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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KELLER, HELEN (1880-1968) Matches Found: 77 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIRTHDAY SALUTATION TO HELEN KELLER, by ELIOT WHITE Poem Text First Line: So runs the proverb of the long ago Last Line: And all the cherished beauty of your life. Subject(s): Birthdays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life A CHALLENGE, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I list with the ears of my soul to the world Last Line: And they say I am blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Visually Handicapped A PRAYER, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Far-famed fair helen, stretching forth a hand Last Line: To pardon even meagerness its debts. Subject(s): Despair; Friendship; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Prayer A QUERY, by GEORGE WESLEY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Does stygic darkness reign wherein you dwell? Last Line: More blind are they who will not use their eyes? Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Peace; Soul; Visually Handicapped A VALENTINE, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Life's joys and sorrows rise and ever wane Last Line: Just that, and nothing more. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Holidays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight ACHIEVEMENT, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better to climb the steep hill of existence Last Line: Mine is a growing soul! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Time AGAINST THE GATE OF LIFE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: As mute against the gate of life you sit Last Line: A miracle to men! Subject(s): Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Memory; Destiny ALTERNATING CURRENTS': 1. READING IN THE DARK, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine, if you will, a hotel %room fronting niagara falls. Helen Last Line: Reading the blind: the lovely helen %following homer in the dark Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) AMBASSADRESS, by ELMIRA GROGAN Poem Text First Line: One that has not heard a voice in anger Last Line: Haloes around the heads she touches. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Voices; Dead, The ASPIRATION, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cried....I would mount to the heights and there Last Line: To all I chance to meet. Subject(s): Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Optimism BLIND EYES THAT SEE; SONNET, by SAMUEL A. DE WITT Poem Text First Line: These eyes of mine, for all that they have seen Last Line: Before the inner vision of your eyes. Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped CHILD OF NIGHT, by JAMES SYDNEY JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: More free by far is the wild night jar Last Line: That day is not given. Subject(s): Children; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Childhood; Bedtime COMES TRUTH! COMES BEAUTY! COMES LOVE! (PRINCESS HELEN'S CHRISTMAS), by JOHN W. STOCKWELL Poem Text First Line: To hear, to speak, to see Last Line: Helen keller's eyes see the shining star! Subject(s): Beauty; Christmas; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Truth; Nativity, The COURAGE!' HE SAID, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses, debarking in the lotos land Last Line: Like beauty, is its own excuse for being Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) ESSENCE, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Poem Text First Line: Out of the darkness - a light Last Line: Only the world's staunch lover! Subject(s): Despair; Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Destiny FOR HELEN KELLER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have said many words I much regret Last Line: May I not envy you? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Envy; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision FOR HELEN KELLER, by PHILLIPS RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: More lovely than the face Last Line: Her torch than all your metal statues. Subject(s): Hearts; Keller, Helen (1880-1968) GREETINGS FROM A BLIND DOG, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little pilgrim through a night Last Line: Happy greetings from us two! Subject(s): Animals; Blindness; Dogs; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Visually Handicapped HELEN KELLER, by WAYNE AREY Poem Text First Line: The lowly of the earth lament -- she hears! Last Line: Though error blinds the human race, she sees! Subject(s): Errors; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lament; Mankind; Mistakes; Fallacies; Human Race HELEN KELLER, by MARGUERITE BOUVARD Poem Source First Line: Inside the body is another Last Line: The world burgeoning through its fingers Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968) HELEN KELLER, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are eyes for but to see the truth she sees Last Line: And dead folk skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Truth HELEN KELLER, by ZONA GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I heard the voice of helen keller Last Line: Concerning the god in man. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Voices; Dead, The HELEN KELLER, by PAUL HANNIGAN Poem Source First Line: They told her to put many Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) HELEN KELLER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She, / in the dark Last Line: Of inner power. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Negroes; American Blacks HELEN KELLER, by KATHLEEN MILLAY Poem Text First Line: A bit more darkness than the rest Last Line: With feeling only? Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Visually Handicapped HELEN KELLER, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She never sees the sun transmute to gold Last Line: With symphonies beethoven never heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Visually Handicapped HELEN KELLER, by ROSE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: For us the shelter of the day Last Line: With long sidereal look. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Bedtime HELEN KELLER, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mute, sightless visitant Last Line: Are deaf, are dumb, are blind! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) HELEN KELLER, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the strength of ages in her face Last Line: Yet walking always in her maker's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life HELEN KELLER, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind her triple prison-bars shut in Last Line: Which wraps thee, as its fragrance wraps a rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness HELEN KELLER WITH A ROSE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Others may see thee; I behold thee not Last Line: Beauty for one and all, gave fragrance for the blind! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses HELEN KELLER: THE FIRST DAY, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: No song - no green Last Line: Water was sweet, %your dare warm in my palm Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) HOW CAN I WRITE POEMS FOR HELEN KELLER?, by JUSABRO IWAMI Poem Text First Line: I must live in a bad, bad world Last Line: They cause fear! Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Fear; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom; Visually Handicapped LEXICON: HELEN KELLER, by SARA TANNER Poem Source First Line: Atoms crackle along your skin Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) LIKE THE PEONIES (TO 'TEACHER'), by E. P. Poem Text First Line: You are like the peonies Last Line: To give yourself away! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Nature; Peonies MIRACLE, by LAURA BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miracle's star, too brilliant for the beholding Last Line: Ride on the fringe of this rainbow while yet there is time. Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Miracles; Stars; Visually Handicapped MOTHER NIGHT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternities before the first-born day Last Line: Into the quiet bosom of the night. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Rest; Dead, The OF HELEN KELLER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, without eyes, sees more than I who know Last Line: Your visions fade before her high, pure heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped PRAYER TO BE AN ARTIST, by MARION CLINCH CALKINS Poem Text First Line: Lord, clip my wings, so may my feet learn flying! Last Line: But keep me standing on the top-most stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Calkins, Clinch Subject(s): Art & Artists; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Kisses; Prayer SAND DUNES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea waves are green and wet Last Line: For the one more cast off shell. Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore SEARCH, by DRAGUTIN SPITZER Poem Text First Line: I was looking for god Last Line: Now, I find you -- Subject(s): Cruelty; God; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom SONG OF THE HEIGHTS, by SAMUEL CRON CRONWRIGHT Poem Source First Line: It's sprig on cradock mountains, the aloes are ablaze Last Line: And elandberg's bold buttreses agleam Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) SPIRIT VISION, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against our puny sound and sight Last Line: Hues never thought there unrevealed Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) SPIRIT VISION, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against our puny sound and sight Last Line: Hues never thought there unrevealed Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) SPRING POOLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: From snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring; Pools; Ponds SPRING POOLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: These flowery waters and these watery flowers %from snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring STAUB, by ANNA NILL Poem Source Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BRIGHT DARK, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: Forever conscript to profoundest dark Last Line: Assume terrestial orbit with the sun's. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Dead, The THE DREAM, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: My ancestor, in early time Last Line: Silence of air, alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Evolution; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Nightmares THE GREAT JOKESMITH, by ARTHUR SPINGARN Poem Text First Line: Those blind to beauty oft have brightest eyes Last Line: I wonder why, I wonder why? Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Truth; Visually Handicapped THE MESSAGE-BEARER, by JOHN D. BARRY Poem Text First Line: Blind, she helps us all to see Last Line: Transmuting loss to gain! Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Praise; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery THE QUEEN OF CLOUDS, by KIANG KANG-HU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of clouds riding down from her jade city Last Line: O queen of clouds! Alternate Author Name(s): Jiang Kangh Subject(s): Clouds; Courts & Courtiers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THINKING OF HELEN IN HAVANA, by JULIAN H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Oft in the darkness there shines a light Last Line: Where, and what, are the snows of tomorrow? Subject(s): Future Life; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Light; Silence; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A BLIND NAZARENE, by EVELYN SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Secure in blind and perfect night Last Line: Something ruthless vision ought to mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Metcalfe, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Jesus Christ; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Sin; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery TO HELEN KELLER, by FRANCES BEEBE Poem Text First Line: Whose eyes may handle beauty? Last Line: Of beauty neither seen nor heard! Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968) TO HELEN KELLER, by TOSCAN BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Our eyes to you no beauty can unfold Last Line: To wait the morning's call. Subject(s): Beauty; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the dark leaved life, bloomed hope, riped love Last Line: Thus one brave heart ten thousand souls can stay. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Words; Vocabulary TO HELEN KELLER, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: You see with the cleansing eyes of love Last Line: And roll away the stone of doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Hate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Vision TO HELEN KELLER, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yours was the original freak-out: samuel beckett's Last Line: Month after month to grope and croak and stammer Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Keller, Helen (1880-1968) TO HELEN KELLER, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You live in a country stranger than the moon Last Line: And from the grown soul's deep and arrowy voice. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Visually Handicapped; Nightmares; Bedtime TO HELEN KELLER, by MADGE BARTON FEURER Poem Text First Line: You've had rhapsodic lyrics Last Line: "from me and america sent!"" . . . . . W. W." Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Praise TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breaking over your silence Last Line: To bear all and be still. Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Smiles TO HELEN KELLER, by BERTHA GALERON DECALLONE Poem Source First Line: How many close ties bind us together! Last Line: All those like thee, whom thou hast given back to the day! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) TO HELEN KELLER, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: You who never saw the sun-flamed hills Last Line: Be evermore your slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Youth; Nightmares TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are one of our great spirits Last Line: You are a flaming beacon for us all. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If these my rimes ring true to you Last Line: Beyond our shallow sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Rhyme; Singing & Singers TO HELEN KELLER, by THOMAS NUNAN Poem Text First Line: A rose unfolding in the sun Last Line: And radiates a light divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses; Soul; Stars TO HELEN KELLER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Milton, struck blind, saw Last Line: And the echoes of your song. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers TO HELEN KELLER, by JANE A. ROULSTON Poem Text First Line: Alone in the far regions of the soul Last Line: O wonderful white soul beyond the light! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by MARY CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I used to marvel at the sunset glow Last Line: Smile through their tears, and faith and hope renew. Subject(s): Faith; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Tears; Belief; Creed TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN VARNEY Poem Text First Line: Her eyes, miniature mirrors Last Line: Her hands touch hands! Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate laid upon you silence and the night Last Line: God knows that I am with you in this fight! Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Destiny; Optimism TO MISS HELEN KELLER, by YONE NOGUCHI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see and hear with your spirit Last Line: You speak with your spiritual tongue like a star. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968) TWO OPTIMISTS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To send fit thanks, I would I had the art Last Line: And heaven sent both this troubled world to bless. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Religion; Optimism; Theology VISION, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the somnambulant dawn, in which your face Last Line: Revengeful silence masks, but cannot quell. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision WHEN HELEN KELLER SPOKE (WALT WHITMAN DINNER, 1918), by GEORGE JAY SMITH Poem Text First Line: After others had said their say Last Line: Which she could not hear. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Words; Vocabulary |
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