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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEAD LETTER: 1, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I drew it from its china tomb
Last Line: And this old dusty letter.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Letters


A DEAD LETTER: 2, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear john (the letter ran), it can't, can't be
Last Line: Look in this corner, -- mind you find it, john!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Letters; Love


A DEAD LETTER: 3, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the matter of the note
Last Line: Of john, I think, the better.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Letters


A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have
Last Line: Where I am going.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood


A LETTER, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he hath had / a letter from his lady
Last Line: As hath a sword from war.
Subject(s): Letters


A LETTER, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking out of the dark of the town
Last Line: And gets its strange spark from the world
Subject(s): Letters; Memory


A LETTER, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a woman's letter, brown with age
Last Line: Let us rejoice, while yet the sun doth shine.
Subject(s): Letters; Women


A LETTER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, be pleas'd these lines to read
Last Line: Alas! The old muir-hen.
Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers


A LETTER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since hired for life thy servile muse must sing
Last Line: And where old spenser sung, a new eliza reigns.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Danube (river); Goddesses & Gods; Letters; Mythology; Poetry & Poets


A LETTER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, I tried to write you such a letter
Last Line: Through the twilight shadows of my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Love; Tears; Nightmares


A LETTER, by C. S.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Self, soul & co., architects: / dear sirs
Last Line: C.S.
Subject(s): Letters


A LETTER IS A GYPSY ELF, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: You cannot travel where they are
Subject(s): Letters


A LETTER OF ADVICE, by THOMAS HOOD JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you love - as all men will
Last Line: "did I write my love a letter?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger
Subject(s): Letters; Love


A LETTER SENT FROM OCTAVIA TO HER HUSBAND MARCUS ANTONIUS INTO EGYPT, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee, yet dear though most disloyal lord
Last Line: To thee the heart that's thine, and so I end.
Subject(s): Egypt; Letters; Love; Marriage; Roman Empire; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A LETTER TO A FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The past is like a story
Last Line: As when scattered o'er the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fame; Friendship; Letters; Past; Reputation


A LETTER TO LADY [MISS] MARGARET-CAVANDISH-HOLLES-HARLEY, WHEN A CHILD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My noble, lovely, little peggy, / let this, my first epistle, beg ye
Last Line: And so I rest your constant friend.
Variant Title(s): To Lady Margaret Cavenish Holles-harley, Afterwards Duchess Of Portland
Subject(s): Children; God; Letters; Prayer; Childhood


A LETTER TO R. L. ESQ, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear peter, if thou canst descend
Last Line: Can cure him of that fiddling phrenzy.
Subject(s): Letters; Messages & Messengers; Muses; News


A LETTER TO SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To you who live in chill degree
Last Line: Has writ without a ten years warning.
Subject(s): Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Letters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


A LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear bill / when I search the past for you
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


A LETTER, ON HIS DEPARTURE FORM LONDON; TO R.L., ESQ., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear peter, your absence at present I rue
Last Line: If so, I'll go see it, or 'twill be a hard case.
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Letters; News; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


A LOVE LETTER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I des received a letter fo'm de sweetest little gal
Last Line: Oh, my; oh, my.
Subject(s): Letters


A LOVE LETTER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you desir'd my bosom friend
Last Line: Sincere your true love and your dear.
Subject(s): Letters; Love


A LOVE-LETTER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You wished for a love-letter, doctor - but then
Last Line: And if it don't suit you, why, just write a better!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Letters


A LOVER, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a letter
Subject(s): Letters; Fireflies; Glowworms


A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER, FROM THE EARL OF ESSEX TO SOUTHAMPTON, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, untaught by nature or by art
Last Line: Essex.
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry Readings


A SUGGESTION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send, transmit, consign, convey
Last Line: "I wish you ""merry christmas."
Subject(s): Christmas; Expressionism - Poets; Letters; Postal Service; Nativity, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


A VALENTINE, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And cannot pleasures, while they last
Last Line: Of wasting sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis
Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Letters; Valentine's Day


A WIFE'S LETTER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My own
Last Line: But only that this comes from me.
Subject(s): Letters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AIR MAIL, by ANNA HAWKS PUTNAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was one with space
Last Line: Expecting words from a friend.
Subject(s): Letters


AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box
Last Line: No one makes it his own
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box
Last Line: No-one makes it his own
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


ALL SHE WROTE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers


AMY'S LOVE-LETTER, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turning some papers carelessly
Last Line: But he's either married or dead.
Subject(s): Letters; Love


AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways
Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too.
Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors


AN OLD LOVE LETTER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was reading a letter of yours to-day
Last Line: Your heart shall hear and shall answer me.
Subject(s): Letters


AN UNSTAMPED LETTER IN OUR RURAL LETTER BOX, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night your watchdog barked all night
Last Line: To say as much as I wrote you this
Subject(s): Letters


AND AFTER ALL, by HALLE W. WARLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: As, after frost, men rake the darkening mold
Last Line: Spring knew the lips of april -- love once spoke!
Subject(s): Letters; Spring


ANNUS MIRABILIS: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENSUING POEM, IN A LETTER TO THE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, %I am so many ways obliged to you and so little able to return
Last Line: Pretending to a greater, which I have given them
Variant Title(s): An Account Of The Ensuing Poem, In A Letter To The Honourable Sr. Rob
Subject(s): England; Letters; Poetry And Poets; War


ANSWER, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You told me not to answer
Last Line: I will be waiting %not to hear from you
Subject(s): Absence; Letters


APOLOGY TO VALLEJO, by BERNARD JANKOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear vallejo
Last Line: And I spent all day %absorbed in my own
Subject(s): Cities; Letters


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 8, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy letter was a flash of lightning
Last Line: This fearful tragedy's conclusion.
Subject(s): Fear; Letters; Pain; Peace; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery


ASIDE, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mail-day, and over the world in a thousand drag-nets
Subject(s): War; Letters


BILLY, HE'S IN TROUBLE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've got a letter, parson, from my son, away out west
Last Line: Bill's in the legislatur, but he doesn't say what fur.
Subject(s): Letters; Messages & Messengers; Shame


BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: ENDPAPERS, by GLORI SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear sirs
Last Line: Its lock. Sincerely yours, gentle mary
Subject(s): Letters


BURNING LOVE LETTERS, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire that cancels all that is
Last Line: Ashes I write your name once, %bending on cold knees
Subject(s): Letters; Love


BURNNG THE LETTERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I made a fire; being tired
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Letters; Fire


CHAIN LETTER, by MARTHA ZWEIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Send me a modest money & copy
Last Line: Doesn't have to by yours
Subject(s): Letters


CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Last Line: But I doubt he'd suit the office, clancy, of the overflow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Letters


CLAUSEWITZ'S MAIL, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aide found her is a shop in berlin
Last Line: And touched %at night before darkness screamed
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


COLD NIGHT, I HEARD THE SOUNDING OF THE WATCH, by CHIAO-JAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaning on my pillow
Last Line: How many did you hear there?
Subject(s): Letters; Zen Buddhism


CONCEIT, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother's afraid to get angry
Subject(s): Brothers; Anger; Letters; Family Life; Half-brothers; Relatives


CORRESPONDENCE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask why I don't write
Last Line: I wish there were as simple %an explanation for the silence of god
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Letters


DEAD LETTERS, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the day of resurrection, %all the dead letters
Last Line: Under the remembered tongues %of the living
Subject(s): Letters


DEAD LETTERS, by VICTORIA GARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have put all of your old letters
Subject(s): Letters


DEAR PIERRE:, by DAN MACHLIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Well that's all for now. Ciao, dear sir! Your friend every day since, for many %years to come
Subject(s): Italy; Letters; Sicily


DEAR PRISONER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I too love. Faces. Hands. The circumference
Last Line: This cell. Your dwelling. Who is unaccountably free
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Letters; Pain; Prisons And Prisoners


DECIPHERED, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath her letter's frigid form
Last Line: A palimpsest!
Subject(s): Letters


DIE LIAN HUA: STIRRED BY THE FREQUENT LOSS OF MY LETTERS TO SU'AN, by XU CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Often I send brocade letters, but the wild goose fails to go
Last Line: A flash of the setting sun and I'm a thousand miles away
Subject(s): Letters


DOGANA, by MARCELIN PLEYNET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dazzled %blind %turning in the gilded cage of the world
Last Line: One's got to laugh in their wake %now one's got to laugh
Subject(s): Books; History; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Venice, Italy


DOMEDAY BOOK: MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Elenor murray asked to go in training
Last Line: Who ran the times.
Subject(s): Evil; Kisses; Letters; Life; Love


DOMESDAY BOOK: ELENOR MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coroner merival took the hundred letters
Last Line: And at his house they talked the case and supped.
Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Letters; Love; Soul; Nightmares


DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY BAKER, AT NEW YORK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One partner may consult another -- james
Last Line: And chase came to the coroner and spoke:
Subject(s): Death; Letters; New York City; Undertakers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DOMESDAY BOOK: IRMA LEESE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Elenor murray landing in new york
Last Line: Before the jury. Here is what she wrote: --
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Love; Dead, The


DOMESDAY BOOK: LOVERIDGE CHASE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the secret of the death of elenor
Last Line: Of elenor murray and their days at nice:
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CONVENT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Elenor murray stole away from nice
Last Line: Out of a curious but hardened heart.
Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Letters; Life; Nuns; Prayer; Italians


DOMESDAY BOOK: THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why don't they come to me to find the cause
Last Line: She talks with susan hamilton like this:
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Nations; War; Dead, The


DRUNK, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I open the letter
Last Line: Where it turns my actual life %into a smoking slag
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Letters; Sex


EPIGRAM (1), by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To richmond and peterburgh, mat gave his letters
Last Line: These were knights of the garter, not knights of the post.
Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Letters


EPISTLE TO DR. BLACKLOCK, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wow, but your letter made me vauntie!
Last Line: I'm yours for aye.
Variant Title(s): To Dr. Blacklock
Subject(s): Letters


EPISTLES BETWEEN ANDREW GRAY AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: TO R. FERGUSSON, by ANDREW GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deer r.Ie'en man dip my pen, / but how to write I dinna ken
Last Line: Yours, andrew gray.
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Praise


EXCHANGE OF LETTERS, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear serious novel, %I am a terse, assured lyric with impeccable rhythmic flow
Last Line: Yours impatiently, %death of the zeitgeist
Subject(s): Letters


EXHIBIT 1916 - A, B, C:, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside my window, branches are breaking off the trees. The
Last Line: Your firm little wife, %alexandra
Subject(s): Letters; Relationships


EXTRACT FROM A LETTER, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What matter all my looks to thee?
Last Line: I mean by night, I mean by night!
Subject(s): Eyes; Letters; Night; Sun; Bedtime


EYE TEST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The d is desperate
Last Line: We are so tired of meaning nothing.
Subject(s): Eyes; Letters; Vision


EYES ONLY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear lost sharer
Subject(s): Letters


FAN LETTER, by AMY GERSTLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear literary hero
Last Line: Lighting up the dark sky %of our like minds
Subject(s): Heroism; Letters


FEARS AND SCRUPLES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's my case. Of old I used to love
Last Line: What if this friend happened to be -- god?
Subject(s): Fear; Letters


FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I start with a groan, swelling to a moan
Last Line: I shake and shiver, grinning, in the filthy air
Subject(s): Hearts; Love Letters; Memory


FIRE EXIT: 77, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a letter of the alphabet like a muddy road in sweden
Last Line: All form and no information
Subject(s): Letters


FLY, LITTLE LETTER, by W. C. C.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fly, little letter
Last Line: Kiss-linked chains sure never can part.
Subject(s): Letters


FOR EVERY LETTER DRINK A GLASS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And five it be nancy
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Letters


FOUND AMONG LETTERS TO HIS MISTRESS, by ED WICKLIFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us set forth upon our journey now
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Letters; Sea Voyages; Travel


GIRL READING A LETTER AT AN OPEN WINDOW, by ALAN DENIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: This isn't a ransom note, I'm not asking for gold
Last Line: For nothing more. Take my brush of rude gold
Subject(s): Letters


GOOD WEATHER LETTER, by CAROL HENRIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If jane can set this garden out in neat rows today
Last Line: On the shed hook. Hand on the latch, jane %steadies herself. Steps in
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Letters


GUCK-ACHT-CHE?, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you a letter for me?' I called to
Last Line: To him, plain as plain can be
Subject(s): Letters


HARBINGER, by KURT J. FICKERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The postman comes on less than winged feet
Last Line: When the postman comes on less than winged feet %and scatters tattered letters down the street
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


HARRIET SMITHSON BERLIOZ, A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, by PIMONE TRIPLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dearest hector, %I take shame on myself that I was not
Last Line: I once moved through, pursue me now, or you ... ? %your loving wife, %harriet
Subject(s): Letters; Marriage


HELEN TO PARIS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When loose epistles violate chast eyes
Last Line: And may hereafter better news impart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Letters; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paris (mythology); Translating & Interpreting


HER LETTER, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting alone by the fire
Last Line: And you've struck it, -- on poverty flat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Beginnings


HER LETTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have your letter over-sea
Last Line: That your caresses lingered yet.
Subject(s): Letters; Love


HER LETTER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She has written her little letter
Last Line: When she had a half-hour free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers


HER LETTERS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did he imagine that her letters
Subject(s): Letters


HER LETTERS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did he imagine that her letters
Last Line: Write to a lover alive or dead
Subject(s): Letters


HERMIONE: 1. THE LOST MAGIC, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White in her snowy stone, and cold
Last Line: Thy secret spell, pygmalion?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Forests; Pygmalion; Letters


HOW TO WRITE A LETTER, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maria intended a letter to write
Last Line: "though silent your tongue, you can speak with your pen."
Subject(s): Letters


HOW TO WRITE TO AN EX-LOVER, by MELISSA KIRSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The letter begins, my dear, here's an update
Last Line: That's what he's become now, no farewell
Subject(s): Letters; Past; Relationships; Writing And Writers


IF I COULD ONLY WRITE, by RAMON DE CAMPOAMOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Please, senor cura write a line for me
Last Line: To know my greek, and latin, after all!
Subject(s): Grief; Illiteracy; Love Letters


IMPROMPTU ON WRITING A LETTER WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO SAY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So have I seen the maids in vain
Last Line: And what was work is changed to play.
Subject(s): Letters


IN AN AUCTION ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How about this lot? Said the auctioneer
Last Line: Sold for eight hundred dollars -- doctor r.!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Auctions; Brawne, Fanny; Keats, John (1795-1821); Letters; Poetry & Poets; Rosenbach, Abraham Simon (1876-1952)


IN MEMORIAM. G. M. M., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His letter lies before me here
Last Line: O friend, whom I shall see no more!
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Love; Memory; Dead, The


INSTRUCTIONS TO BE LEFT BEHIND, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've included this letter in the group
Last Line: All that you (and I too) wanted to be: you.
Subject(s): Legacies; Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


ISOLATE, by PORTIA MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I looked out over the ocean
Last Line: And watched it disappear.
Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


LADY OF LETTERS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have read her work
Last Line: When you feel the mockery of the aplause, the empty smiles of the ladies of letters
Subject(s): Books; Letters; Poetry And Poets


LES PAPILLOTTES, by GERTRUDE HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eulalia sat before the glass
Last Line: "the proper, simple message, ""come at three."
Subject(s): Courtship; Letters


LETTER, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have not seen your writing
Last Line: But drops caught up in the bough %full murderously on me now
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking out of the dark of the town
Last Line: And gets its strange spark from the world
Subject(s): Letters; Memory


LETTER, by MARY KATHLEEN HAWLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You say floors sink with the weight of secrets
Last Line: Bleak world is blind and deaf. You should resist
Subject(s): Letters; Secrets


LETTER, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friends %don't look for me
Last Line: The diseased me, %in the heavy snow
Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Letters; Writing And Writers


LETTER, by OTTO ORBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found the letter in a drawer among old bills and papers. 'if
Last Line: Indifferent curtain on the stage of delusion
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Messengers; News; Postal Service


LETTER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because a stamp will beat the damp
Subject(s): Letters; Suicide


LETTER AND ANSWER, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After so many years she wrote, but why
Last Line: "restore the life that once joined me to you?"
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Youth; Male-female Relations


LETTER AT CHRISTMAS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The big wooden clock you gave me
Last Line: In the kearsage mini-mart
Subject(s): Christmas; Letters; Nativity, The


LETTER AT CHRISTMAS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The big wooden clock you gave me
Last Line: I press my penis %into zinc and butcherblock
Subject(s): Christmas; Letters


LETTER FROM A BROTHER, by ANNE CORAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the tailspin of autumn
Last Line: Write, if you get a chance. %love, paul
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Writing And Writers


LETTER FROM A MOST-LOVED AMERICAN GENERAL, 1996, by JOE WENDEROTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have retreated with my whole army
Last Line: The freedom to not have to speak of what we fight for
Subject(s): Army Life; Letters


LETTER FROM BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What do they tell me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Beauty; Letters; Nature; Women


LETTER FROM BLACKSBURG, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boston's teeming streets [or, my friend of the teeming streets in boston]
Last Line: Talks we are having
Subject(s): Letters; Writing And Writers


LETTER FROM KAMPALA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At this other end of africa
Last Line: To get home to you
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Africa; Letters; Memory; Writing And Writers


LETTER FROM MEXICO, by HOMERO ARIDJIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Invisible ancestors %walk with us
Last Line: Move toward transparency
Variant Title(s): Letters From Mexic
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Letters; Travel


LETTER FROM THE OLD SOD, by DENNIS MICHAEL MALONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear brother: %it is now drawing near xmas
Last Line: Wishing ye all a very merry xmas %your fond sister
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Postal Service; Travel; Writing And Writers


LETTER FROM THE SUMMER HOUSE, by OKSANA ZABUZHKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hello, dear. After the recent acid rains
Last Line: I've exhausted the ones I know. %kisses. Love, o
Subject(s): Letters; Summer


LETTER FROM YOUR FUTURE, by DAVID CONFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear fool: you might as well
Last Line: Like it or not, you will be
Subject(s): Future; Letters


LETTER HE DID NOT MAIL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As he left the house in the morning
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER HOME, by PAMELA ALEXANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER IS A JOY OF EARTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is denied the gods
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1639; Poem: 167
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER SENT, by CHIA TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The family's living up brocade creek
Last Line: Another year's gone by
Subject(s): Letters; Zen Buddhism


LETTER TO A FATHER, LETTER FROM A SON, by LYNN SHOEMAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cincinnati. Aprill 11th
Last Line: And my anger shakes in the lilies
Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Fathers And Sons; Letters


LETTER TO A GHETTO BOY THREE THOUSAND MILES AWAY, by ANNIE LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tried to forget you, boy
Last Line: Love of my innocence, even after I left, flew away like you said and tried to forget
Subject(s): Cities; Ghettos; High School Students; Letters; Teenagers


LETTER TO A PAINTER IN ENGLAND, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where you rot under the strict gray industry
Last Line: That would inform the blind world of its flesh
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Letters; Seasons; West Indies


LETTER TO A POET, by DOROTHY RANDOLPH BYARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Climb no more. You will be lost
Last Line: Arrowed falling -- through abyss -- abyss.
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets


LETTER TO A WANDERING HUSBAND: GO HOME, by LING YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tear drop frozen
Last Line: First rays of spring
Subject(s): Letters; Zen Buddhism


LETTER TO AUDEN, by A. M. JUSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Uh, whystan? %--please forgive my arrogance
Last Line: Give my regards to byron. %--fondly, juster
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung
Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down.
Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.]


LETTER TO BOSTON, by AMY LEMMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If only, instead of writing
Last Line: As you play me like the uileann pipes, %a vessel musical with breathing
Subject(s): Letters; Music And Musicians


LETTER TO CARLOS PELLICER, by EUNICE ODIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most charming sir, most learned young master
Last Line: Recieve, master, my endless gifts. I love you profoundly
Subject(s): Absence; Letters


LETTER TO CORNELIS ANSLO, 1641, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are right-the likeness of your wife
Last Line: The line and lure that miss them
Subject(s): Absence; Letters


LETTER TO FANNY JANE DOLLY COOMBE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear niece-par adoption
Last Line: Your 3 parts crazy- & wholly affectionate %uncle edward
Subject(s): Letters; Writing And Writers


LETTER TO FATHER HENRY IN BOLIVIA, by FREDRICK ZYDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear pat: everyone here has been afraid
Last Line: Stays very busy. Come back alive. Love, fred
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO GEORGE COOMBE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear george-I'm convinced I am thoroughly cracked
Last Line: Little dotties, -write soon-ever yours, %edward lear
Subject(s): Family Life; Letters


LETTER TO HARRY HINDE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear harry hinde, %if you've a mind
Last Line: So-yours quite sincerely
Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Paintings And Painters


LETTER TO JAIPUR, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to tell you
Last Line: Lint slanting in the sun's column
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha
Last Line: Nineteen forty-four to fifty-five
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters


LETTER TO JAIPUR, 1989, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to tell, rekha
Last Line: Hills of the himalayas, %nineteen forty-four to fifty-five
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); Letters


LETTER TO JAN LIEVENS, 1633, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bulbs sprout in the barrel on long journeys
Last Line: My friend: commissions and beauty and light
Subject(s): Friendship; Letters


LETTER TO LADY WYATT, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear lady wyatt, %if I am interrupting you please excuse me
Last Line: More, so will leave off immintiately. % yours sincerely, %edward lear
Subject(s): Letters; Nonsense


LETTER TO LAO TZU, by KAREN WHITEHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of great pain you would say
Last Line: When wings spread and lift, ride the air
Subject(s): Lao-tzu (6th Century); Letters


LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just when I imagined I had conquered nostalgia so odious
Subject(s): Letters; Singing & Singers; Nostalgia


LETTER TO MIGUEL OTERO SILVA, IN CARACAS (1948), by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nicolas guillen brought me your letter, written
Last Line: So I can watch through the window the world that is ours
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO MOTHER, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all
Last Line: But there will be no america discovered by analogy
Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States; America


LETTER TO MOTHER, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all
Last Line: But there will be no americas discovered by analogy
Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States


LETTER TO MY MOTHER, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mater dulcissima, now the mists are descending
Last Line: Dulcissima mater
Subject(s): Letters; Writing And Writers


LETTER TO MY YOUNG SON FROM SZIGLIGET, by MAGDA GUTAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yewtree is ailing with catarrh
Last Line: Inside your chest?
Subject(s): Letters; Messengers; Parents; Postal Service; Sons


LETTER TO NO ONE WHO IS NAMED THE PAST AND THE THOUGHTS THAT ..., by JIM ELLEDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dearest t.P.-
Last Line: As I'd ever get the rest of my goddamned life
Subject(s): Letters; Past; Thought


LETTER TO SAINT PETER, by MARION DOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Most reverend saint: / I have been told you
Last Line: Sheila's mother.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO THE CREVICE NOVICE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted nothing. I am not a stray mule
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO THE CREVICE NOVICE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted nothing. I am not a stray mule
Last Line: Good:tight no-love-you's in a tongue %thicker than water. Bluer too
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO THE FRONT, 2, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When it is still, I listen for your voice.
Subject(s): War - Home Front; Absence; Longing; Family Life; Letters; Separation; Isolation; Relatives


LETTER TO THE MOOR, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How could I have ignored you
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO THE MOOR, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How could I not see you [or, have ignored you]
Last Line: I call it a life
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear bill %when I search the past for you
Last Line: With love and admiration, %kenneth rexroth
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry And Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


LETTER, POSSIBILITY, by MICHELE BOWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Copper %today the forecast came by mail
Last Line: When I reach the station I tear %a page from it %I make it yours
Subject(s): Letters; Paper; Postal Service


LETTERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If these six letters came from birds
Last Line: To lead a chorus full of thunder!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Gossip; Letters


LETTERS, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Against the most tender feelings
Last Line: The unproven place on the road or at the table on the other side %of the wall painted with a dragon
Subject(s): Hudson Valley, New York; Letters; New York City


LETTERS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear muzz,' I wrote, the summer I was ten
Last Line: Darling ... Your visit ... Even ... So brief
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Letters


LETTERS, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After mom died my sister
Last Line: Grief is little sister %to insanity
Subject(s): Letters; Mothers


LETTERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a letter? A bridge in the night
Last Line: They are preserved in the mansions above!
Subject(s): Letters


LETTERS (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day brings a ship
Last Line: Is the word they wish to hear.
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Separation; Isolation


LETTERS (2), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My tongue is prone to lose the way
Last Line: But surely put them better.
Subject(s): Letters


LETTERS ARE SMALL ANGELS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Letters are small angels flying in between
Last Line: Blessed little angels, telling happy things!
Subject(s): Letters


LETTERS FROM A FATHER, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ulcerated tooth keeps me awake, there is
Last Line: So the world woos its children back for an evening kiss
Subject(s): Fathers; Letters


LETTERS FROM THE BELOVED, by WILHELM JENSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, your too cool letters, dear
Last Line: Ah--some miracle must sleep.
Subject(s): Letters


LETTERS ON LIFE AND THE MORNING, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They said too late, too late, the work is done
Last Line: And god comes down to him, and christ doth rise.
Subject(s): God; Letters; Life; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Soul


LETTERS TO ANNA DUNCAN AND LADY DUNCAN, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear miss duncan
Last Line: Yours sincerely, %edward lear
Subject(s): Letters; Paintings And Painters


LETTERS TO EVELYN BARING, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear baring,- %disgustical to say, I must beg you to thank his excellency
Last Line: Yossin seerly, %dwdl(ear)
Subject(s): Letters; Sickness


LINES IN A LETTER TO HIS LADY COUSIN, HONOR DRIDEN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For since 'twas mine, the white hath lost its hiew
Last Line: Whom you so farre shall bless to make your seale.
Subject(s): Latin Literature; Letters; Virginity; Roman Literature; Vestals


LINES TO PERFESSER JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your neghbors in the country
Last Line: Plum at the dashboard of the wholeendurin' alfabet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fame; Letters; Universities & Colleges; Reputation


LINES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF A GIRL BURNING LOVE LETTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I took the scroll: I could not brook
Last Line: I fear'd it was love's history.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Complaints


LIVES OF A POET: 1, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A friend has sent me %a copy of your dark world
Last Line: I'm glad you followed your own %advice: 'reticence be damned.'
Subject(s): Letters


LIVES OF A POET: 2, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pilate asks, 'what is %love?' for which I substitute
Last Line: Gift made - and given freely. %I bow to the poem, my friend
Subject(s): Letters


LIVES OF A POET: 3, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wily su tung-p'o
Last Line: Footsteps leading through the snow %until they become the snow
Subject(s): Letters


LIVES OF A POET: 4, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reading your scrambeled %eggs & whiskey, I took note:
Last Line: That poetry was enough %to teach me to live, to love
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry And Poets


LOST LETTERS: 1, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Corrie stands invisible beneath the window sill
Last Line: That sink %in a child's bath
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Letters


LOST LETTERS: 2, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You hand me your sea bag
Last Line: My soul into a warm quilt
Subject(s): Letters; Travel; Writing And Writers


LOST LETTERS: 3, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already it is cool enough
Last Line: The whistling buoy that warns %when rocks are near
Subject(s): Letters; Sea; Travel


LOVE LETTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not easy to state the change you made
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Letters; Habits; Change


LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


LOVE LETTERS, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear letters, fond letters
Last Line: Let it live and grow
Subject(s): Letters


LOVE LETTERS MADE OF FLOWERS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An exquisite invention this
Last Line: And literally, breathing bliss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Flowers; Love Letters


LYRICAL LETTER TO THE OTHER WOMAN, by ALFONSINA STORNI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not know your name, I have never seen
Last Line: When nothing is possible!
Subject(s): Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships


MAILMAN CARRYING THE VILLAGE CORRESPONDENCE, by JOAN BROSSA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Moments later a carriage pulled up
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (1), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love. You'd hate it here: flies and the wind
Last Line: As you asked, I'm taking photographs. Love, mairi
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (2), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love, greetings from my island. Mine indeed
Last Line: You might not even get this letter. Love
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (3), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alec-I hadn't thought to tell you this
Last Line: To us next year. I shall invite her! Love
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Nature; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (4), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alec, old dear. I miss you. The weather's changed
Last Line: And have added-you shall see!-a group of clergymen!
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland)


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER MOTHER FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dearest mum. I'm on the site at gleann mor
Last Line: P.S. Again-consult the map I made you, mum!
Subject(s): Books; Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MARGARET ADAMS FROM ST KILDA (2), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Margaret-love. You must burn this
Last Line: Quite soft, come in could not
Subject(s): Diaries; Letters; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MARGARET ADAMS FROM ST. KILDA (1), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Margaret-my love, what would I do
Last Line: Of tetanus at eight days. I can't imagine how they stayed. Mairi
Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MESSAGES, by ALMINA M. MACY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When a message on paper is left at the door
Last Line: At our doors and our hearts through the fragrance of things.
Subject(s): Flowers; Letters


MESSENGER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone has been painting
Subject(s): Advertising; Graffiti; Letters; Messages & Messengers; Paintings & Painters


METRICAL LETTER; WRITTEN FROM LONDON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Margaret! My cousin, -- nay you must not smile
Last Line: To find in heaven the things I loved on earth.
Subject(s): Courtship; Cousins; Desire; Freedom; Hope; Letters; Liberty; Optimism


MISS DIPLOMACY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm writing to you, dear, to-day
Last Line: "would one of those ""back numbers"" do?"
Subject(s): Courtship; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Letters; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


MISTY LETTERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Speechless and full of tenderness
Last Line: Watches over her, crowning her with birds
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Letters


MORNING'S MAIL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This emptiness has never known a sound
Last Line: Why leave these burning words unsigned?
Subject(s): Emptiness; Language; Letters


MR LEAR RECEIVES A LETTER FROM MARIANNE NORTH, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr lear refuses to pay for a letter insufficiently stamped and sends it away
Last Line: Mr lear stamps and dances for joy on securing miss north's letter
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service


MY LETTERS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another mizzling, drizzling day!
Last Line: I'm off-a plumper for st. Peter!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Letters


MY MISTRESS COMMANDING ME TO RETURN HER LETTERS, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So grieves th' advent'rous merchant, when he throws
Last Line: "bid her but send me hers, and we are friends."
Subject(s): Letters


NEW CONCEPT IT HAS CERAMIC INSERTS IN THE CYLINDER HEAD, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And when I have time I learn to decipher the zebra code it says a lot that's for a novel
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Love Letters; Poetry And Poets


NIGHT LETTER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The urgent letter that I try to write
Last Line: The bloodied envelope addressed to you, %is history, that wide and moral pang
Subject(s): Letters; World War Ii


NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 6., by HUGH STEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear amy: I am fine, here in chicago
Last Line: You'd have liked that. Still missing you. %all my love, hugh
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Love


NOT EXPECTING AN ANSWER, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This tedious letter to you
Last Line: Calligraphy, feathery asparagus.
Subject(s): Letters


NOTES [OR, LETTERS] FOUND NEAR A SUICIDE, by FRANK HORNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little stone
Subject(s): Letters; Suicide


NOTES [OR, LETTERS] FOUND NEAR A SUICIDE, by FRANK HORNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little stone
Last Line: In your house %and ate of your body %and drank of your blood. %...And thought only of her?
Subject(s): Letters; Suicide


O THUTHAN THMITH! THWEET THUTHAN THMITH!, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear mitheth digby
Last Line: Yourth thintherely, %edw lear
Subject(s): Composers; Letters; Singing And Singers


OF LETTERS, MISS MILLAY, by JESSICA GRANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you wrote about hotel ikao to your mother
Last Line: My thickets, too? And will you finally stop that damn chariot
Subject(s): Letters; Travel


OLD LETTERS, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Turn the light low, let the moonbeams stray
Last Line: With this faded ribbon blue.
Subject(s): Letters


OLD LETTERS, by W. L. KITCHEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a letter from home I was dreading
Last Line: Together blaze billet and bill.
Subject(s): Fire; Letters


ON A LETTER: 1, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunbeams can fling no purer brightness o'er the sea
Last Line: Than those few lines thy hand has penned have brought to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Letters


ON A LETTER: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft lies the silent fall of snow
Last Line: Upon my spirit lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Letters


ON A PACKET OF OLD LETTERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The choicest blooms that ever blent
Last Line: Unshadowed joy, immortal youth!
Subject(s): Death; Letters; Life; Love; Memory; Youth; Dead, The


ON A RAINY NIGHT, LINES TO BE SENT NORTH, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You ask me when I return, but I know not when.
Last Line: And the rain of this evening be in our words
Subject(s): Letters; Night


ON A SPITEFUL LETTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, it is here - the close of the year
Last Line: How I hate the spites and the follies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Hate; Letters


ON BURNING SOME OLD LETTERS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With what odorous woods and spices
Last Line: Love, and teach men what it meant.
Subject(s): Letters


ON MY YOUTHFUL LETTERS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the leaves I gather up in trembling
Last Line: They are not mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Letters; Youth


ON READING A LETTER, by JANE ANNA ELIZABETH AUSTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With what delight I view each line
Last Line: It's warmth for ever share
Subject(s): Letters


ON READING LADY MARY MONTAGUE AND MRS. ROWE'S LETTERS, by JANET LITTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As venus by night, so montague bright
Last Line: And critics in silence admire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie
Subject(s): Letters; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762); Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737)


ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS' LOVE LETTERS, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the letters which endymion wrote
Last Line: Not knowing the god's wonder, or his woe?
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets


ONE'S CORRESPONDENCE, by CONNIE BENSLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wrote to you to say I'd be here
Last Line: And now I cannot find it anywhere
Subject(s): Letters


OPEN LETTER FROM A CONSTANT READER, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To all who carve their love on a picnic table
Subject(s): Loneliness; Consolation; Letters


OPEN LETTER, PERSONAL, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friends: if thirty people gather in a room
Subject(s): Letters; Friendship; Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy


PARODY OF A CELEBRATED LETTER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At length, dearest freddy, the moment is nigh
Last Line: Good lord! How st. Stephens will ring with his crowing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Letters


PATIENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I put her letter by, because
Last Line: And wait in patience yet awhile.
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Waiting


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 6. LOVE LETTERS RETURNED IN SPRING, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many petals fall
Last Line: They once were growing all!
Subject(s): Letters; Love; Spring


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 11. POSTAL SURVEYOR'S 'TRAVELLING CLERK', by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My man loads up. We start
Last Line: Of zennor, sea-girt, sacred ... Zennor of my heart.
Subject(s): Letters; Office Employees; Postal Service; Clerks; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 3. LEICESTER POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twin doors swing wide. They close on me, revealing
Last Line: "whisp'ring: ""they'll put you right!"
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 7. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (A), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten of the clock. An airless, august night
Last Line: Of loss, alike, of liberty and pension.
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 8. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (B), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Draper's assistant. Doomed to be
Last Line: To her in anglesey.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Letters; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 9. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (C), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Plaints about postal packets, gone
Last Line: She looks at me, reproachful, like some hunted fawn.
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POSTCARD, by ANN SPIERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do you do in silverton
Last Line: From me and brought hidden %in the fists of both hands?
Subject(s): Letters


POSTCARDS, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear barney
Last Line: Alice
Subject(s): Holidays; Letters; Love; Postal Service; Valentine's Day; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POSTMAN, by E. MANFREDA    Poem Text                    
First Line: A stereotype? The suit, the sack
Last Line: And open up more worlds than the geography shows.
Subject(s): Letters


POSTMAN'S FEAR, by MOHAMED AL-MAGUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prisoners everywhere %send me all you have
Last Line: What I fear most is %god could be illiterate
Subject(s): Human Rights; Letters; Pain


QUATRAIN: LOVE LETTERS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your letters come to me like birds
Last Line: Is with me everywhere.
Subject(s): Letters; Love


RAINY-DAY NOTES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rasping rain runs down the pane
Last Line: Anon, some hint of rapture?
Subject(s): Fate; Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Rain; Destiny; Male-female Relations


READING FOR WHO YOU ARE, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thank you. I'd like to begin tonight by reading this statement
Last Line: Exactly 15 minutes have elapsed since the time I was given to read this. %thank you
Subject(s): Books; Diaries; Letters; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers


RECIPE FOR A GOOD LETTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To write a good letter, take a handful of grit
Last Line: Direct to your friend's heart, and presto! 'tis there.
Subject(s): Letters


REPLY TO A LETTER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bottom drawer I find a letter which arrived for the first time twenty- six years ago
Subject(s): Letters; Time


REQUIRED ACCOMPANYING COVER LETTER, by RICHARD J. FEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear editor: %I'm no ancient hittite toady
Last Line: To behold my immortal scribbles
Subject(s): Letters; Publishing; Writing And Writers


RESPECT FOR A PAL, by JOHN PARKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your letters are a blessing that I know I
Last Line: For I'm lonesome and your letters always, always cheer me on anew.
Subject(s): Letters; Solitude; Loneliness


REVENGE X 3, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slipped a note to three
Subject(s): Love Letters. Deception


RHYMES TO W. E. HENLEY (2), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My letters fail, I learn with grief, to please
Last Line: These humble efforts are expressed, like cheese.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Letters


RUNNED AWAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear sis: I wrote this noat to say I've been an
Last Line: Hiding in the stable.
Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Escapes; Family Life; Letters; Sisters; Half-brothers; Childhood; Fugitives; Relatives


SAD MAIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange to think how letters used to be letters, letting you know
Last Line: Time.
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day out
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


SCRAWL, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear ann- %I conjecture you'll like it no worse
Last Line: Or on sunday (I'll try to remember the text!-) %and stay
Subject(s): Letters; Sickness


SHEKH AHNAF'S LETTER FROM BAGDAD, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In allah's name, the ever merciful
Last Line: To keep his faith undarkened in tangier!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Faith; Letters; Love; Prophecy & Prophets; Belief; Creed


SOLIDER IN THE DESERT. A ROMANCE IN PHOTOS, by RONNY SOMECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The letter from her beau didn't spray eau-de-cologne on her face
Last Line: On the plot of grass, lascivious %like a common concubine
Subject(s): Letters; Soldiers


SONG: 87, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall she never out of my mind
Last Line: To see her loving gentleness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Letters; Pain; Suffering; Misery


SONNET TO MANON: ON READING CERTAIN LETTERS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reading these lines, this record of lost days
Subject(s): Letters; Past; Paganism & Pagans


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 28, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My letters! All dead paper, mute and white!
Last Line: If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!
Variant Title(s): Love Letters
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SOREN KIERKEGAARD WRITES TO REGINE OLSEN ON THE DAY OF HER MARRIAGE..., by ANTHONY WALTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have been reading again the story of abraham
Last Line: Darling, I would not have harmed you
Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Marriage


STEPS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man letters the sign for his grocery in arabic and english
Last Line: Making the shadows that cross each other's smiles.
Subject(s): Advertising; Children; Language; Letters; Signs & Signboards; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary


STILL LIFE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After your letter arrived I left the oven on
Last Line: All in shadow that I must bathe and dress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation


SUICIDE NOTE, by MARK GIBBONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am slick
Last Line: My blood, clear as a storm
Subject(s): Letters; Suicide


SURVIVOR'S NOTE, by PETER MUNRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dark gathered in the sanctuary was water
Last Line: As if shoved by an artery
Subject(s): Letters; Survival


SWEETEST WORDS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inclosed find check!' the sweetest
Last Line: "world is glad that was a wreck, changed by the words, ""inclosed find check."
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness


THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO SAM HAMILL: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may think it strange, sam, that I'm writing
Last Line: Don't go way. I'll be right back
Subject(s): Hamill, Sam; Letters; Writing & Writers


THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking
Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America


THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The most painful image I have now, here, is
Last Line: Is always, always, accompanied by pain.
Subject(s): Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Pain; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 6. THE LOVE-LETTERS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask, will admiration halt
Last Line: And when it flash'd I thought you spoke.'
Subject(s): Letters


THE BURNING OF THE LOVE LETTER, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No morning ever seemed so long!
Last Line: Without a parson and a clerk!
Subject(s): Letters; Love


THE CONCLUSION OF A LETTER TO THE REV. MR. C --., by MARY BARBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis time to conclude; for I make it a rule
Last Line: And find, in your wife, a companion and friend.'
Subject(s): Letters; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Feminism


THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk
Last Line: And I am nicholas.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War


THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are parceled out over the post office
Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE DEAD LETTER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And can it be? Ah, yes, I see
Last Line: The strongest human passion!
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of


THE HUSBANDS REPLY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five minutes, all I have to spare
Last Line: At eight o'clock,—and then—oh then!
Subject(s): Letters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE INVOICE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once wrote a letter as follows
Subject(s): Letters


THE LETTER, by HENRI BARBUSSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am writing; the lamp listens
Last Line: Whether it's I who write, or you.
Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers


THE LETTER, by HENRI BARBUSSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The clock ticks the slow minutes out
Last Line: Whether 'tis I who write, or thou. . . .
Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers


THE LETTER, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is she writing? Watch her now
Last Line: Tis sent from england's shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Separation; Isolation


THE LETTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him
Last Line: "gesture, coquette, and shake your head!"
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE LETTER, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
Last Line: Of the great moon.
Subject(s): Desire; Letters


THE LETTER, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We talked together in the yung-shou temple
Last Line: That each letter changes into a bar of gold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Letters


THE LETTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A letter once came to a foolish wise man
Last Line: "I shall not get to that point for more than a year!"
Subject(s): Letters


THE LETTER L, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat on grassy slopes that meet
Last Line: "the letter l."
Subject(s): Beauty; God; Jealousy; Letters; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE LETTER ON THE BRINK OF WAR, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dears, / you're already painting the porch? You ladies are up early
Last Line: And dare we talk about the future? / love, eddie
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Letters; Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; United States


THE LETTER; EDWARD ROWLAND SILL, DIED FEBRUARY 27, 1887, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I held his letter in my hand
Last Line: Though he can speak to me!
Subject(s): Letters; Sill, Edward Rowland (1841-1887)


THE LETTERS I HAVE NOT SENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have written them, keen, and sarcastic, and long
Last Line: To the letters I never have sent.
Subject(s): Letters


THE LOVE LETTER, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This fluttering sheet of paper, snowy white
Last Line: And hear with you her lips repeat my song.
Subject(s): Letters


THE LOVE LETTER, by LILLIAN VIGGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: More than a word in writing
Last Line: Is far too frail to hold the key.
Subject(s): Letters; Love; Messengers; Writing & Writers


THE MEANING OF A LETTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Messenger of sympathy and love
Last Line: Promoter of mutual acquaintance / of peace and good will
Subject(s): Letters


THE MYSTERIOUS ARRIVAL OF AN UNUSUAL LETTER, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It had been a long day at the office and a long ride back to the small apartment
Subject(s): Letters; Fathers


THE OLD LOVE-LETTERS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day I've discovered a treasure
Last Line: Shall kindle the fire of to-day.
Subject(s): Letters; Love


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon
Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends."
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations


THE SUN ON THE LETTER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I drew the letter out, while gleamed
Last Line: Expressed with their own ardency!
Subject(s): Letters


THE TORN LETTER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I tore your letter into strips
Last Line: But that, thank god, you do not know.
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of


THE WAY I READ A LETTER'S - THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The heaven god bestow
Subject(s): Letters


THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We must lie long in the weeds
Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light.
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


THESUS: SIX LETTERS, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Letters I cannot read, I have no skill
Last Line: The last remaining one is like the third.
Subject(s): Letters


THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Judge tenderly — of me
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Judgments


THRUSH, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I guessed the letter
Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of


TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD. THE AUTHOR THAN FORTY, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lords, knights, and squires, the num'rous band
Last Line: When she begins to comprehend it.
Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Letters; Writing & Writers


TO AN OLD CLASS-MATE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As your letter I read, dear mary
Last Line: However spent they're of the past.
Subject(s): Letters; Life


TO DR. AIKIN ON HIS COMPLAINING THAT SHE NEGLECTED HIM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will my dear brother, and indulgent friend
Last Line: With lovely error crown my worthless lays.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Letters


TO FRIENDS BEHIND A FRONTIER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write
Subject(s): Freedom; Letters; Liberty


TO FRIENDS BEHIND A FRONTIER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write
Last Line: And can at last sleep, become trilobites
Subject(s): Freedom; Letters


TO THE EARL OF OXFORD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pen, ink, and wax, and paper send
Last Line: Thoughts which angels may approve.
Subject(s): Inkstands; Letters; Love; Paper; Peace; Pens & Pencils


TREES, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I do with my friends
Subject(s): Letters


TRYING TO REACH MY YOUNG LOVER BEFORE HIS FEET GET TOO COLD, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Writing my name twenty-two times, I think of you
Last Line: Who's anyone has always already said, hurry up please, it's time
Subject(s): Letters; Love; Relationships


TWO LETTERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dearest friend charles:--
Last Line: So be happy with your bertha hall.
Subject(s): Friends, Fair-weather; Friendship; Letters


TWO LETTERS: 1. CARO LEONE, by PEG BOYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today the post arrived with a card
Last Line: The vespers to the last chapped stutter. %all my love, natasha
Subject(s): Ginzburg, Natalia; Letters; Writing And Writers


TWO LETTERS: 2. TRANSLATION, by PEG BOYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was after our wedding I began
Last Line: We'll make proust italian. What more can I change?
Subject(s): Ginzburg, Natalia; Letters; Writing And Writers


TWO NOTES, by KILLARNEY CLARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two notes. I wait for a third. If it doesn't come ... If you don't come to
Last Line: Free. They tell me there's warmth in these clothes, that I was born from %you, that you are gone
Subject(s): Letters


UNSTAMPED LETTER IN OUR RURAL LETTER BOX, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night your watchdog barked all night
Last Line: Myself, in forma pauperis, %to say as much I write you this
Subject(s): Letters


UNWRITTEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Numberless letters that form across the page
Last Line: But fold my hands till the terrible joy is past?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Letters; Memory; Old Age; Writing & Writers


VERSES INSCRIBED TO MR. THOMAS DUNCAN, GLASGOW, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Frien' tammie, I thocht that I coudna' dae better
Last Line: Tween young lord carmichael an' baron polmood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Friendship; Letters


VIGIL, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A whole night through
Last Line: Clung so %close to life
Subject(s): Love Letters


WAITING FOR UPS, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I live inside the window. Now I think the sky
Last Line: "she let me kiss each box
Subject(s): Farewell; Letters; Love; Parents; Parting; Parenthood


WAITING FOR UPS, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I live inside the window. Now I think the sky
Last Line: Nearly as strange as my insistence %she let me kiss each box good-bye
Subject(s): Farewell; Letters; Love; Parents


WHAT I WAS THINKING WHEN HE DIDN'T WRITE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen lives in germany
Last Line: And my love is pushing me with his hard wind
Subject(s): Letters; Writing And Writers


WHAT'S IN A NAME?, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In letters large upon the frame
Last Line: "v. Stuyvesant de vere!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cynicism; Letters; Names; Paintings And Painters


WOMAN WHO PLANNED YEARS AHEAD, by PAULA ADAMS NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The letter explained nothing
Last Line: The notes that said she loved them
Subject(s): Letters; Women


WRITIN' BACK TO THE HOMEFOLKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear old friends - it jes' beats
Last Line: And madaline and mother.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): April; Family Life; Letters; Love; Relatives