LOOKING OVER A GATE AT A POOL IN A FIELD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What change has made the pastures sweet Last Line: The maiden with the milking-pail! Variant Title(s): A Maiden With A Milking-pail Subject(s): Hearts; Life REGRETS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, for I wish to be alone among the tombs Last Line: Finding my ashes' heat more fervent than their lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Nature; Regret; Dead, The REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light. Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement RENUNCIATION, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loose hands and part: I am not she you sought Last Line: While peace is yours my true heart cannot break! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid? Last Line: Human hearts are made. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean REQUIESCAT IN PACE!, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my heart, my heart is sick a-wishing and awaiting Last Line: And veil thy breast with icicles, and thy brow with snow! Subject(s): Family Life; God; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) REQUIESCIT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell his story. He was one Last Line: Upon his grave. I cannot doubt he sleeps. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Old Age; Dead, The RESTRAINT, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: For you I dare not speak the praises Last Line: That you are come! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Praise RETABLO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say to myself: at last, I escape the noise Last Line: From far away, cry to us about the monotonous suicide of god! Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts RETRIBUTION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shape our deeds and then are shapen by them Last Line: And rend us in our graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Graves; Hearts; Peace; Tombs; Tombstones REVERIE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie awake and dream Last Line: Creep the white fingers of the chilly dawn. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory REVERIE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I do sit apart Last Line: That passionate want forbid to speak its mind Subject(s): Hearts RHYMES: 11, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a passion; I am a flame Last Line: I cannot love you! Oh, come, come Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion RHYMES: 53, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dusky swallows will hang their nests Last Line: Ah! They'll not love you so Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion RICHES, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: Some measure wealth in terms of gold Last Line: Mine is the love that hearts can hold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love RIME 49, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bicause I have the still kept fro lyes and blame Last Line: And onely my loke declareth my hert. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 25;sonnet: 16 Subject(s): Hearts; Lies; Tears RIVER OF STARS, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: The river of stars must have flooded Last Line: With a weaver's heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love RIVER'S PEACE, by MARGARET ASH Poem Text First Line: I have loved many people with devotion Last Line: Like rivulets that have found river's peace. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace; Rivers ROBOT FOLLOWS ME WHEREVER I GO, by JOHN RANDOLPH CARTER Poem Source First Line: He carries flowers Last Line: Robot and go looking for life Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee, Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships ROMANCE, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest girl in all our country-side Last Line: Oh let me walk alone where breaks the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance; Solitude ROMANCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: A wild rose grew by the ocean's edge Last Line: Lay only a withered weed. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses ROMANCE, by FRANCISCO SOSA Poem Source First Line: Oh, do not fear, my fairest! Last Line: Upon the heights above Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance ROMANCE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born & lost in a throw of time Last Line: Not behaving like any government. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Romance; Eros ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: POMARE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the gods of love are shouting Last Line: In that thou so much didst love. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; God; Hearts; Dead, The RONDEL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When I see you my heart sings Last Line: When I see you! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Optimism RONDEL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes Last Line: Oh, dark-brow'd witch, thy laughing eyes! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion ROOF BOUND, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You watch me primly sewing here Last Line: Where road and blue sky meet! Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Love ROSE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose has a life, they say Last Line: Her smiles and blushes are our soul's mistresses. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Romance; Roses ROSE WHITE IN THE PURITY OF IGNITION HERE YOUR ASHES IN, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Beaten beating heart rose black line [after a letter from to tsvetaieva to pasternak, 22 may 1926] Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses ROSEEN-DHU, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little wild rose of my heart Last Line: Ròseen-dhu! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Longing; Love; Roses; Separation; Isolation ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send you here a wreath of blossoms blown Last Line: Be therefore kind, my love, whilst thou art fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses ROSES OF MY ROSE TREE, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: Within the courtyard of my home Last Line: A myriad roses white Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses ROSIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There's a rosie show in derry Last Line: Thon day—thon day! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; London; Love; Memory; Roses RUINS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a blank tv screen a tiny begins begins to appear. It has Last Line: Trees, each leaf an atlas only the dumb heart can read Subject(s): Christmas; Hearts; Holidays; Love SACRED DEFOLIATION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon! Crown of an immense head Subject(s): Hearts; Moon SACRED DEFOLIATION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon! Crown of an immense head Last Line: That wanders the blue while crying verses! Subject(s): Hearts; Moon SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad one, must you weep alway? Last Line: "pray you, let it be!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SAG' MIR WER EINST DIE UHREN ERFUND, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was it, tell me, that first of men reckon'd Last Line: (richard garnett) Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When blushes dyed the cheek of morn Last Line: I'm come to be thy valentine.' Subject(s): Hearts;holidays;love;valentine's Day SALAMANCA, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall grove of towers that as he goes down Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory SALAMANCA, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall grove of towers that as he goes down Last Line: In thy tongue of eternal herald tell what I have been Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory SALOME, by PETER HARVEY Poem Source First Line: I am still startled by the pale revolution of the mornings. Startled that Last Line: Left me there Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love SALT WATER'S LURE, by VIRGINIA WAINWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I always lived beside the wave and spray Last Line: With boats and fog. Would life were otherwise. Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Trees; Ocean SALUTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, about to die, salute you kindly Last Line: We, the elders, hail our brothers young! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism SANCTISSIMUM, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Now-as the two of us made one Last Line: This sacristy ... Where life and lovers meet. Subject(s): Hearts; Love SANCTUARIES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou givest me greenest sanctuaries Last Line: With me and talk. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Forests; Gardens & Gardening; God; Hearts; Sanctuaries; Woods SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds Last Line: Face down, and calls on you. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery SAPPHIC ODE, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gracious dweller of the woodland green Last Line: Shatter thy pinions! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SATIA TE SANGWINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you loved me ever so little Last Line: I hope he will some day die. Variant Title(s): Satia Te Sanguine Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SAY NOT GOOD-BYE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if we shall meet again? Last Line: Say not good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Fear; Hearts; Love; Pain; Parting; Suffering; Misery SCHOOL BOYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lads who count the days Last Line: Opening out on every side. Subject(s): Children; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Life; Schools; Childhood; Dead, The; Liberty; Students SEA LAVENDER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lavender, sea lavender! Last Line: That my hands still hold her hands. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium SEA-HOARDINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is open again and sea flows in Last Line: And how to hope, in the darkest deeps of thinking. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Moon; Sea; Ocean SEASHELL, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found a golden seashell on the beach Last Line: The shell I found is in the shape of a heart Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance SECOND HELPING, by DOUG DORPH Poem Source First Line: Since the heart attack, I come up the stairs Last Line: In my extra life, I don't Subject(s): Family Life; Health; Hearts; Sickness SECOND HELPINGS, by JOHN BREHM Poem Source First Line: I wear my heart on my sleeve Last Line: Apart from being asked %to hold too much Subject(s): Hearts SECOND HONEYMOON, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect cone shell lay on live coral twenty yards from shore Last Line: The way, come to think of it, my first wife and I %stripped each other of love, then followed our no Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Honeymoons; Love - Marital SECRET LOVE, by MANUEL DEL PALACIO Poem Source First Line: Oft the confession of my changeless love Last Line: The rill's faint call that tinkles down the %vale Subject(s): Confessions; Hearts; Love SEDAN BEARER'S SONG, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Star of our dream Last Line: Bear her fair. Subject(s): Hearts; Love SEEING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Not the eye alone can do the seeing part Last Line: But he who would see crystal clear must view things with his heart. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love; October SEER, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Even in crowded mart Last Line: And solacing his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness SEGUIDILLA, by JOSE DE VALDIVIELSO Poem Source First Line: I who once was free Last Line: Hearts ungrateful here! Subject(s): Hearts; Love SEMELE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great jove, great god of gods, awful and / absolute Last Line: Love but as mortals love! Love not as loves a god! Subject(s): Hearts; Love SEMEN, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who remembers now in our millennial loneliness Last Line: Nijinsky who remains mad, and dead Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Unfaithfulness SENSE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Streetlights blur, elongated Last Line: An answer to your question mark: yes, yes Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships SENT ON A SHEET OF PAPER WITH A HEART SHAPE CUT OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF IT, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Empty, or broken-hearted? Where Last Line: Waves of remembrance in the darkening air Subject(s): Hearts SENT WITH REGRETS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Drink to me with a song, dear friends Last Line: One sweet good night to me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Regret SERENADE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Along the banks of the river Last Line: The branches are dying of love Subject(s): Hearts SERENADE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: I was he that came in pain and trouble Last Line: Thus to love thee more and better still! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship SERENADE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a singing in my heart Last Line: Is my song's only word. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Quiet Life; Serenity SERIOUS EARTH, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A long metallic necklace of cars on an interchange Last Line: And they go on listening too late, waiting to be called, waiting not to sleep Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Singing And Singers; Symphonies SERRANILLA, by INIGO LOPEZ DE MENDOZA Poem Source First Line: From calatrava as I took my way Last Line: Her heart is free, no thought of love has bound her %here with the herds around her Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring SEVEN TIMES FIVE [ - WIDOWHOOD], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sleep and rest, my heart makes moan Last Line: On the hills of god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Sleep; Widows & Widowers SHADOW, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Were there a science to dissect Last Line: In song, the inaudible word. Subject(s): Hearts; Love SHADOW IN THE OTHER'S HEART, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: He has none, of course Last Line: Like a mute veil from the world Subject(s): Hearts; Relationships; Shadows SHAKY SPECTRUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's 'anguish' and over Last Line: Wait till the beast's asleep. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints SHE BEGINING TO STUDY PHISICK ... FALLS INTO A DEGRESSION ON ANATOMY, by JANE BARKER Poem Text First Line: Fare well fare well, kind poetry my friend Last Line: That cou'd prolong the motion of his heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Parting SHE CAME, AT FIRST, PURE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Oh passion of my life, poetry, %naked, mine forever! Subject(s): Erotic Love; Hearts; Passion; Poetry And Poets SHE LIVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After he died Last Line: Deciding to live. And she lived. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Strength; Survival SHE WHOM THOU LOVEST, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O heart, my heart! Last Line: And yet——— and yet———! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints SHELL, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found upon the shore a golden shell Last Line: (shaped like a heart it is, that sounding shell) Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance SHIAWASE (1), by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Rising before five %a.M., my bride and I crept Last Line: That charm the moon all night long Subject(s): Hearts; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love - Marital; Wedding Song SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him most %when he came home from work Last Line: The white fire of the torch, the whistle, %and the long drive home Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women SHUNGA, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: In the blizzard's heart Last Line: On a freezing new year's eve Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital SHY MAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon was shining upon the broad sea Last Line: As we kiss by the high sea-wall Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love SILENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, that crying in the heart Last Line: They call the music of the spheres! Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians; Silence; Summer; Tears; Wind SILENT LOVE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: If I hated you, I would give you my hate Last Line: More atrocious than facing death itself Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Romance; Silence SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SINCE MAY ALL AFLOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since may all aflower calls us forth tothe fields Last Line: Thy brow in its beauty, thy heart in its love. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Nature; Joy; Delight SINGING HEART, by N. M. FRIES Poem Text First Line: Glorious gold of winter sunset Last Line: Tediousness can never bore. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs SIR ELIDUC; A LAY OF MARIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch ye the harp with tender hand Last Line: By man was never known! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marie De France (12th Century); Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SISTERS OF THE RAIN, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: We have nowhere %else to play Last Line: Do not go saving it for %the stones Subject(s): Hearts; Love SKETCH, by ALFREDO GOMEZ JAIME Poem Source First Line: Your forehead with its pure unsullied snow Last Line: Though I should have to kiss the sentinels! Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love SNAKESKIN, SAMURAI'S EYE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Do you see what you really like the rims Last Line: You know you're falling in love with me Subject(s): Hearts; Love SNOW QUEEN, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Ever since she discovered the mirror Last Line: And go on living as before Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SO TO SPEAK AS THEY SAY, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Not that I'd been thinking about you or antything Last Line: No like imperfect as the case may be strangers Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Romance SO, WHAT IS THIS LOVE?, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source Last Line: Mine breaks to a sharp edge within me Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets SOARING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is a bird to-night Last Line: Make shudder the trees, lean and bare! Subject(s): Hearts; Stars; Trees SOLOMON'S SONG, by REGINA MIRIAM BLOCH Poem Text First Line: Hast thou heard the voice of my belov'd Last Line: "ah, when is he returning?" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Jews; Love; Separation; Isolation; Judaism SOME BODIES ARE LIKE FLOWERS, by LUIS CERNUDA Poem Source Last Line: Are not worth a willing love Subject(s): Bodies; Emotions; Hearts; Life SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 6. BORN TO THE PURPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most-like it was this kingly lad Last Line: As now thou rulest, smiling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Sea; Joy; Delight; Ocean SOMEONE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is building an invisible city Last Line: And stars, we become the enormous hope of forgetting Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love SOMETHING FOR YOUR ARMS: 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: It is always going to be this way Last Line: Until my hands feel the skin on your face Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love SOMETHING IN THE SPRING MUD, by MICHAEL MOOS Poem Source First Line: There must be something in the spring mud that wants to set us free Last Line: In the still, bare branches Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SOMETHING LIKE AN ARIA, by STEVEN BARZA Poem Source First Line: All through the springtime afternoon Last Line: For the touch and love of a woman who wanders Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of SONATINA, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The princess is sad. What ails the princess? Last Line: To kindle your lips with a kiss of true love! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance SONG, by BERNIECE GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Love is life / things that follow Last Line: Love will keep as his own. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONG, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The house is a cote for doves Last Line: The rhythms of the sea resound Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Mothers And Sons SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O singing heart, think not of aught save song Last Line: And here or there, sometime, somewhere, 'twill reach the grain. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Scientists SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world's asleep Last Line: Or fly within and bid them close the gate? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (6), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not for her even brow Last Line: Whose love makes many hearts rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares SONG (7), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved you for long long years ellen Last Line: Tho' you will not love me yet? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Side by side the two lovers shy Subject(s): Hearts; Love SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All are sleeping, my sad heart Last Line: All are sleeping, thou art not Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Passion SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Moon, thou with thy light Last Line: Mayst illumine the night Subject(s): Hearts; Love SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why did perico kiss me? Last Line: Why did the traitor kiss me? Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Complaints SONG OF APPLE-TREES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song of apple-trees, honeysweet and murmurous Last Line: Avalon of the heart's desire, avalon of the hidden shores. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Apple Trees; Avalon (legend); Desire; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Trees; Nightmares SONG OF BREATH, by PEIRE VIDAL Poem Text First Line: Breathing do I draw that air to me Last Line: Who turns the veriest sullen unto laughter. Subject(s): Hearts; Love SONG OF MARGARET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, I saw her, we have met Last Line: Margaret, margaret. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Silence; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF THE GALLEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye mariners of spain Last Line: Twill be a blessed day, %if ye fetch him from the moors! Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love; Prayer; Romance SONG OF THE PINES, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O pines,o brothers of the earth and air Last Line: From far away, and towards the future goes Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SONG OF THE TROUBADOUR, by J. R. PERRY Poem Text First Line: Where is her lip's soft laugh to-night? Last Line: My lips with a death-sad song. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG TO THE NEW DAY, by LULU E. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New day is blushing in the east Last Line: Reminding me of you. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lead me to some peaceful gloom Last Line: To conquer, yet be still a slave? Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack, thou'rt a toper, let's have t'other quart Last Line: Boldly, though watchmen cry 'past two o'clock.' Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG, FR. BONDUCA, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Britons, strike home Last Line: Yourselves, in druids' songs! Subject(s): Hearts; Peace; Silence SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean SONG: 100, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I might by no means surmise Last Line: Or else I am but slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; God; Hearts; Love SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 104, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Longer to muse / on this refuse Last Line: And perdy to forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Hearts; Love SONG: 106, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone musing / remember Last Line: From her never to depart? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Life; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 108, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comfort at hand! Pluck up thy heart Last Line: Pluck up thy heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Comfort; Hearts SONG: 112, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I as well within my song belay Last Line: Causeless because that I have suffered smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 113, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune, what aileth thee Last Line: And me heartily my whole desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) SONG: 114, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would ye more of me, your slave, require Last Line: That without cause causeless thus suffer'th smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 13, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought long with steadfastness Last Line: But as who sayeth, I reck not how. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 69 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love SONG: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After great storms the calm returns Last Line: And me also the most happy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Hope; Pain; Storms; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 22, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, poor man, what hap have I Last Line: To love above my poor degree. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So unwarely was never no man caught Last Line: This restless life I may not lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Life; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 26, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who list his wealth and ease retain Last Line: For sure, circa regna tonat. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): "who List His Wealth And Ease Retain';innocentia; Veritas Viat Fides; Subject(s): Desire; God; Hearts; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes SONG: 29, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that chance hath chosen me Last Line: And other have that I deserve. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 34, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since ye delight to know Last Line: For to repent your cruelness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 72 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 39, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your looks so often cast Last Line: To stop a thing so clear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love, lay thy hand on my heart, and tell Last Line: That I some slumber at length may taste. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The SONG: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass forth, my wonted cries Last Line: Which is a just reward. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pity SONG: 46, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All heavy minds / do seek to ease their charge Last Line: Is clean in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 49, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If with complaint the pain might be expressed Last Line: Since if ye list ye may my woe restrain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous cradle of my sorrow Last Line: In a chilly distant tomb. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To seek each where where man doth live Last Line: Dare I well give, I say, my heart to year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): France; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean SONG: 54, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But sithens you it assay to kill Last Line: Slain have I by unfaithfulness!' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 6 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts SONG: 56, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart oppressed with desperate thought Last Line: Since cruel will doth me so use. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Despair; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Singing & Singers SONG: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most wretched heart, most miserable Last Line: Since unhap cannot kill me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Hearts; Hope; Quarrels; Truth; Optimism; Arguments; Disagreements SONG: 60, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart and service to you proffered Last Line: Reward your servant liberally. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 61, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As power and wit will me assist Last Line: Even as ye list. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Truth; Joy; Delight SONG: 62, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing Last Line: And never to change you for no new. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Songs SONG: 63, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy promise was to love me best Last Line: I promise thee, I promise thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed SONG: 66, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give place all ye that doth rejoice Last Line: Praise it who list, I like it not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Voices; Belief; Creed SONG: 67, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grudge on who list, this is my lot Last Line: No thing to want if it were not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed SONG: 68, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my heart, ah, what aileth thee Last Line: Ah! My heart, ah! What aileth thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): To His Heart Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Hearts; Love; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 71, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear heart, what hap had I Last Line: If that I be not loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 73, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Complaining, alas, without redress Last Line: Where now for pain I die, I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Lament; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 74, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONG: 75, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire to sorrow doth me constrain Last Line: By patience. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONG: 78, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am ready and ever will be Last Line: Although I have not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love SONG: 79, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might have at mine own will Last Line: That force perforce I do sustain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Pain; Tears; Paradise; Suffering; Misery SONG: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first mine eyes did view and mark Last Line: Or else thy heart had been as mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Life SONG: 80, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning my heart doth sore oppress Last Line: Alas, and cannot be loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONG: 82, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in your grace I know I was Last Line: That once I was. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Ons In Your Grace I Knowe I Was Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Dead, The; Joy; Delight SONG: 83, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, cruel heart, where is thy faith? Last Line: Farewell my love and all my woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Tears; Time; Belief; Creed SONG: 87, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall she never out of my mind Last Line: To see her loving gentleness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Letters; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rose and cypress and tinsel gay Last Line: And whisper with sadness and loving sighs. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs SONG: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I cannot your cruelty constrain Last Line: Rejoice not at my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 91, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would have ever thought Last Line: To draw better the next. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 96, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been a lover Last Line: Though ye misjudge these last. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: BUTTERFLIES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O child of joy! What idle life is thine! Last Line: The hopes thou chasest never to attain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets SONG: FOR THEE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woes are there Last Line: For thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Songs SONG: GREEN JADE DESK, by XIN QIJI Poem Source First Line: At the lantern festival Last Line: At the furthest fringe of lantern-light Subject(s): Festivals; Happiness; Hearts; Laughter; Love; Presence SONG: NOT A WORD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, my heart is faint with waiting Last Line: Come; but mind, love, not a word! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 7. ZERO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard of heart, winter has frozen the fields Last Line: One dares not even think of lambs or fawns. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Stars; Winter; Nightmares SONGS FROM HIGHLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the white mountains Last Line: The thicket's small, leafless %poplars, march lyres Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing And Singers; Spain; Travel SONGS OF CREATION, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is spring! Last Line: It has always seemed. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Spring; Male-female Relations SONGS OF LOVE AND YOUTH: PROLOGUE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Even as one who finds his face Last Line: But ever battling upwards,—battling towards the light. Subject(s): Family Life; Hearts; Love; Mothers; Youth; Relatives SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 4, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Think what it is to me with life's black tempest blowing Last Line: The chainless sight and touch and sound of thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: MORNING WATCH. COMING IN OF THE MERMAIDEN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is bleached as white as wool Last Line: Promised them 'to-morrow.' Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Moon; Morning; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE NIGHTINGALE AND UNSATISFIED HEART, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in a may-day hush Last Line: Whose fate is still to yearn, and not be satisfied.' Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Hearts; Nightingales SONGS TO A.H.R.: 1. FREE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O were your heart not wide, dear Last Line: Below me or above. Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love; Soul; Liberty SONGS TO A.H.R.: 12. SHELTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been out where the winds are Last Line: And, if god wills, at dawn wake, again, to laugh or weep. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Silence; Sleep SONGS TO A.H.R.: 14. LAST LINES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only go back and find you there Last Line: "never, oh never more!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS TO A.H.R.: 2. THE HEART'S QUESTION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it such a little thing Last Line: I think it is god. Subject(s): Faces; God; Hearts; Moon SONGS TO A.H.R.: 8. HOROLOGUE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a clock within me Last Line: That heal the hurts of time. Subject(s): Clocks; Hearts; Love; Time SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 11, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since my words, though ne'er so tender Last Line: Still to disbelieve the cause. Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Truth SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 12, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morella, charming without art Last Line: My gratitude maintains. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Passion SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 15, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was unconfined and free Last Line: When both must quit the field. Subject(s): Cupid; Freedom; Hearts; Soul; Eros; Liberty SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 17, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, my love, as true a heart Last Line: With it begin anew. Variant Title(s): Les Estreines Subject(s): Hearts; Love SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 19, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since we your husband daily see Last Line: With thy insipid fool. Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Jealousy; Night; Passion; Bedtime SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither would my passion run Last Line: So each will equal triumph share. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Loss; Passion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 22, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since by ill fate I'm forced away Last Line: Behold your picture in my heart. Subject(s): Absence; Charm; Eyes; Fate; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 4, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain Last Line: We've paid already with our eyes. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 7, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, this pious talk give o'er Last Line: And with another damn. Subject(s): Duplicity; Fools; Hearts; Deceit; Idiots SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 9, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it, o love, thy want of eyes Last Line: And double glory thine. Subject(s): Despair; Eyes; Fates (mythology); Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That once she lent it. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise SONGS: 10. WHEN CUPID FELL FROM GOLDEN HELL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Of roses, roses red. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Eros SONGS: 5. LEND ME THY WINGS, O DOVE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall return with love enough to last a year. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love SONGS: 7. I KNOW THEE, O THOU WAILING WIND!, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Pass by and tread them under foot. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Passion SONGS: 8. I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I have had love and the sun's light. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses SONGS: 9. WHETHER SLEEPING, WHETHER WAKING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While we lovers lean and mock them under. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Paradise SONNET: 1, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With heart and breast of brimstone, flesh of flax Last Line: Blame to nature for this doom of fire I assign Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Italian Renaissance SONNET: 14, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart I gave thee, not to do it pain Last Line: Ploweth in water and soweth in the sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 14 Subject(s): Desire; Farewell; Hearts; Parting SONNET: 20, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avising the bright beams of these fair eyes Last Line: Of such a root cometh fruit fruitless. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 29 Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love SONNET: 22, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love and fortune and my mind, remember Last Line: And all my thoughts are dashed into dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 31 Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Trust SONNET: 25, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lively sparks that issue from those eyes Last Line: "of deadly ""nay"" hear I the fearful thunder." Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 47 Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If waker care, if sudden pale color Last Line: Without whose help scant do I live a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 97 Subject(s): Fear; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight SONNET: 34, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flaming sighs that boil within my breast Last Line: To have the like of this my painful stroke. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts SONNET: O HUSBAND!, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O husband! This word of care born Last Line: I'm a woman, am empty, yet full of light for thee. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 11, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You dwell amidst a world not far below Last Line: Nor rail at heights I may not hope to gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 13, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew it well; an enemy has been near Last Line: Who came to wound me -- and worse still, to stain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Muses SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 15, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have cleaved to her who did not dwell Last Line: And now, sweet dreams, sweet lady! -- and good-bye! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Heaven; Hell; Love; Nightmares; Paradise SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 17, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So hither you return, only to haste Last Line: And hearts of men, and those calm heights of mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Woods SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 4, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, in your palace, amid whatsoe'er Last Line: This halting tongue and trembling heart of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hearts; Life SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said within myself: I am a fool Last Line: Die if thou wilt; but what hast thou to fear? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Memory; Soul SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek among the living, and I seek Last Line: Weep for a little ere we go & play. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah welladay and wherefore am I here? Last Line: Thankful if one would take her by the hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dawn; Hearts; Hope; Thought; Sunrise; Optimism; Thinking SONNETS: 9. GEORGE MEREDITH, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woven of sunlight was his deep romance Last Line: Triumphant fugues athwart life's tragic bass. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Nature; Soul; Destiny SORROW, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: This divine october morning Last Line: To feel the sea's oblivion forever Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SORROW'S MADNESS, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, clinging to your lidded coffin Last Line: To death's void galley chained like sullen slaves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUL-SHADOWS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grass, with drops like diamonds bright Last Line: To none dare I make moan. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness SOULS AND BIRDS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Souls take flight, so god has willed it Last Line: To the dovecote they come home Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul SOUNDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Jose daniel %hears with the soul Last Line: In each body of water he pronounces Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 101, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My poor heart Last Line: The sickness of which I die Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sickness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 113, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart was taken to prison Last Line: It was sentenced to death Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 114, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How would you have a bird Last Line: If you take away my hope? Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 117, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me your love or I kill you' Last Line: Give me your love or I die' Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 125, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why do you go about asking Last Line: A soul never was in you Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 127, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I shall give you all my heart Last Line: For that treasure is not mine Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 128, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love you more than my life Last Line: For my soul belongs to god Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 129, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Love me little by little Last Line: That long may last Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 130, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They are, your love and my love Last Line: Backwards they never can flow Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 131, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I feel something in my breast Last Line: In order to please my love Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 132, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Loving is up hill Last Line: Though it be hard work Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sacrifices SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 134, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lover, lover of my soul Last Line: Let them look in liberty Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 136, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the water of the stream Last Line: I wear my heart away Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 137, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You did not want when I wanted Last Line: Just as I did before you Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 141, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The true lover is not daunted Last Line: Backwards never casts his eyes Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 144, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your love, it is like a bull Last Line: Where it is placed, there it stays Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 147, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Time said to love Last Line: I will abate Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 149, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A pretty maid Last Line: And I said farewell Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 151, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A white little dove Last Line: For I don't forget you Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 156, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You say that you do not love me Last Line: The first the wind blows away Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 157, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The water of rivers flows Last Line: Let the water of the river flow Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 159, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart breaks Last Line: And that you are dead for me Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 162, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I often pass by the bridge Last Line: If you love me, the same shall I do Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 164, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Darkness o'er takes me! Last Line: Oh, that I had such serenity %in my mind! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Serenity SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 42, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Like the rails of the railway Last Line: All the way, all the way Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 47, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I went and told your mother Last Line: Wedding there'll be Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 55, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Like two trees we are Last Line: But the boughs are mated Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Togetherness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 61, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In your lips, disdain Last Line: Your eyes say: come Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 63, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sweet lover, oh sweet lover Last Line: Are in my light Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 64, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come close to my love Last Line: As lizards do to the wall Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 65, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I pass close by your side Last Line: Makes my bones shake in my body Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 66, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let the moon rise and illumine Last Line: Springs from the depths of my body Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 68, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Crystal-like spring Last Line: Long roads are short Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 69, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High trees are moved Last Line: By thoughts and dreams Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 70, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The love you once had for me Last Line: Branch and stem it took away Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 71, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the deepest well Last Line: And a passion grew Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 75, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ruddy little apple Last Line: Fall in love with me Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 76, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May all the black spiders Last Line: If my love is feigned Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 79, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Had I known how false Last Line: So narrow a heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 81, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I walked up the hill with you Last Line: How hard I find it to do! Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 84, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fair little maid, when I saw Last Line: Fall down to my feet Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 86, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the sea, being deep Last Line: My own eyes go Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 89, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though I dwell close to the hill Last Line: In the bosom of my lover Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 90, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love you more than god Last Line: I deserve the inquisition Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 94, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Could you ever have more lovers Last Line: In the same way as me Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 96, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mother, I do go to him Last Line: The very root of my love Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 97, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The partridge is in the stream Last Line: Your heart I don't know with whose Subject(s): Hearts; Love SPEAKER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My talking heart talked less of what I knew Subject(s): Hearts SPEECHLESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou art fulness, I am emptiness Last Line: Extolling thine unuttered loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts SPIRITUAL CANTICLE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND CHRIST, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where hidest thou from me Last Line: The cavalry rode by %descending where they saw the waters lie Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPIRITUAL WEDDING, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: You are not with me in fleeting moments Last Line: And I love you as one loves a small and lifeless bird Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPRING, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Perchance this breeze has roamed through southern / bowers Last Line: The sunshine and—the spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Spring SPRING, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I stand as on the verge of life; 'tis spring Last Line: My full heart fails when it should be most strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Spring SPRING CAME IN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring came in with a red-wing's feather Last Line: Yet come no more, should he tarry ... Tarry! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 3. THE SYMBOL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the symbol underneath it all Last Line: Is certified by joy and love and peace. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Nature; Peace; Nightmares SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beauteous spring I see Last Line: Making all our passion vain. Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World SPRINGING UP, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly o'er my anguish stealing Last Line: Like a choir of angels singing! Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen to the holy antheming Last Line: Can rule thy stubborn feelings or can teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Churches; Hearts; Love; Saints; Cathedrals ST. MORITZ ON THE PARK, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I eat your heart with a spoon: like honey, pure honey Last Line: A dam beneath the light. How deliciously subdued and sleepy Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Parks STANZAS CONCERNING LOVE, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A novice when I came beneath thy gaze Last Line: When the cloudless morning rises cold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love STONE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The stone gathered in %translucence bound together Last Line: Beneath the pillow %of the sea Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness STOP, SHADOW OF MY ELUSIVE BELOVED, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If I fashion a prison for you in my fantasy Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Hearts; Love - Complaints STORIES ARE MADE OF MISTAKES, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the pole bean tendrils sought out and gripped their Last Line: My dad used to ride this black mare... Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets STORM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God in me is the fury on the bare heath Last Line: Outside the barred doors of my goneril heart. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Storms STREET IN SHADOW, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It cannot be. Walk on. In the blue a star Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude SUBJECT LOVE, FOR THE VASE AT BATHEASTON VILLA, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bow unstrung, and arrows broke Last Line: And sense and reason shall adore.' Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros SUMMER FLOWERS, by WHITTIER W. WELLMAN Poem Text First Line: I have loved others better Last Line: I am content. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SUMMER HEART, by SARGENT D. STERLING Poem Text First Line: Be brave when moons change Last Line: Your heart will have no pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Summer SUNSET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to sit beneath these walnut-trees Last Line: Homage for which all language is too weak. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Soul; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET POINT, by R. D. JAMESON Poem Text First Line: And in the flower month, I'll leave,' I / said Last Line: But when I kissed your eyes, my lips were wet! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's little sunshine in my heart Last Line: You, guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Sun SUPPLICATION, by MADELEINE MOSCHENROSS Poem Text First Line: Lord, make me immune this spring Last Line: God, a heart's a fragile ... Thing. Subject(s): Hearts; Love SURRENDER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strove, and strove with fate. I leave my throne Last Line: My once-imperial soul! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The SWEET ROSE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee 'mid the great and fair Last Line: The love I bore for thee, sweet rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses SWEET SOUTH, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the sweet south! The sunny, sunny south! Last Line: Will die -- do aught but fly! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Heaven; Love SYMPATHY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watch me in the gloaming Last Line: Loving god and man. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Peace; Sympathy; Tears; Dead, The; Empathy TALL LOVER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were only six feet tall Last Line: Could lift me from the jaws of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love TANGO WITH THE BLUES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Naked trees dance in the midst Last Line: I am not afraid Subject(s): Blues (mood); Hearts; Love; Music And Musicians TEARS, by PAUL H. OEHSER Poem Text First Line: No eye-tears ever drown our deepest woe Last Line: While heart-tears gnaw their human prey piece-meal. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TELL HER, SWEET THRUSH!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou sweet bird in the hazel tops Last Line: And love for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Pity THANK YOU, JACK KEROUAC, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Brown haired baby, let Last Line: Underneath these thin sheets Subject(s): Hearts; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Love THE AFFECTIONATE HEART, by JOSEPH COTTLE Poem Text First Line: Even genius may weary the sight Last Line: It shall last till the wreck of the mind. Subject(s): Genius; Hearts; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE ALDE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How near I walked to love Last Line: And silently, beside the sea! Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battle and fog and dream Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet! Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares THE ANSWER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering the way of sleep, the timeless shore Last Line: And then the eternal silence makes reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE ASSIGNATION: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long betwixt love and fear phillis tormented Last Line: That I'm forsaken. Subject(s): Fear; Fire; Hearts; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs THE AVIATOR, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Leaving lesser men to feet of clay Last Line: Back to its home—the sun. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Desire; Hearts; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE AWAKENING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I was a rose Last Line: That I had waited there for you. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Passion; Waiting; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares THE BALLAD OF A LOST HOUSE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hungry heart, hungry heart, where have you been? Last Line: Over a clear and quickening sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Hunger; Passion THE BARD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It can not be, the baffled heart, in vain Last Line: And ye, charmed with the voice, gave but a stone instead. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE BEGINNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell strange things of the primeval earth Last Line: On certain days I dream about her still.' Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Hearts; Life; World THE BIRDS ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST THOUGHTS OF LEAVING', by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eye can't fix you Last Line: Of a heart; (shut up or) tell me Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE BLIND HEART, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be still, o hunger of heart, and let pity speak Last Line: As one who walks and lament in a mournful dream. Subject(s): Hearts THE BLUE EYES O' MY LASSIE, O, by EWART W. G. HUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: The simmer sky wi'tints o' blue Last Line: Aire blue eyes frae abo'e. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE BOND OF LOVE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Why renew the fond sweethearting? Is love worth the pain of it? Last Line: Little lass, the strands are parting; you must bear the strain of it. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Parting THE BRANDED HEART, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: I saw where women's hearts were hung Last Line: "to go unscathed away." Subject(s): Hearts THE BRITON, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From heremon we claim descent Last Line: The freedom-loving briton! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Liberty THE BROKEN PITCHER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accursed be the hour of that sad day Last Line: Unthinking break another heart on thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE CALL OF LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: O immortal love! The centuries Last Line: O sequestered face—love's deathless countenance! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros THE CAMEL-RIDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is no thing in all the world but love Last Line: "other than this, my song of love to thee" Subject(s): Hearts;love;spring THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sick of life and all the world Last Line: For god shall reign and god is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHILD IN THE HEART, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There's a child in my heart that sings and sings Last Line: If ever the child in my heart be dead! Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Childhood; Joy; Delight THE CHOICE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny is a butterfly Last Line: When jenny is my wife! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHURCH OF THE HEART, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the dales of the human heart Last Line: Tho' it hath no priests and it hath no bells! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Religion; Temples; Theology; Mosques THE CLASSIC TOUCH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the little things Last Line: And that town was nothing to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Hell; Soul; Stars THE COMFORT OF THE STARS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am overmatched by petty cares Last Line: My trouble merged in wonder and in love. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; Love; Planets; Stars; World THE COMING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The mansion of my heart, my love Last Line: The happy, happy years! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness THE COMING OF LOVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know? Shall I hear love / pass Last Line: "and a fear that whispered, ""love is come!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE CONSUMPTIVE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Bring flowers, fresh flowers, the fairest spring can yield Last Line: Bring flowers ere I depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology) THE CONTRAST; THE SUNNY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the nuptial morn. Now hearts are light Last Line: Thy love and peace, and worship ever there! Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE COOUETRY OF MEN, by MAURICE MAGRE Poem Text First Line: We too, no less, have all our little arts Last Line: Both hide their viewless hearts forevermore. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Women; Nightmares THE COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone she sat with her accusing heart Last Line: To loathe her beauty and to curse her fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Truth; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones THE CORD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Why knot the amoret again? Lass, is loving worth the pain? The Last Line: Snapped in two. Who pulled too hard? In faith, 'twas you! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE CRIER, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good folk, for gold or hire Last Line: Or send it back to me. Variant Title(s): The Cryer Subject(s): Hearts THE CURSE OF LOVE, by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With heavy anguish, hopeless straining Last Line: Promised to death, and to love—doomed. Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets THE DANCE OF LOVE (WRITTEN FOR MADAME LIZA LEHMANN), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music sighs and slumbers Last Line: Love's ecstasy and pain. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of herodias, / she danced before the king Last Line: In that abysmal sleep! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Sleep THE DAWN OF EVENING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The royal sun has gone his gaudy way Last Line: For youth knows not how long is love's despair. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love; Memory THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These are the days of our youth Last Line: "joy of joys for an hour to-day; then away, farewell!" Subject(s): Hearts;love;memory;passion;youth THE DEAD BRIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my circled arm she lay and Last Line: But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DESERT WIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went with happy heart (how happy!) a while since Last Line: Hath seared mine eyes. Subject(s): Courtship; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hearts; Love THE DISCARDED LOVER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O love is illusion and passion a snare Last Line: If you would have peace, with them you must part. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Passion THE DISPUTE OF THE HEART AND BODY OF FRANCOIS VILLON, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this I hear? Lo, this is I, thine heart Last Line: I say no more. -- I care not though thou cease. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Villon, Francois (1431-1463) THE DRYAD TO THE MOON, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Thy woodland lovers, o sovereign moon Last Line: My foot is a star that dances. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE ENCHANTRESS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fear eileen, the wild eileen Last Line: And, laughing, leave me here! Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE EVICTION, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unruly tenant of my heart Last Line: And hast possession as before. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE FIRE, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched her, watched the tremulous fire Last Line: And bade the fire be brave. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships THE FIRST SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poet writ a song of may Last Line: Deep hidden in his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE FLOWER-GIRL, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose or jasmine? Last Line: And the sunflower of thy heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Sunflowers THE FOREFATHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the country inn Last Line: Surges hot through my heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Pain; Peace; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery THE FUMFAY AND THE MOON, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A little fumfay fell in love with the moon Last Line: But she'd been in love with the moon! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 1. THE OFFERING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were beauty mine, beloved, I would bring it Last Line: And kiss the shadow of love's passing feet. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 2. THE FEAST, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring no fragrant sandal-paste Last Line: All the secret of your tears. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 3. ECSTASY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let spring illume the western hills with blossoming / brands of fire Last Line: Swept o'er the flood-gates of my life to drown my waiting heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Spring THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 4. THE LUTE-SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why need you a burnished mirror of gold Last Line: In the flame of immutable years! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 5. IF YOU CALL ME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you call me I will come Last Line: Fearless what betide. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 6. THE SINS OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me the sin of mine eyes Last Line: O pardon the sin of my heart! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Hearts; Love; Clemency THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 7. THE DESIRE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O could I brew my soul like wine Last Line: Into a god? Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 8. THE VISION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! My foolish heart and eyes Last Line: And you the mystic pang of death. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The THE GREAT CITY, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The great city / stretches out huge steel claws Last Line: The souls of the young. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Soul; Youth; Urban Life THE GRIEF OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love, I am sick for thee, sick with an absolute grief" Last Line: "never again to mock at love, ah, never, never!" Subject(s): Death;grief;hearts;love - Loss Of;peace; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE HEALED HEART SHOWS ITS SHALLOW STAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than such fidelity Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Fidelity THE HEART, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the construction of the chest Subject(s): Hearts THE HEART, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thus we needs must goe Last Line: For it too vile and low. Subject(s): Hearts THE HEART, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At any moment the heart Subject(s): Hearts THE HEART, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart you hold too small and local thing Last Line: The grandeurs of his babylonian heart. Variant Title(s): All's Vast Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Hearts; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE HEART - THE HEART, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart - the heart! Oh! Let it be Last Line: That beats for self alone. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Hearts THE HEART AND THE LIVER; MUSINGS OF A DYSEPTIC, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's broken-hearted, I have heard Last Line: And kindly spares the liver! Subject(s): Hearts; Liver THE HEART ENTIRE, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1580-1630) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Canst thou love me, and yet doubt Last Line: Love being only soul to both. Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, 3d Earl Of Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of THE HEART IN THE JAR; MEDITATION UPON NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive it beats in a bosom of glass Last Line: Death and the artist grapple for the knife. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944); Health; Hearts; Medicine; Veins; Arteries; Drugs, Prescription THE HEART IS NOT SATISFIED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the overwork of life Last Line: I full of christ and christ of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Life; Soul; Work; Workers THE HEART RECALCITRANT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the heart grieve on Last Line: Across its own oblivion? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE HEART UPON THE SLEEVE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, behold you bound Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HEART'S GARDEN, THE GARDEN'S HEART (COMPLETE), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young rice plants are just being Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love THE HEART'S PICTURES, by HIRAM H. BICE Poem Text First Line: Hearts are galleries, wide and long Last Line: Around that mystic shrine. Subject(s): Hearts; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE HEART'S WINTER, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! We part as ne'er before Last Line: Its joyous, happy hours! Subject(s): Cold; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness THE HEARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The legendary muscle that wants and grieves, Subject(s): Hearts; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Muic & Musicians; Religion; Love - Unrequited; Theology THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The hearts that cling to israel Last Line: Each heart in israel! Subject(s): Hearts; Israel; Jews; Love; Judaism THE HILL ROAD, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: Let others take the valley road, a safe and beaten track Last Line: Under the sun I'll take for aye, the steep hill road, with you. Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Prairies; Separation; Isolation; Plains THE HOPELESS PASSION, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wanton and cheat and liar Last Line: Life! Subject(s): Hearts; Passion THE HUMAN HEART, by FRANK CARLETON NELSON Poem Text First Line: There's a heap o' love in the human heart Last Line: When he made the heart of man. Subject(s): Hearts THE HUNTER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: From a great voyage I come again and from the limits of the plain Last Line: Great voyage I come again and from the limits of the plain. Subject(s): Hearts; Hunting; Hunters THE HUSSAIN SAAGAR, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young dawn woos thee with his amorous grace Last Line: O lake, o living image of my soul. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE ICONOCLAST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since my soul grown sick of sordid things Last Line: And all the horrors of a world grown gray. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Passion; Torture; Dejection THE IDEAL, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad, sweet dream! It fell upon my soul Last Line: To welcome my approach to thine own spirit-land. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Longing; Nature; Nightmares THE IMMORTAL RESIDUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and the lofty heart and tears - these three Last Line: Hold back their portion due of tears and dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Tears; Nightmares THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Low as the moon on her course through the heavens, so is Last Line: Here came my lover to woo me, manito sent him to woo me. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Mourning; Bereavement THE JEWELS OF DAWN AND OF DUSK, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Like a diamond on a roseleaf when the dew has Last Line: So steals upon a darken'd heart thy smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses THE JOURNEY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went over fossil hill Last Line: Flowers that I bless with living eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Wisdom; Journeys; Trips THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KASHMIR SHAWL, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Last night I was in india awhile! Last Line: For it brought far-off kashmir back to me! Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love THE KISS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, fervent couples, in your spring flight! Last Line: Through love and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE LADY OF LIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though I must sleep, and give my body rest Last Line: The last at night to see her lover home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs THE LADY OF REVERIE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: A lady sat in her carven chair Last Line: And a baffling smile upon her lips. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE LAST MAYING, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence do ye come, with the dew on your hair? Last Line: "bring the spring, but no more delight." Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE LAST REQUEST, by MAURICE RABINOWITZ Poem Text First Line: E bade me pluck a rose o'red Last Line: Is bloomin' in me 'eart. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Dead, The THE LAST SAINT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With vesture torn and air forlorn Last Line: "still justifies my quest." Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Saints; Soul; Bedtime THE LEAF-PICKING, by FREDERIC MISTRAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, magnarello, merrily Last Line: The two are now together. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE LIKENESS OF HIS YESTERDAYS ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The likeness of his yesterdays is such Last Line: Than yesterday's -- brought from the day before? Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Roses THE LION'S DEATH, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hunter old whom once the desert air Last Line: And like the lion make an end of all? Subject(s): Animals; Death; Hearts; Lions; Dead, The THE LITTLE ROADS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great roads are all grown over Last Line: And lead us by a wandering way. Subject(s): April; Forests; Hearts; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails THE LITTLE THINGS, by FRANCIS T. KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: Ah, how I have loved the little best things / of love Last Line: And the soft swelling of your breasts against me when I quieted you to sleep. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE LONELY HUNTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green branches, green branches, I see you Last Line: But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Hunting; Loss; Love; Trees; Hunters THE LOSSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O who has found! / for I have lost Last Line: Henceforth (& tis a bargaine) but to thee. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Loss THE LOST HEART, by HERBERT S. GORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a lost child crying in the night Last Line: Is my heart lost and crying to your heart. Subject(s): Hearts THE LOST NAME, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of my true love is low Last Line: And know her by her tears! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses THE LOST WORD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I often wonder if blase Last Line: There is no word blasé. Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 18, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fires / burn in my heart Last Line: No one knows Subject(s): Desire; Hearts THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character “heart” Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary THE LOVE-SONG, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am more tall today than ever before Last Line: Rudderless,—lost,—in the song that is not forgotten. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE LOVER'S CRY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle maiden Last Line: Hearts that love forever and forever. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE LOVER'S LEAP; A TALE, by ANDREW MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: Sir bumper was a baron bold / as e'er romantic writ enrolled Last Line: Was given in a matrimonial way. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings THE LOVER'S POSY, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send a garland to my love Last Line: So must you too, haughty maid. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE LYCHGATE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The very type of human love it stands Last Line: And veil a fading face. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE LYRICS POET'S APOLOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strive to probe to other hearts, and find Last Line: In syllables of self, and can no other way. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Nature; Poetry & Poets THE MADMAN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a wayside flower Last Line: New ones will blossom and the old will be dead Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The THE MARAUDERS, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Now the sun is low, and the winds are dead Last Line: Flapping their vans to the westward. Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers THE MASTER-WOOER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw thy heart to-day Last Line: The rock shall yield herself to him for aye. Subject(s): Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Perseverance; Stones; Male-female Relations; Granite; Rocks THE MEADOW LARK, by J. A. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Chirping songster, sprightly fellow Last Line: To the inmost heart of me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring THE MEETING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She flitted by me on the stair Last Line: A moment since I knew not of her! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE MEETING OF SIGURD AND GERDA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, early love! O, early love! Last Line: And freely to forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations THE MIST, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun and the dew were so far apart Last Line: Ere the sun had set. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE MODERN SAINT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells Last Line: And ministers to men with all his might. Subject(s): Earth; Eyes; Faces; Hearts; Saints; World THE MORNING GLORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The morning glory climbs above my head Last Line: My heart lays down its load Subject(s): Hearts;love THE MOURNFUL ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every heart with pain is smitten Last Line: Nears the forest mournfully. Subject(s): Hearts; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE NEW MAGDALENE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She turns her with sick heart Last Line: Can work her no more harm. Subject(s): Grief; Hair; Hearts; Tears; Worship; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could whisper you all I know Last Line: "that's what you'd say." Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFF-BOX, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box Last Line: Laughed, and the statesman's reputation grew. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hearts; Life; Tears; Youth THE OLD ROOTS OF LOVE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the old roots of love Last Line: A tall and budded spray... Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love THE OLD STORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the bitter shafts of love Last Line: "as I might have -- in that hour!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Prayer; Rain; Suffering; Misery THE ONE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are that beloved thing Last Line: Now—I look—but cannot tell! Subject(s): Courtship; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight THE OPEN DOOR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of life Last Line: And crown his plan. Subject(s): Earth; God; Hearts; Hope; Life; Soul; World; Optimism THE ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women THE PAINTED VASE, by GABRIEL SOULAGES Poem Text First Line: La rosalba disdaining for a day his paints and / brushes Last Line: They dance around a lake on which the leaves of autumn fall. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Relationships THE PARTING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Subject(s): Absence;hearts;love;youth; Separation;isolation 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 PATH OF TEARS: 1. THE SORROW OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you turn your face away? Last Line: Or the thrall of the old desire? Subject(s): Death; Desire; Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age; Dead, The THE PATH OF TEARS: 2. THE SILENCE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since thus I have endowed you with the whole Last Line: A load of passionate silence and despair. Subject(s): Despair; Hearts; Love; Passion; Regret THE PATH OF TEARS: 3. THE MENACE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o love, shall ruthless pride avail you Last Line: As you lie spent and broken at my feet! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 4. LOVE'S GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce were the wounds you struck me, o my love Last Line: Crowned in a lonely rapture of renown. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery THE PATH OF TEARS: 5. IF YOU WERE DEAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were dead I should not weep! Last Line: O love, at last! Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Love; Destiny THE PATH OF TEARS: 8. THE SECRET, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come, sweet maids and men with shining tribute Last Line: O love, that I am dead! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Bereavement THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood by the window Last Line: "o mary, blessed be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the window stood the mother Last Line: "praise, mary, be to thee!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood at her lattice Last Line: "o mary, blest be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE POET'S JOURNAL: IF LOVE SHOULD COME AGAIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If love should come again, I ask my heart Last Line: And silently we parted for repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Destiny THE POET'S JOURNAL: LOVE RETURNED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy when first we met Last Line: And rooted in my heart of hearts! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Youth; Joy; Delight THE POET'S JOURNAL: ON THE HEADLAND, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on the lonely headland Last Line: Or weep to see me dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean THE POET'S JOURNAL: SECOND EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the evening of the second day Last Line: "the sole inscriptions they have left behind." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sunset; Twilight THE POET'S JOURNAL: SYLVAN SPIRITS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray stems rise, the branches braid Last Line: She is not purer than her child. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods THE POET'S JOURNAL: THIRD EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For days before, the wild-dove cooed for rain Last Line: Low harmonies to suit the varied strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE POET'S JOURNAL: UNDER THE MOON, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From you and home I sleep afar Last Line: Says in its beating: love is rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Sleep THE POET'S JOURNAL: YOUNG LOVE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are not old, we are not cold Last Line: Comes never, never, nevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Tears; Youth THE POET-HEART, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in time's mythical ages Last Line: Pain touched it once more.—and it broke. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery THE POETRESS'S PETITION, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a fever's pulse my heart doth beat Last Line: And for her glory, garlands of fresh bayes. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Hearses; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Silence THE POINT OF VIEW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Dear hearts, while we from year to year Last Line: Twere joy of joys to have you come. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE POOL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has fallen into my heart Last Line: Through night's bars.' Subject(s): Hearts; Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime THE PRAISE OF ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour we roses into wine! Last Line: Drinking mid the summer's heat. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Praise; Roses THE PRICE, by EMMA J. BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: I painted a picture in gladness Last Line: Was the blood from a broken heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Paintings & Painters THE PRISONER, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a chamber in my house of life Last Line: I fear the prisoner! Subject(s): Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners THE QUEST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must follow where she beckons through the dim Last Line: I must seek and I may find her in the perfume of a rose. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE QUIET PILGRIM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on my soul in nakedness Last Line: Lord, I go softly all my years! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE RECLUSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you live in shadows and sighs Last Line: "will hide me forever from your eyes!" Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; God; Hearts; Hermits; Life; Night; Roses; Supernatural; Bedtime THE RETURN OF THE LEAVES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves and the sweet-choired blue Last Line: Fled, with all but its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Leaves; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness' Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne! Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness THE RING AND THE HEART, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: This ring I give to you, my dear Last Line: That deep, seductive heart of thine. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love THE RING-DOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid beechy umbrage, bosky dell Last Line: Brief solace for my wounded mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Shadows; Nightmares THE RIVALS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look heah! Is I evah tole you 'bout de curious / way I won Last Line: "folks, heaben knows!" Subject(s): African Americans; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Negroes; American Blacks; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal. Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails THE ROSE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, mignonne, hath not the rose Variant Title(s): Ode Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE SANCTUARY: 1. THE FEAR OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O could my love devise Last Line: Of my own heart's desire! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE SANCTUARY: 2. THE ILLUSION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you may be as all men say Last Line: The very vision of god's dwelling-place. Subject(s): Fate; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SANCTUARY: 4. LOVE TRIUMPHANT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If your fair mind were quenched with dark distress Last Line: And hush your awful anguish on my breast? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Vengeance THE SANCTUARY: 5. LOVE OMNIPOTENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, is there aught I should fail to achieve for your / sake? Last Line: And rend the cold silence that conquers the lips of the dead. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SANCTUARY: 7. INVOCATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stoop not from thy proud, lonely sphere Last Line: Attain thy side. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Trust THE SANCTUARY: 8. DEVOTION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my flesh to feed your dogs if you choose Last Line: Or burn like a weed for your sake in the flame of hell. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE SEASONS: AUTUMN, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn comes, a maiden fair Last Line: The young man's eager heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion THE SECRET, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should tell you what I know Last Line: Nor skill to teach me how to win it! Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SECRET COMBINATION, by ELLIS PARKER BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart she locked Last Line: "and at ""a kiss"" the door flew wide." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Secrets THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him most / when he came home from work Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SHY MAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon was shining upon the broad sea Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE SILENT SINGERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And proserpine, still fragrant of the air Last Line: But pluto's mouth, o mother proserpine! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THE SILENT WEAVER, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know what gossamer Last Line: Life's pattern is complete. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love THE SINGER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She stood behind the golden rail Last Line: Again shall hear her. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 16, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sith nowise could he gain her sire's consent Last Line: By maid and childing wife alike abhorr'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 31, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: With fluttering heart she hears his courser's tread Last Line: No more thy peace shall be at thy command! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Cultural Differences THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And much she ponders on his troubled mien Last Line: Are fondly fain to read the heart of man! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Alas,' quoth she, 'what hapless woe is mine Last Line: And my life's crown will be a crown of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 36, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Yet, of his clemency as belted knight Last Line: How might I bear that ever-during shame?' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 37, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So toss'd upon her pillow fev'rously Last Line: Love's sleepless vigil her flush'd cheeks bespoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love; Sleeplessness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 38, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then to the close ear of her chamberlain Last Line: If him she loves, eke loveth her full well?' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 40, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And she hath sent a ruby ring, thrice kiss'd Last Line: How limitless thy vast estranging seas! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Confessions; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 41, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How fared it with the knight, sir eliduc? Last Line: Can weigh the waters that o'erwhelm the soul? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 43, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now passion hath him in her silken snare Last Line: His leaping thoughts have set his heart afire. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 45, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All perils that love's stony path constrict Last Line: His last doubt fled before the full-orb'd day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His fiery destrier now champing stands Last Line: Now to each glossy flank the spur is press'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 48, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Like spindrift swept the foam-flakes to his rear Last Line: When every heart-throb now was harvested! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 50, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: He strains her to his passion-laden breast Last Line: And the swift heart-throbs at her column'd throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Hearts; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 51, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Yet such the garb of innocence she wore Last Line: Her heart of peace he never would profane. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 52, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: While with himself he wrestled day by day Last Line: Ever thou findest entry unaware! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 53, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, welladay! They met on many an eve Last Line: What richer could the glowing heavens bestow? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 54, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sweetest dream foreshadows an awaking Last Line: So thro' the world they twain together fared. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 58, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sir eliduc hath ta'en the maid aside Last Line: Against his breast her burden'd plaint did pour— Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 59, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, your absence I may not sustain Last Line: Apart, the long suspense I could not bear.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Presence THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 62, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, fortunate that leagues of foam divide Last Line: Aloof, afar, his sentinel watch he kept. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 64, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now all his mind was torn with love of her Last Line: In martyrdom her passing bell had toll'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 65, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Twixt scylla and charybdis now of fate Last Line: What pity won gave love but one tear less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 66, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But the new love possess'd his life and being Last Line: Thrice vain his hope who turns and thinks to fly it! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 73, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: They met near by a pinewood's pillar'd shade Last Line: These lovers in close-clasp'd enthralment glide! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 76, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sorely the knight chastised their cowardice Last Line: And with the knowledge her white soul had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 81, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Her life was innocent-in thought and deed Last Line: My penitence in stone to thee I'll raise.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 82, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Silent he kneels beside his muted dove Last Line: Homeward he turns his wistful wife to greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 99, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Life surged before them,-when a gentle voice Last Line: To plead with the dear christ for clemency.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SONG OF THE INGENUES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the ingenues Last Line: Of libertines. Subject(s): Hearts; Ingenuity; Singing & Singers THE SOUL OF MY LOVE, by IVY MAY GRANT Poem Text First Line: If I could see your soul, sweet hauntress, as Last Line: Lying together in the empurpled violet's heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SOUL'S MUTINY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a galley passing to the west Last Line: And wash those mutinous eyes for evermore. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE STONE, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: From life and love and the fresh green grass Last Line: I do keep on thinking so—of you! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Thought; Thinking THE STORY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met each other in the glade Last Line: Alas! Alas! For breaking hearts when lovers rove away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Summer; Separation; Isolation THE STRAYED LOVER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've lost the way to sylvia's heart Last Line: Then, having found it, dwell there. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THE TEMPLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, it is love's radiant hour of praise! Last Line: For love's burnt-offering! Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE TEST OF LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His lady fair a lover once reproved Last Line: "since you believe your eyes and not my word." Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Passion THE THING TO DO, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: For, after all, the thing to do Last Line: But all will listen eagerly. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs THE THOUGHT OF DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since when her faithful eyes, to which I yield Last Line: Whose thought brings comfort to my heart again. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Eyes; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The THE THREE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The first he loved was so Last Line: Greenly remote, alone. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE TRAITOR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Fain would I drive away the image of the spring. Each day of lilacs Last Line: Thee? Subject(s): Betrayal; Hearts; Sin; Spring THE TRAVELING MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I pour out the nectar the gods only can Last Line: Will welcome the traveling man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER HEART, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would be one with the dark, dark earth Last Line: When the sheaves were ripe, and the apples red. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TREE AND THE STAR, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Said the tree upon earth to the star in the sky Last Line: She is here in this heart of mine. Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Love THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Love came triumphant to my soul last night Last Line: Oh! Past, well dost thou know this love of mine! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE TWO SUITORS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Dear, I will give thee lands and gold Last Line: With just enough of both. Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE TWO VISIONS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through days of toil, through nightly fears Last Line: And darkness over all the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time; Vision THE UNACKNOWLEDGED FEAR, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the bottom of my fear Last Line: My shoulders bow under an invisible weight. Subject(s): Fear; Hate; Hearts; Love THE UNATTAINABLE, by HARRY ROMAINE Poem Text First Line: Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles Last Line: "for ""the girl we couldn't kiss." Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Hearts; Longing; Women; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNDERSONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the sea-song of the blood in my heart Last Line: And of tears? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Nature; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE UNFORGOTTEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I see, hurrying through worldly ways Last Line: Or men could lose their dearness, being dead. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fairy Tales; Hearts; Past; Childhood; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No name to bid us know Last Line: Fades into endless peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNWARY HEART, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: Now the glittering dust of pain Last Line: Darkling beauty holds her season. Subject(s): Hearts THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VISITOR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget? I had forgotten Last Line: If she's to come no more. Subject(s): Candles; Death; Forgetfulness; Hearts; Dead, The THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are leaning through the roses Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE WANDERER'S RETURN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing Last Line: "and mine is weary at the break of day." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Male-female Relations; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WATCHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long road and the low shore, a Last Line: Ah, me, but the night's long—and every night the same! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints THE WAVERING LOVER WILLETH AND DREADETH, TO MOVE HIS DESIRE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such vain thought as wonted to mislead me Last Line: But such it is I not how to begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 26 Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Hearts; Hope; Liberty; Optimism THE WAY TO WAIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O whether by the lonesome road Last Line: For love that finds a way to come, can find a way to wait! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Waiting; Separation; Isolation THE WAYS OF LOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's infidel / whom I adore Last Line: Till you loved in sooth! Subject(s): Eyes; Hate; Hearts; Love THE WHITE PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies not on the sunlit hill Last Line: Floods heart and brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Humanity; Peace THE WHITE POPPY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Like a shimmering poppy, robed in white Last Line: With kisses maddening more than wine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE WILD GEESE COME OVER NO MORE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild geese come over no more Last Line: Memory, care, and rue. Subject(s): Geese; Hearts; Memory; Youth THE WILD RIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses Last Line: Thou leadest, o god! All's well with thy troopers that follow! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Life THE WOLF, THE HORNET, AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: A wolf, a hornet, and a nightingale Last Line: Slaying the rapturous song-bird on the wing! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hornets; Nightingales; Thought; Wolves; Thinking THE WORKER, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be quiet, worker in my breast Last Line: Let me rest and close my eyes. Subject(s): Hearts THE WORLD AND I, by NELLY M. HUTCHINSON Poem Text First Line: Whether my heart be glad or no Last Line: Nelly m. Hutchinson. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THEIR LOVE LETTERS, by JEANNINE HALL GAILEY Poem Source First Line: I don't know what you see in me, he wrote Last Line: You are my shelter she wrote, my balance %my strong pair of hands Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Strength THESE CARS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are the tired words around a city's great Last Line: Wrapping the word around %your body Subject(s): Hearts; Love THEY SAY - ., by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say I have a constant heart, who know Last Line: Service to all of beauty -- and her due. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Light THEY WHO COME BACK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My faithful dead come back to me in dreams Last Line: My changeless dead, who rest so long and well. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Love; Vision; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are two old birds Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age THIS GREEN ORCHARD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The healthiest place for love is here Last Line: Be poorer in our bliss? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THIS IS A LOVE, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: This is a love that had its beginning Last Line: And crying from love Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THIS IS HOW MY HEART BEATS, by DAVID HELLMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a blue animal Last Line: Its pulse in the cage %I woke up in Subject(s): Hearts THREE LOVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My silver love is shared by all Last Line: On mat or grass, or stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THREE STUDENTS, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three students once tarried over the rhine Last Line: "and will love thee, yes, forever and aye!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love THREE YEARS, by PETER TUCCI Poem Text First Line: There's weeping in my heart tonight Last Line: As just six feet of earth. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long upon her throne Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone! Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THROW OUT THE ANCHOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Out of my mind at last Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason THROWN ASIDE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I have loved thee fondly Last Line: My love can never fade! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Worship TIGHTENED STRINGS, by ELIZABETH B. ROBB Poem Text First Line: The charm of music's soul - elating voice Last Line: There is no music but on tightened strings. Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians TIME'S GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Years are the seedlings which we care- / less sow Last Line: The year you gave, beloved, your rosemary. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love TO A BEAUTIFUL BUT HEARTLESS COQUETTE, by FRANCISCO DE TERRAZAS Poem Source First Line: Renounce those threads of twisted gold Last Line: To be grateful, cruel, vain, austere! Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; Spring TO A FRIEND FOR HER NAKED BREASTS, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "madam I praise you, cause you'r free" Last Line: And punish you for what's within Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Breasts;hearts;sin TO A GOLDEN HEART, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pledge of departed bliss Last Line: To mark it as a thrall of past captivity. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of TO A GOLDEN HEART, WORN ROUND HIS NECK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembrancer of joys long passed away Last Line: They're stifled by the pressure of his chain. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love TO A LADY GOING VEILED, by GOMEZ MANRIQUE Poem Source First Line: The very heart went out of me Last Line: With my enraptured view Subject(s): Hearts; Likes And Dislikes; Love; Passion TO A LADY: SHE REFUSING TO CONTINUE A DISPUTE WITH ME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare, generous victor, spare the slave Last Line: He sent; and as he fled, he slew. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TO A MOCKING-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy taunting happiness Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO A PAIR OF LOVERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you only love each other Last Line: Love each other best Subject(s): Earth;hearts;love; World TO ALISON, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ghouls and ghosts shall science lay? Not ours! Last Line: Their ghosts turn flowers; like angels they array them. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Hearts; Supernatural; Time TO AN OLD TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot choose but love, lad Last Line: Or stab you -- smile, lad, smile. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The TO AN UNKNOWN GODDESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Like to the violet amongst her leaves Last Line: Will wonder pensively, 'who can it be?' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship TO CELIA ON HER WEDDING DAY, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst heav'n with kind propitious ray Last Line: Wrapt in a glorious blaze of light Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Tragedy TO CLOE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst I am scorched with hot desire Last Line: The rest in mine shall ever last. Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Hearts; Passion TO DELIA: 18 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What it is to breathe and live without life Last Line: Delia, my heart hath learned out of those eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Peace TO DELIA: 24, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft and in vain my rebel thoughts have ventured Last Line: Reign in my thoughts, my love and life are thine. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love TO ELIZABETH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: You never have said that you loved Last Line: And I am your long-famished lover. Subject(s): Hearts; Love TO EMERGE FROM A WOMAN IS TO BECOME SEPARATE, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source Last Line: The earth gleams naked Subject(s): Hearts; Women TO FORTUNE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am old, all things I will endure Last Line: The grey friend sweet. Subject(s): Fortune; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO GEORGE H. BOKER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you the homage of this book I bring Last Line: A heart, dear friend, that never falsely beat. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Seasons TO HESTER ON THE STAIR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hester, creature of my love Last Line: Mind this only, only mind! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hearts; Love; Dead, The TO HIM, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: No bonds withhold, - for all that held are Last Line: Holds pardon for thee and sweet charity Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be you still, be you still, trembling heart Last Line: With the proud, majestical multitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): To My Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear Subject(s): Fear; Hearts TO JEAN, by LURA PUTNAM CARR Poem Text First Line: I would give to thee only life's beautiful things Last Line: And a love that only true living brings. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of TO LAUREN NEWLY BORN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Lauren, your name is lovely Last Line: Wishing you faith and courage %whatever life may do Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion TO LEONORA, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Black as the wing of mystery thine hair Last Line: Yet is there something deeper still-thy dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love TO LOVE, by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love, grant me kisses beyond counting Last Line: With the list of where and when Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love TO LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Of all the riches that are mine Last Line: What gift have I withheld before thy throne? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age TO MAKE A TALISMAN, by OLGA OROZCO Poem Source First Line: Your heart is all you need Last Line: The innocent monster, insatiable dinner-guest at %your death! Subject(s): Death; Hearts TO MERTILL WHO DESIRED HER TO SPEAK TO CLORINDA OF HIS LOVE, by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Mertill though my heart should break Last Line: Or fear to lose, -- but you. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The TO MICHEL, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: Before I found you, michel Last Line: My life is filled—with pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TO MRS. AMY BEACH, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In silence lie the snowy keys Last Line: We thank thee . . . With our tears. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hearts; Silence; Tears TO MY DAUGHTER ON VALENTINE'S DAY, FIFTH GRADE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: You were straight and solid and golden Last Line: From her gold-dusted depths, piquant, bruisable Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day TO MY FIRST-BORN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: My own, my child, with strange delight I look upon thy face Last Line: To shield thy heart from passion's strife and fix its hope on heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Children; Grief; Hearts; Life; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY ITALIAN PERGOLA REVISITED, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shaded avenue of bloom Last Line: That your glowing hearts are mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Nature; Roses; Spring TO MY LOVE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: You have as many defects as a pig has lice and you will rub against Last Line: With a great and insatiable appetite Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion TO MY SWEETHEART, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: There never was a rose-lipt maiden Last Line: The glory of you is your heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Love TO NIMUE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had clean forgotten all, her face who had caused my / trouble Last Line: Blows. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do. Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary TO REV. W. H. MILBURN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, we guide thee to the altar Last Line: There all shall know as they are known. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Religion; Theology TO TERESA, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: Visions of days outworn, why do ye grow Last Line: Who recks of one more corpse laid low in earth? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory TO THE AUTHOR OF THE FOREGOING PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By silvia if thy charming self be meant Last Line: And dies in woe, that thou mayst live in peace. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Beauty; Friendship; Hearts TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot. Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery TO THE EARTH, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress and slave of the sun Last Line: Out of the fading and weak infinite splendour and strength. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Love TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not your faire out-side though famous greece Last Line: And comes to england, though in france he tarrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hearts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TO THE SUN SHORE (AFTER HEARING A BENGALI SONG), by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill with the breeze of hope Last Line: Beyond, beyond the gold-cloud's bar. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love TO THE VIRGIN, by RODRIGUEZ DEL PADRON Poem Source First Line: O fire of light divine Last Line: Weeps that her reign must end Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Hearts; Love TO THEE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: Our love, without shadows or reproaches, now counts Last Line: Of a little cloud and a little azure! Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old admiration before I was twenty Last Line: The fun of a heavy old heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Hearts TO WILLIAM COWPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never hath gentler soul or purer heart Last Line: To thy meek sons, or make thy sages kind. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul; Destiny; Paradise TO Y... O..., ESQ, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou standest well, old mountain! Though thy brow Last Line: "the mighty woe hath broke the feeble heart." Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Love; Memory TO YOU WHOM I SAW ONCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember / that your eyes were tranquil Last Line: And secret dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Memory; Passion; Nightmares TO YOUR HEART, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: The path to your heart is a new england roadway Last Line: And ends with a stone. Subject(s): Hearts; New England; Roads; Paths; Trails TOGETHER, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The moments fly, the days fulfil the year Last Line: Fire-forged, time-tested are the bonds of years. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Togetherness TOO LATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Speak low; tread softly Last Line: Came a day too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism TORN CLOUD, THE RAINBOW, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Like a soap bubble in the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory TOUCH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Touch wood %like coming up to love Last Line: Say wood, %be like the trees in your memory Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have broken my wings Last Line: If I escape your evil heart. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: AFTER LONG AGES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired child, on thy way to paradise Last Line: "we also pass into peace and joy eternal." Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY THIS HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By this heart sacred for you o children - for you a few years beating Last Line: Shall your spirit sublimely sing. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Love; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. CHILD OF THE LONELY HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the lonely heart Last Line: Through the great mother-heart eternally ascending! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Solitude; Loneliness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OF THE LOVE THAT YOU POURED FORTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the love that you poured forth, dear friend Last Line: Not think so. Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Love; Relationships TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THESE WAVES OF YOUR GREAT HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You battling with your own heart, speaking the words of peace in vain Last Line: At your feet now mournfully breaking. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Mourning; Childhood; Bereavement TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THUS I YEARNED FOR LOVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus as I yearned for love Last Line: Ever down. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Love; Passion; Childhood TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALL NIGHT LONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my love Last Line: Eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Religion; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE CHAMBER OF BIRTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chamber of birth Last Line: And the good anxious husband comes to the door smiling again at last. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Hearts; Love - Marital; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN THE DEEP CAVE OF THE HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep cave of the heart, far down Last Line: Words float, and fragrance of time ascends, and life ever circling. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mankind; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O THOU WHOSE FORM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose form is ever in my heart Last Line: Are mine for thee, to lose themselves in thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fifty years through wind and sun and rain Last Line: We shall perchance awaken. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Churches; Gold; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE MORTAL LOVER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the little mortal lover in whose heart the low scorching flame Last Line: Eyes for a glimmer of light, but there is none. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mortality TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WIND OF MAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O glorious wind, that in my lover's face blowest Last Line: Disclose thy heart, o wind, and the love thou bearest. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE LOVER FAR ON THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here on this high top far above the world Last Line: With the dear god that dwells behind them both. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mountain Climbing; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE WANDERING PSYCHE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who un-united to yourself roam about the world Last Line: How shall you indeed know what it is to be yourself? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Self-love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (2), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall command the heart, that wondrous thing Last Line: The universe over? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Hearts; Love TOWERS OF BOLOGNA, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The two towers of bologna Last Line: Like those immense trees that long for evening in the woods %and long for the immense and endless st Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage TRAGEDIES: 9, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She was only a woman, famish'd for loving Last Line: Grimacing and fing'ring his fiddle-strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Hearts; Musical Instruments; Women TRAGOS, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The heart of man is cleft by two desires Last Line: Then vanishes and leaves all dark behind. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Life; Mankind; Human Race TRAVELOGUE: WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DARK LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you could hear a town grow, to wonder about other, distant objects Last Line: By thinking the thinking heart so smokeable Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips TREASURE SHARED, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: The tender wealth of happy married years Last Line: And tranquil sense of sweet proportion learned. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Marriage; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRESPASSERS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Old men upon the wall of troy Last Line: God set a fiery star to cool. Subject(s): Hearts; Love TRUE HISTORY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: All the trees around Last Line: To kiss the earth Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Memory TRUE TO POLL, by FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND Poem Text First Line: I'll sing you a song, not very long Last Line: And his heart was true to poll. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs TWAS AWKWARD, BUT IT FITTED ME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Omitted in the lease Variant Title(s): Poem: 973; Poem: 90 Subject(s): Hearts TWILIGHT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In rhapsody the human heart will ever surge Last Line: In radiance sublime, the shores of day and night. Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by FOREST M. KELP Poem Text First Line: Jes' a-smokin' Last Line: Prayin' you're a-lovin' too! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness TWILIT HARMONY, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the hour is come when stems are thrilled Last Line: Thy memory lights me like a monstrance filled! Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Sunset; Twilight TWINKLETOES, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When suzanne / steps to the beat of the music's zest Last Line: On twinkletoes. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts TWO, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: Your hand in mine, together we go toward evening and ashes Last Line: Namelessness of night Subject(s): Hearts; Love TWO FOR THE FIRE: 1. LATE SPRING, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: The old wooden witch they call winter in the old country Last Line: If a heart were there Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Winter TWO HEARTS; AFTER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's got my heart and I've got hers Last Line: We're stuck with each other's hearts now. Subject(s): Hearts; Love TWO HUSSIES, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady-moon's a hussy Last Line: When they were turned on me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships TWO LOVES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep within my heart of hearts, dear Last Line: Yours, and yours alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Trust TWO OPTIMISTS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To send fit thanks, I would I had the art Last Line: And heaven sent both this troubled world to bless. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Religion; Optimism; Theology TWO PANELS: AS WHEN, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when, flesh upon flesh, we tried to make our bodies Last Line: Where the eyes were, where the eyes on the skin of the snake were Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Love TWO SUNSETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair morning of his life Last Line: And strikes the holiest feelings dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Evening; Hearts; Life; Punishment; Sunset; Twilight UNDINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She did not answer him again Last Line: The hope of life was o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Love; Memory UNE VIE SANS AILLEURS, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: But why does the heart still move %and recollect its darkened wings? Last Line: And of what will the heart continue to sing? Subject(s): Hearts UNFINISHED, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me I cannot die Last Line: With shining haste to reach my tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNITY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, my clock pants Last Line: A bullet in the blue shape of a heart Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of UPADESHA: CYCLE OF DESIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unheard / you do / stand me Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love UPADESHA: CYCLE OF DESIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unheard %you do %stand me Last Line: In flagrant periphrasis %heat's language Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love UPON A CROWNED HEART SENT TO A CRUEL MISTRESS, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thou emblem of my heart Last Line: Love no more shall fire thee hence. Subject(s): Hearts; Love UTTERANCES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I do not want to know that you are dead Last Line: My eyes close, as you shake loose your skin Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts VALE ATQUE AVE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall return to thee Last Line: I shall return to thee earth, my mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Love; Mothers; World VALENTINES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: These chain- %links of consonants Last Line: Heart's syntac- %tic curve Subject(s): Hearts; Holidays; Love; Passion; Valentine's Day VALLADOLID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart was happy when I turned from burgos to valladolid Last Line: Twill ease my heart if thou depart, - thy peace may god restpre Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of VASE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: I dream of a vase of humble and simple clay Last Line: And I'll cover you only with my endless gaze! Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs; Women VASHTI, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far- / off land I used to know Last Line: Served low at her feet. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Memory; Slavery; Separation; Isolation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs VENICE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I've been there: 1989. Ate squid and scampi Last Line: Wine and crazy in love in venice, in springtime, in 1989 Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance; Travel; Venice, Italy VENUS IN A GARDEN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at early morning Last Line: Gathered from the roses red. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Roses VERSE-FRAGMENTS FROM THE PROSE WORKS, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balsame, pure wax, and chrismas-liquor clear Last Line: But who shall helpe them to a hempen string? Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology VESSEL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this body as I fall asleep again? Subject(s): Hearts VICTORY, VICTORIA, MY BEAUTIFUL WHISPER, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: You are the daughter who is sleep's beauty Last Line: Make of them your heart's bed Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Hearts; Love; Relationships VIEW #13, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Beach sand in the bed Last Line: New moon our dark pearl Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance VIEW #1: WEST, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: The heart' this, 'the heart' that Last Line: So beautifully into it? Subject(s): Hearts; Love VIEW #2, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: It was just one task to recover the taken-for-granted Last Line: And good intentions. Begin again Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of VIEW #8, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: It's late and you don't know Last Line: And whispers; yes. Now Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love VIGIL, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: The crimson roses burn and glow Last Line: Or still the crimson roses glow. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses VIOLIN SONGS: MY HEART THY LARK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou want to sing Last Line: Thy lark to meet thy day! Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Hearts; Larks; Joy; Delight; Skylarks VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or bene the manes of that cynic spright Last Line: And wound, and strike, and pardon whom she list. Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts VISIONS: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream both strange and sad to see Last Line: Headlong I fell, and -- woke from sleep. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Time; Nightmares VOICES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man died yesternight. To-day the town Last Line: Nay, ask me not: ask only god. He knows. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Soul; Voices; Dead, The VOLCANOS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Every volcano rears its outlined height Last Line: Baskets o' erturned, that pour abroad their flowers Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Passion; Volcanoes VOLUPTE, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of endless charm, whose youth is green Last Line: And goodly death. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Religion; Saints; Women; Theology WAIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know, o faltering heart Last Line: Press bravely on -- and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Night; Waiting; Bedtime WAITING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowerless weeds along the tangled hedge Last Line: And from ourselves we hide our own hearts' mystery! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Night; Stars; Waiting; Weeds; World; Bedtime WALK, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: My stone is ribs. They're flattening out and they Last Line: Pour down your throat, and you clean them. Thank you Subject(s): Hearts; Love WAR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are not the hours Last Line: Not worth it! -- of one torn and martyred one! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; War; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest, canst thou tell me why Last Line: That thou forsakest me? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WATER, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Inviting to my touch, but cool at first Last Line: To hold you, the less of you remained Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of WAY THE LIGHT WAS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How completely useless beauty Last Line: A bird picks up a seed and carries a life away Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Supernatural WE ALL TO CONQUERING BEAUTY BOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Would seem but as one day Subject(s): Beauty;hearts;love WE KNOW, by MARTHA TAYLOR BROWN Poem Text First Line: My heart and I know many things Last Line: Why tides must rise and poets sing. Subject(s): Hearts WE LOVE EACH OTHER, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source Last Line: Of each other %searching %for the music Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love WE WONDERING BEHOLD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: With swelling joy Last Line: Of endless love and growth. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight WEDDED HANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year, sweet wife, is on the wane Last Line: Good-night, old year, good-night! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WELCOME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o fiery pain! Last Line: Vision of love immortal. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The WERE I REBORN A STONE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Where I reborn a man %even so I should love you, woman Subject(s): Hearts; Love WESTPHALIAN SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou to my true love com'st Last Line: "say, I come tomorrow" Subject(s): Death;germany;hearts;heaven;love - Loss Of; "dead, The;germans;paradise; WHAT GAIN?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair Last Line: Sweetheart, but bitter pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Love; Pain; Tears; Youth; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery 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 HELPED, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: What helped was also what hurt Last Line: To resolution - I was only %too happy to finish Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love WHAT HOLDS US TOGETHER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is almost nothing, a little Last Line: Of the bodies we tremble across the world in Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness WHAT IS MORE SACRED THAN A KISS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A kiss can be as pure, as chaste Last Line: From heaven's founts above. Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Kisses; Love WHAT LOVE DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fused together, after years %and years of it, mostly the two legs Last Line: Rough arms and straining legs of the other Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Quarrels; Tears WHAT SAPPHO WOULD HAVE SAID .. LEAP CURED INSTEAD OF KILLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, love, that having found a heart Last Line: Fill me and make me wholly thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Hearts; Love; Time WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A MAN, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When infatuations buried me Last Line: She is shallow, the brain of a bird Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Love Affairs WHEN A BUTTERFLY SEES A FLOWER, by SONG-I Poem Source Last Line: Which must not come again Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Hearts; Insects; Love WHEN WE HOLD EACH OTHER, by JOSEPH HOFFMAN Poem Text First Line: When we hold each other in our arms Last Line: When we hold each other in our arms. Subject(s): Hearts WHERE IS ARCADY?, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text Last Line: "will you go now, pretty maid?" Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Parting WHILE TRYING TO RIVAL YOUR HAIR, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Into dirt, into smoke, into dust, into darkness, into nothingness Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships WHITENESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: What thing than the lily unstained is more white? Last Line: Till it rests on your shoulders, a marvel to see! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Snow; Winter WHO GIVES IN LOVE, by ISIDOR WISE Poem Text First Line: Naught is there in life worth living Last Line: Shall a thousand pleasures prove. Subject(s): Hearts; Jews; Love; Judaism WHO SHALL SAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I toiled on, but thou Last Line: Still rememberest thou? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Rest; Separation; Isolation WHO WILL BUY ME AN ORANGE?, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source Last Line: To console me know? Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Loss Of WHY I WORK, by JEFF WALT Poem Source First Line: Every day I tie on an apron, wrap the long Last Line: From the heat of my t-shirt and remind me Subject(s): Hearts; Kindness; Love - Marital WHY?, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What makes you ask dan cupid 'why?' Last Line: For love never knows the reason why. Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Eros WILD GOATS, by ANICE PAGE COOPER Poem Text First Line: The moon is full but it won't spill over Last Line: Hearts never do. Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Hearts; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD HEART; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where would I be if not for your wild heart? Last Line: How could I live? How could I make my art? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations WILL THE SPELLBOUND WORLD DIE WITH YOU, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Been working for dust and wind? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory WILLIE DRUNK AGAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, willie, you've come home, lad" Last Line: And ne'er get drunk again Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;hearts;poverty WINTER BRANCH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: When I see you Last Line: Of agony. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness WISH: 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: This is no place to stay Last Line: You who calls me %from afar Subject(s): Emptiness; Hearts; Love; Prisons And Prisoners; Wishes WITH STAIN OF THE GRAPE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Wild thing the wind is Last Line: The heart knows best. Subject(s): Desire; Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed WITH THE TWO LOST ONES, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: One is red, one is blue %both tied like veins to the heart Last Line: Each of us searching %for our own found Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Hearts WITHIN THE HEART, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA Poem Source First Line: I called to my heart. No one answered. No one was Last Line: And I remained gazing at the heights Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Thought WITNESSES, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses remember; golden noons recall Last Line: Remembers. We were young. Are we so old? Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Roses WOMAN AMID DREAMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Woman maddened by dreams Last Line: The fingertips of my heart Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships WOMAN IS OF MAN THE BEST, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That sometimes cures, and sometimes kills Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Women WOMANHOOD, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By airs aeolian wooed, so softly sweet Last Line: Holds something sacred, from the world apart. Subject(s): Hearts; Women WOOD WITCHERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way ran under boughs of checkered green Last Line: Unaging beauty by another name. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; New England; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets WOODLAND LOVER, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you who must not hear the diapason Last Line: Shall seek to find your lips in earthly sod. Subject(s): Hearts; Love WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are lighter than the cloud-foam Last Line: Echoes in god's skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Language; Life; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary WORDS AND KISSES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She pecks the earth for every second Last Line: To make birds jealous when we kiss!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love WORLD THEY WENT INTO, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Nothing seemed different, at first. After Last Line: This world each [or, they each] went separately forth into Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Togetherness WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements WYOMING, by JILL OSIER Poem Source First Line: You recognized the land, and I recognized you. And I Last Line: Beside me. I saw grass, I saw sky. You saw wyoming Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Travel; Wyoming X, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because every thought is either memory or desire, the world Last Line: X, as knowledge is recollection, and love all discovery without delay Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets YE NYMPHS AND SYLVAN GODS, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text Last Line: Of those of the milking-pail. Subject(s): Hearts; Spring YOLANTE AND MARY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both these ladies know by instinct Last Line: There have reign'd, then been dismiss'd Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Youth YOSEMITE: 40TH ANNIVERSARY CLIMB, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Marriage too is a climb that %earlier couples teach us to go up Last Line: Freudian' & champagne crusted in foil Subject(s): Anniversaries; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage YOU ARE ALL LOVELY THINGS, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: You are all lovely things I know in my quiet world Last Line: You are the prayer on my lips. Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Love; Relationships YOU CAN DEPART, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: You can depart. The sadness is for me. What do you care that I'm Last Line: The sea is very fair. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: But you know how to raise it in me Last Line: In black plastic. Let the mourners through Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain YOU NOW HOLDING THIS BOOK IN HAND, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man kissed her hand. Little earrings. They're about Last Line: Confederate flag. She kisses the man on his cheek. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU SLIP AWAY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bitter blossom of your lips Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love YOU WHO ARE MY WOUND, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: As if you have stopped wishing for anything Subject(s): Hearts; Love YOUNG MEN .. WERE FICKLE FOUND SINCE SUMMER TREES WERE LEAFY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go in peace my beloved; tho' never again Last Line: In thy far-distant country and sun-gladdened clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The YOUR HAND IN MINE, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: But another day I touch your hand. Warm hand Last Line: Where I people you and sing you full within your flesh Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Relationships YOUR HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In your hands %I fuse wheat Last Line: Sound of that which returns Subject(s): Hearts; Love YOUR MART AND MINE, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: I wish I could sing of the cities Last Line: In shop, or in office, or wide-sloping hill. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Hearts; South Dakota YOUR NAME, by SHANNON KEELS Poem Source First Line: I wrote your name in the sand, but the waves from the water washed it away Last Line: I wrote your name in my heart, and that's where it stayed Subject(s): Hearts; Love YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wanton youth, this wind was not Last Line: "the heart of youth is wise." Subject(s): Aging; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Memory; Wind; Wisdom; Youth ZARA (1) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken Last Line: Knowing that I drink them, o my love, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ZARA'S EAR-RINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My ear-rings! My ear-rings! They've dropped into the well Last Line: "and that deep his love lies in my heart, as they lie in the well!" Subject(s): Earrings;hearts;love;man-woman Relationships;truth; Male-female Relations |
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