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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HUMANITY Matches Found: 140 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 11/10 AGAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the radiance around the body Last Line: Encasing your human heart. Subject(s): Humanity; Spiritual Life A FOREST GRAVEYARD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The birds brood silent in the underbrush Last Line: Be I thy mourner, child, and thou my care! Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Humanity; Mourning; Nature; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A FRIENDLY EXPOSTULATION, CONCERNING THE REDEMPTION OF MANKIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a good sermon; but a close review Last Line: As that a line, if straight, can be but one. Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Redemption; Human Race A MEMORIAL ABSTRACT OF A SERMON PREACHED ON PROVERBS, XX, 27, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human spirit, when it burns and shines Last Line: And shine for ever in jehovah's sight. Subject(s): Humanity; Life; Nature; Sermons A PRIEST OF HUMANITY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of sorrows bitter-strange is wove his fate Last Line: More bitter is the grief that eats his heart! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A PRIMER OF THE DAILY ROUND, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A peels an apple, while b kneels to god Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Humanity A REVERIE, by CHARLES EDWIN SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: Far rolls the broad missouri's ochre flood Last Line: For cave-men of the twentieth century. Subject(s): Humanity A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A SUPPLICATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, we whose sturdy sires Last Line: Turn thou our souls from the dread glamour -- gold! Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Humanity; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology AGAINST THE FALSE MAGICIANS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poem must not charm us like a film [or, play] Last Line: The rituals of our humanity Subject(s): Humanity; Lies; Magic; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema AN HYMN TO HUMANITY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! For this dark terrestrail ball Last Line: With ev'ry heav'nly art. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ANATOMICAL SONG, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: I can't be had in furnished rooms Last Line: Even though our tongues are on the edge of convulsion Subject(s): Humanity; Language; Nature ANY COUNTRY CHURCH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A shaft of sunlight strikes, shines through Last Line: And fellow-convicts 'neath one self-same sentence ... Death. Subject(s): Candles; Churches; Easter; Holidays; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; The Resurrection; Sunday ARIEL'S REVENGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In olden time sprite ariel would fly Last Line: T is thou hast freed us, and we love thee well! Subject(s): Angels; Forgiveness; Humanity; Love; Clemency AT THE SHRINE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary BONES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Some think we make too much %of bones Last Line: You and I are only %an attractive tapestry %our bones flaunt Subject(s): Bones; Humanity BRIER; GOOD FRIDAY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because, dear christ, your tender, wounded arm Last Line: The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Catholics; Humanity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Selfishness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism BROTHERS: 5. THE ROAD LED FROM DELIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into delight, into the sharp Last Line: And so forth. Subject(s): Brothers; Humanity; Meditation; Half-brothers CHAPLINESQUE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We make our meek adjustments Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Humanity CHAPLINESQUE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We make our meek adjustments Last Line: Have heard a kitten in the wilderness Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Humanity CHRISTIAN HUMANITY, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: Each time (child of the puszta) I closed Last Line: We left it there. I - not looking back - %my humanity, a piece Subject(s): Christianity; Humanity; Hunting CHRISTMAS, 1917, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Is it a mocking jest that christmas bells Last Line: Let nations pass so man himself be free. Subject(s): Christmas; Freedom; Hate; Humanity; Social Protest; War; Nativity, The; Liberty COLD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When does the transmission come Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Loss; Zen Buddhism COUNTING THE MAD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This one was put in a jacket Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness COUNTING THE MAD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one was put in a jacket Last Line: And cried and cried no no no no %all day long Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest DAT'S RIGHT, AIN'T IT?, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De rich am gettin' richer Last Line: Ain't it? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Humanity; Social Classes; Upper Classes; Caste DEAR FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not my habit Last Line: From somebody else's life / any time Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity DEAR FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not my habit Last Line: From somebody else's life %any time Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity DUALITY, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: While feet plod down dim paths of earth Last Line: Clay-bound, but destined to arise. Subject(s): Humanity; Mortality; Soul DUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard them in their sadness say Last Line: And haunted by all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Earth; God; Humanity; Mankind; Dead, The; World; Human Race EACH AND [OR, IN] ALL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Last Line: I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Subject(s): Beauty; God; Humanity; Nature EPILOGUE TO FLEET STREET ECLOGUES, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Votary: what gloomy outland region have I won? Last Line: A tabernacle even with these ghastly bones. Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Earth; Humanity; Labor & Laborers; Prostitution; World; Work; Workers; Harlots; Whores; Brothels EVERY-DAY HEROES, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: I'll sing you a song with a full, deep breath Last Line: "in this sordid world there are heroes still." Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Humanity; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines FACES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the life of a crowded city Last Line: In the life of the crowded street. Subject(s): Faces; Humanity; Life FORMALITY AND THE SOUL: 1. JOHN SINGER SARGENT, by KARL W. BIGELOW Poem Text First Line: Day- / a formal garden carefully laid out Last Line: In the formal, artificial garden. Subject(s): Humanity; Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925); Social Classes; Caste FORMALITY AND THE SOUL: 2. JAMES MACNEIL WHISTLER, by KARL W. BIGELOW Poem Text First Line: Night- / a silver moonbeam on a golden strand Last Line: Flitting thru the night. Subject(s): Humanity; Whistler, James Abbott (1834-1903) FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MAN'S GUARD AGAINST DEATH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luckless man Last Line: As a sunbeam with motes. Subject(s): Death; Humanity; Mortality; Time; Dead, The GENIUS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two old dancing shoes my grandfather Subject(s): Humanity GENIUS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two old dancing shoes my grandfather Last Line: Or dew that won't wait long enough %to stand my little gray wren a drink Subject(s): Humanity GOD'S MASTERPIECE, US HUMANS, by ANNA JIRAK KRAUSE Poem Text First Line: They tell us that we have wheels in our Last Line: God, you created something there! Alternate Author Name(s): Gedanken, Ann Subject(s): Humanity GRISELDA: CHAPTER 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An idle story with an idle moral! Last Line: Was slow of speech, or that he slept too well! Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Marital; Novels & Novelists; Women; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HERE AND NOW, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hold that all mankind can be Last Line: The brotherhood of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Humanity HUMAN DEBASEMENT; A FRAGMENT, by EDWARD RUSHTON Poem Text First Line: In early days / if kings were made by men Last Line: All, all these works are thine! Subject(s): Freedom; Humanity; Men; Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Theology HUMAN PULSE, TIDAL PULL, by KATHY COFFEY Poem Source First Line: The cottage by the shore Last Line: We fill with mercy as the sea brims with light Subject(s): Humanity; Sea HUMANITY, by GOTTFRIED KINKEL Poem Text First Line: Unnumbered years the hoary earth Last Line: The jewel of humanity. Subject(s): Hearts; Humanity; Love HUMANITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though the accused, upon his own appeal Last Line: Which nothing less than infinite power could give. Subject(s): Humanity I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am happy, nothing can divide me Last Line: I see the white stuff and the black stuff and decide Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Humanity; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall not live in vain Subject(s): Humanity IN ONE OF ITALY'S CATHEDRALS, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: In one of italy's cathedrals, vast-domed Last Line: Seems beating out a prayer. Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Prayer; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures. Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness JARGON-JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tawdery! - faddery! Feathers Last Line: Heaven for nothin', and -- nobody there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Humanity; Paradise JOHN EVERYMAN, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In carrying more than mortals can Last Line: And this with all my heart I pray. Subject(s): Flowers; Humanity; Lilies JOSES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But never to catch the vision which glorified his clay. Variant Title(s): Joses, Brother Of Jesus Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling old men are stamm'ring Last Line: An ode to humanity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Humanity; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians NEW WINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When heaven opens its pincer jaws Last Line: And flies cleanthrough the human Subject(s): Heaven; Humanity; Wings O HADA CIBERNETICA: 15, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Father, mother, %how much you struggled Last Line: The face of an elm %or an owl's Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Humanity; Wages OLD STUFF, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fashion is to sneer at them, to mock and mouth and jeer at them Last Line: But, take 'em all in all, my son, the copybooks are right! Subject(s): Humanity ON A PIECE OF LIVERPOOL MASONIC WARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We help the poor in time of need Last Line: Where friendship rivets man to man %and makes us all as one Subject(s): Humanity ON THE DARING OF MAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O vessel bearing virgil greeceward now, Last Line: For our audacity thus perish, all? Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Hercules; Humanity; Mythology - Classical; Prometheus; Troy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW, 1860, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the west! We hail thee from afar! Last Line: To lead to heaven, and train for life on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Conventions; Glasgow, Scotland; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Social Problems; Assemblies; Meetings; Human Race ONE YEAR LATER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if, / then, / entering my room Last Line: Of regret? Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity ONE YEAR LATER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if, %then, %entering my room Last Line: The room, the bed, the poetry, %of regret Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity ORGAN SONGS: REJOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice,' said the sun; 'I will make thee gay Last Line: "and man said, ""I rejoice." Subject(s): God; Happiness; Humanity; Night; Sun; Wind; Joy; Delight; Bedtime OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eager youthful voice I hear Last Line: We ask, we hope we will receive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Humanity; Hunger; Salvation PEACE QUATRAIN, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: All peace-pact parchments of the world Last Line: The hearts of humankind. Subject(s): Humanity; Peace PEOPLE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was painting dolphins on a silver sea Last Line: "whoo-oop!"" I bellowed. ""who will? Who will? When?" Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Paintings & Painters; Human Race PRIMER OF THE DAILY ROUND, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A peels an apple, while b kneels to god Last Line: Who happens just now to remember a %peeling an apple somewhere far away Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Humanity PROPHECY, by LEONORA PEASE Poem Text First Line: When, formed by groping mind and tedious hand Last Line: It is the city that the dead have dreamed. Subject(s): Humanity; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RECESSIONAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, known of old Last Line: Thy mercy on thy people, lord! Variant Title(s): Lest We Forget! Subject(s): Faith; God; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humanity; Imperialism; Patriotism; Prayer; Religion; Soldiers; Wealth; Belief; Creed; British Empire; England - Empire; Theology; Riches; Fortunes RUINS REBUILT, by ADOLPH BOCK Poem Text First Line: God said, 'let there be light!' and lo! Last Line: Behold, humanity come forth to pray. Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Heaven; Humanity; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology SAINT JUDAS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went out to kill myself, I caught Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Humanity; Suicide SAINT JUDAS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went out to kill myself, I caught Last Line: I held the man for nothing in my arms Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Humanity; Suicide SAPPHICS AGAINST ANGER, by TIMOTHY REID STEELE Poem Source First Line: Angered, may I be near a glass of water Last Line: If not the holiest of powers, sustaining %only if mastered Subject(s): Anger; Humanity SEVENS (VERSION 3): IN THE CLOSED IRIS OF CREATION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of heavy scissors lay across the sky Last Line: Began to sever us Subject(s): Creation; Humanity; Life; Perception SO IT IS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So it is that men Last Line: Lies grief—asleep. Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Human Race SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SPERM, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: An oil slick polluting her canal Last Line: A lost civilization %a bedclothes stain Subject(s): Humanity STAMP COLLECTING, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poorest countries %have the prettiest stamps Last Line: And offer this: an unrelenting procession %of a grim, historic profile Subject(s): Humanity STARLIGHT REFLECTIONS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this grey column - overthrown Last Line: They shall not rise again! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Friendship; Humanity; Life STONES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, I went Last Line: Of the stones Subject(s): Humanity; Love STORIES THAT NEVER END WITH HEAVEN, by KRISTEN TRACY Poem Source First Line: People are what matter most Last Line: Like a bare bulb under a cracked ceiling Subject(s): Humanity STRANGER, STRANGER, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA Poem Source First Line: And when the assyrians stopped waging war against the Last Line: Continues to bury the dead on this wayward planet Subject(s): Death; Humanity; United Nations; War SUBWAY, by MARY HIGH GLADDING Poem Text First Line: She wore three bracelets that had once had stones Last Line: Too blunt to kill. Subject(s): Humanity; Subways SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) THE AWAKENING, by BERNARD WELLAND Poem Text First Line: I stand in endless space and see Last Line: The one clean drop has cleansed the well. Subject(s): Humanity THE BIG GAME, by ALEX. C. D. NOE Poem Text First Line: I may save a million pounds Last Line: And know I once was there. Subject(s): Fullness; Good Samaritan; Humanity; Life; Satiation THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the primeval father Last Line: Of human existence. Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Mortality; Human Race THE CANDLE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The life and death I once did mark Last Line: Converts ye candles into starrs. Subject(s): Candles; Christianity; Faith; Humanity; Youth; Belief; Creed THE CHIEF WITNESS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her that hath hid a babe beneath her breast Last Line: "through me the race aspires from man to man!" Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sons; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Much have we cursed the city. It has been Last Line: By secret acts of broad humanity. Subject(s): Cities; Humanity; Urban Life THE COAT OF FIRE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the thunders of the falling dark Last Line: The heedless world upon a heaving shoulder. Subject(s): Humanity THE CRIMSON MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the legions of the sun, the star battalions of the night Last Line: When the hidden people shall march out beneath the crimson moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Moon; Mortality; Redemption; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DIVINE NARCISSUS, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Human nature -- / ah, weary me! My perilous quest Last Line: And brilliant stars shall proudly borrow light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Humanity; Love THE DREAM OF DREAMS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: However real it seem, / sleeping we or waking Last Line: Life is a dream, a dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Humanity; Life; Nightmares THE FAIRY IN THE MEADOW, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came, stepping over the tall grasses Last Line: Why was he afraid of me? Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Fields; Humanity; Supernatural; Elves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE HERON, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you, my dear, about the heron I saw Last Line: And why, over and over again, must I write this poem? Subject(s): Animals; Herons; Humanity 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 JEST, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Stalking down stone corridors Last Line: See if the old gods will enjoy it! Subject(s): Humanity THE KINGDOM OF ALL-SOULS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard in my youth of a kingdom, lying far at the whole world's end Last Line: Majestical over my dark form that soul of morning towered. Subject(s): Christianity; Civilization; Humanity THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE PILL, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pill, in the pill bottle, humming like a wheel at rest, confident ... Last Line: Could have sworn that it could see them, and that it blinked. Subject(s): Humanity; Medicine; Reason; Self-consciousness; Drugs, Prescription; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 170, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The people I see in this world Last Line: I'd rather be poor in the woods Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Humanity; Poverty; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 72, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pigs devour dead human flesh Last Line: Lotuses will bloom in boiling soup Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Humanity; Pigs; Boars; Hogs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 93, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All kinds of people exist under heaven Last Line: I'd head east Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Humanity; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 18, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world has billions of people Last Line: And stop maligning others Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Humanity THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Servant of god! Thy soul's pure spring of life Last Line: No more thy captives, taken at thy will. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bible; God; Good; Humanity THE SILENT SISTERS OF THE POOR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Meekly, with folded hands and patient brows Last Line: Meekly, with patient brows and folded hands. Subject(s): Charity; Humanity; Nuns; Poverty; Philanthropy THE SOUL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is its own destiny Last Line: Behold the human soul! Subject(s): Humanity; Immortality; Soul THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE TRAVELING ONION, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think how far the onion has traveled Last Line: Disappear. Subject(s): Humanity; Onions THE UNMERCENARIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jolly good fellows who die for the death of it Last Line: Life often jests at what death makes immortal! Subject(s): Humanity;immortality;labor & Laborers THE VOICE OF HUMAN LABOR, by MRS. W. N. CARLETON Poem Text First Line: I am human labor Last Line: Shall be upon all nations. Subject(s): Humanity; 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 WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THE WHITE PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies not on the sunlit hill Last Line: Floods heart and brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Humanity; Peace THEY SAY THIS ISN'T A POEM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that is is a harmony Subject(s): Humanity THEY SAY THIS ISN'T A POEM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that is is a harmony Last Line: To grow old in his own home Subject(s): Humanity THIS IS NOT CALCUTTA, by BEATRIZ BADIKIAN Poem Source First Line: A scottish man knocks on a Last Line: What can I do for you my brother %my sister? Subject(s): Humanity; Kindness; Poetry And Poets TITANIC LITANY, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus! / prototypal christ, pre-crucified Last Line: Our supine crucifixion. Subject(s): Humanity; Prometheus; Trotsky, Leon (1879-1940) TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him. Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors TO HYMEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame Last Line: Nor knows the dread of death. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Faith; Friendship; God; Humanity; Life; Love; Maturity; Inspiration; Creativity; Belief; Creed TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 2. WILFUL WOMEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Women are wilful, and the kindest are Last Line: And makes me for the nonce a better man. Subject(s): Humanity; Wisdom; Women TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING AFTER CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday morning just after church -- and a light warm Last Line: Teeth. Subject(s): Churches; Humanity; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Sunday TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. YORK MINISTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solid and ghostly in the pale winter morning Last Line: To sit and sing—for pure joy simply to sit and sing! Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Democracy; God; Humanity; Nations; Cathedrals TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A MESSAGE COMMITTED TO THE WAVES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see the waters flowing as of old - dancing, rippling Last Line: Arise! For great is your triumph! Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Nature Of TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE TRIUMPH OF CIVILISATION, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the outskirts of a great city Last Line: Other than hers. Subject(s): Civilization; Humanity TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A MIGHTIER THAN MAMMON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, after centuries, when the tension and strain Last Line: And they achieved a real distinction, and the finest kind of aristocracy. Subject(s): Humanity; Modern Life; Nations; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SURELY THE TIME WILL COME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely the time will come when humanity will refuse to be diseased any longer Last Line: Warders and gaolers. Subject(s): Humanity TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE OCEAN OF SEX, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To hold in continence the great sea, the great ocean of sex, within one Last Line: Eternity. Subject(s): Humanity TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TO BECOME A CREATOR, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice saying Last Line: To the centre of all creation—to the heart indeed of all lovers. Subject(s): Creation; Emotions; God; Humanity TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer Last Line: Then pushed her over the edge into the river Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity UPON THE THEME OF LOVE: THE BODY, A FANCY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nerves are france, and italy, and spain Last Line: Where life, which passes through, great danger finds. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Bodies; Heads; Humanity; Life; Skin VITAMINS AND ROUGHAGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked Subject(s): Humanity; Nature VITAMINS AND ROUGHAGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked Last Line: Vanish in the gymnopaedia Subject(s): Humanity; Nature WHAT MANNER OF MAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I am not singing to myself Last Line: Bloody skull in one hand, harp in the other Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Singing And Singers WHO KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Who knows what is going on on the other side of Last Line: And found myself in the divine Subject(s): Humanity WIN A THOUSAND, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seller of lottery tickets who cries, 'win a thousand' Last Line: As a seller of lottery tickets! 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