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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOLIDAYS Matches Found: 2200 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twelve moneths agoe, what rate would I too dear Last Line: Dispair is better farr, than fruitless hope. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Whilst I behinde me cast my annual ey Last Line: Thy graces aid, at least now gin to live. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism 1-JAN-73, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If caledars are made of square holes, something Last Line: Between the year and the year, where zero is Subject(s): Holidays; New Year 1/1/1973, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Good morning, sun! %good morning, new year! Last Line: All you, party members, %good morning from the bottom of my heart! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties; Poetry And Poets 14-FEB-89, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: North's lawyers say he'll claim a cover-up Last Line: The roses you brought have opened Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Social Protest; Valentine's Day 1938 BONNETS, by ERMA HAALAND Poem Text First Line: I tried on a new bonnet / it really was Last Line: My new easter hat. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection 2-JAN-78, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor and his children are shoveling snow Last Line: I don't much like fish, and don't care what I catch Subject(s): Holidays; New Year 5666-NEW YEAR-1905, by JACOB KLEIN Poem Text First Line: From old to new, with broadening sweep Last Line: Held by the hand of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Rosh Hashanah; Judaism A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were younger, mary jane Last Line: And she will love me dearly! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BALLAD OF HEROES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you passed, and now are not Last Line: The deeds you wrought are not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A BIBLE LOVER'S THANKSGIVING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the book! Its way, its truth, its life? Last Line: Oh, praise to god for what we may become! Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Thanksgiving A BLUE VALENTINE; FOR ALINE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsignore / right reverend bishop valentinus Last Line: "for wearing a blue gown." Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Holidays; Kilmer, Aline (1888-1941); Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A CALIFORNIA EASTER MASS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Now burn the poppy-lamps of spring Last Line: The gloria of the born-again. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Mass; The Resurrection A CHILD'S GRACE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some hae meat and canna eat Last Line: And sae the lord be thankit. Variant Title(s): Grace Before Eating;a Selkirk Grace;kirkcudbright Grace;grace At Kirkcudbright Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving A CHILD'S THANKS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How low soe'er men rank us Last Line: Ours, only to be blest. Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Childhood A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, sweet christmas, blest be the morn Last Line: And many without a blanket to their bed Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Kindness A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND ANTHEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark to the voices of the night Last Line: On that first christmas night. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas Carols; Happiness; Holidays; Singing & Singers; Winter; Joy; Delight; Songs A CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me at christmas time and Last Line: Within her tiny, crumpled hand I touched the mighty hand of god! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology 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 CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by AGNES GILES NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: Lord, I will dress thy shrine with garlands gay Last Line: For those whom thou and I, dear lord, hold dear. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Night; Prayer; Nativity, The; Bedtime A CHRISTMAS REVERIE, by WILLIAM HARPER HUFF Poem Text First Line: Christmas comes again with all the Last Line: This sparkling breath of fancy! Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS WISH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At christmas season's glad return Last Line: And god's rich love be understood. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A COTTAGE SCENE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a cradle at a cottage door Last Line: From earth to heaven. Subject(s): Country Life; Holidays; Thanksgiving A COUNTRY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There the patient oxen were, by the ass's stall Last Line: In the open country-land of my good lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nativity, The; The Resurrection A DEATH ON EASTER DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strong spring sun rejoicingly may rise Last Line: Out of the likeness of the shadow of death. Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Light; Dead, The; The Resurrection A DREAM OF SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bland as the morning breath of june Last Line: Has left his hope with all! Subject(s): Holidays; Summer; Trees A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And he is risen? Well, be it so Last Line: For endless rest -- though risen is he. Variant Title(s): On One Who Lived And Died Where Born Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection A FIDDLER'S VALENTINE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty player, from thy strings Last Line: Kiss, and say good-bye to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Fiddles; Holidays; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Valentine's Day A FROG'S THANKSGIVING, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frog with a shanty built over each eye Last Line: Well, maybe I am; I'm a frog just the same. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cannibals; Frogs; Holidays; Thanksgiving A GEORGIA VOLUNTEER, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: Far up the lonely mountain-side Last Line: A georgia volunteer. Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day A GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo, even now, the sky's far rim Last Line: Forever more 'tis easter morn. Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; The Resurrection; Virgin Mary A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A happy new year! Oh such may it be Last Line: Then joyously enter thy happy new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All robed in ethereal whiteness Last Line: Look forth on a happy new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A happy new year' it will be -- if it's new Last Line: Nothing old, all things new, in the happy new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New mercies, new blessings, new light on the way Last Line: All this be the joy of thy new life in christ! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A HOLIDAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is like a garden Last Line: Some women are like that, do what you may. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Home; Labor & Laborers; Love; Relatives; Work; Workers A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this auspicious, memorable morn Last Line: We are, in christ, eternally alive. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A HYMN FOR EASTER DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is risen! He, who came Last Line: Cho. Worthy of all pow'r and praise, &c. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Salvation; The Resurrection; Theology A LITTLE TE DEUM OF THE COMMONPLACE; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: With hearts responsive Last Line: We thank thee, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Variant Title(s): A Te Deum Of The Commonplace Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology A MEMORIAL DAY POEM FOR THE CONFEDERACY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing the gray, wearing the gray Last Line: The old rebel jacket our dead boy had on! Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Confederacy; Declaration Day A MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE QUEEN, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou great commandress, that dost move Last Line: The water, earth, and air inspire. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW DAY, by MABEL HAMMER Poem Text First Line: I thank thee, lord, for this new day Last Line: To save the world and set it free. Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Thanksgiving A NEW PSALM FOR THE CHAPEL OF KILMARNOCK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sing a new song to the lord Last Line: Thou kens we get as little. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving A NEW START, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I will start anew this morning with a higher, fairer creed" Last Line: "I will cease to preach your duty, and be more concerned with mine" Subject(s): Holidays;new Year;resolutions A NEW YEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Over the threshold a gallant newcomer Last Line: To be worthy our master and worthy of you Subject(s): Holidays;new Year A NEW YEAR, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a clean year Last Line: For you! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! A new white world Last Line: And pure as snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want a new year. New things are not patched Last Line: To thine eternity forever new. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR GREETING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark, the new year bells are pealing Last Line: Start the new year well today! Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight A NEW YEAR THOUGHT, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Finis' is writ: a book away is laid Last Line: Alas, that I should still unpractised be! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S BURDEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the grass sweet airs are blown Last Line: The love once ours, but ours long hours ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year A NEW YEAR'S CAROL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, awake! The world is young Last Line: The silent pools of light and truth. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S EVE IN WAR TIME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phantasmal fears Last Line: To pale europe; and tiredly the pines intone. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War A NEW YEAR'S GIFT SUNG TO KING CHARLES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today old janus opens the new year Last Line: Tis he, 'tis he, etc. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE KING, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look back, old janus, and survey Last Line: In his blest reign the temple door. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW YEAR'S GREETING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The century numbers fourscore years Last Line: Down to their mates blow! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S HOPE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not hope that in this dawning year Last Line: I still may courage have to struggle on. Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Valor; Bravery; Optimism A NEW YEAR'S HYMN, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consuming fire! Eternal love! Last Line: Thy will be done! Subject(s): Greetings; Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE, by BLANCHE EDENS CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: As I look all around me and wonder Last Line: Living the new year, day by day. Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Leadership; New Year A NEW YEAR'S PLAINT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells that lift their yawning Last Line: "but take the ""welcome"" from your door." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION TO LEAVE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome! Thrice welcome! To the year 1893 Last Line: And leave dundee some early day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Holidays; New Year; Parting A NEW YEAR'S SACRIFICE; TO LUCINDA, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those that can give, open their hands this day Last Line: Behold the blaze of thy immortal name. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S SYMPHONY, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: To rise at morn as blythe as little child Last Line: Fill in my task another happy year! Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Symphonies; Joy; Delight; Concerts A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once again in wintry ways Last Line: Yet once again! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: What does the new year hold in store for me Last Line: And take what comes, conformable to plan. Subject(s): Future; Holidays; Life Change Events; New Year; Time A NEW YEAR'S TIME AT WILLARDS'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's old man willards; an' his Last Line: "an' s'repty's good enough fer you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Auctions; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The A NEW-YEAR ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice twelve times have the springs of years refilled Last Line: One heart benign, one soul supreme, one conquering name. Subject(s): Death; God; Holidays; Life; New Year; Dead, The A NEW-YEARES GIFT SENT TO SIR SIMEON STEWART, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No newes of navies burnt at seas Last Line: Frolick the full twelve holy-dayes. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A NON-NATURAL EASTER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ill fares the priest to-day, who blinks the faith Last Line: And missing all the sweet airs and the dew! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection A PLEA FOR THE LITTLE ONES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was easter monday morning Last Line: Our cause, the cause of god. Subject(s): Children; Easter; Holidays; Childhood; The Resurrection A PLEA FOR THE OLD YEAR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the smiling new year climb the heights Last Line: Now his strong conqueror, the new, appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR, by LAURA F. ARMITAGE Poem Text First Line: O year that is going, take with you Last Line: And more love that is true love indeed. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Prayer A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE SOUL OF AN ECCENTRIC MAN, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Lord of the understanding heart Last Line: As death's now opening gates. Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Religion; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Theology A PSALM FOR EASTER, by MABEL C. MEASE Poem Text First Line: I would sweep clean this house I call myself Last Line: Always that way. Subject(s): Bodies; Easter; Holidays; Singing & Singers; The Resurrection A PSALM FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friend stands at the door Last Line: Where there are neither days nor months nor years. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A RECIPE FOR A GOOD YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take a month of praise, and a month of prayer Last Line: Will come a glorious year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A ROUTE FOR THE PROCESSION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall the veterans march to-day Last Line: "soon we too shall be lying here." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Parades; Declaration Day A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last night of the grand review Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 29. THE LENT LILY, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spring; come out to ramble Last Line: That dies on easter day. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Spring; The Resurrection A SILENT TE DEUM, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: We thank thee, lord / for all thy golden silences Last Line: Thank thee, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology A SOLDIER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled Last Line: Further than target ever showed or shone Subject(s): Holidays; War A SOLDIER POET, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where swell the songs thou shouldst have sung Last Line: That silence here is music there. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day A SONG FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay Last Line: One parting strain, and then away. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the cause, and the blood that feeds it! Last Line: Worthy who did what we could! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What graven words shall mark as mine Last Line: Is love that's neither bought nor sold. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG FOR THE SINGLE TABLE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye single folks all, that adorn this gay table Last Line: Derry down &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People A SONG OF HARVEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day, two hundred years ago Last Line: If not on earth, at last in heaven. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees A SONG OF LIFE, by ELLIN J. TOY Poem Text First Line: Bloom, easter lilies fair! Last Line: Hath made thee forever victor of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Knowles, Joseph H., Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection A SONG OF VICTORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day A SONG ON NEW-YEAR'S DAY BEFORE THE KING, CAR. 2, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My trembling song! Awake! Arise! Last Line: Hosannah, hallelujah to th' almighty king! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A TALE OF CHRISTMAS EVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas christmastide in germany Last Line: And bade the crowd good-night, then went home content. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Kindness; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight A TE DEUM FOR GOD'S OWN SELF, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For thine own self Last Line: Without ending -- praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology A THANKSGIVING, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank thee, earth, for water good Last Line: With lydia or with lalage. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving A THANKSGIVING, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the wealth of pathless forests Last Line: I thank thee, o my god! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving A THANKSGIVING, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, in this dust thy sovereign voice Last Line: And faith in this world's shame. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving A THANKSGIVING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, we thank thee for the crops Last Line: We thank thee, blessed lord! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A THANKSGIVING FABLE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hungry pussy cat, upon thanksgiving morning Last Line: But the little mouse had overheard and declined (with thanks) to stay. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A THANKSGIVING FEAST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two are the last my daughter! Last Line: Will be here thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Feasts; Food & Eating; Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey A THANKSGIVING LITANY (SUGGESTED BY A POEM BY W. D. HOWELLS), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, all my litany Last Line: And pray thee, pardon me! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving A THANKSGIVING POEM, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun hath shed its kindly light Last Line: We could not thank thee for them all. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou hast given me a cell Last Line: My christ, by thee. Variant Title(s): A Thankful Heart;my Home. A Thanksgiving To God For A House .. Devonshire Subject(s): Holidays; Home; Thanksgiving; Worship A TOUCH OF NATURE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the crocus thrusts its point of gold Last Line: And inarticulate ardors of the vine. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees A VALENTINE, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Life's joys and sorrows rise and ever wane Last Line: Just that, and nothing more. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Holidays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A VALENTINE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye are twa laddies uncogleg Last Line: Dear jim and johnnie! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: There was a time, when we were young together Last Line: The rose of health. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth A VALENTINE, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And cannot pleasures, while they last Last Line: Of wasting sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Letters; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by DORA GREENWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said to one I loved, 'why art thou sad?' Last Line: Nor will I ever seek to find it words again!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Cruel heart! Ere these posthumous papers Last Line: That one last word -- that fare -- fare -- fare thee well. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her whose glamor moves and stirs Last Line: This valentine -- to new york city! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Praise; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loveliest lady mine Last Line: Here is my heart for your valentine! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Time was, sweet dame (when broidered coats were smart Last Line: That you will be, indeed, my valentine? Subject(s): Cupid; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Valentine's Day; Eros A VALENTINE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willow soon, and vine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I that was silent long, at last Last Line: A loyal woman friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Loyalty; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the depths of a heart of love Last Line: To set my pulse leaping. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: I hold no viol or ancient lute Last Line: With garlanded incense? Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Worship A VALENTINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White paper, white paper Last Line: And ask for a kiss! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE BALLADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Fair, bashful maid without a beau Last Line: I 'll gladly be your valentine. Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; Valentine's Day; Male-female Relations A VALENTINE GAME (FOR TWO PLEAYERS), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have a game, thus played Last Line: In kissing, and in being kissed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE TO --, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For her these lines are penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: And now I leave these riddles to their seer. Subject(s): Holidays; Riddles; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE TO J. T. TROWBRIDGE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This, with the love of the boys Last Line: Sends you this valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827-1916); Valentine's Day A VALENTINE TO SHERWOOD ANDERSON, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I knew too that through them I knew too that he was through, I knew Last Line: Been blessed let us bless it. Subject(s): Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941); Holidays; Valentine's Day; Writing & Writers A VALENTINE'S SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motley I count the only wear Last Line: The king's highway of choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Singing & Singers; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE: 1852, by GEORGE K. DENNY Poem Text First Line: Would I might kiss that crimson lip Last Line: And be thy valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE: 1922, by GEORGE K. DENNY Poem Text First Line: I dare not kiss that crimson lip Last Line: And be thy valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day A VERMONT CHICKEN BUYER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When stronger grew november's cold Last Line: With other chaps and chickens. Subject(s): Business; Chickens; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Vermont; Businessmen; Businesswomen A VOW FOR NEW YEAR'S, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every hour and every minute Last Line: That comes a model new year's day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A WAY TO A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by ROBERT BREWSTER BEATTIE Poem Text First Line: To leave the old with a burst of song Last Line: Is to have and to give a happy new year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A WEDDED VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Last Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Time; Valentine's Day A WISH - TO THE NEW YEAR, 1705, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Janus! Great leader of the rolling year Last Line: And cease to love in vain, and be a wretch no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Melancholy; New Year; Wishes; Dejection AARDVARK, by JULIA FIELDS Poem Source First Line: Since %malcolm died Last Line: We never thought about before Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by A. S. AMES Poem Source First Line: Born in a hovel, trained in hardship's school Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON MAKE PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER LOGUE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Achilles went to make amends Last Line: Pax, agamemnon.' and agamemnon's: 'pax' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ACROSTICAL VALENTINE, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Fast in your heart, o rondeau rare Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ACTIVITIES IN PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: Peace does not mean inaction. There may be Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ADDRESS OF MAJOR GENERAL FOX CONNOR, by FOX CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Those scouts who have advanced far enough in Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ADIRONDACKS, EASTER SUNDAY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Experience, in linguistic terms Last Line: There's a rainbow coming if the light just holds Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Language; Poetry And Poets AFTER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: After the darkness, dawning Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AFTER A JOURNEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost Last Line: Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year; Nostalgia AFTER AKIKO-- YORU NO CHO NI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your frost white kimono Last Line: Your wind blown hair and you cry, %'the first snow!' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow AFTER BATTLE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the first larks began to soar Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AFTER HARVEST, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ye thankful people, come Last Line: Raise the glorious harvest-home! Variant Title(s): Harvest Home;thanksgiving Day Subject(s): Harvest; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day AGAINST SENTIMENTALITY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, don't do that! No, don't say that! Last Line: Size pianos), whether the emotion %is earned or isn't, bawl Subject(s): Art And Artists; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day AGE AND SONG (TO BARRY CORNWALL), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain men tell us time can alter Last Line: That lives in light above men's lives. Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Time; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] AGE OF TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Man counts his life by years Subject(s): Holidays; Trees AGEISM, by BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH Poem Source First Line: I am an old scribe Last Line: Whose millennium are you? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ALL YELLOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A dandelion sprang on the lawn Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ALLOQUY; TO THE FIRST GREAT WAR DEAD, by AMABEL KING Poem Source First Line: Sleep, soldiers, sleep Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AM I THANKFUL?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I wonder if I'm thankful for the blessings that god Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Blessings; God; Holidays; Thanksgiving AMERICA'S ANSWER, by R. W. LILLARD Poem Text First Line: Rest ye in peace, ye flanders dead! Last Line: In flanders fields. Variant Title(s): America's Reply Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father all bountiful, in mercy Last Line: Into a pastoral song of peace and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; America AMERICAN FORESTS, by JOHN MUIR Poem Source First Line: The forests of america, however slighted by man Subject(s): Holidays; Trees AMONG THE TREES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh ye who love to overhang the springs Last Line: Back to his covert, and forego his prey. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 15. NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We heard the bells of midnight burying the year Last Line: Was born of us anew, to be immortal love. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AMORETTI: 68, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most glorious lord of life, that on this day Last Line: Love is the lesson which the lord us taught. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "easter Day;christ's True Love's Example;easter Morning;sonnet On Easter;easter;""most Glorious Lord Of Lyfe That On This Day""; Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AN ARBOR DAY TREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dear little tree that we plant today Last Line: A tale of the children who planted me Subject(s): Arbor Day;holidays;trees AN EASTER CAROL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring bursts today Last Line: Angels and men and birds and everything. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection AN EASTER FLOWER GIFT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest bloom the seasons know Last Line: The heart of christ and ours! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; The Resurrection AN EASTER HYMN, by THOMAS BLACKBURN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Awake, thou wintry earth Last Line: Christ is risen! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection AN EASTER IDYL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a year the easter came, laughing o'er / land and sea Last Line: And even in sorrow's exile may lift up her eyes and be blessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Love; Prayer; Catholic Priests; The Resurrection AN EASTER LILIY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain to seal the sepulchre Last Line: Within the garden stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Pilate, Pontius; The Resurrection AN EASTER ODE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the cold, dark grave they go Last Line: On that resurrection morn. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection AN EASTER OFFERING, by NANCY A. BASTON Poem Text First Line: Now, nature, from the fertile mold Last Line: He lives, our resurrected king! Subject(s): Easter; Grace; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection AN EASTER PRAYER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh let me know Last Line: Thy love and faithfulness through all my days. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Prayer; The Resurrection AN EASTER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden sun climbs up the sky Last Line: God sends thee easter day! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Prayer; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection AN EASTER SONG, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song of sunshine through the rain Last Line: Were just three days apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Variant Title(s): Calvary And Easter Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology AN EASTER SONG, TO ROSEMARY, AET. 10, by A. L. MACKENZIE JR. Poem Text First Line: Mine is the gift and you the giver Last Line: And we'll play in the halls of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackenzie, Archibald L., Jr. Subject(s): Easter; Heaven; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Paradise; Theology AN EASTER VISION, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: On easter morn I had a wondrous vision Last Line: Doth every sunrise bring an easter morning. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection AN EPILOGUE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so the play is over, and we doff Last Line: The clouds of sunset, veiling heaven's gate. Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Love; The Resurrection AN EPITHALAMION, OR MARRIAGE SONG .. LADY ELIZABETH AND COUNT PALATINE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haile bishop valentine, whose day this is Last Line: Till which houre, wee thy day enlarge, o valentine. Variant Title(s): An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song On Lady Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium AN HONEST VALENTINE; RETURNED FROM THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for your kindness Last Line: Dearest valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, close by our summer dwelling Last Line: Their dower of beauty from thy glad looks. Subject(s): April; Country Life; Holidays; Trees AN IRISH FANTASY, by JOHN FRANKLIN BLUNT Poem Text First Line: It so happens that I was born in cork' Last Line: "it helps us think as we plant we shall reap." Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Trinity, The; Irish AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day AN OLD YEAR'S ADDRESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have twankled the strings of the twinkering rain Last Line: He had fuzzled and fazzled and fizzled away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AND OF COLUMBUS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus is remembered by young men Subject(s): Holidays AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There had been years of passion -- scorching, cold Last Line: And again the spirit of pity whispered, 'why?' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War AND TODAY IS A HOLIDAY, by VARDA GINOSSAR Poem Source First Line: And today is a holiday, but %'shoot only is shot at' Last Line: Plucked, drifting with the wind Subject(s): Holidays; Middle East - Conflicts ANGRY VALENTINE, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: If you won't be my valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here a little child I stand Last Line: Amen. Variant Title(s): A Child's Grace;grace Before Meat;a Grace;a Grace For A Child Subject(s): Grace; Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving ANOTHER YEAR, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The years turn Last Line: They are heading %home Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time ANOTHER YEAR, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year is dawning! Last Line: Another year for thee! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Prayer ANOTHER YEAR COME, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have nothing new to ask of you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year ANOTHER YEAR COME, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have nothing new to ask of you Last Line: And the hands of the clock still knock without entering Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year ANY COUNTRY CHURCH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A shaft of sunlight strikes, shines through Last Line: And fellow-convicts 'neath one self-same sentence ... Death. Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Easter; Holidays; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; The Resurrection; Sunday APPLE-HOWLING' VERSE FOR NEW YEAR'E EVE; SUSSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stand fast root, bear well top Last Line: Hats full, caps full, %full quarter sacks full Subject(s): Holidays; New Year APRIL, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we represent the winter of our northern climate Subject(s): Holidays; Trees APRIL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the wealth of pearly blossom, o the woodlands emerald gleam Last Line: And your springtide path shall brighten to the perfect summer day! Subject(s): April; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection APRIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the noon of the spring-time Last Line: And, as sun to the sleeping earth, love to the soul! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees APRIL [DAY], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the warm sun, that brings Last Line: Life's golden fruit is shed. Subject(s): April; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by NICHOLAS FAREBOW Poem Source First Line: It is not long since some of our treeless western Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by B. PICKMAN MANN Poem Source First Line: The project of connecting the planting Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by B. G. NORTHRUP Poem Source First Line: Observance of arbor days has already Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by SEYMOUR S. SHORT Poem Source First Line: Again we come this day to greet Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by THOMAS E. STOCKWELL Poem Source First Line: The rapid approach of spring Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Plant in the springtime the beautiful trees Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now a strong, fair shoot Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our modern institution Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY ALPHABET, by ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD Poem Source First Line: A is for apple tree, sweet with bloom Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY ASPIRATION, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We will try to make some small piece of ground Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY EXERCISE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To him who in the love of nature Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY IN SCHOOLS, by B. G. NORTHRUP Poem Source First Line: J. Sterling morton, once secretary of the Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY INVOCATION, by EMMA S. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Like the glad birds of springtime Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY MARCH, by ELLEN BEAUCHAMP Poem Source First Line: Celebrate the arbor day Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY OBSERVENCE, by A. S. DRAPER Poem Source First Line: The primary purpose of the legislature Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY ODE, by PARR HARLOW Poem Source First Line: Raise a song of gladness on this festal day Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY POEM, by LILLIAN E. KNAPP Poem Source First Line: Listen! The grand old forests Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY POEM, by ANNA R. PRIDE Poem Source First Line: Come thou, my oftimes sadly labored muse Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY SONG, by MARY A. HEERMANS Poem Text First Line: Of nature broad and free Last Line: And then above. Variant Title(s): Tribute To Nature Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY SONG, by ALICE S. WEBBER Poem Source First Line: We've left our books and tasks today to plant our favorite tree Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY TRIBUTE, by JARED BARHITE Poem Source First Line: Wish lavish hand our god hath spread Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBUTUS, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Poem Source First Line: Hail the flower whose early bridal Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ARBUTUS, by ANNE HALL Poem Source First Line: Sweet welcome to thee Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ARBUTUS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If spring has maids of honor Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ARBUTUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arbutus, thou dost faintly swing Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ARBUTUS, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How fair is the rose! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ARCHITECTS OF DREAM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: We cannot rest, whose hearts are like the breakers Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day ARMISTICE, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How close the white-ranked crosses stand Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE (FULL TEXT AS SIGNED ON NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One - cessation of operations by land and in Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by ZELMA DUNNING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: I saw your son march by today Last Line: That the world his peace might know. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with three comrades in parliament square Last Line: A cold bugle calls, and the city moves on Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Holidays; London; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRIETTE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The old town clock has struck eleven Last Line: Murmur the name of you. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Prayer; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, drums, and marching feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by HELEN HUTCHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: I can hear a sound Last Line: As the drums go by. Subject(s): Holidays; Parades; Peace; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I hear them stirring there, today Last Line: The young dead weeping! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, by ANGELO PATRI Poem Source First Line: Twas like this, my children Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The crash of shells among the falling trees Last Line: Aye—a year of proudest glory—and of musing o'er our dead! Subject(s): Holidays; Praise; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, 1918-1928, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day the guns fell silent at a word Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, 1926, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Let us evoke no phantom throng Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, 1928, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us wave a flag and jump and yell Last Line: The terrible cry of brothers, crucified!) Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY: LEST WE FORGET, by ALMA LUNDMAN Poem Source First Line: November eleventh may well be remembered Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Pony. Down the lonely road Last Line: And took the first despatch! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; War; Declaration Day AROUND THANKSGIVING, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pure gold, they said in her praise Subject(s): Holidays AS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As naught gives way to aught Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As naught gives way to aught Last Line: I give way to you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AS DEAD LEAVES FALL, by KATHLEEN MONICA NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: As dead leaves fall, crisp, feathery, and Last Line: Where live they now past earth and life and time? Subject(s): Holidays; Winter AS THE NEW YEAR [18 B.C.] DAWNED, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O postumus, alas! I hear the bells go / tinkle-tinkle! Last Line: Shall spill upon your marble floors the wine he will inherit. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ASSASSINATION, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not find something very strange about him Last Line: Hope was his name.' %'how funny, hope' Subject(s): Holidays; Hope ASSASSINATION, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was wild Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Holidays ASSASSINATION, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was wild Last Line: They came running, %fast and sure, %in the %wrong %direction Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Holidays ASSSASSINATION POEMS, by JOHN RIDLAND Poem Source First Line: The night is very dark Subject(s): Holidays ASSURANCE, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: Full many are the centuries since the days Subject(s): Easter; Holidays AT DAWN OF THE YEAR, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Move on with a will, nor dream thou back Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AT EASTER TIME, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little flowers came through the ground Last Line: "at blessed easter time!" Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection AT EASTERTIDE, by S. H. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: At eastertide, in gown of blue, / and dainty bonnet, neat and new Last Line: At eastertide? Subject(s): Desire; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection AT GALLIPOLI, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship after ship, crammed with soldiers, moved Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our songs went up and out the chimney Last Line: "albeit the fault may not be thine." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Plunging through on a funeral gale Last Line: Ere you will kiss mine eyes again? Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; New Year; Sea; Soul; Ocean AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth in thy turn,' said the lord of Last Line: And the angels in heaven heard him, and lifted a paean of praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AT THE YEAR'S END, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed with a crimson sunrise beauty Last Line: The old hope's light! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Socialism AT THE YEAR'S END, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night dreams of day, and winter seems Last Line: Shall vanish when our own are true. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AULD LANG SYNE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot Last Line: For auld lang syne. Variant Title(s): The Goal Of Life;auld Lang Syne (with Music) Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Reunions AUTUMN LEAVES, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who bearest on thy thoughtful face Subject(s): Holidays; Trees AUTUMN LEAVES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am a leaf from the tall elm tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees AUTUMN VOICES, by F. W. B. Poem Source First Line: When I was in the wood today Subject(s): Holidays; Trees AWAKENING, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the first bright, slant beam Subject(s): Easter; Holidays AWAKENING YEAR, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bluebirds and the violets Subject(s): Holidays; Trees B C OF LANDSCAPE GARGENING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Keep lawn center open Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BALLAD OF THE THANKSGIVING PILGRIM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The purple hills of kirkland Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day BALLADE OF PENTECOST, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: On high pentecost I found Last Line: With a rose on either syde. Subject(s): Holidays; Hope; Love; Marriage; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BAPTISM ON ARMISTICE DAY, by CHAD WALSH Poem Source First Line: Remembering now the reckless race to ... Marne Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BARBARIAN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after the days and the seasons, and the creatures and the countries Last Line: The arctic caverns. %the banner Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BARREN EASTER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the barren easter Subject(s): Easter; Holidays BASIS OF PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: Peace can be rebuilt only upon the ancient and Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BEACH SCENE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I saw mum as a child of six playing Last Line: Where are your bombs, your dynamite, your tanks?' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL POEM; TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou grim and ancient raven Last Line: Shall our lofty eyrie share! Subject(s): Holidays; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Valentine's Day BEAUTIFUL THINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beautiful ground on which we tread Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BEAUTIFUL TREES, by A. L. R. Poem Source First Line: Nature's children, beautiful trees! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BEAUTIFUL WORLD, by W. LOMAX CHILDRESS Poem Source First Line: Here's a song of praise for a beautiful world Subject(s): Holidays BEAUTY OF TREES, by WILSON FLAGG Poem Source First Line: It is difficult to realize how great a part of all Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BECAUSE OF THY GREAT BOUNTY, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: Because I have been given much Last Line: Thus shall I show my thanks indeed. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving BEFORE MARCHING, AND AFTER (IN MEMORIAM F.W.G.), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orion swung southward aslant Last Line: A brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties BEFORE OR AFTER, by DOROTHY NIMMO Poem Source First Line: I like to get there early when the cleaning Last Line: To push their way up through the tarmac Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BEFORE THE CENOTAPH, by DOROTHY MARGARET STUART Poem Source First Line: Not with dark pomp of death we keep Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BEGIN A YEAR TO-DAY!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On new year's day you started in Last Line: Stoutly begin a year to-day! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BEGINNING A NEW YEAR MEANS, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: Taking off Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BELATED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single buttercup I found Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BELL HILL, by JULIA FIELDS Poem Source First Line: Out of the doors Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BELLS O' NEW YEAR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To the rhythm of the breeze Last Line: And monarchs, too, are small. Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; New Year BENEATH THE FLAG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the sunny hillside sleeping Last Line: Side by side march blue and gray! Subject(s): Flags - United States;holidays;memorial Day; American Flag;declaration Day BENVENUTO'S VALENTINE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the child that wanders home Last Line: As softly as a silver ring's. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day BEST TREES AND VINES, by W. J. MILNE Poem Source First Line: Trees best adapted for successful culture Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BEWARE OF EASTER MONDAY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comes a feast day and I am a fair to midling feaster Last Line: Which is why I call the day after easter the truly blue, or sic transit gloria, monday Subject(s): Easter; Food And Eating; Holidays BEYOND TIME, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Time can never beat us down Last Line: All that time proposes. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BIBLE STUDIES: 4, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: Today is passover Last Line: Each evening when it passes over our hearts Subject(s): Holidays BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled Last Line: Sweet especial rural scene. Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Environment; Holidays; Nature; New Year; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BIRCH TREE, by ADDIE V. MCMULLEN Poem Source First Line: Though oak, and elm, and maple tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BIRCH TREE SWANG HER FRAGRANT HAIR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BIRD SONGS, by KATHIE MOORE Poem Source First Line: This is what the robin sings Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BIRD TRADES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The swallow is a mason Last Line: "and busy little tailors too, / among the birds are found" Subject(s): Birds;holidays;trees BIRDS AND THE CHILDREN, by E. T. SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: A little brown birdie sat up in a tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BIRDS IN SUMMER, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be Last Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Trees BIRDS IN SUMMER, SELS., by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Trees BIRDS' NESTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The skylark's nest among the grass Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BIRTH, by AMIR GILBOA Poem Source First Line: Yet from brances and eaves Subject(s): Holidays BIRTHDAY GIFTS, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What will you have for your birthday Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Holidays BIRTHDAY OF BUT A SINGLE PANG, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But affluent the doom Variant Title(s): Poem: 1488; Poem: 154 Subject(s): Holidays BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthda Subject(s): Birth; Holidays; Home BISMILLAH, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from his tent the patriarch abraham stept Last Line: The patriarch bowed in meekness. Great is god! Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Angels; God; Holidays; Thanksgiving BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BLACK CHRIST, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS Poem Source First Line: Pilate and caiaphus %they have brought this thing to pass Subject(s): Easter; Holidays BLESSED BE GOD FOR FLOWERS!, by MRS. CHARLES TINSLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BLUE WAVE BREAKING, SELS., by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion BLUEBIRD, by C. F. GERRY Poem Source First Line: Tis early spring Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BLUEBIRD'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know the song that the bluebird is singing Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BLUSHING MAPLE TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When on the world's first harvest day Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools; India; Nativity, The; Students BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet, like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools BOLEHILL TREES, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now peace to his ashes who planted yon trees Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BONDS, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There are owls in the garden and a dog barking Last Line: I could enter the dark bed of silence like a bride Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BOOK 1: JANUARY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dates - and their origins - arranged through the latin year Last Line: And this book ends with the month it treats Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays BOOK 2: FEBRUARY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: January has ended. The year and its poem continue to grow Last Line: Let my skiff soon sail through other waters Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays BOOK 3: MARCH, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: War-like mars, put down your shield and spear a while Last Line: Is ended by the moon, worshipped on the aventine ridge Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays BOOK 4: APRIL, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kindly mother of love, requited or slighted, indulge me.' Last Line: Endure, a single house for three immortals Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays BOOK 5: MAY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You want to know where I think the month of may got its name? Last Line: And the next day hyas will be up Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays BOOK 6: JUNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This month too has a name of uncertain origins Last Line: Hercules approved with a twang of his lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays BOOTH KILLED LINCOLN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wilkes booth came to washington, an actor great was he Subject(s): Assassination; Holidays BORN IN NOVEMBER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Season of evenings always gray and backlit Last Line: She will always love november Subject(s): Catholics; Holidays; November; Thanksgiving; Winter BOTANY, by ROBERT MINHINNICK Poem Source First Line: All I know is, we were there together Last Line: The orchid that grows in the place where you lay Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BOWL OF PEAS, by THOMAS MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: A bowl of freshly depodded peas Last Line: Over me, tracking roundly, taking it all in Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BRANCHES OF TREES, by JENNIE D. MOORE Poem Source First Line: Trees, trees are ours, the sweet spring flowers Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BRAVE NEW WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But you, thomas jefferson Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays BRAVE NEW WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But you, thomas jefferson Last Line: The old stale bitter world plays new - %and the new world old Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays BREST LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes gold the dirty street Last Line: "I don't see very many tears,"" he says." Subject(s): Holidays; Homecoming; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE, ISABELLA, by NICHOLAS SABOLY Poem Source Last Line: Child is sleeping; hush! Hush! See how he smiles in dreams Subject(s): Holidays BUGLE SONG OF PEACE; A PROPHECY FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Blow, bugle, blow! Last Line: The day has dawned at last. Subject(s): Bugles; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; War; Declaration Day BURIAL PLACE, SELS., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BUTTERCUP, by K. C. Poem Source First Line: A little yellow buttercup Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BY SUMMER WOODS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The leafy city of the birds Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BY THE FIRESIDE, by MRS. THOMAS J. MOHN Poem Text First Line: Comfortably seated at twilight Last Line: While we rest by the fireside. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving CALCIUM, by DERYN REES JONES Poem Source First Line: Because I love the very bones of you Last Line: The permanence of snow Subject(s): Holidays; New Year CALL, by OSCAR W. FIRKINS Poem Source First Line: I was second lieutenant of a hastily recruited Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CALLING THEM UP, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I go and call them up Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CALVARY AND EASTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A song of sunshine through the rain Last Line: Were just three days apart Subject(s): Calvary;easter;holidays; The Resurrection CANTICLE DE PROFUNDIS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to thee, father of all the immortal Last Line: Glory to thee! Variant Title(s): A Canticle In War Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day CAPTAIN GUYNEMER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: What high adventure, in what world afar Last Line: And in man's grateful heart shall live immortally! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War CAPTAIN MORROW'S THANKSGIVING, by LILLIE E. BARR Poem Text First Line: Over the waves the petrel sped Last Line: Well led by captain morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Thanksgiving Day; Seamen; Sails CAROL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We bring the holly, the ivy, and the pine Subject(s): Holidays CAROL: NEW STYLE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus christ should come again Last Line: On christmas day in the morning. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CATHEDRAL, by BESSY KERLEE MONROE Poem Text First Line: The mountains at morning were like a row Last Line: "chanting, ""thanks be to god!" Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CELEBRATION ARBOR DAY, by WALTER E. RANGER Poem Source First Line: By an excursion into the woods pupils may learn Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees CELEBRATION OF ARBOR DAY, by MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY Poem Source First Line: It is a great pleasure to think of the young Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Oh that some spirit might in us renew Last Line: "our god is working with us, now and here!" Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: This is no time for fear, for doubts of good Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day CHANGELESS WORLD, by SARAH S. JACOBS Poem Source First Line: The forest trees are transient things and frail Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CHERRY RIPE, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: May time! May time! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CHICKAMAUGA: 1863, by GEORGE TITUS FERRIS Poem Source First Line: From shuddering trees and painted leaves Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They are camped on chickamauga Last Line: In the freedom-war of life Subject(s): "american Civil War;chickamauga, Battle Of (1863);holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History;" Declaration Day CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by GEORGE TITUS FERRIS Poem Source First Line: From laughing leas the bugles sing Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History CHILD AND TREE, by E. A. HOLBROOK Poem Source First Line: I'm like the tiny tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CHILD'S HYMN OF PRAISE, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thank the goodness and the grace Last Line: And where I hear of thee Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving CHILD'S THOUGHT OF HARVEST, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the fields which were green last may Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Harvest; Holidays CHILDREN AND FLOWERS, by AMANDA B. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: What do these children do who never have a Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CHILDREN IN THE WOOD, by THOMAS PERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He took the children by the hand Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CHILDREN'S ARBOR DAY MARCH, by E. A. HOLBROOK Poem Source First Line: We are marching for the arbor Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees CHILDREN'S PRAISE SONG, by W. B. DOWNER Poem Source First Line: Thus came the welcome favor Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CHINESE NEW YEAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sugar and fruit for the kitchen god Subject(s): Holidays; New Year CHLOE'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: With growing sense of diffidence Last Line: When chloe's years are riper! Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth CHORUS OF THE FLOWERS, by LUCY WHEELOCK Poem Source First Line: I am the honeysuckle Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by ANNA P. HANNUM Poem Source First Line: Far far away to the south of these united Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day CHRISTENING DOLLY, by EMMA CELIA ROOK Poem Source First Line: See, this is my christmas dolly Subject(s): Holidays CHRISTENING-DAY WISHES FOR MY GOD-CHILD GRACE LANE BERKLEY, by ROBERT P. TRISTAN COFFIN Poem Source First Line: Though no kin to those fine glistening Subject(s): Holidays CHRISTMAS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: This is the day the great god pan lies dead Last Line: To soothe his sobbing with the pipes of pan. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The rills that winter-bound have been Last Line: Is smiling on the earth. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: I feel the cold of night Last Line: And when he sees us he'll break into tears Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ CHRISTMAS 1959, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX Poem Source First Line: Where is the star of bethlehem Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays CHRISTMAS BELLS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, christmas bells, your music swells upon Last Line: Honest youth, the days he's left so far behind. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRISTMAS CARD, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Life in a christmas card Last Line: Life in a christmas card %goes by slowly, %far from the world ... Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts And Giving; Holidays CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When christ in bethlehem was born Last Line: "with peace on earth, good will to you!'" Subject(s): Christmas Carols;holidays;singing & Singers CHRISTMAS DAY, by CAROLINE ELEANOR WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: A loving atmosphere surrounds this day of ... Last Line: The joy of heaven reaches us, this glad day of the year. Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Happiness; Holidays; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS FOLK AND THE CHILDREN, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Gently now! Gently now! Subject(s): Holidays CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Last Line: By whose descent among us %the worlds are reconciled Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: It is the cat within us Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel CHRISTMAS MUSINGS; ADDRESSED TO INATHE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies apace - another year hath perished Last Line: Sweet as thy smile, and radiant as thine eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Christmas; December; Holidays; Love; Winter; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS PASTIME; OR, THE CRYING FAMILY, by MRS. L. A. BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: Oh! Dear; oh! Dear; what shall we do? Subject(s): Holidays CLASS TREE, by EMMA S. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Grow thou and flourish well Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CLASSIC MELODIES, SELS., by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day CLEAN HANDS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make this thing plain to us, o lord Last Line: Make this thing plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War CLEARANCES; IN MEMORIAM M.K.H., 1911-1984: 6, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first flush of the easter holidays Last Line: Day and night my tears have been my bread Variant Title(s): During Holy Wee Subject(s): Easter; Holidays CLEMATIS, by DORA READ GOODALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the woodland streamlets flow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CLOSING ADDRESS (FOR SABBATH SCHOOL CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT), by M. ELLA CORNELL Poem Source First Line: Our entertainment now is through Subject(s): Holidays COLUMBIA'S BANNER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God helping me,' cried columbus, 'though fair or foul the breeze Last Line: God bless you, youths and maidens, as you guard the stripes and stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COLUMBUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was an italian Subject(s): Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957); Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was an italian Last Line: Because it has a very important moral, which is don't be a discoverer, be a promoter Subject(s): Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957); Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512) COME TO THE FOREST, THE BRIGHT SUN IS SHINING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son. Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America COME, VALENTINE, COME, by JOSE D. LAGMAY Poem Source First Line: Come to me with songs of your youth Last Line: And answer love's sublime call Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day COMMONEST DELIGHT, by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Poem Source First Line: To own a bit of ground Subject(s): Holidays; Trees COMPENSATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The graves grow thicker, and life's ways more bare Subject(s): Easter; Holidays COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE VALLEYS OF WESTMORELAND ON EASTER SUNDAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With each recurrence of this glorious morn Last Line: And benefits were weighed in reason's scales! Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology COMRADES IN A COMMON CAUSE, by BISHOP BRENT Poem Source First Line: We comrades in the common cause have come Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CONTINUITIES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost Last Line: With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection CONTRACT OF CORPORAL TWING, by SOLON K. STEWART Poem Source First Line: Two men sat on a sandstone ledge, looking out Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CONVERSATION HEARTS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Such meek Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day CONVERSATION WITH WASHINGTON, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: They did it, george. They did it Subject(s): Holidays COOKING RALPHS FREE TURKEY, DECEMBER 11, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Lunch with someone loved Last Line: Who drinks that stain the coffee leaves behind Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Turkey 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 CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get up! Get up for shame! The blooming morn Last Line: Come, my corinna, come, let's go a-maying. Variant Title(s): Going A-maying;may-day Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Death; Holidays; May (month); New Year; Spring; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence COVENTRY CAROL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O sisters too, how may we do Last Line: Neither say nor sing %by by, lully lullay! Subject(s): Holidays COVER THEM OVER WITH BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day CRAWL, LAUGH, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Holidays CRIMINAL TREATMENT OF TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rev. Egleston once called attention Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CROCUS BELLS, by ALICE E. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Lightly ring; lightly ring Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CROSS AND THE TREE, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: A tree is such a sacred thing Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Trees CROWNING OF PEACE, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Goddess of liberty - traditional costume Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CULTIVATION OF CHRISTMAS TREES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are several attitudes towards christmas Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Holidays CUNNING OLD CROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the limb of an oak sat a cunning old crow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees CUTTY SARK, by PETE MORGAN Poem Source First Line: She has always sailed from Last Line: Our dis-united kingdom %bumps and yaws Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DAFFODIL, by MARY ELLEN GRAYDON SHARPE Poem Source First Line: The dainty lady daffodil Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DAISY, by MRS. B. C. RUDE Poem Source First Line: Daisies, bright daisies keep nodding Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DAISY'S VALENTINES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night through daisy's sleep, it seems Last Line: Will spare to spoil or mend her. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day DANCE, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Even the white-packed sand Last Line: And time that will erase their epitaph Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DANCE OF THE DAISIES, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, my pretty flower-folk, you Last Line: For a daisy-dance, you know, %is a pleasant matter Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DANCING WITH AUNT JANEY, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey, in a tight black dress on new year's day Last Line: And anointed my brow Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing And Dancers; Holidays; New Year DANDELION (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a dandy little fellow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DAY BEFORE, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: All kinds of turkeys %are strutting in the halls Last Line: So let's give thanks for this! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day DAY OF GLORY, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER Poem Source First Line: If the armistice is signed, a salvo of cannon Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DAY OF THE INDIAN SUMMER, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day of golden beauty! Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day DAY OF VICTORY, by RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source First Line: Rise my soul and break your prison Subject(s): Easter; Holidays DE, by VALERIE BLOOM Poem Source First Line: De snow, de sleet, de lack o'heart Last Line: De wintertime, %december Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DE PROFUNDIS, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Source First Line: Cometh the dawn; ye men who know Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DEAD COMRADE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, soldiers, arouse ye! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day DEAD SOLDIERS' AUTUMN, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The leaves are falling now Last Line: The day when we could die for it is done Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Rest; Soldiers DEAR DANDELION, by LAURA D. NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Winter is over! Summer is coming Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DEAR ELM, IT IS OF THEE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Death! Is it thou whom bravest souls do fear Last Line: Reviving, creeping to calamity. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Tragedy; Dead, The; Declaration Day DEATH OF A SOLDIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: When the wind stops and, over the heavens, %the clouds go, nevertheless, %in their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War DEATH OF DR. KING, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: We sit outside Last Line: In our heads %bodies collapse %and grow again %the city boils %black men %jump out of trees Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) DEATH THE LEVELLER, FR. THE CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glories of our blood and state / are shadows, not substantial things Last Line: Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. Variant Title(s): Calchas's Song;death The Conqueror;earth's Victories;of Death;the King Of Kings;song: No Armour Against Fate;blood And State;a Dirge Subject(s): Courage; Death; Holidays; New Year; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The DEATH THE PEACEMAKER, by ELLEN H. FLAGG Poem Source First Line: A waste of land, a sodden plain Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History DEATH [AND LIFE], by WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE Poem Source First Line: We are so stupid about death. We will not learn Variant Title(s): Death Means Freedo Subject(s): Easter; Holidays DECEMBER 31ST, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the hammering there Last Line: Cruelty, harlotry. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, by EDWARD LOCKE Poem Source First Line: Language is the fire we burn the past in Last Line: Here is a hearth. I am useless, but we sit together Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: By the conference of the conservation of Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DECORATIN DAY, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth from her winter slumber breaks Subject(s): Holidays DECORATION DAY, by GEORGE HURLBUT BARBOUR Poem Source First Line: From many a field with patriot blood imbrued Subject(s): Holidays DECORATION DAY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She saw the bayonets flashing in the sun Variant Title(s): Memorial Da Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day DECORATION DAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep comrades, sleep and rest Last Line: The memory shall be ours. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY PRAYER, by ARTHUR ROSZELLE BEMIS JR. Poem Text First Line: Lord of our fathers, hear our prayer Last Line: Them from the awful fray. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day DEMETER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where I lived - winter and hard earth Last Line: With the small shy mouth of a new moon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEMETER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I lived - winter and hard earth Last Line: With the small shy mouth of a new moon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEMON AT THE WALLS OF TIME, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ran and ran. I was so fresh and fuelled Last Line: I'll read the writing on the wall. You'll see Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEPARTURE: NEW YEAR, by JULIE CARR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight: the sky breaks open, the prying apart Last Line: There is a sense of a field, %but no field Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DESIGN FOR PEACE, by JANET NORRIS BANGS Poem Source First Line: How shall the bayonet and bomb Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DIRGE FOR THE YEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orphan hours, the year is dead Last Line: Follow with may's fairest flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sunbeam / lightly falls from the finish'd sabbath Last Line: My heart gives you love. Variant Title(s): Two Veterans Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans; Declaration Day DISCIPLINE OF GARDENING, by JOHN WILLIAM COLE Poem Source First Line: There is such a close affinity Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DISCONTENT, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a field, one day in june Variant Title(s): The Discontented Buttercu Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DISCOURSE ON TREES, by HENRY WARD BEECHER Poem Source First Line: To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DO AND DON'T, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Make your street and yard in front Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DONAL OG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DORYPHA, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On holidays / when the cowboys and indians get drunk Last Line: With a flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Guitars; Holidays; Women DOWN IN DALLAS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in dallas, down in dallas Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Holidays; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Texas DRAPER'S TEN COMMANDMENTS ON TREE PLANTING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Do not allow roots to be exposed to the sun Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DRAW THE SWORD, O REPUBLIC, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the blue sky of a clear vision Last Line: Draw the sword! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DRAWN FOR VALENTINE BY THE L.D.S, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though 'gainst me love and destiny conspire Last Line: Fortune relieves the cruelties of fate. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day DREAMER AND REAPER, by J. H. ECOB Poem Source First Line: My father loved a tree as men Subject(s): Holidays; Trees DREAMERS CRY THEIR DREAM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: The dreamers upon the hilltops Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Poem Text First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion EAGLE YOUTH, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have taken his horse and plume Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day EARLY SONG, by CARROLL ARNETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun rises high enough to Last Line: Back into this %good brown earth Alternate Author Name(s): Gogisgi Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving EARTH SONG, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Mother and maker of us all Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day EARTH'S EASTER, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has gone up from its gethsemane Last Line: Two angels bright before an empty tomb. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EAST AND EASTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the east the royal sun Last Line: Out of the east is easter. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EAST WIND BLOWS WARMLY AROUND THE MAGNIFICENT HALL IN SPRING, by HUANG YUANJIE Poem Source Last Line: As beautiful women congregate to perform a new year's play Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Plays And Playwrights EASTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sing, soul of mine, this day of days" Last Line: Because the lord is risen Subject(s): Easter;holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Slow phoebus thou hast slept too long Last Line: Now he, our head revived doth appeare. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: It comes again-the eastertide Last Line: Oh, would that men had understood! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by MARGARET M. CHEANEY Poem Text First Line: Now, winds are hushed and skies are clear Last Line: The crown of easter morning. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So death %being the harvest of god Last Line: Dupe, opening, shall find bats far gone with my sap Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Harvest; Holidays; Poverty EASTER, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On easter morn / up the faint cloudy sky Last Line: Ding dong . . . Ding dong . . . Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sky where the white clouds stand in prayer Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays EASTER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What exultations in my mind Last Line: This welcome to the new-born spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Light streams from out the open tomb Last Line: But the shadow falleth still. Subject(s): Cross, The; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: But his lone cross and crown of thorns Last Line: In dying conquered all. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: On that glorious morning of that great day Last Line: That he shall reign - not only now - %but forever and evermore Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it risen?-spirit of earth Last Line: Spirit of heaven. Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection EASTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This crosse-tree here Last Line: To make my grave. Variant Title(s): The Cross-tree Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by JOHN HUSS Poem Source First Line: Jesus christ today is risen Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER, by GENEVIEVE M. J IRONS Poem Source Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is like a butterfly Last Line: And sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The barrier stone has rolled away Last Line: The miracle of spring. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born Last Line: Time bowed before eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness EASTER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, joyful, glad easter morning Last Line: On the resurrection day. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by RALPH SNEEDEN Poem Source First Line: Car full of luggage, lilies Last Line: Flown up to the rafters, swallows %sealed in a barn Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a meteor, large and bright Last Line: Flower of easter morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, now that spring is in the world Last Line: I'll hear thee pass! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O soul, be still! Scourge not thyself with doubt Last Line: "recurrent resurrection is eternal life." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there not one, when in the upper room Last Line: Even as around them fell the greeting, 'peace'? Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Easter; Holidays; Peace; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring flowers to strew his way Last Line: And all his kingdom gone. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER (SUNSET AND SUNRISE), by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis easter eve, the day is fading Last Line: And rise into his light with thee! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tears have done: / our rising sun Last Line: And sing him now his morning-sacrifice. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER 1916, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have met them at close of day Last Line: A terrible beauty is born. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Imagination; Ireland - Rebellions; Vision; Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Goone, Maud (1866-1953); Socialism; The Resurrection; Fancy EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity / healing humans in the middle of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER 1984, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we saw human dignity %healing humans in the middle of the day Last Line: Free never to torture man again, %free to believe him risen Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Religion EASTER ANTHEM, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing the loud anthem o'er land and o'er sea Last Line: Jehovah has triumphed, his kingdom is free. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER BELLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lent was dreary and late that year Last Line: And the easter bells be ringing!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bells; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER BELLS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chime, solemn bells of easter! Last Line: And soothe earth's sad unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Immortality; Catholic Priests; The Resurrection EASTER BRIDAL SONG, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haste, little fingers, haste, haste Last Line: And bring the flowers so early! Subject(s): Brides; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER CAROL, by GEORGE NEWELL LOVEJOY Poem Text First Line: O earth! Throughout thy borders Last Line: And christ is risen today! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER CHORDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ the lord is risen to-day! Last Line: And earth and heaven together meet in ecstasies of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection EASTER COLLECT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty god! Whose blessed will was one Last Line: Who liv'd and died, and rose again for all. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Salvation; The Resurrection EASTER COMMUNION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast Last Line: Lo, god shall strengthen all the feeble knees. Subject(s): Easter; Eucharist; Holidays; The Resurrection; Communion EASTER DAWN, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That man died in jerusalem Last Line: And those who refused to replace them %in the appropriate season Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER DAWN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is too calm to be a dream Last Line: And days of lent are gone at last. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER DAWN, by CAROLINE M. KINDER Poem Text First Line: Lily bulbs, that in the earth Last Line: Easter dawn! Subject(s): Dawn; Easter; Holidays; Sunrise; The Resurrection EASTER DAWN, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Breaks the joyful easter dawn Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER DAY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How very hard it is to be / a christian! Hard for me and you Last Line: Is infinite, -- and who can say? Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER DAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning dawns; the third approaching day Last Line: In glorious bodies, fashion'd like his own. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER DAY, by JOSEPHINE RICE CREELMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER DAY, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day of days! Shall hearts set free Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER DAY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen today Last Line: Hail him lord this easter day! Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words cannot utter Last Line: Christ's day and ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER DAY, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous festival hath dawned, the holy easter day Last Line: While joyous music ringeth forth from many a tambourine Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Easter; Festivals; Holidays EASTER DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rabbits, chicks, and everything Last Line: And so—the world keeps easter day! Subject(s): Animals; April; Easter; Holidays; Rabbits; The Resurrection; Hares EASTER DAY IN A MOUNTAIN CHURCHYARD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wakening on the mighty hills Last Line: Lift up glad strains for man by truth divine made free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER DAY [IN ROME], by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver trumpets rang across the dome Last Line: "and bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears." Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Rome, Italy; The Resurrection EASTER DAY: NAPLES, 1849, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the great sinful streets of naples as I past Last Line: Christ is not risen? Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Naples, Italy; The Resurrection EASTER ECHOES: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, for he is risen today Last Line: And keep perpetual easter-tide. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER ECHOES: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white flowers, freed Last Line: Is risen indeed!' Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER ECHOES: 3, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the likeness of his death Last Line: Resurrection glory nearing. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER ECHOES: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall rise again! Last Line: Is fair new proof of resurrection power. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER ECHOES: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far on the mountain height Last Line: That jesus lives and loves and cares for me. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER ECHOES: 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, let me know Last Line: Let me dwell always, only, where thou art. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER EVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, now his deadliest foes prevail Last Line: Shall blossom into easter morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER EVEN, by MARGARET FRENCH PATTON Poem Source First Line: Our dear lord now is taken from the cross Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Thomas Archer, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER EVEN (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest over and gone, the calm begun Last Line: The shaking and the breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER EVEN (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing more that they can do Last Line: And with him bring his sheaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection EASTER FLOWERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blooming to garland easter Last Line: To deck our king's highway. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection EASTER FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are his witnesses; out of the dim Last Line: Stands flooded with light of the new-risen sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER GREETING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: May the glad dawn Last Line: "o chirst, I live for thee" Variant Title(s): An Easter Wish Subject(s): Easter;holidays; The Resurrection EASTER GREETING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Though friends be many or be few Last Line: I like to wish you joy and cheer Subject(s): Easter;friendship;holidays; The Resurrection EASTER HERALDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who came from the tomb Last Line: When the saviour came. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER HOLIDAYS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Festal easter, that dost bring Last Line: Like easter all the year. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER HYDRANGEAS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: These potted pink hydrangeas Last Line: Please say yes Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The EASTER HYMN, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If in that syrian garden, ages slain Last Line: Bow hither out of heaven and see and save Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER HYMN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the pious candle-light Last Line: For christ arisen, and hope dead. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER HYMN, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death and darkness, get you packing Last Line: From this, unto the last of days. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Consolation; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ the lord is risen to-day Last Line: Thus to sing, and thus to love! Variant Title(s): Easter Day;he Is Risen;the Lord Is Risen;for Easter-day Subject(s): Easter; Faith; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; Theology EASTER IN PITTSBURGH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even on easter sunday Last Line: The bathroom mirror and %had to learn a long psalm Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania EASTER IN THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Where the cliffs are lost in clouds Last Line: To waumbek's templed hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; New Hampshire; The Resurrection EASTER IN THE WOODS, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This dawn when the mountain-cherry lifts Last Line: And gaze on earth with shy glad eyes Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER LILIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, lovely easter lilies Last Line: Of spotless purity! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though long in wintry sleep ye lay Last Line: Of christ, the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER LILIES, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darlings of june and brides of summer sun Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER LILY RAG, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: The blossoms stare in all directions of the compass Last Line: You'd almost think they were present at the annunciation Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Paintings And Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) EASTER MARKET, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, through your easter market Last Line: Have a joy beyond your art Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER MONDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the rain a world is growing green Last Line: Let us wax and wane. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER MORN, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, earth, why hast thou got thee new attire Last Line: There would ye all await, and humble homage do Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER MORNING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a life that did not become, / that turned aside and stopped Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER MORNING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a life that did not become, %that turned aside and stopped Last Line: Flood of burn breaking across us now %from the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER MORNING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fasts are done; the aves said Last Line: Comes up the easter morning! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection EASTER MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun arises from the sea Last Line: For ever and for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Morning; Nature; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER MORNING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, the night of sorrow gone Last Line: To kiss again the master's feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER MUSIC, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Blow, golden trumpets, sweet and clear Last Line: "through death immortal life is here!" Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night had shout of men and cry Last Line: He rose again behind the stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER PARADE, by MARCHETTE CHUTE Poem Source First Line: My button gloves are very white Last Line: Who are as beautiful as me Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER POEM, by TED WALKER Poem Source First Line: I had gone on easter day Last Line: I left my superstition %stretched on the banging barn door Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER REVELATION, by CLARA EMELIA ULLMAN Poem Text First Line: No mortal yet knows how the white lily grows Last Line: Life, and love never-failing and true. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER ROBIN, by GERALDINE FARRAR Poem Source First Line: You oft have heard of that dark night Last Line: Our faith and hope return to us %whenever robins sing Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Robins EASTER SACRAMENTS, by HENRY PARK SCHAUFFLER Poem Text First Line: There is a soul gethsemane Last Line: To make his rising mine. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER SONG, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is full of bells Last Line: To guide me in thy way! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER SONG, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is full of bells Last Line: And guide me into your path! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER SUNDAY, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: The bell choir hurls its hymn of stones Last Line: And then the pouring of the wine Subject(s): Clergy; Easter; God; Holidays; Praise; Religion EASTER SUNDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was in the middle of the night Last Line: And lift men up Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER SUNDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was in the middle of the night Last Line: I must slide down like a great dipper of stars %and lift men up Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The EASTER SUNDAY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On easter morn she kneels and prays Last Line: A gentle saint, she kneels and prays. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER SUNDAY, by SEDULIUS SCOTTUS Poem Source First Line: Last night did christ the sun rise from the dark Subject(s): Holidays EASTER SUNDAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Driving to the mountains at noon Last Line: Family together %give thanks %we eat now Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Easter; Family Life; Food And Eating; Holidays; Native Americans; Togetherness EASTER TUESDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Together with my dead body shall they arise Last Line: Together with my dead body shall they. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER WEEK (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC TO BE SUNG ...), by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the land, her easter keeping Last Line: Like the birds who build and sing. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER WINGS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store Last Line: Affliction shall advance the flight in me. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; God; Holidays; Religion; Wings; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER, 1997, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand in hand down a sun-washed street, two men Last Line: As two-by-fours descend like crows to carrion Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Easter; Holidays EASTER, GRAVE TENDING, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Just after milking, hanna loften Last Line: Outlining %what's no longer there Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Holidays EASTER-DAY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose sad heart and weeping head lies low Last Line: Whose spittle only could restore the blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER-TIDE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, arise, oh earth! Last Line: A mystery has been! A mystery! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER-TIDE DELIVERANCE, by MARIA H. BULFINCH Poem Source First Line: The sun was drowned in the western tide Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER: SENSATIONS OF APRIL (1), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little negro girl who lives across the alley Last Line: Brings a geranium from sunday school Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER: SENSATIONS OF APRIL (2), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daffodils %long yellow sunlight fills Last Line: Irritate the imagination %or the nerves Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Daffodils; Easter; Holidays EASTER; APRIL 1, 1888, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading Last Line: Against the far blue sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): April; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Easter; Holidays; Lent; Time; The Resurrection EASTERTIDE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Come wrap the crocus in his winding-sheet Last Line: Hosanna in the heights!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 34. MUTABILITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From low to high doth dissolution climb Last Line: Or the unimaginable touch of time. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence ECHO, by L. V. HALL Poem Source First Line: I love the proud grandeur of the old forest trees Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ECHOES: 25, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year that's come and gone, love, his flying feather Last Line: We shall light our lamp, and wait life's mysterious morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year EDEN ROCK, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Picnics; Dead, The; Barbecues EDEN ROCK, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock Last Line: I had not thought that it would be like this Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Picnics EFFECTS OF SPRING, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great sun Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ELECTRIC SLIDE BOOGIE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year's day 1:16 am Last Line: Hard hard it is to sleep %in the middle of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 6. THE NEW YEAR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is winter and the new year Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; New Year ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 6. THE NEW YEAR, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is winter and the new year Last Line: Because it is winter and the new year Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; New Year ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For lords or kings I dinna mourn Last Line: As muckle better as you can. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ELM BLOSSOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bloom of the elm is falling Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ELM VERSUS APPLE, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Source First Line: The elm, in all the landscape green Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ENCOUNTER, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ENCOUNTER, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn Last Line: I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder Subject(s): Holidays; New Year END OF THE YEAR 1912, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were here at his young beginning Last Line: Once, while six bells swung thereto. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ENDS MEET, by FRANCES BELLERBY Poem Source First Line: My grandmother came down the steps into the garden Last Line: And there isn't at mine Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ENGLISH WOODS AND AMERICAN, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pastoral or field life of nature in england is Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ENLISTED, by ELIZA CALVERT HALL Poem Source First Line: I fought under lee and stonewall Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day EPIGRAM, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mayflower once filled this shore Subject(s): Holidays; Trees EPISTLE TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS RUTLAND, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / whilst that for which all virtue now is sold Last Line: My best of wishes, may you bear a son. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sidney, Elizabeth. Countess Of Rutland EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day EVERYONE SANG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone suddenly burst out singing Last Line: Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War EXTRACTS FROM NEW-YEAR'S VERSES FOR 1825, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the 'universal yankee nation' Last Line: And boast of such a sight in after years. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; United States; America EXTRACTS FROM VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1823, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where streams of light, in golden showers Last Line: And breathe in liberty again. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FACTS ABOUT TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cutting down trees spoils the beauty of the Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FAITH (2), by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: In every leaf that crowns the plain Subject(s): Holidays FAITHFUL PROMISES; NEW YEAR'S HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing at the portal Last Line: Never pass away! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FALL IN!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall march with the veteran band Last Line: Fall in, and march with the soldiers! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day FALL SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The ash-berry clusters Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FALLEN, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those we have loved the dearest Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FAMILY BIBLE, by AL MASARIK Poem Source First Line: I didn't know him long Last Line: From the family bible Subject(s): Family Life; Fights; Holidays FAREWELL AND HAIL!, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Old year, going, take with you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near Last Line: To give new year good morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America FARMER JOHN'S THANKSGIVING, by ISAAC F. EATON Poem Source First Line: Thanksgiving day came chill and bare Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FATE OF THE OAK, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The owl to her mate is calling Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees 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 FEAST OF HARVEST, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fair earth smiled and turned herself and Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FEBRUARY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold now is the breezes' breath Last Line: We love so well and dear. Subject(s): February; Holidays; Valentine's Day FESTE'S SONG (1), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mistress mine, where are you roaming? Last Line: Youth's stuff will not endure. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Source First Line: Man's life is fleet, his years are few Subject(s): Holidays FEW OLD PROVERBS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If the oak is out before the ash Subject(s): Holidays; Proverbs; Trees FEW STATISTICS, by JR. TREADWELL CLEVELAND Poem Source First Line: We are now cutting timber from the forests of the Subject(s): Holidays; Statistics And Statisticians; Trees FIR FOREST, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up above, a passing breeze Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FIR TREE, by LUELLA CLARK Poem Source First Line: Hark, hark! What does the fir tree say? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FIRE DREAMS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember here by the fire Last Line: "god." Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIREWORKS, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not guns, not thunder, but a flutter of clouded drums Last Line: Night absorbs them %with the sponge of her silence Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Fireworks; Holidays; Silence FIRST CHRISTMAS AFTER THEIR DIVORCE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Coming home Last Line: Didn't bother to take Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Holidays; Santa Claus FIRST FOOT, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One....Two....Three....Four.... Last Line: Come in, dear friend, peace be with you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FIRST JANUARY WALK, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been out walking Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FIRST THANKSGIVING, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: So many pumpkins %and so many beans Last Line: We all must depend Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY, by ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In puritan new england a year had passed away Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIRST THANKSGIVING: BOSTON, 1631, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The curse of cain was on th earth Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIVE SOULS, by WILLIAM NORMAN EWER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a peasant of the polish plain Last Line: For those who bade me fight had told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ewer, W. N. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War FIXED DESIRE OF THE HUMAN HEART, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: I consider the agitation for international arbitration Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FLANDERS POPPIES, by IAN DUNCAN COLVIN Poem Source First Line: Poppies, ye flaming blushes of july Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Holidays; Veterans Day FLOCK OF BIRDS, by ANNIE E. CHASE Poem Source First Line: I am a bluebird; on branches bare Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FLOWER MISSION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Children, a flower seems a little thing, but little things often have a Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FLOWER'S HELPERS, by MALANA A. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I come to you, my name is frost, I kiss the forest trees Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FLOWERS OF THE MAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A caller! Who is it? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOLKTALE, by PAULA MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: A young man falls in love with truth and searches the wide world Last Line: Condition: you must tell them that I am young and that I am beautiful Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOLLOW ME, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And him evermore I beheld Last Line: From the centuries that are gone, %to the centuries that shall be Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion FOOLISH LITTLE ROBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once there was a robin lived outside the door Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOR A CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye to whom wealth lends wings Last Line: One ineffable day! Subject(s): Holidays FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Last Line: But that is how things are: I am your mother, %and we are kind to snails Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails FOR A NEW CENTURY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The authors have been winnowed Last Line: Even slouching towards the site Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR AN EASTER REMEMBRANCE (TO MEMORY OF HEDD WYN & GWILYYM WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the dead who caught thy word unspoken Last Line: To the glory of the heritage they kept within the night. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Memory; Wales; The Resurrection; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOR ANNE AT PASSOVER, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold easter week and the hard buds, forming, shake Last Line: We are all babes who suck at love together Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Critics And Criticism; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jews; Passover; Religion - Reformers FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by FRANCIS KINWELMERSH Poem Text First Line: Rejoice, rejoice, with heart and voice! Last Line: The joy of christës birth this day recite. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Nativity, The FOR DECORATION DAY: 1861-1865, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But do we truly mourn our soldier dead Last Line: The peaceful barracks where their bodies sleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FOR DECORATION DAY: 1898-1899, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now the long, long lines of the nation's graves Last Line: In grand review swing past the throne of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Spanish-american War (1898); Declaration Day FOR MALCOLM: AFTER MECCA, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX Poem Source First Line: You lie now in many coffins Last Line: Without recognizing the man you were %lay in our shame %and your growth into martyrdom Subject(s): Assassination; Holidays FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1698, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music now thy charms display Last Line: Happy, happy, past expressing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Heroism; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1874, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From glory unto glory!' be this our joyous song Last Line: Until his very presence crown our happiest new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR OUR DEAD. SEE MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day FOR OUR SAKES, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O smitten mouth! O forehead crowned with thorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Easter; Holidays FOR POSTERITY, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man does not plant a tree for himself Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOR REMEMBRANCE, by BASIL EBERS Poem Text First Line: What is it, o dear country of our pride Last Line: But the fixed goal of our humanity. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FOR THE NEW YEAR 1777, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again imperial winter's sway Last Line: And our great cement be—the public good. Subject(s): Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Finality; Great Britain - Rulers; Holidays; New Year FOR THE COMING YEAR, by PETER EVERWINE Poem Source First Line: With the stars rising again in my hands Subject(s): Holidays FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1732, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light! Last Line: And joins the joy that crowns the day. Subject(s): George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Holidays; New Year FOR THE LADY OLIVIA PORTER; A PRESENT UPON NEW YEARS DAY, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Hunt the whiter ermine! And present Last Line: Give oftener what is heard of than received. Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 1, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nineteen long centuries to-day Last Line: New heavens and new earth! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 2, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new age comes, I hear its hidden wings Last Line: Ascend, soar upward in the new-born light. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 3. AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for the new year Last Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for this the glad new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW YEAR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rid forever of them and me Last Line: Hunger, despair, a common grief Variant Title(s): For The New Year (1 Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR, by CAROLINE MAXWELL LEE Poem Text First Line: The turn of the year Last Line: Of devotion. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you sheltered, curled up and content by your world's warm fire? Last Line: Out to some battle. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From something in the trees Last Line: Of doing nothing right Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From something in the trees Last Line: Of doing nothing right Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, glorious rising year Last Line: For thee thy people all, for thee the year is blest.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Wars With France; Holidays; New Year; Odes (as Poetic Form) FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the bosom of the mine Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood. Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR THE NEW YEAR 1806, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ardent zeal for virtuous fame Last Line: And heroes, yet unborn, shall britain owe to thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Trafalgar, Battle Of FOR THEE THEY DIED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thee their pilgrim swords were tried Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FOR THIS WORLD, by WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, we thank thee for this universe, our great Last Line: Glory of god. Variant Title(s): Fellowship With All;for This Universe Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology FOR TRANSIENT THINGS, by JAMES ANDREW SCARBOROUGH MCPEEK Poem Text First Line: Let us thank god for unfulfilled desire Last Line: Better that beauty should not be at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcpeek, James A. S. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving FOR YOU, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Here is a building Last Line: I'll sit near by Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Holidays; Poetry And Poets; Valentine's Day FOREIGN LANDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Up into the cherry tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST, by RICHARD JEFFERIES Poem Source First Line: Under the trees the imagination plays unchecked Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST CULTURE, by HORACE GREELEY Poem Source First Line: Money can be more profitably and safely Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST MEDITATION, by HERNICE HALL LEGG Poem Source First Line: The green spires of the forest Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION, by JAMES S. WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: My desire in writing this article is to interest Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST SCENE, by EDITH MAY Poem Source First Line: I know a forest vast and old Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST SPONGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What child has not seen a muddy freshet Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOREST TREES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up with your heads, ye sylvan lords Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FORGET-ME-NOT DAY, by NAN TERRELL REED Poem Text First Line: Shall we forget, when nations meet Last Line: And need a world that's kind. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FORGIVEN - EVEN UNTIL NOW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast forgiven - even until now Last Line: We see our pardoning lord; forgiven until then! Subject(s): Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form); New Year FORGIVENESS, by J. EDMONDSTON Poem Source First Line: When on a fragrant sandal tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FORMS AND EXPRESSIONS OF TREES, by WILSON FLAGG Poem Source First Line: The different forms of trees, and their endless Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FORWARD, MARCH!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spring gives the order, 'forward march!' Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BEST SERVICE, by GIFFORD PINCHOT Poem Source First Line: A forest well managed under the methods of Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOUR SISTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There will come a maiden soon, I ween Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FOUR VALENTINES, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow is the day for valentines Last Line: The old-maid sister of my major prof. Subject(s): Holidays; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Valentine's Day; Students FOURTH DAY, by AKI-NO-BO Poem Source First Line: The fourth day Last Line: To leave the world? Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year FOURTH OF JULY, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: How do I tell a stranger the way Last Line: Kiss me: the weeds %are taller than our faces Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Holidays FOURTH OF JULY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourth of july, how sweet it sounds Last Line: Be earnest as in the days of yore. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Holidays FRANCISCA MADRE; NEW YEAR, 1907, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What cheer, francisco madre, what of cheer Last Line: There's a cheer, francisca madre, there is cheer. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Happiness; Holidays; Memory; New Year; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Joy; Delight FRANCISCA'S THANKSGIVING, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: When the hordes of barbarian persians Last Line: And the triumphs the future shall hold. Subject(s): Holidays; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Thanksgiving; Turkey FRANK AVOWAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said, just now, that I had not yet planned a single Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FREE TURKEY-RALPHS SUPERMARKET, NOVEMBER 16, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Is this american, or what? Last Line: Holidays. Twelve pounds of meat and bone: my just reward Subject(s): Americans; Grocers; Holidays; Markets; Thanksgiving Day; Turkeys FREEDOM'S FLOWER, by ANNIE DOUGLAS GREEN ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Let merry england proudly rear Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Marian Subject(s): Holidays; Trees FRIENDSHIP BREEDS PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: America is at peace because she entertains a Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FROM ASHBOURNE, DERBYSHIRE; A CHARM FOR ST. VALENTINE'S EVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sow hempseed, hempseed I sow Last Line: He that loves me best, %come and after me mow Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY, by MEREDITH NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Easter; Holidays FROM BEYOND, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Pity us not Last Line: Oh, god, the shame that they should be so blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day FROM THE NIGHT OF FOREBEING; AN ODE AFTER EASTER, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast wide the folding doorways of the east Last Line: And in the first does always see the last. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection FRUITS OF VICTORY, by WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Poem Source First Line: The great war is ended. It will change the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FULL MOON SHINES ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Attend you with gifts of joy Subject(s): China; Holidays; New Year; Time GARDEN OF GOLD, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The chill and the damp under the pines Last Line: And as above them, blue as death, %ripens the isbella Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War GARDEN ON THE SANDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once, on a time, some little hands Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GARLANDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the garlands we lay on the graves? Last Line: We know what garlands will please you the best! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow has ceased its fluttering flight Last Line: "failure!"" at last." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Resolutions GIANT NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Awake in a giant night Last Line: Just like what is here one minute and not the next. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Family Life; Holidays; New York City; Nativity, The; Relatives; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GINGERBREAD TREE, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, do you know, and do you know Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT?, by W. F. CROFFUT Poem Source First Line: Let earth give thanks,' the deacon said Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GLORY OF THE WOODS, by SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER Poem Source First Line: Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOD PROVIDETH FOR THE MORROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lo! The lilies of the field Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOD SEND EASTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we will lace the Last Line: Glory in our skin Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology GOD SEND EASTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we will lace the Last Line: And apple as we %glory in our skin Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion GOD'S BLESSINGS, by WILLIAM CORNISH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Pleasure it is Last Line: And thank him than. Variant Title(s): Spring;gratitude Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving GOD'S LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's not a flower that decks the vale Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's not a tint that paints the rose Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOD, WHO HATH MADE THE DAISIES, by E. P. HOOD Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays GOD, YOU HAVE BEEN TOO GOOD TO ME, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving GOING STEADY, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valentine, o valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day GOLDEN DAY, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Source First Line: The guns of war are silent Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GOLDENROD, by EVA J. BEEDE Poem Source First Line: All hail the lovely goldenrod Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOLDENROD, by HOPESTILL GOODWIN Poem Source First Line: I am the rustic goldenrod Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOLDENROD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the flying train, behold Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise up above my self Last Line: If they want it Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise up above my self Last Line: Men will be gods %if they want it Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ GOOD FRIDAY, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a dream - the outline of that face Last Line: I stumble on -- is it too dark to pray? Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my chief good Last Line: And all the writings blot or burn. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by EDGAR DANIEL KRAMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You drove the nails in his white Last Line: That the saviour was crucified. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by CATHERINE F. MANNING Poem Text First Line: Today he dies, and dies once more in vain Last Line: "unechoed, while their lips say, ""we believe""." Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GOOD FRIDAY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter and james and john Last Line: I hear the cock crow yet. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heart of three-in-the-evening Last Line: I kneel -- and I weep and pray. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I for thy sake was pierced Last Line: But bear it bravely, even to calvary. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This day upon the bitter tree Last Line: That is not all unworthy of %the god I mourn? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by LUCY H. KING SMITH Poem Text First Line: Come we unto an altar, kneel, and pray Last Line: Give dreams of thy immortal paradise. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold in every crimson glow Last Line: Love crucified for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, by MARTHA PROVINE LEACH TURNER Poem Text First Line: There was no glory on the hills that day Last Line: Against a vacant sky. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology GOOD FRIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friday is a heavenly day Last Line: Died—and forgave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Easter; Forgiveness; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Clemency GOOD FRIDAY, by FLAVIA VIDAL Poem Source First Line: Absinthe, green, bewitching moon Last Line: Sprout up phosphorescences of gangrene! Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Love; Redemption GOOD FRIDAY, by A. J. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: How often have I peered Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a stone, and not a sheep Last Line: And smite a rock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus christ, grown faint upon the cross Last Line: Heart, o lord jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY -- 1917, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: The die is cast for war! Last Line: Amen! Amen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Reconciliation; Religion; War; Theology GOOD FRIDAY EVENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cherub's heart or hand for us might ache Last Line: More and yet more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY HYMN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord christ paid life with death Last Line: And in the living see the dead. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up thy hill of sorrows Last Line: To a throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT, by FANNY HOWE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Has my father abandoned me? Or what do I mean Last Line: I am falling to the end of the opening question. %outside its law Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last the bird that sang so long Last Line: His figure ashen-stolen %sank in the moon's broad gold Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY, 1613. RIDING WESTWARD, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this Last Line: That thou mayest know me, and I'll turn my face. Subject(s): Bible; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Religion; Theology GOOD FRYDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But now ye sceen is chang'd, chang'd is ye day Last Line: Who turnes ye crosse into so sweet a thing. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Pain; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GOOD MORNING AMERICA, SELS., by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it's uncle sam sitting on top of the world Subject(s): Holidays GOOD RIDDANCE, BUT NOW WHAT?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come childten, gather round my knee Last Line: Duck! Here comes another year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year GOOD-BYE, OLD YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Good-bye, old year! For you and we must part Last Line: Our prayers to him above. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Holidays; Love; New Year; Prayer; Separation; Isolation; Paradise GOOD-FRIDAY, by MARIA JAMES Poem Text First Line: The scene is fresh before us Last Line: Who came the lost to save. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD-FRIDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be hushed, my heart, remembering Last Line: Full paid on calvary. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Calvary; Catholic Church - Clergy; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Catholic Priests GOOD-NIGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, sweet year, that brought to me Last Line: And all the shadows flee away. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year GOODBYE, WINTER, by C. S. STONE Poem Source First Line: The meadow brooks are full, and busy Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GOODFRYDAY (TO A BASE AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Weep & spare not / good eyes are not Last Line: Weep & spare not. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion GOODNIGHT PRAYER, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thank you, god, for everyone Last Line: Thanks for you and thanks for me Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GORD ONLY KNOWS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an old beggar dis mawnin,' lucindy Last Line: Gord only knows. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRACE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much, preventing god! How much I owe Last Line: Had not these me against myself defended. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving GRACE AND THANKSGIVING, by ELIZABETH GOULD Poem Source First Line: We thank thee, lord, for quiet upland lawns Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving GRACE AT EVENING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all the beauties of the day Last Line: Sweet be the dreams of one and all; %and when another day shall break %unto thy service may we wake Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving GRACE AT EVENING, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: Be with us, lord, at eventide Last Line: Thyself, for thy dear sake Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Resurrection, The; Thanksgiving GRACES, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thanks for food that crunches Last Line: And tastes good going down Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRAIN OF CORN AND INFANT'S HAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GRANDFATHERS HANDS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Grandfathers hands in the sausge tub Last Line: Clicking on and off all the way home Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans GRANDMOTHER'S VALENTINE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The branches creaked on the garret roof Last Line: Grandmother's valentine told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Grandparents; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Eros; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY'S STORY, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, lads, I'm a poor old body Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRANNY'S THANKSGIVING, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Granny, tell us how it was when you were a girl Last Line: As we all thawed out Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRASS, by EDGAR FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: The rose is praised for its beaming face Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GRATITUDE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: For sunlit hours and visions clear Last Line: We thank the keeper of our years. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year GRATITUDE, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The idiotic silence of state holidays Subject(s): Holidays GRATITUDE, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The idiotic silence of state holidays Last Line: The armchair's cover %fine dust was trembling Subject(s): Holidays GRAVES OF THE PATRIOTS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here rest the great and good. Here they repose Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day GREAT ARMISTICE, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the uproar and stench Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREAT JEHOVAH EVER PRESENT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the eastern sky is burning Last Line: Grant me wisdom, grant me sight. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Wisdom; The Resurrection; Theology GREAT POWERS CONFERENCE, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: The blind men add the figures, draw the maps Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREEN BEER, by JAMES J. MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: On saint paddy's day, the jukebox plays Last Line: The raven tearing at his eye Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Beer; Drinks And Drinking; Holidays; Parties; St. Patrick's Day GREEN HILL FAR AWAY', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it indeed only last march, or in another Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREEN THINGS GROWING, by CHARLES H. FULLER Poem Source First Line: Oh! The green things growing! The green things growning! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GREETING THE YEAR 2000, WITH RESPECT, by JANINE POMMY VEGA Poem Source First Line: Glancing back at the millennium we are leaving Last Line: And the dragon in the stars Subject(s): 2000 A.d.; Holidays; New Year GROWTH, by EMILY J. BUGBEE Poem Source First Line: Grow as the trees grow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did they send me away from my cat and my wife Subject(s): Holidays GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did they send me away from my cat and my wife Subject(s): Holidays GUSTATORY ACHIEVEMENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last thanksgiving'-dinner we Last Line: Lawzy! I kin taste 'em yet! %yes, an' custard-pie, an' mince! %an'-I-ain't-et-no-pie-since! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food And Eating; Holidays; Pies; Thanksgiving Day HAIL, ARBOR DAY, by LIZZIE D. ROOSA Poem Source First Line: Now fair arbor day is here Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees HAIL, OLD PATRICIAN TREES SO GREAT AND GOOD!, by ALICE B. NEAL Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HALLOWE'EN IS HERE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Ghosts and spooks are floating round Last Line: Hallowe'en is here. Subject(s): Fear; Halloween; Holidays HALLOWEEN, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Stealing white from the withered moon Subject(s): Holidays HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Carve the name of the year you live in on your heart Last Line: Alas! Alas! No brotherhood was there. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Holidays; New Year HAPPY THOUGHT, by HENRY WARD BEECHER Poem Source First Line: Flowers are the sweetest things that god ever Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS: INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mood of mind we all have known Last Line: Than ennui's yawning smile what time she drops it down Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees HARVARD COMMEMORATION ODE, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither leads the path Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day HARVARD PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When all our troubled errantries are done Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HARVEST, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the long seasons seem to separate Last Line: And all men's god in every human soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology HARVEST HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the liberal year laughs out Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day HARVEST SONG, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O reapers and gleaners Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Holidays HATTERAS HOLIDAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Hatteras is a thread of land Last Line: From a live ship or a dead one Subject(s): Holidays; Water HAVE YOU PLANTED A TREE?, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do we plant when we plant the tree? Last Line: We plant all these when we plant the tree. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HE IS RISEN, HE IS RISEN, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays HE LEADS US STILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dare we despair? Through all the nights and days Last Line: The nation lincoln died for cannot fail! Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States HE SENT HIS LOVE A VALENTINE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day HE WHO PLANTS AN OAK LOOKS FORWARD TO FUTURE AGES, by WASHINGTON IRVING Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HE'LL SEE IT WHEN HE WAKES', by FRANK LEE Poem Source First Line: Amid the clouds of battle-smoke Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day HEART'S EASE! ONE COULD LOOK FOR HALF A DAY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HEAVE, THE WAVE, AND BEND, by JOHN NEAL Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HER NEWS, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You paused for a moment and I heard you smoking Last Line: Congratulations,' I said. 'when's it due?' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HER THANKS, by MITCHELL DAVIS FOLLANSBEE Poem Text First Line: She thanked them all for everything Last Line: "repeated low, ""just what I wanted!" Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving HER VALENTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody's sent a funny little Last Line: Can not breathe the lightest whisper of his burning love for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Roses; Valentine's Day; Eros HER YEARS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years come and go, each bringing in his train Last Line: And makes her new years old, ere yet begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time HERE SHE COMES, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HERE WE COME A-WHISTLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Holidays; New Year HEROES OF THE SOUTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four deadly years we fought Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day HIGHGATE EASTER, by F. D. REEVE Poem Source First Line: Snowdrops in the corner of the garden Last Line: Bursts in each garden with a mummers' show %of grace as green leaves overtake the woods Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Seasons; Time HINTS FOR THE FIRST SCHOOL GARDEN, by EDITH ALER Poem Source First Line: Begin early-early enough to stir up Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HIS FACE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: They tell you lincoln was ungainly, plain? Subject(s): Holidays HIS LAST WEEK, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: Sunday, the shout of hosannas Subject(s): Easter; Holidays HIS NEW SUIT, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: I remember well the way Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day HIS VALENTINE, by BLANCHE DEGOOD LOFTON Poem Text First Line: A cupid, on a fat, red-paper heart Last Line: "from jack, age nine -- I love you, mother dear." Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers & Sons; Valentine's Day HISTORIC TREES, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not wonder that great earls value their trees Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HISTORICAL TREES - TOLD IN RHYME, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: One by one we are turning Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HOB UPON A HOLIDAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hob yawned three times and rubbed his eyes Last Line: "he means to take you by surprise, / for hob is cupid in disguise" Subject(s): Holidays HOLIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About my window in a wreath Last Line: My dreams are drenched with attar of rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Flowers; Holidays; Nature; Roses HOLIDAY ACROSTIC, by ELIZABETH LLOYD Poem Source First Line: C stands for children, who always are ready Subject(s): Holidays HOLIDAY CONVENTION, by EMMA CELIA ROOK Poem Source First Line: From the four quarters of the year Subject(s): Holidays HOLIDAY HOURS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear boy, let us think of the pleasures Last Line: The sportive delights of the holiday hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Holidays HOLIDAY SPEECH, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH Poem Source First Line: We hail our coming holiday Subject(s): Holidays HOLIDAYS, by LOUISE POLLOCK Poem Source First Line: Away with all pencils, with slates and with books Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HOLIDAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Of all, the flowers love a holiday Last Line: Love the days when school is out. Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Play; Summer; Vacation; Childhood HOLIDAYS; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The holiest of all holidays are those / kept by ourselves in silence and apart Last Line: But lovely as a landscape in a dream. Subject(s): Holidays HOLY DAYS, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, december's cold and gray Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Holidays HOLY SATURDAY (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came, o death, to conquer thee Last Line: And teach mankind thy charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection HOLY SATURDAY (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, who daily kissed his feet Last Line: "and made a temple of the tomb." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a holy thing to see Last Line: Nor poverty the mind appall. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a holy thursday, their innocent faces clean Last Line: Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HOME BY THE WARM SOUTHERN SEA, by MRS. B. C. RUDE Poem Source First Line: Oh, give me a home by the warm southern sea! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice hath filled our forest shades Subject(s): Easter; Holidays HOST, by ROY FISHER Poem Source First Line: This memory, never mind what it is Last Line: Vampire memory, quietly feeding off me Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light Last Line: The fruit bat swings on its branch, a tongueless bell Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year HOW AMERICA FINISHED, by GREGORY MASON Poem Source First Line: The legend, 'heaven, hell, or hoboken by Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?', by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the picket-guarded lane Last Line: "pass in, sanitary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Declaration Day HOW DREARY WOULD THE GARDEN BE, by ALICE CARY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HOW LAUGHTER MADE CLOCK SMILE, by JOHN AGARD Poem Source First Line: To make clock smile Last Line: Have you any idea of the time? %clock chuckled Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HOW THE NEW YEAR CAME ABOUT, by DEBORAH EGE OLDS Poem Text First Line: On one side the curtain the new year was standing Last Line: She mounted the throne and he passed into rhyme. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HOW TO MAKE A WHISTLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First take a willow bough Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HOW TO PLANT A TREE, by JULIA E. ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Dig the hole wider and deeper than the tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HYMN EXULTANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of mankind, sing over Last Line: Our king returns to us, forever ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Soul; The Resurrection; Human Race HYMN FOR ARBOR DAY, by HENRY HANBY HAY Poem Source First Line: God save this tree we plant! Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees HYMN FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Lift your eyes to yonder city Last Line: Over every land and sea. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day HYMN FOR THANKSGIVING DAY, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sickle is dulled of the reaping and the threshing floor is bare Last Line: Take thou our thanks! Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus Variant Title(s): Thanksgiving For Our Task Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving HYMN FOR [OR, TO] THE VICTORIOUS DEAD, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, by the sea, by the resounding sea Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE NATURAL WORLD, by ELLEN BEAUCHAMP Poem Source First Line: The winter storms have passes away Subject(s): Holidays; Trees HYMN OF HATE, by JOSEPH DANA MILLER Poem Source First Line: And this I hate - not men, for flag, for race Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day HYMN TO THE SUN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light of the world, and ruler of the year Last Line: And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more. Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Light; New Year; Sun; Time; War; Heroes; Heroines HYMN TO THE SUPREME BEING, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father supreme! Eternal god! Last Line: And smite our guilty breasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE TWO HUNDRETH ANNIVERSARY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea sang sweetly to the shore Subject(s): Beverly, Massachusetts; Holidays HYMN: EASTER DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God is gone up with a merry noise Last Line: He hath won the victory! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection HYMN: GOOD FRIDAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh more than merciful! Whose bounty gave Last Line: Nor let thy glorious blood be spilt in vain. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice HYMN: OUT OF HIS TREASURIES, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who art lord of the wind and rain Subject(s): Holidays HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Last Line: The day being done. Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Sun; Swamps; Trees; Planting; Planters; Bogs; Fens; Marshes I AM A MONARCH, THE KING OF TREES, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I beg what I love and %I leave to forgive me Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Holidays; Maturity; New Year I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was just before easter Last Line: "next to me,"" history writes." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Festivals; Holidays; The Resurrection; Fairs; Pageants I HAD A LITTLE YELLOW BIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees I KNOW NOT WHICH I LOVE THE MOST, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees I LOVE THEE IN THE SPRING, by WILLIAM JEWETT PABODIE Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees I PACK MY TRUNK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I pack up to carry Last Line: From the old year to the new. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine I SOW HEMPSEED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day I THANK THEE, by ELSIE MORLAN Poem Text First Line: The face of a child beamed with joy Last Line: I thank thee. Subject(s): Customs, Social; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Thanksgiving I THANK THEE, GOD! FOR WEAL AND WOE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank thee, god! For all I've known Last Line: And bring my spirit nigher thee. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving IF EASTER EGGS WOULD HATCH, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish that easter eggs would do Last Line: My, wouldn't that be funny! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays IF I COULD TELL YOU, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time will say nothing but I told you so Last Line: If I could tell you I would let you know Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): But I Can' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time IF JOVE WOULD GIVE THE LEAFY BOWERS, by UNKNOWN+26 Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees IMAGE, by EDWARD H. SOTHERN Poem Source First Line: It is mankind that is crucified,' said my mate Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL GROUNDS, by LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: One's training for the work of life is begun Subject(s): Holidays; Trees IN A NIGHT OF MIDSUMMER, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Easter; Holidays IN ACTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the blue-black waves are tipped with white Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day IN DAYS LIKE THESE, by THOMAS H. STACY Poem Source First Line: O god of hosts, whose mighty hand Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day IN HONOR OF THANKSGIVING, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: When november's gusty breezes Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day IN HOSPITAL: 17. INTERLUDE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, the fun, the fun and frolic Last Line: New year comes but once a twelvemonth. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Hospitals; New Year IN HOSPITAL: POONA (1), by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I did not fight for sleep Last Line: But love survives the venom of the snake Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Soldiers' Writings IN LENT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the lengthening days Last Line: How christ is risen, is risen, and death is slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lent; Prayer; The Resurrection IN MEMORIAM (EASTER 1915), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood Last Line: Have gathered them and will do never again. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Soldiers; War; World War I; The Resurrection; First World War IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 106, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky Last Line: Ring in the christ that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The New Year;the Old Year And The New Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 119, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors, where my heart was used to beat Last Line: I take the pressure of thine hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: In my father's house, for as long as I remember, beer Last Line: It's hot. I helped myself to what I knew would not be offered, %in my father's house Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Holidays; New Year; Parties IN NOVEMBER, by SUSAN KELLY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Soft, sweet, and sad in its pathetic glory Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day IN THE GARDEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that still, as easter morn dawns nigh Last Line: His radiant easter presence we discern? Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection IN THE HEMLOCKS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient hemlocks, whither I propose to Subject(s): Holidays; Trees IN THE RANELAGH GARDENS: EASTER SUNDAY 1988, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Easter falls early this year Last Line: Hunting under drowned and folded leaves %with the water beetles Variant Title(s): In The Ranelagh Gardens: Easter Saturda Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Old Age IN THE SPRING, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bright crocus flames, and now Last Line: And sweeter than the violets! Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Admiration; Holidays; Trees INCANTATION TO OEDIPUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Choose the darkest part o' the grove Subject(s): Holidays; Supernatural INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between painting a roof yesterday and the hay Last Line: Whistle opens in the air, broad and pointed like a leaf Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Religion; Theology INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between painting a roof yesterday and the hay Last Line: In the light like a curling vine and the bobwhite's %whistleopens in the air, broad and pointed as a Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Religion INDEPENDENT, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day INDIAN SUMMER, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Source First Line: That soft autumnal time Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day INDIAN SUMMER, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: The grain is gathered in Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs Last Line: Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace. Subject(s): Forests; Holidays; Trees; Woods INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone. Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness INTO THE SUNBEAM'S KEEPING, by JENNIE D. MOORE Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration INVITATION TO A NEW YEAR, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Glassed in, here at the edge Last Line: Let's clear the path Subject(s): Holidays; New Year INVOCATION, by PARR HARLOW Poem Source First Line: We, children of the free Subject(s): Holidays; Trees IRONING, by VICKI FEAVER Poem Source First Line: I used to iron everything Last Line: My arms, breasts, lungs, heart into Subject(s): Holidays; New Year IROQUOIS PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We return thanks to our mother, the earth Last Line: Directs all things for the good of his children Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving ISAIAH 55: 6-12. QUOTATIONS FOR PEACE DAY, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ISIS WANDERER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This too is an experience of the soul Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection ISIS WANDERER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This too is an experience of the soul Last Line: That he who lived on the first may rise on the last day Subject(s): Easter; Holidays IT'S ABOUT TIME, by RITA ANN HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: One day a car pulled up Last Line: You've got the right time, but you're in the wrong place.' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year IVY, by HENRY BURTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pushing the clods of earth aside Subject(s): Holidays; Trees JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees JANUARY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We pause beside this door Last Line: "for lo! I am the door." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year JANUARY ONE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Said jan to feb Subject(s): Holidays; New Year JAUNTY, by MARTINA EVANS Poem Source First Line: Light strikes the clock! Last Line: Kissing my feet, %and jaunty Subject(s): Holidays; New Year JOLLY SOLDIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I once was a seaman stout and bold Last Line: "abd I'll still be the jolly, jolly soldier" Subject(s): "holidays;presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799); JOY OF SPRING, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For lo! No sooner has the cold withdrawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Holidays; Trees JUBILATE!, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: We do not need, dear friend, to seek Last Line: And jubilance of christmas day! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The JULY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: July's for independence day Last Line: July comes for flags and play. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Holidays; Summer; American Flag; Independence Day KANGAROO'S COURTSHIP, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Oh will you be my wallaby' Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that soldierly legend is still on its journey Last Line: Line. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Memorial Day; Patriotism; Seven Pines, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Declaration Day; Fair Oaks, Battle Of (1862) KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had set Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day KIND WORDS (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Kind hearts are the gardens Subject(s): Holidays; Trees 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 KNOW THE TREES, by AUSTIN C. APGAR Poem Source First Line: Arbor day, when in all the schools we are talking Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LADY GOLDEN-ROD, by CARRIE W. BRONSON Poem Source First Line: O, pretty lady golden-rod Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LAMB, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month before easter Last Line: After the lamb had been wept for %its flesh was easter Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Lambs LAMENT FOR THE MAKARIS [WHEN HE WAS SEIK], by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I that in heill [or, heal] was and glaidness [or, gladness]. Last Line: Timor mortis conturbat me. Variant Title(s): Dunbar's Lament When He Was Sick;the Fear Of Death Confounds Me;timor Mortis Conturbat Me Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Dead, The; Bereavement LARRY NOOLAN'S NEW YEAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be-gorrie, al wor sorry Last Line: When the ould year died. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties LAST DAY OF THE YEAR (NEW YEAR'S EVE), by ANNETTE FREIIN VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF Poem Source First Line: The year at its turn Last Line: My arms, and from my drouth %beg mercy. Dead is the year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LAST SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathered, astounded and disturbed Subject(s): Holidays; Last Supper, The 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 VIOLET, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gray old owl could scarce believe his eyes Subject(s): Holidays LAUREL WREATH, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Sing of the one now whose birthday we're keeping Subject(s): Holidays LAVENDER'S BLUE (1), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly, lavender's green Last Line: Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm. Subject(s): Holidays; Lavender; Valentine's Day LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day LEGEND OF THE ASPEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O'er the forests of judea Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LEGEND OF THE EASTER EGGS, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest papa', says my boy to me Subject(s): Easter; Holidays LESSON OF THE LEAVES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How do the leaves grow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LESSONS, by HELEN WEBER Poem Source First Line: Strange lesson taught by war Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LEST WE FORGET - 1926, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: Lest we forget! / the months swing into years Last Line: Lest we forget! Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LEST WE FORGET; ARMISTICE NIGHT, 1920, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: The cold rain falls on dun-sur-meuse tonight Last Line: "when taps blew so much more than just ""goodnight." Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LET DREAMERS WAKE, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: Now, if ever, lets poets sing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LET US DECLARE!, SELS., by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Come, workers! Poets, artists, dreamers, more and more Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LETTER BY AN AMERICAN OFFICER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am writing you a few lines to say that I am Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LETTERS AND DIARY, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another participant in the attack upon belloy-en-santerre Subject(s): Diaries; Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LEWIS D. HAYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost glee of the christmas Last Line: Gave it again to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Guests; Holidays; New Year; Voices; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting LIFE IN ITS SPRING-TIME, by E. A. HOLBROOK Poem Source First Line: Tis the time to be cheerful, when nature is gay Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LIFE THROUGH DEATH, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pagan king tormented fiercely all Subject(s): Easter; Holidays LIFE'S FOREST TREES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day grows brief; the afternoon is slanting Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LIGHT, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: At the big house new year's eve karaoke Last Line: And the rush begins once again. %belfast, winter 1994 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Holidays; Light; New Year; Women LIGHT YEAR, by JOHN RIDLAND Poem Source First Line: It starts out Subject(s): Holidays LILAC, by CLARA DOTY BATES Poem Source First Line: The sun shone warm, and the lilac said Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LILY'S THANKSGIVING, by MRS. DAWSON M. PHELPS Poem Source First Line: It was always the time for a laugh, when the name Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John woke on jan. First and felt queer Last Line: And it certainly wasn't the beer Subject(s): Food & Eating;holidays;new Year LINCOLN, by JANE L. HARDY Poem Source First Line: Fate struck the hour! Subject(s): Holidays LINCOLN MONUMENT: WASHINGTON, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's go see old abe Last Line: Of time -- %old abe Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c. LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Last Line: More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! Variant Title(s): Tintern Abbey;on Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye Subject(s): England; Holidays; Immortality; Nature; Religion; Trees; English; Theology LINES FOR THE NEW YEAR, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: The first day of january is the first day Last Line: Action is certainly the order of the day, and action never had %a better interpreter than the skillf Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LINES SUGGESTED BY THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY (2), by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness succeeds to twilight Last Line: To think on hers sincerely. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day LINES WRITTEN AT NIGHT DURING INSOMNIA, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't sleep; no light burns Last Line: I seek a meaning in you Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LINES WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, ye who thro' this round of eighty years Last Line: "to bow the head, and say, ""thy will be done." Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LINES WRITTEN ON THE BIRTH OF THE YEAR 1853, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Infant year, fresh from the womb of time Last Line: This gift be yours, to crown the new-born year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Holidays; New Year; Time LITANY FOR PEACE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: No longer homes are flame against Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LITTLE ACORN, by M. H. HUNTINGTON Poem Source First Line: I'm nothing but a little acorn Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LITTLE BIRDIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear little birdie Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LITTLE BROWN SEED IN THE FURROW, by IDA W. BENHAM Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LITTLE CATKINS, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little boys and little maidens Subject(s): Holidays LITTLE HOLIDAY, by ROSALYN STEWART Poem Source First Line: And the woman was alone for four days Last Line: Intending to give it to someone Subject(s): Holidays; Love LITTLE LEAF, by HENRY WARD BEECHER Poem Source First Line: Once on a time a little leaf was heard to sigh and Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LITTLE NAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The wide gates swung open Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day LITTLE PLANTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down by the wall where the lilacs grow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LIVE IN THE PRESENT, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget the past and live the present hour Last Line: Who conquers now shall rule the coming years. Variant Title(s): Now Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; New Year LIVE OAK, by HENRY R. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: With his gnarled old arms, and his iron form Subject(s): Holidays; Trees LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology LONG AGO, by MRS. L. A. BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: To arms! %from your homes on the seashore and hillside come forth Subject(s): Holidays LONG ROOM GALLERY, by JULIE O'CALLAGHAN Poem Source First Line: There is nothing to breathe Last Line: Baseball caps, chewing gum, videos Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LOOK IN THEIR EYES, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Youthful and buoyant and blithe they went into Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LORDINGS, LISTEN TO OUR LAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays LOVE AT EASTER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing to the lord a new song! Last Line: This easter-tide shall be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Love; Singing & Singers; The Resurrection LOVE AT SEA, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Up through the fog came the frisky dog Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day LOVE HONOR ONLY BETTER THAN PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: There are all sorts of people in the united Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LOVE, GIVE ME THE FEEL OF TO-MORROW, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Come, love, help me move all the mirrors out of my workshop Last Line: Broadcasting a forever-and-ever armistice day. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LOVELY THINGS, by H. M. SARSON Poem Source First Line: Bread is a lovely thing to eat - Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving MACBETH, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Murder; Religion; Supernatural MACCABEES 1, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then they took whole stones according to the law Subject(s): Holidays MAGNIFICAT, by MICHELE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Oh this man %what a meal he made of me Last Line: And nuzzling each other in the smelly fold Subject(s): Erotic Love; Holidays; New Year MAGNOLIA-GRANDIFLORA, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Majestic flower! How purely beautiful Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAJESTY OF TREES, by WASHINGTON IRVING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a serene and settled majesty in woodland Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAKE WAY!, by FLORENCE CROCKER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: The crashing sky has swept old paths aside Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day MAKING FRIENDS, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN Poem Text First Line: The fine art of forming friendships Last Line: Ev'ry day a glad new year. Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The MAL, by HENRY GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Leaving you early I went through the horses Last Line: No. And again no. And again no Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861], by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have met at last - as storm-clouds Last Line: At manassas. Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Declaration Day MANHATTAN NEW YEAR, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANY, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source First Line: Many %of those many who rose up Last Line: Many of those many who rose up Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War Injuries MAPLE, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That was a day of delight Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song Last Line: While we were marching through georgia. Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Declaration Day MARGIE'S THANKSGIVING, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: With salt and potatoes and meal for bread Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day MARIGOLD: GRIEF, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open afresh your round of starry folds Last Line: His mighty voice may come upon the gale Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees MARRIAGE OF THE FLOWERS, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is six,' the swallows twittered, 'and you're very late in rising' Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MARSHAL FOCH'S ARMISTICE DAY MESSAGE TO AMERICA, 1926, by STEPHANE LAUZANNE Poem Source First Line: It is a great wave of idealism and fraternity ...' Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day MARY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She walked among the lilies Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays MARY AND HER PET SQUIRREL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Do you think my pet squirrel will go quite away Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MARY'S EASTER, by MARIE MASON Poem Source First Line: Easter lilies freshly bloom Subject(s): Easter; Holidays MASTECTOMY POEMS: 6. DECEMBER 31, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say this year no different Last Line: Well and happy %new year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MATER DOLOROSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside Last Line: And the soul of man and her soul and the world's be one. Subject(s): Dawn; Holidays; New Year; Soul; Time; Sunrise MAUNDY THURSDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great vine left its glory to reign as forest king Last Line: I a king, and thou a king, and this king to be our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Holy Week; Maundy Thursday MAY, by ? CLARKE Poem Source First Line: When apple trees in blossom are Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May, thou month of rosy beauty Last Line: And find us in the fields together. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the buds and bees Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY, by WILLIAM G. PARK Poem Source First Line: Can it be that it is morning Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail may, with fair queen and may-pole Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY 30, 1893, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed to be but chance, yet who shall say Last Line: It was to die unknown and rest forgot? Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Unknown Soldier; Declaration Day MAY DAY, by EMMA A. OPPER Poem Source First Line: Oh, 'tis bland, and oh, 'tis blooming, for it's may Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY FLOWER, by HOPESTILL GOODWIN Poem Source First Line: When stern new england's tardy spring Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY MORNING, by ELIZA L. SPROAT Poem Source First Line: Greeted me at early day Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY MORNING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O lady, leave thy silken thread Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY MORNING LESSON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twice one are two Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY NIGHT, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue are the twilight heavens above the hill Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day MAY SONG), by ANNA MARIA PRATT Poem Source First Line: The orchard is a rosy cloud Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY SONG), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A merry little maiden Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAY TO APRIL, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without your showers %I breed no flowers Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees MAY-DAY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, come hither, and view the face Last Line: "with a world's which shouts, ""rejoice, rejoice!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Variant Title(s): Spring Morning Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MAYFLOWER, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Over the water and over the waves Last Line: Said the people who came to america Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day MAYTIME IN MIDWINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new year gleams on us, tearful Last Line: And life, through love of you, love. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness MEADOWSWEET, by KATHLEEN JAMIE Poem Source First Line: So they buried her, and turned home Last Line: Of dirt, and spit, and poetry Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY (A NEW THEME ON AN OLD FOLK MEASURE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a may morning Last Line: "how weak of you and small!" Subject(s): Holidays MELTING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Is it a lie? He'll never know Last Line: No melting into yes, yes into no. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Lies MEMORABILIA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, did you once see shelley plain, / and did he stop and speak to you Last Line: Well, I forget the rest. Variant Title(s): Shelley;something To Remember Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Fireworks are exploding over the hotel northampton Last Line: This star-spangled weekend that crawls toward the divorce? Subject(s): Divorce; Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I heard a cry in the night from a far-flung host Last Line: In the name of our dead will we hear? Will we grant them sleep? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by WALLACE BRUCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come with chaplet woven new Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well,' they were saying, 'the war's over' Last Line: There are pictures and parades for all the rest, %but you have to dream the buzzard Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by FLORIA DORIA Poem Text First Line: The dead immortal! They are the ones whom we honor today Last Line: To the ashes of our mourned and lost immortal youths! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Dead, The; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why deck with flow'rs these humble mounds? Last Line: A dearer destiny than dirgeful death. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EMERETTE H. DUNNING Poem Text First Line: To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day Last Line: This eventide. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The finest tribute we can pay Last Line: And free men wear no tyrant's chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day of roses and regret Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each year my parents flowered their dead: the dark-veined Last Line: Of hands, the carnal gift of bloom, %the beauty entrusted to graves a sensual payment of debt Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sympathy; Veterans MEMORIAL DAY, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugle echoes shrill and sweet Last Line: The prince of peace . . . Who brought a sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA A. LENT Poem Text First Line: A day of tender memory Last Line: Upon each resting-bed. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After noon, in the plaza, cries, shrill yells, running and breaking Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After noon, in the plaza, cries, shrill yells, running and breaking Last Line: All these camellias overgrown and wasting? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After our march from the hudson to the top Last Line: Ticks on its chain. Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Veterans; War; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Again it is memorial day Last Line: On decoration day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Veterans; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noblest of martyrs in a glorious fight! Last Line: That they who fell with jackson rise with lee! Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers for our dead! Last Line: Love for our dead! Variant Title(s): For Our Dead Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are not dead! They are not dead! Last Line: On thids memorial day. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew the fair garlands where slumber the dead Last Line: Grateful the living and honored the dead. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by FRANCES FREEMAN TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: The blue and the gray and the olive-drab Last Line: The olive-drab, the blue and the gray. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by CY WARMAN Poem Text First Line: Gather the garlands rare today Last Line: And water the garlands with their tears. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day of memories! -- remembering what? Last Line: Upon our sacred day of memories. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is it enough to think to-day Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY 1889, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Twine laurels to lay o'er the blue and the gray Last Line: Entwine. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, POST-WAR, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: For golden lads, a-faring Last Line: A memory—of rue! Subject(s): Hate; Holidays; Memorial Day; Social Protest; War; Declaration Day MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Last Line: He rests, he is quiet, he sleeps in a strange land Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I MEMORIALS, by JOHN WATKINS MOSELEY JR. Poem Text First Line: Memorial days crowd the past into the present Last Line: If they would be wafted into the realm of greatness. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking Last Line: "just to god and man." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness MEN AND TREES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some time since, on an enchanted summer afternoon Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MEN OF THE NORTH, by JOHN NEAL Poem Text First Line: Men of the north, look up! Last Line: Upon our haughty foe! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MERRY SPRING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MESSAGE OF MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH TO THE AMERICAN LEGION, by FERDINAND FOCH Poem Source First Line: It is out of sacrifice and suffering that the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid the din of battle cease! Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day MESSAGE OF THE BELLS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: I looked upon the dreary waste Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MIDNIGHT, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: After waiting up Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MIDNIGHT MASS FOR THE DYING YEAR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, the year is growing old Last Line: Christe, eleyson! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The MIDSUMMER, by ABBIE F. JUDD Poem Source First Line: Behold the flood-tide of the year Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the basement Last Line: At the turn of the century Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year MISS LUCINDA'S OPINION, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But why do I keep thanksgiving? Last Line: And I'd not change place with a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Home; Thanksgiving MON-DA-MIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So grew osseo, as a lonely pine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MONTH OF APPLE BLOSSOMS, by HENRY WARD BEECHER Poem Source First Line: It makes no difference that you have seen forty Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MONTH OF MAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here I am, and how do you do? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MONTHS AND HOLIDAYS, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: The years come in and the years go out Subject(s): Holidays MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MORE LASTING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And the book that speaks with undying tongue Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MORNING THANKSGIVING, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for sleep in the long quiet night Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving MORNING, NOON, AND ---, by HAWLEY TRUAX Poem Source First Line: Easter dawn! %from early church unwalled Last Line: Side down with the lark Subject(s): Easter; Holidays MOTION SONG - DAISY FAIR, by ANNIE E. CHASE Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the song of the daisy fair? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MOUNT VERNON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What solemn sound the ear invades Subject(s): Holidays MR. BLEANEY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This was mr. Bleaney's room. He stayed Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Nativity, The MR. BLEANEY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was mr. Bleaney's room. He stayed Last Line: Than one hired box should make him pretty sure %he warranted no better, I don't know Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays MUSIC; AND THE SAVAGE BREAST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd read the kaiser's note Last Line: .... I thank you, band of germans. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Bands; German Americans; Holidays; Memorial Day; Music & Musicians; Patriotism; Orchestras; Declaration Day MUTABILITY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower that smiles today Last Line: Then wake to weep. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence MY DAUGHTER AND RAY DAVIES, by MATTHEW SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: She's going out again to that pub in muswell hill Last Line: Knocking back the cider to his whisky and beer Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MY DREAM OF THE NEW YEAR, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the waning hours of moments Last Line: Brightening up my glad new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): Faith; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Belief; Creed; Optimism MY FATHER'S FATHER'S FATHER, by MONIZA ALVI Poem Source First Line: In this city I have aged thousands of years Last Line: Have brilliant purple flowers Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MY HOME IN THE WILDWOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come to my home in the wildwood Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MY LADY OF EASTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The lilies that lean by the altar Last Line: That love is our calling! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Love; Praise; Religion; Saints; The Resurrection; Theology MY LOVE IS LIKE A CABBAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day MY NEW YEAR'S GUESTS, by ROLLIN MALLORY DAGGETT Poem Text First Line: The winds come cold from the southward, with incense of fir and pine Last Line: "long life to the hearts still beating, and peace to the hearts at rest!" Subject(s): Guests; Holidays; New Year; Visiting MY RISEN LORD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my risen lord, I feel thy strong protection" Last Line: This easter day Subject(s): "easter;holidays;jesus Christ;prayer;resurrection, The;" The Resurrection MY STARS, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day I was born Last Line: People would suddenly stop dying Subject(s): Holidays MY TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Which is the best of all the trees? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees MY VALENTINE, by ERNEST CAMP JR. Poem Text First Line: My valentine's a tulip, peeping from the garden shade Last Line: That her laughing lips lend cadence to the music of her voice! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day MY VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: But once a year the fates, my dear Last Line: To-day and all the days to come! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Valentine's Day MYSTERIOUS BIOGRAPHY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christofo columbo was a hungry man Subject(s): Holidays MYSTERIOUS BIOGRAPHY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christofo columbo was a hungry man Subject(s): Holidays NAMING THE TREE, by MRS. B. C. RUDE Poem Source First Line: I'm a merry little maid Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NATIVITY SONG, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful mother is bending Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Holidays NATURE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To plant, to build Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NATURE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nature! I do not aspire Last Line: Only be it near to you. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NATURE'S EASTER MUSIC, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers from the earth have risen Subject(s): Easter; Holidays NEATH THE COTTON-WOOD TREES, by MRS. B. C. RUDE Poem Source First Line: Let one who sips life's tears with strange delight Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 11TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank those that do thee good, so shalt thou gain Last Line: Their second help, if thou shouldst need again. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving NEEDLESS FEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afraid? Of whom am I afraid Last Line: As soon impeach my crown! Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection NEW HOLIDAY IS A BOON TO AMERICANS, by GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NEW LEAF, by KATHLEEN WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Another year is dawning! Last Line: Do better, now, my child Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW SONG, by ARTHUR GORDON FIELD Poem Source First Line: Poet, take up thy lyre Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another flood is finished to a fall Last Line: Will long bear us aberrants on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Holidays; New Year; Rain; Seashore; Time; Water NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy %by sam Last Line: Walks toward an ocean %of days Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The stream of time glides ever swiftly by Last Line: This glad refrain; a happy, bright new year! Subject(s): Calendar; Holidays; New Year; Time NEW YEAR, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the old year forever Last Line: To greet each happy new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Holidays NEW YEAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Last Line: In the branches of the chestnuts that are gone Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year NEW YEAR, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each year cometh with all his days Last Line: Of prayer, the king becomes your slave. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was the one man I met up in the woods Last Line: While I strode by and he turned to raking leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: Across the life-path of our destiny Last Line: To perfect day. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Judaism NEW YEAR, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: After christmas Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR (2), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over our heads the words hung down Last Line: Wonderful dies. Subject(s): Calendars; Holidays; New Year; Time NEW YEAR CARD, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greeting dear friend, through shower and sun Last Line: Still, greeting all the same dear friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR CAROL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here we bring new water Last Line: And the bugles that do shine Variant Title(s): The New Year Subject(s): Holidays;new Year NEW YEAR DAY - TO MRS. DUNLOP, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day time winds th' exhausted chain Last Line: Yourself, you wait your bright reward. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR DITTY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year met me somewhat sad Last Line: My rugged way to heaven, please god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, blessed saviour Last Line: Crown our bright new-year! Subject(s): Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form); New Year NEW YEAR HYMN, by JOSEPH KRAUSKOPF Poem Text First Line: Gone another year- / gone beyond recall Last Line: May erasure need. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Judaism NEW YEAR OF YELLOW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN Poem Source First Line: The american bag and burlap company on the north side of Last Line: Me and the american bag and burlap building on bergen Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR POEM, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The short afternoon ends, and the year is over Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The NEW YEAR POEM, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The short afternoon ends, and the year is over Last Line: Us who need you, and are affected by your fortune; %us you should love and to whom you should give y Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR RESOLVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dead year is clasped by a dead december Last Line: The wan, worn face of the bruised old world. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courage; Future; Holidays; New Year; Valor; Bravery NEW YEAR SONG, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say that the year is old and gray Last Line: Comes merrily in to-morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We climb the hill; the mist conceals Last Line: Your longed-for flower of liberty? Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Socialism NEW YEAR'S 1965 AT AUNT JANEY'S, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: A hog's head Last Line: Girl, you oughta be shot.' Subject(s): Aunts; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S 1990, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Joanne's husband was on pan am flight 103 Last Line: And at the turn of the decade write new poems %while you lie breathing Subject(s): Fireworks; Gratitude; Holidays; New Year; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NEW YEAR'S ADVICE FROM MY CORNISH GRANDMOTHER, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On new year's eve, at your front door Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S BIRDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on new year's morning Last Line: They will sing to you! Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S CHIMES, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song the stars sing? Last Line: (rung all in rhyme.) Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the horns wear thin Last Line: Dizzy and sick. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: January is a soft, white month Last Line: And I have my hand on my son, my son Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, thou best and brightest morning! Last Line: But in thy fairest eyes find two for one. Variant Title(s): Hymn For New Year's Day Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The NEW YEAR'S DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This trade that we ply with the pen Last Line: Drinc hael! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine NEW YEAR'S DAY, by HATTORI RANSETSU Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tell their tales Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ELIZABETH MARY LITTLE Poem Source First Line: The storm-wind sank, the moon rode high Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Lizzie M. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again and then again ... The year is born Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again and then again ... The year is born Last Line: The child is born in blood, o child of blood Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, be good to england. Bid her name Last Line: 01/01/89 Subject(s): England; Holidays; New Year; Time; English NEW YEAR'S DAY SONG; PEMBROKE DOCK, WALES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rise up a new year's mornin' Last Line: Two or three ha'pence, if you please, %to buy some ink and paper Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On new year's eve, a season without hours, you sent Last Line: And the wooden city's tower departed with a tall shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a bottle and a friend Last Line: Making wondrous merry. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine NEW YEAR'S EVE, by BEATRIZ BADIKIAN Poem Source First Line: He is my ajax who brings me Last Line: Trusting laughter all around us Subject(s): Children; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another full-orbed year hath waned to-day Last Line: To deathless hope we must be born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow came with dusk, building itself on windows Last Line: Steel guitars played auld lang syne on oaho Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow came with dusk, building itself on windows Last Line: And one more number chanhed inside the mind Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The club is filling, tables draped with linen Last Line: I'd have one girl take all the flaming decades %and burn them to cinders with her clear blue eyes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: The night our mothers Last Line: Before the new year dawned Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fireworks; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, thou calm and beautiful night Last Line: "new things are ever the best!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Peace NEW YEAR'S EVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have finished another year,' said god Last Line: In his unweeting way. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the year fell chilly Last Line: And I left them there at their altars %ringing their own dead knells Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here glad, glad of my comfort and so somber Last Line: With the helplessness of the newborn. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Solitude; Wind; Loneliness NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy drunkard Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy drunkard Last Line: Nobody knows my love the falcon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no change upon the air Last Line: My heart is its own grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not that they bring us labour, pain, and care Last Line: Friendships, achievements, deeds, a beckoning host. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year; Parties NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight the years last day the last Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight the years last day the last Last Line: Drift and doom were the loves we lovered Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by PHAM THI TUYET BONG Poem Source First Line: I knew the firecrackers would explode like this tonight Last Line: These moments burn through me, leave behind their searing red ashes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ELEANOR VEE SCHNEIDER Poem Text Last Line: Breaks forth in a deathly sweat. Subject(s): Holidays NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's cruel cold on the waterfront, silent and dark and drear Last Line: "you darned old dirty hobo. . .My god! Here, boys! He's dead!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The old year is almost gone Last Line: My bookmark heavy %as an ironing board Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other night I had a dream, most clear Last Line: My hand could feel your hand was warm, warm, warm! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Dreams; Holidays; Memory; New Year; Nightmares NEW YEAR'S EVE, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Spring has just come, the year's about to end Last Line: Plum blossoms fill my sight as I gaze at them, all smiles Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE - MIDNIGHT, by FREDERIKA RICHARDSON MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: The dead year is lying at me Last Line: Powerful alone my own soul's truth to keep. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE 1959, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the way we used to party Last Line: How they could jive Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) NEW YEAR'S EVE IN ANGKOR WAT, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: As if envious of the gods Last Line: Was he the enemy? Is he, too, %another god? Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE ON BROADWAY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, what are we seeking this new year's eve Last Line: But a bursting blossom of life. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE WASSAILING SONG; GLOUCESTERSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wassail! Wassail! All over the town Last Line: But if you do bring us a bowl of the small, %then down fall butler, bowl and all Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH AGING PARENTS, by G. W. CLIFT Poem Source First Line: This time of year my habit says that I Last Line: Claims our focus, this homely holiday Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Parents NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1850, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the midnight of the century, - hark Last Line: Yet by one sun is every orbit bent. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1913, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, cartmel bells ring soft to-night Last Line: The cartmel bells no more. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1938, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight the years last day the last Last Line: To sallys name or perhaps another Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE: OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Every one on franklin street Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVES, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in marrakech, no - boys Last Line: "anyone."" and he said, ""that wouldn't be nice." Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Parties; Joy; Delight NEW YEAR'S GIFT FOR BEC, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Returning janus now prepares Last Line: And so take all upon your back Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S GIFT FOR THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How few can be of grandeur Last Line: His friends are more, his honors less. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S GREETING, by ELEANOR B. CLAUSEN Poem Text First Line: Across the frozen spaces Last Line: Each day. Subject(s): Growth; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S HYMN, by MATTHIAS JOCHUMSSON Poem Text First Line: What message bears the new year sun? Last Line: O living god, we pray thee, hear. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S JOURNEY, by JOHN RIDLAND Poem Source First Line: The new year lives a long way off Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this day Last Line: From this day!' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 10, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One year less Last Line: Faithful and true. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 11, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord thy god Last Line: The lord thy god! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 12, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The future! Who may lift the veil Last Line: It shall be as the master saith. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 13, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now thy loving spirit Last Line: Keep us thine alone! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 14, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not as the world giveth Last Line: That pass not away. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 15, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This new year thou givest me Last Line: And fill my life with praise. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 16, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bright new year, and a sunny track Last Line: This is my new year's wish for you! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year for jesus Last Line: O fellow-worker true? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 18, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the work difficult Last Line: He will be with thee! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 19, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy, because he loves thee Last Line: Thus may thy new year be! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord hath done great things for thee Last Line: Fear not, be glad, rejoice! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 20, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the weariest day Last Line: May christ be thy all! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 3. WONDROUS GRACE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrously / the lord hath dealt with thee! Last Line: Wondrous love from hour to hour. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crown the year with thy goodness, lord Last Line: As the crystal mountain-rills. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Prayer NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toward the rising of the sun Last Line: Fruitful, fair, and glad for thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of patient toil Last Line: Thy god himself shall be. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praising together for all the way Last Line: Hoping together for rest above. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 8, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity with jesus Last Line: For him whom we love best! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 9, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, keep our dear one Last Line: To guide and cheer. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S NIGHT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now you are mine, to-night at last I say it Last Line: I have won my renown Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S NURSERY JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the rhymes of all the climes Last Line: The golden age of now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Rhyme NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST Poem Text First Line: I'll junk a lot of feelings Last Line: Cans and wills and oughts. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas but a month ago to-day Last Line: For, ——— me, I'll not swear. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Promises; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes NEW YEAR'S SEASON AND ITS POETASTERS, by TRAN TE XU'ONG Poem Source First Line: You don't find so many of them on regular days, in normal months Last Line: So now they excrete these wordly things Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S THOUGHTS, by LILLIAN GRAY Poem Text First Line: Let us walk softly, friends Last Line: And may god guide us, friend. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S VERSES FOR THE CARRIER OF THE MIRROR, 1826, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The carrier is a poor old man Last Line: How should such hour be blessed. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S WATER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here we bring new water from the well so clear Subject(s): Holidays NEW YEAR'S WISHES, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old year is dead, and from its ashes blossoms bright Last Line: Love the world -- wish it well -- but away from humankind. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S WISHES (1), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pearl-strewn pathway of untold gladness Last Line: As heaven to earth come down. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S WISHES (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I wish thee Last Line: A happy new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S [OR, YEAR] SONG, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now there comes the christmas rose Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays NEW YEAR, GOOD-MORNING!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: New year, good - morning! Come and bring Last Line: New year, good-morning! Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Holidays; Morning; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE EDITORIAL SECTION, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day NEW YORK IN 1826, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two years have elapsed since the verse of s.W. Last Line: Be what I now wish you—a happy new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Woodworth, Samuel (1785-1842) NEW YORK STATE PROGRAMME, 1889, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Do not make the programme too long Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NEWMAN'S ADDRESS (1786), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eighty-five discharg'd and gone Last Line: And now, our toils reward Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Newspapers; Writing And Writers NEWS OF SPRING, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the manner in which spring stores Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NEXT MAY, by T. K. WHIPPLE Poem Text First Line: Next may the cherry-blossoms bright Last Line: Live on in hearts of other men! Subject(s): Holidays; May (month); New Year NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NIGHT AT GETTYSBURG, by DON. C. SEITZ Poem Source First Line: By day golgotha sleeps, but when night comes Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; U.s. - History NIGHTINGALES OF FLANDERS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day NO MORE THUNDER OF CANNON, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Holidays NO SIGN, by AKI-NO-BO Poem Source First Line: No sign Last Line: That it will soon be gone Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year NON-DENOMINATIONAL PRAYER FOR ARMISTICE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O god, who art full of compassion, who dwell- Subject(s): Compassion; Holidays; Veterans Day NORTH TO THE SOUTH, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the south, whose stricken heart and brow Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day NOT A 'MADE-OVER' YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edward wears a coat of blue Last Line: Is the new year truly new. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NOT EVEN A MEMORY, by VICTORIA ADELAIDE HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Today is mother's day Last Line: Of a nestling baby head. Subject(s): Holidays NOT THANKFUL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think the only person that Last Line: And really he's not much to blame. Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He lifts the white skiff up onto the beach. It is easter Last Line: I will marry, he thought of the fish... Subject(s): Drowning; Easter; Fish & Fishing; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; The Resurrection; Anglers; Male-female Relations NOTE ON LABOR DAY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I think I'm Last Line: Taking my breath away Subject(s): History; Holidays; Labor And Laborers NOVEMBER, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Old november, sere and brown Last Line: With hope, faith and love alway. Subject(s): Autumn; Holidays; November; Seasons; Thanksgiving; Fall NOVEMBER, by SOPHIE TUNNELL Poem Text First Line: The nuts are dropping in the wood Last Line: In november. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; November; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No matter how hard you try Last Line: And so, cold old month, you're not so bad! Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey NOVEMBER 11TH, by FRANK E. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: This day three years ago Last Line: "this great ""unknown"" acclaim ..." Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER POPPIES, by HILARY CORKE Poem Source First Line: I walked with you this eleventh in the coppice Last Line: Every november the thin red legions are mustered %and they flower like clockwork in her bitterest ho Subject(s): Holidays; Poppies; Veterans Day NOVITIATE, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: Christmas was the start of our disillusion Last Line: Excluded from familiar warmth %like joseph seeking room in bethlehem Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Gifts And Giving; Holidays NOW IS THE TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bud will soon become a flower Subject(s): Holidays; Trees NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood O BELLS IN THE STEEPLE, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Easter; Holidays O GLORIOUS EASTER MORNING!, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Easter; Holidays OAK, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall oak, towering to the skies Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OAK, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young oak grew, and proudly grew Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OAK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With his gnarled old arms Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OAK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The oak, for grandeur, strength Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OAK TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Long ago, in changeful autumn Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OAKS, by J. C. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Ha! Ha! We've stemm'd the stream Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OATH OF FREEDOM, by JAMES BARRON HOPE Poem Source First Line: Born free, thus we resolve to live Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day ODE FOR DECORATION DAY, by THEODORE P. COOK Poem Source First Line: They sleep so calm and stately Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day ODE FOR DECORATION DAY, by HENRY PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Bring flowers, to strew again Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Done are the toils and the wearisome marches Last Line: Which their unfaltering valor has won! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit who sweepest the wild harp of time Last Line: God's image, sister of the seraphim. Subject(s): Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia; Holidays; New Year; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ODE TO THE TREES, by MAGGIE MAY WELSH Poem Source First Line: O who is there within whose heart Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ODE UPON THE NEW YEAR (1693), by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The happy, happy year is born Last Line: And britain's cæsar light'ning in the chase. Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Joy; Delight ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day ODE: ON THE NEW YEAR, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of my life! Inspire my song Last Line: The bleeding traitor from my breast. Subject(s): Blessings; Holidays; Life; New Year ODES III, 18. TO FAUNUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O faunus, lover of the fleeing nymphs Last Line: And stamping the hated earth thrice with his foot, the digger dances his delight Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Holidays ODES III, 28. HOLIDAY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What celebration should there be? Last Line: In lullabies to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Holidays ODES OF ANACREON, SELS., by THOMAS MOORE Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OFFHAND COMPOSITIONS: NEW YEAR'S EVE 1774, by HUANG JING-REN Poem Source First Line: Laughter and talk in a thousand homes Last Line: Wastefully spending the heart's strength %to be a poet Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Holidays; New Year; Poetry And Poets OH CALENDAR, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: To see Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OH! BEAR ME THEN TO VAST EMBOWERING SHADES, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OH! COME TO THE WOODLANDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OLD AND NEW YEAR, by E. J. H. GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: So, good old year, we part today Subject(s): Holidays OLD ENEMY, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is a super-director Last Line: Anything to get away from time Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, when I went to look at my flowers Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OLD MAN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have grown old Last Line: And why people have so many lice. %ha-ya-ya-ya Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OLD POEM: 14, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "cold, cold the year draws to its end" Last Line: My falling tears wet the double gates Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);holidays;new Year OLD SONG WRITTEN DURING WASHINGTON'S LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Americans, rejoice Subject(s): Holidays OLD TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old tree, how low you seem to stoop Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OLD VALENTINES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny maids with sunlit hair Last Line: In one golden memory. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Past; Valentine's Day; Women OLD WOOD, by HUGH KELSO Poem Source First Line: To me, no dull insensate growth Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OLD YEAR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight old year must die Last Line: The dead year, that has slipped away and gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OLD YEAR, GOOD-NIGHT!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: Old year, good - night! A faithful friend Last Line: Old year, good-night! Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Night; Belief; Creed; Bedtime OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the sweet old fashioned posies, morning-glories, tints of purple Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OLIVE TREES OF PALESTINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Among the gray old rounded hills Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ON ARMISTICE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1921, by ERNEST E. DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The multitude has watched, with silent prayer Last Line: The men who put his treaty to the sword. Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ON EASTER MORN, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had not known that I was dead Subject(s): Easter; Holidays ON EASTER MORNING, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The door between the worlds is open wide Last Line: So long as love lives in the hearts of men! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection ON ENTERING A FOREST, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: Approach this court with deference Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ON GOOD FRIDAY, THE DAY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S PASSION, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep this great day! Let tears o'erflow your eyes Last Line: May we shed pious tears, and of our sins repent. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week ON HIS BEING [OR, HAVING] ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth Last Line: As ever in my great task-master's eye. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7;on Reaching Twenty-three;on His Birthday;on Reaching Age 23;how Soon Hath Time Subject(s): Aging; Ambition; Holidays; New Year ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A day of joy, a holiday! Last Line: The treasures of mankind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ON MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: I have no graves to decorate on this day Last Line: Beneath the waves—the graves where I can place no flower. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Waves; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three ships come sailing by Last Line: On new year's day in the morning Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1640: TO THE KING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, great sir, the sun shines here Last Line: Who cannot wish. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by TS'UEI T'U Poem Source First Line: Farther and farther from the three pa roads Subject(s): Holidays ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On st. Valentine's day / I went to seek my love Last Line: Knowing that I am not mistaken Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On st. Valentine's day %I went to seek my love Last Line: Knowing that I am not mistaken Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ON THANKSGIVING DAY, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: This is the way the sky looks Last Line: Is winter %coming %to dinner? Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day ON THE CIRCUMSISION: NEW YEARS DAY, by LUKE WADDING Poem Source First Line: This first day of the year Last Line: No other new years gift %doth he require from us Alternate Author Name(s): Waddinge, Luke Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ON THE NEW YEAR, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past: - another year for ever gone Last Line: And lead my soul to peace—to bliss—to thee! Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Joy; Delight ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are they and charmed in life Last Line: Make this memorial due. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day ON THE THRESHOLD, by ASTLEY H. BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Ring out, o bells! Ring silver sweet o'er hill and moor and fell! Last Line: That god may gracious be to us in this the bright new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ONE, by MARION MONKS CHASE Poem Source First Line: Though surrender cut the heart Subject(s): Easter; Holidays ONE BENEATH OLD GLORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Don't you hear the tramp of soldiers? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day ONLY A SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by SAMUEL ALROY JONAS Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day OPENING ADDRESS (FOR SABBATH SCHOOL CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT), by M. ELLA CORNELL Poem Source First Line: Kind teachers, friends, and classmates dear Subject(s): Holidays ORAGA HARU, SELS., by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For a fresh start Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Holidays ORCHARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Its seeds were in the clearing sown Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ORCHARD BLOSSOMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doth thy heart stir within thee at the sight Last Line: And will for us endear spring-memories to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees OUR CHURCH PALMS ARE BUDDING YELLOW TWIGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While christ lay dead the widowed world Last Line: And love remembered mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection OUR DEAD HEROES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on, o heroes! In your silent slumber! Last Line: And heaven, still just, bestow the martyr's palm. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day OUR DUTY HERE, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is our duty here? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OUR HONORED DEAD, by HENRY WARD BEECHER Poem Source First Line: Oh, tell me not that they are dead- that gen- Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day OUR ORCHARD TREES, by LETTIE E. STERLING Poem Source First Line: In springtime, we look at our blooming orchardd trees Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OUR PRAYER OF THANKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening Last Line: Our prayer of thanks. Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology OUR WILLOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is when the east wind blows Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PACE-EGGING SONG; CHESHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here come four or five hearty lads all of one mind Last Line: If you give nought, we'll take nought, so we'll bid you goodnight. %fol di-diddle dol-di-day Subject(s): Easter; Holidays PACIFISTS, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are a pacifist? So am I Subject(s): Holidays; Pacifism; Veterans Day PARIS AGAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Big blue overcoat and breeches red as red Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PASCHAL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easter was the old north Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology PASSAGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you deliberate the page Last Line: In a moon's course, are history. Subject(s): Easter; History; Holidays; The Resurrection; Historians PASSOVER, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From egypt once, 'mid storm and flame Last Line: Abram s. Isaacs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism PASSOVER HYMN, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When as a wall the sea Last Line: Sang the redeemed that day. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; Passover; Judaism PATH TO PEACE, by SIDNEY S. ROBINS Poem Source First Line: It may be there is a hope of getting the nations Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PATIENCE, by ALAN JENKINS Poem Source First Line: If I think of my grandmother's house, I think of these Last Line: But I did not want them to leave me, and I have not gone Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PATRIOTIC SON, by LYMAN ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: A nation is made great, not by its fruitful Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PAUSE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of truth! Shall man essay Last Line: Behold them only through our tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Sin PEACE, by NELLE MCGINNIS Poem Text First Line: In god's own temple by the wooded hill Last Line: All came to me, that day, within this shrine. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection PEACE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cannon's voice is dumb Last Line: To arms! For peace is here! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE, by ROSE MARGARET STEIN Poem Text First Line: The moon hung low on the mountains Last Line: Will be dawning, alas, too soon! Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Thanksgiving PEACE, by GEORGE WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: My first wish is to see the whole world at peace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: I call you to witness, my fellow-countrymen Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE (NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: Peace, battle-worn and starved, and gaunt and pale Last Line: Yea, peace, while worlds endure, will sing their requiem. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE AT MORNING, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wake at the touch of morning: and the city is Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE AT TOO GREAT A PRICE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: There is a price which is too great to pay for Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE CALL, by EDGAR LLOYD HAMPTON Poem Source First Line: I am the voice of the uplands ringing from hill to hill Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE TRIUMPHANT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, mother earth, do you feel light flowing Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE UNIVERSAL, by ANNA H. THORNE Poem Source First Line: Gift of the living god to mortal man Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEBBLE AND THE ACORN, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a pebble! And yield to none!' Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PECULIAR ACROSTIC - A VALENTINE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do. Variant Title(s): A Valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PEEPING THRU THE SNOW, by MARY BEALE Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PENNY VALENTINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Silly, stupid, gawky elf Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PEOPLE'S THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM PIERSON MERRILL Poem Source First Line: Not alone for mighty empire Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, 1 JAN. 1661, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where nowadays the battery lies Last Line: To breakfast at his bouwery. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - Dutch Period; Patriotism; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672); United States - Dutch Settlements PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PHILLIS INAMOROTA, by LANCELOT ANDREWES Poem Text First Line: Come, be my valentine Last Line: Come, be my valentine! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Valentine's Day PHOENIX PARK VESPERS, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: A man hiking the roads or tramping the streets Last Line: To be swallowed up for ever in the womb of time Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PHOTOGRAPH AND WHITE TULIPS, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A little nearer please. And a little nearer Last Line: In that little black coffin now carrying us Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PHYLLIS INAMORATA, by FRANCIS ANDREWES Poem Source First Line: Come, be my valentine! Last Line: And that shall be thy stock - %come, be my valentine! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 12. PEACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the heavens there stood the sun Last Line: "praised be jesus christ!" Subject(s): Holidays; Sea Voyages; Thanksgiving PIETA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is my misery full and namelessly Subject(s): Holidays PIETA IN LOS ANGELES: 1. PIETA IN A LOS ANGELES MORTUARY, by PHILOMENE LONG Poem Source First Line: John thomas: stretched upon a gurney Last Line: Into the 'eye of god' Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Love; Poetry And Poets; Resurrection, The PILGRIM SONG, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: Pilgrims of the trackless deep Subject(s): Holidays PINDARIC ODE: TO THE NEW YEAR, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great janus, who dost sure my mistress view Last Line: They feel least cold and pain who plunge at once into it. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PINE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The elm lets fall its leaves before the frost Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Holidays PINE NEEDLES, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If mother nature patches the leaves of trees and vines Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PINE TREE, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tremendous unity of the pine absorbs and Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PINE TREE ACADEMY, by V. E. SCHARFF Poem Source First Line: All the birdies went to school Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PINK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And, dearer I, the pink, must be Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PIYYUT FOR ROSH HASHANA, by CHAIM GURI Poem Source First Line: For this is not the road against which stand enemy lines or foreign languages Subject(s): Holidays PLANT THE OAK, by ADDIE V. MCMULLEN Poem Source First Line: Come plant the oak, the grand old oak Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLANT TREES, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young should plant trees in recongnition Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLANTED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I held my baby on my knee Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE, by HARRIET B. WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: In youth's glad morning hour Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLANTING ON SCHOOL GROUNDS, by CHARLES H. PECK Poem Source First Line: An ideal tree should be one with a sound Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLANTING THE TREE, by E. P. WATERBURY Poem Source First Line: Gather we here to plant the fair tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLANTS AND FLOWERS, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wonderful, in universal adaptation to man's Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLEA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not rob or mar a tree Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PLENTY OF LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PLOUGHMAN AT THE PLOUGH, by LOUIS GOLDING Poem Source First Line: He behind the straight plough stands Subject(s): Holidays; Plowing And Plowmen POEMS FOR EASTER: 1, by ELIZABETH WILLIAMS COSGROVE Poem Text First Line: Shall a man live, though first he die?' Last Line: Then -- why not I? Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection POEMS FOR EASTER: 2, by ELIZABETH WILLIAMS COSGROVE Poem Text First Line: Angel, from my heart this day Last Line: Roll the stone of doubt away. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection POLITICAL SONG FOR THE YEAR'S END, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness of the year begins Last Line: Sing to the moon, for every change is known Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Politics & Government; Socialism POPULAR POPLAR TREE, by BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD Poem Source First Line: When the great wind sets things whirling Subject(s): Holidays; Trees POSTCARDS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear barney Last Line: Alice Subject(s): Holidays; Letters; Love; Postal Service; Valentine's Day; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POSTMERIDIAN, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the morning has cut the sediment of night Last Line: We'll find out what really happened Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PRAETORIUM SCENE: GOOD FRIDAY, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: Rome did its worst; thorns platted hor his brow Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week PRAISE FOR GOD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank thee for the stars that shine Last Line: And for thyself I praise thee most. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving PRAISE TO THE LAMB, by AMBROSE Poem Source First Line: At the lamb's high feast we sing Subject(s): Easter; Holidays PRAYER BEFORE MEAT, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Source First Line: Christ, by dark clouds of worldliness concealed Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Thanksgiving PRAYER FOR OTHERS, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: God, help grandma to get better Last Line: And help all lost dogs and children %to be found Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day Last Line: The mind is his wife. %so be it Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer PRAYER FOR THE MEDINA, by JACOB I. COHEN Poem Source First Line: When we call on thee, o righteous god, answer us Last Line: And may the redeemer come to zion, and let us say, amen Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving Day; United States PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR, by ALLEN WEBSTER JOSLIN Poem Text First Line: As before thee, god Last Line: When I wake to face anew the day. Subject(s): God; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Prayer PRAYER FOR THE SPIRITUAL UNION OF MANKIND, by HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Poem Source First Line: Grant unto us such clear vision of the sin of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PRAYER TO THE GIVER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living Last Line: Lord, I give thanks to thee, giver of all! Variant Title(s): A Thanksgiving Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PREPARE, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O human hearts Last Line: But from yourselves! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; War PRESIDENT WILSON'S WAR PROCLAMATION, SELS., by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: The power against which we are arrayed has Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PRESIDENT'S WAR MESSAGE, by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: Gentlemen of the congress Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PRETTY ROSE-TREE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Being weary of love, I flew to the grove Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PRIMROSES, by W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: What has happened in the night? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PROCUL NEGOTIIS, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that if I had a farm Last Line: Was nicely fixed myself. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving PROLOGUE FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No song nor dance I bring from yon great city Last Line: Believe our glowing bosoms truly feel it. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PROMISE, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Promise has turned its back, the skies grimace Last Line: Greet it some morning: that whistle of heat Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving PROMISES, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: On new year's eve the snow came down Subject(s): Holidays; New Year 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 PROSIT NEUJAHR, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be the new year sweet and short Last Line: Prosit neujahr! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Toasts PROVINCIAL SUNDAYS, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: On sundays when the weather's good, traditionally Last Line: Not one beauty, who would miss mass Subject(s): Holidays; Mass; Sabbath PSALM, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have burned to thee many tapers Last Line: I find thee in the white fire of my heart. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving PSALM 100, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Make a joyful noise unto the lord Last Line: And his truth endureth to all generations Variant Title(s): A Psalm Of Praise; Be Thankful Unto Hi Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Singing And Singers PSALM 115, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Not us, I say, not us Last Line: Will now and still o prayse the lord Subject(s): Holidays PSALM 115, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Not ours the glory make Subject(s): Holidays PSALM 45, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: My heart indites an argument of worth Last Line: The world shall make no end of thanks to thee. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 45, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My heart is mov'd to utter some good thinge Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 54, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Lord let thy name my saving succour be Last Line: Making me see, what I to see delight. Subject(s): Holidays PSALM 54, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: God save me for thy holy name Subject(s): Holidays PSALM 63, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: O god, thou art both god, and good to me Last Line: Who lying mouths will stop, lyars destroy. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving PSALM 63, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O god, thou art my only god Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving PSALM 86, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Thy gracious ear, o lord, incline Last Line: Dost help and comfort me. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 86, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Lord bend to me thyne care Last Line: By thee, by thee my comfort wrought. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 86, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O give thanks unto the lord for his mercy Last Line: For his mercy endureth forever Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PURIM, 1900, by ALICE D. BRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Thou poor wan phantom of a vanished joy Last Line: Israel forgets thee, purim! Thou art dead. Subject(s): Holidays; Israel; Jews; Massacres; Judaism PUSSY AND THE POPPIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Poppies red, pink, and white Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PUSSY WILLOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The brook is brimmed with melting snow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees PUT BACK THOSE WHISKERS, I KNOW YOU, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one fault I must find with the twentieth century Last Line: But if you are a true new year I can shout happy true new year everybody! Quicker than little sir ec Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PUT FLOWERS IN YOUR WINDOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees QUEST OF THE THREE KINGS, by ELLEN MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Attend my words and listen Subject(s): Holidays QUIET MOMENT, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: When the table is cleared %and we've had enough Last Line: The quiet moment Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day QUOTATIONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If ever I see Subject(s): Holidays; Trees RABBONI, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring thee balm, and lo, thou art not here Last Line: "rabboni!"" -- only this." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection RACE OF THE FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The trees and the flowers seem running a race Subject(s): Holidays; Trees RAPTURE (2). A THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER FOR THE NATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, the children of my people are thy peculiar treasures Last Line: Carrying me unto thee, %the sea of goodness from whence they came Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving RE-ARMAMENT, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not all the armor forged by man, not all the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RE-ENLISTED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O did you see him in the street, dressed up in army-blue Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day READING THE LIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Is there any news of the war?,' she said Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day READY FOR DUTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold Subject(s): Holidays; Trees REAL TREE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a stange underground life is that Subject(s): Holidays; Trees REAPPEARING, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star is not extinguished when it sets Variant Title(s): Life From Deat Subject(s): Easter; Holidays REBUS VALENTINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You may not carrot all for me Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day RECONSECRATION, by DOROTHY GOULD Poem Source First Line: God of our lives, o hear our prayers Subject(s): Holidays; New Year REGARDING THE ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE ON ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRY STEPHENS SALT Poem Text First Line: Small help from that famed silence can we win Last Line: Brief spell of silence? Nay! Long spell of thought! Subject(s): Holidays; Silence; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War REIGN OF PEACE, by ELIZA THORNTON Poem Source First Line: Beautiful vision! How bright it rose Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RELATIONS OF TREES TO WATER, by WILSON FLAGG Poem Source First Line: There is a spot which I used to visit some years Subject(s): Holidays; Trees RELINQUISHING, by THEDA KENYON Poem Source First Line: Sure, 'twas like the angels' footsteps when your Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day REMEMBERING DAY, by MARY WIGHT SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: All the soldiers marching along Last Line: For this is our remembering day. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day 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 REQUIEM, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: The fires of war are quenched Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RESOLUTION, by EDMUND JOSEPH BERRIGAN Poem Source First Line: The ground is white snow Subject(s): Holidays RESOLUTION, by MYRONN HARDY Poem Source First Line: Into an empty plastic lard bucket Last Line: New year's day my love. %new year's day Subject(s): Change; Holidays; New Year RESOLUTION, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new year brings the old resolve Last Line: Of the years, that constitute %for the beholder the true human pain Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year RESTORATION OF THE FORESTS, by GEORGE PERKINS MARSH Poem Source First Line: The objects of the restoration of the forests are Subject(s): Holidays; Trees RESURGAM, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teach me, my god, to bear my cross Last Line: A lost one save! Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Prayer; The Resurrection RESURGAM, by SEYMOUR S. SHORT Poem Source First Line: When the great architect conceived the plan Subject(s): Holidays; Trees RESURGAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! %finished is the battle now Subject(s): Easter; Holidays RESURRECTION, by SARAH H. BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: Two thousand years ago a flower Subject(s): Easter; Holidays RESURRECTION, by HAZEL HANNA Poem Text First Line: The blessed christ on calvary Last Line: Our master lives again! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection RESURRECTION, by FRANK HORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us Last Line: The triumph of golgotha %and the glory of love %and the laws of the prophets Subject(s): Holidays RESURRECTION, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, yes, yes, arise, o thou my dust Subject(s): Easter; Holidays RESURRECTION, by FLORENCE A. PEPOON Poem Text First Line: This day in march I walk the hills Last Line: This day in march. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection RESURRECTION HYMN, by MICHAEL WEISS Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen again Last Line: Hallelujah! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection RESURRECTION, OR EASTER-DAY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and away %thy saviour's gone before Subject(s): Easter; Holidays RESURREXIT, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Why are you sad when the sky is so blue? Subject(s): Holidays RETURN OF SPRING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now time throws off his cloak again Subject(s): Holidays; Trees RETURN TO MARSH STREET, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twice, now, I've gone back there, like a part-time ghost Last Line: Bearable Subject(s): Bohemians; Easter; Holidays; Los Angeles; The Resurrection REUNITED, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been thinkin' of it over, an' it 'pears to me today Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day REVEILLE, by MICHAEL O'CONNOR (1837-1862) Poem Text First Line: The morning is cheery my boys, arouse! Last Line: Fall in! Fall in! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day REVELATION, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Say not that death is king, that night is lord Last Line: When flooding sunrise told the night was gone. Variant Title(s): Easter Subject(s): Easter; Faith; Holidays; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed REVENANTS, by SEAN O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: It's four o'clock, an autumn sunday Last Line: In which we buried you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year RHEIMS CATHEDRAL - 1914, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winged death has smitten dumb thy bells Last Line: Thy bells live on, and heaven is in their tone! Subject(s): Holidays; Rheims, France; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War RHYME FOR HOLY SATURDAY, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning father blake / will bless us all Last Line: Will bless us all. Subject(s): Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Religion; Worship; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; The Resurrection; Theology RHYME TIME THANKS, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thanks for roses %and noses and good smells Last Line: More aunts %and lots and lots of cousins Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day RILKE SAYS THE NEW YEAR BRINGS THINGS THAT HAVE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even a dog is never lost in the same place Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) RING, JOYFUL BELLS!, by VIOLET FULLER Poem Source First Line: Ring, bells, from every lofty height! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year RISE!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise from thoughts of shame and sin Last Line: At easter in the morning. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection RIVER BIRCH IN NOVEMBER, by E. J. MILLER LAINO Poem Source First Line: A branch hangs over the chain link fence Last Line: The sea is steel again. Maximum security Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Thanksgiving RIVER'S SUPPLICATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now saucy phoebus' scorching beams Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ROBIN AND THE CHICKEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A plump little robin flew down from the tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ROBIN REDBREAST, by E. A. MATHERS Poem Source First Line: Pretty robin redbreast Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ROBIN REDBREAST'S SECRET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm a little robin readbreast Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ROBIN'S COME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the elm-tree's topmost bough Subject(s): Holidays; Trees RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met Last Line: Jenny kissed me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women ROOM IT WAS MY PRIVILEGE TO COME DOWN ALIVE FROM, by SELIMA HILL Poem Source Last Line: Enjoying the tranquillity of cold Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ROSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: White with the whiteness of the snow Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ROSES, by EDGAR FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: Oh, the queen of all the roses it cannot be denied Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ROSES ARE RED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: But yours is a %scream Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ROSY APPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rosy apple, lemon, or pear" Last Line: Mother's runaway daughter Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Brides;holidays;valentine's Day 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 SABBATH MORN, by NICOLAI F. S. GRUNDTVIG Poem Source First Line: From death, christ on the sabbath morn Subject(s): Easter; Holidays SAECLA FERARUM, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when at last the million flags were stacked Last Line: Familiar invitations in their cries. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When flow-ry summer is at hand Last Line: While the sweetest flowers we are bringing, %wreath'd in garlands of red, white and blue Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Navy - United States 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 SAN DIEGO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the college san fernando, in the state of mejico Last Line: ^1^ the yucca, or spanish bayonet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Missions & Missionaries; Sailing & Sailors; San Diego, California; Soldiers; Declaration Day SATURDAY'S CHILD, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are teethed on a silver spoon Subject(s): Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SATURDAY'S CHILD, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are teethed on a silver spoon Last Line: The only kind of middle wife %my folks could beg or borrow Subject(s): Holidays; Labor And Laborers SAYING OF LINNAEUS, by JOHN FISKE Poem Source First Line: I often think, when working over my plants, of Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Improvent and care of the school grounds Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SCHOOL GARDEN SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, by L. C. CROBETT Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And god said, let the earth bring for the Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck Last Line: Twill be memorial day. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day SEASONAL GREETINGS, by BERNADETTE HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: It's here again, %that time of year Last Line: A better gift %than cheap perfume Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Holidays SEASONS, by MARY E. N. HATHEWAY Poem Source First Line: What does it mean when the blue bird Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SEASONS, by KATIE DOUGLAS WALSTER Poem Source First Line: O! The spring! The beautiful spring! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SEED (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The farmer planted a seed Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SEED WORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas nothing, - a mere idle word Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SEEING SANTA FE AT NEW YEAR, by CYNTHIA HOGUE Poem Source First Line: Evening burnishes the sangre de cristos Last Line: In language so fresh %we cannot imagine Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Tourists; West (u.s.) SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE', by WILLIAM NEWELL Poem Source First Line: I saw the mountain oak with towering form Subject(s): Easter; Holidays SEEKING THE MAYFLOWER, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest sound our whole year round Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SELF-SACRIFICE, by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: Our life is but a little span. One generation Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SEND HER A VALENTINE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send her a valentine to say Last Line: To find that you're her sweetheart still. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day SHEPHERDESS VALENTINE, SELS., by FRANCIS ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I bear, in sign of love Subject(s): Holidays SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south, at break of day Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day SHERMAN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory and honor and fame and everlasting laudation Last Line: Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); Declaration Day SHISHU BHOLANATH (1922): REMEMBERING, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember my mother Last Line: Long ago she used to hold me on her lap %and look at my face. %that's the look she has left %in all Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SHOES OF DEAD COMRADES, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: On my father's feet are the shoes of dead comrades Last Line: The brown and black leather of all the dead comrades Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SHORING UP THE HEART, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: New year's eve resolves to new year's day Last Line: Until the air and I can make you warm Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties SHUT YOUR CATTLE IN, by MRS. B. C. RUDE Poem Source First Line: Ye herds that haunt the country ways' Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah Last Line: Do' you know thanksgibbin 's hyeah? Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day SILENCE, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose it was always there, the strangeness Last Line: What we know will not be handed on. %conticuere omnes Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SING A SONG TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little robin in the tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SITTING UP WITH MY WIFE ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HSU CHUN-CH'IEN Poem Source First Line: So many delights the excitement has no end Last Line: No wonder the pins weigh heavy in your hair - %we've waited up so long for dawn light to come! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SLOW BREATHERS, by JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT Poem Source Last Line: Synthesis of long, long ago Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SMALL TALK AT NEW YEAR'S, by L. N. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: So how's the family? The old friends you've seen? Last Line: And may I never get this drunk again Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SMALLEST OF THE DRUMS, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: When the opulence of summer unto wood and meadow comes Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day SNOW SOLACE, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: A clean wind ushers the new year in Last Line: A newly-made bridal shroud. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow; Winter SO MANY ZEROS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too many zeros %ending with smoke Subject(s): Arabs; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; New Year; Palestine SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big Last Line: Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year SOLDIER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled Last Line: And tripped the body, shot the spirit on %further than target ever showed or shone Subject(s): Holidays; War SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by HENRY D. MUIR Poem Source First Line: Strew lightly o'er the soldier's grave Subject(s): Holidays SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: To the soldiers of the national army Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SOLILOQUY OF DOUGLAS - SOLEMNITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This place, - the centre of the grove Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SOLOMON GRUNDY, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: Born on monday and a tiny Last Line: And he began to speak, with his words singing Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SOME FOLKLORE OF THE 1990'S, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Politicians have been %saving half-cents Last Line: At the dinning room table %taking a seat %it's true Subject(s): Holidays; Politics; Veterans Day SOME QUESTIONS FOR SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, sir cupid, do you choose Last Line: "were the longest of the year!" Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day SOME THINGS THAT EASTER BRINGS, by ELSIE PARRISH Poem Source First Line: Easter duck and easter chick Last Line: Such a lot of pleasant things Subject(s): Easter; Holidays SOMEBODY'S KNOCKING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's somebody knocking. Hark! Who can it be Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR, by CLARA J. DENTON Poem Text First Line: I'm glad that I am not today Last Line: I'll thankful be for that. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day SON-DAYS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright shadows of true rest! Some shoots of bliss Last Line: Of a full feast; and the out-courts of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Son-dayes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sabbath; Sunday SONG, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yi surta %keep trynti avoid it thats Last Line: Cookn oil nwi need %potatoes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Apple, beech, and cedar fair Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SONG AT THE YEAR'S TURNING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley dreamed it. Now the dream decays Last Line: The new grass shall purge you in its flame Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG FOR A YEAR, by SADIE FULLER SEAGRAVE Poem Text First Line: Wrapped in silver and gold Last Line: Or another song to sing? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG FOR DECORATION DAY, by HELEN C. BACON Poem Text First Line: Bring forth the flowers Last Line: Bright garlands strew o'er their graves everywhere. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day SONG FOR MAY, WHOSE BREATH IS SWEET, by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SONG FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let us today Subject(s): Holidays SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old time has turned another page Last Line: And a prayer for those who love us. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG FOR THE NEWBORN, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newborn, on the naked sand Last Line: Nakedly lay it. Subject(s): Birth; Holidays; Child Birth; Midwifery SONG FOR TOMORROW, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: O children of men, o sons and daughters of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SONG OF DEDICATION, by ELLEN BEAUCHAMP Poem Source First Line: The tree we are planting Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SONG OF THE FOREST RANGER, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to feel the fresh breeze blowing Subject(s): Forest Rangers; Holidays SONG OF THE HARVEST, by HENRY STEVENSON WASHBURN Poem Source First Line: The glad harvest greets us; brave toiler for bread Subject(s): Holidays SONG OF THE LILIES, by LUCY WHEELOCK Poem Source First Line: The lilies say on easter day Subject(s): Holidays SONG OF THE NEW YEAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells at midnight Last Line: "will in peace be ushered in." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Future; Holidays; New Year SONG OF THE OLD YEAR, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I have been running a gallant career Last Line: And bury me under the green holly-tree. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG OF THE ROSE, FR. ACHILLES TATIUS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If zeus chose us a king of the flowers in his mirth Last Line: As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Holidays; Love; Mythology - Classical; Trees SONG OF THE SON, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pour, o pour that parting soul in song Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; New Year; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs SONG OF THE SON, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pour, o pour that parting soul in song Last Line: Caroling softly souls of slavery Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; New Year; Slavery SONG OF VICTORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day SONG TO MOTHER EARTH, by JAMES H. KELLOGG Poem Source First Line: In the merry month of may Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SONG TO THE MAPLE TREE, by E. A. HOLBROOK Poem Source First Line: Tis the trees of the state, and most wisely selected Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SONG TO THE TREES, by JOSEPH W. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Hail to the trees! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SONGS AND CHORUS OF THE FLOWERS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are blushing roses Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SONNET FOR THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No popular respect will I omit Last Line: Love, thou art every day my valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day SONNET: 12, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I do count the clock that tells the time Last Line: Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. Variant Title(s): The Approach Of Age Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Time SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 64, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I have seen by time's fell hand defac'd Last Line: But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Variant Title(s): Time And Love Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year SONNET: AT LAST, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth, when blood was warm and fancy high Last Line: Smiled, -- heaven's high-priest of immortality! Variant Title(s): The Mask Of Death Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection SONNET: ONE NEW YEAR'S EVE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart! Art thou dead within me? Why this calm Last Line: Thy very self of self that suffered? Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SORTING THROUGH, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: The moment she died, my mother's dance dresses Last Line: Like all that life that will not neatly end Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SOUTH PEMBROKESHIRE; A CHILDREN'S SONG - NEW YEAR'S WATER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here we bring new water from the well so clear Last Line: Sing reign of fair maid, with gold upon her chin, %open you the east door, and let the new year in Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SPARE THE TREES, by ? MICHELET Poem Source First Line: Alas, in how many places in the forest which once Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPECTRES THAT GRIEVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not death that harrows us,' they lipped Last Line: Until the new-year's dawn strode up the air. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Sorrow; Sadness SPINDLEBERRY SONG, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Winter: endure and wait Last Line: Hangs the heart-shaped seed-carapace Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SPING RELISH, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a brief period in our spring when I like Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPIRIT OF AMERICA IS PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: In my efforts for peace I have been conscious of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SPIRIT OF ARBOR DAY, by FRANK A. HILL Poem Source First Line: The spirit of arbor day is that of a deep love for Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees SPIRIT OF THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All outward wisdom yields to that within Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRAY OF PINE, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pine is the tree of silence Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said in my heart, 'I am sick of four walls and ceilings' Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all climates spring is beautiful Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING, by DONALD G. MITCHEL Poem Source First Line: The budding and blooming of sping Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING, by JAMES SPEED Poem Source First Line: Have you ever gone into the woods on an early Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING (1), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love as the resurrection angel, goes Last Line: Will never staunch the tears of mortal eyes. Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret, are you grieving Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for. Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement SPRING AND SUMMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spring is growing up Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING AT THE CAPITAL, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poplar drops beside the way Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day SPRING CLEANING, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, clean yer house, an' clean yer shed Variant Title(s): The Souls Spring Cleanin Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When spring came into the garden Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING MAGIC, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What man is there over whose mind a bright Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING POINTING TO GOD, by MICHAEL BRUCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loosed from the bands of frost, the verdant ground Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING SONG, by KATE HAWTHORN Poem Source First Line: Now the lovely spring has come Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING SONG, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON Poem Source First Line: Hark, the robins sweetly sing Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING THOUGHTS, by HUANG-FU JAN Poem Source First Line: Finch-notes and swallow-notes tell the new year Subject(s): Holidays SPRING TIME, by LILY RUTHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Hark! It is the spring time Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING [AND THE FLOWERS], by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the snowing and the blowing Variant Title(s): Nearly Read Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING'S CALL, by CARRIE VAN GILDER Poem Source First Line: Spring is dressed in white, with pink sash and green cap Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SPRING-TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tis spring-time, bright spring-time! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SRUTI, by SUJATA BHATT Poem Source First Line: You, who first said sruti Last Line: To return to the world that you once heard Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ST. ANDREW'S DAY, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When brothers part for manhood's race Last Line: For endless ages to embrace. Subject(s): Andrew, Saint (1st Century); Holidays; Saints ST. LUKE XXIV, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: And now upon the first morn of the week Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Saints; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection ST. PAUL'S CHRISTMAS BELLS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Ye paltry petty tocsins of the town Last Line: Heard not in dread, but joy of christmastide. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Nativity, The ST. VALENINTE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Permitted me to assist you, let me see Last Line: Might verse not best confuse itself with fate? Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let loose the sails of love and let them fill Last Line: She has your love, but needs its outward sign. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that each feather'd chorister doth sing Last Line: Nor search the grave for my lost valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The south is a dream of flowers Last Line: Warm-lit for my love and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S EVE, by EUGENE WATSON BURLINGAME Poem Text First Line: I will write little ethel some verse Last Line: In the newly made curls of her hair. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day STACKING THE NEEDLES, by THEDA KENYON Poem Source First Line: Lo, in a thousand citadels Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War STANLEY WARE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now as sinks the new year's sun Last Line: Hours celestial — stanley ware! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The STANZAS ON THE NEW YEAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood between the meeting years Last Line: "for happiness dwells there!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Holidays; New Year STATE OF THE UNION: 14. THE PATRIARCHS AT THE RETURN TO CIVI, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are at it again, the old soldiers Last Line: It out with baronial vehemence Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Variant Title(s): The Patriarchs At The Return To Civilian Rul Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Victory; War STONE HARE, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Think of it waiting three hundred million years Last Line: The stems of sea-lilies slowly turned to stone Subject(s): Holidays; New Year STONE OF THE SEPULCHER, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall the stone be rolled away?' Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Easter; Holidays STOPPING AT THE CEMETERY ON VALENTINE'S DAY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: The lambs and doves were still Last Line: He was smiling as if to say, have fun %and luck will be your friend Subject(s): Cemeteries; Holidays; Valentine's Day STORM - THE KING, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the storm - the king! Subject(s): Holidays; Trees STORM IN THE FOREST IS RENDING AND SWEEPING, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees STORY FROM EASTER: HE HAS RISEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mouse under the sink Last Line: Buries mouse next day Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Easter; Grief; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Loss; Resurrection, The STORY OF NARCISSUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Narcissus was a beautiful youth, who, seeing his Subject(s): Holidays; Trees STORY OF THANKSGIVING, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Lo, the fading, dying year Subject(s): Holidays STORY OF THE APPLE, by MALANA A. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: It comes as a beautiful blossom in spring Subject(s): Holidays; Trees STORY OF THE HYACINTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hyacinth was a beautiful youth beloved by Subject(s): Holidays; Trees STORY OF THE SUNFLOWER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Clytie was a beautiful water-nymph in love with Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SUDDEN LIGHT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been here before Last Line: And day and night yield one delight once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Deja Vu; Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year SUGGESTED ADDRESS FOR USE BY LEGION SPEAKER ON ARMISTICE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the world pauses to turn back the pages of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SUGGESTIONS FOR ARBOR DAY OBSENANCE, by ALFRED SONTE Poem Source First Line: Arbor day had its origin with a view to creating Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees SUNRISE ON THE HILLS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide arch Last Line: Dim the sweet look that nature wears. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SUNSET AND MOONRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's Last Line: All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has but his hour. Subject(s): Death; Evening; Holidays; Moon; New Year; Night; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime SUNSHINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The fitful april sunshine Subject(s): Holidays; Trees SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There all the barrel-hoops are knit Last Line: There all the planets drop in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There all the barrel-hoops are knit Last Line: There all the planets drop in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SURE SIGN, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the mail, sort it quick Last Line: Someone's sent a valentine! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day SWEET RED ROSE, by JOEL STACY Poem Source First Line: Good morrow, little rose-bush Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TALKS AND TREES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when terror and shrinking and deary Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TAPS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, now that the charge is won Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Holidays; Sleep; Veterans Day TE DEUM OF RENEWALS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For thy sweet sunshine after nights of rain Last Line: We thank thee, lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology TE DEUM OF THE YEARS, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For the life given, and for the life preserved Last Line: We thank thee, lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology TEKEL, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bare black branches of the almond-tree Last Line: And tekel blaze across the wasted years. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Kindness; Love; The Resurrection TEMPLE, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Source First Line: Did many of us ever really see a tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TEMPLE OF THE TREES, by J. D. C. PELLOW Poem Source First Line: Between the erect and solemn trees Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TEN PRINCIPLES OF PRUNING, by JULIA E. ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Pruning the roots lessens the food supply Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TENTH ANNIVERSARY, by RALPH SNEEDEN Poem Source First Line: A wave would rise, thin to translucence Last Line: Of gulls vicious, crazy with hope above the rising net Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; Waves TEREUS PROCNE AND PHILOMELA [OVID: METAMORPHOSES BOOK 6,11.424-647], by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tereus of thrace had raised that siege Last Line: With a huge beak in place of his long sword %the hoopoe which seems armed as though for war Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Holidays; Mythology - Classical; Victory; War THANATOPSIS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To him who in the love of nature holds Last Line: About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Nature; Religion; Trees; Dead, The; Theology THANK GOD!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thank god for life! Last Line: God's sweetest gift; thy name in heaven is rest. / thank god for death! Subject(s): Heaven;holidays;thanksgiving; Paradise THANK YOU GOD FOR BUGS, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thank you god for %marching ants Last Line: And all things small %that crawl Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANK YOU SINGING GAME, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thank you for the sunshine Last Line: We all together sing %thank you Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKFUL FOR ALL, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An easy thing, o power divine Variant Title(s): The Things I Mis Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving THANKFULNESS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I thank thee who hast made Last Line: On jesus' breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving THANKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you very much indeed Last Line: "thank you very much indeed." Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Thanksgiving THANKS BE TO GOD, by JANIE ALFORD Poem Text First Line: I do not thank thee, lord Last Line: Unspeakable! His gift! Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology THANKSGIBBIN' IN OLE VIRGINNY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ter-day's thanksgibbin' Last Line: De short straw done draw de little guinea hen. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Holidays; Hunger; Poverty; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVIN' PUMPKIN PIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: So you bid me to thanksgivin'! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by HARRIET ELLEN (GRANNIS) AREY Poem Source First Line: Come forth, come forth, to the festal board Alternate Author Name(s): Garey, Hannah E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR Poem Source First Line: Have you cut the wheat in the blowing fields Variant Title(s): Poetic Response Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To give god thanks when brief, oblivious nights Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Source First Line: Lord, I give thanks Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart gives thanks for many things Last Line: For these my heart gives thanks to-day. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the sharp conflicts I have had with sin Last Line: Gross and material, on the external sight. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one ever knew Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Supremest life and lord of all, / I bring my thanks to thee Last Line: And lift my thanks to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Blessings; God; Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: For all things beautiful, and good, and true Last Line: We thank thee, lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Thanksgiving day is set apart Last Line: "praise father, son, and holy ghost!" Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Nations; Praise; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Relatives THANKSGIVING, by HENRY G. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: I ate a plateful %and felt grateful Last Line: No longer grateful: %I felt hateful! Subject(s): Food And Eating; Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thankful for the glory of the old red, white Last Line: For the spirit of our fathers and a manhood %that is true Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving for a former, doth invite Last Line: God to bestow a second benefit. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I sided with the sleepwalkers. Today Last Line: Of wheat loomed as a story the farmers %cannot wait to tell Subject(s): Farm Life; Holidays; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turkey, blue head on the ground Last Line: Noisy, breaking the glass sky %grey %they are grey %and their wings are weightless Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: To god, the giver, thanks for all he wills Last Line: The man will dare to do the thing he ought. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, for the erring thought Last Line: Quicken our gratitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Variant Title(s): The Undiscovered Country Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by EMILY READ JONES Poem Source First Line: I thank thee that I learn Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by MRS. LITTLE Poem Text First Line: It is thanksgiving morn - 't is cold and clear Last Line: Sheds gleams of purest joy o'er man's dark destiny. Alternate Author Name(s): Rowena Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by JOHN N. MORRIS Poem Source First Line: In childhood you think Subject(s): Holidays THANKSGIVING, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: On the tube, the old parade Last Line: The aleppo shrine horse patrol and placido domingo %(`hey man, don't step in the placido domingo!') Subject(s): Holidays; Parades; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Yes--we give thanks. Thanks that the fight is won Last Line: Waves in the forefront of a better world! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; World War I; America; First World War THANKSGIVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us be thankful - not alone Last Line: That through them still, for all the %coming years, %we may look on the dead face of %to-day Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by JEANIE ROGERS SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Dear lord, on this way thy day of days Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our father, whose unchanging love Last Line: Awaits us at the end. Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology THANKSGIVING, by MARIE REED TOWNE Poem Text First Line: I'm giving thanks today for many things! Last Line: By that firm hand that gives what things are best. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank god when I kneel to pray Last Line: The safe, untroubled path I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Comfort; God; Holidays; Pleasure; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Middle Class THANKSGIVING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walk on starry fields of white Last Line: A grand thanksgiving chorus. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice Last Line: An' I'll put soul in my thanksgivin' prayers. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING (1), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We choose the shadow, but the sun Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For strength to face the battle's might Last Line: And that we serve a world distressed %unselfishly and free from shame Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks be to god! To whom earth owes sunshine and breeze Last Line: The thanks of heaven begin. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING - 1937, by JOSIE CRAIG BERRY Poem Text First Line: I'm thankful that the fall did not include Last Line: Was grounded by the fall of frail mankind. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING ACROSTIC, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Source First Line: Tis for turkey the biggest in town Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING CHARADES, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Sounds like wobble gobble Last Line: It's time to eat! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING DAY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old church tower Last Line: And all is well! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING DAY, by LYDIA MARIA CHILD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the river, and through the wood Last Line: Hurrah for the pumpkin pie! Variant Title(s): A Boy's Thanksgiving;the New-england Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Subject(s): Americans; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day; United States; America THANKSGIVING DAY, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Text First Line: With steadfast and unwavering faith, with hard and patient toil Last Line: Forget the reverent spirit of that first thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The year decays, november's blast Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Brave and high-souled pilgrims, you who knew no fears Last Line: And with hearts of thankfulness keep thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING DAY AT HUNCHLEY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you never heard of hunchley, I would say in his behalf Last Line: In keeping with his bounty than the laws of harmony. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Holidays; Parties; Quarrels; Thanksgiving; Arguments; Disagreements THANKSGIVING EXERCISE, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, time keeps steadily on and on Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING FILLS MY HEART, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: How can I tell in words Last Line: Dear, homely wonders that will come again! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING FOR THANKSGIVING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank thee, father, once again Last Line: I thank thee for the gift of thanks. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING HYMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the lord above, in tender love" Last Line: "come let us all before him fall, / and glorify his name" Subject(s): American Revolution;holidays;thanksgiving THANKSGIVING HYMN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come let us sing to the lord a new song Last Line: Yea, let ev'ry thing praise thee—amen, and amen. Subject(s): Holidays; Kindness; Lord's Supper; Thanksgiving; Worship THANKSGIVING HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O thou, whose eye of love Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING IN SOMERSET, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: Still stand, as when our fathers tilled the soil Last Line: Slow down! We, too, some gratitude can show. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING IN THE PAST AND PRESENT, by MARION S. BLAIDSELL Poem Source First Line: All hail the day we celebrate! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING MAGIC, by ROWENA BASTIN BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Thanksgiving day I like to see Last Line: And some like fairy spells and charms %but I like magic made by cooks! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING NIGHT, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I got to thinking, when I couldn't go to sleep Last Line: That told me they were with me, and were very, very near. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING NIGHT; MEMORIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE IN ILLINOIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the prairie moans the wind Last Line: The ancient virtues of the hills! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Holidays; Illinois; New Hampshire; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING PARADE, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Beat the drum Last Line: Make music in the thanksgiving parade Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING PHILOSOPHY, by CHARLOTTE W. THURSTON Poem Source First Line: Hiss! Hiss!' said the goose, 'they've taken us three Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING PRAYER, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Source First Line: For toil that is a medicine for woe Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING SONG, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: I brought my gifts to the altar Last Line: Reach upward toward the sun. Subject(s): Altars; Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Theology THANKSGIVING TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When all the leaves are off the boughs Last Line: Thanksgiving day is very near, %and we must make thanksgiving pies! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING VARIATION: 1, by DAVID M. HULL Poem Source First Line: We fed off the carcass for a week Last Line: We lit the fire, lit our pipes Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING VARIATION: 11, by DAVID M. HULL Poem Source First Line: We fed off the carcass for a week Last Line: The heat of its passage through air Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING VERSE ACROSTIC, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: T. - the little folks will now appear Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSLIVING, by CHAUNCEY ROSCOE PIETY Poem Text First Line: Were thanks with every gift expressed Last Line: Each life would be thanksliving. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THAT THINGS ARE NO WORSE, SIR, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the time of our old revolution Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Holidays THAT VALENTINE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once,I remember, years ago Last Line: I sent a tender valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Holidays; Valentine's Day THE ACCUSING HANDS; A 1918 MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a vision of the nearer past Last Line: The clay that wore the khaki and the blue! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Declaration Day; First World War THE AULD FARMER'S NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION ... AULD MARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guid new year I wish thee, maggie Last Line: Wi' sma' fatigue. Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Horses; New Year; Nature; Friendship THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE BAMBOO, THE PLUM AND THE PINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere in this land they must be found Last Line: To the new year three-in-one, the bamboo, the plum and the pine. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Worship; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns! Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE BIRTH-DAY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here bounds the gaudy, gilded chair Last Line: The beggar prove thy equal there!' Subject(s): Holidays THE BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthday Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; Holidays; Home; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, by THEODORE O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum's sad roll has beat Last Line: That gilds your deathless tomb. Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Each thin hand resting on a grave Last Line: Why harry wore the gray Subject(s): American Civil War;holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History; Declaration Day THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE HOLDETH FAST TO THE MEMORY OF HIS IDENTITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the great house, and in the house of fire" Last Line: Let me remember then the name I bore! Subject(s): Easter;holidays;memory; The Resurrection THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CHILD AND THE YEAR, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the child to the youthful year Last Line: "o child! And crown thee a king!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE CHOPPER'S CHILD; A STORY FOR THANKSGIVING DAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smoke of the indian summer Last Line: As the chopper's little child. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day THE CHRISTIAN'S NEW YEAR PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou christ of mine, thy gracious ear low bending Last Line: This is a christian's prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Holidays; Jesus Christ; New Year; Prayer; Soul; Paradise THE CHRISTMAS BALL; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scintillant stars in the sky's blue height Last Line: And the dancers meet at the christmas ball. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Nicholas, Saint THE CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see not god, yet while we grope Last Line: Our life! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr smiggs was a gentleman Last Line: "aye, and pick it to the bone." Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Geese; Holidays; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS HOUR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is the hour my heart has waited for Last Line: "peace and good-will dwell in the world again!" Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The THE CLOSING YEAR, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chimneys no more music hold Last Line: The year is at the close! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE CORN-HUSKING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a week before thanksgiving Last Line: While the merry time away. Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Holidays; November; Thanksgiving THE COUNTERSIGN (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Alas! The weary hours pass slow Last Line: "whether in pleasure or in pain, / I still may have the countersign" Subject(s): Holidays;memorial Day;war; Declaration Day THE COWBOY'S VALENTINE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, moll, now don't you 'llow to quite Last Line: The [valentine symbol] m-I-n-e. Subject(s): Cowboys; Holidays; Ranch Life; Valentine's Day; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CURE'S NIECE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since gaston kissed and rode away Last Line: "o uncle, yea!"" I cry." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; France; Holidays; Love; The Resurrection THE CURTAIN FALLS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the sorrow and over the bliss Last Line: Silently downward the curtain falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Healing; Holidays; New Year; Cures THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star" Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still" Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs; THE DAWN PATROL, by PAUL BEWSHER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I fly at dawn above the sea Last Line: In thanks to him who brings me safely home. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Holidays; Thanksgiving; World War I; First World War THE DAWNING O' THE YEAR, by MARY (MAY) ELIZABETH (MCGRATH) BLAKE Poem Text First Line: All ye who love the springtime - and who but loves it well Last Line: Till ye meet it in old ireland in the dawning o' the year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE DAY OF JOY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the gladness of our easter morning Last Line: This is the glory of our easter day. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE DAY OF RESURRECTION, by JOHN OF DAMASCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day of resurrection, / earth, tell it out abroad Last Line: Our joy that hath no end. Alternate Author Name(s): John Damascene; Chrysorrhoas Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thou gray and fragrant sabbath-day Last Line: So rich a page of thrilling histories. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the days when nothing happens Last Line: Praises this thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: In their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War THE DEATH OF GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year! Thy latest sobbing breath Last Line: What thou hast shown, perhaps but to destroy? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full knee-deep lies the winter snow Last Line: A new face at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE DEBT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the years are few, I must be glad Last Line: Poor that I am, a coin of golden joy. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Wellesley College THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, SELECTION, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Frequent oil your safety-clutch. Subject(s): Death; Egoism & Egotism; Holidays; Noses; Physicians; Social Protest; Dead, The; Doctors THE DISCOVERY; SONNET, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an indian, who had known no change Last Line: Or silks or gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE DUTCH PATROL, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas-eve is ended Last Line: Proclaim 'tis christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Memorial Day; Netherlands; New York City - Dutch Period; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Nativity, The; Declaration Day; Holland; Dutch People THE DYING OLD YEAR: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Avaunt, away! Dread shapes of hate and fear Last Line: Then passed away, with one low, moaning sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Holidays; Italy; Law & Lawyers; New Year; Social Protest; Treason & Traitors; Dead, The; Italians; Attorneys THE EARTH'S EASTER-TIDE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing and rejoice, soul of the world sing on! Last Line: Our sun is risen indeed! He lives and reigns again! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE EASTER DECORATIONS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O take away your dried and painted garlands Last Line: Captivity and winter, death and dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE EASTER TEST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had seen the master on that morning Last Line: To meet the lord of life and claim his love. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE ELECTRIC SLIDE BOOGIE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year's day 1:16 am Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE EVENING-WATCH; A DIALOGUE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! I go to sleep; but when Last Line: Is thy first breath, and man's eternal prime. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE FALLEN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bell slowly Last Line: "where is no death nor shadow of the grave." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Declaration Day THE FAUN, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will go out to grass with that old king Last Line: Is it far, is it far to seek? Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Trees THE FINEST DAY OF ONE'S LIFE, by JACQUES BARON Poem Text First Line: Today is as a festive day Last Line: One can have a good time Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Colors; Festivals; Holidays; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O mary, drooping by the door Last Line: Before thy son, the king. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE FIRST FLOWERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ages, on our river borders Last Line: Were real, or the rhymer's dream! Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Spring; Trees THE FIRST MORNING OF 1860, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: One evening 'mid the summer flown Last Line: Peace to endow the new-born year. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY [1621], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now,' said the governor, gazing abroad Last Line: "he muttered, ""the good great spirit loves his white children best!" Subject(s): Bradford, William (1590-1657); Brewster, William (1560-1644); Holidays; Massasoit (d. 1661); Standish, Miles (1584-1656); Thanksgiving Day THE FIRST THANKSGIVING [FEBRUARY 22, 1631], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was captain pierce of the lion Last Line: That mounted morn and noon and eve on that first thanksgiving day! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE FIRST VALENTINE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to write a valentine Last Line: I like her best of anyone! Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Valentine's Day; Childhood THE FLOWER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a golden hour Last Line: Call it but a weed. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees THE FOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fountain, that springest on this grassy slope Last Line: Gush midway from the bare and barren steep? Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THE GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a garden where he took Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Easter; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE GIVER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, we must thank the lord for many things Last Line: May fold in perfect love one perfect sphere. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THE GLAD NEW YEAR, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK Poem Text First Line: There's coming a year all mirth and joy Last Line: Are you that happy, glad new year? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE GLORY OF THE SUN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A little crocus woke from sleep Last Line: It waits the sun above. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Sun; The Resurrection THE GOAL AND THE WAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The future lies / with those whose eyes Last Line: Who falters now shames god, and dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology THE GOOD-MORROW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Last Line: Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; New Year; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE GRIEF OF A GIRL'S HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me! Variant Title(s): Donal Og Subject(s): Grief;holidays;love;love - Loss Of;new Year; Sorrow;sadness THE HEMLOCK TREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O hemlock tree! O hemlock tree! How faithful are thy branches! Last Line: "the meadow brook, the meadow brook, is mirror of thy falsehood" Subject(s): Holidays;trees THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day THE HOLIDAYS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Don't you remember 'tis almost december Last Line: Nor yet for the holidays sigh'd. Subject(s): Holidays THE HOLLY AND THE IVY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Sweet singing in the choir Subject(s): Christmas;holidays;ivy; "nativity, The; THE HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year THE HOUR OF THOUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The orb of day is sinking Last Line: Grave oblivious, thou shalt hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Solitude; Thought; Declaration Day; Loneliness; Thinking THE HYMNARY: 271. EASTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Alleluia let the nations Last Line: His praise be evermore Subject(s): Easter;holidays; The Resurrection THE HYMNARY: 275. EASTER. A SEQUENCE OF THE 12TH CENTURY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our salvation to obtain Last Line: "hear us, help us in our need" Subject(s): Easter;holidays; The Resurrection THE HYMNARY: 622. EASTER, by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stone is rolled away Last Line: Save us, we pray thee, from the second death. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, 5660, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chaos lay beneath god's hand Last Line: Will bless you in your works and ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; Memory; New Year; Peace; Judaism THE KNOWN SOLDIER; FOR THE DAY OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S BURIAL, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now through the stifling air, thick with the murk Last Line: While safe he sleeps among the deathless dead. Subject(s): Funerals; Holidays; Veterans Day; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Burials THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary THE LAMB, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month before easter Last Line: Its flesh was easter Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Lambs; The Resurrection THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast Last Line: Freedom to worship god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America THE LAST FIGHT, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Text First Line: That night I think that no one slept Last Line: My past rose up and mocked at death. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day THE LAST OF THE NEW YEAR'S CALLERS, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door is shut-I think the fine old face Last Line: In front of the old-time door that's shut. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE LAW OF THE PERVERSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the custom come Last Line: Fore-eating everything, from soup to pie! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Customs, Social; Food & Eating; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Childhood THE LAWYER'S VALENTINE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm notified, fair neighbor mine Last Line: With no remainder over! Subject(s): Holidays; Law & Lawyers; Valentine's Day THE LEGEND OF EASTER EGGS, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trinity bells with their hollow lungs Last Line: Of the holy marvel of easter day. Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE LEGEND OF THE PASQUE FLOWER, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL Poem Text First Line: There's a legend as old as the calendar year Last Line: Who heed the season's clarion call. Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Legends; The Resurrection THE LENGTHENING LINES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven too, each blossoming may Last Line: To that review beyond the skies. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day THE LILY OF THE RESURRECTION, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the lily dwells in earth Last Line: Dies a bulb, to live a flower! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE LORD IS RISEN, THE CHRIST IS KING; AN EASTER HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Awake from thy sleep! 'tis easter day! Last Line: Our lord is risen, our christ is king! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 55. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, all day, I rode upon the down, Last Line: My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day THE LOVER'S THANKSGIVING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm glad for every shining star Last Line: Is jenny's heart. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Thanksgiving THE MAN OF PEACE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What winter holiday is this? Last Line: To paradise, -- to peace. Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States THE MAN OF THE MARNE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray battalions were driving down Last Line: Remember the marne and ferdinand foch. Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War THE MAPLE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple puts her corals on in may Last Line: That age shall bear, silent, yet unresigned! Subject(s): Holidays; Maple Trees; Trees THE MASQUE OF PANDORA: 1. THE WORKSHOP OF HEPHAESTUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not fashioned out of gold, like hera's throne Last Line: Thou henceforth shalt bear. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 6. DECEMBER 31, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say this year no different Last Line: Well and happy / new year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE MESSAGE OF THE NEW YEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I asked the new year for some message Last Line: God's will to love Subject(s): Holidays;new Year THE MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the basement Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The; Relatives THE NATION'S DEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Four hundred thousand men Last Line: "made this our ransomed soil their grave, / for me and you! / good friend, for me and you!" Subject(s): American Revolution;holidays;memorial Day; Declaration Day THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known rivers Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE NEW BIRTH, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a new life; - thoughts move not as they did Last Line: Start from death's slumbers to eternity. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE NEW CITY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have we seen her, the new city, o my brothers, where she stands Last Line: Happier, if our human travail builds their avenues to god! Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day THE NEW MEMORIAL DAY, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the roses we plucked for the blue Last Line: Slumber our heroes to-day. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day THE NEW VICTORY, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victory comes Last Line: The stable world itself is her great monument! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day THE NEW YEAR, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes dancing over the snow Last Line: He is the wonderful glad new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Variant Title(s): The Glad New Year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by LILLIAN GARD Poem Text First Line: Standing with folded wings of mystery Last Line: And we—we pause a little while to pray! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by HORATIO NELSON POWERS Poem Text First Line: A flower unblown: a book unread Last Line: Beyond tomorrow's mystic gates. Variant Title(s): The Year Ahead Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock struck twelve in the tall church tower Last Line: Which the wise are swift to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Greetings; Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by J. DICKEY TEMPLETON Poem Text First Line: I am the new year, and I come to you pure and unstained Last Line: All that I ask—you keep the faith unbroken! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a tower in the wet Last Line: And new year blowing and roaring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): "1865-1866;""i Stood On A Tower In The Wet""; Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE NEW YEAR, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fleetly hath passed the year; the seasons came Last Line: Have praises for the well-completed year. Variant Title(s): January 1, 1828 Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two together, babe and year Last Line: Brother year was gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Holidays; New Year; Infants THE NEW YEAR DAWNS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new year dawns -- the sun shines strong and clear Last Line: My new year dawns not till thy face I see. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF A MISERABLE MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: In the lone stillness of the new year's light Last Line: Of thy departed youth, -- it never will return! Variant Title(s): The Young Parson's Dream Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF AN UNHAPPY MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, it was the new year's night Last Line: The golden years can never more return. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Old Age; Sin; Youth THE NEW YEAR'S QUEST, by HARRIET ALLEYNE RICE Poem Text First Line: Another milestone passed along the road Last Line: Take up the endless life in a new birth. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Wellesley College THE NEW YEAR: TO MR. W.T., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The cock crows, and yon bright star Last Line: Till the next year she face about. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR; ADDRESSED TO PATRONS OF PENNSYLAVNIA FREEMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave is breaking on the shore Last Line: A new and happy year. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Holidays; New Year; Antislavery Movement - United States THE NEW YEERE'S GIFT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others look for pearle and gold Last Line: The richest new-yeeres gift to me. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW-YEAR MINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every year's a hidden mine Last Line: Or only dust and ashes? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A grove of deep sycamores drifts into the hudson Last Line: Stepping out of a mountain into winter daylight. Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; Moths; Solitude; Thanksgiving; Loneliness THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year, till late in april, the snow fell thick and light Last Line: Our blood may seal the victory, but god will shield the right! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE OAK, by GEORGE HILL Poem Text First Line: A glorious tree is the old gray oak Last Line: The heads of his foes in fight. Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees; Trees THE OL' TUNES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You kin talk about your anthems Last Line: In the ol'-fashioned way. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Holidays; Thanksgiving THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among our hills and valleys, I have known Last Line: Is at my side, his voice is in my ear. Subject(s): Holidays; Old Age; Trees THE OLD SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven Last Line: Waiting to welcome them by the strange door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; Paradise THE OLD YEAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was going down; the empty trees shook, sighing Last Line: Remaining. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old year's gone away Last Line: Left the old year lost to all. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The THE OLD YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O good old year! This night's your last Last Line: I see your cab is waiting. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Good night, old year, good night! Last Line: And wait god's will with patience till the end. Subject(s): Farewell; Future; Holidays; New Year; Past; Parting THE OLD YEAR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infirm and aged, doth he sit Last Line: And through it comes the glad new year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the old year? 'tis a book Last Line: Close it and lay it in god's hand. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one in sorrow looks upon Last Line: As happy as the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Future; God; Holidays; Laughter; New Year THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift they go Last Line: And the stranger's face makes the friend's forgot. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by, old year! I can but say Last Line: "for much, I ween, they have yet to do!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: Last night at twelve, amid the knee-deep snows Last Line: O blithe young year, but keep thy promise true! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR TO THE NEW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snows of death are drifting deep Last Line: Save the long legacy of sleep! Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fading from you Last Line: While he crowns my past. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Disease; Future; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Past; Temptation; Joy; Delight THE OLIVE TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The palm -- the vine -- the cedar -- each hath power Last Line: Trembled, perchance, within thy trembling shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Holidays; Olive Trees & Olives THE PALM AND THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When peter led the first crusade Last Line: Renew their blended lives -- in mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Crusades; Holidays; Trees THE PASQUE FLOWER, by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH Poem Text First Line: Anemone of purple hue Last Line: Sweet, modest wind-flower of the plain. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; The Resurrection THE PASSING OF THE YEAR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My glass is filled, my pipe is lit Last Line: There! Bless you now! Old year, good-bye! Subject(s): Change; Holidays; New Year THE PAST AND COMING YEAR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wave of an awful torrent, thronging down Last Line: Its last and faintest echo. Fare thee well! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pilgrim fathers, - where are they? Last Line: Shall foam and freeze no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 24, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new year ends a year of sorrow Last Line: Who can sleep past dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Holidays; New Year; Spring THE POET'S JOURNAL: INSCRIPTION TO THE MISTRESS OF CEDARCROFT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evening shadows lengthen on the lawn Last Line: Wife of my heart, and mother of my child! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Variant Title(s): Sunset Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE LOST MAY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When may, with cowslip-braided locks Last Line: And cannot give us now. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE RETURN OF SPRING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have I passed through death's unconscious birth Last Line: To the dawning light of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees THE PROCESSION, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray year drifted out Last Line: Die on a winter's day. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE PUMPKIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Greenly and fair in the lands of the sun Last Line: Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin-pie! Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Pumpkins; Thanksgiving Day; Planting; Planters THE RECOMPENSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She brake the box, and all the house was filled Last Line: And fills the world with rapture and with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE RESURRECTION, by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His friends went off and left him dead Last Line: That breathed the living breath of spring. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE RESURRECTION, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX Poem Text First Line: Twas just before the rosy dawn, on that first easter morn Last Line: "he lives! Awake! ""rise from the dead and christ shall give thee light." Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear, from many a little throat Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History THE REVERSE OF THE GOLDEN SHIELD (AN EASTER MORNING REVERIE), by WILL MAJOR MAUPIN Poem Text First Line: Along the chancel rail, and on the altar stair Last Line: Starve, and within the shadow of his church to-day. Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Flowers; God; Holidays; Lilies; Prayer; Cathedrals; The Resurrection THE ROOM OVERHEAD; AN EASTER THOUGHT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a dark and narrow stairway to the room overhead Last Line: When I've mounted the narrow stair. Subject(s): Easter; Heaven; Holidays; The Resurrection; Paradise THE SACHEM OF THE CLOUDS (A THANKSGIVING LEGEND), by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sedge upon the meadows crosses, falls and interweaves Last Line: Hears a shrieking answer speeded from the winter's snowy mouth. Subject(s): Clouds; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SEMANTICS OF FLOWERS ON MEMORIAL DAY, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Historians will tell you my uncle / wouldn't have called it world war ii Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Memorial Day THE SHEPHERD'S HOLIDAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The month of may is now begun Last Line: All on the shepherd's holiday Subject(s): Holidays;love;may (month);shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SNOWING OF THE PINES', by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softer than silence, stiller than still air Last Line: The snow-flakes drop as lightly -- snows on snows. Subject(s): Autumn; Holidays; Nature; Pine Trees; Seasons; Snow; Trees; Fall THE SOLDIER'S DIRGE, by ELIZABETH HARMAN Poem Text First Line: Dead in the battle,-dead on the field Last Line: To his memory, honor; to him, good-night. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day THE SPIRIT OF POETRY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a quiet spirit in these woods Last Line: Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence. Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Trees THE SPLENDOR OF LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rare as the splendor of lilies Last Line: To carpet a path for our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE SUNFLOWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah sun-flower! Weary of time Last Line: Where my sun-flower wishes to go. Variant Title(s): Ah Sunflower Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Sunflowers THE THANKSGIVING IN BOSTON HARBOR [JUNE 12, 1630], by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise ye the lord!' the psalm today Last Line: But psalms from boston bay. Subject(s): Boston; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Winthrop, John (1588-1649) THE THIEF'S PLAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Open up open up Last Line: Falls down dead Subject(s): Holidays;jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE THINNING RANKS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The bugles sound, the rolling drums Last Line: To honor noble dead. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Declaration Day THE TOY SOLDIER'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: It was valentine day and the toy folk were gay Last Line: Ran away with each other. I'm glad, are n't you? Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Toys; Valentine's Day THE TREE, by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tree's early leaf-buds were bursting their brown Last Line: Said the tree, while he bent down his laden boughs low. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THE TURN OF THE YEAR, by JAMES L. PENNYPACKER Poem Text First Line: Down by the marsh the twigs of the maples are flaming Last Line: May kiss the tips of her fingers. Subject(s): Holidays; June; New Year THE TWA CORBIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was walking all alane Last Line: The wind sall blaw for evermair Variant Title(s): The Two Corbies Subject(s): Holidays;new Year;ravens;scotland;tragedy THE UNKNOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, under sacred ground Last Line: His unknown name! Subject(s): Holidays; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day THE USE OF FLOWERS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God might have bade the earth bring forth Last Line: Will care much more for him! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees THE VALENTINE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against this thorny present shows Last Line: I miss you but the more. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day THE VALLEY OF DECISION, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The world is in the valley of decision Last Line: Or sink despairing into its own hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; War THE VIGIL OF GOOD FRIDAY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the night? 'tis dark Last Line: Love weeps for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week THE VOLUNTEER, by ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn,' he said, 'I bid them all farewell ...' Last Line: "I follow, though I die!" Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day THE WAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come anthea let us two Last Line: Then to want the wake next yeare. Subject(s): Country Life; Holidays; New Year THE WATER-LILY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence, o fragrant form of light Last Line: Left her garment in the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters THE WEARER OF THE GREEN; TO MY FRIEND JOHN JAMES DONOGHUE, M.D., by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now just a year since, come saint patrick's day Last Line: Unfortunate divil—he laughed at the green! Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Irish THE WIDOW'S THANKSGIVING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the precious years of my life, today Last Line: And mine eyes behold the sun. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Widows & Widowers THE WIND IN THE PINES, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds go organing through the pines Last Line: Of iliads that the woods are dreaming. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THE WOMAN'S THANKS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is so much strong men are thankful for Last Line: My thanks for these thy little blessings' sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Sabbath; Thanksgiving; Women; Sunday THE WOUNDED CUPID. SONG, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid as he lay among Last Line: Of those, thou woundest with thy dart! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Holidays THE WREATH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here on my path by some hard fate struck down Last Line: Placed on my heart the grief of yester-year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones THE WRECK OF THE 'STELLA', by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Easter comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave Last Line: For great is the empire of earth, more great the command of the soul. Subject(s): Earth; Easter; Holidays; Love; Tears; Time; World; The Resurrection THE YEAR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be said in new year rhymes Last Line: And that's the burden of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Nightmares; Optimism THE YEAR IS DONE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The year is done. Upon june's tender breast Last Line: A glorious era dawns! A golden age is born! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE YEAR THAT'S AWA', by JOHN DUNLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the year that's awa'! Last Line: May they live, etc. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE YOUNG DEAD, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I pity the young dead who gave Last Line: And the lark singing for them overhead! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Veterans Day; Dead, The THEIR EASTER AND OURS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Ere the master came to claim his own Last Line: Who knew him not when he came to his own! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology THEM YANKEE BLANKITS, by SAMUEL W. SMALL Poem Source First Line: Yes, john, I was down thar at memphis Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day THERE OFT THE MUSE, WHAT MOST DELIGHTS HER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THESE TEN YEARS SINCE WE WENT TO WAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is not altogether easy to recapture the mood Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day THEY ALL BELONG TO ME, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye cannot shut the trees in Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THEY JUST WON'T TALK, by MARY KATHARINE REELY Poem Source First Line: Mable. Yes? ... Oh, yes, miss spangler Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day THEY'VE CUT THE WOOD AWAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THIS YEAR - NEXT YEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This year - next year - sometime - never Last Line: Never - earth say yet Subject(s): Holidays;new Year THOUGH VALENTINE BRINGS LOVE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day THOUGHTS ON CONSERVATION, by WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Poem Source First Line: It should be our purpose, not only to Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THOUGHTS ON CONSERVATION, by JAMES J. HILL Poem Source First Line: Of all the sinful wasters of man's inheritance on ...' Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THOUGHTS ON CONSERVATION, by JAMES S. WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: The most imperative thing that we have to do Subject(s): Holidays; Trees THREE LOVE POEMS BY A NATIVE: 2. BASTILLE DAY, by MAXINE CASSIN Poem Source First Line: What do we do when the fanfare ends? Last Line: Beside the presbytere Subject(s): Holidays; Jazz; Music And Musicians; New Orleans THREE THANKSGIVINGS AT MY STEP-GRANDMOTHER'S (1958), by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: From under naomi's laden table Last Line: Of milk she poured me %warm from the cows I helped name Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THREE THANKSGIVINGS AT MY STEP-GRANDMOTHER'S (1971), by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: I brought the war home Last Line: Like a scarf whatever light %that dream meant to cast Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THREE THANKSGIVINGS AT MY STEP-GRANDMOTHER'S (1988), by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: Wind rattles the catalpa pods Last Line: More than death's own rasping breath %insisting on pushing me home Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THREE TREES, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Source First Line: The pine-tree grew in the wood Subject(s): Holidays THROUGH LENT, by FLORENCE WALLIN Poem Text First Line: I ask to see none else but my poor self Last Line: At eastertide. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection TIME TO BE, by ALICE CARY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit where the leaves of the maple Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TINY TREES, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Source First Line: We are five little tots that march in line Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TO - (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates -- thee only. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO ---, ON HER OBSERVING THAT ST. VALENTINE'S DAY WAS HER BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: If I remember, shepherds say Last Line: And feel and worship him in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day TO A CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I thee remember Last Line: "thy ""buon natale"" in my ear." Subject(s): Holidays; Longing; Memory; New Year TO A MAPLE SEED, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou some winged sprite, that, fluttering round Last Line: Under thy boughs, when I, alas! Am dead. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TO A WITHERED ROSE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy span of life was all too short Last Line: To live and die a rose? Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Roses; Trees TO A YOUNG WRETCH (BOETHIAN), by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As gay for you take your farther's ax Last Line: Help me accept its fate with christmas feeling Subject(s): Boethius, Amicus Manlius (480-524); Holidays TO A YOUNG WRETCH (BOETHIAN), by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As gay for you take your farther's ax Last Line: The symbol star it lifts against your ceiling %help me accept its fate with christmas feeling Subject(s): Boethius, Amicus Manlius (480-524); Holidays TO AGE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, old friend! These many years Last Line: Dreads not the frost of age. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year TO ANNA ELIZA AUSTEN, by FANNY KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: This year is done Last Line: In thinking of its close? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO BORGULUM'S SEATED STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN Poem Source First Line: Alone, upon the broad low bench, he sits Subject(s): Borglum, Gutzon (1867-1941); Holidays; Sculpture And Sculptors TO CARA, ON THE DAWNING OF A NEW YEAR'S DAY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When midnight came to close the year Last Line: That hope shall shed on scenes before us! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO CHILDREN: 5. DAME HOLIDAY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No such a name as holiday I thought me to have found Last Line: Tell her I found her fond and fair, and that I loved her face! Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Childhood TO EDWARD CASWALL, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, o'er a clear calm pool Last Line: And see a heaven on earth. Subject(s): Caswall, Edward (1814-1878); Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had we but world enough, and time / this coyness, lady, were no crime Last Line: Stand still, yet we will make him run. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Holidays; Love; New Year; Time TO HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choose me your valentine Last Line: None then will wooe you. Subject(s): Holidays; Unfaithfulness; Valentine's Day; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TO HIS VALENTINE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, bid the morne awake Last Line: Else muse, awake her not. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO HIS VALENTINE, ON S. VALENTINES DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say Last Line: When I shall couple with my valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO JANUS; ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two-faced janus, god of time Last Line: I'll have youth and beauty still Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO MARIE LOUISE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates - thee only Subject(s): Holidays; Shew, Marie Louise; Valentine's Day TO MEN UNBORN, by DAVID OSBORNE HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes on with freshness of new leaves Last Line: Peace seen afar through grief and hate and strife! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO MISS LOGAN, WITH BEATTIE'S POEMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the silent wheels of time Last Line: An edwin still to you. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year TO MISTRESS ANNE CECIL, by WILLIAM CECIL Poem Text First Line: As years do grow, so cares increase Last Line: You, long years; and father, health! Alternate Author Name(s): Burleigh, Lord; Burghley, 1st Baron Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year TO MY COUNTRY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beams from your forest built my little home Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day 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 VALENTINE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than a catbird hates a cat Last Line: That's how you're loved by me Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO MY VALENTINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If apples were pears Last Line: I'd love you just the same Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO NOVEMBER, by G. W. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Hence, tern, grim, puritanic days Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TO PEACE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup, the ruby cup Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO PEACE, WITH VICTORY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could not welcome you, oh! Longed-for peace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE CANADIAN MOTHERS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why mourn thy dead, that are the world's Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE DEAD DOUGHBOYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be nothing in this book constured Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While flattering crowds officiously appear Last Line: Because the centre of it is above. Subject(s): Holidays; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Nations; Nature; New Year; Politics & Government; War TO THE NEW YEAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Welcome, new year, but be more kind Last Line: I'll thank the lord the devil knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE NEW YEAR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prince new year, welcome to thy throne Last Line: His kingdom falls to you. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE NEW YEAR, FOR THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give lucinda pearl nor stone Last Line: As shall crown both her and thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE NEW YEERE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich statue, double-faced Last Line: The diadem that beares. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE PENDING YEAR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I no weapon-word for thee -- some message brief and fierce? Last Line: Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 1. SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well dost thou, love, thy solemn feast to hold Last Line: Or e'er the snowdrop die! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say of them they knew no spanish Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Liberty TO THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say of them they knew no spanish Last Line: And what they dared, they dare Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO WORDSWORTH, by O. F. EMERSON Poem Source First Line: Poet of nature, thou didst teach to see Last Line: Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Trees; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO YOU, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: I think I could walk Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TOMMYBOB'S THANKSGIVING VISION, by ANNA MARIA PRATT Poem Text First Line: It was thanksgiving evening, and tommybob slept Last Line: Than living to eat, as he did on thanksgiving. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TONIGHT AT NOON (FOR CHARLES MINGUS AND THE CLAYTON SQUARES), by ADRIAN HENRI Poem Source First Line: Tonight at noon %supermarkets will advertise 3d extra on everything Last Line: You will tell me you love me %tonight at noon Subject(s): Holidays; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); New Year TOURNAMENT OF MAN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Source First Line: Clear the field for the grand tournament of the nations! Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. EASTER DAY ON MT. MOUNIER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence Last Line: Lost in the light of heaven. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection TRAIL, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncouth, unconquered, unafraid Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TRALA TRALA TRALA LA-LE-LA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the time has arrived Last Line: Trala trala la-le-la Subject(s): Holidays TRALA TRALA TRALA LA-LE-LA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the time has arrived Last Line: To the end of time trala %trala trala la-le-la Subject(s): Holidays TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the prison cell I sit Last Line: Of freedom in our own beloved home. Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; Prisons & Prisoners; War; Liberty; Declaration Day; Convicts TRANSPLANTED, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then cyrist, the gardener, said, 'these many years ...' Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Easter; Holidays TREE BIRTHDAYS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look! Look at me! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays TREE FEELINGS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if they like it - being trees? Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Trees TREE OF STATE, by MRS. B. C. RUDE Poem Source First Line: Emblem tree of the empire state Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREE PLANTING, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A boy strolled through a dusty road Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREE PLANTING, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees may outline the memory of more that Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREE SONG, by W. D. Poem Source First Line: The birds upon the branches high Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREE THAT TRIED TO GROW, by FRANCIS LEE Poem Source First Line: One time there was a seed that wished to be a Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREE-BURIAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near our southwestern border, when a child Last Line: "my home till I depart to be with thee." Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREE-PLANTING, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joy for the sturdy trees Subject(s): Holidays TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TREES, by JULIA E. ROGERS Poem Source First Line: The meaning of trees in a landscape Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Forest trees have always Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREES I'LL PLANT, by LETTIE E. STERLING Poem Source First Line: Because I love the robins well Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREES IN THE CITY, by ALICE B. NEAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis beautiful to see a forest stand Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TREES OF CORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The child looked out upon the field Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TRIMMING THE CHRISTMAS TREE, AFTER YOUR MOTHER'S STROKE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We are looking for a small tree. If we stand it Last Line: From on high, inaudible as a dog whistle Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Family Life; Holidays TROOP-SHIP SAILS, by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is it goodbye %my lad? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day TRUE FREEDOM, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not in blood that liberty inscribes her civil laws Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day TRUE NOBLEMAN, by WASHINGTON IRVING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is an affinity between all natures, animate Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TULIP TREE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now my blood with long-forgotten fleetness Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TWAS AT THE MATIN HOUR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays TWAS JOLLY JOLLY WAT, by CHARLES WILLIAM STUBBS Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Source First Line: Windy with january gold Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O, the rain, the weary, dreary rain Last Line: Twenty golden years ago! Subject(s): Disappointment; Holidays; New Year; Past; Time TWENTY-EIGHT AND TWENTY-NINE, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a sick man's dying sigh Last Line: I shall worship in twenty-nine! Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year TWIG THAT BECAME A TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The tree of which I am about to tell you was once Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TWILIGHT OF THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM D. KELLY Poem Source First Line: The day has lengthened into eve Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING, by ARTHUR W. MONKS Poem Source First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %president jefferson Last Line: Propagandistically %knew how to die Subject(s): Holidays TWO CLOCKS, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the same bedroom we kept two small clocks Last Line: Maybe these clocks are a poor example Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TWO CLOCKS, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the same bedroom we kept two small clocks Last Line: Maybe these clocks are a poor example Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TWO EASTER LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the reed of scorn Last Line: Her lord to greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection TWO FESTIVALS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving stirs her ruddy fire Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TWO HOUSES, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twill overtask a thousand men Last Line: Shut up the door till doom! Subject(s): Holidays; Houses; New Year TWO LITTLE ROSES, by JULIA P. BALLARD Poem Source First Line: One merry summer day Subject(s): Holidays; Trees TWO SILENCES, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sirens wailed and moaned Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ULTIMATE DECEMBER, by MYRA PERRINGS Poem Text First Line: The year has come so soon Last Line: Of ultimate december. Subject(s): December; Holidays; New Year UNDER THE STARS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what sail the seas Last Line: Under the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Flags - United States; Holidays; Memorial Day; American Flag; Declaration Day UNDER THE TREES, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer or winter, day or night Subject(s): Holidays; Trees UNDER THE YALLER PINES I HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees UNFADING EVERGREEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How bright the unfading evergreen Subject(s): Holidays; Trees UNIQUE CELEBRATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Most unique celebration of arbor day Subject(s): Holidays; Trees UNITED, by HELEN F. O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Asmuch tall Subject(s): Holidays; Trees UNITED STATES OF EUROPE: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. NICHOLAS, by EDWARD MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: The united states of europe Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNIVERSAL PEACE MOVEMENT, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: A great deal of the (universal) peace movement Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNKNOWN, by BRUCE BARTON Poem Source First Line: My mother wept when I failed to return,' he Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNKNOWN DEAD, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is plashing on my sill Last Line: To which she owes her april grace, %laughs gayly o'er their burial-place Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day UNKNOWN SOLDIER HONORED BY ENGLAND, by PHILIP GIBBS Poem Source First Line: No military potentate of high rank or great Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNSEEN HOST, by PERCIVAL WILDE Poem Source First Line: At an improvised american hospital in paris. A Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNTO MY VALENTINE, by MARGERY BREWES Poem Source First Line: Right reverend and worshipful and my right well beloved valentine Subject(s): Holidays UNTO THE HILLS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lift my eyes unto the friendly hills Last Line: My eyes, my voice, to thank him for this gift. Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UPON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winds of winter glue Last Line: Sit unafraid. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON PRINCESS ELIZABETH, BORN THE NIGHT BEFORE NEW YEAR'S DAY, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Astrologers say venus, the self-same star Last Line: With every year a new epiphany. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year UPON THE THRESHOLD, by G. E. Poem Text First Line: Once more we stand with half-reluctant feet Last Line: So shut the book and bid the year good-by! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year USES OF THE FOREST, by GIFFORD PINCHOT Poem Source First Line: A forest, large or small, my render its service Subject(s): Holidays; Trees V.A.D, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's an angel in our ward as keeps a-flittin' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VALE-ATQUE SALVE, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A broken figure disappears alone Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VALENTINE, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has made its mind up Last Line: And I'm afraid it's yours Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all the whole world's taxicabs Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great antony, I drink to thee Last Line: Before my valentine! Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark VALENTINE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willow soon, and vine Last Line: Her pierrot -- amen! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou canst make the frost be gone Last Line: Thou dost not so! Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Valentine's Day VALENTINE BIRTHDAY, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Again today Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE CHOCOLATES, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Ordinary candy Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE FOR A LADY, by LUCILIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Darling, at the beautician's you buy Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Subject(s): Holidays VALENTINE THOUGHTS FOR MARI, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to bunch your lips Last Line: It's silvery play Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE THOUGHTS FOR MARI, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to bunch your lips Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE TO A LITTLE GIRL, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maiden, dost thou pine Last Line: Whom to serve, and whom to love. Subject(s): Girls; Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE TO THE HON. MARY C. STANHOPE, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, day of music, day of love Last Line: All good attend my valentine! Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE WITH HYPHENS, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: Without your warmth or laugh or hyphened-name Last Line: If not for halfness, which I offer whole Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Names; Valentine's Day VALENTINE'S DAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely the mornin' cupid was born in Last Line: Fluttered and flurried on valentine's day. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE'S DAY, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I wish I were a tiny brown bird Last Line: With my tiny life and tiny song just ended at their best. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO --., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We never met, yet to my soul Last Line: Thine eyes are turned away from me. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Unrequited; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO A POET, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tender and pale the young moon shone Last Line: Thou risen star of poesy! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO A POETESS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nameless power lives in thy verse Last Line: Thy flight of glory winging. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO A REFORMER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enthusiast,' 'dreamer,' - such the names Last Line: Like the sacred pool of yore. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Reform & Reformers; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO BAYARD TAYLOR, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send thee here no valentine Last Line: I prithee, taylor, mend it! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO COUNT --., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We need not to be told thou art Last Line: And the glory of her power. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must silence rest upon thy lyre Last Line: Within thy country's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO G. H. C., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As linnaeus wrote his name in flowers Last Line: On beauty's heaven, in starry eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO G. P. MORRIS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo once had leave to travel Last Line: "there's the thief that stole my lyre!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Morris, George Pope (1802-1864); Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO HELEN IRVING, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again thou comest like a star of brightness Last Line: Ere brushed the gold-dust from its fairy wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MISS A. C. L., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy life is like a fountain clear, upspringing Last Line: While earth's fair lilies float upon its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MISS C. M. SEDGWICK, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O glory-wedded! To thy brow Last Line: Are 'mid thy laurels blushing! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MR. GILES, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A classic heaven of old thy soul Last Line: Or converse with the muses. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MR. INMAN, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moore tells us, in his dulcet lays Last Line: For fancy, intellect, and heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO ONE WHO KNOWS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, when I knew thee first Last Line: And I am still for-giving! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Unrequited; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO THE HON. D. P. KING, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child of the republic Last Line: And prays, god save thee, king! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF A POET, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O faithful friend! O gentle wife! Last Line: Genius and infancy and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF AN ARTIST, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like soft skies that bend at even Last Line: His italy in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love VALENTINES, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me if I have not sent you Last Line: I give that to you too Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINES, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me if I have not sent you Last Line: Heart goes %I give that to you too Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day 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 VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved Last Line: Last valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; Time; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Own mother dear Last Line: Because the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1878, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed dear and heart's delight Last Line: Bless your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1880, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More shower than shine Last Line: Thro' summer's flush, thro' autumn's fading hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1881, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too cold almost for hope of spring Last Line: Is all in all? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1882, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed mother dozing in her chair Last Line: A lifelong love to this dear saint of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Soul; Valentine's Day; Songs VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1883, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A world of change and loss, a world of death Last Line: Your valentine rejoices having you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day; Dead, The VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of joy and grief Last Line: You guide, & I your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1885, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the robin redbreasts Last Line: And I'm your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1886, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's latest snowflake is the snowdrop flower Last Line: My pleasure and my treasure o blessed mother mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Life; Mothers; Valentine's Day VANISHING POINT, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snow crept up overnight as we slept Last Line: Though time seems to pause and wait for us at times %and measure us and move along again Subject(s): Holidays; New Year VANQUISHED; ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT, by FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the ball or brand Last Line: Vanquished but by death. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Last Line: Know that it has passed them by Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy VERSES FOR NEW YEAR'S MORNING; THE ISLE OF MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Again we assemble, a merry new year Last Line: Until at the quaaltagh again we appear, %to wish you, as now, all a happy new year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year VERSES ON A HOLIDAY AT ST. ANNE'S WELL, NOTTINGHAM, 1864, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old 'sentan's well' - that is, the well Last Line: Delighted, when the day is done, %the fiddler is the only one! Subject(s): Holidays VERSES ON TEXTS: EASTER HALLELUJAHS, ISA. 44, 22-23, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mountain height, break forth and sing Last Line: Let easter hallelujahs rise from every living thing! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection VETERAN'S DAY, 1981, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: In last week's new york times I read Last Line: Think of the world as a white page where, once, %someone with an arm, an hand, could have written st Subject(s): Holidays; New York Times (newspaper); Veterans Day VICKSBURG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sixty days and upwards Last Line: To the music in their hearts. Variant Title(s): The Bombardment Of Vicksburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Declaration Day VICTORY BELLS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells across the trees Last Line: And home-coming for weary men. Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War VICTORY PARADE, by GEORGE EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Cruisers, destroyers, carriers align Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VIOLET UNDER THE SNOW, by RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source First Line: To thee I would bring Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets VIOLETS, by AMANDA B. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Has anyone, I wonder ever classed and Subject(s): Holidays; Trees VIOLETS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They neither toil nor spin Subject(s): Holidays; Trees VIOLIN MOOD, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today the sense of spring fills all my frame Subject(s): Holidays; Trees VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvho say's these romish pageants bene too hy Last Line: When his new rage would aske no narrower rooms? Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Laughter; Valentine's Day VIRGIN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sweet was the song the virgin sung Last Line: And sweetly rocked him on her knee Subject(s): Holidays; New Year VOICES OF HEROES, by HORACE GREGORY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The cemetery stone new england autumn Last Line: And in a world at war, only the wars live on Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays VOICES OF THE TREES, by W. H. BENEDICT Poem Source First Line: I am familliar to all as the american elm Subject(s): Holidays; Trees VOLUNTEER, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The band was playing dixie when he marched, marched away Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WAGONER OF THE ALLEGHANIES, SELS., by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): American Revolution; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism WAITING FOR EASTER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The clarion march wind! Its wild, defiant greeting Last Line: We will wait the coming of the blessed easter day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Nature; Waiting; The Resurrection WAITING FOR THE MAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From out his hive there came a bee Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WALK IN SPRING, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander'd in a lonely glade Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WALKING TO MY OFFICE ON EASTER SUNDAY MORNING, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: I move through the quiet morning, watching a cluster of blackbirds arc Last Line: Much work to be done Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form) WAR, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am war. The upturned eyeballs of piled dead men greet my eye Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WAR NOTES: 4. DECORATION DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The uses of adversity are sweet Last Line: The rose, the lily, and the violet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day WAR THUS COMES TO AN END, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WARNINGS FROM HISTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the time when joshua conquered the Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WARSHIP DIXIE, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They've named a cruiser dixie - that's whut the papers say Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WASHINGTON, by GERALDINE MEYRICH Poem Source First Line: It seems so simple now, that life of thine Subject(s): Holidays WASHINGTON, by JOHN A. PRENTICE Poem Source First Line: Our nation's birth gave history your name Subject(s): Holidays WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES S. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: All hail, thou glorious morn Last Line: Columbia's son. Subject(s): Birthdays; Holidays; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WASHINGTON'S TOMB, by RUTH LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: Would we could coin for thee new words of praise Subject(s): Holidays WASHINGTON'S VOW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How felt the land in every part Subject(s): Holidays; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WASSAIL SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here we come a-wassailing Variant Title(s): Love And Joy Come To You; The Wassailers' Caro Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year WASTE OF WAR, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: This the law of all war through all ages Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WASTE PLACES, by SAMUEL F. CARY Poem Source First Line: Imparting to waste places more than their Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WATCHING THE COMET ON EASTER EVENING, by JAMES SCRUTON Poem Source First Line: Yes, quiet as a tomb Last Line: For this uncertain, only life Subject(s): Comets; Easter; Holidays WATCHING THE NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY THROUGH THE STAIRCASE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Now midnight's here Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WAY IT IS AT OUR HOUSE, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Do uncle ernie's socks match? Last Line: That's the way it is at our house %on thanksgiving day Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WAYSIDE INN - AN APPLE TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I halted at a pleasant inn Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WE ARE THE TREES, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Source First Line: I am the oak! For ages I've stood Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WE KEEP MEMORIAL DAY, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: When the may has culled her flowers for the summer waiting long Last Line: We keep memorial day. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day WE THANK THEE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Not for our lands, our wide-flung prairie wealth Last Line: Inspire our hearts and bless our native land. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE THANK THEE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For flowers that bloom about our feet Last Line: Father in heaven, we thank thee. Variant Title(s): Spring Prayer;thanksgiving Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE THANK THEE, by HALFORD F. LAMPSON Poem Source First Line: O, heavenly father, we thank thee Last Line: Dear lord, we thank thee for all the %blessings bestowed upon us day after day Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving WE THANK THEE, by MADGE MALEY O'MEARA Poem Text First Line: We thank thee, dear father Last Line: Are the proofs of thy love. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving WE THANK THEE, by MATTIE M. RENWICK Poem Text First Line: For flowers so beautiful and sweet Last Line: To thank thee this thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE THANK THEE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For gainful hours of pain and loss Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE WHO BUILD VISIONS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Stalled on the sidelines we must hope and wait Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WELCOME, HAPPY MORNING, by VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMANTIANUS FORTUNATUS Poem Source Subject(s): Easter; Holidays WELCOME, PURE THOUGHTS!, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WHAN FRESSHE PHEBUS DAY OF SEYNT VALENTYN, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas discomfort sole y here me dresse %upon my bed so hard of noyous thought Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Valentine's Day WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE IN, by CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT Poem Source First Line: Americans believe in individual liberty so far Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHAT CHEER? GOOD CHEER! BE MERRY AND GLAD THIS NEW YEAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lift up your heartes and be glad! Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Holidays; New Year WHAT DO YOU SEE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whether we see much or little in nature Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WHAT DOES 'EARLY' MEAN?, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy house across the road Last Line: Evoking ships and their wind-blown ways Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I want to know how it will end Last Line: I want and I want and I want and I will always be hungry Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays WHAT I WAS DOING NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Didn't want to work the traditional jigsaw Last Line: Waited for you to come back home to me Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHAT IS PATRIOTISM, by AGNES REPPLIER Poem Source First Line: Not dilating with pleasurable emotions when Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHAT IS THE SONG THE SWALLOWS SING?, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WHAT MARCHES?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What marches when the veterans march Last Line: But lift the hat, and pray? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day WHAT ROBIN TOLD, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How do robins build their nests? Last Line: That's what robin told me Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Holidays; Robins; Trees WHAT THE BULLET SANG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O joy of creation / to be! Last Line: Lieth there so cold? Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Bullets; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Dead, The; Declaration Day WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER SAID SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE LEFT, by KATE CLANCHY Poem Source First Line: New zealand, land of her birth Last Line: In the grate to light a fire, later - %that shook me Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHEN POPPIES BLOOM AGAIN, by HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: I did not know my england Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHEN SHE A MAIDEN SLIM, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays WHEN WE PLANT A TREE WE ARE DOING, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WHEN WE SEND THE OLD YEAR OFF, by YI CHONGJIN Poem Source Last Line: Soon the monk starts his door-to-door %visit to collect rice: the new year is in Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHERE FALL THE TEARS OF LOVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WHICH SWORD?, by JASON NOBLE PIERCE Poem Source First Line: A sword, a sword, and a sword Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day WHITE BRIGADE, by JOHN ALBERT MACY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between the cliffs of brick and stone Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WHITE EASTER LILIES, by BLANCHE MALLERY PAYNE Poem Text First Line: Rows of stately easter lilies stood shining and purely white Last Line: Was first an easter lily pure, and grew in god's own care. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology WHITE TREE IN BLOOM, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: Under the yellow sun Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WHY YE BLOSSOME COMETH BEFORE YE LEAFE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once hoary winter chanced - alas! Last Line: How blossomed so ye leafless bough. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WILD FLOWERS, by RICHARD JEFFERIES Poem Source First Line: A fir tree is not a flower, and yet it is associated in Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WILD STRAWBERRY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For my own part, I approve of garden flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WILD THORN BLOSSOMS, by JULIAN S. CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Deep within the tangled wildwood Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WILD VIOLET, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Violet, violet, sparkling with dew Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets WILD WEATHER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great wind sweeps Last Line: His quiet hand will lead the sunshine in. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; Victory; War WINTER, 1825, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor is stern winter's icy sceptre swayed Last Line: Till new-year's happy morning crown'd the whole. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Seasons; Winter; Nativity, The WISHES TO MY SON, JOHN; FOR THIS NEW, AND ALL SUCCEEDING YEARS, 1630, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wishes may enrich my boy Last Line: My wishes crowned, in crowning thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sons WITH A BARRIE BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old year dies, and a new is born Last Line: Lo, here's barrie! Subject(s): Books; Hate; Holidays; Laughter; Lies; Love; New Year; Reading WITH A SPRAY OF APPLE BLOSSOMS, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: The promise of these fragrant flowers Last Line: And send this snowy spray to thee. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Holidays; Trees WITHOUT REGRET, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: This is the day the prophets have foretold Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WO'IM BWIKAM, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: With an easter moon on the rise, the coyotes came back to Last Line: That singers take advantage of or not depending on the occasion Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Leadership; Native Americans - Wars; Palm Sunday; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers WOMAN'S EASTER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With mary, ere dawn, in the garden Last Line: Breathe through us thy errands forever! Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection WONDERFUL TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a wonderful tree, a wonderful tree Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WOOD, by JULIA E. ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Trees grow, therefore wood is cheaper than Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WOOD-SONG, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love must be a fearsome thing Last Line: Speed you, and good-morrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WOODLAND HYMN, by PHEBE A. HOLDER Poem Source First Line: We seek remembered wood-paths, fragrant with breath of pines Subject(s): Holidays; Trees WOODNOTES: 2, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sunbeams stream through liberal space Last Line: Than all it holds more deep, more high.' Variant Title(s): A Wood-note Subject(s): Holidays WORLD ITSELF, by JOHN MASON NEALE Poem Source Subject(s): Easter; Holidays XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing Last Line: Now the eyes of my eyes are opened Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War YE HEAVENS, UPLIFT YOUR VOICE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays YE SHALL LIVE ALSO, by CHRISTIAN FURCHTEGOTT GELLERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus lives! No longer now Last Line: Thou wilt be my confidence! Variant Title(s): Easter Hymn Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection YEAR, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Goes %skidding Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S AFTERNOON, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the moment of leisure grows deeper Last Line: You have much more, so much more, to lose.' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S END, by EDNA FREDERIKSON Poem Text First Line: In fading fields the dawn-cold vapours roll Last Line: The gray mists rise. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S END, by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: When I pause, anemones fall on the month of december Last Line: Leather orchid that shatters my soul with its dark %shudders of moonlight Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S-END, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year Variant Title(s): At Year's End;at Yearsend;year's End Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year; Historians YEAR'S-END, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year Last Line: The new-year bells are wrangling with the snow Variant Title(s): At Year's End; At Yearsend; Year's En Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year YET ONWARD, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank thee, lord, for precious things Last Line: More light, more love, more life beyond! Variant Title(s): The Immortal Voygaer Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving YORKSHIRE'S NRW YEAR'S EVE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To-night it is the new year's night, to-morrow is the day Last Line: That me and my merry men may have some, %sing fellows, sing,hag-man ha! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YOUNG DANDELIONS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a bold fellow Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Weeds YOUNG TIMOTHY AND THE FORGET-ME-NOTS, by ESTELLE THOMSON Poem Source First Line: Young tomothy crept to the old meadow bars Subject(s): Holidays; Trees |
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