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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOME Matches Found: 772 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CASUALTY LIST, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was always waiting in our mother's eyes Last Line: Anxiety or wonder any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Death; War - Home Front; Dead, The A CHILD'S HOME - LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terse old maxim of the poet's Last Line: To roll an answering anthem through the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So now is come our joyfulst feast Last Line: Bear witness we are merry! Variant Title(s): An Christmas Carroll;old Christmas;our Joyful Feast;christmas Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Home A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear mother, fairest queen and best Last Line: And in a while, you'll tell another tale. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A DREAM, by IRENE T. DAGUE Poem Text First Line: I fain would build a little house Last Line: And find a welcome there. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares A DREAM OF HOME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset! A hush is on the air Last Line: My father knoweth best to choose. Subject(s): Home A FRIEND TO THEOCRITOS IN EGYPT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou not often gasp with longdrawn sighs Last Line: And help to lift it from this depth of sand. Subject(s): Home A GLOAMING CALL, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes at close of day Last Line: And through the gloaming shines the light of home! Subject(s): Home A HEAVEN UPON EARTH, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For there are two heavens, sweet Last Line: And setting suns look heavenly on their grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Two Heavens Subject(s): Home 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 HOME IN STRATHSPEY, by ALEXANDER WALLACE Poem Text First Line: Hurrah! For the moors all aglow with the heather Last Line: And the face long familiar has gone from strathspey. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Patriotism A HOME SONG, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read within a poet's book Last Line: For there the heart can rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Home A HOUSE IN THE HEDGE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All architecture done, / and housekeeping begun Last Line: God's smile come radiant through. Subject(s): Birds; Family Life; Home; Relatives A HOUSE JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER'S, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Home A HOUSE THAT'S A HOME, by IRMA JEFFERS NELSON Poem Text First Line: A house that's a home has a soul Last Line: With experience of bygone days. Subject(s): Home; Houses A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, make haste: the day's too long; be gone Last Line: By all our loves conjure him not to stay. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life - nay, more Last Line: I here, thou there, yet both but one. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness A LITTLE BIT OF HOME, by KATHERINE J. BALL PUTNEY Poem Text First Line: When last to home I took some flowers Last Line: We're a little bit of home. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Solitude; Loneliness A NEGRO SONG OF HOME, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tain't berry many people wat'll listen to a niggah Last Line: Frough de singin' ob de kettle on de hob. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song & Music; Black Songs; Home; Negroes; American Blacks; Negro Spirituals A OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the curiousest thing in creation Last Line: "the words ""do they miss me at home?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Home; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation A PETITION TO TIME, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch us gently, time! Last Line: Touch us gently, gentle time! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Home; Time A PRAYER, by MARTHA JEANNETTE FRANCIS Poem Text First Line: More than lure of mystic lands beyond the sea Last Line: Grant me, lord, a calm felicity. Subject(s): Home; Prayer A PRAYER FOR A LITTLE HOME, by FLORENCE BONE Poem Text First Line: God send us a little home Last Line: Our home, and all we know. Subject(s): Home; Prayer A SONG FOR THE 'HEART AND HOME', by WILLIAM RANKIN DURYEA Poem Text First Line: Dark is the night, and fitful and drearily Last Line: Home is the kingdom, and love is the king. Subject(s): Home A SONG FOR THE HOT WINDS, by HARRIET MILLER DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Oh for a breath o' the moorlands Last Line: A whiff o' her caller air! Subject(s): Australia; Home; Patriotism A SONG OF ZION, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are coming, we are coming. Fling our banner Last Line: Behold the hosts of israel are coming, coming home! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; National Songs; Zionism; Judaism; National Anthems A STRANGE NEW COTTAGE IN BERKELEY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon cutting bramble blackberries off a tottering brown fence Subject(s): Home; Berkeley, California 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 TRANSCRIPTION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This young man comes from your way, tom Last Line: "there's nothen now for nobody, only sorrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Grief; Home; Nostalgia; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness A UNION HOUSE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A different chintz, plush as a blown-up hothouse Last Line: The phoenix' stitched in red across our breasts Subject(s): Home A WEDDING-DAY GALLOP (EARLY CALIFORNIA), by IRENE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Gallop with me, love, away and away Last Line: Together, together, and always to be. Subject(s): California; Home; Horseback Riding; Love; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips A WISH, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine be a cot beside the hill Last Line: And point with taper spire to heaven. Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Wishes ABANDONED BABIES' HOME, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Week to week we do not know how many to expect Last Line: But hold the unresponsive little bodies to our breasts %and rock them, rock them Subject(s): Babies; Desertion And Nonsupport; Home ABOARD, by AMY DRYANSKY Poem Source First Line: They say home's where the heart is, but what if it's only a place Last Line: How many leaks can one boat spring? Subject(s): Home; Life; Travel ADJUSTMENT OF FEVER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the images of saints hanged Last Line: And the visit begins, to help me to live right Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Parents; Travel AFRICA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home / oh Last Line: All of my bones / remember Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Home; Memory; Negroes; American Blacks AFRICA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home %oh Last Line: All of my bones %remember Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Home; Memory AFTER A LONG ILLNESS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now beneath the aspen trees moonlight blends Subject(s): Home; Death; Dead, The AFTER ALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your search was over. So I thought Last Line: "and sigh indeed for home in banishment."" --" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Discovery Subject(s): Seeking; Home; Peace; Heaven AFTER YEARS, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this really my own roof-tree Last Line: I alone am not the same. Subject(s): Home; Past AFTERWHILES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they - the afterwhiles Last Line: Out into the afterwhiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Life; Past; Sun AGORAPHOBIA, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine waking / to a scene of snow so new Subject(s): Home ALBANY WINTER, by MICHAEL J. HENRY Poem Source First Line: In the foyer closet by the staircase Last Line: But the strange skulls and wings of death %still clear, still indelible Subject(s): Future; Home; Time; Winter ALL THE WAY HOME, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamps hung like a lynching Last Line: All the way home. Subject(s): Home; Slavery; Solitude; Serfs; Loneliness ALOHA, AINA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: My father knocked Last Line: Even here, far away as I live Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Hawaii; Home; Pacific Ocean AMERICAN HOME, by EDWARD NOBLES Poem Source First Line: 1) chippendale, american Last Line: Of this tall %and vacant bed Subject(s): Home AN ANGEL'S VISIT, by ELIZA SPROAT TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood in the harvest-field at noon Last Line: "you have named the joys of heaven." Subject(s): Home AN OLD TORONTO BOY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take care, old man!' 'I thank you, sir' Last Line: Of an old toronto boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Toronto, Canada AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, to have a little house! Last Line: Out of the wind's and the rain's way. Subject(s): Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ANOTHER RELUCTANCE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnuts fell in the charred season, Subject(s): Home; Chestnuts; Autumn; Fall APOLOGY FOR AND FURTHER EXPLANATION OF AN ATTEMPT TO DIVERT ACCUSATIONS OF EQUIVOCATIONS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my hometown it was like january Subject(s): Home AS JOHN TO PATMOS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As john to patmos, among the rocks and the blue live air, hounded Last Line: To praise lovelong the living and the brown dead Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Home ASCENSION (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The time is come / for times great lord to think Last Line: And their ascension thus supply. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Happiness; Heaven; Home; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joy; Delight; Paradise ASHRIDGE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this great home if change must fall Last Line: Unheard-of morning, mystic day. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Home ASK MARTHA, by ELIZABETH THELEN Poem Source First Line: Dear reader, %mildew is your punishment Last Line: Will be gleaming soon enough, %thanks to you Subject(s): Cleanliness; Home; Housekeeping; Housewives; Magazines AT CHAPPAQUA, by JOEL BENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His cherished woods are mute. The stream glides down Last Line: This is the peaceful mecca all men know! Subject(s): Chappaqua, New York; Home AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yon is the train I used to take Last Line: But I go home no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains AT HOME, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where burns the fireside brightest Last Line: At home -- sweet home. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Home AT HOME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Love soars and dips Last Line: Over doran's meadow Subject(s): Home; Love AT HOME, by SHELLEY SAVREN Poem Source First Line: I always promised myself if we ever Last Line: Rocking to the rhythm of traffic going by Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital AT HOME TONIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lessons are done and the prizes won Last Line: "yes, ""home to-night!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Home; Death - Babies AT SAGAMORE HILL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things proceed as though the stage were set Last Line: As you desired them in these sixty years. Subject(s): Home; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) AT THE BEND OF THE ROAD, by ETHEL DAVIES CAUTHERS Poem Text First Line: I know a little white house that stands Last Line: These visits they love to recall. Subject(s): Home AT THE END OF ELMWOOD AVENUE, by DRUSILLA M. WILEY Poem Text First Line: The elmwood trees form an arch at the end of our street Last Line: But the trees remain silent. Their arms are barren. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Home AT THE FRONT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far-off the lily-statues stand white-ranked in the garden Last Line: With me, both in one hurt. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Heimweh Subject(s): Home AT THE FRONT, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The king: / 'when I was at the front today Last Line: "so red—red?—I'm done!" Subject(s): War - Home Front AURORA, JULY WOODS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Little town of trillium and hay Last Line: The long breath of design Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Mothers; Prairies AUTUMN DAWNING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A long roadway %between gray cliff sides Last Line: Between his nimble hounds, a hunter is walking Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Home; Jungles; Nature; Seasons AVRIL, ILE SAINT-LOUIS, by ALEXANDRA BURACK Poem Source First Line: It is true it is all Last Line: That has no word for home Subject(s): Home; Saints AWAY DOWN HOME, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twill not be long before they hear Last Line: Away down home. Subject(s): Home BACK FROM TOWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friends allus is the best Last Line: And shake a friendly leg with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Home; Winter BACK HOME, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Egypt, jerusalem, stamboul Subject(s): Home BACKYARD SWING SET, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splayed, swayback, cheap pipe Subject(s): Home; Family Life; Relatives BE GLAD AND SING, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you a band of little ones Last Line: To him who doeth all things best. Subject(s): Blessings; Family Life; Home; Relatives BEANS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I weren't a stranger to myself, he said Last Line: Hell, o, let me not spill the beans Subject(s): Fear; Home; Insanity; Solitude; Strangers BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things within this fading world hath end Last Line: Who with salt tears this last farewel did take. Subject(s): Children; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mothers; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness BEGIN AT HOME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No home so unwise as the teacher's Last Line: To the home-neglecters of earth. Subject(s): Home BETTER THAN GOLD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better than grandeur, better than gold Last Line: And centre there, are better than gold. Subject(s): Home; Religion; Theology 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 BITTER-SWEET: IN THE CELLAR, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sixteen barrels of cider Last Line: Blown by the tempest below! Subject(s): Cider; Home BLACK CROSS FARM, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After full many a mutual delay Last Line: The secret of the black cross back with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crosses; Emptiness; Farm Life; Home; Secrets; Agriculture; Farmers BLACK DOG ON WHITE SNOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This is where I live! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Home; Nature BORROWED HOUSE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: This isn't our table, that wasn't our bed Last Line: And be heard from: peaches, pears, and apricots %vendettas, charms, and prayers Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted; Prairies; Rooms BOUND HOMEWARD, by JOHN C. MUCCI Poem Source First Line: Asleep in aisles, you neatly laid out rows Last Line: Need coins to weigh the lids of all your eyes Subject(s): Home BRICK-DUST, by LOUISE BROOKE Poem Text First Line: It's just a heap of ruin Last Line: A little dream that died. Subject(s): Home BUILDING A HOME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the angels bend from heaven, all the fays their blessings bring Last Line: When two, just two together, build a home. Subject(s): Home BY THE FIRESIDE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it fades and flickers in the fire Last Line: Ye are our gladness, here and everywhere. Subject(s): Home CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee. Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips CANADA OUR HOME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are fair that beam above Last Line: Of canada our home. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Canada; Home; Canadians CASA NUESTRA: 3, by MARCO MARTOS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I visit the city Last Line: And return to the country Subject(s): Discontent; Home CASA NUESTRA: 4, by MARCO MARTOS Poem Source First Line: Don't you forget it Last Line: And I'm becoming cautious Subject(s): Cicadas; Home CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ioye that alone with better bayes Last Line: And vse to loue the best. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dancing & Dancers; Home; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved, through years of happiness Last Line: Of my whole another gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first and my second, united, display Last Line: And his successor came into office next morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHESTNUT IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house, the Last Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house for wooing and for wedding. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Chestnut Trees; Home; Love; Marriage; May (month); Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHILDHOOD'S HAPPY HOME, by FRANK SUTHERLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've followed fortune's footsteps far, o'er many a sunny strand Last Line: I turn away -- I've seen enough -- and leave the dear old place. Alternate Author Name(s): Uncle Peter Subject(s): Aging; Home CHILDHOOD; TO MY ONLY SISTER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou remember how we lived at home Last Line: They have but shifted from thee into heaven! Subject(s): Children; Home; Childhood CIRCLE, by GABRIEL ZAID Poem Source First Line: My homeland is in your eyes, my duty on your lips Last Line: My glory is in your joy, my home in what you have Subject(s): Home; Love; Patriotism CLOSING, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: We're making a preserve in our yard... Last Line: Some comfort while they last? Subject(s): Home; Nature CODA, by DANIEL SIMBO Poem Source First Line: All night you have been tearing maps in your sleep Last Line: There is no place to go but home Subject(s): Home COME HOME, by ELEANOR C. KOENIG Poem Text First Line: Come home, john kane, things have changed in our valley Last Line: Come home, come home and -- do not dally. Subject(s): Absence; Home; Reunions; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips COMFORT, by RAMONA DUNNING SPRINGALL Poem Text First Line: She is alone in the fine old home Last Line: Home things hold comfort until she follows after. Subject(s): Home COMING HOME, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: San francisco airport Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Home; San Francisco COMING HOME, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: The sun, and afterwards the melancholy Last Line: Then I look down: cold pork on my plate Subject(s): Home CONFUSION; FOR NANCY SHORES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn Subject(s): Home; Love; Relationships CONFUSION; FOR NANCY SHORES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn Last Line: Until a fallen [or, till a wet] vermilion petal quivers before me [or, on my hand] Subject(s): Home; Love; Relationships CONSECRATION, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the yellow hard hat, Subject(s): Cranes (machines); Home; Commuters; Nostalgia CONTEMPLATIONS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time now past in [or, is] the autumnal tide Last Line: Shall last and shine when all of these are gone. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness CROSS BROW, AMBLESIDE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My smallest daughter had wondered how Last Line: Can know of the brow that was crowned with thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Daughters; Home; Names CUP OF HAPPINESS, by GILBERT OLIVER THOMAS Poem Source Subject(s): Home; Religion DAKOTA HOME, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Dakota, I have looked from heights on places Last Line: Empire and haven, my dakota home. Subject(s): Home; South Dakota DEAREST SPOT, by W. T. WRIGHTON Poem Source Subject(s): Home DEDICATION, by LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON Poem Source First Line: O thou whose gracious presence blest Subject(s): Home; Prayer DEDICATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book by any yet unread Last Line: And god shall bless you from above Subject(s): Books; Children; Home; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Puritans; Sickness; Women DEDICATION OF A HOME, by BERTHA GERNEAUX WOODS Poem Source First Line: Enter with us, lord, we pray Subject(s): Home; Prayer DESERTED HOME, by SIDNEY ROYSE LYSAGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the fields lie lonely and untended Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia DESTINATIONS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home is mysterious: a place to die, a place to breed Last Line: Short wind says “snow” Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips DIE HEIMAT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had walked so far to find her Last Line: To understand this was his home Subject(s): Home DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew her, why of course. And you want me? Last Line: This talk of lilli alm and ludwig haibt: Subject(s): Death; Hate; Home; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs DOMESTIC BLUES, by LILJANA DIRJAN Poem Source First Line: Between Last Line: The form of anything she saw Subject(s): Home DON'T GROW AWAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't grow away from things of old Last Line: Don't grow away too far. Subject(s): Home DOVECOTT MILL: 1. THE HOMESTEAD, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the old squire's dwelling, gloomy and grand Last Line: Is growing white as the winter's rime. Subject(s): Home DREAM HOUSE, by CATHERINE PARMENTER NEWELL Poem Text First Line: Let there be within these phantom walls Last Line: All of life and love my house shall know! Subject(s): Home DRIED OUT, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This place was the first home we ever had Last Line: We was to have! The roses by the door! Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Agriculture; Farmers DRIVING HOME, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The tapestry of autumn flashes by Last Line: From mending fences Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home DUSK, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me she is beautiful Last Line: And these my songs, my all, belong to her. Subject(s): Home DUTCH INTERIOR, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He liked the late afternoon light as it dimmed Subject(s): Home; Likes & Dislikes EARLY LESSONS IN ELECTRICITY, by CAROL POTTER Poem Source First Line: Two feet of snow at the door, and the power gone three days Last Line: The dark field with her eyelids glowing Subject(s): Electricity; Home; Winter EARLY MORNING IN YOUR ROOM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasplike Subject(s): Home; Morning; Said He Was Melancholy, He Meant He Was Hom EARLY MORNING IN YOUR ROOM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasplike Last Line: Said he was melancholy, he meant he was home Subject(s): Home; Morning ECHOES: 32, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, falmouth is a fine town with ships in the bay, Last Line: They're all growing green in the old countrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Falmouth;home Subject(s): Falmouth, England; Home; Sea; Ocean EDEN IS THAT OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But discover it no more Subject(s): Home; Farewell; Memory EL FLORIDA ROOM, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a study or a den, but el florida Last Line: As any star shining above it Subject(s): Home ELEGIAC SONNET: 92. WRITTEN AT BIGNOR PARK, SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low murmurs creep along the woody vale Last Line: Return those rosy hours which here I used to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Disappointment; Home ELEPHANT'S SONG, by TASOS MOUZAKIS Poem Source First Line: Greek land Last Line: That immortal I s. %greece, my land.! Subject(s): Greece; Home EMPTY HOUSE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wet trees hung above the walls Last Line: So full of ruin's solemn grace, %and haunted with the ghost of home Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Home ENGLISHMAN'S HOME, by OLIVER REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: The house where we live is salisbury plain Last Line: And the wife, bless her. She will not respond Subject(s): England; Home EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DEAD STATESMAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not dig: I dared not rob Last Line: Mine angry and defrauded young? Subject(s): Politics & Government; War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BATTERIES OUT OF AMMUNITION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any mourn us in the workshop, say Last Line: We died because the shift kept holiday. Subject(s): War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EVERGREENS, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: About to suffer restoration Last Line: Happy at last in the grave Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Home EVERY STEP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cold, at the edges of the flesh, the stranger Last Line: And with every step he takes, home changes. Subject(s): Home; Insanity; Strangers EXILES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exiles are we from our very birth Last Line: Where the lost gods of our people are! Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The FAIR VIRTUE: A POET'S HOME, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two pretty rills do meet, and meeting make Last Line: A sweeter plot of earth than this had been. Subject(s): Home FANCY'S HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Tell me, fancy, sweetest child Last Line: I have nourished ever since. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Home FAR FROM HOME, I REMEMBER THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND JOE WOLFE, GONE, by ANDREW MULVANIA Poem Source First Line: Judge is quiet tonight Last Line: Swift and silent as the pole of charon Subject(s): Death - Children; Home; Memory FARMS OF HOME LIE LOST IN EVEN, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There I was friends with perished people, %and there lie they Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Home FIFTY ACRES, by JAMES LARKIN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: I've never been to london Subject(s): Home FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Open the hall door Last Line: Converting it into a holiday home Subject(s): Home FISHERIES SCIENTIST FINDS THE WAY HOME, by PETER MUNRO Poem Source First Line: Between the time I debarked the arcturus, her deck Last Line: I will praise everything I see Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Home; Praise FISHING ON THE SUSQUEHANNA IN JULY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have never been fishing on the susquehanna Subject(s): Home FLICKER, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chisel-billed, eye cerulean, with a crimson nuchal patch Last Line: I do. It's mine. I do Subject(s): Home FLICKER, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chisel-billed, eye cerulean, with a crimson nuchal patch Last Line: Who has a home in this good world and doesn't yearn? %I do. It's mine. I do Subject(s): Home FLYING HOME, by MAUDE S. REA Poem Text First Line: When you go flying, flying o'er the sea Last Line: My joyous heart is flying back with you. Subject(s): Flight; Home; Flying FOR A NEW HOME, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love this house, and make of it a home Last Line: Within its arms of lumber and of stone. Subject(s): Home FOR A' THAT, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Is there a luckless wight on earth Last Line: Will not come back for a' that. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Heaven; Home; Love; Paradise FOR BLITHER FIELDS AND BRAVER BOWERS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This bosom will be cold! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Birds; Love - Complaints; Home; Farewell FOR DELIVERANCE FROM A FEVER, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sorrows had begirt me round Last Line: Who hath redeemed my soul from pit, %praises to him for aye Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness FORMER HOME, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: In scenes untrod for many a year Last Line: Speak life's fresh accents, mountain flood! Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Home FORTUNE MY FOE, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aim not too high at things beyond thy reach' Last Line: Should prove, when rich, best brother to the poor. Subject(s): Home FOUNDATIONS: II. NEW HOMES, by NICK BARRETT Poem Source First Line: A long gouge in the ground that husbands had filled Last Line: Would hide everything we had done and begin again Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Home FOUR MONARCHYES, SELS., by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next o're the helespont a bridge he made Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness FOUR POSTULATES, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is most valued, Last Line: The long land rests against our feet Subject(s): Home; Iowa FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: LOVE IS WISER THAN AMBITION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O give not up the promise of your time Last Line: Must shed its light without. Subject(s): Ambition; Home; Love FRIDGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Fridge humming at three in the morning Last Line: Fresh from eden Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Home; Pain FRIENDLY HOUSE, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: This is a friendly house Last Line: A home -- shall be. Subject(s): Home FROM BIRTH TO BATTLEFIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A child is born - it gasps and cries Last Line: End in a lump of lifeless clay Subject(s): History;soldiers;war;war - Home Front; Historians FROM DAWNING TILL DAWNING, by JENNIE EMERY Poem Text First Line: I wish that I could see once more Last Line: All earthly duties done at last. Subject(s): Home; Past GHOST HAS NO HOME (1), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning in an alleyway I was startled by a face Last Line: The beast that has imagined and pent me here Subject(s): Ghosts; Home; Supernatural GHOST HAS NO HOME (2), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning in a dormer I was startled by a face Last Line: Together we dismantled its nest Subject(s): Ghosts; Home; Supernatural GLADESMUIR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is not / a valley of more quiet happiness Last Line: They made her grave by ronald's. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Home GOD BLESS OUR HOME, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal father, who hast given Last Line: While here we bide, or far we roam, %hear this our prayer: god bless our home! Subject(s): Home; Prayer GOING BACK HOME, by JEANNE E. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Doors swee shut this time of year Last Line: A wreckage of windows and clapboards Subject(s): Home GOING HOME, by JUDSON MITCHAM Poem Source First Line: You have seen these women at the steering wheel Last Line: Old women going home doesn't know this? Subject(s): Home GOING HOME, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His thought of it was like a button pressed Last Line: And will again forget; but long survival %saves it, once again the trance is laid Subject(s): Home GOING HOME (DOHERTY'S SHACK), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going back to glenties when the harvest fields / are brown Last Line: And the harvest home is cheery in my dear old donegal. Subject(s): Harvest; Home GOOD-BYE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home Last Line: When man in the bush with god may meet? Variant Title(s): Goodbye Subject(s): God; Home; Religion; Solitude; Theology; Loneliness GOODBYE, LITTLE CABIN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dear little cabin, I've loved you so long Last Line: God bless you, old cabin, good-bye! Subject(s): Canada; Home; Canadians GOT ME HOME, THE LIGHT SNOW GIVES THE AIR, FALLING, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How my own hills Last Line: North by the pole and / west Subject(s): Home GREEK NEIGHBOR HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, by GERALD STERN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where he hung the bird feeder a month ago Subject(s): Greece; Home; Neighbors; Greeks GREEK NEIGHBOR HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where he hung the bird feeder a month ago Last Line: Too much away to the poisonous squirrels, poor greek Subject(s): Greece; Home; Neighbors GREEN MEMORY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wonderful time - the war Last Line: But blood %was far away %from here -- %money was near Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; War - Home Front GUIDANCE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Searching for a home Last Line: But I wouldn't put %it past my mom Subject(s): Family Life; Home HARVEST-HOME, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: The moon was curving like a sickle Last Line: To tell her that his heart was broken. Subject(s): Harvest; Home; Love - Loss Of HE BRINGS HOME EVERYTHING, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Under the house there's room for a cat Last Line: There is a row boat on the roof Subject(s): Home HE WHO WAITS AT TWILIGHT, by LILLIAN CRANE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Did you ever sit at twilight Last Line: Is blessed beyond repay. Subject(s): Blessings; Evening; Home; Sunset; Twilight HEARTHSTONE, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want nothing but your fire-side now Subject(s): Home HEAVEN-LETTER, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You, looking down upon us from your canopy of air, to you Subject(s): Blessings; Home HERE IN THE FIELDS OF MY HOMELAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The virgin bodies will wash up on the old shore Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Home; Spain HIATUS, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weedy light through the uncurtained glass Subject(s): Home; Time; Moving & Movers HIGHWAY SOUNDS, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: We live so close to the highway it sounds Last Line: Your breathing regular now as distant waves Subject(s): Home; Roads HILLS OF HOME, by CHARLES T. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: After long days when I come Last Line: Gold and jade—the hills of home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T. Subject(s): Arkansas; Home; Landscape HIS LAST LETTER, by ESTHER WEAKLEY Poem Text First Line: He wrote it, sitting with his back against Last Line: Then blithely started into no man's land. Subject(s): Home HIS LOVE OF HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As love of native land,' the old Last Line: "a hoosier's love is fer the old homestead." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Home; Love; Patriotism; American Flag HISTORY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I told you that in this house Last Line: Nothing more than this. Subject(s): History; Home; Historians HOLY HOUSE OF NAZARETH, 1635 - 1640, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: The window above mary is mundane Last Line: A sunny swarm of love above his head Subject(s): Home; Religion; Spiritual Life HOMAGE, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamt I was a chinese wild man Last Line: Knowing the emperor's cruel hoax finished not only your career %how did it come to you to break into Subject(s): Home; Memory HOME, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the time has come to take our morning walk Last Line: In time we'll let it lead us home again Subject(s): Home HOME, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: Ambitious dreams of youthful worldliness Last Line: The simple, obvious service due from me! Subject(s): Home; Old Age HOME, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How brightly glistening in the sun Last Line: Oh, give me back my home! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Home HOME, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came back late and tired last night Last Line: All night I could not sleep. Subject(s): Home; Soldiers' Writings HOME, by DOROTHY A. CLARK Poem Text First Line: Home is what we make it Last Line: That live, and love, and smile. Subject(s): Home; Materialism HOME, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Let the scholar turn from study and the sailor Last Line: Home is where the heart is, and my heart is all with thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Friendship; Hearts; Home; Love HOME, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas midnight -- midnight in a southern clime Last Line: There brighter skies, but fonder hearts are here. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Night; North, The; Bedtime HOME, by ALLEN C. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: If home is the body we live in Last Line: Leave nor anyone else enter Subject(s): Family Life; Home HOME, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home, to the hills and the rough, running water Last Line: Home-nest, -- my heart's nest, -- I loved you so much? Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Home HOME, by JUNE BROWN HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Home to me is laughter Last Line: Home to me. . . Is love! Subject(s): Home HOME, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A home above the year's seasons Last Line: The wing of a burned sister %leaf of a dead tree Subject(s): Home HOME, by NELLIE WOMACK HINES Poem Text First Line: Home! / my very heart's desire is safe Last Line: Dear home. Subject(s): Home HOME, by M. VERLEA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Home is where the heart is Last Line: Home is where the heart is. Subject(s): Home HOME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: No place like home,' she said Last Line: And call the cat a bastard Subject(s): Aging; Home HOME, by KIM KYU-DONG Poem Source First Line: At hometown %there dwells no burning passion or the like Last Line: There's no burning passion %awaiting Subject(s): Home HOME, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left my home; - 'twas in a little vale Last Line: Alas! For the green valley! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Home HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn Last Line: That call across the world to me. Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War HOME, by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cling to thy home! If there the meanest shed Last Line: More heart's repose than all the world beside. Subject(s): Home HOME, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm back again in glenties and the autumn wind / is blowing Last Line: By the grave that holds my colleen in a glen of donegal. Subject(s): Absence; Donegal, Ireland; Graves; Home; Love; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Tombs; Tombstones HOME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wide world narrows to a road Last Line: And you are home, at last! Subject(s): Home HOME, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: He left his office for the street Last Line: He turned towards the sea. Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean HOME, by MIKI ROFU Poem Source First Line: Back at my home Last Line: Do you weep, even %though now a mother? Subject(s): Home HOME, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold it once again, the old familiar place Last Line: To live his life, or act, or draw his breath, was free. Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Home HOME, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: In renaissance paintings, it's somewhere apart Last Line: You would never believe in. But still you would go there Subject(s): Home; Paintings And Painters HOME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Far away where the meadows are dark Last Line: So that you may rest your head on the blue of the sky Subject(s): Forests; Home HOME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys Last Line: Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears. Subject(s): Home HOME, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a little city in the hills Last Line: His love alone is there, %no curse, no care Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Home HOME, by BART SOLARCZYK Poem Source First Line: Drunk in the backyard again Last Line: My neighbor's late tomatoes %understand Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Home; Plants HOME, by EDITH EDWARDS WALDRON Poem Text First Line: A place to read more books and quietly sew Last Line: To her it is on earth a heavenly spot. Subject(s): Home HOME, by DEREK WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: Father returned when it was dark Last Line: His eyes before mother arrived said %don't try me Subject(s): Home; Parents; Quarrels HOME, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart's not always still nor memory kind Last Line: And, by this change, I knew that you were there. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Home HOME, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a home? A guarded space Last Line: God-blessed, suffice a multitude Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Home HOME (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road to laughter beckons me Last Line: As soon as day is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home HOME (1), by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spot, a quiet spot, which blooms Last Line: Or leave me, and that quiet dwelling -- home. Subject(s): Home HOME (1), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the end: but there's nothing more Last Line: And blink at what is not good Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Home HOME (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home Last Line: It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home; Philosophy & Philosophers HOME (2), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I had gone this way before Last Line: The sound of sawing rounded all %that silence said Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Home HOME (3), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, and Last Line: Or this life be only an evil dream Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Home HOME / SCHOOL, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: My childhood's house is Last Line: As death, so strange %is desperately familiar Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Children; Home; Memory; Schools HOME AGAIN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Home HOME AGAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm bin a-visitun 'bout a week Last Line: An' I'm come back home where my beau lives at. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): A Very Youthful Affair Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Home; Streams; Creeks HOME AND COUNTRY, by JOHN NICOL Poem Text First Line: Vexed with the toils and troubles of the day Last Line: Will shut my eyes among the friends I love. Subject(s): Home; Patriotism HOME AND LOVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just home and love! The words are small Last Line: Than home and love. Subject(s): Home; Love HOME AND MOTHER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, my own darling Last Line: Ah me, but a mother is cumbered with cares!) Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood HOME AT GRASMERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On nature's invitation do I come Last Line: Perfect contentment, unity entire. Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Home HOME AT LAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child, do not fear Last Line: There we shall sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Home; Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips HOME AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chirping crickets fainter cry Last Line: Are lifted -- and the lips of kate. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime HOME BIRTH, by RENNIE MCQUILKIN Poem Source First Line: When you were born, all Last Line: Snarl of chain saw, song of cat Subject(s): Birth; Home HOME FIRES, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how big I'll be tomorrow, you Last Line: I %care to %visit Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Growth; Home; Time HOME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS, WHERE YOU LINGER YET, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All round your head be angels Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Home HOME IN THE HILLS, by ALTHEA V. DIEHL Poem Text First Line: Home in the hills, - back where my heart is Last Line: I'd like a heart you reared and loved come out to welcome me. Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Mountains; Peace; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HOME IS SO SAD, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home is so sad. It stays as it was left Subject(s): Home HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis home where'er the heart is Last Line: And soft dew to its flowers Subject(s): Home HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS, by BESSIE CARY DUNN Poem Text First Line: Home is where the heart is Last Line: Can soothe a heart to rest. Subject(s): Home HOME IS WHERE THERE'S ONE TO LOVE US, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's not merely four square walls Last Line: Where there's one we love to meet us! Subject(s): Home; Religion; Theology HOME MAINTENANCE, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day she left for good he was pissed at the plumbing Last Line: He'd ruined a perfectly good coupling. More than one Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Abandonment; Home; Marriage; Plumbers HOME MOVIES, by ROSS TALARICO Poem Source First Line: There is the blue sky, which can place us anywhere to begin. A roof Last Line: Come the ghosts of animals we have tried to imitate Subject(s): Home HOME ON CHRISTMAS DAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bet a king upon a throne Last Line: At home on christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Home; Nativity, The HOME ON THE COLUMBIA, by SUSIE B. DILLARD Poem Text First Line: Stands a white old house on the crest of a hill Last Line: "for the old-time house is ""home." Subject(s): Home HOME POEM, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Home of the moth: cloth Last Line: Home of the flea: me Subject(s): Home HOME SONG, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest Last Line: To stay at home is best. Subject(s): Home HOME SONG, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is rain upon the window Last Line: For my own country. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Home; Patriotism HOME SWEET HOME, by NYDIA ECURY Poem Source First Line: Servants, %the most faithful even Last Line: I'd laugh my head %right off! Subject(s): Home; Household Employees HOME TOWN, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the evil broomstick and the narrow pointed hat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Home; Schools; Students HOME'S A NEST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here under the porch's grey bow Last Line: Not our own, but our father's good will. Subject(s): Home HOME'S NOT MERELY FOUR SQUARE WALLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Home HOME, 99 44/100 PERCENT SWEET HOME, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time, oh most of the time Last Line: Home is heaven and orgies are vile, %but you need an orgy, once in a while Subject(s): Home HOME, SWEET HOME, FR. CLARI, THE MAID OF MILAN, by JOHN HOWARD PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam Last Line: There's no place like home! There's no place like home! Subject(s): Home HOME-FOLKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home-folks! - well, that-air Last Line: But you invite him, and he'll come. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Relatives HOME: 2. CANDLELIGHT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where through the open window I could see Last Line: Into the starry night you breathed my name. Subject(s): Home HOME: 3. FIRELIGHT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the curtained casement wind and sleet Last Line: Diviner dreams the years shall yet fulfil. Subject(s): Home HOME: 4. MIDNIGHT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the midnight pillars of black elms Last Line: Till I, too, sink in slumber sound and deep. Subject(s): Home HOME: ONE, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: I return to grandmother's Last Line: Five months of the year? Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Home HOME: TWO, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: I am feeling too much Last Line: Is home: returned from travels %alone no more Subject(s): Home; Reunions HOMEBUYER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so glad to be living in my own house again Last Line: And knows the value of a dependable truck. Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Montana HOMECOMING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When brothers leave the old hearthstone Last Line: Sweet may their dreamless slumber be Subject(s): Home HOMECOMING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know that nothing Last Line: With goddesses, mortal women, pigs, and homecoming Subject(s): Home HOMECOMING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know that nothing Last Line: With goddesses, mortal women, pigs, and homecoming Subject(s): Home HOMECOMING IN STORM, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean thunders in the caverned sky Last Line: Moveless with joy, to know you near once more. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Home HOMES, by JOAN CUSACK HANDLER Poem Source First Line: I envy the nomad Last Line: Or perhaps %become %it's own Subject(s): Home; Travel HOMES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamplight's shaded rose Last Line: That were a home last night. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Home; Women And War; World War I; First World War HOMES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Wigwams, igloos, nests in trees Last Line: To make a home, build, sew, or dig! Subject(s): Home; November HOMES; A SESTINA, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the smiling comfortable homes Last Line: We crown all life! We are the aim of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Home HOMESICK, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: We're perched on cliff edge Last Line: Inside to get out of the wind Subject(s): Home HOMETOWN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three pronged armory tower, the civic statue Subject(s): Home; City & Town Life HOMETOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our town has history enough Last Line: Could show me finer sights than home. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Home; South Dakota HOMEWARD BOUND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the starry night is gone Last Line: Of our childhood . . . Long ago! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Home; Lakes; Childhood; Pools; Ponds HOMEWARDS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone call ran out in the night and glittered Subject(s): Home HOMEWARDS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone call ran out in the night and glittered Last Line: With a thumping heart Subject(s): Home HOMING SONG, by REBECCA CUSHMAN Poem Source First Line: I saw red clay gullies Subject(s): Home HOTEL, by GAYLE GIBLIN Poem Text First Line: A thousand rooms in a beautiful home Last Line: This home is a grotesque fantasy. Subject(s): Home; Hotels; Rooms; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOUSE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Bit by bit, I take leave of september, that song. Behold the Last Line: Breathing by the side of the road Subject(s): Home; Houses HOUSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two swede families live downstairs and an irish policeman upstairs Last Line: Could be a soldier. Subject(s): American Civil War; Home; U.s. - History HOUSE, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: We have built the walls, we have spread the roof Last Line: Be left behind when you pass the door! Subject(s): Home; Love; Man-woman Relationships HOUSE, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Home; Religion HOUSE AND HOME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Home; Religion HOUSE AND HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I own my house, but have no home,' said Last Line: "start." Subject(s): Home; Houses HOUSE AND HOME, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A house is built of bricks and stones, of sills and posts Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Home HOUSE BLESSING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless the four corners of this house Last Line: The peace of love on all! Subject(s): Home; Prayer HOUSE GROWING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old house grows, adding rooms of silence Last Line: The heartstones fatten on the vanished Subject(s): Home HOUSE VERSUS HOME, by LAURA LEE Poem Text First Line: A house and a home are different, you see Last Line: For you are just as welcome as the flowers in may. Subject(s): Home; Houses HOUSE-WEARY, by IAN DRAG Poem Text First Line: I'm going out! I'm tired of tables, chairs Last Line: Dear home! I'll love it still! Subject(s): Home HOUSES, by EALSA L. ROWE Poem Text First Line: Houses are interesting! Last Line: Houses are interesting! Subject(s): Home; Hospitality; Houses HOW THE STREETS IN FRONT OF KAUFMANN'S DEPARTURE STORE TELL ME ....., by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: For years I have been lost. Some nights I have known it Last Line: For the light to change, together at last Variant Title(s): How The Streets In Front Of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me.... Subject(s): Home; Loss; Moving And Movers; Night; Pennsylvania; Refugees; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Walking HOWELLS'S HOMES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hills of ohio, woods and shining plains Last Line: And seeks for better yet. Subject(s): Home; Howells, William Dean (1837-1920); Ohio HYMN FOR A HOUSEHOLD, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Lord christ, beneath thy starry dome Last Line: O man of nazareth, be our guest! Subject(s): Home; Jesus Christ; Prayer I DO NOT FEAR MY THOUGHTS WILL DIE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet be at home at night Subject(s): Confidence; Safety; Home I LEARNED AT LEAST WHAT HOME COULD BE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where dawn knows how to be Variant Title(s): Poem: 944; Poem: 89 Subject(s): Home I LIKE MY HOME BEING WELL HIDDEN, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How many years make one spring Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Home; Zen Buddhism I MAKE MY HOME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You ask why I live Last Line: The water continues to flow Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Home; Zen Buddhism I WOULD GO ADVENTURING, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I would go -- would go adventuring Last Line: But fate, the jester, gave me the hearth fire! Subject(s): Home; Reality; Travel; Journeys; Trips IF WE KNEW; OR, BLESSINGS OF TO-DAY, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: If we knew the woe and heartache Last Line: All the briers from the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Home; Religion; Theology IMMACULATE, by UARDA ROSAMOND GARRETT Poem Text First Line: I have always admired women Last Line: It shelters a hungry heart. Subject(s): Childlessness; Cleanliness; Home IN A GARRET, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This realm is sacred to the silent past Last Line: And close again the long unopened door. Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted IN A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was not well the other day Last Line: Back to my labor in the rolling-mill Subject(s): Calm;home;neighbors;silence; Placid;undisturbed;tranquility IN A SMALL HOUSE, by EMILY BLANCHE MANN GROBY Poem Text First Line: It is pleasant to live in a small house Last Line: Watching for you, my dear, waiting for you. Subject(s): Home IN HONOR OF THAT HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCESS QUEEN ELIZABETH, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although great queen thou now in silence lie Last Line: If many worlds, as that fantastic framed, %in every one be her great glory found Variant Title(s): Queen Elizabet Subject(s): Children; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Home; Marriage; Memory; Puritans IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ANN BRADSTREET, WHO DECEASED, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With troubled heart and trembling hand I write Last Line: Thou with thy savior art in endless bliss Variant Title(s): In Memory Of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet Who Deceased June 2 Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR GRANDCHILD ELIZABETH .. WHO DECEASED 1665, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content Last Line: Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN NEW YORK: 5. HOME, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a need of silence and of stars Last Line: And then -- the summer stars . . . I will go home. Variant Title(s): Home Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Home; Life; Love; Silence; Belief; Creed IN PRAISE OF TRAVELING, by KRZYSZTOF LISOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I haven't traveled anywhere. But is that bad? Last Line: And all alone look around that other world Subject(s): Home; Travel IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN, 23 JUNE, 1659, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had eight birds hatched in one nest Last Line: I happy am, if well with you. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN ROOMS LIKE WOMBS, by RYAN ANDERSON Poem Source Last Line: In the instance of a breath Subject(s): Home; Thought IN THE BEGINNING, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: This brings from the forgotten past a people whose lives Last Line: Toms home for a lard stand of honey to sop up with hot %biscuits Subject(s): Family Life; Home IN THE CHINA SEAS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, lying in my berth at night Last Line: You must I love until I die! Subject(s): Home; Pennsylvania IN THE COLD SEASON, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For now the mullahs Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Home IN THE HOME STRETCH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Last Line: As much at home as if they'd always danced there. Subject(s): Home IN THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS, by K. L. SILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Blue are the skies in the land of our fathers Last Line: Sailing the ocean of blue. Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Judaism; Ocean IN THE LANE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my love came home to me Last Line: Take her home for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Love; Summer IN THE MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nurtured upon my mother's knee Last Line: And closer to her heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Home; Virginia (state) INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Let us take %what we can Last Line: Let there be %order. %let us be %wise Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Asian Americans - Japanese; Concentration Camps; Home; Japanese Americans - Internment INTERIOR MONOLOGUE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These rooms . . ./ if I could see them again Subject(s): Home INTRUSION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built myself a pleasant house Last Line: Leaving no house at all, just you. Subject(s): Home; Houses; Love INVERLEITH HOUSE, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: We are strings of sun and artificial light. Longing stretches wall to wall Last Line: Lost in your house, swept up in autumn. My veined wings you delicately %examine Subject(s): Home; Nature INVOCATION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, about-to-be-parted-from house. Subject(s): Home; Farewell; Parting IT'S NOT COLD HERE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere the flags are frozen Last Line: For the pure abandoned joy of sliding down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Home; Refugees; Rest JAY A-PASS'D, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When leaves, in evenen winds, do vlee Last Line: When did my jaÿ all pass me by? Subject(s): Children; Home; Jays; Mortality; Time; Childhood JOHN ANDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John anderson, my jo, john, / when we were first acquent Last Line: John anderson, my jo. Subject(s): Aging; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sex; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOURNEY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for a past %I can rely on Last Line: Undisturbed: love arranged %as order directed at the next day %going to bed was a journey Subject(s): Home; Memory; Poetry And Poets JUST LIKE HOME, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The loss of self should be dark horses Last Line: But usual as the sparrows and wrens perservering through the seasons Subject(s): Home; Self KENTUCKY, by MAUREEN MOREHEAD Poem Source First Line: Bending their necks south Last Line: We say we like it here Subject(s): Home KNEELING WITH HERRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, to thee my knee is Last Line: Loved as the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fireplaces; God; Home; Prayer LA CHAISE BLEUE, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: Shadows are moving across a wall Last Line: The blue chair stands empty Subject(s): Blue (color); Chairs; Home LA VILLE DU DETROIT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the cities of the plain Last Line: A paradise below. Subject(s): Home; Life; Love LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE HOUSE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house of alvargonzalez Last Line: The poor fields of my country! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Home LAS DIAMONDS ARE UNA CHICA'S BEST AMIGA, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you not that stray mignonette of my garden Last Line: Be at home in my arms Subject(s): Chicanos; Home; Household Employees; Mexican Border; Mexican Americans; Servants; Domestics; Maids LATE OCTOBER, by KAY MULLEN Poem Source First Line: Leaves rose-hip red, remnants of orange Last Line: At home she would be waiting, %wash-bucket and whistling kettle Subject(s): Home; October; Oranges LATER, by WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I went to the place where my youth took place Last Line: For a year and a half with the curtains down. Subject(s): Home; Past LAY OF THE LAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out behind the house land and sea Last Line: As we lean homeward Subject(s): Home; Sea Voyages LETTER TO THE FRONT, 2, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is still, I listen for your voice. Subject(s): War - Home Front; Absence; Longing; Family Life; Letters; Separation; Isolation; Relatives LETTER TO THE FRONT: 6, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home thoughts from home; we read you every day, Subject(s): War - Home Front LIBERALITY OF SENTIMENT: AND SO HOME, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as he reach'd this stirring close Last Line: His hand he held,—and thus they parted. Subject(s): Gentlemen; Home LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side Last Line: In ghostly sheath. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips LIGHTS OF HOME, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pilot, how far from home? Subject(s): Home LINES (ON VIEWING, ONE SUMMER EVENING THE HOUSE OF MY BIRTH), by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crescent moon with pallid light Last Line: And draw the tear-drop from my eye. Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted LITTLE LITANY FOR MOVING DAY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The woman who packs up the kitchen Last Line: Will have to go %bye-bye Subject(s): Change; Home; Materialism; Property LITTLE ROOM, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Little room, you're kind and still Last Line: Not the friendly soul, you are / little room Subject(s): Rooms; Home LIVING IN THE CANDY STORE, by LEONARD KRESS Poem Text First Line: The scent still rose from the cellar's cold marble slab Subject(s): Home LONG VOYAGE, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that the pines were darker there Subject(s): Home LONGING FOR HEAVEN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As weary pilgrim now at rest Last Line: Then come, deare bridgrome, come away! Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness LORD WALTER'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But why do you go!' said the lady, while both sat under the yew Last Line: "come, dora, my darling, my angel, and help me to ask him to dine." Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOST BY WAY OF TCHIN-TABARDEN, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Nomads are said to know their way by an exact spot in the sky Last Line: Out of balance, untaught; ready for something called home Subject(s): Geography; Home; Travel LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A good wife rose from her bed one morn Last Line: "tis not so sweet to labor for those we love, / it's not strange that maids will wed!" Subject(s): Home;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives LOVE OF HOME; A REJOINDER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence with your jeerings petulant and low Last Line: I learn from thee what change the world can bring. Subject(s): Home LOYALTY, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hame, hame, hame! Oh hame fain wad I be Last Line: O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree! Variant Title(s): It's Hame, And It's Hame Subject(s): Home; Homesickness LUCK, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was nine years old. %I had been around liquor Last Line: For a house where nobody %was home, and all I could drink Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Home MAGIC: THREE, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: We are splinters of wood Last Line: Home at last with the one %who loves you Subject(s): Home; Love; Magic MAKING LIGHT OF IT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call out a secret name, a name Last Line: Of his breath, making light of it all Subject(s): Home; Summer MANY SISTERS TO MANY BROTHERS, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Text First Line: When we fought campaigns (in the long christmas rains) Last Line: But for me . . . A war is poor fun. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): War - Home Front MEDITATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As spring the winter doth succeed Last Line: And at the most a simple mite. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Worship; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness MEMORIES, by HATTIE JOSEPHINE HODGSON Poem Text First Line: There are no friends like the old friends Last Line: There is nothing but memories left. Subject(s): Friendship; Home; Memory; Past MEMORIES OF HOME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of the dear old homestead Last Line: Have the grass and flowers grown. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Memory MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a land, I, too Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth MEMORY, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood's home I see again Last Line: And feel I'm part of thee! Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Home; Memory; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness MICROCOSM, by BERTRAM DOBELL Poem Source First Line: His home a speck in a vast universe Subject(s): Home 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 REPOS (MY MOTHER'S GIRLHOOD HOME), by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Text First Line: The orange-tree you planted as a bride Last Line: Are all I care to keep of mon repos. Subject(s): Home; Mothers MORAYLAND, by FRANK SUTHERLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ance mair aroon' this festive board convenes our social band Last Line: "my toast is ""london's moray club, an' dear auld morayland." Alternate Author Name(s): Uncle Peter Subject(s): Home MOTHER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: There's a hand so firm and tender Last Line: Is burnt in mother's heart. Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life; Home; Love; Mothers; Relatives MY ACRES, by AMELIA M. CRECELIUS Poem Text First Line: Tranquil and quiet Last Line: And stills heart's pain. Subject(s): Home; Peace MY AIN COUNTREE, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rises bright in france Last Line: Frae my ain countree! Subject(s): Home MY AIN FIRESIDE, by ELIZABETH HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: I hae seen great anes and sat in great ha's Last Line: Fireside. Subject(s): Home MY AIN FIRESIDE, by WILLIAM H. HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: O, I hae seen great anes and sat in great ha's Subject(s): Home MY AIN GATE EN', by JAMES NORVAL Poem Text First Line: I've climb'd the lofty mountain, I've cross'd the gowling sea Last Line: We've a' a warm heart-liken to our ain gate en'. Subject(s): Home MY CHILDHOOD HOME, by OLETA FOX CLOOS Poem Text First Line: I am thinking today of the 'old home Last Line: The scenes of my dear childhood home. Subject(s): Home; Memory; Past; Youth MY EARLY HOME, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sparrows build upon the trees Last Line: My early home was this. Subject(s): Home MY FATHER'S CAR, by JUSTIN BIGOS Poem Source First Line: Because it is winter rub out Last Line: In the usual folds and crevices %the same deep-seated pattern emerge Subject(s): Automobiles; Fathers; Home MY GEOMANCER, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Says this month you should repot Last Line: If arrogance will force a flower %both ruthless and luxuriant Subject(s): Home; Plants MY HOME, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: How far is it Last Line: To which I shall return in the end Subject(s): Home; Longing; Prisons And Prisoners MY HOME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place that I love the best Last Line: The little brown house like a ground-bird's nest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Home; Summer; Sun MY HOME; A DREAM, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have dreamt of a home - a happy home Last Line: Within that home -- I may not tell. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares MY HOUSE IS THE RED EARTH, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Home MY LITTLE HOUSE, by ZEPHYR WARE TARVER Poem Text First Line: I love my little house with its broad gallery Last Line: Unpretentious? Perhaps -- but love lives here! Subject(s): Home MY LITTLE LODGE IN TUAIM INBIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And no forboding fence in sight Subject(s): Home MY MOTHER'S HOUSE, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange,' my mother said, 'to think' Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Home MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees have grown so stout and tall Last Line: And watch, and wait, and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY OWN HOUSE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I view the leaf, my theme is not the shades of meaning Subject(s): Home MY OWN HOUSE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I view the leaf, my theme is not the shades of meaning Last Line: Leaf that my walk among the trees, after completing this %poem, would be like entering my own house Subject(s): Home MY SWEET HOME IS NO LONGER MINE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ah! When life's summer is flown-my fond home-should I Last Line: Bright symbol of future repose,-I will ever think of thee sweet %home! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Memory; Retrospection; Solitude MY TOWN IS HERE, by RHONDA C. POYNTER Poem Source First Line: My old town might be one of impatience Last Line: It was only - a town Subject(s): Home; Towns MY VILLAGE HOME, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Living's getting harder day by day Last Line: But the late grain at least is spared from insects - %neighbors and I all sigh with relief Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Home MY WESTERN HOME, by EVA W. MULLEN Poem Text First Line: My heart turns sick with longing Last Line: With the cottonwood trees' friendly nod. Subject(s): Home; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States MY WORLD, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A warm thatched roof, 'neath which peer windows / small Last Line: For naught then would I change this world of mine! Subject(s): Home; Imagination; Fancy NEVADA, by RICK L. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: What home means is a steamy bathroom Last Line: The safe center where they pause to catch their breath Subject(s): Home; Nevada; Sickness NEVER GET USED TO THIS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never get used to this: the feathery, swaying casuarinas Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia NEVER GET USED TO THIS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never get used to this: the feathery, swaying casuarinas Last Line: The yachts studying their reflections in black glass Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia NEW JERSEY: OCTOBER 1997, by HERBERT R. COURSEN Poem Source First Line: Map is a concept azimuths of hope Last Line: Them words are similar but strangers talk %them only the cartography of dreams knows when Subject(s): Change; Home; New Jersey NEXT OF KIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows gather round me, while you are in the sun Last Line: Yea, we twain shall sleep together in an equal bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Home; Dead, The NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez! Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day! Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean NIGHTS OF CHILDHOOD, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother kept a stockpot Last Line: Outside, the screams and stridency of mating Subject(s): Home NIGHTS OF CHILDHOOD, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother kept a stockpot Last Line: Outside, the screams and stridency of mating Subject(s): Home NOCTURNE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a friend has gone I like the feel of it Subject(s): Home NOCTURNE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a friend has gone I like the feel of it Last Line: Instant and improbable Subject(s): Home NOSTALGIA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through their lives men build or dream them homes Last Line: Deeming it, more than mortal homes are, blest. Subject(s): Desire; Heaven; Home; Nostalgia; Peace; Paradise NOT HERE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Searching for pillowcases trimmed Last Line: Or evening paper, unaware Subject(s): Home; Mice NOTES FROM AN APARTMENT, by STEPHEN ROBERT GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I go outside and stand on the concrete stairwell and watch Last Line: Floor by floor tward the sky %and expect to find it there? Subject(s): Home OASIS (TO WILLIAM AND CONSTANCE LLOYD), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A tiny town, high-huddled o'er the sea Last Line: Where life, in fine, was good—and talk and laughter glad! Subject(s): Home; Hospitality; Pleasure ODE ON SOLITUDE (FINAL PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, whose wish and care Last Line: Tell where I lie. Variant Title(s): The Contented Man;the Quiet Life;ode To Solitude Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness ODE ON SOLITUDE (FIRST PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy he, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE ON SOLITUDE (MANUSCRIPT VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home, thou return'st from thames, whose naiads long Last Line: Friend. Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Home, John (1722-1808); Poetry & Poets OF HOME, by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Infinitely varied, as with marriage, from heights to lowest depths Last Line: To sketch in light and shadow the romance and truth in home Subject(s): Home OLD FOLKS AT HOME, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way down upon de swanee ribber [the swanee river] Last Line: Far from de old folks at home! Variant Title(s): Swanee River Subject(s): Absence; Home; Mothers; Separation; Isolation OLD HOME, by MABEL GOULD DEMERS Poem Text First Line: The purple lilacs haunt me Last Line: Upon the polished floor. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Lilacs; Orchards OLD HOME, by IRENE KIRBY SURENSON Poem Text First Line: There is nothing here of the obvious to show Last Line: The stories of children, sprawled on a grain of sand. Subject(s): Home OLD HOMES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happiest village! How I turned to you Last Line: And in your pastoral still my life has rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Home; Landscape; English OLD HOMES, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old homes among the hills! I love their gardens Last Line: The dreamy patience that is theirs forever. Subject(s): Home OLD HOUSE, by BESS TRUITT Poem Text First Line: This old house on a busy street Last Line: I've used since love was new. Subject(s): Home ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere! Last Line: For a robin's song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who shalt stop, where thames' translucent wave Last Line: Who dare to love their country, and be poor. Subject(s): Home; Twickenham, England ON LEAVING A PLACE WHERE ONE HAD DWELT MANY YEARS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some moments in each life Last Line: Of aught can never be the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Change; Home; Moving & Movers ON MY DEAR GRANDCHILD SIMON WHO DIED ... ONE MONTH AND ONE DAY OLD, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner came, but gone, and fall'n asleep Last Line: Among the blessed in endless joys remain. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness ON THE PROSPECT OF RETURNING TO NEW YORK, AFTER THE WAR, IN 1815, by JOSIAH SHIPPEY Poem Source First Line: For thee, new york, my much-loved home I sigh Last Line: There let me live, o heaven, there let me die Subject(s): Home; New York City - 19th Century ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY WINDOW, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who %will make art of this Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Arabs; Bible; Home; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ON TOURING HER HOMETOWN, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going away to where I'm from Last Line: It won't ever pay. I'm going away %to where I'm from. I'm leaving, %last condor, last chance Subject(s): Home ONE HOME, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Mine was a midwest home -- you can keep your world Subject(s): Home ONE HOME, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine was a midwest home -- you can keep your world Last Line: Wherever we looked the land would hold us up Subject(s): Home ONE WEEKEND HOME, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Text First Line: You, sir, are a lying sack of shit Subject(s): Home ONLY HOME, by CHARLES PIERRE Poem Source First Line: Living on this shifting island Last Line: Where the only home is another poem Subject(s): Home; Long Island (n.y.); Poetry And Poets ONLY ONE HOUSE, by HARRY R. TRUSLER Poem Text First Line: Love is a home our spirits build Last Line: Only one house is home. Subject(s): Home OTHER HOUSE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a boy, I haunted an abandoned house Last Line: To a chorus me home toward silence. %theirs was the only house that sang all night Subject(s): Home OUR BE'THPLEACE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dear's the door a latch do shut Last Line: Our own vorelivers dead an' gone. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Memory; Relatives OUR HEDGES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, which way ran the boughy hedge Last Line: All green with summer boughs. Subject(s): Hedges; Home; Memory OUR HOME IN THE WOODS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Where the birds in the spring of the year sweetly sing Last Line: For all nature's great world is our own. Subject(s): Forests; Home; Nature - Religious Aspects; Woods OUR HOMESTEAD, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our old brown homestead reared its walls Last Line: They are in my heart to-night! Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia; Parents; Parenthood OUR HOUSE, by GARY LANGFORD Poem Source First Line: We build fires all winter long Subject(s): Home OUR HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It should be yours, if I could build Last Line: We'll habit in this house of rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Home OUR HOUSE, by JOAN I. SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: We laid a new floor Last Line: We could not fix, %so we made the house perfect Subject(s): Home OUR HOUSE, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Our house is small Last Line: And not too tight, %for us, and friends, and laughter! Subject(s): Home OUR HOUSE, by PETER WHIGHAM Poem Source First Line: Our house has a willow tree Last Line: Where me & my family %spend our happy hours Subject(s): Home OUR HOUSE (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We play at our house and have all sorts of fun Last Line: He'd rather by far live at our house with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home; Play OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The halo round the seraph's head Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips OUR ROMANCE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is narrow which leads to that house Last Line: And saved the parents, being children. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Parents; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood OUR VALLEY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in july and august Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OUT IN THE DARK OVER THE SNOW, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If you love it not, of night Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Home; Night OUT OF THE OLD HOUSE, NANCY, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the old house, nancy - moved up into the new Last Line: Not made with hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Home; Houses OUT THERE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: They're out there, the right ones Last Line: Sit and wait, open and ready, it may happen %or I may be dumb. Subject(s): Home OVER THE RANGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little bush maiden, wondering eyed Last Line: To the beautiful country over the range. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Home; Life; Summer; Dead, The PARTING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You bore me. I'm leaving you. Tonight Last Line: Don't let the door hit your arse goin' out Subject(s): Home; Relationships PASSING TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He climbs to a high room in the big house Last Line: Shoots two swans Subject(s): Birds; Guns; Home; Hunting; Swans PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road Last Line: Across the fields. Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PHANTOMS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was her home; one mossy gable thrust Last Line: He cannot help but speak her, face to face. Subject(s): Birds; Home; Kisses; Love PIARCO, by CHERYL BOYCE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: On de way to de airport near arouca Last Line: Eh even kno ah gone yet Subject(s): Home PLYMOUTH, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Full Text First Line: I've just been down to plymouth. Did you know Last Line: Were dancing on the hoe. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Plymouth, England; War - Home Front; World War Ii; Second World War POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War POEM FOR A SOLDIER'S GIRL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever your mirrors tell you, morning and evening Subject(s): War - Home Front POEMS OF THE HOME: THE BRAZIER, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Brazier of jewels, illusion for the poor! When we look Last Line: Together over you with love! Subject(s): Home; Memory POEMS OF THE HOME: THE EARTHEN JAR, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Earthen jar, dark as my cheek, how easy of access you %are to my thirst! Last Line: Noon, a cool jar for their sorrowful lips! Subject(s): Home; Poverty; Thirst POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness POORHOUSE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon the frozen earth the silent snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Home PORCELAIN COUPLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jane felt well enough for me to leave her Last Line: Bluebeard was, their cat who died long ago Subject(s): China (porcelain); Home PORTRAIT OF ONE DEAD, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is her house. On one side there is darkness Last Line: We'll never know, you say, for she is dead. Subject(s): Death; Home; Dead, The POSSUM TROT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've journeyed 'roun' consid'able, a-seein' men an' things Last Line: That holds the dust of some I loved, down there at possum trot. Subject(s): Home PREPOSITIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going - the motion picture theater, (direction) Subject(s): Parents; Cancer (disease); Home Health Care; Parenthood QUEEN STREET WEST, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the people, broke, pitted, awry Subject(s): War - Home Front QUIET HOUSE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were children old nurse used to say Last Line: I do not care; some day I shall not think; I shall not be Subject(s): Home REARRANGING THE FURNITURE, by LEE SHARKEY Poem Source First Line: First he measured the distance Last Line: A door blew open. A great ear listened Subject(s): Change; Home RECOLLECTION OF GABRIELA MISTRAL, by CARMEN BRANNON BEERS Poem Source First Line: Your retreat hardly prompted Last Line: Of all of your verses Subject(s): Books; Home; Poetry And Poets RED CREEK; A REQUIEM, by MARGARET ROBISON Poem Source First Line: Fragrance of tea olive, mint Last Line: The night sky is filled with their light Subject(s): Brooks; Cairo, Georgia; Home; Nostalgia REJECTED ADDRESSES: CUI BONO, BY LORD B., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sated with home, of wife, of children tired Last Line: And moody madness laughs and hugs the chain he clanks. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Family Life; Home; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Relatives REMEMBRANCE OF A FALL WALK, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we were tangled in the branches Subject(s): Walking; Childhood Memories; Home REQUIEM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand leaves slant down across the rain Last Line: Then lends itself singly to the loam Subject(s): Comfort; Home; Leaves RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So long since I've enjoyed the hills and ponds Last Line: Man's life is a phantom affair, %and returns at last to the empty void Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I planted the beans at the front of the southern mountain Last Line: Wet clothes - they're not worth a worry, %just so my hopes aren't disappointed! Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out here in the fields, few social affairs Last Line: But always I fear that frost or hail may come %and knock them all down like so many weeds Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In youth I couldn't sing to the common tune Last Line: After so long in the cage of mine, %I've come back to things as they are Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home RICH MAN, POOR MAN, by FRANCIS HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, joy that burns in denver tavern Last Line: But he is back in his own land. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Home; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons RITORNO, by GIANNA PATRIARCA Poem Source First Line: I have come back to the house Last Line: Waiting %to go home Subject(s): Home; Homecoming; Past ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 4. THE DYING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flying after bliss and light Last Line: O have pity, gracious lord! Subject(s): Death; Germany; Home; Dead, The; Germans ROOF BOUND, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You watch me primly sewing here Last Line: Where road and blue sky meet! Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Love ROOM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Come to my yellow room Last Line: Upon the resurrection of my hands Subject(s): Home; Rooms SAFE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dream-fruit tree a palace bore / in stone's reality Last Line: Warm for eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Comfort; Home SARAH STREET (ST. LOUIS), by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once again I float down Last Line: Though reality will never yearn %for return Subject(s): Home SARGASSO FIELDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And then, %the aroma, the waves Last Line: And I awoke in the midst of all homelands, %amid all sargasso fields Subject(s): Fields; Home; Memory SCOTLAND, by ROBERT CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Scotland! The land of all I love, the land of all that love me Last Line: Land of the uncorrupted heart, of ancient faith and glory! Subject(s): Home; Scotland SEA AND SHORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you marked how the sea with foam Last Line: When the tide sets out to sea. Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SEARCH, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Haven't had a home since Last Line: Spirits accept & guide me Subject(s): Home SEARCH, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN OSF Poem Source First Line: I rummage through Subject(s): Home SELLING MY VACANT HOME, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Moss on the wall, dust on earthen cooking pots Last Line: For fear thy'll treat me like a stranger tomorrow Subject(s): Home SELLING THE OLD HOME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little house has grown too small, or rather we have grown Last Line: And take his gold in pay for it, I still shall call it mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home SEVEN HOUSES, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where I was born Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Home SEVEN TIMES SIX [ - GIVING IN MARRIAGE], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To bear, to nurse, to rear Last Line: To love -- and then to lose. Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Mothers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHILLINGTON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vacant lots are occupied in the woods Subject(s): Home; Shillington, Pennsylvania SHILLINGTON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vacant lots are occupied in the woods Last Line: We have one home, the first, and leave that one. %the having and the leaving go on together Subject(s): Home; Shillington, Pennsylvania SHORTY'S FIDDLE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My first nome sunday, harry north, sr Last Line: Mad him groan as I slid up the strings, %harry north, sr., wicked puppet Subject(s): Home; Nome, Alaska SIDEBOARD, by DEBORAH NARIN-WELLS Poem Source First Line: When we left this time Last Line: Even when we're gone home Subject(s): Absence; Death; Home SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: The omenon, he said, how it looks at us Last Line: But not settled, he said, not settled, not anywhere Subject(s): Home; Winter SILENCE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father used to say Last Line: Inns are not residences. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fathers; Guests; Home; Silence; Visiting SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Interminable roads I tread Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Home; Contentment; Love – Marital; Poetry & Poets SNOWBOUND, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we have locked the doors against the snow Last Line: Our cell of fire beneath the blank of space Subject(s): Home; Snow SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray Last Line: The benediction of the air. Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America SOMETIMES A LITTLE HOUSE WILL PLEASE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Creaks the small rocking chair Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Home SOMEWHERE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The galloping collection of boards Subject(s): Home SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad little heart, overburdened with dream Last Line: The heart-break! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 10. BEFORE A JOURNEY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow I shall set forth upon a journey Last Line: Til I assay them 'round a home-lit fire. Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 3. COUNTRY NIGHTFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are no paths when the snow comes Last Line: For a man come home again. Subject(s): Home; Night; Snow; Wind; Bedtime SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 82, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this house at the end of the world Last Line: And joys of the world of men. Subject(s): Home; Happiness SONGS OF TRAVEL: 17. TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? Last Line: But I go for ever and come again no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Wandering Willie Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia SONGS TO A.H.R.: 13. TRANSIENCY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us watch that rock down in the tide Last Line: Toward paradise! Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Love; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking SONNET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, harnessed in his mail of self, demands Last Line: This know the men who leave the world their names. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares SONNET: 10, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away Last Line: And ask meek, calm-browed deeds, with it agreeing. Subject(s): Home SONNET: 27, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought our love at full, but I did err Last Line: To print on farthest stars her pitying kiss. Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SONNET: 9, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die Last Line: That they who love are but one step from heaven. Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: The brilliant stills of food, the cozy Last Line: Lies that laid out our lives in black and white Subject(s): Ladies' Home Journal, The (periodical) SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: THIS HOUSE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which represents you, as my bones do, waits, Subject(s): Home; Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the shade of a deserted hall Last Line: And here her bridal garlands were unbound. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Ruin Subject(s): Home; Past; Ruins SOUTHERN ADOLESCENCE RECOGNIZED, by GEORDIE BUXTON Poem Source First Line: In this pale crescent moon, I see the angels cross over Last Line: Momentarily over an incoming flood tide Subject(s): Adolescence; Charleston, South Carolina; Home SPIRITS AT HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was father, and mother. And emmy, and jane Last Line: "for we live in the ghost of the old house now!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Home; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Relatives STEPPINGSTONE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home (from court square fountain Last Line: Grace, grace can’t contain Subject(s): Home STILLORGAN, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This house that is not old or beautiful Last Line: Deeper than words, and words can never say. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Relatives STOOP, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: A man's white underwear in morning Last Line: For his brief bow on the little stage Subject(s): Home; Mankind STUDIES FOR PICTURES: 1. AT HOME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is sobbing on the wold Last Line: And none to love me on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Home; Life STUDIES STATIC AND ECSTATIC, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: In the house of my fathers Last Line: And goes on its way, whistling. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Home; Self; Soul; Relatives SWEET EARLSBURN, BLYTHE EARLSBURN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their lustre ever dimmed Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Rivers; Childhood Memories; Home SWINGBLADE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She swung the red-rust triangle blade Subject(s): Home SWINGBLADE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She swung the red-rust triangle blade Last Line: Then make herself safe, slant lines in the sand Subject(s): Home TAKING TITLE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make this house my very own Last Line: Not just a house, but truly home! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Home TANKA DIARY (3), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't need picket fences, brick wall, Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Home TERRA DOMUS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the deep-set valley Last Line: Our home is here! Subject(s): Earth; Home; World TEVIOTDALE, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of my fathers! - though no mangrove here Last Line: Pour'd to the harp and solemn organ's peal. Subject(s): Home; Teviotdale, Scotland THALATTA, THALATTA!, by VIRGIL MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: The march wore on; vigor had ceased to be Last Line: Some silver gleam that speaks to me of home! Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean THAT IS A FLAG RISING, by OLIVER RICE Poem Source First Line: These are stairs to the lodge hall Last Line: Where great ideas go to die Subject(s): Change; Home THE 'STAY AT HOME'S' PLAINT, 1878, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring has grown to summer Last Line: They've left behind in town. Subject(s): Home; New York City - 19th Century THE ADIEU TO HAIZETTES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Two glutted barrows we despatch, filled with our things. We cannot Last Line: The weather-cock upon the thatch utters a cry so desolate! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Parting THE AFTERNOON NAP, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: The farmer sat in his easy chair Last Line: Fast asleep were they both, that summer day! Variant Title(s): A Picture Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Sleep; Agriculture; Farmers THE ALTRUIST ORDER, SELECTION, by RENE GHIL Poem Text First Line: He will not sleep, my child Last Line: May shine the radiant sun: mankind's first god! Subject(s): Babies; Home; Life; Mothers; Silence; Infants THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 1. THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I came to sarum close Last Line: Traditions of civility. Variant Title(s): Salisbury: The Cathedral Close Subject(s): Home THE AUCTION, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on returning home, purse-proud and hale Subject(s): Home; Auctions; Property; Possessions THE AULD FOLKS, by ANDREW PARK Poem Text First Line: The auld folks sit by the fire Last Line: An' whiles they drap a tear! Subject(s): Home THE AULD HOUSE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the auld house, the auld house! Last Line: Now hid 'mang weeds and grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Home; Mothers THE AUSTRALIAN BELL-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toll -- toll. The bell-bird sounding far away Last Line: Congratulant and clear estelle, estelle. Subject(s): Bellbirds; Bells; Dreams; Home; Life; Love; Nightmares THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain Last Line: Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE BACHELOR'S CANE-BOTTOM CHAIR, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars Last Line: And yonder she sits in my cane-bottomed chair. Variant Title(s): The Cane-bottom'd Chair Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship; Home; Nostalgia THE BARREN HILL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before my home, a long straight hill Last Line: Than ever it could give. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These roads will take you into your own country. Subject(s): Home; Progress; United States; Death; America; Dead, The THE BROWN WORD HOME, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE Poem Text First Line: About the brown word home Last Line: Home, the flame, the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Home; Wellesley College THE CASTLE OF GATHORE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place none knows but I Last Line: And the castle of gathore! Subject(s): Castles; Death; Home; Love; Soul; Trees; Dead, The THE CHILDREN, by CHARLES MONROE DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the lessons and tasks are all ended Last Line: To bid me good night and be kissed ! Subject(s): Children; Home; Childhood THE CITY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not mine with infancy's film'd eyes Last Line: Thy singer here reborn. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CONSOLATION, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground Last Line: My heart shall never know despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Home THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! Last Line: In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard! Subject(s): Home; Love; Religion; Theology THE COUNTRY LIFE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not what we would, but what we must Last Line: Will then be beaten to the plough. Subject(s): Country Life; Home THE COUNTY MAYO, by ANTHONY RAFTERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, with the coming in of the spring, the days will stretch a bit Last Line: For age itself would leave me there, and I'd be young again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Raftery; Raifteiri, Antoine; O Reachtabhra, Antaine Subject(s): Home; Mayo (county), Ireland THE DAY IS DONE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is done, and the darkness / falls from the wings of night Last Line: And as silently steal away. Subject(s): Evening; Home; Poetry & Poets; Sunset; Twilight THE DEAD HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once my step was quickened Last Line: That looks over woodland and corn. Subject(s): Home; Memory THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Last Line: Dead,' was all he answered. Subject(s): Death; Home; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I given Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours. Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy THE DEVONSHIRE YEOMAN'S HOME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years ago today our wedding bells were rung Last Line: And home, our own dear home, is dearer now tenfold. Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Home THE DOVES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I was born Last Line: But two keep house together. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Doves; Home THE DWELLING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not dwell where olives shake Last Line: I may but dwell with memory! Subject(s): Home; Memory THE EXILE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not when the seamew cries above the grey-green foam Last Line: Or the hill-wind in a broom-sweet place. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Exiles; Home; Longing; Nostalgia; Sighs THE EXILES, by ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON GATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea at the crag's base brightens Last Line: And close to the storied sea. Subject(s): Home THE FEMALE'S LAMENTATIONS; OR THE VILLAGE IN MOURNING, by HANNAH WALLIS Poem Text First Line: Once more I visited the place / where first I drew my breath Last Line: And endless praises sing. Subject(s): Death; Home; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FIRESIDE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear chloe, while the busy crowd Last Line: And smooth the bed of death. Variant Title(s): A Paradise Below Subject(s): Fire; Happiness; Home; Life; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In secret place where once I stood Last Line: Take thou the world, and all that will. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another four I've left yet to bring on Last Line: Shall at your feet for pardon cry. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Seasons; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE GENERAL'S BRIEFING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the infant formula plant Last Line: No salt for tears no sea for sewage -- Subject(s): Apathy; Military-industrial Complex; Popular Culture - United States; War; War - Home Front THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GOD ON THE HEARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A god, a god sits on my hearth Last Line: Nor yet forgets his starry birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Home THE GODS ARE HERE, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no mountain Subject(s): Home THE GOLDEN MILE-STONE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leafless are the trees; their purple branches Last Line: Buy with gold the old associations! Subject(s): Home; Love THE GRAVE MY LITTLE COTTAGE IS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In strong society Subject(s): Home THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME, by MRS. F. C. JAHNKE Poem Text First Line: America promised them freedom Last Line: Is the great american home. Subject(s): Home; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE HAPPIEST HEART, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who drives the horses of the sun Last Line: And left to heaven the rest. Subject(s): Home; Humility THE HAPPY LIFE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Martial [or, my friend], the things that do attain Last Line: Ne wish for death, ne fear his might. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): The Means To Attain Happy Life;the Things That Cause A Quiet Life;martial's Quiet Life Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature THE HAPPY MOTHER, by ALEXANDER LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An' o! Nay I never live single again Last Line: Ye'll wish ye may never live single again. Alternate Author Name(s): Laing Of Brechin, Alexander Subject(s): Home; Mothers THE HARVEST SEASON, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamt us back to our first home Subject(s): Home; Relationships THE HILL-ROAD TO ARDMORE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's the hill-road to ardmore, mary Last Line: By the hill-road to ardmore? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Home; Roads; Paths; Trails THE HILLS OF HOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the mighty levels of the west Last Line: The hills of home! Subject(s): Home; Memory; Soul; Trees; Youth THE HILLS WE LOVE, by GRACE LOWE BROADHEAD Poem Text First Line: There are hills down near the south seas Last Line: Are the only hills we love. Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE HOME, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Within your portals she has dwelt Last Line: Her soul is like a shining star. Subject(s): Home; Mothers; Soul THE HOME BUILDERS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is filled with bustle and with selfishness Last Line: Are the ones who find their glories in the little spot called home. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home THE HOME FAIRIES, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You tip-toe gently to her bed Last Line: God help the home where they do not. Subject(s): Fairies; Home; Elves THE HOME OF ART, by RUBY M. MOSES Poem Text First Line: Crystal-white the cottage gleams Last Line: Homes of artist ... Poet ... Sage,,,, Subject(s): Home THE HOME OF PEACE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled Last Line: "which had never been sighed on by any but mine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Ballad Stanzas Subject(s): Home THE HOME PORT, by EDITH PRATT DICKENS Poem Text First Line: We have gone down to the sea Last Line: The brine-burned winds of home. Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE HOME-COMING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight upward from the crowded square Last Line: May rule the kingdom of the air. Subject(s): Courage; Flight; Home; Pigeons; Valor; Bravery; Flying THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead Last Line: The home-returning! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HOME-VOYAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear with us, o great captain, if Last Line: Dip colors as you move to anchorage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Home; Peace; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Dead, The THE HOMELAND, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My land was the west land; my home was on the hill Last Line: But I am at my mother's knee, a little lad again. Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories THE HOMES OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stately homes of england Last Line: Its country and its god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Home; Houses; Women; English THE HOMESTEAD, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stays the house, here stay the selfsame places Last Line: My far, forgotten ancestor and I. Subject(s): Home THE HOMESTEAD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the wooded hills it stands Last Line: And reign thereon as kings! Subject(s): Home THE HOUSE AND THE ROAD, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little road says, go Last Line: When a little road says, go. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Home; Wandering & Wanderers THE HOUSE IN THE HILLS, by ELIZABETH DAVIES DUTCHER Poem Text First Line: I walked the little road with eager feet Last Line: And I was thankful for my country home. Subject(s): Home THE HOUSE OF BLAZES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where spuyten duyvil's waves environ Last Line: "and right forninst the spittin' divil!'" Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Home; Legends; New York City - Colonial Period THE HOUSE WITH THE PICTURE HUNG OVER THE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "wherever we travel, by road or by rail" Last Line: The house with the picture hung over the door Subject(s): Home;travel; Journeys;trips THE HUNTER, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue, the purple seas Last Line: And thou'rt a dream o yucatan! Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HWOMESTEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had all the land my zight Last Line: To zee how things do grow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Property; Quiet Life; Wishes; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I wer born an' bred Last Line: By elems that did break the storm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Homesteaders; Loss; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE JERSEY BLUES, by ISAAC RUSLING PENNYPACKER Poem Text First Line: Brave as the battle roll of drum Last Line: Its ocean-dashed abutment here. Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; War - Home Front; Dead, The THE JOURNEY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for a past / I can rely on Subject(s): Home; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE LAMENT OF DARTHOOL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O woods of oona, I can hear the singing Last Line: The cuckoos calling by the murmuring stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Home; Lament; Mourning; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Bereavement THE LIGHT'OOD FIRE, by JOHN HENRY BONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wintry days are dark and drear Last Line: And a red, rousing light'ood fire. Subject(s): Home THE LISTENERS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down the street Last Line: In the distance going away Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories; Nostalgia THE LITTLE BIRD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear daddie bought a mansion Last Line: Wee small bird. And that was me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Home THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood! Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome. Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women THE LONG ROAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white road leads through the meadows, on Last Line: Where the spectral moon-fire lies on the road that leads to home. Subject(s): Home; Old Age THE LONG VOYAGE, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that the pines were darker there Last Line: At home, in my own country Subject(s): Home THE MARCH O' MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down to work o' mornings, an' back to home at nights Last Line: But sweet an' low 'tis love that calls us home at close o' day. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE MOAT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around this lichened home of hoary peace Last Line: Blooms like a rose that never means to fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Home; Nature THE MOCKING WIND, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, you will not break my house Last Line: Built me my house, -- my house of dreams. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Wind THE MORAINE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look down, love, from the bridge's height Last Line: To share with others while we may. Subject(s): Home; New York City - Buildings THE MYSTERY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As up and down the world I go Last Line: Where'er -- I know that it was home. Subject(s): Home THE OLD CLOCK, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clock of the household, the sound of thy bell Last Line: When I, the forgotten one, sleep in the tomb! Subject(s): Clocks; Home; Time THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails THE OLD HOME, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: On days when maids go laughing through the rooms Last Line: Anguished, at faded writing in a book. Subject(s): Home THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is 'the old home by the mill' - fer we still call it so Last Line: I'd jest crawl in my grave and pull the green grass over me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Graves; Home; Mills And Millers; Spring; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD HOME-FOLKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such was the child-world of the long-ago Last Line: "of like views with ""the noted traveler." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Home; Youth; Childhood THE OLD HOMESTEAD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When skies are growing warm and bright Last Line: Where I dreamed my dream of dreams! Subject(s): Home THE OLD HOMESTEAD, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis an old deserted homestead Last Line: Of my youth, -- life's happy spring. Subject(s): Home THE OTHER HOUSE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a boy, I haunted an abandoned house Subject(s): Home THE PARTING, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, we have rhymed of liberty Last Line: To labor, not to sing, in hell. Subject(s): Muses; War - Home Front THE PATH TO HOME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's the mother at the doorway, and the children at the gate Last Line: These are all in life that matter, when you've stripped the sham away. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 1, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towering cliffs were the home I chose Last Line: What good are empty names Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 130, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Painted beams aren't for me Last Line: You'll never see a bud Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Home; Nature; Woods THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 136, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This person is so uncertain Last Line: Eat the mulberries in my yard Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 167, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain owns a house Last Line: Think and discover the key Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 205, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My true home is on cold mountain Last Line: I can go anywhere everywhere is perfect Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 22, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home is below green cliffs Last Line: I chant beneath the trees Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Nature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 79, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chose a secluded place to live Last Line: Picking ferms I pass the years left Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 10, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People who leave home want to be free Last Line: I can't laugh at you Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Freedom; Home; Monks; Liberty THE POET'S GARRET, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sportive fancy! Come with me, and trace Last Line: Bears thy sick fancy to immortal fame! Subject(s): Fame; Home; Poetry & Poets; Reputation THE PORCELAIN COUPLE, by DONALD HALL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jane felt well enough for me to leave her Subject(s): China (porcelain); Home THE PRICE WE PAY, by J. H. STEVENS Poem Text First Line: Yes, he was the only one killed Last Line: But that life was all that I had. Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Heroism; War - Home Front; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE QUEST OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What were our forefathers trying Last Line: Is what our forefathers were trying to find. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Home; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE RETURN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy came home from a foreign land Last Line: "my son, my son, my wandering boy." Subject(s): Home; Old Age; Sons; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE RETURN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I circled on leather paws Subject(s): Home THE RETURN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They turned him loose; he bowed his head Last Line: Could only pray and pray. Subject(s): Home THE RETURN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did your ship dock, jim dale Last Line: The gas-lamps paled to day. Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE ROOM OF THE HOUSEHOLD, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a room I love dearly - the sanctum of bliss Last Line: With a tinge on my cheek and content in my breast. Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Rooms THE ROVER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how good it is to be / foot-loose and heart-free! Last Line: Home at last, home, home! Subject(s): Home THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE SCHOOLBOY AT HOME, by RICHARD HILL SANDYS Poem Text First Line: The pony's lamed, the cat is dead Last Line: And, mercy! There's a hive upset! Subject(s): Home THE SETTLERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two stranger youths in the far west Last Line: The acacia-trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Home; Love; Pioneers; Silence THE SOLDIER'S DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bugles sang truce, - for the night-cloud had lowered Last Line: And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Soldiers; War; Nightmares THE SOLDIER'S WIFE, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: He offered himself for the land he loved Last Line: All honor we owe to her. Subject(s): War - Home Front THE SONG OF LOVED ONES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father toils at his work all day Last Line: "love comes to us at the close of day." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Last Line: And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Home; Mothers THE SPELLS OF HOME, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the soft green light in the woody glade Last Line: And the kindly spell shall have power once more! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Home; Women THE STORMY EVENING CLOSES NOW IN VAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My rescued sailor shares the fire with me Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Storms; Sea; Home; Love THE STRENGTH OF HILLS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts go home to that old brown house Last Line: And even whose echo forgets to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Home THE STUDY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit penning plans of dead affairs Last Line: Know they are for the singing and the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Home THE SWING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam Last Line: So wide a sky, so great a tree. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Fields; Home; Trees; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As he said vanity, so vain say I Last Line: And all the rest, but vanity we find. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Religion; Sickness; Vanity; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology; Illness THE TRAVELER, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither do you go into the evening, you so young and so worn Last Line: You seek a home that forever flees desperately before you. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRIBUTE OF HIS HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed, midst a universal grief Last Line: Our common friend and fellow citizen. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Flags; Grief; Home; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the jersey city shed Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TWO ANCHORS, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gallant sailor man Last Line: "this great one on my right." Subject(s): Home; Love THE TWO HEAVENS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When, with my window opened wide at night Last Line: Has made my lighted home his paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Home THE TWO HOMES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sees't thou my home? - 'tis where yon woods are waving Last Line: I well believe -- but dark seas roll between. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Home; Love THE TWO HOMES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home was seated high and fair Last Line: "and the weary life of the valley!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Home; Storms; Nightmares THE UPSTAIRS ROOM, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It must have been in march the rug wore through Last Line: And, for my life, imperishable Subject(s): Home; Death - Fathers THE VALE OF THE MERRIMAC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are streams which are famous in history's story Last Line: The home of my fathers, and merrimac's vale! Subject(s): Home; Merrimac (river) THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a spreading chestnut-tree Last Line: Each burning deed and thought! Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Home; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE WAR AT HOME, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come Last Line: Which makes humanity the nations' nation. Subject(s): Humanity; Military Service, Compulsory; Prayer; Veterans Day; War; War - Home Front; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE WAYSIDE DREAM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deep and lordly danube Last Line: And keep the sunset's gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Home; Nightmares THE WINSOME WEE THING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is a winsome wee thing Last Line: And think my lot divine. Variant Title(s): My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORN WEDDING-RING, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few Last Line: Of those fond eyes, -- fond as they were when this old ring was new! Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WRITER'S JOURNAL: POSSESSION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was our wedding-day Last Line: God's mercy thou, and therefore shalt endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WRONG HOUSE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I went into a house, I don't know whose house Last Line: Nobody wanted it at all. Subject(s): Home; Parties THEFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Shy morning light, a snail's track Last Line: Is silver stolen from the bank of night Subject(s): Home; Morning; Snails THEIR HOUSES THERE WITHOUT THEIR BODIES, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one is there but someone will be there Last Line: And breathing without their bodies they are home Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted THERE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There shall be no more partings there for ever Last Line: They will come home to her, come home to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Future Life; Heaven; Home; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS', by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground Last Line: Would scarcely know that we were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War THIS DARKNESS IS FRIENDLY, by MARY ANN LARKIN Poem Source First Line: When you come late at night Last Line: You are home, you are home Subject(s): Home; Night THIS HOUSE OF MINE, by MINNIE ROWAN GOODRICH Poem Text First Line: I live within a house of clay Last Line: To my eternal home. Subject(s): Home THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Last Line: What did I know, what did I know %of love's austere and lonely offices? Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter THOUGHTS UPON A WALK WITH NATALIE, MY NIECE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the same familiar land Last Line: On this frail ship forevermore? Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Relatives THREE PRAYERS OF TELEMAKHOS: 3., by BILL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The hyades riding with the sun bear Last Line: I am wanton, I'm at sea, I am home Subject(s): Fate; Home; Sea TINKERIN' AT HOME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks there be who seem to need excitement Last Line: If he'll kindly let me tinker 'round the home we've got up there. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Contentment; Home TIRED MOTHERS, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Text First Line: A little elbow leans upon your knee Last Line: The little boy I used to kiss is dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Variant Title(s): To A Tired Mother Subject(s): Home; Mothers TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you / at eight to ride Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you %at eight to ride Last Line: Handkerchief waving %goodbye Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO FRIENDS AT HOME, THE LONE, THE ADMIRED, THE LOST, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The unforgetful, dedicate Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship; Home TO HER FATHER WITH SOME VERSES, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most truly honored, and as truly dear Last Line: Such is my bond, none can discharge but I, %yet paying is not paid until I die Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO HER MOST HONOURED FATHER, THOMAS DUDLEY ESQ, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir of late delighted with the sight Last Line: Then water in the boundless ocean %flows Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO LESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burns sang of bonny lesley Last Line: Grows never old or weary. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Love; Singing & Singers TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, today I'm on the stone bench outside our house Last Line: In coming out. Okay? It could upset mama Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Home; Love TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO MY FATHER: A NARRATIVE BUILT FROM A ROADSIDE FRUITSTAND, by DAVID W. ELLIS Poem Source First Line: I remember seeing once Last Line: I had stopped, you see, to buy oranges. %I was coming home Subject(s): Fruit; Home TO MY GRANDMOTHER; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY MR. ROMNEY, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This relative of mine Last Line: Grandpapa. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Grandparents; Home; Romney, George (1734-1802); Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO MY HOME, by DALIA SABBAGH Poem Source First Line: To my dear home Last Line: Its time to let you go Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home TO MY OLD ADDRESSES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking! Subject(s): Home; Houses TO MY OLD ADDRESSES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking! Last Line: Forty-eight, neneteen, twenty-three, o worlds in which I was alive! Subject(s): Home; Houses TO OUR GIRLS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Our country gives the sons that she has treasured Last Line: Give them a womanhood worth dying for! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women - Heroes TO OUR GOOD HOUSE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: This is our house for work and play Last Line: For us and you that come our way! Subject(s): Home; November TO THE ANDES, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Source First Line: Oh, how I miss you, mountains of my home Last Line: The summits of your rough and craggy heights! Subject(s): Forests; Home; Memory; South America TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON Poem Text First Line: Before the flag had floated free Last Line: But it made a woman of you! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War TO THE LITTLE HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little house, dear shabby street Last Line: But little queer suburban streets! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Home; Long Island (n.y.) TO THE MEMORY OF ... THOMAS DUDLEY ESQ., by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By duty bound and not by custom led Last Line: And when his time with years was spent, %if some rejoiced, more did lament Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And live I still to see relations gone Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO THIS HOUSE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am heaping the bones of the old mother Last Line: The sea and the secret earth gave bonds to affirm you Subject(s): Home TOUCHE, by RUTH STEWART SCHENLEY Poem Text First Line: Your little cat is soft and warm Last Line: And slams the door! Subject(s): Home TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. HOME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among all men my home is: I have seen them Last Line: All evil. Subject(s): Home TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I AM A VOICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a voice singing the song of deliverance Last Line: The song of joy—of deliverance. Subject(s): Happiness; Home; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs TRAIN, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Train skims fields like a low-flying Last Line: As weeds beside the rail bed Subject(s): Commuters; Home; Railroads; Roads; Travel TRAVELED, by LUCY LOUISE HATCHER Poem Text First Line: I've seen the blue of italian skies Last Line: Though I've remained at home. Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips TWO ENIGMAS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name any gentlemen you spy Last Line: Forth from the sanctuary of home. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): New Enigmas Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Home; Wandering & Wanderers TWO PICTURES, by ANNIE DOUGLAS GREEN ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: An old farm-house, with meadows Last Line: "how happy I should be!" Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Marian Subject(s): Home UNDER SATURN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not because this day I have grown saturnine Last Line: November 1919 Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Home; Promises; Writing & Writers UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 5. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A naked house, a naked moor Last Line: Of days and seasons doth suffice. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Home UNSPOKEN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a straight-laid, bordered path Last Line: Thus the silence tells the agony and pain. Subject(s): Home; Man-woman Relationships; Peace; Silence; Sleep; Male-female Relations UP LIFE'S HILL WITH MY LITTLE BUNDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Homelessness, for home Variant Title(s): Poem: 1010; Poem: 101 Subject(s): Home UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness VACATION, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Where am I going? Damn if I know Last Line: My folks expect I'll stick at home. Subject(s): Home; Vacation VAIN DREAMS, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY Poem Text First Line: Had I but an acre of loam on hill or valley Last Line: Holds no more for me than a fickle dream that fades. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares VERSES WRITTEN AFTER FACING WINDSOR CASTLE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From beauteous windsor's high and story'd halls Last Line: Prefers to all his little straw-built home. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Home; Windsor Castle VIOLIN SONGS: FOOLISH CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking in the night to pray Last Line: Make us good as we go home. Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: LOVE IS HOME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the part, and love is the whole Last Line: Home unto thee, we are coming home! Subject(s): Creation; God; Home; Love; Nature VISIT HOME, by WILLIAM FABRYCKI Poem Source First Line: In her picnic basket Last Line: In the old farmhouse of my father. %it is my visit Subject(s): Family Life; Home VISTAS OF LABOR: 3. IN A SWEATSHOP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pent in, and sickening for one wholesome draught Last Line: That on the morrow they must meet again. Subject(s): God; Home; Justice; Sin; Soul; Sweatshops; Sweating System WAIT, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The day slows, fills Last Line: Is making his way across the universe Subject(s): Absence; Cuba; Home; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Waiting WALKEN HWOME AT NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You then, vor me, meade up your mind Last Line: I'll leäd ye right, you needèn doubt. Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WAR TIME, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun doesn't rise one day Subject(s): War - Home Front; Morning WASHING THE DARLINGS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Mornings he wasn't crocked on ripple Last Line: And rinse %till the water came sparkling Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Schools WATER, WINTER, FIRE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little light of dawn Last Line: Now it is useless to be home. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Home; Loss; Water; Winter; Dead, The WE GO HOME, by A. MARY MURPHY Poem Source Last Line: To give her %things I might like Subject(s): Farm Life; Home WEATHER, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: When I used to stay at my brother's Last Line: My brother or my blood or my teaching Subject(s): Brotherhood; Home WEYLA'S SONG, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art orplede, my land Last Line: Kings, thy worshipers and watchers mild. Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich Subject(s): Home; Praise; Travel; Journeys; Trips WHAT IS HOME?, by WINIFRED W. GARDNER Poem Text First Line: Home is not a palace gay Last Line: Where these are found, home is the best. Subject(s): Home WHAT MAKES A HOME?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That love / and a few plain household treasures are Subject(s): Home WHAT MY HOUSE WOULD BE LIKE IF IT WERE A PERSON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This person would be an animal. Subject(s): Home; Relationships WHAT SHE WAS DOING AT HOME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was there -- unfair Last Line: Wearing a cool rag pressed between her eyes. Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Schools; Childhood; Students WHAT THAT STREET IS CALLED, by ELENA SHVARTS Poem Source First Line: What that street is called - you may read it on the sigh Last Line: Playing the slavyanka, down it drops, %my 'paradise' Subject(s): Home WHEATFIELDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I have come back to the wheatfields Last Line: I am a body among the shadows %birds gather around me Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Home; Paintings And Painters WHEN A BOY PLAYS IN THE YARD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: For fear some folks are reading Subject(s): Boys; Play; Home Life; Manners WHEN SHE COMES HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes home again! A thousand ways Last Line: Again is hidden in the old embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Kisses; Love; Tears WHEN THE COWS COME HOME, by AGNES E. MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: With klingle, klangle, klingle, / way down the dusty dingle Last Line: When the cows come home. Subject(s): Cows; Home WHERE HOME IS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have a cottage by the lake Last Line: Wherever mother is is home. Subject(s): Home WHERE I ONCE LIVED AS SHOWN TO A FRIEND, by TOM FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: My 'home-seat' is down there Last Line: As either an adult toy store or a pancake house Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home WHERE THE KETTLE SINGS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like to walk the quiet streets Last Line: That peace is where the kettle sings. Subject(s): Home WHERE WE LIVE NOW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live here because the houses Subject(s): Home; Family Life; Relatives WHICH?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Which shall it be? Which shall it be? Last Line: "thankful to work for all the seven, / trusting the rest to one in heaven" Variant Title(s): Not One To Spare Subject(s): Home;love WHILE I WAS WRITING, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: While I was writing, a tree slowly began to grow through my Last Line: Palm. That's what I asked for; like one with a great thirst Subject(s): Home; Solitude WHY WAIT? DO IT NOW: 2. ON BRIGHTNESS AND YOU, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come home with roses Last Line: The road was narrow and not much traveled Subject(s): Home; Roads; Travel WILDFLOWER WALK, EAST TENNESSEE, by LIZ MCGEACHY Poem Source First Line: Here, it is not possible to drag along Last Line: Humming as you wander along Subject(s): Home; Solitude; Tennessee WINTER'S EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou of home the guardian lar Last Line: And open its shy midnight rose! Subject(s): Fireplaces; Home WITH THE WORLD, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to finish Last Line: Thinking he's off-camera. Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love; Quarrels; War; War - Home Front; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Arguments; Disagreements WORD ABOUT WOODPILES, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life isn't dreary, %nor altogether hard Subject(s): Home; Wood WRIT IN A BOOK OF WELSH VERSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where I was bred Last Line: Old wars, old hungers, and old tears! Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Wales; Relatives; Welshmen; Welshwomen WRITTEN ON WHITSUN-MONDAY, 1795, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At an open window sitting Last Line: How sad would be our last adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Home YOUR HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the walls of a house are not build of wood, brick or stone" Last Line: "is god himself, the same who made the stars and built the world" Subject(s): Home YOUR LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST, by M. C. HAECKER Poem Text First Line: You call it your little gray home in the west Last Line: In your little gray home in the west. Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Home; Love; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States ZLOCHOV, MY HOME, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, zlochov, you my home, my town Last Line: My home, my zlochov Subject(s): Home; Zlochov, Galicia |
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