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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LETTERS Matches Found: 323 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 thenoh 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 |
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