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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LEGENDS Matches Found: 359 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BEOWULF, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS - NORTHUMBRIAN Poem Text First Line: What! We of spear-danes in spent days Last Line: Of their hero under heaven who that lading received Subject(s): "legends, Norse; "THE SONG OF CREDE, DAUGHTER OF GUARE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These are the arrows that murder sleep Last Line: "as every hour of the night's black deep, / these are the arrows that murder sleep" Subject(s): "legends, Irish; 87 CASA GRANDE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: On the gila's sun-burnt plain Last Line: On la casa grande's brow. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Legends A BUSH LEGEND, by MARIE E. J. PITT Poem Text First Line: Back in the heart of the gippsland hills Last Line: Listens and makes no sign. Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Legends; Dead, The A CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ for a dream was given from the dead Last Line: And the poor christ again was with the dead. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends A CHRISTMAS STORY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windows and the garden door Last Line: May o'er it soonest be. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Christmas; Legends; Nativity, The A FABLE FOR LYDIA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love is slain! I saw him at your gates Last Line: Of high olympus, silent watching. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Zeus A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We who are old, old and gay Last Line: If all were told. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Legends, Irish; Elves A FEUDAL PICTURE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what a grace she passed us by just now! Last Line: "young knight! To horse! Leave the queen's court to-day!'" Subject(s): Legends A HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In the steps of christ I follow Last Line: And three crosses on the hill. Subject(s): Christianity; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Legends; Sermons; Speech; Oratory; Orators A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke. Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean A LEGEND, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: To the home of the rabbi a lord in his splendor Last Line: At the home where his teacher abides. Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Jews; Legends, Arabic; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism A LEGEND, by SARA RUTH WATSON Poem Text First Line: In an ivory castled tower Last Line: Fall at her feet. Subject(s): Legends A LEGEND OF COLOGNE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the bones / st. Ursula owns Last Line: That these are but shadows -- the woman was real! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Legends, German A LEGEND OF HELL GATE, 1675, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A saucy boat was the annetje block Last Line: When the hell gate tide is out. Subject(s): Death; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Sea Voyages; Tragedy; Dead, The A LEGEND OF MAIDEN LANE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas dusk in the dale, but the clover ... Last Line: "as a sweete, wholesome laugh from ye hearte of a mayde!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Temptation; Work; Workers A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A NURSERY LEGEND, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Listen, little children, to a proper little song Last Line: Shun railway guides, directories, and almanacks as well! Subject(s): Children; Legends; Childhood A SERVIAN LEGEND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, ere yet our race began Last Line: "man will I create with a foot like thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Evil; Heaven; Legends; Paradise A TURKISH LEGEND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain pasha, dead these thousand years Last Line: "whereon is written, ""only god is great." Subject(s): Legends, Turkish ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips ACUPUNCTURE FOR THE BACK, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come now! %green snake Last Line: Whatever she finds %she will eat %she will destroy Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans ADAM; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in asia, saith the legend Last Line: Death his troubled face shall brighten. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Asia; Bible; Creation; God; Legends, Hungarian; Far East; East Asia; Orient AETHRA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a sweet tradition, with a soul Last Line: The close-shut mystery of the oracle! Subject(s): Legends AGAINST ANGER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come forth %tlazopilli Last Line: Through this drink %medicine %spirit %will change this heart Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AGAINST SCORPION'S STING AND POISON, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, priest Last Line: Right here %your power ends %you shall not pass! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AGAINST UNRULY ANTS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come now! Mother water Last Line: Chase them away %close their town Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AGUAMIEL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In its heart %the maguey Last Line: Streams %of sweet %tears %and drops Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AN EASTERN LEGEND, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cloisters dim and haunted Last Line: The world and men and fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Immortality; Legends; Love AN INDIAN LEGEND, by CLARE PERCY WESTPHAL Poem Text First Line: Gauze-winged Last Line: To be born. Subject(s): Legends, Native American ANCIENT NAHUATL POEM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: They only had one god. %his name was quetzalcoatl Last Line: Which you must offer him %which you must sacrifice to him Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans AND BARBARROSSA SLEEPS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Defeat and death the germans knew Last Line: Unmoved, shall barbarossa sleep! Subject(s): Germany; Legends; World War I; Germans; First World War ARABIAN NIGHTS: INSCRIPTIONS AT THE CITY OF BRASS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Enter and learn the story of the rulers Last Line: And now inhabit a palace Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;death;legends, Arabic;materialism;" "dead, The; ARABIAN NIGHTS: TUMADIR AL-KHANSA FOR HER BROTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Weep! Weep! Weep! / these tears are for my brother Last Line: "while you have tears, o daughters of the solomides, / weep! Weep! Weep!" Subject(s): "brothers;death;grief;legends, Arabic;" "half-brothers;dead, The;sorrow;sadness; ARDIANE AND BARBE BLEUE, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So -- she was in the chariot? Did you see Last Line: The curtain falls. Subject(s): Legends ASCENSION (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The time is come / for times great lord to think Last Line: And their ascension thus supply. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Happiness; Heaven; Home; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joy; Delight; Paradise ASDISA; AN ICELANDIC LEGEND, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asdisa, daughter of th' icelandic chief Last Line: Was singing. -- cruel asdisa, fair asdisa! Subject(s): Legends, Icelandic BABUSHKA [OR, BABOUSCKA]; A RUSSIAN LEGEND, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babushka sits before the fire Last Line: "nay, farther must I go!" Subject(s): Christmas; Legends, Russian; Nativity, The BELL, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: While the air is rejoicing in perfect stillness Last Line: Depths of the immense and muddy kiang Subject(s): Bells; Fathers And Daughters; Labor And Laborers; Legends BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: What lo! We have heard tell of the grandeur of the kings Last Line: Most genial to his leeds; %and most desirous of praise Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: So. The spear-danes in days gone by Last Line: Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings Last Line: Of men he was the mildest and most beloved %to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Listen! %the fame of danish kings Last Line: The most just to his people, the most eager for fame Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Such is the grief of the grey-haired man Last Line: The one he has lost; there is too much room %in castle & country Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Grief; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF: HROTHGAR ANSWERED, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Hrothgar answered -- helm of the shield-danes Last Line: Linked mail-corselets -- if you live to return Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BIRDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Snakes Last Line: In flight Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans BIRTH, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Cuaton %caxxoch %goddesses %of love Last Line: And catch %this child %of the gods Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans BISHOP HATTO [AND THE RATS], by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer and autumn had been so wet Last Line: For they were sent to do judgment on him! Variant Title(s): God's Judgment On A Wicked Bishop;the Legend Of Bishop Hatto;god's Judgment On A Bishop Subject(s): Hatto I, Archbishop Of Mentz (850-913); Legends, German; Rats; Tragedy BUNGALOW, by CURTIS BONNEY Poem Source First Line: A migrant's prehistory Last Line: You don't need to believe it %to retell it Subject(s): Legends CALENDAR KEEPERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Rattlesnakes %renew %themselves Last Line: They trace %the shining %path of our %rainy seasons Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CAMBYSES AND THE MACROBIAN BOW, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morn, hard by a slumberous streamlet's wave Last Line: "cambyses bent this huge macrobian bow." Subject(s): Legends CANA, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend! Whose presence in the Last Line: And water turned to wine Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Jesus Christ - Legends; Miracles; Religion; Theology CANA, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Once when our eyes were clean as noon, our rooms Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Jesus Christ - Legends; Miracles CANTO A LAS TORTILLAS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I go on %calling Last Line: Inside %the humblest %tortillas %of life Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CARNAL AND THE CRANE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I passed by a river side Last Line: Even the blessed virgin %she's now brought forth a son Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends CHARLEMAGNE'S HOSTAGE, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A clean shift! Pure and shining -- clearly bleached Last Line: He raised his sword! Hail! He has raised his sword! Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Legends, German CHARLEMAGNE, AND THE HYMN OF CHRIST, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great king karl sat in his secret room Last Line: Was his devout desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Legends CHICOME-COATL/SEVEN SNAKE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Corn stalks %are upright Last Line: Corn ears %rattle %in the wind Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CHICOME-XOCHITL/SEVEN FLOWER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Deer %father Last Line: All %stems %pointing %stars Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CHINA'S BRAVEST GIRL; THE LEGEND OF HUA MU LAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The emperor called for the pipa player Last Line: Is loved by the chinese people %and retold each generation Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hua, Mu-lan (legendary Character); Legends, Chinese CHIQUITA: A LEGEND OF THE WESTERN SEAS, by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Her name? Chiquita. Ah, senor Last Line: Farewell — forever! — Subject(s): Legends; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CHRIST AT EMMAUS, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: One asked the stranger to divide the bread Last Line: Would have brought to me Subject(s): Bread; Food And Eating; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Legends; Lord's Supper CHRIST WRITES IN THE SAND, by LUCY CULRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Crafty words and questions at jesus christ were flung Last Line: In flaming letters of forgiveness in our heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mercy; Sin CIHUACOATL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In the barrios %la llorona Last Line: Has run out %of tears Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CLOUDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Mountains Last Line: Dreaming %up the sky Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans COMPLAINT OF THE KING OF THULE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a king of thule %an immaculate king was he Subject(s): Legends; Thule (island) CREDHE'S LAMENT FOR CAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o'er thy chief, thy rushing chief, loch da conn" Last Line: And the sea beasts bellow Subject(s): "legends, Irish;love; CUCHULAIN COMFORTED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish CUCHULAIN COMFORTED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man Last Line: They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish CUCHULAIN'S FIGHT WITH THE SEA, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun Last Line: And fought with the invulnerable tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish CUTTING WOOD, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Ahmo %tinechelehuiliz Last Line: I offer tobacco %for your shin Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans CYGNUS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Persons reminded me of birds, a boy Last Line: All that unripe, within reach Subject(s): Constellations; Legends DAPHLES; AN ARGIVE STORY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on the throne of argos sat a maid Last Line: Of love's cold scorn and passion's unpaid kiss. Subject(s): Legends DAWENDINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a spirit on the river, there's a ghost upon the shore Last Line: And the shadows of the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Family Life; Ghosts; Hate; Legends; Love; Supernatural; Vendetta; Relatives; Feuds DAY AND NIGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I bleed %in silence %all alone Last Line: Broken teeth %blood %butterflies Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DEAD-HORSE GATE, by RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN Poem Text First Line: The track that ran through hunthaway Last Line: Along the lachlan-side. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Drought; Horses; Legends; Dead, The DEATH OF CUCHULAIN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun Last Line: For four days warred he with the bitter tide; %and the waves flowed above him, and he died Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish DIVINING BY LOOKING IN THE WATER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come now! %come forth Last Line: Perhaps his tonal %has left him Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DIVINING WITH CORN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Welcome %tlazopilli %seven snake Last Line: If this medicine cures him %or if he gets worse Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DIVINING WITH THE HANDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, spirit in flesh Last Line: Will he get worse? %will he last some time? Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DOG WHO WALKED WITH GOD, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Water, they say, was everywhere Last Line: Everything grown %and still growing Subject(s): California; Creation; Kato Indians; Legends, Native American; Native Americans DOMINE, QUO VADIS? (A LEGEND), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against [or, darkening] the azure roof of nero's world Last Line: And peter turned, and rushed on rome and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Legends; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) DOMINGO HERNANDEZ, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Please %let him free Last Line: (green spirit %dark spirit) %in nomine patris %et filii %et spiritus sancti Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DROUGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Despite %dry %years Last Line: Siempre %verde %inside Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month when lilacs bloom Last Line: The garments of the great ten broeck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Legends; May (month); Nature; New York City - Dutch Period ENSNARED DEER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Spirit %seven flower Last Line: He was taken %it's all over with Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FAIRY TREE, by TEMPLE LANE Poem Source First Line: All night around the thorn tree Last Line: You'll never fear the thorn tree %that grows beyond clogheen! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Trees FERMANAGH CAVE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Legends FIELD OF RED POPPIES, by DANIEL SIMBO Poem Source First Line: I can see them now, I think, bowing against absence and trusting us Last Line: And it still matters. Because it's voiced Subject(s): Fields; Legends; Poppies FIRST OFFERING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Ourselves %molded out Last Line: The first crop %smiling %everywhere Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FLIGHTS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Behind the fog, where ships voice their desperation and nostalgia Last Line: Waiting for someone to claim them. Words orphaned in the fog Subject(s): Legends, Chinese FLOWERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: A day %is all Last Line: We last %a breath! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR BATHING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come forth %mist hair Last Line: I, spirit in flesh %I, the enchanter Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR BONE FRACTURES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: What have my elder sisters Last Line: Beware of messing up %I'll see you tomorrow Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR FATIGUE AND BODY PAINS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come here %yellow relaxer Last Line: Go and destroy %the green pain %the dark pain %(meaning the stiffness) Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR FEVERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come on! %come now Last Line: Who is destroying %your creation %I myself %I, the enchanter Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR FINDING AFFECTION, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: On mirror mountain %the place of encounters Last Line: I am not truly at war %I'm of a woman's womb Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR HUNTING BIRDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, poor orphan Last Line: Here I shall wait %for my uncles %the spirits %olchipinque %olpeyauhque Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR HUNTING DEER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I'm leaving %I, poor orphan Last Line: And reed flower %that's who I shall carry back Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR KEEPING ANIMALS OUT OF SOWN FIELDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, the wizard jaguar Last Line: O father %four reed %flaming one! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR LOVE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Enchanted %words %at dawn Last Line: A handful %of flowers %and stars Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR PLANTING CAMOTES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, poor orphan Last Line: With her I shall heal %I , just a poor person Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Potatoes FOR PLANTING CORN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %spirit in flesh Last Line: I shall greet %I shall honor %my elder sister %tonacacihuatl Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR STORING CORN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %spirit in flesh Last Line: You, my elder sister %you, tonacaihuatl Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOR STRAINED CHESTS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come %nine-times-powdered-one Last Line: Do your duty %you, yellow woman Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FORTUNIO; A PARABLE FOR THE TIMES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who at the court of astolf, the great king Last Line: The sacred charms of perfect woman-hood! Subject(s): Legends FOUR DIRECTIONS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: West %we are %salmons Last Line: South %we turn %into snakes %by eating %chile Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FOUR SONGS, by EDITH JABSON Poem Text First Line: Blaze not your glory Last Line: In the centre of space. Subject(s): Gold; Legends FRITHIOF'S SAGA: FRITHIOF'S FAREWELL, by ESAIAS TEGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more shall I see Last Line: "what avails it? He who is born must die.'" Subject(s): Farewell; Legends, Norse; Life; Parting FULL HEART, by GLORY E. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I wonder what she looked like / mother sweet Last Line: Since I was one year old. Subject(s): Legends; Memory GAUZE NET, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: Deep in the mountains, the jade maiden in her cave of roseate mists Last Line: A sudden coolness, like water, permeates the autumn river Subject(s): Legends, Chinese GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas late at night when I reach'd cologne Last Line: His foolish fond subjects, the poor men! Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Courts & Courtiers; Legends; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GRAINNE: AFTER THE DEATH OF DIARMUID, by CATHAL O'BYRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the twilight of a wood she came Last Line: Deep in the inmost core of her lone heart. Subject(s): Legends, Irish; Love - Loss Of HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? Last Line: And lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Legends, Irish HEART, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Fragrant %flower Last Line: Open at %midnight Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HELLO, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Tahui %tahui Last Line: Tahui %tahui Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HERBS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In the market %herbs begin Last Line: Over and over %my own %back bones Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HERNANDO RUIZ DE ALARCON, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It was you %you were looking for Last Line: This cenzontle bird %in the wilderness: %your tomorrow Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HILLEL AND HIS GUEST; A TALMUDIC LEGEND, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hillel, the gentle, the beloved sage Last Line: "to-morrow—may it not have fled away?" Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Clergy; Hillel (jewish Sage); Jews; Legends; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism HOLOCAUST, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Your eyes %don't see Last Line: Bleeding in %your altar %vases %fields mines Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HOME SPIRIT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: You lock %windows %doors Last Line: But I'm %inside you: %am you Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans HOW THE LAWYERS GOT A PATRON SAINT; A LEGEND OF BRETAGNE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lawyer of brittany, once on a time Last Line: Was touching the form of the devil! Subject(s): Clergy; Legends; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Religion; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology HYMN: FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: 1, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming Last Line: "rebuke the destroyer -- ""help, lord! Or we perish!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends I'M NOT REALLY CRYING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It's just %the sheer Last Line: Number %of chopped %onions %in the world Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Distant on the meridian verges Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Distant on the meridian verges Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends IN IXTLI YOLLOTL/ FACE AND HEART, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: May our ears %hear Last Line: To this huge %playground: %the universe Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans IN THE KNOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dead faces, voices come and go Last Line: Why jesus wept Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Jesus Christ - Legends; Religion IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Sobs %woke me Last Line: I got up %and saw %myself %in a corner %crying Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans IN XOCHITL IN CUICATL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Every tree %a brother Last Line: In the night %dreaming up %the cosmos Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans INDIAN LEGEND, by VIRGINIA CONNETT Poem Text First Line: Oh, warrior-brave, whence do you come Last Line: "and sends his message, blown in the wind." Subject(s): Legends, Native American ION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Come hark to the story of ion Last Line: And justice will find a way. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Legends JOURNEY, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In each village there was a large, well-kept courtyard, something like Last Line: Here I'm watching you %I oxomoco %I, the ancient one %I, cipactonal Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans KATE KEARNEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why doth the maiden turn away Last Line: And pine, the victims of a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Legends, Irish KING VOLMER AND ELSIE, by CHRISTIAN WINTER Poem Text First Line: Where, over heathen doom-rings and gray stones of the horg Last Line: Thank god! Of maids like elsie the land has plenty still! Subject(s): Legends, Norse KRISHNA AND HIS THREE HANDMAIDENS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And where he sat beneath the mystic stars Last Line: And all the woodlands laughed, and earth was glad! Subject(s): Legends KYNG ALISAUNDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On a day sone after pan Last Line: Forto he com to tolomew Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Legends, English LEGEND, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: There are many tales Last Line: Into everyday %shadow Subject(s): Legends LEGEND OF THE DOGWOOD TREE, by GERALDINE FARRAR Poem Source First Line: The dogwood tree was once as broad Last Line: Shall in this tree of beauty bright %forever fill the world with light Subject(s): Dogwood; Jesus Christ - Legends LEGEND OF THE ST. JOSEPH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place, 'pon my soul Last Line: And poor little walle-wo-ge. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Legends LEGENDA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song stays Last Line: Delight of air and light and breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Legends; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs LEGENDS FROM CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It began as truth, as fact Last Line: Will anyone ever need %another camp director Subject(s): Buddhism; Concentration Camps; Crime And Criminals; History; Japanese Americans - Internment; Legends; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Terror LISTEN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Every %landscape Last Line: A wonderous %story Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans LITTLE TOLTECS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Bees are %godly %servants %of the flowers Last Line: The incantaions %of the beehives %he knew better %than his ave marias Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans LLANTOS DE LA LLORONA: WARNINGS FROM THE WAILER, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every family has one Last Line: Oye: never underestimate the power of the voice Subject(s): Chicanos; Legends, Mexican; Mexican Americans LOST LANDS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen faery lands far out to sea Last Line: And wonder, as I do, why they must wait! Subject(s): Atlantis; Avalon (legend); Legends; Mythology - Classical LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 48, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From older legends springing Last Line: Dissolves, when morning beams. Subject(s): Flowers; Legends; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MACHA, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macha, the ice age Subject(s): Legends, Irish MARTIN DE LUNA, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Martin de luna Last Line: (take me now %from this cell %and lose me %in the darkness) Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MASSAGE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Hands put %our pains Last Line: Lead them %as fish to %whirlpools Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MATRIARCH, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: My dark %grandmother %would brush %her long her Last Line: Even ferns %would bow %to her splendor %and her power Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MELAMPUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With love exceeding a simple love of the Last Line: That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck. Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Muses; Mythology; Nature MESSENGERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Chairs %doors %walls %lay %themselves Last Line: Murmurs %secrets %bits of %dreams %to each %other Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MESTIZO, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: My name %is not %francisco Last Line: No rule %no code %no lord %for this %wander's %heart Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MIDNIGHT WATER SONG, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: The eagle's %wing is %my fan Last Line: Of peyote's %flowering rain %in the desert Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MON-DA-MIN; OR, THE ROMANCE OF MAIZE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the shores of green america Last Line: From whose abundance all the world may feed. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Legends; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MOON, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Celestial %drop of milk Last Line: Of our mother's %breast Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MORNING RITUAL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I fold %kiss %carry Last Line: My life %inside %my pocket Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans MY LEGENDS: ORPHEUS CHARMING THE ANIMALS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Neath dawn's caress a silvery mountain shone Last Line: That drunk with song the world more swiftly whirled through space. Subject(s): Animals; Legends; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Songs NA-TAS-KA; A LEGEND OF LAKE MOHONK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shawangunk's rampart meets the skies Last Line: The waves will speak natas'ka's name. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Lake Mohonk, New York; Legends, Native American NAHUAL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: This whale %can't stop Last Line: Singing %from %the bottom %of the sea Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NATURE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: The nature %of poetry's %nature Last Line: The nature %of nature's %nature Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NECER ALONE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Always %this caressing Last Line: This boudless %desire %of being %grass %tree %corazon Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NEW DAY, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: From the hilltop %near my village Last Line: Their own campfires %awaiting %for the new day! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NIBELUNGENLIED, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Legends, German NIBELUNGENLIED, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Legends, German NIGHT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: How vast %how enormous Last Line: And yet %disarmed %by one %needle %of light Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NO DOUBT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the knowing village of castlerainbow Last Line: Or the dark magic of monica crowe. Subject(s): Legends; Magic; Villages NOBLE MORINGER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O will you hear a knightly tale of old bohemian day? Last Line: For had I come at morrow tide, I came a day too late Subject(s): Legends, German NOMATCA NEHUATL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself: %the mountain Last Line: The search %the face %the dream %the heart %the voice: %nomatca nehuatl! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans NOT POEMS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Just ink %on paper Last Line: Like air %like you Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans ODE TO TOMATOES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: They make %friends Last Line: First asking %their blessings! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Tomatoes OLLIN/MOVEMENT, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I call myself %waterfall Last Line: I go on calling %names %keep hearing %my mirror Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans OLOLIUQUI, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Seeds %of wisdom %divine eyes Last Line: Lead us %back %to the lap %of our mother Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans ON WATTS' PICTURE OF PAOLA AND FRANCESCA, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though borne like with withered leaves upon a stream Subject(s): Watts, George Ferderic (1817-1904), Legends, Italian ONCE EACH SPRING THE FACE OF OPHELIA APPEARS UPON THE WATERS, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: She drifts with the current on her back Last Line: The clouds will roll downstream like drawings of organ music Subject(s): Legends; Rivers; Spring ONLY JOE, by JAMES ROANN REED Poem Text First Line: This grave were ye meanin,' stranger? Last Line: That a body could never do that, as were simple and dazed, like joe! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Legends; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ORACLE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It's me' %I say Last Line: It's us' %rocks echo Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans OSWALD, THE MINNESINGER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oswald von wolkenstein! / last of a gifted line Last Line: God rest his soul! Subject(s): Death; Legends; Life; Love; Dead, The PANTHERA, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, as I sit here, crutched, and cricked, and bent Last Line: An exit rare for ardent soldiers such as he. Subject(s): Legends PETER AND JOHN, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve good friends / walked under the leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) PETER AND JOHN, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve good friends %walked under the leaves Last Line: In your dream? Said john. %'no,' said the other, %that I was not. %I was our brother %iscariot Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: MONOLOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden legends, golden castles stood Last Line: And ridicule the pond'rous golden sceptre. Subject(s): Legends; Nature POOR TARTAR; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's trouble in hungary, now, alas! Last Line: "god pity the tartar!"" said he." Subject(s): Legends, Hungarian; Tatars; Tartars POTENT SEEDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Few corn %kernals %enough Last Line: To turn %anger %around Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PRAYER FOR THE SUN BEFORE TRAVELING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come %help me %nanhuatzin Last Line: Up in the sky %I shall go %I shall walk Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PRAYER TO FIRE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Come forth %father of mine Last Line: I, spirit in flesh %I, the enchanter Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The memory of a simple tale, / called up from childhood's years Last Line: "warding off despair." Subject(s): Angels; Death; Legends; Mothers & Daughters; Poverty; Spinning; Dead, The RAINBOW, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Seven %snakes Last Line: Giving %thanks Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans RAMBOUT VAN DAM; THE FLYING DUTCHMAN OF THE TAPPAN ZEE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tappan zee a shroud of gray Last Line: A sound -- and naught beside. Variant Title(s): Rambout Van Dam Subject(s): Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Tappan Zee, Hudson River RAVEN/MOON, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: In first people's sky there is no moon Last Line: Raven listens, whistling in stunted trees Subject(s): Family Life; History; Legends, Native American RECONCILING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Chalchiuhcueye %mother water Last Line: Flower of the sun %walking calendar: %don't shame yourself! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans RECORDING A DREAM, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: Magu, that immortal of old Last Line: Returning from my dream I emit a long sigh Subject(s): Dreams; Legends, Chinese RESCUE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: At the end %I found Last Line: Myself %holding %the other end %of the rope Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans RIVERS ALREADY SING WITH ENOUGH DESPAIR, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: No one could rip a hymnal out of a sky as gray and sour and scarred as Last Line: Anything it could confess belongs to the lore of local water the ponds and %rivers that sing hymns o Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Confessions; Legends; Sin ROBIN REDBREAST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When christ was taken from the rood Last Line: Where, lo, it reddened all his breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Robins ROUEN, PLACE DE LA PUCELLE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here blooms the legend, fed by time and chance Last Line: For each repentant soul. Variant Title(s): Rouen Subject(s): France; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Legends; War S. JAMES BP. OF JERUSALEM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: All yee whose pride is built upon Last Line: In truth is, what's in shadows heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Legends; Passover; Saints S. JOHN BAPTIST, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: When nights black houres be almost spent Last Line: Then herod at his feast beheld thee heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Worship S. MARY MAGDALEN'S OINTMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Forbid her not, nor ask a reason why Last Line: And fill th' eternall mouth of holy fame. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene S. MATTHIAS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: There must be twelve; ye other sunn Last Line: Judge the proud tribes then trembling at thy feet. Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ - Legends; Saints; Half-brothers SAINT KENELM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pe kyng pat of pe march, ase ich telle bigan Last Line: Pat we moten to pulke joie pare he is inne iwiende. Amen Subject(s): Legends, English; Saints SAINT STEPHEN WAS A CLERK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Saint stephen was a clerk in king herod's hall Last Line: Took they then stephen and stoned him in the way, %thereforeis his even on christe's own day Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Legends; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.) SAME, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: We see %feel taste Last Line: Are so %differently %the same Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SANTORIN (A LEGEND OF THE AEGEAN), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you, sea lady Last Line: And the sea was only sea. Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Santorini Island, Greece SEA WITCH OF BILLINGSGATE TO HER BETRAYER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I can see you, black ballamy, through Last Line: Joined. Watch for the glimpse of my heels Subject(s): Betrayal; Legends SEER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I sweep %and clean %my house Last Line: I am resting: %my hamaca %is a canoe %crossing %the milky way Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SHAME, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I washed %my arms Last Line: Brown %boy %getting %ready %for school Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SIEGFRIED'S DEATH, by FRIEDRICH HEBBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From whence so early? Dewy is thy hair Last Line: "darkness"" and heath's dictionary@" Alternate Author Name(s): Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Subject(s): Death; Legends, German; Tragedy; Dead, The SILENCE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I smell %silence %everywhere Last Line: Can put away %this stink %of silence Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SISTER BEATRICE, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me, lady: me about to fall Last Line: [the nuns fall on their knees around the bed of beatrice. Subject(s): Legends - Dutch; Religion; Spirituality; Theology SISTER MARIE; A LEGEND OF TYROL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I through the valley of klausen went Last Line: "ah! Pity me, dear lord,"" it sighed." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Brooks; Death; Legends; Nuns; Prayer; War; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The SNAKE WHEEL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I %you %are %this %future Last Line: Turned %past %all %that %once %was %is %will %be Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SONGS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Xochitl Last Line: Flower %flor Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SPIRITS OF THE FOREST, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: When the last %rain forests Last Line: What will take %the place of %our spirits Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans ST. CHRISTOPHER OF THE GAEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the wattle-woven house Last Line: The peace of perfect peace he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Christianity; Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Druids; Faith; Legends; Monks; Peace; Salvation; Druidism; Belief; Creed STORY OF YAPPAN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Xochiquetzal: %dear brother %yappan Last Line: Because of this he is called %'head-carrier'' Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans STRANGER; AFTER A GUARANI LEGEND RECORDED BY ERNESTO MORALES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the forest there was somebody Last Line: And treated him the way the stranger would treat a dog Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Legends SUN'S CHILDREN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Although %we may lose Last Line: We will win %this war %in peace Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans SWIFTS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring comes little, a little. All april it rains Subject(s): Spring; Legends TALES OF THREE BROTHERS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three little pigs; the tedious three sons Last Line: But various enough so that there will be Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Legends TEMICXOCH, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: In my sleep Last Line: I smell the roots %of this flower Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TEPEYOLLOTLI, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Water's %the heart of Last Line: Its voice: %a jaguar %of echoes Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans THE ABBOT OF INISFALEN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The abbot of inisfalen / awoke ere dawn of day Last Line: From ancient woods arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Legends, Irish THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, by NINA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: There is a legend full of joy and pain Last Line: Within its place. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Legends; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE BAKING OF A MAN, by D. E. WHEELER Poem Text First Line: Sun,' said old crow, with thunder scream that Last Line: Thus man came forth the chosen shade -- a noble, copper red! Subject(s): Legends; Sun THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was about the deep of night Last Line: And judas one of three. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Christmas; Ghosts; Jesus Christ - Legends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Pilate, Pontius; Supernatural; Nativity, The THE BALLAD OF HOON, by MILDRED GEORGE Poem Text First Line: The cobbler of hoon was mending the shoon Last Line: Was laid, a man unknown. Subject(s): Legends THE BALLAD OF YAADA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are fires on lulu island, and the sky is opalescent Last Line: In the capilano cañon of the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Legends; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs THE BALLAD OF ZACHO (A GREEK LEGEND), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zacho the king rode out of old Last Line: "the cords, their golden hair." Subject(s): Legends, Greek THE BATTLE FLAG OF SIGURD, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eagle hearts of all the north Last Line: And the bright hall of heroes bade hail to his spirit. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Legends, Norse; Vikings; Volsunga Saga THE BLACK PREACHER; A BRETON LEGEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At carnac in brittany, close on the bay Last Line: Of the preacher, the tenth verse of chapter nine. Subject(s): Clergy; France; Legends; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE BOOK LINE; RIVINGTON STREET BRANCH, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ye that despair of the land Last Line: Yet shall rear to the skies! Subject(s): Future; Legends; Librarians & Libraries; Nations; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BROWNIE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle household spirit, unchallenged and unpaid Last Line: The babe she bore and murdered some thirteen years before. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Legends THE CHARIOT OF CUCHULLIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the car, light moving, I behold" Last Line: "of the wild chafer's dark-brown hues, / the color that his flanks imbues" Subject(s): "animals;horses;legends, Irish; THE CHILD AND HIND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, maids and matrons, to caress Last Line: Wiesbaden's gentle hind. Subject(s): Children; Deer; Legends, German; Wiesbaden, Germany; Childhood THE CHRIST OF THE SNOWS; A NORWEGIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set wine on the table / and bread on the plate Last Line: Our christ of the snow. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Legends, Norwegian; Nativity, The THE CURTAIN FALLS, by JOSEPH VEREY Poem Text First Line: Clowns are capering in motley, drums are beating, trumpets Last Line: And another strolling player told the story of the moor. Subject(s): Legends THE DAISY TOLD A LIE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I asked a pretty maiden Last Line: The daisy told a lie. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Legends; Love - Unrequited THE DEAD OF THE WILDERNESS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Text First Line: Yonder great shadow-that blot on the passionate glare / of the desert Last Line: Stillness returns as of old. Desolate stretches the desert. Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Death; Legends; Dead, The THE DEAD SHIP; A KELTIC LEGEND, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ship came sailing, sailing Last Line: Oh, my heart break! Subject(s): Legends, Celtic; Ships & Shipping THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man came slowly from the setting sun Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Cuchulain; Legends, Irish THE DEATH-STONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What though the vapors of the fleeting screen Last Line: She spake and vanished into thinnest air Subject(s): "buddhism;death Stone (legendary Stone);legends, Japan;" Buddha;buddhists THE DEER-STONE; A LEGEND OF GLENDALOUGH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It was the bride of colman dhu Last Line: Where once the milk had been. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Legends, Irish THE DERVIS AND HIS ENEMIES; A TURKISH LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near babylon, in ancient times Last Line: Despite the robber and the devil! Subject(s): Legends, Turkish THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of gold, a sea of blue Last Line: Long island keeps the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Legends; Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Sailing & Sailors; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Seamen; Sails THE FACE OF THE NIGHT; A PASTORAL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the night with her hair gemm'd with stars Last Line: It continues through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Faces; Legends; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Bedtime; Dramatists THE FAIRY OF THE FOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did she love her mother's so? Last Line: The fountain fairy -- melusine! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fountains; Legends, English THE FAITHFUL BRIDE; A MIDRASHIC PARABLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is a legend (and 'tis quaintly sweet) Last Line: "'thy law, o lord, which was my joy, my all!'" Subject(s): Faith;jews;legends; Belief;creed;judaism THE FATE OF THE HESSIAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who blusters along with his clattering blade Last Line: And field, camp, and prison knew friedrich no more! Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Legends; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Destiny THE FIRE-MAIDEN AND THE SNOW-PEAKS; AN INDIAN LEGEND OF THE COLUMBIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loowit, the beautiful maiden Last Line: Rolls proudly at their side. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fire; Legends, Native American; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FLOWERING FAGGOTS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a field called floridus, east of small bethlehem town Last Line: Howbeit, the tale is handed down, and the field lies near bethlehem town. Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Legends; Roses THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't believe in the flying dutchman? Last Line: With your drawings from casts of a muse. Subject(s): Legends THE FRESHET: A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARE, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March hath unlocked stern winter's chain Last Line: And every heart in prayer of grateful love is blent. Subject(s): Delaware; Legends THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a backwoods town / lived deacon brown Last Line: But the ghost is digging yet. Subject(s): Ghosts; Legends; Story-telling; Supernatural THE GUERDON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soothed by the fountain's drowsy murmuring Last Line: Worthy to wear a crown of beaten gold. Subject(s): Legends THE HAUNTED LAKE: THE IRISH MINSTREL'S LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose up the young moon; back she flung Last Line: Mid these northern halls, to the meed of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lakes; Legends, Irish; Pools; Ponds THE HEAD OF BRAN THE BLEST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the head of bran Last Line: Speech death cannot swallow! Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Legends, Welsh; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The host is riding from knocknarea Last Line: And niamh calling away, come away. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Legends, Irish THE HOUSE OF BLAZES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where spuyten duyvil's waves environ Last Line: "and right forninst the spittin' divil!'" Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Home; Legends; New York City - Colonial Period THE IMMORTAL HOUR; A DRAMA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By dim moon-glimmering coasts and dim grey wastes Last Line: . . . . . . The dream of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Legends, Celtic THE JIM-JAM KING OF THE JOU-JOUS; AN ARABIAN LEGEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far off in the waste of desert sand Last Line: Allah il allah! Oo-aye! Amen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;legends;nonsense;translating & Interpreting THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet? Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE LAST SONG OF ARION, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look not upon me thus impatiently Last Line: Farewell to light,—to life,—to love,—to thee. Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.); Dolphins; Homecoming; Legends, Greek; Porpoises THE LEGEND OF ARA-COELI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at fra gervasio Last Line: "what know I, signor? They found her dead!" Subject(s): Legends; Catholicism; Babies; Infants THE LEGEND OF ESPIRITU SANTO, by ISLEA SHRIVER ELLIS Poem Text First Line: Many years ago the spaniard came from far across the ocean Last Line: Sing a song of joy and gladness in the sunshine of the southland. Subject(s): De Soto, Hernando (1500-1542); Legends, Native American; Youth THE LEGEND OF FERGUS LEIDESON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one day king fergus, leide luthmar's son" Last Line: "he smile: he cast his trophy to the bank, / cried, 'I survivor, ulstermen!' and sank" Subject(s): "legends, Irish; THE LEGEND OF HEINZ VON STEIN, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out rode from his wild, dark castle Last Line: Of the terrible heinz von stein. Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): Legends THE LEGEND OF JUBAL, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cain was driven from jehovah's land Last Line: The all-creating presence for his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Christianity; Death; Heroism; Legacies; Legends; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE LEGEND OF QU'APPELLE VALLEY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the one who loved her as my life Last Line: Why white men named the valley the qu'appelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Grief; Legends; Love; Travel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE LEGEND OF ST ROSALIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair art thou, sicily! - in all his round Last Line: And such its reverence for st rosalie! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Legends; Rosalie, Saint (d. 1160) THE LEGEND OF THE BRONX, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sword and bible, brood and dame Last Line: "come to our valley of homes!" Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace; Summer THE LEGEND OF THE PASQUE FLOWER, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL Poem Text First Line: There's a legend as old as the calendar year Last Line: Who heed the season's clarion call. Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Legends; The Resurrection THE LEGEND OF THORA, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the breezy hill slope, just as day had begun Last Line: Of golden-haired thora. Subject(s): Legends, Norse THE LEPER KNIGHT; A LEGEND OF MALTA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Elmo's walls are high and strong Last Line: Had kept his vow in dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Malta; Muslims; Tyranny & Tyrants; Moslems THE LITTLE GHOST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Broad, high yew hedges flank the flowers, and border Last Line: In junes of old! Subject(s): Ghosts; Legends; Supernatural THE LORDSHIP OF CORFU; A LEGEND OF 1516, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What time o'er gory lands and threatening seas Last Line: "thus venice claims the lordship of corfu!" Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Legends THE MEDITATION OF COLUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise be to god, and a blessing too at that, and a blessing Last Line: And hath no thought of my sons in the deeps of the air and the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; Meditation; Salvation THE MONARCH AND THE MARQUIS; AN ORIENTAL LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a merry monarch Last Line: "the man, at least, is wed!" Subject(s): Legends THE NOBLEMAN, THE FISHERMAN, AND THE PORTER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a famous nobleman Last Line: On each succeeding year. Subject(s): Legends, Italian THE NORTHERN KNIGHT IN ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the record, true as his own word Last Line: Embalm it, to be known in after-times. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Crusades; Legends THE ORIGIN OF WINE; A GERMAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye friends of good cheer, I pray you give ear Last Line: To the angel who gave him the seed of the vine! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Legends, German THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear an ancient indian legend told in many a Last Line: "tempest-quelling, stand forever; matchless, changeless, unafraid!" Subject(s): Evil; Legends; Native Americans; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE PARIAH, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, bramha, bending lowly! Last Line: Look in mercy on repentance! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Legends; Prayer; Rivers; Estrangement; Outcasts THE PASSING OF RABBI ASSI, by EDWIN POND PARKER Poem Text First Line: Outworn by studious toil and age Last Line: To hear his counsel, let him hear! Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Legends; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bird of loudest lay Last Line: For these dead birds, sigh a prayer. Subject(s): Doves; Legends; Love; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE PILGRIM OF GLENCOE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset sheds a horizontal smile Last Line: Scorned not to weep at allan campbell's grave. Subject(s): Glencoe, Massacre Of (1690-1692); Legends, Scottish THE PILOT OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False,' they said, thy pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn Last Line: Hunters lost upon the plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Legends; Love - Cultural Differences; Native Americans; Waiting; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE PLEASANT COMEDY OF OLD FORTUNATUS, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Text First Line: Are you then travelling to the temple of eliza? Last Line: All. Amen, amen, amen! [exeunt. Subject(s): Comedy; Legends, English THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE RECOVERY OF THOR'S HAMMER, by SIGFUSSON SAEMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wroth waxed thor, when his sleep was flown Last Line: Thus odin's son his hammer got. Alternate Author Name(s): Saemundur Frodi Variant Title(s): Thor Recovers His Hammer From Thrym Subject(s): Legends, Norse THE REDBREAST (A LEGEND OF BRITTANY), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: When jesus meekly passed to death Last Line: Is loved by man the best. Subject(s): Birds; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Legends, French; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; French Folklore THE RHYME OF SIR LAUNCELOT BOGLE; A LEGEND OF GLASGOW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a pleasant place of rest Last Line: Take my leave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Rhyme THE SAINT AND THE SATYR (MEDIAEVAL LEGEND), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint anthony the eremite Last Line: "for me I pray thee pray!" Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Legends THE SEA-BORN VINE (A DIONYSIAC LEGEND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun leapt up the rose-flushed sky Last Line: Ai evoe be vain indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vines And Vineyards; Ocean THE SEARCH, by CHARLES SHAW Poem Text First Line: I've dropped me swag in many camps Last Line: The big white bull through wagga. Subject(s): Bulls; Legends; Revenge THE SECRET (F.P.D.), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem the stable was small and mean and old Last Line: Then held him close against her breast, for little jesus smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SHADOWY WATERS: A DRAMATIC POEM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has he not led us into these waste seas Last Line: That have had dreams for father, live in us. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Legends, Celtic THE SONG OF COURTESY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sir gawain was led to his bridal-bed Last Line: Beautiful by courtesy! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Mythology; Arthur, King THE SONG OF THE COLORADO RIVER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: To my own again in the salton sea Last Line: For the indian sagas are written in fire. Subject(s): Colorado (river); Happiness; Legends, Native American; Joy; Delight THE SONG OF THEODOLIND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen theodolind has built / in the earth a furnace-bed Last Line: Red of heat, beat, beat! Subject(s): Cross, The; Legends; Temptation THE SPIRIT MOUNTAIN, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: The shadow of mount harney, when the twilight fell Last Line: May speak in unknown tongues to unknown races. Subject(s): Legends, Native American THE STORY OF GLAUCUS THE THESSALIAN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List to this legend, which an antique poet Last Line: "just gods!"" he sighed, ""I am indeed alone!" Subject(s): Legends THE STRANGER; AFTER A GUARANI LEGEND RECORDED BY ERNESTO MORALES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the forest there was somebody Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Legends THE SWORD OF THE TOMB; A NORTHERN LEGEND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the gifted elder time! Last Line: In the tomb, on sigurd's breast? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Legends, Norse THE TANNHAUSER; A LEGEND, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O all good christians, be on your guard Last Line: "I'll tell on another occasion." Subject(s): Gans, Eduard (1798-1839); Legends, German THE THREE GOOD DAYS; A LEGEND OF ITALY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In casena dwelt a widow Last Line: How his lucky days had come! Subject(s): Legends, Italian THE TREASURE OF GOLD; A LEGEND OF ITALY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful story, my darlings Last Line: That came of the treasure of gold! Subject(s): Gold; Legends, Italian THE VALLEY OF ANOSTAN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An orient legend, which hath all the light Last Line: But the fair archway of the gates of birth! Subject(s): Legends THE VENGEANCE OF THE GODDESS DIANA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What time the norman ruled in sicily Last Line: "o, brave kind heart! I worship only thee!" Subject(s): Legends THE VISIT OF MAHMOUD BEN SULEIM TO PARADISE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shadow of a breezeless palm Last Line: "in the deep calm which lies at allah's feet!'" Subject(s): Legends THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the chief of the race - he had stricken my father dead Last Line: When I landed again with a tithe of my men, on the isle of finn! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Legends, Irish THE WATER-FIENDS, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: On a wild moor, all brown and bleak Last Line: "and see how far quaint measure will prevail:" Subject(s): Legends THE WHITE WOMEN, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where dwell the lovely, wild white women folk Last Line: And gazing died. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Amazons; Legends, Malayan; Women's Rights; Feminism THE WIFE OF BRITTANY (SUGGESTED BY THE FRANKELEINE'S TALE OF CHAUCER), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth wed to beauty in an antique tale Last Line: Touching with golden haze the quaint old-world romance. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Legends THE WILD HUNSTMAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy rest was deep at the slumberer's hour Last Line: For the huntsman hath gone by! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Hunting; Legends, German; War; Hunters THE WISDOM OF ALI; AN ARAB LEGEND, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophet once, sitting in calm debate Last Line: "which god supplies, is inexhaustible." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): God; Legends, Arabic; Prophecy & Prophets; Wealth; Wisdom; Riches; Fortunes THE WOLF OF GUBBIO, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is cold Last Line: Out of the cold! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Legends; Wolves; Italians THE WOMAN OF BEARE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ebbing, the wave of the sea" Last Line: Ebbs the wave of the sea Subject(s): "legends, Irish; THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO HELL; AN IRISH LEGEND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Young dermod stood by his mother's side Last Line: And set her beside him there. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Hell; Legends, Irish THUNDER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Tlaloc's %laughter Last Line: From %afar Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans THURSDAY IN HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Griefe stay a while, to morrow wee Last Line: Will make it selfe its reason prove. Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Legends; Last Supper, The TO A WILD ROSE ON A INDIAN GRAVE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture where the grasses are the first to / herald spring Last Line: The good shall live forever, and the pure shall never die. Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Flowers; Legends; Roses TO ANOTHER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us sit now in the broad window Last Line: That li po saw in the drowned rushes Subject(s): Books; China; Legends; Li Po (701-762); Relationships TO CAST SLEEP, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, the one-called-night Last Line: Soon I shall do this to them %and all shall be drunk with night Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TO EARTHWORMS BEFORE FISHING WITH A HOOK, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Help me %white spirit Last Line: The man fish %the woman fish %dwellers of meanders Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days! Last Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Legends, Irish; Roses; Irish TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST EVERYTHING, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Crossed %in despair Last Line: A fantasy island %some time ago %turning %natives %into aliens Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TO UNDO THE SLEEP SPELL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I'm going to take them back Last Line: From their dream-flower %I am %the night-drinker Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TOBACCO, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Piciete: %sacred dust Last Line: The lips %the hands %the living %quarters Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TOLD AT THE TAVERN, by THEODORE F. HAVENS Poem Text First Line: I can see you're a gentleman; time has been Last Line: And true as god's own gospel, you bet. Subject(s): Legends TOMORROW, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am gilgamesh Last Line: Where I dwelt Subject(s): Legends TONAL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: If you lose %your tonal Last Line: Might as well %be dead Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TONALAMATL/SPIRIT BOOK, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Pages %whisper %sigh %sing Last Line: I start %singing %all kinds %of flowers Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans TONANTZIN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Mother %are you here %with us? Last Line: And fire of %our rebellion! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Women - Bible TRAVELER'S PRAYER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: I myself %I, quetzalcoatl Last Line: To be stained %with blood %come forth %cross my path Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans URBAN VILLAGERS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Hummingbirds %consoling Last Line: The flowers %of the avenues Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans VENUS AND THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHT, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are thine eyes so red, sir knight? Last Line: Poor sinners to despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Legends VISIONS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: At night %I see Last Line: By ear %by hand %by heart Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WATER SPIRITS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: These rivers %flow deep %inside Last Line: Well uphill %stream off %volcanoes Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WE'RE ONE, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Sea %dust Last Line: Tear %pollen Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WEDNESDAY IN Y' HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Who doubts how avarice can be Last Line: Shall still from him a full redemption reap. Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Legends; Materialism WIDDERIN'S RACE; AUSTRALIAN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A horse amongst ten thousand! On the verge Last Line: "grimly they fought, and brute by brute they fell." Subject(s): Legends WILD HONEY', by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: But thou art grown a symbol unto me Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Legends WILLOW WARE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On grandmamma's table is waiting for me Last Line: "that beautiful, queer, little land of blue" Subject(s): Grandparents;legends;willow Trees; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers WINDFLOWERS AND THE SAGE, by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR Poem Source First Line: While mary and the christ-child Last Line: Since when the humble sage-brush breathes %sweet fragrance on the air Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends WISER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Now I know %why my father Last Line: Would go out %and cry %in the rain Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WORKING HANDS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: We clean %your room Last Line: One day %will write %the main text %of this land Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans WRITING MY FEELINGS, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: Originally an immortal from beyond the seas Last Line: Raise my head to three fairy isles Subject(s): Legends, Chinese YOLILIZTLI/LIFE IN MOTION, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Something %more than nothing Last Line: Capable of turning %caterpillers into %butterflies Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans YOLLOXOCHITL/HEART-FLOWER, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: It was you %sister Last Line: It was you %sister %your blood %your wounds Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans YORKSHIRE LEGEND OF SEMERWATER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In ancient times, as story tells Last Line: Until at good old age they died, %and slept in peace by semerside Subject(s): Legends, English YORKSHIRE SONG ABOUT MOTHER SHIPTON AND HER PROPHECIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the pretty pantomimes Last Line: And little fairies tread the green, %call'd forth by mother shipton Subject(s): Legends, English |
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