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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` , by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: More than air
Last Line: Don'tknow where I've gone
Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior


"CONDUCT, FR. THE MAHABHARATA", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day
Last Line: Another and a happier life for thee
Subject(s): Human Behavior;worship; Conduct Of Life;human Nature


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise men patience never want
Last Line: Whereon human love displays.
Subject(s): Love; Human Behavior


A COMMENT ON THE SCRIPTURE: 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD', JOHN, I,1, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beginning was the word - saith john
Last Line: That was in the beginning—is the end.
Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Life; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


A HOT DAY IN AGRIGENTO, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Temples look like discarded alphabets.
Subject(s): Thirst; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A KIND OF MUSIC, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irrelevance charactizes the behavior of our puppy
Subject(s): Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A LENTEN CALL, by HILDA JOHNSON WISE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas the second of march, in the present year
Last Line: To the world, the flesh and the devil.
Subject(s): Devil; Human Behavior; Lent; Lust; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


A LITTLE MADNESS IN THE SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if it were his own!
Subject(s): Spring; Human Behavior


A MAN WALKS BY WITH A LOAF OF BREAD ON HIS SHOULDER, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How speak of the not-I without crying out?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


A NEW LIFESTYLE, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People in this town drink too much
Subject(s): Coffee; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray
Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A PARABLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: With limbs at rest on the earth's green breast
Last Line: The liberty they love.
Subject(s): Freedom; Human Behavior; Nature; Liberty; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A PLAQUE FOR FOREST PARK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The terrapin at times must surely tire
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me too brave to lie or be unkind
Last Line: Let me be joy, be hope! Let my life sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


A RULE OF LIFE, by LUCIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Use up thy store, for thou must die
Last Line: Expense and thrift in balance fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A SONG OF CONTRDICTIONS, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The passions, in festival meeting
Last Line: And light in the desolate soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A THOUGHT, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the harm that women have done
Last Line: To keep a small girl for the tenth of a year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door
Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ACCOUNTABILITY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Folks ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits
Last Line: Viney, go put on de kittle, I got one o' mastah's chickens.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ACTING SPOOKY, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time not a headless horeseman
Last Line: Just what is real - %right?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


ADVICE TO MY BEST BROTHER, COLONEL FRANCIS LOVELACE, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frank, wilt live handsomely? Trust not too far
Last Line: A cloudy tempest, and a too fair day.
Subject(s): Advice; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ANN PLATO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Day after day I sit and write
Last Line: Be ever our desires.
Subject(s): Advice; African Americans - Women; Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


AFTER HAYDN, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speeding around in a little car
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


AMUSED, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A muse. %the accidental thought
Last Line: Again. I'm late
Subject(s): Human Behavior


AN ESSAY ON MAN, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake, my st. John! Leave all meaner things
Last Line: And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race


ANGER, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy


ANGER, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis


ANIMAL CAUTION, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I touch the cairn
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Children; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Childhood


ANY WIFE, by ALBERTINE H. MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is the small familiar things that hurt
Last Line: So faulty and so human, but so dear.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


APATHY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking, you sag. Fatigue is different: the body, like steps
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


APOLOGY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, darling, darling, do not frown
Last Line: I would break my own to give!
Subject(s): Regret; Human Behavior


ARCHEOLOGIES, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder about all the thoughts
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ARRANGEMENTS, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like a manuever that doesn't start in silence
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ARTHUR'S WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm getting better, miriam, though it tires me yet to speak
Last Line: A trouble to myself, and, worse, a trouble now to you.
Subject(s): Marriage; Human Behavior


ASPECTS OF ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robinson at cards at the algonquin
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ASPECTS OF ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robinson at cards at the algonquin
Last Line: Case, covert topcoat, clothes for spring, all covering %his sad and usual heart, dry as a winter lea
Subject(s): Human Behavior


AT 31 FLAVORS, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wait with two other women
Last Line: Leave, looking innocent. That's how all these things start
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Ice Cream; Social Problems


AT LONG LAST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained
Last Line: Is never paid in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves
Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


BALLADE OF WENCHES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Peddle indulgences, as you may
Last Line: Taverns and wenches, every whit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


BANG, I GOTCHA, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never needed you anyway, so there!'
Last Line: Turn, %and run
Subject(s): Human Behavior


BANKING RULES, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was standing in line at the bank and
Subject(s): Banks & Bankng' Human Behavior


BECAUSE FULFILLMENT AWAITS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An arm reaching back through a hole in a ceiling
Last Line: To create a bright new past one creates it
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Past; Poisons And Poisoning


BEHAVE, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: On tv when the cops crash through your door they scream
Last Line: It had worked, it always knew it hadn't
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Self


BEING TOUGH, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She won't say what she wants
Last Line: Her eyes say something else
Subject(s): Human Behavior


BLEAK HOUSE, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drunks in the courtyard, dung and driftwood
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


BLOWN AWAY, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was never a rep like tony's
Last Line: Before he's blown away
Subject(s): Human Behavior


BODY, by ALISSA LEIGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Map of terror and pleasure
Last Line: Opaque from its own breath on the glass
Subject(s): Bodies; Human Behavior


BRAIN CHILDREN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mother brain, through tidal ebb and flow
Last Line: Immutable as deity itself!
Subject(s): Children; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


BREAKING FREE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Freedom has no closets
Last Line: So it can soar within
Subject(s): Human Behavior


CANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy
Last Line: Get everlasting bliss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nicest child I ever knew
Last Line: Simply doing right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


CHOICE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can scold %or we can converse
Last Line: One or the other...%but not both
Subject(s): Human Behavior


CHOOSE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The single clenched fist lifted and ready
Last Line: For we meet by one or the other.
Subject(s): Anger; Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


CLASSIC BALLROOM DANCES, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandmothers who wring the necks
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


CONFIDENTIALLY SPEAKING, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We don't publicize
Last Line: For a moment - %we connect
Subject(s): Human Behavior


CONTRADICTORY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We contradictory creatures
Last Line: Naked and cold, and desolate enough.
Subject(s): Human Behavior


CONTRAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world has many seas, mediterranean, atlantic, but
Last Line: Mind to stand with the trees, one life with / the mountains
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world
Last Line: That talk shifts the cycle of the scenes of kings?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women


CRAWLING OUT AT PARTIES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My old reptile loves the scotch
Last Line: The stagnant, sobering water.
Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Parties; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


CRAZY CHRISTOPHER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neighbored by a maple wood
Last Line: That could half believe him wise.
Subject(s): Solitude; Human Behavior; Insanity; Wisdom


CREATIVE GRADES, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Creative does
Last Line: Grades its own neglect
Subject(s): Human Behavior


CROSSING, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little twig in the green shuffled her tennies
Last Line: She was about to say something
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Streets


DAYS, by ELIOT KAYS STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How can I tell which days have yielded fruit?
Last Line: Shall on the last day bring me blame or praise?
Subject(s): Day; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: IN THE SUBWAY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the subway, the suffragette, with an ugliness
Last Line: A final spark of blood in his cler eyes that are weak and blue
Subject(s): Diaries; Human Behavior; Racism


DICKHEAD, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Alienation (social); Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


DIFFERENT FIT, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes %I feel so different
Last Line: Standing out %in neon socks?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


DIFFERENT MINDS, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some murmur when their sky is clear
Last Line: Such rich provision made.
Variant Title(s): Content [and Discord]
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


DISAPPOINTMENT, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Disappointment!
Last Line: When I tried to express my pain
Subject(s): Human Behavior


DISTICHS AND SAWS, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhyme the rudder is of verses
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Rhyme


DREAM ON, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people go their whole lives
Subject(s): Dreams; Human Behavior; Nightmares; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


DRUNK, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The churl swings his caloused hands against the city's
Last Line: The churl smiles and staggers.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


DUCKING OUT, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A drive-by
Last Line: But I won't bleed for you
Subject(s): Human Behavior


DWARF AND GIANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As on through life's journey we go,day by day
Last Line: "and dare for the right to say always, ""I can!"
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Idleness; Life; Perseverance; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


ELEMENTAL, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why don't people leave off being lovable
Last Line: I am sick of lovable people, %somehow they are a lie
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Human Behavior


END OF THE WORLD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young in school in switzerland, about the time of the boer
Last Line: And the earth flourish long after mankind is out
Subject(s): Doomsday; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ENVY; A FRAGMENT, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye pleasing dreams of heavenly poesy
Last Line: But transient still and vain are envy's wretched joys.
Subject(s): Envy; False Accusations; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


EPISTLE TO HER FRIENDS AT GARTMORE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My gartmore friends a blessing on ye
Last Line: And just does nothing all the day!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


EVOLUTION, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tv came %out of radio
Last Line: I want it soon
Subject(s): Human Behavior


FABLE: THE BEAU AND THE VIPER, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All wise philosophers maintain
Last Line: Be still, be humble, and adore!'
Subject(s): Animals; Creation; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


FACES, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faces mirror %faces
Last Line: The symphony %alilve?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


FACES IN FRONT OF THE WALL, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Humble is the charity of early mornings. Everything that happens then
Last Line: Crumbling in our fingers. In vain we try: we're less than a footnote
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Morning; Night


FAMILY ROMANCE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the shrink you pay
Last Line: Of a creek gone dry
Subject(s): Human Behavior


FAST CHUCK, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one said chuckie
Last Line: But how far?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


FAST LOVE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kissing kristin's popular
Last Line: What's out-of-stock %at home
Subject(s): Human Behavior


FEAR, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Afraid / of dark? That putting out the light
Last Line: But glad for every day, when in god's keeping.
Subject(s): Fear; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


FEARE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man must do well out of a good intent
Last Line: Not for the servile feare of punishment.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


FINALS, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The accident
Last Line: No good-byes
Subject(s): Human Behavior


FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Advice; Girls; Coming Of Age; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


FOR REAL, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time %not a movie
Last Line: Turn my back %and exit right
Subject(s): Human Behavior


FURTHER TOYS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The janitor washing the blackboard
Last Line: Ripples across the sky overhead / brilliant afternoon
Variant Title(s): Toys
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, no more of grief and dying!
Last Line: We arise to be your masters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Grief; Human Behavior; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


GET IT IN GEAR, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: If love is a go
Last Line: Love's out of commission
Subject(s): Human Behavior


GETTING TOLD, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mama, she told me, 'be careful.'
Last Line: The boy, he told me he loved me
Subject(s): Human Behavior


GIRL, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were about to eat, when the girl shook out her precious
Last Line: Hand, she led me onto the dance floor
Subject(s): Child Psychology; Children; Human Behavior


GUN, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm smarter
Last Line: You've ripped off who I am
Subject(s): Human Behavior


HANS READING, HANS SMOKING, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say
Subject(s): Reading; Smoking; Human Behavior; Family Life; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Relatives


HARD WEATHER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bursts from a rending east in flaws
Last Line: The station for the flight of soul.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Weather; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


HEAR IT?, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't want to talk about it
Last Line: Can't you hear?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


HEARTBEAT OF THE WOODS, by ALICE DERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a grouse hidden somewhere inside
Last Line: Lie in the clumps of phlox and primrose %their white blinding in windy sunshine
Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Marriage; Solitude


HERE AND NOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in the heart of the world
Last Line: Here, should we labor and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


HOMECOMING, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look here. %I'm talking football
Last Line: You don't even speak my language
Subject(s): Human Behavior


HONESTY, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Honesty %trying
Last Line: Of %lying
Subject(s): Human Behavior


HOW HUMAN NATURE DOTES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go we anywhere %creation after this?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1417; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Human Behavior


HOW LITTLE CURIOUS IS MAN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Six feet from where his grovelling feet do stand
Subject(s): Life; Human Behavior


HOW THEY CONJUGATE 'TO HAVE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a man of aspect wise
Last Line: "that men may have me,"" answers he."
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last evening the moon rose above this rock
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last evening the moon rose above this rock
Last Line: That they had left, heroic sound %joyous and jubilant and sure
Subject(s): Human Behavior


HYMN TO LIFE, by KIM HYUN-SUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What of a life of struggle?
Last Line: Be enduring, joyful and sad %after we are dead
Subject(s): Human Behavior


I MADE MY BED, by ALICE LEE EDDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, I have made my bed; now I will lie
Last Line: Perhaps you're wrong, -- perhaps, I like my bed.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you
Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son!
Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IF A CAMEL CAN STRETCH IT'S MUZZLE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For three hours, then rowed my blue %so I can
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Camels; Human Behavior; Nature


IF MY HAND, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If my hand believes
Last Line: Each death affirmative
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Death; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Dead, The


IF WE HAD BUT A DAY, by MARY LOWE DICKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We should fill the hours with the sweetest things
Last Line: If we had but a day.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IF YOU MADE GENTLER THE CHURLISH WORLD, by MAX EHRMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you have spoken something beautiful
Last Line: If you have made gentler the churlish world.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IN PRAISE OF DIVERSITY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since the ingenious earth began
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IN SEASOON, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is the summmer for
Last Line: Its destiny %to bloom?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


IN STRANGE EVENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the moon set, and all the stars, and still no meaning came, or
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Enemies; Hate; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL, by LESLIE SCALAPINO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seeing as I was willng to give up my seat for the person who said
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Love - Erotic; Human Behavior; Nursing (infants); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


INVESTMENTS, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Securities %I've borrowed
Last Line: In trust %for future trade
Subject(s): Human Behavior


IRONY, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Irony; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IT DON'T TAKE MUCH, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It don't take much to make men glad
Last Line: That's all they need -- it don't take much.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IT TAKES ALL SORTS OF IN AND OUTDOOR SCHOOLING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To get adapted to my kind of fooling
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


IT WASN'T ME, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I recall a miser's
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


JEALOUS, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: One on one, %jealous
Last Line: And just about as fun
Subject(s): Human Behavior


JOHNNY RIGHT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Johnny right, his hand was brown
Last Line: Her own self had evoked her fate.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Human Behavior; Optimism; Pessimism; Fate; Alcoholism & Alcoholics


JUST NOT YET, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soon the ground %will be pushing up daisies
Last Line: Just %not %yet
Subject(s): Human Behavior


JUST SAY NO?, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fine words on a billboard
Last Line: And so I just say, %not today
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LEAVING MESSAGES, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I talked to mary-virginia
Last Line: And finally talked to you
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling
Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Poetry & Poets; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LIES, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I got burned, but
Last Line: That let my hurting %hide
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dare not venture now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 698; Poem: 72
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LIFE'S MIRROR, by MARY AINGE DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave
Last Line: And the best will come back to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Virtue; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LIKE HORSES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In their long black coat they love the back roads
Last Line: They never will
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Trust


LIVE BLINDLY; SONNET, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Live blindly and upon the hour. The lord
Last Line: And all his island shivered into flowers.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LIVING THE QUIET LIFE, by LU QINGZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Closing the gate
Last Line: A stringless zither
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LOOKING AT MT. MUDUNG, by SUH JUNG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poverty is a mere label for rags and tatters
Last Line: We must go with the belief that we will endure %like hidden jewels with green moss richly gathered
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LOST IN LOVE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A balloon %one night
Last Line: As off we drifted %into space
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LOVE AND HOW IT BECOMES IMPORTANT IN OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who tells you which is the whiter wash
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LOVE IN THE CITY OF LIGHT BENT BACK, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being deceives, they believe: their existence
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


LUCY ONE-EYE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The darling girl
Subject(s): Women; Human Behavior


MAJOR DIFFERENCES, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wenever %your kind sticks together
Last Line: We both react the same?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


MAN'S MISSION, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Human lives are silent teaching
Last Line: So to love, and work, and die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer
Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness


MEANT FOR FUN, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was just for fun
Last Line: That all of us would lose?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


MIDNIGHT, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When it's sunday
Last Line: Why can't I get to sleep?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


MONKEYS SEARCH EACH OTHER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of our advancement
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Monkeys; Nature


MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall
Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet.
Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady
Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


MOVEMENT, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Move with the times?
Last Line: To the wheels' rattle, %as life puts on speed
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Human Behavior


MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


MY PLAN, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: As soon as I can
Last Line: Because I can
Subject(s): Human Behavior


MYSELF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have to live with myself, and so
Last Line: Self-respecting and conscience free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Self; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


MYSTERY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sow the glebe, we reap the corn
Last Line: Soon large enough for death.
Variant Title(s): Human Life's Mystery
Subject(s): God; Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


MYSTIQUE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No man has seen the third hand
Last Line: Of our hunger or of our giving
Subject(s): Human Behavior


NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 27TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take thou no care how to defer thy death
Last Line: I say he only was, he did not live.
Subject(s): Health; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


NIGHT-MUSIC, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When those who can never again forgive themselves
Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Human Behavior; Bedtime; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And the beating of my heart.
Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's none of your business,' means
Last Line: I'll do it my way
Subject(s): Human Behavior


NORMAL BEHAVIOR OF THE FAMAS, by JULIO CORTAZAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happened that a fama was dancing respite and dancing
Last Line: And the fama understood, and his solitude was less %embittered
Subject(s): Anger; Human Behavior; Solitude


NOTHING IS GIVEN: WE MUST FIND OUR LAW, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We learn to pity and rebel
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Variant Title(s): In Time Of War: 2
Subject(s): Human Behavior


NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the valley
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste


O'ER THE WIDE EARTH, ON MOUNTAIN AND ON PLAIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of man converse with immortality?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


ODES II, 10. TO LICINIUS MURENA: THE GOLDEN MEAN, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Better will you live, o licinius
Last Line: Reef your sails when they are swollen by too fair a wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Human Behavior


ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass
Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading


ON THE FALL OF MAN, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of man's obedience, while in eden blest
Last Line: Right reason, scripture, and the love divine.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Obedience; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race


ON THE RISE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everybody's changing
Last Line: (and who?) %would melt
Subject(s): Human Behavior


ON THE VERGE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look inside this block of marble
Last Line: A profile %trying to emerge
Subject(s): Human Behavior


ONE BARRED OWL HARRIED BY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A thief besieged by thieves
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Nature


ONE OF MANY (1), by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I have not done the things I know
Last Line: That we, and not our stars, our fates assign.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Fate


OTHERWISE ELSEWHERE, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere over there the lawyer with a yellowish leaf in his hair;
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


OVER AND OVER TUNE, by IOANNA CARLSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You could grow into it, / that sense of living like a dog
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PAPER FISHES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The paper carp
Subject(s): Fish; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is random as a rolled pair of dice
Last Line: Love life's randomness: the rolled pair of dice.
Subject(s): Chance; Heaven; Human Behavior; Life; Paradise; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PARTY KNEE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To drink in moderation, and to smoke
Last Line: A buffered aspirin for a splitting leg
Subject(s): Parties; Human Behavior


PEOPLE WHO EAT IN COFFEE SHOPS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Food Habits; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PETITION FOR REPLENISHMENT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do not mean to complain. We know how it is
Last Line: We are here. Still breathing and constellated
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Deception; Human Behavior


PLUSH, by HOWARD BUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: How placidly the window goddesses
Last Line: Of silks and furs and rugs and plush.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry :
Subject(s): Children; Youth; Comng Of Age; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


POEMS FROM LEFT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's something wrong that can't be salved
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


POEMS FROM RIGHT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right as rain yoju are, rain that shrivels
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PROLOGUE, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In winter’s spider-eyed light strung through steam grates, the
Last Line: Lover boy & philly boy. Wanna-be’s and gonna-be’s
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


PROMISCUOUS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mixes easily, dictionaries
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


REAL CASE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doubtful, I have a fever
Last Line: Tomorrow, %I'll come around
Subject(s): Human Behavior


RECIPE FOR LIVING, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some things a man must surely know
Last Line: A faith in man, a trust in god.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


RECYCLING CENTER, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gloria's good at - other people's
Last Line: Other people's trash
Subject(s): Human Behavior


RED BRICKS AND CAMPHOR TREES, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mandolin from the madhouse
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


REVERIE IN OPEN AIR, by RITA DOVE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I acknowledge my status as a stranger
Last Line: But news of a breeze
Subject(s): Air; Calm; Human Behavior; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


ROOT BOUND, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeping willow %leafy fireworks
Last Line: The boundaries of practical %with me
Subject(s): Human Behavior


ROUND, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody's alone in his head, somebody's a kid,
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


RULES FOR A HOLY LIFE, by GEORGE DOUGHTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Apparel sober, neat, comely
Last Line: Will constant, ready, obedient, %works profitable, holy, useful
Subject(s): Human Behavior


RUMORS, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Garbage in. %garbage out
Last Line: Is automatically deleted
Subject(s): Human Behavior


RUN AWAY, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw jolynn just once
Last Line: She just looks tired
Subject(s): Human Behavior


SAME AS YOUJ, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I put my pants on one day at a time.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Does anyone ever forget
Last Line: Mature into insecure tears?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


SECRET SONNET, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I gently plucked a kiss from your left ear
Last Line: The private chance to savor just one kiss
Subject(s): Human Behavior


SEVEN STREAMS OF NEVIS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jack the blindman, whose violin
Last Line: In the heart's hell you have it; call it love
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Human Behavior; Sin; Love; Suicide


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis
Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart.
Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students


SOAP, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joey is outraged at pacey's advance
Last Line: Ends in a welter of puke, shite and claret
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Television


SONG OF THE CONTRARIES, by MOSSEN JORDI DE SAN JORDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: From day to day I learn but to unlearn
Last Line: To craftiest fox the gentlest lambkin grows
Subject(s): Human Behavior


SONGS WITHOUT SHADOWS, by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day
Last Line: I don't know what I will shout in you streets
Subject(s): Death; Greed; Human Behavior; Wanderers And Wandering


SONNET ALL MY OWN, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Success is not a flowery bouquet
Last Line: It outlasts any compliment on loan
Subject(s): Human Behavior


SONNET: 2, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white
Last Line: No matter by what hand or trick.
Variant Title(s): Truth In Love
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


SPENDRIFT, by BLOSSOM BENNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The golden hours that april brought are spent
Last Line: Should learn to choose more wisely when I buy.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


STAR TEACHERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as a bird sprays many-coloured fires
Last Line: Are stars and deeps within.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Light; Stars; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


STILL LIFE WITH SLEEP, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We move in a breaking up of silence,
Last Line: Amorphous days are waiting for their birth.
Subject(s): Human Behavior


STOP ME!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop me, good people! Don't you see
Last Line: Help, shame, caution, love, wisdom, and all!
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


STRANGE, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange with women when
Last Line: On the mouth again
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Women; Human Behavior


TEAM PLAYERS, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Teammates side by side
Last Line: Must fun get obsolete?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THE 'OTHER MAN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If every man would do the things the 'other man' should do
Last Line: "if every man would think himself to be the ""other man."
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE ANSWER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then what is the answer?- not to be deluded by dreams.
Last Line: Or drown in despair when his days darken
Subject(s): Integrity; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE AUTHOR'S MANNER OF LIVING, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On rainy days I dine alone
Last Line: I pay my club, and so god b' y' --
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE BLAME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You blame yourself
Last Line: Is it the sun's fault that we cannot bear his rays?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me
Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin.
Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE BROKEN BALANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways,
Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces
Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE CALL, by THOMAS OSBERT MORDAUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
Last Line: Is worth an age without a name.
Variant Title(s): The Reply
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE CHAIN OF EVENTS, by CLYDE G. SPEAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down, down into that pit they slip
Last Line: Prevent our reaching for the moon!
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE CHANGES, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: People don't act
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE CHOICE, by JOHN POMFRET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If heaven the grateful liberty would give
Last Line: All men would wish to live and die like me
Subject(s): Contentment; Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE CONFESSION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I haven't always acted good
Last Line: "and I'm your god, and you're my man."
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE COURAGE TO BE NEW, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the world reciting
Last Line: And their courage to be new
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE DANCE, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, reason, hate, did once bespeak
Last Line: So love and folly were in hell.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE DOOR, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is hard going to the door
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE FUTURE VERDICT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How will our unborn children scoff at us
Last Line: "cry ""o what fools were we!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is the happy warrior? Who is he
Last Line: That every man in arms should wish to be.
Variant Title(s): Character Of The Happy Warrior
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Soldiers; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE HEART IS NOT SATISFIED, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior


THE HEART UPON THE SLEEVE, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear heart, behold you bound
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE HIVE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: To do something with it: to make something of it
Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: God sometimes sends
Last Line: Beneath the sod.
Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Humanity; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Male-female Relations


THE INNOCENTS, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one
Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE LION AND THE DOG, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let who think of what they will
Subject(s): Lions; Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little man dwelt in a little town
Last Line: A little worm is working on him now
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life;human Nature


THE LONG DAY, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning I ate a banana
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE LOOK OF THEE, WHAT IS IT LIKE?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That thou shalt be the same
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THE MEASURE OF A MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not - 'how did he die?' but - 'how did he live?'
Last Line: "but -- ""how many were sorry when he passed away?"
Subject(s): Human Behavior;truth;virtue; Conduct Of Life;human Nature


THE OAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Live thy life / young and old
Last Line: Naked strength.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Oak Trees; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twice you have been around the world
Last Line: Woman, that is
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips


THE PATH OF LIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first to youth's enchanted eyes
Last Line: And bid thy heart be gay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE PEOPLE, by TOMASSO CAMPANELLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The people is a beast of muddy brain
Last Line: To tell this truth, it kills him unforgiven.
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hate the people of this village
Subject(s): Villages; Hate; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE PERFECT LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Who knows the perfect life on earth?
Last Line: And not inflict it on another?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE PILGRIM SOUL, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the winding mazes of windy streets
Last Line: That all who beheld him were born once again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Mankind; Human Behavior; Human Race; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE ROVER, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day is full of busy-ness
Last Line: And make me sleep till day?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE SEASON, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And must I wear a silken life
Last Line: Would never do for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this world's friends might see but once
Last Line: Till the white-winged reapers come!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


THE SLEEPING CITY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A princess in the eastern tale
Last Line: Its latest life beyond recall.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Sin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enthused I went to yale, enthused
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Wit & Humor; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took his hand
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness


THE SUMMONS, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all who love the best
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE TWO WALLETS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why humankind should ever be
Last Line: The hinder pocket with our own.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE UNCONCERNED; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that the world is all in a maze
Last Line: And keep himself safe from the noise of gun.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WAY IT IS, by MARK STRAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie in bed
Subject(s): Modern Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sneer and we laugh with the lip
Last Line: Very well! There is somewhere a nemesis waiting for you.
Subject(s): Desire; Human Behavior; Self-righteousness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WAY TO LIVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A man and a woman got married one day
Last Line: And if we can't get on we may think it strange
Subject(s): Human Behavior;marriage; Conduct Of Life;human Nature;weddings;husbands;wives


THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs
Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WILL TO LIVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since faith is a veil that has nothing behind it
Last Line: Still one can go and pick daisies with molly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Live like the wind, he said, 'unfettered'
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black
Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.'
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THEODORA, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By that name you will not know her
Last Line: "I am desolate, forsaken!"
Subject(s): Women; Human Behavior


THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE TO GET DIRTY, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Tea; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THINGS WE THOUGHT THAT WE SHOULD DO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Untenable to logic %but possibly the one
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1293; Poem: 127
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O grief, o spite, to see poor virtue scorned
Last Line: And the true wisdom that is just and plain.
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THIS BOOK IS FOR MAGDA, by LEW WELCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: What strange pleasure do they get who'd
Last Line: Now and then a son, a daughter %gets away
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THIS HEAT, THESE HUMAN FORMS, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two years ago, while crossing the street, a group of boys came
Last Line: It is difficult enough without your body in the world
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Human Behavior; Childhood Memories; Horses


THIS IS LIVING, by LUCILLE IREDALE CARLESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said: / I shall write poignant bitter words
Last Line: But then -- this is living!
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THIS IS THE STONE, by ALISON CROGGON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's when you want to shrug it all off
Last Line: This is the stone you work on
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Human Rights; Stones


THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN NATURE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong passions draw, like horses that are strong
Last Line: As god's unerring spirit shall inspire.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THREE STEPS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three steps there are our human life must climb
Last Line: As touches the white rose and mystic dove.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


TIME OF DISTURBANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive
Last Line: To strike dead than strike often. It is better not to strike
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


TO KEEP ONE'S TREASURE PROTECTED, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the lump of coal the flame lies hidden
Last Line: A sigh – isn't it like a scream turned inward?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


TO S-----D (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You all your youth observed the golden rule
Last Line: Mine is the flesh the bones may be your share
Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


TOO HUMAN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many are strong enough to reject riches?
Last Line: And the scourge of need.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


TOUGH ENOUGH?, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hey there, %tough guy
Last Line: But I could use %a smile
Subject(s): Human Behavior


TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile
Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


TRUE GREATNESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sad that all great things are sad
Last Line: With baby flowers at his feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


TWELVE ARTICLES, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lest it may more quarrels breed
Last Line: And continue special friends.
Subject(s): Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


TWO BY TWO, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I'd like to party, party, party
Last Line: If we're going to get along
Subject(s): Human Behavior


UN-NAMED, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Instinct %leads the cat to hunt
Last Line: No matter what they're named?
Subject(s): Human Behavior


UNCONSCIOUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds, the stars, and the skies though
Last Line: Nor heeds the fire in his hearth and home.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


UNTIL, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was nothing
Last Line: Almost, until
Subject(s): Human Behavior


UNTIL DEATH, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend
Last Line: But while I live, be true!
Subject(s): Fidelity; Human Behavior; Faithfulness; Constancy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


UPON THE WEAKNESS AND MISERY OF MAN, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our pains are real things, and all
Subject(s): Human Behavior


URBAN GALLERY, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the wind invades the treetops
Subject(s): Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


VELVET DUETS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A couple seeks a corner table in a restaurant where they may dine unobserved
Last Line: Faces aglow as they enter the night air from the sill
Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Man-woman Relationships; Sex


VERSES: THE THIRD BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crime in a poet, sirs, to steal a thought?'
Last Line: Sluggishly saunt'ring forth, makes none of them his own.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Human Behavior; Plagiarism; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


VISIONS IN VERSE: 1. SLANDER, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lovely girl, I write for you
Last Line: And skulk'd away to shun the light.
Subject(s): Defamation; Human Behavior; Slander; Libel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


VISIONS IN VERSE: 8. LIFE, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let not the young my precepts shun
Last Line: The genius suddenly withdrew.
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


WALKING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF CHANGE, by SARA HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day by day %a tightrope
Last Line: Real friends %form a net
Subject(s): Human Behavior


WE FLAP OUR GUMS, OUR WATTLES, OUR, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Watching the bellies of passing birds
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; Human Behavior; Nature


WHAT I LIVE FOR, by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I live for those who love me, / whose hearts are kind and true
Last Line: And the good that I can do.
Variant Title(s): Why Do I Live;my Aim
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology


WHAT LOVES, TAKES AWAY, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the nose of the pig in the market of firenze
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


WHO NEVER WANTED, - MADDEST JOY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Should disentrall thy soul
Subject(s): Human Behavior


WINNERS AND LOSERS, by BOYCE HOUSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men born in little towns
Last Line: You get the same total?
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Human Behavior; Prudence; Success; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caution


WORLD WITHIN A WAR, by HERBERT READ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sixteen years ago I built this house
Last Line: In a house beneath a beechwood %in an acre of wild land
Subject(s): Human Behavior


WORLDLY PLACE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even in a palace, life may be led well!
Last Line: "the aids to noble life are all within."
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


YEARS OF DISCRETION, by PHILODEMUS OF GADARA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have loved - but then who has not? Frolicked - who has not tasted
Alternate Author Name(s): Philodemos; Philodemus
Subject(s): Discretion; Human Behavior